The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-08-04
From the New York Observer.
GRANT THORBURN ON METTERNICH


GRANT THORBURN ON METTERNICH
Mr.. Printer Of the Nep York Observer:
Among the items of news by the packet of
June 9th, from Europe, is the death of Prince
Metternich. He died in his eighty
year.
think 1t was in 1915, after they had slowed
Bonaparte safely away in St. Helena, that the
congress OF kings, princes, potentates, and
| ambassadors, met at Vienna to settle the af.
falrs OF Europe. Metternich presided over
their deliberations, and seemed chief mover
and chief speaker upon all occasions
| One day they were considering how to stop
revolutions, democracy, and the growth of re.
pubhcs. Metternich said, that as long as the
republic of America existed, there would be
no stability for any of the thrones in Europe
He clearly explained how the French grew out
OF the American revolution. He said the sub
Ject had long occupied his serious attention
| his remedy was, by all means possible or pract-
cable, to propagate Popery in America Said
| he, there Is no serious obstacle the money
| only Is wanted they have no national church
in America, and politicians have their price
| everywhere. No Republic can exist, he con
| tinued, where the chief is both king and priest
| 1t was resolved that each country represent
ed in that Congress should pay a sum of money
| to establish fund for carrying this iesutical
| plan into immediate operation. This self ere.
| ated society now assumed the name and title
of the Holy Alliance
was in my forty -second year when these
events transpired. ] read them in the papers
of the time, when the Holy Alliance was in ses
sion. l have some of the newspapers in my
scrsp-book, now on my table AS soon as the
Holy Alliance adjourned, the expectation of
Gfsttnal;o wares fer ApD,eyca cnmmepeed Priests,
| contessors; jails, pententiares, and aims,
houses, were swept of their contents, and ship
ped for America. The priests that accompanied
this live lumber were amply supplied with
gold, silver, and bills of exchange. They
landed chiefly in New York and Baltimore, for
| there, too, Satan hath his seat The most of
them went westward. Presently churches
| chapels, monasteries, converts, and nunneries,
| were raising their spires above the clouds, and
| their foundations in the sand. In 1894, ST.
Peters chapel, in Barclay street, was the only
| Catholic chapel in New York. Now, | am
told there are three dozen of them From the
| adjournment Of the Holy Alliance 10 the pres
ent day, every ship from Europe brings fresh
recruits for the Catholic army Every State,
| the Western in particular are full Of them
am told, in the town Of st. 10 ais you can buy
an indulgence to eat beefsteaks in Lent, and to
commit all manner of wickedness with greedi-
ness while you live, just as cheap as you can
buy it from mendicant monk sitting on the
steps of the Vatican at Rome.
| In 1903, Bonaparte the first led the Pope q
captive into captivity, shut him up in a prison,
and made him fast in the stocks If Boney T"
the second should cut the same caper before
the next Evacuation day, you may see the
| Pope with his mitre, and the cardinals with
their red hats, land on the Battery, march up
Broadway, and take possession OF the palace
now building for the Pope, in Mott street, New
York. GRANT THORBURY, Sen.
| Ne,o Hapen, Juiy 8, 1859.
| U DEAR! SHALL WE EVER BE DONE LYING?-
An honest old gentleman, in telling us his
trouble, gave great prominence to the necessity
he was frequently under Of disappointing his
customers, whose work could not be finished
as soon as he had promised After explaining
the difficulty, he looked up with great earnest
ness, and exclaimed, =" o dear, shaH are erer be
done aoith this ling?"
| We have often wondered ourselves whether
| sush a contamination would ever take place
Your boots shall be done Oh Saturday night
without fail" Nevertheless, you have to go to
church with gaping shoes for want Of them.
a" Your coat shall be sent home by nine o'clock
on Saturday night; and you get it, in fact,
| the Wednesday after. Will you lend me your
| wheelbarrow / will return it tonight" You
wait for it till next week, and then send for it.
| My carpenter solemnly agreed to finish my
house by November; but it was July before
could get the key. My wood was to be split
on Saturday afternoon--enough for the Sabbath !;
50 it was--but had to do it. My money was
| to be paid me the next week and then. merit
week; and then, NEXT week-and then, as soon
as he could get it ; he did get it, and spent it !;
and then it should be paid when he got it
again-he got it again, and paid another debt
because the man treated him more savagely
than / would. The strength laid out in run
ming for this money, if it had been economical
ly applied to labor, would nearly have earned
| the whole debt The fellow never paid me at
last but death came along, and he paid him
promptly. go dear! shall we ever get done
with this lying?" 1t is one of the few domes-
tic manufactures which need no protection,
and hourishes without benefit either to the pro-
Queer or consumer.-Heny Ward Beecher on
Fruits, Florers, and Farming.
ANEcDoTE OF HENRY IV.-Henry " Of
France visited, by chance, a garden, which
had been embellished and nursed with much
care. Among the persons who accompanied
the King was courtier, who had a red beard.
The latter racked his brains to find something
to amuse the august parsonage during his
walk. While he was endeavoring to enliven
the conversation by some witty sally, the gar
dener appeared before them he had no beard,
though already advanced in years. My
friend" said the courtier, Immediately address
ing him, "why have you no beard on your
chinf" He had imagined that the shyness
and shame of the gardener would give him
cause for merriment. But the countryman,
without appearing the least astonished, turned
towards the one who had questioned him.
"When Nature" said he, " distributed its
boards to mortals, arrived rather late and
as there only remained red ones, | preferred