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” the rich to promote that and similar endeavours,
236
In the course of a few years, the stock of.the so-
ciety was oncreased j the colonists of the 300 acres
were able to b e proprietors in fee of their r
pective lots and °farm houses ; and, those who had
UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY / .
cabinet of St. James’s—which dire vhosts compelled to
drop the Scourge o of persecution : og Whe er ??~-In th
—In Ca-
tholic France, | Tn Catholic _Talys the. latter eminently i in
been unproductive paupers, depending o|
bounty, became Productive and independent citi-
zens, This system cen pursued in various
“Dwenty thousand poor people.at
. we. the
toatiensny of Mr, Seaver, who has b eral
to “its admirable results. .'There are
“ Catholics deny fibers of conscience.”—Where?—Not }
jin France, not in Germany, not in Italy. American. Fae
i
5
tants deny it in North Carolina, in New Je! lersoy,
rope until last year it was denied in Great Britain, “tid if)
"| gions, they can point to the more than prohibition i in Swe-
n and Denmark and Norway, and.to the bad faith of the
ha Nothorland Je hia Catholic aubi, Dia}
gs
Cathalics'ea; he co wh lar P.
h
ments are continually joining our church?
e .
not “reaa song:”
if our object in|P
America wore “ to proselyte an calightened Protestant com-
munity” —! why necd he tremble and be alarmed, if we hav:
'—for surely % we havo not “the poweraf coercion
to
e enormous inass of frish destitution. It
y Mr. “Howell, that it was a sys-
ich had produced the neces
evolent Societies in Holla
ne edt, in
reduce th
was well observed b
tem or Laws whi
sity of resortin to Ben
for the gentry were ‘compelled to do ¢t
contributing t to the anielioration of the
close, expressing our ‘ansious
hope, that the Home Secretary will realize our in-
terpretation of his words, on tlic’ oc of the
preventing of the Birmingham peti tion eno
rec! commending to our cons! nen, that, four inter-
pretation of them not correct, ‘hey will dis-
gion, to their country, an
or. 0
and imme: dia tely, ve want buta litt!
P
upon tho feelings,”
Spain and Portugal prohibited the importation of new reli- W
e
VOL. Ix.
described a Protestant community. Catholics deny
0 this likerty of conscien nee they refuse the aids to
ntal improvement i mass of community.
hey stop the channels of ‘education by which -in-
igence ows to'the public mind. Is it denied ?”
We acknowledge they have schools and colleges
dge they maintain the ordinances. of
relgion~ They ‘have Cte and priests and a-
craments, where is piety of heart towards
Go i when ayer and praise are performed by
Q.-
“The feature of ‘Poper ry which we wish to exhibit
,|t0 view at this time, is the check it puts upon free
inquiry. In bringing this charge against Popery.
we are fully aware ofhav mbat the prejudi-
ces of not a few wh
jo are e tainly but too poo rly
will be
Il
the senses, the i impressions are made upon them, ‘hat they
informed concerning the system.
We hadi nidced thought that it was forme erly
might be the chunne
,{ he need not bo tlarmed for hs enlightened Protestant com-
munity. Why docs he tre yo, no” piety o!
heart towards God, if all our manne) and praiso ‘are perform-
ed by proxy?” Ifthe fact be so, wo certainly will have no
proselytes, and he ‘may take consdlation. We say ho has
causo to trembic, because liter Stiga libel.”
When he writes of our Litany, wo suspect he meant our
Liturgy. Ho says that though | a will not vouch for the
extent to which it is disseminated amongst Catholics,” he
will vouch that * surely it ignot to the same general extent
as their books aro amongst Protestants.” He has judged
‘ rahi! in asserting what ‘ie acknowledges he did not know,
d we kuow he has mado a fale assertion. Ho: asks, who
ics to conceal their doctrines, that
they formerly held the keys of knowledge, and let -
nv common footsteps enter its hallowed temple. We -
know their history in times past and we now see
. P 0 1 € :
| countries, but in our country their policy is changed,
mean their undisguised establish,
ment of Presses for fhe diffusion of their tenets ?
Now it may gain for these remarks a little more
regard, to state, that we write not at. random---neith-
working of “the Subletting or rather the Ejecting
t,"? to-have in Ireland, scenes o of horror, enough
to “fight tho very dead Irom their graves!
6 , AMUSING...
The Alban Regi
pears to exhibit the Spirit o Popery !?!—and for this pur-
pose admits the Iucubrations of some correspondent, whose
production in the paper of January 9th, is really amusing.
We give ite entire: premising a few remarks,
~ It-will bo seen that ‘ho is alarmed at the progress of our ro-
ligions& because ofthe danger to immortal souls.” Wo us-
tor, is d termined, i itap.
ed t told it was bigotry to assort, that any religion
veins to God or dangerous to: man. oused to
be told Protestants wero liberal, because they admitt
mitted
¢ and safo church, but that Catholics
not- reciprocate. Catholics, it
was said aro bigots, becauso they will not unite with Protes~
, s good. Protestant says ‘+ Wo.prefer not to be];
identified with their (tho Catholic) party.” What mean} .;
tants. Yet thi:
their (tho Cathclic) open appeals to the generosity of our
citizens ?”? ‘ : . .
They aro * alarmed at the danger of. their civil liberties,”
though we neither interfere with the Post Office, nor train
hildren in Sunday Schools, to fe ligi
convent?
could name.
gy, or both,
cannot read,” is a notorious falsehood, His second.is equ jal-
ly untenable, the Litany and the Liturgy are printed in La-
tin, in English, in French, in Dutch, in every languago of
every civilized people. Wo shall notice two other blunders
and then close. “ None but devoted Catholics read the Mis
eellany and yet he reads it, andis not a Catholic, Heasks
where are our-answers to Protestants, and yet ho it seems
has read thein, and knows they are quibbles.
