New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-25
ApcgBISHOP HUGHES AND HIS
ASSISTANTS.
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manner as be has been by this came portion Of the
pess and il only occasionally that he deems it worth
wi lie to defend himself and 10 beat back his assa
ants This he does in the manner which he thinks
best calculated to accomplish his purpose. Many good,
easy people who understand but little and care less
for the importance Of the question involved or the in
teress of religion the peace and harmony OF the peo
pie committed to his care, and whom he s bound to
proect discover that he is in his vindcaton of
his richts and that this, in clergyman, is always
deeply to be regretted.
They never read one Of bis replies without its bring
ing TO their mind in sad contrast the mi JUNCTION of our
blessed Sevor to his disciples, that, when smtten on
one cheek they should present the other But there
are other portions of Divine Scripture that might
arise TO their memory, and would be opposite to
the circumstances of the Archbishop. For instance
St. Paul. captive, in the process of defending him
self which was his right a Roman citizen no less
than an Apostle, used words which made even his
Pagan Judge tremble on tie bench ST. Lawrence,
the MARTYR wheL stretched on his grdiron, almost
fported with his executoners by telling them that the
side next the living Goals sufficiently roasted, aud
that they might turn him over. Even the ancient
prophets sometimes INDUCED both in irony and in sar
cas as when they told the Pagan doaters that their
gods must be asleep or on journey.
Now. there is no question but that the Archbishop
of New-York has felt himself bound, by the very
character of the attacks made on him more than
once, to use STYLE not only the critics above alluded
to- but many ohers have considered undghifed, and,
if not justified by the occasion, unworthy minister of
God In all this they not mistaken. He knew
all this as well as they do. But the work was to be
done and he tried TO do il in the most efficient manner
Every legitimate form of argument, every variety OF
rhetoric every figure of speech, ought to be, and ne
cessarly is as much at the service of an Archbishop
in defending truth, as of uDprncipled editor, if
there be such, in assailing it.
Then it should be remembered that the Archbishop
bas never written except in defense of himself or of
his clergy and the people committed to his care In
all his other correspondence il would be found that
few exceled him in the language Of urbanty, courtesy
and politeness 1t might asO to those critics
that although on the defensive, his asSaants have
never been able to put him in the wrong.
It il known to all with what perseverance and NAL
cnity he has been assailed for years past IN the
columns of The ~ y. Iimes-how the writers for
that journal were too mean and cowardly to make any
direct attack upon him in their own name, and how
they attempted to accomplish their evil purpose by
inuendoes and assertions which they pretended to
gather from the supposed gossip that was circulating
among the Catholic clergy and Catholic people against
their Archbishop. Their object in all this was to in
fuse into the Catholic community clemens OF mutual
suspicion and dsirust to awaken and bring out evil
dences Of discomfort from portion of the Catholic
clergy or laty, and thus to produce division and
strife in flock so intimately united by the bonds OF
mutual charity as well as common faith. They have
not succeeded. The Archbishop koows his clergy and
people too well to suppose for moment that such puny
forgerics as have appeared in The Times could have
any other effect than TO bind them still more firmly
together in mutual love and Christian fidelity
TO the chief pastor whom God has placed
aver them OF much that has been done, he could
not have accomplished anything, if they had not
stood by him and supported him in every undertaking
With a unaDimty perhaps unsurpassed ny the clergy
of any other diocese and with constancy which,
though often tested, never tagged or failed him.
Hence under the blessing of God, every enterprise
for the good of religion which he naugurated or APP
proved has been eminenty successful Failure there
has been nOne-ne, not one.
The recent assaults in THE Ne'r-fork Times are
very contemplate in their origin, but calculated to
prove mechevous if they had been allowed to pass
upneticed and uDrefuted
We are constantly in tie habit of looking to AL
mighty God, our Creator, our Father and Sovereign
Judge, as the supreme guardian Of innocence and
the aveneer of oppression and wrong 1t is well 70
adore these attributes of His divine providence FIRE.
quently injustice caumny and oppression run their ca
reer uninterrupted by any evidence 10 human eye that
Providence is looking and taking note OF what is
passing. God is patient, says st. Augustine because
He is eternal and for all these inquities there is
retrbution for one side and compensation for the other
beyond the grave. But in this world it some
times happens in the mysterious ways OF His provi-
dence that innocence is almost miraculousy provided
with unexpected means of righteous Standardization.
In the year 1877, Archbishop Hughes received a
letter, the writer Of which to him unknown and
until then unheard of 1t is not necessary at present
to aude TO the contents of that letter. But in looking
over some old documents in his archives he happened
yesterday Unexpectedly to find it among his papers
Having the manuscript of Equitas in bis hands, the
author Of which Mr.. Raymond had denounced as a
forger he compared the two writings, and although
at first they appeared to be from different hands yet
on closer examination the evidences of a common orr
gin became very striking. He has since submitted
them to two cashiers who are experts in detect
ing fegned hsndwritings. They, too, are of opinion
that both documents had one and the same origin as
to authorship although they were not, after such
lapse of time written with the same pen nor yet on
the came kibd of paper with the same kind of ink
The one was private letter; the other was thrown
off in style for the newspaper. The one protested to
be genuine and was so the other was anonymous, and
its contents such that the author would be afraid if
ashamed to be detected as the author.
Now In such cases, when write anonymously
and with an evil purpose whether in the way Of pri-
vate letters or through the press, they take their
shallow precautions against detection Such writer
tries to fit his mind, and his pen, and his style of
writing so TO appear another and not as himself