New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-22
ASSAlLING pR0TKST4NTISM.


A writer in The GALAXY lately maintained
with formidable array of facts and fgures,'
that we have an Established Church-to wit,
the Roman CathOlic-in our State, or at least
in this City. He showed how money by
hundreds of thousands was annually voted out
of our State and City treasures to support the
seminaries, asylums, &c, of this Church, where
but tens of thousands are distributed among
all other Churches; and he plausibly insisted
that we have a State endowed, State-suppOrted
Church in all but the name
He might have strengthened his case by cita-
tons from the journals of the ruling party
among us. The Albany Argus, though edited
by Jealous, lifelong Roman Catholic, treats
Professionalism with ceremonious politeness and
courtesy; not so the Democratic organs in this
City. The Sunday Mercury exhausts its extern
sive vocabulary of abusive and scurrilous cpl
! thets on the canting sOur-visaged, snivellng,
cheating, hypocritical professors of Evangelical
Christianity, especially the clergy; and no tale
of fraud, crime, or lewdness, whereof q Pro-
| testant preacher is the hero, can be too mon
| strOus or too incredible to find an eager well
come to its columns. The World patterns after
The Mercury, though with more regard for
social decency and no High Church antc
like Ewens, no chance TO present Protestant
Ism in a ridiculous or contemplate aspect, is
allowed to pass unimproved. For instance:
The Pope has summoned General Council
Of the Christian Church to meet at Rome next
Winter and in doing so has proffered to the
Orthodox Greek Christians, as also to Protest
ants, a fresh invitation to acknowledge his SUI
premacy and return to the One Fold whereof
he is shepherd. He did not, of course, ask
the Protestants to unite In the Council but
he did give them an invitation which some of
them have seen fit to acknowledge and re-
spOnd to- Among these were the two Pres
byterian General Assemblies which met
in this City few months since, whose response
has recently appeared in our columns. We do
not Judge the matters at issue between the ri
val churches; but the Pope's invitation and the
Presbyterian response both seemed to us couched
in respectful language, and from the writer's
pOintiof view respectively, unexceptiOnable. But
The World thinks it serves its party by pitching
into the Protestant missive after this slashing
pattern
When 1t was proposed in the two General Assemblies
OF the Presbyterian Church which here last Summer
tns1 reP Should De sent to tue MAJ OF SIN at Rome
and non-Cathocs some prudent members OF the assem-
ion that it was nexpedien to take any notice of that
poor foolish. and wicked old man." This view OF the
question, however did not prevail IL thought that
che ungodly would say, IL no reply made to the
Popes letter that 1t because reply could be made;
and was ordered that the moderators of the two
0les should prepare proper epste, protest manifesto
prOnupciameDto or whatever else such document
when prepared left in doubt Whether should be
transmitted to Rome or published here, simply filed
among the archives OF the Assemblies, question
that remained in doubt until few days since when it
was solved p . 1ss sSResraIce In re Ney York %