The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-07-31
A WORD TO. IRISHMEN.
THE CHAMPION OF OUR KNoW-NoEH:
ING MAYOR.
mol THE EDITOR OF TaE NEW

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TO THE EDITOR OF TIE NEWS.
| Upop.w what meat doth this our Caesar feed, thai
he has grown so-SGtcp.
'Awrlter in The Republican has given to the
public two Of bis lucubrations upon the sub
Ject of the present canvass, in one of which he
extols the merits of Mr.. Plllsbury, and tells
the people of this section of the many obliga
tions they are under to the Hon. Henry VIII
son, United States senator from Massachu
sets.
In the article published In Saturdays Repub-
lican, which is particularly commended" by the
editor Of that paper ''to the class represented
by The CHARLESTON NEWS" the writer, under.
takes to arraign both The NEWS and the
Courier for the use of ''good sound, square
fiction" in their efforts to secure the election
of General Wagener.
Who is this scribbler, who puts himself
forward to enlghten the good people of this
city, and who talks glibly of the slow coarse
diatribes which these editors dish up daily for
the edlfcation OF taeir readers ?" Who is he
who speaks of hungry beagles," "this wretch
ed crew." ,'canting hypocrites," &C., &C., and
who further undertakes to tell US Of what was
done during "the early days Of Bishop Eng
land" when they used their money and their
power to crush him and drive ''Popery' out Of
Charleston?'
Now, what does the man mean? What Is
'tgood, sound, square fiction" and what does
be know of the early days of Bishop England
This second Daniel come to Judgment could
not have been born when that learned prelate
came first to this city, and must have been, q
boy when he died. He could know nothing OF
his own knowledge of those days when the
"pack Of hungry beagles"-"those cantlng
hypocrites" their money and their
power to crush him, and drive "Popery" out of
Charleston, and Ii he did not and could not
know for himself, from whom has he derived
the materials from which he has drawn 80
untrue picture of those days?
Bishop England, when he came to Charles
ton, was comparatively young man. He was
the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Charleston,
and he came with reputation for great learn
Ing and pIety, which he richly deserved. He
preached to large congregations, and the
Church of st. Mary's and the Cathedral of st.
Fiubar's "a wooden structure nearly upon the
site of the ruins of the present cathedraD were
crowded by Protestants to hear the tervd elo.
quence Of this eminent scholar and divine.
But we venture to assert that there never was
an attempt to crush him, nor to drive Popery
out OF Charleston. Bishop England enjoyed
the respect, esteem and affection OF large
portion Of the Protestant population of this
city, and died universally regretted.
The attempt to use the name of this dstin-
gulshed prelate to create prejudice against
portion of our citizens will be futile, will meet
with the contempt of Catholics and Protestants
alike. The fling at those he calls ''our South
ern friends" "'who' would before the late civil
war as soon cut of their right arms as to even
think of electing au Irish Catholic to any
office of honor or trust in this city," and that
also at former slave-owners, deserve some
notice.
And we are again disposed to ask, Who is
this man who undertakes to lecture the citt-
zens OF Charleston 10 this way' It he had
uVeQ mere uOF6 ttldu D lSW ycolSf no uuss
have known that Irish Catholics were men,
bers of the City Council; were commissioners
In the several public boards of the city, and
members of the Legislature, and that they
constantly held offices Of honor and trust
some of our most esteemed Irish citizens were
large slave.owners.
Before he concludes the article he desires to
tell "those East Bay Journalists, and their
Shylock friends in Broad street," that he will
not vote for one man on their Citizens ticket.
What a loss to the Citizens candidates They
will, however, survive it. he further asks per.
mission s.to distinctly state that he Is not au-
thorized and does not presume to speak for
the Irish voters OF this CITY," What modesty
We, however, hope that some of the Irish
voters will speak for him, and vouchsafe to
tell us who and what this interested llbeler Is
how long he has been here, what his infu-
ence is with the Irish voters of this city, and
to what high Office does his ambition lead him
to aspire. A CHARLESTON PROTESTANT.