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: ee 3; oy an express from
Cou ghna vagy a general gloo evailed ;
is customary all occasions oF mournful fidings, it
VOL. IX.
Regis yesterday about one, o clock, P.M. which
may deem worthy a place in'your New Gazette.
On the lamented death of the Honourable and Vi
nerable Sir J. Sohnoons the Superintendant General
ef Indian Affairs, being o:
chiefs and warriors of St. Re
was cried through the village by the oldest chief in}
the tribe, in a very affecting and mournful tone of’
voice in imitation of a dirge. He was followed by
almost the whole of the natives of the village, dld
and young, » Women and children, marching in
solemn process om, Indian. file; and at i ira
number sober, pio’
exemplar y you! ae Indian aged “about t rventy: ears,
who was universally esteemed for ‘his sober steady
habits, The part alloted to him was to
UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY.» :,
Would it not. seem, that;. Jealous: of the harmony
which ‘subsists between your Cat and Protes-
tant fellow. “citizens, you bad conspired, ‘0 introduce
the
gation:
Your * Pros rospectus,” (for you have: subscribed tolis
it] commences thus ‘
with all their. pristine subt
inquiries, &c. deeply
lie revival of the Jesuits,
lety and vigour, suggests
interesting to. the Christian
ate jot —% An’ interesting’ discovery ‘forsooth !—
Who say, whether that society which had the
hardihood to introduce Christianity centuries a SABO,
among the savages ica, even, at ‘the
fice of life, and witho ut ‘any pstensible sew in
this world, that Society which her n othe
don
nin the act
la he fifih round,
a proper siv doubt, t
powder took fire and the gun went off, c egr rying away |
ramrod, one-half of the left hand of the unfortu-
mate young man, ng whole of his right arm up to the
over his heart, leavin ng large piecés of the straw wed.
ding sunk deep in the flesh.’ In this mutilated con
dition the poor sufferer’ was picked up at the dis-
tance of fifteen feet from ibe mouth of the gun, ‘in
ntal faculties. His first
d al ut an-end to his crimes,
and that the reflection of sacrificing his life to perpe-|-
tuate the memory. of their worthy chief and father,
relieved him of much ot his pain.
. hie felt much pain, he ough
cry ; but that would not become adyinge chri
Ile then adde esus our.deliverer suffered m:
than I do | for all our sins, and did not shed a tear
I suffer and die for my own sins, and should I ory? 2
It is true_my body s! suite a this moment; but my
sour will have a reco ere to-morrow ‘th
He expired in about “four hours, and will be
interred to-morrow with ours of ‘war after the}!
Indian manner.” —New Montreal Gazett.
ns
-THE PROTESTANT. .
have not yet been favoured with a glimpse of this
its prospectus,
lers of the
usual and unusual calumnits against Catholics.
in our ‘last given a letter from tho Truth-Tellor regarding
it. We this day give another which We are gratified i in
- transferring to our columns :—
[From the Now York Truth- Teller.]
To the Rev. Mess: EN ae Rowan, J M.
Marrurws, Ganon n SPR OB
HE thers, ators of a Weekly Journal
“reenly “publi at Spring street, New
York, called ‘* The Protestant” alias an_ attack
. upom Cotten No 1
5
Rev. Sins.—The person who inddresses you, has
spent the ngroater part of his life amon se of
your co ion—h bers among his most in-
ne, who, the
ment, has never uarreiel with his neighbour on
subjects o eligion much less assailed and vilified
vi for his adherence to opihions, which, whether
‘oun ed or otherwise, he did not conceive him
e. His conduct through life, in. this
nind, as. inculcating: benevolence t
ithe Janguage of | his Catechism, | ‘ f0 those who in-
re or di ton.” To,the
th oF this statenent, those wlio know him best,
‘freely testi fy.
