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JFsUITS AND METHODISTS AND THE
REPUBLIC.
(Boston Pilot }

The Sprin eheld .hephOHcd" Queeions
note in the Pilot when intimated tha' tue
Jasuits are not foreign to America, ana
that the Methodists did not always sy mpa-
thixe with the Colonies in struggling
against England;
The labors aud explorations of the Jesu-
it's are so interviewer with the early history
of the continent, "a may be seen IN the
pages of Bancroft, Preston, and Parkman,
chat historians are obliged, not only TO re-
count them, but to borrow material from
their "Rela ions pablished in Paris. MI.
Girardin IN n paper read before the Michi-
gan Pioneer Society, showed that the
Jesuits were 1.-The pioneers of the coun-
try"
of the Jesuit Father Marquette, who broke
through the painless forests of Illinois and
explored the Mississippi. The jesuit ta-
Their Dreuilettee, "frst of Europeans" as
Bancroft testifies, made the painful journey
from the st. Lawrence tn the Kennebec.
The Xavier of America Brebenf, trav-
ersed the country of the Hurone, and mado
the fret maps of the territory az u brother
Jesuit, MALTA, had before made the first
map of China and the East Indies. Jesuits
bore the cross to the confines of lake Supe-
rior five years before New England
Elliot addressed the Indians six miles from
Boston Harbor."
From Mount Desert in Maine to Califor-
mis-, the Jesuits have left their mark; and,
az Bancroft ssye, 'sno river was crossed, no
cape was turned, that Jesuit did not lead
che way"
A publication of the Maryland Histori
cal Society shows that the first great plea
for liberty of conscience was made in 1865,
by the Jesuit, Father Fitzherbert.
Jesuits began colleges 10 Quebec and New
York before Harvard touched these shores.
From the days when the Jesuit Serbiew
ski " the Horace of Poland" by the spirit
of his fervid poetry, stirred up the Poles,
under Sobleski, to sweep the MOslems from
the beleaguered walls of Vienna, and Tes-
cue Europe, the Jeeuits have ever been
the friends of liberty. In the struggles of
the American Colonies, unlike the sects
that were bound to England by ecclesias-
tical and other ties, the Jesuits had every
reason to give their sympathy to the young
republic. One of the first acts of England,
on securing Canada, was to expel the Jesu-
it's and it was peculiarly fitting that a
Jesuit, cousin of Charles Carroll, Of Car
rollton, should cooperate with Franklin in
gaining the friendship OF Canadians at the
outbreak of thu Revolution.
IL was fitting also that franklin should
have for a co-laborer member of the or
der, which, through Father S:rada, as may
be seen in Addison's Spectator, No. 24),
had anticipated the discovery of electricity.
Among the very few friends of the Colonies
in Canada were the jesuit Fathers Huguet
and Floquet.
Washington eviIced his regard for the
Jesuits in his visit 10 the college at George
town, aud Lafsyet (Memoir Paris), ex-
pressed his own partlality for the Fathers
at that institution, in a speech before the
French Legislature.
When the republic was established, the
Jesuit, Archbishop Carroll, composed the
beautiful prayer for the authorities, which
is still recited by Catholics, When Andrew
NJ n.1-,. - In1r,
1t who delivered the address which, it is
said, moved "O!d Hickory" to fearful emo
ton; whom Father Kenny, Superior oil
the Jesuits 10 Irelaod, visited this country
he was greeted with cordial welcome by
Congress-; and when " tNo Fathe: of his
Country" wAs no more, it wac a jesus
who offered one oS tho most touching eulo
gies.
That the Methodists were not Away il
sympathy with the youRg republic, is evi
desced in the fact that their founder, Joht
Wesley, left this country in consequence
of dissensiOcs whic he had stirred up, ant
on his return TO EuglaBd, wrote the "Ad
dress to the American Colonies which, a
his biographies testify, was 80 anti Amer
lean that its destruction twas the salvation
of Methodism in the United States"
A Protestant writer, John Hampson,
contemporary (Memoirs of Wesley, vol.
page l45), says Methodist preachers reu
deTed themselves particularly oonoxiou
to the Americans by their violent oPposi
ton to the cause. One preacher WAS oh
iiged to make precipitato retreat, an
another was captured by American scouts
and convicted of doing the work Of ep
for the British army.
southey, Whitehead, Tvermau, and man
other writer's testify to Wesley's continue
opposition To the struggling colonies.
Aud yet, a. the Catholic World recent
pointed out, the JesuIts have been locke
upon by many ss enemies to the republ
aud the Methodists claimed to be peculiar
~ it's friends.
TILE rprrE, pEALEnY ZOE HARn TIME.