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“THE CATHOLIC HERALD
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Poetry,
. * For'the Catholic’ Herald.’ /
THE. IRISH: EMIGRANT’S DREAM,
__An exile forced from his loved isle to roam,
* Reached fair Columbia's free and peaceful shore—
And gained a refuge, and a happy hom
smiling Plenty ble him with her store.
Beneath the foliage of an onk he la
Inholing fragrance from the flow'rets cai
While birds were caroling on ever, , ‘
And summer's beeary fil him with detigh @
"“qPhie' Son of Erin gazed on each fair acene,,,
Deep gratitude and joy swell'd in his heart—
He saw his children sporting on the green,
‘And in their mirth he bore a silent part,
~ Butas he looked at his qwn bright-ey'd band,
His thoughts reverted t0 the days of youth,
Fond recollect f his native land,
Rush'd on his mind with vividness and truth,
He mused upon fair Erin's wrongs and woe,
‘And soon his. brow was clouded o'er! with gloom:
“Me ote his cheek with indignation glow, |
«). As sadly he deplored his country's doom } )
“But smiling Nature bid_his sorrow cease,
‘Aud Hope was kindled in his heart again
‘The cloudless skies shed round him joy and p
And_charmn’d, he listen’d to the wild torte
“A calm stole ocr him, and he sank to sleep, °
And a sweet dream of Erin's beatitéous isle; °
* Blest himsand while thus wrapped in stunabey deep '
Upos Wi face there play'd a happy smile. 4d
“For faney pictured to him scenes asfair,
‘As e’er in waking moments charmed the eye—
j He felt his brow fanned by the balmy air,
of And deemed that hisown mountain home was a nigh,
\ And lovely scem'd each dear familiar place,
lo otie’ toren dell to gather Spring's freah Gowers,
2697 OF ult . ‘
5.Once more his father fondly blessed bis child oy
‘A mother’s tender accents met his ear—, :
And oh!-his country’s harpso sweet and wild,
He heard swell forth triumphantly and clear! ,
«For Erin, lovely Erint ad regained,
“The Liberty she oft hail sought in vain—
"Calm peace dwelt where oppression once had reigned
© | And songs long hushed ressunded there again
So blissful was the vision, joyfa! tear
de) Were flowing down the happy Qreamer’ 's cheek—
“He stood aloue, the hope of many years! 19) (71 4!
©: Seemed reeled withjoyehe could ote hess
“The dream was ended - he awoke to now 910
‘That disappowstment must his feelings chill
4 The sad remembrance of his country's woe,
And eruel wrongs was present with him still
. ) Alas! he was again oppressed, with care,
Bat ob! not long ere banished wos bia ‘grief
| For fervent'y he offered up @ prayer.” :
ured | Jand might gain relief “
I Thope to see,
suet
erty and peace—
, Then he | exclaimed:
My couniry blest with L
! ad place ny svodnct just God,'in Thee,
9. For ‘Thou
id loved Erin's surruw cease!" i
oo | FRANCES.
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Ven
“Tne First Annual Report uf the Physicians
of the Mount St. Vincent's Hospital, in the
cily ‘of Baltimore, for 1843," ‘published atthe
Metropolitan press, has come tohand. Itex-
hibits the gratifying results of the motherly
‘| cannot. be e
"| with the patient,
care of the insane, practised by the Sisters of
Charity; which gives to medical | science spe-
cial aid in the treatment of this malady. |The
following is the summary of the year.
“The number of patients, who have been
inmates of the insane department of this insti-
tution, since the 20th September, 1842, to the
20th September, 1843, is. seventy-five... Of
these, 46 were females, and 31 males.