aus conscious to himsel* Rev. Sirs, of never
« eo afforded cause of offence'on matters con-
‘CV with religion, and natn rally expecting the}
‘ and ds of his dissenting Sse a
af
gine his ae
He was asked if|‘* |
e| mish system,
s| press
n{merciless mali,
We ha
your ‘Prospectus, ” | which
as uch to omnote science,
religion, and morality society. = much admir-
ed and patronized. by the. virtuous’ and. god
e{much dreaded by the infidel and ¢ rant—who
say whether it may not have an eye upon the great
university we ‘are about to establish at New
goo nd seasonable Ifyou only preach,
Rev. Sic, we shall c ceinly ‘iron eke
“+ Prospectus” 3s :— In its
tical exhibitions, the boasted “ithimutability of Pope.
and Protestants, who fancy’that the
bas kon changed i in its cpsontial
io in it
man of sin,” sleepless,” co wily, ‘&c. &e-- ‘You
no doubt, willbe borne out by a certain Commena:
ry on the Apocalypse, well known to. one of
hall see hereafter. .What fo Nowe,is
6
still | ‘Netter 5 3; "Tho
-—S0 | States
on ugh liberal principles? You diseovery i is alon
don
of. Popery i in the United St taes, combined, with, the
c mination in Lower . Canada, ‘co mpris ses: inves estiga- :
tions hig ably momentous, not ‘only to the Protestan t-
iurches
but also to eiyl society.”” . This, in deed,
mething “momentous,” astonishing, 7
“ * fearful! What a misfortune yo you
of calling “The Protest: vb into existence some
fifty: years ago. ‘Truly, you have been icking in
point . of duty ; otherwise you should, lon
have’ arrested. “the fearfal i increase of Popery in the
United States.” Be r, a5 to infor
-/us, in “hat respect the “Catholics of these States, ar
“ce com ”
of Lower Canada, (that “Cn ptichristian establish-.
ment”) than with tho se of Chinaand Europe. Or’
is to be understood, that the Catholies of the United
are, -about to. combine with those of Lower
Canada, for the. purpose of landing his Holiness on
this western continent, or of forming a‘ Christian-
party in Politics ”—Do not asy, Rev. Sirs,
‘either score you have not the slightest cause ‘Of
apprehensin,. for should a Holiness take’
his head to pay-us a visit,
-|take precious care tom
man!! after which he may b
e sufely permitted. to
make a tou e ha
¢ to Washington, and shake
grand distinctive charactefistics, are tally deceiv.
ed.”—This is perfectly correct, Sirs,—Your|a
++ Prospectust” had it been written throughout with
equal caridour, should have passed unnoticed : For
Protestants,” who should ** fancy?” e Ro-
”” (by which itis presumed you ‘politely
mean Catholicity) has been changed in its essential] g
e|principles.’ “would be totally deceived.”*. ‘Thelin
Catholic Religion, ‘as you may be taught hereafter,
8
mes and
Author, it possesses the attributes
of matali ?? and being, like him, perfect,
it is is quite unnecessary it should attempt to amelior-
a distinctive char istics.” ‘The
ment, Rev. Sirs, as many "Protestants have acknow-
edged, would be as futile -and abortive, as it would
be ead and presumptive.’
You: ectus’” again continues :—**, Dou
less it ‘Popeny| has _ lost its wide-spread saprema,
cy, but not its boundless arrogance, This is mere
assertion --Have the goodness to inform
your read and your respectable flocks, at what
particular period the Catholic Church [Pop ery as
you tel erm it) lost its wide-spread supremacy,’? or, in
‘g
8 Creed ;
’ ‘Take
ngregations do not
ina dilemma, from. wwhielr you may not
e. You’ should ‘bear in mind,
; should y you enter the arena,
about incident appellations, as
© its. “boundless arrogance,’””
you need not he informed, it is pre esumed, that the
cata a
care, that the orthodox ofyou
place you i
are
| Ca tholie Chureh, keeping always in view her div
and primevial institution, contends for universal do.
minion, whilst like her“ sp rotise” & founder, she-expli-,
citly declares, that her ree a is not of i world.”
again,. continues us” it}!
