The Irish standard., 1897-12-11
THE BISHOP OF Albany.


remarkable pastoral letter recently ad-
| dressed to his clergy by Rt. Rev. VIII
! liam Crcsswel Doane, the Episcopal
/ bishop of Albany. N. V, in which he
declared that England is most patient
with us" and that Americans in order
to win The esteem and friendship Of the
mother country" must not implant
| rrejudices against her in the minds of
their children by placing in their hands
! certain school histories which describe
the injustice and cruelty of Great Brit
ain toward the colonists. To give his
| exact words we quote as follows: THE
| theory that the old revolutionary spirit
| which regarded England as a tyrart is
Fept alive by the study OF our school
books of history may have some weight
| If it has, then it is time that the scho. =
| books were corrected so that children
| snail be taught that the England of d
hundred years ago is as different from
| the England of today us the America OF
| this century is different from the Amer=
lea of the Revolution" or course, Brr
oD Doane would not like the American
children to read the Declaration of In
dependence drafted by Thomas jefferson
IN arragnment Of King George and his
parliament. The charges therein made
are Offensive to the English of today
ana therefore the document should no
longer be read by Young America" or
perused by patriotic citizens on the
Fourth Of July.
AS might naturally bo expected B,sh-
op Doanc has been criticised for his UNI
American ntterances. A Chicago paper
refers to him as wearing knee
hroeches" and the title of My Lord
| Bishop" while travelling in Europe, and
says he is mad because Bishop McI.arpl
| came back from the Lambeth conference
with the Stars and Stripes flying. "lf
| ne wishes to know about the causes OF
our prejudice against England" says
the Inter Ocean, 'lct him subscribe for
| the London Globe, Standard ST. James.
Gazette and Saturday Review, and read
their articles about America and Amer
| leans" :
a. Oakley Hall. who says he is the
grandson of an English subject, gets
back ut the bishop in the following
, manner: 1T is not unnatural that the
| bishop of church which is an ofrshoo,
OF the church founded on the lust o.
Henry the Eighth, as we'll as of a rec
rcant monk. Luther. and an apostate
! nun. Catherine Won Born, should have
great love for the state which is con-
additionally annexed to that church
But ii seems Il sad fact that any Amer.
lean should recommend an eXrisipn
from our children's books of her oppres-
sion of the colonies, or of her insults
that led to the naval war, or her an
tasonism to the Union cause during the
sixties No schoomaster could ever
teach an American child who reads
about the greed and oppression of the
various English governments for the last
ten centuries to live otherwise than As
dctesting them"
Tho Philadelphia "Presbytrrian" and
other papers Of the East and West ex-
press their opinions Nf this pseudo
American prelate. and haul him over the
Goals for his .Anglo-manacal ,lttcrances,
and INC lud" replies to their structures
by attacking the Pope, the Catholics and
the Irish to prove his loyalty to Amcri-
can institutions. He knows that any
scoundrel who casts aspcrsions upon
these has proved his patriotism beyond
doubt. He got irritatcd because Hon.
John II. Fincrty. of Chicago. had (:
whark at him and said Queen Victoria
was the ''shc pope" of his church This
he rchemcntly denies, and 10 get even
with Fincrty he unblushinSly asserts
that Roman Catholics "0wc absolute
allegiance to a foreign bishop, not only
In spiritual but temporal sovercignty.'
lie knows he is lying if he knows any
thing about Catholic doctrine. He has
nothing to say about the Protestant crit
les who assaulted him more strongly than
the Catholics of Irish ancestry lie is
evidently renegade in race, for the
| name "Doanc" is a modification Of the
ancient Irish name duane" The
bishop OF Albany ought to cross the
ocean to reside permanently in Eng
land. This country is too vulgar, too
democratic and too American for him.