The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-08-02
REPLY TO .~.I1srarAp."

aouo III lily l6lleE III
Sundays Register, yet Libertad at
tempts to reply to me by a scurrilous
attack on the Catholic church. If he
wishes controversy on religion, I
would advise him to read Cobbett's
History ofthe Reformation, an English
Orthodox Protestant, and, having
done so, let him hiss Catholic church
until he is hoarse. For the last nine
years in the pursuit of my calling, l
have been brought in daily contact
with American Protestant gentlemen,
and though they knew me to be an
Irishman and a Catholic, 1 have vet to
learn hat they respect me one whit
the less on that account. When, there
fore, Libertad tries to place me in a
false position, L bid him throw his in
tolerant physic to the dogs for I'll nom
of it.
III had any desire to attack the Prot
estant Church l would invite the gem
tleman TO a little village in Ruthcor-
muck, near Cork (where l hail FROM,
and would there presents sight which
would forever make him ioathe the
idea of religious intolerance. 1t was
the too frequent scenes like the m to
which l refer but which l will not re-
peat. that led finally to the disendow-
ment of the Church in Ireland. Lib
ertad must understand from me that |
am not the advocate of tyranny in any
Church. nor in any Government.
Libertad Seems to hope to see another
bloody exhibition in San Francisco.
He had better not count his chickens
till they are hatched; and if he sits on
the nest during the incubation, he may
come off of a very j%aundiced Jesuit.
Libertad, from the peculiar nature of
your calling, l presume you are fond
of a good song; all jolly good fellows
are. Let HE recommend you TO re
hearse the 23d verse of Moore's "Come
Send Round the Wine," and for your
editication 1 will quote it:
'.Shall l ask the brave soldier W h fights
by my side
In the cause of mankind, if our creeds
do agreee
Shall l give up the friend 1 lay valued
and tried,
If he kneel not before the same altar
with me:
From the hereto girl of my soul shall l
fly,
To seek somewhere else a more ortho-
dOX kiss"
NJ D1r;-lD ~. lo--,r
would try,
Truth, valor, or love, by a standard like
this"
Behold, my friend, what an into!er-
ant spirit is here indicated by one who
lived cotemporary with the heroes
whom your pets. the Orangemen Il
mean butchers as they were and are
consigned to bloody graves.
W no are they who are now foremost
in demanding justice for their country
from an alien Parliament? Why the
greatest Protestant intellects in Ire
land. Who is Butt? Who is Martin?
Who is Wilde the husband of the high
bred and talented ~SperanZa? Who is
the Protestant Rector of Trinity Col
lege. Dublin? And who do o think
are prominent in opposing this great
movement? Be not startled. my
friend-some of the high dignitaries
and lesser lights of the Catholic
Church! What do you think of that
high? And Vet you have the vim
spirit to try to make me attack
the Protestant Church. Talk not to
me or the Catholic Church of intOl-
Read this, from a little book
called The Mirror which l owned
40 years ago. and which was
credited to the pen of that great and
luminous mind. Dean Swift. Read
one of the oaths of the Orangemen
with regard to Catholics: Kill him.
him, wound him. tear him-a
priest, a robber. a wolf, Il papist.'
Libertad. l would gladly reciprocate
your courtesy to me. did | think il
sincere; but the man who starts ont to
me in my religion is a fanatic
md a bigOt-ilthy, fptid pools in
l never wallow. l am an Irish
man. and | love my native land. She
5 dearer to me in her widOwhoOd
if she were still AS of yore-the
Amounted Bride of the Isles. There
IS a gentleman friend of mine in this
.ity who has known me for so years.
he will S~ub>tantiate the fac that
was never guilty of wOunding the
religious s~ensibiiity of any man.
Lii,eriad, l am now done with you
the Orange procession. My fear
S ihat if you pursue your present sen
+iments, you will end by emhrac ng
Orangeism, and like them, pinuslv
swear to '.wade knee deep in Papists'