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UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY.
f th mbers of the Gazette, to which I beg
. ous and insulting to their principles and fee
- one more’ illustration of the bad faith of thee ‘atshenes of
U. STATES CATHOLIC WiIs SOELLANT.|
CHARLESTON, DECEMBER 19, 1829.
THE PRESS." :
The writer of the following communication is not an ex-
ception. We bear Witness from pretty extensive bareatiel
=
f which h
nei
press in those States has not treated Cathoie swith | imps
tiality not to say kindness. The. rem a great m
sure in the lands of the people themeatven, “Let them give
their support only to those papers which.do not abuse them.
To the Editors of the U. S. Catholic Miscellany.
‘VANTAy Dec. 3, 1829.
“Gg
leave to recall your “Memien, In the last number under)
© 29th of April, you tell us you publish “ by request,”
ues well to shew that importance : but, though large and |?
wide his field, he could not it seems fully display his powers,
jour, who was, perhaps,a no less zealous, and an
quere :—** jg the Sabbath such a remnant of Papa! al supereti-
tion, that he must needs be an ambitious hypocrite, who ex-
cites his countrymen to care for and observe it?” His er
dite reverence deigns not to let us have the answer ; vat
whether generally observed, be a rem-
2 snahesed,
to the Editor of the “ Huntin Gizeite,” complaining
de declined, on tho plea, that he felt ‘unwilling ‘his paper
should be made the * organ of religious controversy,” and
nant of papal superstition, or not, itis iscortarnly an institu
for havi
other than tho precept of the Catt Chureh, while ¥ we
have a 7 of God, for
gz
without aiming, in his dexterity, sparring at his unoffending | abun.
which is
ay bible:
“© Beloved Son, health and penedi tio
Ata time whena er of bad books, which most
grossly attack the Catholic "eligion “and circulated, ev ven
among the unlcarned, to the great destruction of souls, ¥
judge “exceedingly well, that the faithful should be excited
e@ are the most
Philadelohia cditi
P ‘ P
8
onably effected, by publish tne holy
Scriptures in the language of your country suitable to every
one’s capacit:
This is the ways dear sir, those go much calumniated cler-
of Scriptures. And su such being the
gentlemen, to be ati gmatized, and pointed at by the finger
uperation. ta, not of com
mitng wtih is their genuine chnracter,—but of with.
he light of God’s law from his people. The most
turday, or the seventh day of the roche We are often told
of * papal superstition,” but wo are never informed what
1
nang treasure man cen possess, is a fair character, and
to Tob him of it, would be neither honest nor honourable,
that Fagues indefinite term means, or in wha’
ff w ive dp whatever hes come Gow to us
that, if he published it, he fearéd such would be
although —whether, ho'called it controversy or not—he had
besn. for vears. in the habit of bi. he Cathal;
nity of his ‘vendors; with ** second hand ae alike injuri-
T his i is
‘Zion”—as they are self-styled, and of their bigoted adhe-
rents:—how extremely reluctant to publish in their journals,
any thing in explanation o1 or r defence of Catho! glic ¢ doctring,
their boasted freedom
Without being over-superstitious, or 2 given to. omens, one
~ might safely cay,--this is nol a good sign. It is not indeed
Wo are assailed, and we
and what
granted i in worse times is denied us—tho privilege of de-
very indicative o a good cause.
ow “This shews tho neoeeslly of supporting our Catholic
Periodicals, The columns ofthe above named Press, like a
church famous in Trish story, ‘ are open to every one, but
aPapist.” Indeed o paragraph from * Tom. Thunb” would
-find easy access. Shall.we ever see the end of th
exclusion? Many years eloe, in this very place, the “ Hue
and cry” against popery was trumpeted with * goed speed
’ - from the pulpit down to the vsorriest country newspaper, a.
from the frequency of repetition, began to be, noeredited as
fact. Thero was not a dissentient voice, tillthe Very Rev,
Doctor Gallitzin, tho first pioncer in this section of Peunsyl-
vania, happy for
cate of long- insulted { trath. His “defence of Catholic prin-
ciples” and “ jetter to a Protestant friend,” are long before
the public, and in this region especially, have oprned the
, stood forth t
niage ofa resident iets and an elegant Cathal
of defence, and I must
add, iti is too often resorted to ag rege the doctrines of the
Iti ofa
through the chencls of Popery, we shall 5
est things in religion, we shall eclipse what I ‘would call}
“the sun of the moral world”—the volume of divine inspi-
ration : for without the tesimony of the Catholic Church—
“ the pillar and the ground of trath”—it ‘nas neither an evi-
dence, nor a resting place.
