The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-04

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dutiesY 1t Is an undeniablc fact we are retrograd
ing in the performance OF them. Why is this Is
It not because our hearts are not properly in
limited knowledge on Habit alone induces vi
to tolerate this. Let US then pray with under
prayer fail to reach the throne of grace
and to receive from allmerciful Creator fitting
IN as ha
divine Creator Of the universe. Surely, as we are
aware OF this, we can make the desired efforts tt
secure a well-trained body Of men, thoroughly
versed In Jewish literature trained to preach to US
reproach OF Offering prayers In language we Inn
perfectly understand. Thanking you again. Mr.
Editor, for your pure and dsinterested interest In
our nation, believe me, your sincere friend
p. ST am informed the late Mr. Simpson, the
lawyer in his WILL left plot OF land In Yonkers to
build Jewish college upon Why Is 1t not made oil
service to the Jewish cOmmunityS
Unchristian Partfsanship.
| To THE EDITOR or THE HERALD
Although the subject OF this letter may seem
irrelevant as regards your Sunday publications, I
beg you, Notwithstanding to insert;it among the
"ReligOus Correspondence" because think it will
| thus reach many who only read the paper on Sun
days, and especially that portion which relates to
ecclesiastical matters. 1t is to this public-the
largest, perhaps, that one could command-that I
wish to address myself; and, indeed, my subject it.
selfwill not be deemed by them foreign to religion.
1t has become the fashion lately to speak much of
the 'church of the future" and to dwell upon the
one basis OF this visionary church--brOtherly love
and universal peace. The "future" In which this
dream Ia to be realized must be very far indeed
Judge by the unwonted bitterness with which
''Christans" are still attacking one another; and
one would think that to become reality and con-
quer existence "a all this "church of the future''
xvfllo int hoy tioIa
tiOns
| In this canvass that Is now disturbing the true
course OF ''brothcrly love" one journal has made
Itself conspicuous by its OF able and vigorous
| craftsmanship Confesscdly the best got up, best
cenf1 On hest edited weekly arpers relies SUI
| readers swallow any amount OF vulgarity and un.
truth. Incorporate scoldng is contemplate wher-
ever 10 Is found and one journal popularity accused
OF giving the lie direct In measured terms to its
opponents is not whit more contemplate than
It's illustrated" enemy, who calls the Southern
leaders "coarse and barbarous politicians" liar
per's Weekly, August 8, 1871
Reasonable and dignined opposition to one party
and adhesion to the other, which you consider tn
defamation OF your opponents and wlful misrepre.
sentatOn Is another. This paper we have named
| notes consciousness OF the weakness of ones
| causc-but 1t has recourse to the most imprudent
and short sighted Of devices well as the most
namely, the deliberate stirring up OF one race and
faith against the other. The Article headed ''rhe
Party Of Reaction" in Harpert Weekly Of Satur.
day July 20 is an obvious, undbguised instance of
this spirit. l wish neither to ener into the educa-
no nS widen question: to ths pEn
merits Of the foreign popuatlns OF this country.
OF the former will merely say hat the Bible learn
nowadays, had It's cradle in the old mOnastic
schools, where Celt and Saxon sudied together in
| true .brotherly love !" and as0 the latter NAV
remark that my Judgment is Utterly unbiased by
any national feeling. since nther OF Americas
two great foreign immigrationcan claim me as a
ticc and for American selfrespd, not to say patr-
otism. Is 1t patriotic to egg on re German against
kinde feelings that may in futul years burst forth
in bloody rev0lutionp Or do thef0ment0rs of such
disastrous rivalry wish to reve-- what has been
the greatest blot on American 'mmOn sense-the
fanatical absurdlty OF Know NotngismY
Harper's Weekly tries to make Mr.. Washburnc
sively German partisan. No dot 1t il true-and
most hOnOrably true-that he as5ted the German
noncombaants BY all means IN power and pro-
poor blinded France might be eused visiting all
lair haired foreigners. What ohat Mr. Wash
burne, as a gentleman and a domat, protected
all those who were In need Of ptecton some be-
cause they had right to 1t, otrs because they
weak ana appea eon 70 n t gefosy Most nn
erful neutral nation had not Itected all those
Germans unjustly accused OF eing spies, but
refuse such protection 10 trencbrcsts, nuns and
seminarists. It was not Mr.. ishburnes fault |
that the heroic Archbishop oiris and his mar.
nun. Sister of Charity or menr Of cloistered
order owes 1t TO him that here and honor are
still safe Mr.. Was!iburne's char was universal,
and does honor no less to his entry than to his |
private character, and he wht0uld make the
supplemented Irish inhabitantn America, or
vOters-for, perhaps IL IL that cl alone that is to
be mystifed-believe this charnO have been q
one-sfdcd and long-caded policy surely guilty OF
an unpatri0tic ana ungentlemane act
Another party move revealed this article and
similar ones emanatny from Same source Is
the identification OF Tammany cupton with the
democratic party. Every dcmOc worthy OF the
name knows how false this is. imany ITSELF In
the sense in which Tammany baSne TO be I'M
derstood, knows how doubly fails is. That sys-
! tenn in which all corruption ceid, and which
transmogrfed the dictionary ming OF every
word relative to truth and justiend good gov:
eminent, IL emphatically undcratc. II did
well to shield itself behind the t-honOred party
name that recalled the glories oishington and
keep up the farce long. IN association
OF INSCRIPTIONS men Of fon extraction
have usurped for some time name Of the
old American party, par erCek (for that the
democratic party has always .orcaly BEEN,
still that is no reason why itsgrace should
he fastened either on the induus race these
men belonged TO or the dlgnherty they chose
to burlesque. Tammany was association OF
roughs esgued for purposes olnder. 1t has
been exposed and got rid of an0 was the first
. to expose 1t and the most orward,nounce ltg An
Ifishman-Charlcs O'Conor. Hoble Americans
were content 10 Sit Suc Dy Siuoi MIN ana Sill
/ the evidence he had so clevend diligently
Sought out; honorable Irishmen good .Catho-
az w.ll as the latter--wcflad to see
the fra,h, ulent system broken dS and heartily
concurTcd IN denounclng 1t. It hry cunningly
II ia trnc. dfrlI with the proverbIariness OF the
unjust steward Of the Gospel, TO make the
Catholic Church Its friend, and Fps some were
for q time dcceiyed 10y these distilled advances,
but what does that amount " by that a few
men erred like any othef ais and mis- mis-
that every Catholic priest Is nosoEally infal-