The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-03-31
ROSS & RossER, Publishers.
From the Freeman's Journal.
Appeal in the Interests of Truth


The habitual readers Of our journal, and
all who know US personally, need not be as
sured that we will defend no cause, nor any
set of men, except as the same are esinnoceni
and in the right. We have not dared tc
scrutinizs that proportion of our readers
do not profess the Catholic faith. The ma
jority Of our enrolled subscribers are Catho-
lies. We are Catholics for our souls sake
and in all our profoundest convictions In the
Catholic faith we find the reason and the
assurance for our assertions Of political liber-
ty, denied by those bitterest of Anti Catho.
lies, the Purtans.
IF priests or bishops. or archbishops Of the
Catholic Church fall into alterations, pc
culiar opinions, weak compliances to earth
" powers, or personal passions. we join not
with them, nor do we make their apology.
History tells us that no layman has ever
availei to be heresisrch, but that weak
eartben vessels, holding an inestimable de-
posit-priests, bishops, archbishops.
those that have made shipwrecks of others
with themselves.
Some weeks ego an abomiuable story was
circulated in the papers in regard to a fright
full catastrophe at Santiago, in Chill. a
large church there took FIRE inside on occa-
sion of religious Celebration, and fearful
number of women were burned to death or
suffocated. Through English and Yankee
correspondents, aud by Valparaiso paper.
published by a vagrant neither of the peo-
pie nor the religion of the Chilians, distort-
ed accounts. imputing inhuman conduct to
the clergy of that church. were sent abroad.
We deeply regretted to find in so many OF
our exchanges that have learned to distrust
reports made in the interest to abolitionism,
Gal. :.
scandal, as if it were matter of fact.
Have We not learned, by the systematic
lying of the Puritan papers. ihat falsehood
flies with the wings of bird, and that truth
shut up in tortoise shell. creeps after, it,,
without ever overtaking II?
When we first read the exaggerated and
wrought up reports, we said, in these COL
umns, the story was overdone, because the
priests of that church, whatever their char
acter, were at least human. and that, as
their relatives and near friends were iuthe
crowd, it was not possible that they busted
themselves with saving old benches and
chains while their kindred were in danger
OF life.
We now. at length. through the sleepy
channels Of truth, have the following facts,
in regard 10 the catastrophe.
There were. in that urch, at the time,
Just two priesls-no more they were not
j esuits-nO met mbers of that illustrious Or
der are at SAsIiago. Of these two priests,
one had two of his sisters present who lost
their lives! His emotions were such as to
overpower him, and he was carried out in
sensible! The other priest. wholly unable
to offer any physical assistance in such an
overpowering calamity, did, what may seem
very foolish or useless to people not Catho-
L L l L
alton, that he could confer lie stood,
among the falling cinders and the gathering
smoke and flames, and uttered the words of
sacedotal absout;on aloud-so that any
penitent present, willing to confess her sins,
and sincerely sorry for them, might be as
sured, as her Catholic education had taught
her, that her will was accepted for its per-
that one to whom Christ had said
whatsoever We shall loose on earth shall
be loosed also in heaved," had said over
her:
FrrT.