Tho second place to which I would call your attention, is
a ee eraee published on the .8th ult. in the last columns of |®
Gazette, under the head “ Art of Printing.” With good
isa reat com-
mandment of the decalogue, which says “ thou shalt not
bear fulse witness against thy neighbour” '--consequently it
cannot be devoid ‘of sin, n theological
e
will add with the learned‘and candid Montague, * it is’
shame to charge men with.what they are not ey of, in
order to make the breach wider, already too
To these remarks, dear sir, I request ort will assign a+
intent, T'suppose, to mix the I
endeavour to amuse your readers with the story of “ ‘the
Devil 2 and De vests appending as 5a piece of useful in-
be alarm of thi idea of
the critare getting into the hands of | the laity. This,
besides being in itself culumnious, i is rather an in-
delicato-and indecorous trifling with the feelings, as:well as
the good sense and better knowledge ome ofyour read-
ers, True, it isnot of your own compos: as you have
pleased to adopt it among your weltins, you aro 0 deemed
nds, I
believe, not more on the ability aiplayed in the original
and sPropr ety of its selections,
ure ® produetions of the phi-
Tosopbieal age, you might easily “diseover, even on tho sub- |
ject.of the fype, something quite as interesting to your rea-
dares without insulting their feelings. This Precious morceau
France,” but be a:
sared, the isnot the only mistatement in nthe historical works
at the
Sir,
mi
faith te his sleve, or tuke on érust the
But it
I prefer charging to this cause your p
man,
y
appears, you are uninformed on n this point, for fi
ort
place in the Gazette, that they may serve to disabuse the
way of controversy, that nothing but the
repeated taunts, for some time past. thrown out in the Ga-
zettt, and a deep sense of duty, could induce me to offer
evon theso lines to the public. ,
wounding feclings, as far as truth
and better practised—* do not unto others, chat thou tel
not have done to thyself.”
‘ Tremain, dear sir, .
. . Your obedient humble servant,
, May Ath, 1829. 1. .
rrereernerreyrcmerere
MISREPRESENTATION,
Woe find the spirit of misrepresentation waxing strong.—
Few religious papers now come under our eye without af-
rdin ne a melancholy exhibition of the zeal for defamation 5
far behind in the march of ‘spiritual rogeneration, it is much
chastened and relieved of that inveterate load of hate and
prejudice, so long and industriously tnaintained against the
true re follawarn, and the religion of Jesus Christ.
Yours with respect,
’ oO. R.
on your part. What ever be tho m: otive, there is hana a
charge more industriously circulated, whether from the pul-
pitor the press, than that the sacred scriptures are withheld
by tho Catholic clergy from the laity ; yet there is not a
charge more palpubly absardy 8 as i aPpsare from the fact, that
thant
we have given some spec! § to-day again upon our cos
Iarone. But the following m morceau is most disgusting. We
The Restraints of Popery.—
inations were per potrated in
Pius ve from
[To the Editor of the Huntingdon Gazette.]
\
tor.—I have long been under,the impression
licly offered at sale, and i in the city of Philadelphia, for the
four last yours as many ‘editions of the old nd new
Mr. Enr
that among the many of freedom’s blessings, with which
country is pre-eminently favoured, there are few more um-
versally beneficial, none more efficient to secure and per-
petuate those blessings than the freedom of the press ; and
wha t adds stilla more to its v efficacy is = the uuprecedent ted ac-
have doemed it Leduty to! sayeth, and the community at
a ores and eat knowledge through ne same medium.
Hence [am a Subscriber, to no less than five periodicals,
including your own, But this enjoyment o of a free press,
so cstimable in itself, is often matred from its liability e
abuse, - It scems the -henefits of the ‘Tipe'itoutt—the grow
ofliberality, the extension of scicnce, the march ‘of philoso
phy and philantrophy—are yet inade
little mind of inn al model ed,
dogene eracy. For the press—I s with regre' m be-
ing the organ of useful knowledge, ofprinciens nd ‘hatha
the noble end of its croation,~—is too often perverted into the
vehicle of the ‘Lale- bearer, and the .instrument of
lence and discord among society, making one laugh at the
oxpense of unother, and | musinforming bot h.
vSir,Ih
equal ate to rescue the
fro: vet ¢
" Jy
ly offered holi by
only restriction laid of © people, respectieg the
vendiog: of the holy scriptures | is, rebet iu those
which seem hard t
are to believe the Apostles, (2 Peter iii ch, 16.)—* the un-
du
ther oy own vertitioas” they should submit-to.the authorized
ent interpretations of the pastors of the church,
whom i. C. gave for the perfection of the saints, for the
Christ, till we all meet in the unity of the faith, and of the
knowledge of the son of God, that we may not now be chil-
dren tossed to and fro, and carried ubout by ev ery wind of
doctrine” Eph. iv, Such is the instruction as to the reading
of the sacred volume, and were it even unsupported a the
expericuce would shew, how wise and salu
is the rule; and on the contrary, how destructive or the
“ unity of the spirit and the bond of peace,” is that system,
fwhich abandons overy man and. woman to the sport and
ncertainty of their
Toshew you by unuther fact how far tho Cathotie priest: |
| hood are averse to the reading and circulation of the scr: ‘ip- |
by a “recent perusal ofa ‘Tow paragraphs, published by you,
will here subjoin an extract from a|
‘yy I
lettor of Pius Vi. to “Martini, Bishop of Turin, A. D. 1778.
their present pas- | ea!
an table wrest, as also the other Scriptures to t
work of the ministry, unto the edification of the body of | did
Cardin a orrected this iniquitous habit.”
.| these facts the re reader may learn how weak and contemptible |
the influence of the corrupt system of religion,
ght ne Papal Church. . In those dark places of the
§
sistency with his eee 3 for the Pope .who
believe,) holds the k sof Heaven and Hell,
hima pardon!
U eir instruction ?
Do they | know what they are doi ing Fis. el.
ore foul falschood never was penned than the
maton that those assassinations occurred ! they
@ Roman Catholic church proclaims the divine pre-
cept ‘agelant murder, and declares that it is worthy of eter-
nal death, What farther restraint can she impose? It has ©
beyond question, been proved again and again that m
crime is perpetrated in London ‘an in all Italy,—will the
holy calculators be satisfied with
as Popery docs? We will not draw
lice, 80 tiate even if the allegation were true, the conclusion
would be “lame and impotent.”