New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-08-27

nerts. AID Lave Iesa is tie tabii Of cs-sr-ia-
that responsibility. On a. proper occasions 81! to-
ward al proper persons. Tie IkiBrSE $ no'
auswersble for either any uoYe thsn am account
able for the sentiments which i. often utter. AID
with which happen 70 disagree. Nor do recos.
p;ze .he right Of any paper and particularly one
assuming the iDsolelt and ob;rusiye tone which
The Fr,ema1 Journal Is, done, to cstechize me in
rgard to personal fact, with which it mas no con-
cerD whatever.
Wa. is the s;st II this controversy Capt.
BoutweIl, az officer Of TIE Navy on a fore.gl sta.
finn. considering himself sick ordered q survey TO
be made BIZ the surgeon on beard his own ship, who
furnished certificate that ne WAS unequal to toe
command Whersupon, without reporting to the
Commodore of the station, or obtaining leave Of
any kind he abandoned lis vessel and returned
home. court Of inquiry was ordered. and
po.tponed at as instance, until the return OF the
John Adams. which he had Commanded. A
new court was then constituted, composed OF
some of tie bes. men in the Navy. and as a
point of TIE Qrsyest discipline was involved,
an unusual humber of officers was assigned 10
il. BY a unar-mOus vote. as was informed, they
recommended the dismissal OF Capt Boutwell, from
the service But before the sentence WIS publicly pro.
muleated or eve, but partially known. influence
Vas brourht to bear upoa the President to mitigate
is severity. and stated that fact 8. the time,
IS one of interest to tae pubic. Subsequently
when il was confirmed by the action of the Prcsi
dent, repeated the statement, with the additional
suggestion, that strong Catholic influence" had
effected the change. Capt. Boutwell, is Catholic
and the friends who Liost zsalOusy enlisted in his
behalf were prominent and influential Catholics.
Hence felt myself justified in saying, BY Telegraph.
that he was indebted to strong Catholic nfiu.
ence" for this mark of Presidential pardality. Aud
take the occasion TO say now that none but the
most narrow, iesuitica and bifOted mind cC,h
peryert that expression info any reflection upon tse
Catholic religion, Apart fOm considerations which
do not belong to the public. am incapable OF utter
j7g disrespect or Ieproach toward any form OF
Christian religion and particularly toward that
fo I'm which of all others s most Identified with my
and education and which has desceIded
as AZ honored inheritance from those who, in other
times, pered somsthDg in defense of civil aud re-
lieisus liberty not by secarian cant or controversy,
but by deeds of noble daring.
Is 0fiense has beel given az all by my remark, II
has been given to Capt. Boutwell,, and not 70 The
Fres.xan's Journal which is an intruGer ac-
knowledge his right to demand my authority If he
considers his dignity offended, just as dc my own
readiness To meet the demand, N becoming man.
ner. II would conpOrt better with the teachings
of that religion Of whch It claims to be the organ #
IN, ETesman's Journal would contne its criticism
within legitimate sphere, instead OF seeking IN
pole nical and captous spirit, for controversy upon
the most equivocal four daton. And 1t might learn,
too. 10 be candid enough, when undertaking can.
troyersy of its own making, to leave its imaginary
opponent either to explain his own meaning if
doubtful or to govern It's construction by the plain
est rules of honest Interpretation. That paper first
challenges the statement 10 which exception IS
taken-that "stroag Catholic influence" had saved
Capt. Boutwell, from the penalty of the Court OF ln-
quiry-and Gays, I'VE only wish THE TRIBUNE to
:. explain in what consisted the strong Catholic
n. 4 bot,tC al. .apha
for explanation, if any needed, it proceeds to
give It's own unfo1Dded version of my " meaning"
without the least regard 30 truth or propriety. |
bage not arraigDed the Presidents motives in
the manner assumed by The Freeman'S Journal, or
in any other, because it would be scandaous judg-
ment which mona but one of the religious papers
would be capable of pronOuncing. | stated fact
which the person most interested, Capt Boutwell,,
has not yentured to deny, and which, spprehend,
ne viii not cO1troyert in his own proper person,
even if willing to allow pragmstical champions, like
The Freeman Journal, to place him in soubful att-
tude before tte.public Everybody who is disp9sed
TO understand knows very well what the ex-
preston "Catholic influence" means N the sense in
which | employed it, and only the intolerant and
controversial newspapers, which, peryertlng the
name and the character of religion to purposes
of sectarian dispute and bgoted arimosties would
90 out of tie way 70 grub for unnatural and unrea
sonable constructions. When Archbishop Hughes,
in his recent address q hope he will excuse me for
rot calling il sermon), on laying the cornerstone
of the new cathedral, becomingly referred to tho
contributors made by "Protestants" for that
object, suppose he committed no ofiense against
any of the many forms Of the Protestant religion as
distinguished from the Catholic, in calling them
Protestant subscriptions; and this is about the
extent of my oiFerse, in speaking Of the influence
which Capt Boutwell, had the good fortune to exert
at Washington. If The Freemans Journal had
made anything by the exposition which has been
provoked, it is welcome to enjoy all the honor IN I'M
disturbed complaceney hereaiter linden
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