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professions of lip loyalty they concealed the roenness

or their traltoT0us hearts
From that day to this these men, who were as false
to human liberty as hell could make Them would have
been willing to become jealous tools to do the work of
English tyrants in this country if the latter had thought
it worth their whie to employ them But up till very
lately the South and its beloved slavery played their
game more efectuay. By means of these instruments
they expected confidently expeeted-to divide and
destroy the American Republic But when the cause
of liberty and Justice trumphed and the plots and
purposes of tyrants were blasted they at employed
their exhaustless ingenuity in finding other instruments
whereby to retard the march of universal liberty Who
can blame them 1t is question of life rather of
DEATH to them American statesmen (?) wooed and
won by the Establishments of English lords and probably
in some instances by substantial considerations
Religion pressed into the service and host of holy
men, of the Newman Hall stamp, sent over to be-
SLAYER the American people community OF faiths and
churches is all at once, discovered to exist between
America and England. British bishops are inspired
with a tremendous love of union and the American
bishops are invited yther beloved English brothers,
to the great humbug Pan-Anglican council at Lambeth
palace London. They go; and get lesson of loyalty
to English institutions" which may yet, if it is not
carefully watched and resoutey dealt WITH bear bitter
fruit in the Great Republic of the West.
From this great PanAnglican performance the pious
Potter has just rerned and in address to his clergy
which has since been published for the edifcaon Of
the faithful and unfaithful of the outside word-he
reveals the hallowed impressions" which made
on his episcopal soul by his late intercourse with the
consecrated lords of the English Church The glories
of Lambeth have left Potter in a state of seraphic
ecstacy great that of ST. Paul when he descended
from the third heaven He enjoyed an evening with
the Archbishop of Canterbury at his palace" Mark
that The Right Rev McSycophant Potter actually
~ q palace But that was only earnest of the sub
sequent scenes of grandeur and greatness in which
Flunky Potter figured He subsequently " visited the
palaces of several bishops" Really such magnfcence
is all but Incredible The very thought of it almost
stops ones breath The Queen of Sheba Theodores
ancestress in the presence of Solomon, was nothing
to it.
This visiting and registering in palaces undoubtedly
very pleasant Potter took to it amazingly. What if
the grandeur resulted from the robbery of the poor
the palaces were built with the blood and bones of an
oppressed and plundered people. Has it not always
been so? And Potters wealth, whence comes it !?
GA fellow-feeling makes wondrous kind"
But the Potter experiences had also important
practical bearing on International honesty well
episcopal hospitality These spiritual lords of England
did not dine Potter at hotel as Queen Vic. did the
Viceroy of Egypt They took him to their houses and
introduced him to their wives. And they did all this
without any quam of conscience respecting the possible
fate of their silver spoons But then it was necessary
to risk that much when the liberties of America were
to be stolen. That throws food of light the Potter
exaltation.
His spiritual experiences of tremendously de-
lightful description He tells that the atmosphere
which prevailed at these blessed places (he aforesaid
palaces such to cause glow of happiness, and
an insDiration of nraise to Cod We have been at