The number , on the 20th, of September,
1842, was 31; males 8, females 23, . During
the year there have been admitted 44; males
23, females 21. , Of these, 13 were chronic,
31 recent,
‘The number cischarged is 33, Of these,
16 were females, 22 males ; discharged cured
22, removed by friends or. sent to the alins-
honse, 16. "The number of patients at present
in this department is 35 ; females 22, males
From the 20th of September, 1842, to. the
20th of September, 1843, there have been 32
recoveries; 11 females, 21. males. , 19 had
inania a potu, 13 the different forms of insani-
ty... Of the latier, 10 were of a less (uration,
than one year previous to admission, 1 ©
years, | of eight, 1 of many years, length, of
time unknown... Every case of mania a potu,
it will be seen,. recovered... We may. safely
s
s
‘| challenge any institution on this or, the other
side of the Atlantic to show a more v9 gratifying
result than f is above presented,"
*
“ Fe be it trim me, however, to attribute
‘) our success in this disease even mainly to the
medical treatment. Of such; paramount, im-
portance is the moral treatment of the insane
now esteemed, that it can hardly be deemed of
inferior importance tu medical. Both are. vi-
tally and indispensably; requisite. So. much
so, that whatever may be the qualifications of
the physician and the matron—however capa,
ble the one of directing the therapeutical treat-
mentof his patients, ;and however fied the
other to manage the domestic arrangements of
the establishment, unless the corps . of | atten-
dants are properly, endowed by nature and cul-
ture for their responsible duties, the means,
embraced under the head of moral treatment,
ciently carried into , exercise,
‘The nurses are brought into constant, contact
‘They have the superinien-
dence of them in the drawing room, ia the
sewing room, in the airing courts, and where
ever the patients congregate. for employment
or amusement...
Upon them, mast ‘necessarily. devolve the
imporiant duty of checking the insane art—of
counteracting and resisting in, an appropriate
manner, the mental delusion, and of cautious-
ly aiding the first glimmering of right. reason
in iis struggles to break through the dark clouds
that overshadow the intellect. Upon them two
*| rests the delicate task of cheering with words
of comfort the depressed spirit as , the, light] |
first breaks in upon the darkened mind, and he
is brought to arealizing sense of his melancho-
ly condition. . Inthe course, of a Jatetour of
observatin to different asylums. for the insane
in Great Britain and France, the physicians
("| aniformly lamented the impraeticability of ob-
at the existing low rate of wages, al-
tendants possessed of the necessary qualifica-,
tions, to co-operate with them.,; In-this insti-
tution, the Sisters of Charity, ‘constitute, the
corps of attendants, , 1 am acquainted with no
establishment supplied with a class of, nurses
so eificient and sv experienced in .the disease
as this, ..'The moral influence. they exert b
their kind, soothing, conciliating manner, and
by the exhibition of a perfect self-possession
under all circumstances, 1s: truly. astonishing.
Mach of this success is sherefore due to, the
indefatigable kindness and , attenti the
Sisters, to their zealous, so-operation in every
measure calculated to conduce to the welfare of
the patient, and to their, wonderful tact in. di;
recting the disordered current of thought into
amore natural and healthful train... From an
uninterrupted intercourse of man. years with
patients of this class, it is not surprising that
they should acquire an intimate acquaintance
with its diversified forms and ; featuses, y And
will ju not forcibly strike every one how great
is the advantage, in this respect, which this
institution enjoys over all others supplied with
ignorant and hired nuraes, who are constantly
Huctuating t . .
‘Sir Wiliam Ellis ‘well remarks —'a wile,
sister,or a daughter exhibits an’ alteration’ 7 0
manner which indicates the existence of dis-
is a morbid
eased action in the train—there
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Philadelphia, Thursday, November 2, 1843.
a's)
sensitiveness of feeling —it is essential that she
should atonce be taken .from her, home. and
entrosted to strangers... Can any, one doubt
the advantage of securing as her companion, a
lady of tender, feelings, of refined, and , culti-
vated mind,,and who has such,an acquaintance
with the disease as to enable ter carefully, and
judiciously to apply, uoder the direction of a
professional man, proper medical ‘and. moral
treatment? Is there a husband, a father, or a
brother who would, not hail asa benefactress,
a female so endowed, who, would take the
charge of his relation?”