+[For the Albany Christian Regisler.]
THE SPIRIT OF POPERY.
Tt would-be tedious to specify. the odious features
of the Papal system. ‘The some that a
We care not whether it was Lita
ntry, time, tastes, and gov ent, | t
the erratic’ manner of wing ‘these | 2
communications, it may not be expected that a sys-
tematic attack is to be made upon the doctrines of
the Catholic church. Indeed the changeful forms
ivel
P
ee] 4. ny, ¢
phalanx of our
of every office.* : “
They “aro alarmed for tho deplorable ignorance—the do-le
gradation which our religion legitimat ely induces.” We
* “®rofuse tho aids to ment ‘al impr oveme nt i in the mass of the
hin-
telligence flaws to “the public mind”—and yet’ we * have
schools and colleges, and convents,” in which the Arts and
Sciences are as weil taughtas in any other establishinents,
and then we are asked “ what mean our establishinent of col-
The answer is obvious. “-'To
mind.”
‘sapiont writer. alleges * that wo labour to ee our
doctrines secret and repress. free enquiry.” Yet ho asks
® What mean our undisguised | establishment: of presses for|7~
diffi
tion to laymon to read the Bible?” Theso aro buta few off?
his self-contradictions. But what else could we expect fom
a writer who does not. profess to argue, but to giv:
vietion, ta give what “5 KNows. Does ho know contradia:
tions to bo com
We shall now answer a fow of his anestionss leaving our
Waost tern'E
er in Great Britain, and still another. in the Unite
States. Chamelion-like, they take their hue from
thé circumstances that surround ‘them. Enough|
will be effected if the attention of this cominunity be
drawn tq the insidious advances making | r
in our country, We most freely acknowledge that
this is the cause of our alaran. not alarmed
‘however from envy at its success---we hope we shal!
ever be k:beral enough to accede to our adversary
the undoubted ete they have to proselyte this
whole natio: this globe to Po ery, ifthey can,
bit we are alarmed at the danger of immortal souis,
—-we are alarmed at the danger of our civil liberties,
Wo answer, thousands of Protestant whiom we fro
or Litu:
His first_ reason, Many of the Catholic lity .
1.
neral belonging to it wh erever + the Catholic religion me
eo'D
d| We di sans sete of liber
they employed the .sword---to extend the Catholic
chure: cho exterming te reretics.” _ It is done be-
cause terials on they operate, are dif-
ferent from ail ‘that have elieited’ ‘their management
heretofore.. ‘Their now is to proselyte an
enlightened Protestant community. They have ie
h
tan they pursue.
civil power, an edict, an anathema would
secure the object ; but in default of civil authority
it is more polite’ to use moral, than physical foree.
ence this show 6faccommodation to the m
‘a, whom - they would gain, this glare o}
more
3
of hollow
gencre osily. e sce through the thin covering of
their prerensions, an a justly suspicious citi-
zen of Troy of old, we suspect some hidden evil ;.
we are aeons sive some secret emissaries wiil is-
sue from under this ostentatious anomaly of Catho-
anaos, et dona ferentes
ality---we don
ish these gra overtures of fellowship.
were not wont ‘thus to court our
our prejudices.. We prefer not tu be identified witl
their
party we believe this whole exhibi-
tion of thelr vaunted liberality— Saneie ea ndor—their -
eadiness tb promulge their doctrines to the world
is mere “pietence---employed to captivate the unwa- .
try. ‘To say this without satisfactory evidence would
be indeed illiberal and
ition.
They do not publish to the world their te-
alasmed for the’ deplorable ignorance-—the degre- néls. “Here we shall probably be met with a flat de-
da tion 9 fuman © ature, which this retigion ligiti- nial---the summum. and: ultimutum of Catholic con- .
ately ‘in ‘We' write no libel. nces inj troversy in y and our country. “Their Litany”
th e @ Catholic religion are retrogradaton, in all that] is published else "hot w could their worship be con-
nly and elev: uman nature. | ducted abbath---granted ;. but who but a
Look abroad upon the nations of} Catholic. ever saw a Lit itany out of the chapel or
convent ? We will not vouch fur the extent to which
2? Where is wealth and influence and power ?| their any is disseminated even amongs Catho-
Whé ere refittement and happiness ? It will be where}lics. ‘Th hey surel not so generally as ‘prayer.
aly the main walks abroad in its independe: enee—hor books’ and confoscions" or disciplines, amongst Pro--
t ht of free inquiry is granted to every member! testants, - ons are at hand---many of the
confine ourselves to” Eur urope.
* Look abroad upon the nations of the earth “and j inquire
where tho groatost prosperity ?”—In Catholic Flandef, iri
Catholic’ Austria, ‘* Whero.is wealth ?”—In the same coun-
tries and ‘in Cathalic Ilungary : certainly not in bankrupt
Rritain, with her cight hundred millions of debt-and her mi-{
serablo paupers, “ Where influence’—Perhapsin Russia—
perhaps in France, perhaps in Austria—certainly not in the]
of the community—-where
public mind, and general Knowledge j is disseminated
through the state. ' It will be where
its obligations npon the feelings rather than upon the| m
Senses---where ite truths are embraced from convic- |
ather
tion than coercion-~-w! doctrines are
taught by reasons rather than dogmas, . We
intelligence pervades the! C
eligion- presses | ¢
tongue’ .-.
other of devotion’ published with a burlesque !:
when we venture to say, not one in a hundred of
their ir Itly boasted haifa million, understand the
inwhich it. is printed. Why. should Ca-.