[Popery ‘* has -been n partly espe of is qsurpes
power, but not ‘of its mischievous will rini-
aations—and although it has been obliged. to. sup-
the fires. i etme yet it-retains all its
It is much to be regretted,
Rev. Sirs, that yon t deal so’ freely | in unproved.asser-
tion—that species of argument will not advance
ey,
In the meantime-{ would place you.on your guard,
hy repeating the homely, but quaint phrase : Those
who live-in glass houses, should not throw stones,”
ve now reached the second paragraph of
h commences thus : 16 Ja]
© experi-}
[aroun hem—and
> to the cgntrary. notwithstanding. As.
for our. forming a “ Christian partyin Politics,” by
union to that effect, with ‘he good people of Low-
or Ca anada, or of any other country, it is out of the
anestion, for half'a century. at “Teast The evil: at-
endantu © Union of Church and State,” are.
too fresh 4 in ‘the minds of some of us; to n for-
otten. But:should ‘ the Soe and ‘fenttul
increase of Popery in the United States” continue
to disturb, the | nerves of your Reverences, as tending
to
vil s society.” :it might be prudent in
ow ae to “tack a petition for its suppression, to’
that: ‘ofthe ‘ Sunday Mails—=by coupling the two,
your grand object ‘would not be in the least obscur-
ed 3 whilst your # Prospect of Cultimat ate success would
i But st not digress too far,
of your “ Pros spec
ircumns vances [you say ive “hitherto: ren-
dered an enlarged . acqua intance with the Romish
-| dogmas and Minmmery comparatively unnecessary.
to the various * denoming tions of believers in Ameri-
ca. etrue? Surely, Rev. Sirs, you
should not have deemed an “expone * of the Romish.
dogmas ‘an “unnec essary”
whilst onmenedave you T inust “olten have be een, in trac-
cks the ‘opposition line!”
sol lyou have been guilty ofanys if the 2 Hattering
promises your ‘ Prospectus’? holds forth y be
aecreilited : 2 bat the means [you say] whieh are
at present employed to enlarge tha domains ofthe
Pa apal itition, ‘especially | in this Republic, now
requi cting influence of the pre
unveil the roving artifices of the phalanx of
esuit’ missionaries,”’—This is, the grand:deside
tum !—Employ your “press,” Rev. Sirs, in this
way, and your favourite paper, ‘¢ The Protestant,”
sh M be well supported All the Catholies will en-
rage: it. lv have the “* Romish dog-
maa, ‘ Popish 1 wumanery,” and t
Jesuit missionaries,” * fai rly availed in the columns
of © The Prot testant,— —-viz. divested of those false,
4
prejudice. or worldly motives have led you to throw’
r em—and we sh all ‘pee hew far the inftu-
ofthe ‘press’ will go ta artést, in the United
States, the progress of that religion whose rapid in-
crease seems to fill you with alarm,
r of “your second para-
dencies of © * that falling away nett St. , Paul des-
cribes ur 6: *_~Some-
> of *¢ Pr
: d: pitying its base and liberal Trenmitions
nd Neh discovered, that, on the faith of
“ iy man ..of sin.” cons titute a serious topic of
angpectu:
Wa palommended tothe pt public, ithe Gon
pel umed the office of preachin; Gos-
‘ —in terms equally base and iMiberal
yaper had been approved} f
to all persons She exultin the glorious Re-|*
and who long for tlie extension of th
hrist in her ornamental sanctity and
gracious illuminations.”” his is fine, indeed, Rev. |§
Sire. auite, eloquent, not. to say polite" The
: ,
hin ‘ila mystery to
ongst athe
us.?
thing ts If hereafier, whieh may
sho some light on this Precious portion your
ospectus,”—till then it must remain enveloped
r eaders ;
and, ers, t © bin. ‘who. one the honor to
t
subir Hansell quite, goods enatu we ed Rp
ev. Sirs, yo! t's CATHOLIC,.
‘New York;.Jan. 29; 1830.
astonishing and fearful increase
since).
e.
ined,” -as you are pleased to say, with those
the old General, his being a * Presbyterian 4 in fal
“* artifices of .
‘dark, and unnaturalcolourings, which ignorance or |
ing to your respective flo
Or have you presumed § 80 far en their credulity, as.
to arrerlen k the cause opposition 2? Atall::
will atone f in “future for past neglect,