The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-12-18
Father IIyncintho.

New York is satisfied. Hardly had tho
Observation-Disclosures scandal begun to
die out, than new sensation was given it
by the French Charitable Society Father
llyacinthc's objections TO publicity on this
side OF the water, were Ovcrrucd by his
| compatriots: he could not resist their appeal
for lecture in behalf Of the poor-y lecture
which has been translated with various ap-
proximaiions To accuracy by tho Metro
politan dailics.
The eloquent Carmcltc was manifestly Il,
| disadvantage. He WAS suffering from u
severe cold which seriously disturbed the
music OF his sOnorOGs speech. IIc used /;
| Language unknown to IL large part of the
audience whom curiosity had allured TO the
Academy Of Music. lie was not familiar
with tho operations of the society which he
had kindly consented TO REPRESENT, and
hence wasted his strength in philnnthropical
commonplaccs. And, finally, lie was erro-
ncously suspected by some CT his over-sharp
critics, like the reporter of the Sun fo- in
stance, ;.S fOisling upon the asscmblage one
of his old conferences, delivered in 1867, he
fore the splendid assemblagc of Notre
Dame.
Yet, even that clustic censor could not
refuse him the tribute of admiration. No
doubt Hyacintho has neither the scopc nor
the passion Of Lacordairc. But lie is bril-
llnnt orator Notwithstanding. If he deals
in commonpaces, lie has the art of clothing
them with the mir Of novelty. He has IL
magnetic power over All audience, as Pres
sense, the most distinguished Protestant
preacher IN France tcstilics His firm per
son, noble gestures, rapid, impassioned de-
livery and poetic style, explain the influence
which his liberal and scmi-political dis
courses have eXcrtcd over the Parisiun
mind. Add TO this ''the heart of which he
discoursed &c eloqucntly in New York, and
you have Michcct's Gaul, civilizcd-a
speaker, man broad not deep, wholc-soul-
ed creature possessed by the influences OF
his age, and able to reproduce them better
than Lamennais and Montalcmbcrt, but with
out the power to analyze or explain.
When we consider the New York lecture.
and those more famous lectures of 1867,
(Which we beg tho New York Sun to read
agaiM We can form a tolerably accurate
idea of the man. He is by no means u
Luther He is the precise opposite of a
Calyin-Srcatest of the logical reformers.
He is n sort Of catholic Bccchcr, who ell
deavors 70 reconcile, in q vaguely philo-
sophie way, the conclusions of the past, and
the aspirations Of the present He is II pu-
pill OF I,amcnnais, who yet refuses 10 break
with the church; who has his own way of
rcconciiing democracy in politics with ALSO
lutism in religion.
No one who has ever looked upon the
Waived, placid bcanling countcnanco
of Father liyacinthc will confound him with
The martyrs of old. He advocates liberty OF
tho press. liberty OF conscience, liberty of
worship; he opposes personal government
and the union OF Church and State in all Eu-
rope, except in Rome; he makes marriage q
duty TO Col and society, except to The priest
hood; hc makes Toe Pope supreme exccpt
in the Syllabus of 1864, and except in
his control of Father liyaciathc; in Il word,
lie see"S 70 reconcile The Nine.acnth century
and the middle ages. iia accepts both IN
~ "S.N'' PpSiuIOh - WuOily
And we see very clearly what tho end must
be. Either he must break with his church.
as l.amcnnais did, or he nust submit TO tho
Syllabus anl the Cicumenical Council. lie
Is not the lnan TO whom it is given 10 ira
verse that bridge 10 heaven of Which Muho-
met speaks That ncrillous passage which is as
thin as spider, web ana as sharp us the
edge Of 4 sword.
we have no idea what the Ecumcnical
Council will do. It viii! bc directed by the
most experienced statesmen, confcssors and
thooloSians-by cas;Iists who hnve tested
the individual conscience, and cardinals
who have felt tho pulse Of nntions. The
congregatcd bishops of Catholcity will have
10 deal with Gallicanism and with Feninn-
ism, with High Churchmen and with Bap-
tists-thc extremes of the ecclesiaslical
scale. They will not need to deal with
Father IIyacinthc; his case is already decid-
| cd Deprived Of n Partisan audience, he is
| but The shadow Of a great name.
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LAND COMMISSIONER Leslie viriuousIy do
| MICS Lhatrnth Of IL statement made by the
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