The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-10-28

This paper mas hau gOou ueAl " say
al different times about the Catholic 7ete-
graph, a weekly paper published in Ciu-
ciunati that Is supposed 10 reflect the SEN
timents Of Archbishop Pdrcell. The crit
cisms Of the editorial expressions in that
paper in sympathy with the cause Of Mon.
Mchy in France and Spain have been
quite caustc, as have been also It's allusi-
Ous to the 1slegrdpt's denunciations OF
Victor Emanuel and his Italian Govern
ment as the oppressors and1ailers Of the
Pope. These frequent criticisms and al
lursous to the Archbishop's organ have,at
last aroused the ire Of that ecclesiastical
tuuctcnary, and he has accordingly pub
lished to the people Of Cincinnati and the
world generally the following paper bull
against the Commercial" as that paper
heads and publishes 1t:
We acknowledge the perfect right Of
this paper 10 insult US. But we claim the
same right 10 resent Its insults. We could
oil several numbers Of the Telegraph with
extracts from It's columns, for weeks,
months and years past, in which every
Thing that malice could suggest against
ourselves and our fellow. Catholics in
every part of the world, against our faith
and morals, has been repeated uSque ad
Hdu3dm. II is daily insulting, on &C
count Of their faith, those whom all Cath.
OiiCs revere. But not for this alone do we
cry" Stop the vile sheet" It's spirit has
become decidedly lnfdel, II not atheistic'
We therefore say, and ask all who have
any regard for our judgment, and advice
tosay: Discontinue sending us the Com
mrtial." +J. B. PURCELL.
Asmay be supposed, the editor Of the
Commercial devotes an article to this ex-
communicative pronunciamento from the
Archbishop. He makes nearly column
OF remarks upon 1t and reiterates bis sen
liuents Of determined hostility, not tc
Catholics, but to the assumptions oi The
Priesthood in regard to secular education
and to the course Of such newspapers as
The Telegraph with reference to republi-
can institutions in Europe.
The article Of the Commercial concludes
@Iollows:
ave shall continue In tho course We
have marked out; we propose to defend
republican institutions wherever estsb
lshed; to advise the complete divore O.
Church and State; the subsection OF al
ecclesiastical orders to civil authority II
political motters; the secularizAtion 81
schools that are the common property o
thepeople; the equal taxation Of all proper
y, sacred and protane, and TO maintain tht
right Of private judgement In all matters
that concern the temporal or spiritua
welfare OF the individual. II this be In
fidelity, 1t Is an infdelity begotten Of ed.
ucatiOn in political principles which tht
editor ol the Telegraph has sufficiently
studied, and In which he Is not likely {
become a proficient through any iniorma
ton he may derive from the Ultramon
tantsts Of Rome. Upon the religious be.
llel Of men we make no war. II the,
choose to believe in the miraculous efflcac,
Of consecrated relics or any other extrem
notions or dogmas Of the Catholic o
Protestant Churches, It 10 one to US. Bu
when they seek toconvert the institution
o. the State to their uses, and preach pc
Nlical doctrines that are opposed TO th
genius o. free government, no politica
Nominations will deter US from charac
'etizIng their conduct as It deserves"