The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1858-12-02
IRON THE PRESS
Mn. EDIToR - will you be SO kind as to
publish in your paper the following card:-
A Card.

A Card.
The Catholic Priest of Lambertrille, NJ j.,
before has Christian Brethren of the differ
ent Denominations Of that Borough.
Monday morning, 29th inst, few seconds
after my entering into the depot of Lambertville,
to get ticket for the down train, | was in
suited in the grossest way imaginable by a man,
named T. p. Sellers, the editor of paper in
Warren County, N. J. He came up to me,
with rage depicted in his countenancc, and told
me never more to appear in his house, or else
he would kick me out of it, adding, that had
called his wife liar, and that I had gone to
his house like a thief, without any invitation
whatever. / was quite surprised at such an
cbution of anger-I tried to give some expla-
nation. Meanwhile his fury reached the highest
pitch-he would not listen to any explanation,
and putting his fist to my face, he made use of
the following expressions "don't say word,
or / will knock you down like dog" / told
him that if he had any complaint against me, it
was not in public place, before forty or fifty
people, he ought to come an insult me in such
an egregious manner, - that, were he any thing
Of gentleman, he would not commit such an
offence minister of the gospel-that it was
an act of the vilest cowardce, knowing, as he
did, that could not resent it as man of the
world, but nust bear it, as Christian with
resignation A few minutes after that brutal
proceeding, he told me to get out of his way,
and as | was not in his way, | answered that
would not give him that satisfaction so / re-
manned where I was, and the bully had not
pluck enough to strike me. This is summary
of the scene that took place at the depot, Mon
day morning, before forty or fifty spectators
Every honorable, unprecedented citizen, who
Witnessed the outrage, is fully aware that |
have related it as it happened Some people
may and will say, undoubtedly, F. P. Sellers
behavior toward the Catholic priest is most I'M
warrantable, but after all, he must have been
smarting under some heavy grievance on the
part of the said priest, or he would never have
acted in such dastardly manner, had he not
had some strong motive for it. Now, in order
to answer the foregoing objection, l deem it my
duty towards the citizens of Lambertville to
lay down before them full statement of my two
visits to Mrs. Sellers. 1t is now about two
years since +. F. Sellers introduced himself to
me at the very depot which, on Monday last,
became the conspicuous theatre of his cowardly
insult towards me- The plea Of his introduce
ton was the interest he seemed to feel in the
welfare of certain drunkards family belonging
to my congregation who resided opposite his
own house He specified what he had done
himself, and what his wife had done for the be-
sotted drunkard's family. thanked him most
cordially for his ardent charity, and never since
saw him but once. About FIVE or six months ago,
Mrs. Sellers, herself, called on me in reference
to the family alluded to above. | was then alb.
sent; she left a note on slate, respectfully
begging me to come and see her. promptly
complied with her request, went to her house,
fri H.
divers things, and as far as | recolect, about
certain itinerant preacher who was then at Lam
bertviIle endeavoring to demolsh the Catholic
church, through the United States, with the
engine of his all-powerful absurdities ] found
out very soon that Mrs. Sellers delighted in ar
guing about religion, especially with plain
benighted priest, born and educated in France,
far from the lights of the New World, and that
she felt satisfied she could corner such FELLOW
in quick time Recalling to my imperfect mem
DRY some of the lectures I had heard delivered
at the Sorbonne in Paris, / strove to convince
my fair opponent of the reasonableness of the
most stubborn tenets of the Roman Catholic
Church, basng my proofs on texts taken from
the very Bible which Mrs Sellers held in her
hand-a version made in 1911 by King James
orders After sparring for some time in the
theological field, left in the best mood imag-
Unable. My fair opponent thinking, in the
meanwhile, that she had put me to the wall,
when l was bidding her adieu, she begged of
me to call again very soon, - that she was
pleased with my manners, = and that it would
afford her the greatest pleasure to see me often.
This considered as an invitation, and very
pressing one, to renew my acquaintance with
Mrs Sellers However, | must confess that /
have not been very forward in availing myself
of the privilege so readily offered to me. had
almost forgotten about Mrs Sellers, when three
or four weeks ago the drunkard's family was
again the occasion Of bringing the Catholic
Priest of Lambertvle into contact with that
lady. The drunkard and his much injured wife
had been accused of theft of ten dollars. |
went to their house in order to investigate the
fact, and | was soon satisfied that they were
innocent Of the imputed theft. AS | was but
FIVE or six yards from Mrs Sellers house, made
up my mind all at once to call on her, and talk
to her about her protegee knocked at the
front door in Church st. lady, whose name
| don't know, opened to me, and took me
through the parlor, to the kitchen, where Mrs
Sellers was sewing by the stove, most comfort
ably She seemed to welcome me- I talked of
her protegee, and she told me that her protegees
honesty was above suspicion By degrees the
conversation referred to the public school on the
HILL Mrs Sellers said that she did not send
there her little daughter, on account of the
practices carried on in that school, calculated
to corrupt the morals of little girls. Then the
conversation fell upon Irish Catholics. They
were very wicked, she said, they were thieves
and liars. | retorted the argument, and main
tanned that the Irish, with all their faults, had
also some redeeming qualities and that the thefts
of thousands of dollars of which we read every