Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1866-12-13


Good Templai's Hall of this city, on Saturday
evening last, and which addressed briefly,
an gravely accused Of going out OF my way to
pitch into Catholicism. To this accusaton
MEAD uuot guilty." end in order to set myself
right 10 this matter, before the public, beg
YOU will oblige me with space In tha next NO
Of your Journal for the following communica-
ton written on The goth OF November, anu
which contains all | said at the Temperance
meeting, as being In any way connected WIN
either Catholics or Catholicism.
In A IL cture delivered recently In this city by
| Bayard TAYLOR, he characterized as tyrannical,
| the laudable efforts of the country people 10
| bring into conformity with their own standard,
the social habits OF certain parties who differed
| from them He also complained that because
OF their rigid exaclions, end dlsagreeaoie crili-
| cisms, persons were sometimes constrained 10
| take refuge in the towns and cities. To those
of his hearers acquainted with the history Of
Hannah Thurston," this thrust from Bayard
together with his sneering allusion to the Pro.
| hbitory Laws passed by some OF the Eastern
States, would be very easily understood, and
propsriu appreciated Believing that public
lecture may be criticised in the public press,
(more especially when any one OF authority
and standing gives utterance to sentiments
that are positively pernicious, and calculated
10 mislead the unwary,) | mention this Cd
| Iectl0UaDle DAtL OF DuyhIu ioS'NaN Ns
Introductory to a kindred subject, where the
moral obliquty of the lecturer was even more
| glaring. because of his greater influence over
a much greater audience, and because oil the
bold and unblushing manner in which he gave
the sanction of his sacred calling to the drink
ing Of intoxicating liquors as beverage.
| allude to the lecture given in St Peter ohntct
/ in this city on Friday evening last, oy the rev
7 @. G. SmArius, a Roman Catholic Missionary
who, for a week past has been creating quit'
a sensation in this place.
Some twelve or eighteen months ago we wer
! favored with a visit Of several missionaries o
the same church, whose labors In behalf O
), | temperance entitled them to the thanks oil Tn
community. Expecting that Father Smariu
II would follow in the footsteps of his honore
predecessors, | attended the lecture in ques
, ton, and you may judge of the mortihcatio
u and surprise with which heard the lecture
: hoastingly declare that he had not Maine La
o. the 6rIin--,h1t he 0as not opposed 10 drtntin
~ m moderation that he considered Beer Prgsrd
III Bile 10 ardent spirits but neither should De drdt
10 ercess. His advice however TO those Who cou
rs not drunk in moderation, Ods 10 drink none al a.
Couid 1t have been reasonably supposed, tn
a, any man exercising the functions OF the Onri
!; tian ministry, could have been found, In Il
, wear of Grace sixty six, publicly exhorting
congregation OF Itishmen to drink in moder
10 ed with the generous, warm-hearled, impu
!; siye character of the Irish people, and wi
u WISHED them we'll, would ever give them I
~ least encouragement to use intoxicating drini
:, epsn in moderation, for it Is universally know
~ ~ that moderate drinking leads inevitably
W. drunkenness, and that as with all others,
with Irishmen, Total Abstinence Is the only r.
safety from intoxcatiou.
lar Is it not enough that the community shor
| a., h. i almost
of iual--indifereuce of our resident cler
.ed win reference to the giant evil INTEMPERAN
cal without baug obliged to submit TO the inn
les t;ona OF itinerant lecturers, with whom the 9
7as seems TO Justify the means by which they sc
.he to accomplish their selfish purposes. Y
aid would think that the pitiable condition OF
nat moor drunkard, and that OF his helpless FAM
ace might excite the sympathy of our christ
Tho congregations, and induce our Ministers
cts least, to make some special efforts OUTSIDE u
respective churches, in behalf OF the poor |
t of briate, Have we seen the extent OF the Ii
,u- raj support and earnest cooperation pro
as ised TO the new National temperance Soci
'wu by our representatives at the General ASST
, to biy of tue N. $. Presbyterian Church I
an none OF our Methodist ministers catch the m
ent tic OF the late lamented Mr.. Qnigley, VINO
1es | bored go ably and 80 earnestly in penal
cen temperance viii some of our influential
sed, dare to burst the bands that bind them 10
iour secLarian circles, to which their labors OF
les Z are SO exclusively confined Do-please
,sed give us reason TO hope that ,he tempera
and enterprise in Delaware Will at once receNe
pro- cordial support of those who are best quail
man to advance it's interests and while pros
boy ting the good work you may rest assure
and the hearty co operation OF the Sons OF I
yes, perance.
to Wilmington Dec. I, 1866.