The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-17

o,,irer on this controversy between
bishop Spalding and Professor Morse +;
"It will be remembered there appeared
last fall in the columns of the I'M
quirer, over the signature old Line
an exposure of a stupendous fraud
which the Knownothing Press has
been guilty of in palming off on La
fayette a sentiment he never uttered
The expression they attribute to linn
IF ever the liberties of the country are
destroyed, it will be by Romish
priests'-was dug out of letter in
which he quoted it but to refute it !
The original letter was quoted by the
Democratic press all over the Union,
and was inserted, due credit being
given to us, by Bishop Spalding of
Louisville, in certain work which
he published. Professor Morse, of
Poughlleepsie, n. Y. upon whose
authority the original statement was
made (remember these last words say,
| Calvanistic Morse is the author of
this base slander) feeling himself in
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controversy with Bishop Spalding in
relation to the genuiness -four corres-
pundent's letter. He asserts that no
such book as the letter is quoted from
is in existence; and that old Line
himself is one of those dreaded per-
sons called 'Jesujts.' Now,Awe assure
Professor Morse, and ell interested in
the controversy that old Line is q
protestant gentleman, 'stau11ch in the
tr3h,' by no means a bitter partisan
and that h3 can proUe erery statement
he mate to be correct. His veracity
is as good as Morse's, and if the latter
will come to this city, and risk any
thing on the impeachment of it, the
b0oh aoW te produced before q COM
najtte c selected 6y the parties. There
is no doubt whatever that Morse is all
wrong in the matter or that those
who quote Latay cite as an authority
are grossly deceived. We assure the
public that it can place the most i'm
piicit confidence in the Emquirer's conf
inunication regarding the Lafayette
forgery" This challenge Morse and
his friends prudently declined accept
ing. Thus Morse stands convicted be-
fore the American public of having
originated base slander against his
cathoic-citi2eus without even q de-
cent preteXt for his injurious state
ment; thus you also stand convicted
of forgery Mr.. Gillette as few public
men, having any reputation at stake
would like to be placed. l intend this
not as an answer to Rev. Gillette, but
to the l2u6{c, and sincerely hope that
minor luminaries, as well as dwelling
no popery" fanatics of the day, may
possibly profit by the fate of Mr.. Morse
and the Rev. Orator on our Thanks
giving day in Ridgway. Mr.. Gillette's
story about the killing of a preacher III
Mexico by 50 cdthOtc moh instigated
dy the prjesthoodn because he
preached The word of God in its sim.
plicHY' is another of his unfounded
calumDies for which he makes no at
tempt, even to forge authority. Time
does not permit me to expose him in
that statement, but let the public
judge, from the many errors l
caught him on, that he misrepresents
the NJ cxican story also. If, indeed,
chat preacher in Mexico preached, as
MI. Gillette did, OH Thanksgiving day
in Ridgway, and slnndered his fellow
citizens i'll such Il manner, by way of
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, pliCity," there might be quite q rea-
s0nabie excuse for his murder by the
f mob that he goaded to frenzy.
: The boldness of Mr.. Gillette's allus-
; sions to the "thumb screw and the
{ .4eto d0 ,te" is equalled only by its
} faisity, yet that very boldness gives it
5 the senblance of truth to the ignor-
f ant and unretlecting. When Mr. Gill
} lette takes back his Thanksgiving
e sermon, and humbly acknowledge it
: as false, as well as the slanderous er-
e rors ofwhich he now stands convicted
5 of, that were advanced in his last COM
/ munication to the Democrats I will
= explain for him and the public the
tHNlIiD SCtcN ana ltNtO GO JG, anu
, all about the ''past crimes and errors
: ofthe papal church." Then, and only
+ then, shall / consider him worthy OF
e notice. The caluminious sermon by
e which he sought to misrepresent his
; catholic fellow citizens as the most
e Odious and barbarous beings, equalled
4 only by the Turks, he feels pleased, in
- his feeble defense,i in last weeks Demo-
5 crdt, to call nothing only expressing
e difference on certain points of relig-
!, ious belief, and that such differences
= are tolerated'!! Slander is one of
those crimes that cry to Heaven for
u vengance, and if he is accustomed, as
e he openly acknowledges, to thus
O speak and defame, the sooner he does
: penance Inc better.
Think little on the Calvanistic
G COnsistory of Geneva-on the English
e Court of High Commission that prose-
O cuted the inCftensive catholic with u
. Vigor that never relented--think OIL
the reign of Henry the eighth and
J. Queen Elizabeth, and probably you
p will find the "Ao,tOs dc .fc" was not
h so bad after all. Here is one of the
= methods OF torture under Elizabeth,
Z taken from DR. Lingard's history, and
y referred to approVingly, by theprotes-
IS tant Hallam, in his Constitutional
n History. 1.-THE rack was a large omen