, 1881-08-28

, st'etemlHg III Their train went in
PROCESSION to the Dutch Lutheran Church to
1'.ua.a 1stas;l thanks to Almighty God. Every
uae.Sss sweiicd with joy. In the
,,',s!' ".ehh's Philadelphia was Illuminated
r., ~" :, greater splenhor than ever be-
1ole' Another historian tells how s.the
eNs .,s ol thls event spread universal Joy
.niou:hout the country. All hearts united
~ pla1se and thanksgiving to God for this
s'slai blessing, which, it was confidently ex-
i,*'ee@u, "ot1lu terminate the struggle for in
''epeloehce" And it did so. 1t was the
eolsulnmatlon of that which began in Boston
A1aFbof, and which, through seven long years,
amidst tremendous yicissituues and almost
every form Of test by which human courage
..ili loftltude were ever tried, held TO its pur-
r'se 1i4i this glorious moment came. 1t was
.nc ttotlr OF victory to a nation fighting fur
uiE IlSliL TO Lc 4 Nation.
interested to know how s.le], All event as
1als Is to be celebrated. The following, from
aal!y paper,. Is supposed TO- answer this
question:
THE cclebration] will begin on the 18th Of oc-
tobcr and continue Till the 18TH: and On Sunday
inc 10th, the religious services vii! be conducted
ny bishop keane tCnlhoIie), Of ilcEmold, Va,
bishup OF baltimore and prl,na1e Of The Catholic
Church Of the United States, ano iu the even
..lE Ut the same day tue Key. Johr Hall i'rrsby-
Ii.
The Sunday morning service will, Of
cdtirse, bc one of tine most conspicuous and
renresentatiyc of the whole series How
docs II come about. orc is ted 10 ask, that
this service is to be Il Hon,a,,ist uis|. Mass,
WITH two Arcllb1shops, one Of them I'rinatc
o1 Tie Catholc Church in the United Statcs,"
conducting Il II this were Catholic, ill.,
stead al being. lis it is. 4 Protestant couu-
Try, There might be Il fitness in it. II Cath
olelsm had contributed To the securing Of
utlng to maintain them, instead of-as is
true--all the while plotting against them.
there woud be the faint shadow ot pretext
1or the proceeding. As it is, all that can be
sud Of IL Is that Jesuit craft has turned to
this account, as it 50 well knows how to 10.
;amcrican, stupidity IN Ill! matters of this
Kind, while the hierarchy thrusts itself with
characteristic impuucnee into a place to
which lis only right IS the right Of nsurpa-
tim
The arrangements for the celebration, SO
Tar as Sunday is concerned, would seem to
have been made with especial design to
slight lll;at element in the struggle culminat-
lng at Yorktown wticl! was really itssource
only protestant-it WAS Puritun. There
is nothing which Eolnanisn so bitterly
hates, there is nothing to which, as Il
people. We are SD mitch indebted. The cell
trc OF that movement which finally Wi1encd
~ tiie dimensions Of tho whole thirteen col
olies was always Boston. Virginia bore Il
great part in it, and it had the distinguished
honor ot giving i leader tn the Revolutionary
army, and Of witnessing upon lis own soil
the surrender Of the last British force ar
rayed against us. There were bloody battic-
fields in every part OF the wide colonial do
main. But Eoston and New England were
from first to last the heart Of the whole.
T:lis fact il, our history could not lave been
more ;nsultinsly trampleu uion than is done
i'll The arrangement for this Forthcoming Gel
ebEation. The display with which the Day
tnport, H.. municipality welcomed the arri-
val Of Il Catholic Bishop the other day, and
the strange torgetiulness Of the lessnl,s If
l!istory for more than l,uoo years which the
Protestant ministers ol that city showed
while taking part III the silly proceeding, has
hscn lar:.tle1ed by the persons, whoever they
are, by wl!um the arrangements for tue York
1uwn celebration have been made. 1t is {.
si,aille IL us as 4. people, thai. We consent to
l,e thus imposed upon; that under Il Car
dinalss red hat or 4 Bishops rouuelaurc the
enormities Vi papai history ran be SO hidden
from our AMERICAN shortslshtedness, that
they become It's it they had lleyer been.