The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-11-13
A speech Of Archbishop Purcell.
Ae sebukes his Traducers of the
PartiZan Press.

IA few evenings since, the venerable
Archbishop PURCELL, of Cincinnati, deliv
cred a lecture before very large audience
in Mozart Hall, in that city. We take
the following abstract from the. CONNER
cial
In the course of his remarks the Arch
bishop said that for the first time in thirty
years, there were some among his own
flock who were dissatisfied with him, and
who had thoughtlessly, he hoped, repeat
ed some fragrant libels concerning his vote
at the late election. Bishop Rosecrans
and himself had been charged with stand
ing at the polls all day, with hands full of
Union tickets, exerting their influence
among the Catholic democrats against
Mr.. Vallandigan and his companions
This, he said, is utterly false. He did
not go to the polls with Bishop Rosecrans;
he had gone quietly there alone, and de-
posted his unconcealed sutfrage-a suf-
trage which his conscience approved, and
for which he was answerable to God No
man dare charge that he had ever in life,
endeavored to influence any one to vote
against the honest dictates ofhis conscience.
He declared distinctly that he had never
done SO. He referred to a merchant, who
in a Nothing Lodge in this city, af-
tirmed that Archbishop Purcell kept rolls
of Democrats in bis possession, whose
votes he could absolutely control, and
which, so this merchant asserted, he had
offered to influence in favor of particu-
lar SCENE. Although he was i'll when he
heard of this gross and unalloyed false
hood, he mustered sufficient strength to
go before magistrate and make affidavit
to its utter falsity; and the merchant
through the sheer contempt of both his
own party and its adversary, was forced
to abscond from the city. [Applause.l
He had voted against the Democratic
ticket, not because he desired to wound
the Democrats of his acqc aintance, nor
because he desired to prOptiate their OPP
ponents, but because he feared that if VAL
landigham was elected, the attempted
withdrawal OF Ohio soldierssin the field
with Rosecrans would ensue, and that
the State of Ohio would be tossed with
revolutionary opposition to the war policy.
He feared that raids would be invited, the
parallel of which might be found in Guam
trell's barbarous and inhuman invasion of
Kansas. "This may all have been fancy" {"
said the speaker, "but it was my honest
opinion; and who, in Gods name, could
ask me to cast my vote for the inaugura-
ton of such anarchy and such atrocity ?"
[Applause.]
We cannot have a divided empire.
Immense applause ] Mr.. Pugh said to
him, the other day, that the southern
people would consent to permit our steam
boats to traverse the Mississippi River, but
they would never trade with US, and it
would be in vain for us to endeavor to
make them strike hands with us as of old.
He Archbishop P. could see no argument
in this. The question was one of right,
not of expediency; and, for one he was
determined to work for and pray for the
right, until, with Gods blessing, it was es-
tablished in allits benefcence. CApplause. I
He had heard there was dread among
many laboring men, that if slaves were
liberated, they would come to our north
ern cities and displace thousands of hon.
est, hard-working white men. For him
self, he did not anticipate any such result
In his opinion, it was impossible. He had