Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-11-16
From the Methodist.
DislOyally of the JeSuits In The United
States.

DislOJalty Of the JeSuits In The United
States.
DIR, Brownson, the able and eccentric
champion Of Roman Catholicism in the
United States, announces in the October
number of his Review, which we have lust
received, that this number may possibly be
the last, The experience which he has, of
late had in his church is an extremely pain
tul one. Having embraced the doctrines OF
the Church Of Rome with Il sincerity which
no one has doubted he has devoted to the
defense Of the Catholic interests, for many
years talent which has no equal in the
Roman Catholic Church of this country. and
which has secured for him theadmralion Of
both Catholics and Protcstants, and for his
pleas in behalf Of his church an attention on
the part of Protcstants commanded by no
other Roman Catholic writings. Perhaps
it is this very intellectual superiority over
the bulk Of his co-relgionsts which has re.
Gently drawn upon him violent attacks from
most Of the Catholic papers, and at the close
of his literary career put him in danger of
being read out Of the church to whose de
fence he has devoted the best part Of his
life
We can sincerely sympathze with such
fate though we have long torcsccn that Dr.
}roWnsou would not ultimately be allowed
to utter, on amy subject, opinions which do
not agree with those Of the majority Of the
bishops He has especially made himself
obnoxious by his opinions on the temporal
power Of the Pope, the abolition of which
he thinks it permissible for good Catholic
to advocate and by his views on our war
on which question Brownson does not sym
pathizc with either Of the two great parties
having supported to the last Gen Fremont
for the presidency, On both questions, cs-
pccialy on the latter, he differed from every,
orneary every Catholic organ in the United
States.
The attack made upon Brownson by some
OF his Catholic contemporaries have led to
some curious revelations regarding the po-
ltical attitude Of the Roman Catholics in
this country, which we commend to the at
! tcntion OF all PrOtestants In reply to a
statement made by the Catholic papers Of
Philadelphia, the Universe that he had been
forbidden one Of the houses Of the Jcsuts,
DR.. Brownson gives the following interest
ing information on the political bearing Of
the American Jcsuits
That we were forbidden, he says. zone
Of their houses, which we had entered to
seek our confessor is true; but he who did
it was one of the warmest and truest Of our
personal friends, and whom ever since We
have known him we have loved and vcncr-
ated We never blamed him; he only did
what he felt was expected of him by his SUI
periors. We had just given lecture before
the Emancipation League in Boston, and as
the Jesuits held property in the seeded
States, it was feared, if they entertained us
at one Of their houses the rebel govern
ment might take oilcnsc and confscatc it,
They wish to give Mr.. Davis of the Confed-
cracy no occasion to charge them with mis-
prision of treason, or of hostility to his gov
ernment. The rector who excluded us
though personally sympathzing with us
felt that under the circumstances he was of
flcially bound TO exclude us, and he did so
with tears in his eyes That the incident
affected us unpeasantly, we do not deny,
but not in the way assumed, nor because we
were the party excluded As n personal
matter we could never have given it sec
ond thought, and the umpleasantncss it oc-
casiOncd was the regret that simple world
ly prudence or property considerations had
more influence with the Jesuit body than
VIC expected from mendicant order, and
that the education of the Catholic youth of
the nation should be intrustcd TO a society
so destitute of loyalty that it could look on
with Indifference and sec the nation rent as
sundcr and destroyed by rebellion which
every principle Of our religion, as we have
learned it, condemns. 1t was important
only as one proof among many others, that
the society, is if not disloyal, at least un-
loyal
This is the most extraordinary testimony
of the kind which we have recently met
with. The Jcsuts, it appears, are so anx-
ious to secure the patronage of the leader of
an insurrcction against the government
that they. in the most ostensiblc manner,
discountenance anything that may be un-
pleasant to this chief of the rebellion
Whether the views advocated by DR. Brown
son are correct or not, has nothing to do
with this question; the main points, wheth-
er it is compatible with the loyalty due to
! the government of the United States to
show such Difference as the Jesuits have
done to the avowed enemies of the country
Let lis suppose we were involved in war