New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-12

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ton of the United States, which shpwrechs uao 90,
Of so many Irish children, incidentally says: A.. Az T
" OF the liberty of worship guarantee" =! sunnort
"stituton, the Catholics are taxed TOT t'o al
"of d,testible system Of common senoo', r. 10
INIT children belonging 10 az 'He $50 ',oobristian
sraicently sectaran at least, however uhciiiSIien
oud ,,oI ns one admire the palpable irony "hicn
,ba Ea,es indulge when they lead the conductors VI
;onrn.l in which such sOttishness is naoi,ual' 10
listen their snarng and snivellIng niue prat oy
tLe GREAT and hospitable name OF the On,ee'1:
You know that Augustine i merry 'nc uis'',,-
ouished historian died lately; out perhaps !9u uo
NOT know that a jealous discussion mas opened over
~; 80 Nth respect TO his mental attitude IN dy-
;na toward the regning ecclesiastical interests.
H. hsd all his life been presumably more than IN
different 10 the claims OF the church ana MS SYM
ethics "a a writer are obviously in an opposite
direction. He had been for long and weary years
rotent sufferer from blindness and paralysis, yet
I;s historical labors and Investigations knew no
abatement while his imagination continued in "a
lively and vigorous play as if he still enjoyed the
fullest inflow Of the sensuOus life. But
his friends allege that as the final hour drew
on which was to give him release from
his infrm body, the clear-seeing intellect
became couded, and he bowed his manly head to
the priestly benedictiOn. On the other hand, the
priests say that be was in full possession of his IN
tellect when the intercourse between them esm-
meneed, however much it afterward became OBJ
scured and that he deliberately sought to be received
into The church. NJ Crafty the priest Othe Oratory
distinguished for his recent attempts to reconstruct
Logic, gives an interesting account OF n converse
ton he had with him shortly before his death
Therry said TO him: Il am done up nationalist
'(un rat onalise JfatignfG wish to enter into the
bosom Of the church. to whose authority submit
"myself" Turning afterward to the curate o
Saint Sulpice who was present, he said III voice
which combined both emotion and bumor, MI.
"Curate, | take you to witness that | this DAY
institute and install the able Gra'ry as d.
"rectOr Of my cOnscence-upon him hencei"r
"ward be nv responsibility" Eight days before
his death he said, "a philosophy and all truth
"center in the Catholic doctrine, and one departs
"frCm truth in the measure he departs from IT, his
sis WHY Anglicanism is better than Lutheransin the
'last better than Cavanism, and that again better
ethan Unitarianism, and so forth. While dong
"ratLer stinted Justice in my estimation 20 the per-
"sOnal merits of Claiming, he secuted with great
"severity and a sort of indignation, his attempt ~
"construct a religion which should be neither dog
"matic nor ecclesiastical, seeing in it only retro
"gradc step, only mischievous and happily imp0-
"tent enterprise. Three days after this converse
elton he fell into the topper from which he never
"rallied. found him in this state, having only
"vague knowledge of what transpired around him.
II waited lucid moment 10 speak with him;
"but being disappointed in this, introduced to
"the dyindchamber Father Peelot who has had so
"much experience of death-beds. The father re-
| "mained alone with the dying man, and while the
crest of us engaged in prayer in the neghboring
''rOOm he suggested to him the acts of faith, of
"cOntritiOn OF hope and of love to God which were
"belitting, and then gave him absolutOn. After
"ward the curate of Saint Sulpice came and adj
"ministered extreme nction."f
These are the circumstances which lead his
friends to say, that if he reconciled himself to the
church it was only after be had become mbecile.
| LAMENNAIs relatives bave recently sought to
Obstruct the execution of his will, by laying clam
to certain of his papers which they say he did not
mean to have published. But the Court decided in
favor of the executors 1t appears that the Jesuts
were anxious to get retractatiOn from the dying
old Able of his hostility to the church, and set so
many springs i'll motion to this effect, that he re-
quested his friends and partisans to lend him their
answering shoulder up to the last moment and
leave him not an instant exposed to the arts of his
willy foe. Some of his friends remained with him
during Fall his final days. and they drew up mi
nuely faithful account Of every incident that trans
PRED so that all dispute might be avoided after
his death. few hours before he gave up the
ghost his respiration had become difficult, and see
ing his friends kneeling in sympathy around his
bed, he fixed a long aud tender gaze upon them.
and clsspng the hands of two of them exclaimed
"These are blissful moments ~ To one of them
who said, 1--WE shall always be united with you"
he nodded his head saying, "Yes, yes, we shall
meet agan;" but his voice apparently failed him
His niece came in and asked him if he would not
like priest; but he refused and requested with
earnestness to be left in peace Is not all this very
odd, that it should be thought exceedingly worth
while TO get mans dying testimony to that which
all his life and with all the force of his heart and
head he had repugncd But you have no idea how
extremely active the controversy between the
church and what may call the uneccesiasical re-
giOus sentiment is becoming in these ATTITUDES. The
old Indifference to the church is giving place to
feeling of the liyees hostility because all men are
becoming convinced that it is the interest of the
hierarchy alone which keeps men ignorant and
brutal and which consequently engcnders the civil
despOtism that is necessary to keep them in order
italy is the point to which all eyes now turn, aud
YOU NAV depend upon it that the next revolution,
whatever else it may do or leave undone, will put
an effectual end to the secular dominion OF the
POpes.
PROUDHoN has had curious revival within
day or two. 1t seems that one of the hOrse-women
Of the Hippodrome felt certain remorse for the
vicious life she was leading, and wrote to Proudhon
for advice. Proudhon, though evidently embar-
raised by the uncertainty he was under as to the
sincerity of his correspondent, writes her letter
full of sense and feeling No one can accuse him OF
want of heart after reading this letter. 1t is too
long, or l would translate it for you. give you
one or two salient points only. The poor girl pro-
esses not to believe in the virtue either of men or
women. ProudhOn replies that that is very natural
to one of her mode Of life, but assures her
that it is with virtue it is with health OF
body: almost nobody enjoys it perfectly,
and yet nobody but fool denies it to be the normal
state and destiny Ofman Doyou suspect he asks, the
small number Of those who enjoy good health to be
hypOcrtes, and do You abandon yourself thereupon
to the chances of heat and cold TO the risks OF damp
ladoipg and nsu ci food Certainly mt fOll