The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-13
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= tt-s rPrO8ress OF oxOiH-establishnneut.
Protestantism never effected any con. d.
siderable lodgment in ireland; but after
it had been adopted by the bulk OF the
English people, it was determined in
England that the same faith must be es-
tablished in ireland. In pursuance of
this resolution, the Catholic clergy we're
men of the O. al III of England sent over
to take thei 4. p1 aces. This change did
not, howevel, oocasion any correspond
ing change in the, religious feelings Of
the people, who became rather the more
attached to their ancient faith, according
as their clergy were treated with harsh
ness and injustice. In every other coun-
try. where there is IN established reli-
gion, it is the religion of the majority of
the people; but in Ireland the members
OF the established church in many dis
tricts constitute hardly an appreciable
element in the population. But there
were q number Of estimable English gen.
tleInen who needed some respectable
means of support, and they were ac-
cordingly provided for by organizing q
They sent there several arch-bishops,
and some ten or a dozen bishops, who
received very handsome incomes from
their Irish estates. The Archbishop of
Armagh and Clogher, for example, about
$4,000 year; the Bishop of Down,
Connor, and Dromore, some $35, 900 or
$4,000; the Bishop of Cashel, Emily,
Waterford and Lism lore, about $35, 900,
&c. Ten bishops and two bishops
received the snug sum of ESQ, 900, or an
average of about $40. 01n apiece in gold.
Including deans, precentors, chanceIlors,
archtdeaSons, prebendaries, canons,
parochial clergy, &C., the Irish people
paid out each. year about Sd, 600, 900 for
the support of these ecclesiastical Office
holders. Some Of them-some of the
parish clergy--did not have five parish
toner's.
This is the concern which has lust
been "dis- established" by Parliament,
after such stout resistance on the part
OF the Lords and the old fogy party in
the Commons. It is true, the Irish
Churchmen got by the bill the bulk of
the church property, some $50, 900, 600
in value, while the Presbyterians, who
are nearly ns numerous as The Episcopa-
lians, got So. 100000, and the Catholics
-four-f -ffths of the people--got notAing
But they got rid of the system-and
that contented them. -
The election of Walker in this State
and of Senter in Tennessee, will operate
IN similar manner to dis establish the
church OF the carpet-baggers in these
much-abnsed States. At present we have
here o Northern Bishop whom we pay
81, ,OOO a year, without ever enjoying his
episcopal offices. We have prebendary
from the same region--Mr. Levi Edwin
Dudly, who has just resigned fat bene-
we have Arch-deacons Burnham, Dor
man and Willoughby-nt So, 900 apiece
We have Dean Morton, Dean Bramhall,
Dean Olcott, and various other deans at
$4,000 a year. We have Chancellor
Bond-at large and uncertain sum.
We have Provost Chahoon ut $4, 900.
We have Sacristan Wardwell at $4,000.
We have Canon Chandler at s., and
Chorister Platte at $4,000. And then
an lnnumerable host of rectors, Wears,
curates, at salaries ranging from $IOO to
81, 1000, scattered through the Parishes
from Acoomac to Allegheny, and from
Northumberland to Scott. '.ir
This is the Church of the Puritans in
Virginia. which has just been disendow-
ed. Like their archetypee in Ireland,
they are still gnawing at the carcass, but
we hope soon. to be rid of them.
What y monstrons thing it was to in
undate .this country with strangers, to
Cdo o'SASAuoAoA1io oA ouT OWu p6Ople-SOm6
few Of them, we admit, gentlemen, but
great many of them harpies, whose
very coqntenances would compel them
to plead guilty under criminal proseou-
tion: But all over the world the spirit
of progress is demolishing these monu-
ments and citadels of ,rapacity and greed;
and enlightened public opinion is frown-
ing upon ecclesiastical bummers, wheth-
er they belong to tue Church of England
or the Church Of the Puritans-whethe
they marclraunder the cross or the carpet
bag; The great Republican party purges
itself of these scavenger birds. as the
Church of England-that really noble
Church, amid all its secularsm-purges
itself Of thafa shameful abomination
which ha3>sod long disfgured its fair pro-
portions.s And now. the voice comes mp
from Tennessee, that progressive Repub-
hcanism eschews there the employment
OF force, and penal statuets, and disabil-
ltles, and establishments, to bring those
non,Jurlng, popisil malignants to the or
thodox faith. And next, we shall have
Mississippi and Texas--until everv