The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-10-25


ct SIS 81 . SIS so Sugars were again more active
and firm. The sales embraced 5000 boxes, 400 of
which we're purchased by one refinery, at stc., and
800 do. sold at 9sc., and 1000 $500 hhds- were
sold, including few hundred Porto Rico, and the
remainder, Cuba muscovados, at prices given in
another column. Coffee was quiet Grain freights
to Liverpool were rather easier, with moderate en-
gagements, at prices ranging from SD. sd, in
bulk and bags.
3he Controversy about Frcm0nt's Religion
Conspiracy between ArcAbash0p Hughes
and Senator Brooks.
Perhaps the most extraordinary of the many
extraordinary features Of the pending canvass is
the virulence and heat with which religious, or
an apparently religious question-respecting the
private faith of Colonel Fremont-has been
dragged into the general controversy. We say
it is an extraordinary feature; for assuredly if
there were any mischief, any popular fallacy of
lden time of which we had right to deem our
selves cured it was that of interference with re-
ligious creeds. After all the years that Roger
Williams has now been lying in his unknown
grave we had the right to think that in this coun-
try at least there would be no more question
doctrine, no more good and true men prosecuted
and reviled because they chose to seek Heaven IN
their own way, whatever that way was. And
now, full two centuries after the first enunciaton
of liberty Of conscience in America, we come to
discover that all our work is in vain, all our pro
gress lie, all our hopes delusion; that re-
hgious intolerance thrives as rankly as ever
h,,r
at the stake on account of their religious opinions
it is not for the want Of the spirit which Lit the
fires of the martyrs.
We mean, of course, to allude, with what
shame and sorrow beft the case, to the persecu-
ton which has been aroused against Col. Fremont
by the Roman Catholic Archbishop, John Hughes,
and the Protestant Senator, Erastus Brooks.
These two men-the antipodes of each other
the one ruling his church wisely, but expressing
to the world through his newspaper sentiments
and doctrines which might have suited the atmos-
phere Of the fifteenth century, but are absolutely
dotic to day-the other, on the surface (of the
inner man We speak mott a rabid Protestant,
bowling eternally about Jesuits, and crosses, and
Papal despotisms, and foreign potentates, mean
ing the poor old Pope, and reviving, like the
Archbishop, the noRsenical bigotry of the mid
die ages these two men, we say, for what pur-
pose they know best, are now united in q sort OF
crusade against Colonel Fremont and are labor
ing with unity worthy of the contrast between
them, to arouse the meanest feelings of the more
ignorant Protestants of the country villages
against his Presidential candidature. What may
be the bond of union between them, we do not
pretend to say it is known that Erastus Brooks
was pulled into notoriety by the kindly condescen-
sion Of the Archbishop, yet no one ever knew
why John Hughes went out Of his way thus TO
make Brooks: the present case is another mys-
| teIy of the same kind All that we know and can
safely say is that the pair want TO defeat Ere
mont, and are united in trumping up false stories
| and spreading mean calumnies about him and his
religion, in order to influence Protestant votes
Their tactics differ. Brooks, with the brutal
coarsepess of his nature, sits down and writes
lie over his own signature prizes into the bed
room, the closet, the family Bible the ancestral
blots OF Colonel Fremont never bushes or hest
tates but does his dirty work openly, rather
piquing himself on IL than otherwise; and when
all New York is holding its nose at the feL
lows approach, complacently writes that nine
respectable men have called him .black guard"
seven "a liar" and full score have desired to
zee him kicked. Hughes, on the contrary, is
your true Jesuit. On the face OF him, he is
sort of modern St Peter, in Irish binding. lie
has not fault about him. lie only hears Of the
election accidentally in the course of converse
ton, when some one tells him that his black M
Friday alias McMaster has been doing little
campaign perjury. The pious Archbishop is
shocked lie rcprimands McMaster; tells him
that be cannot, viii not, approve such very
gross perjury, and writes to one Of the heavy
papers down town TO say that false oaths are no:
exactly in his srchiepiscopal line, aud will peo-
pie be good enough to take notice. and not blame
him for the sins Of poor Friday? But, mark you,
his Grace stops here lie reproves Friday With
touching sorrow, but be does not stop his mouth.
On the contrary, fresh from the archiepiscopal
presence, Friday perjurcs himself more despc-
rately than ever We have no doubt the good
Archbishop rubs his hands piously, aud Is
shocked again; but no word from him bids
Friday hold that lying tongue Of his What.
then shall we spare his Grace Heaven forbid!
With all his coarseness, we had far rather have
the straightforward burglsrious course Of Brooks
than the sneakng pickpocket calumnes of the
Archbishop, uttered through the mouth and over
the name Of this miserable man Friday.
But the pair Of them are only worth noticing as
types Of alteration Of intellect Drive them to
an. a ~. Al a.
gun Of the democracy-whom by the way we re-
greet to see deserted by the Daily Nacs and the
Journal n Commerce Means Of Port Coving-
ton who had the good fortune 10 discover that
Fremont was born In Canada, and was handled in
connection with that discovery by the Hon. Mr..
Mason, Of Montreal in a way that will be likely
to repress his lettcrwriting propensities for the
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