Every. day’s. experience ‘tends to confirm
our belief in the incalculable importance of ac-
tive employ ment and humane treatment in, the
most enlarged sense of the word. « By jan ob
servance towards our, patients of the usual
courtesies and civjlities common in. the -social
intercourse oflife, we endeavour to exalt their
self-respect, and by maintaining a; firm, self-
evllected demeanor tempered. with the utmost
humanity, we strive to, win their, cenfidence
and affection. Io fine, we believe with Jacobi,
that ‘the whole system of moral treatment of
the insane may be summed. upin two words,
Kindness and employment.’
Tiere I must beg leave to. record ny testi-
mony ‘fo the unreserved and :unconditioval sle-
voleduess, of the Sisters to the welfare of those
entrusted to their eare, to their, full co-opera-
tion, with me in. every measure calculated to
promote the comfort, to alleviate the sufferings,
-|and advance the, recovery of the patient,,..and,
in a word, to their wise, economical, and, ju-
s administration of the affairs of the in
us
atitarion,
—_ +02 —__
STATE OF CATHOLICISM THROUGH.
ouT THE WORLD.
“Discourse’ pronavneed at Rome at the apen-
ing of the Academy of the Catholic’ Reli-
gion inthe year 1843, by’ the Cardinal
Pacca. Dean of the Sacred College, Bishop
and Legate of Velletri, &e.
“Tris with’ true pleasure, illustrious’ aca-
demicans,, that I am this year chaiged with
opening the course of your wise dissertations.
Tam happy too in felicitating you'on the Jite-
rary labours you bave undertaken for the ter
fence of our holy * Catholic religion.
have known how to unite the force of reason.
ing with the stiches of learning, for the ‘pur-
pose of combating ‘and destroying the, lying
and hateful accusations which heresy and
schism have inultiptied against the Sovereign
Pontiffs, in’ representing as the a rants and
oppressors ‘of nutions those who have been
the benefactors of humanity, the ue abthors
of ¢0 many excellent Christian’ and civil ‘in-
stitutions, of which strangers have daringly
endeavored to altribute the honour to them?
selves, as if it’ had ‘been their proper work-
Would that I were able, at the same: time, to
inspire your courage with a new ardour jn
this glorious and useful enterprise.
““ We cannot dissemble. “In different parts
of Europe’ the Catholic’ religion is attacked
cither by ‘open’ violence ‘or by perfidinus se:
crecy and dark machinations; but'from the
midst of this lowering ‘and frightful horizon
there break “forth'’some luminous rays, the
consolatory forerunners ofa betterandaliappier|
uture.
“IT shall endeavour; then; to point out lo you
the end which your labours should have, to
retrace before a the principal vicissitudes of
the Catholic church in this age—to paint for
you, together with the actual situation of this
same Church, that of the dissenting sects, and
10” propose to you conjectures which we may
form as to the future, conjectures which are in-
spired by the long residence [I have ‘had tn
different countries in Eurdpe,' and the hame
rous interviews which I have had with men,
with savans, with’ ministers even attached to
divers errors “opposed to’ the Cathoii¢ faith,
and, ini fide; the experience gathered ina time
86 fruitful ‘as ‘our own’ in great events—iheee
have followed each other so ‘rapidly that ina
few years we could flatter ‘ourselves that we
had lived more than & centor:
_ “You will give to these considerations thot
degree of importance, only which to you shall
seem meel; for my part f shall apply to‘ my!
self those words of the Prophet | Joek"Se-
niores en Fomnia sommiabuat,” .
“When I arrived in Germanys i in 1766, it
might be said that the cluirches and the clergy
of thatcountry were at the top of human great!
ness, ‘T'wo archiepiscopal sees, were occur
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pied by a brother of the Emperor then reigning,
and by ason of a King of Poland, Elector of
Saxony. At the head of the other archiepis-
pal and episcopal churches were, placed
prelates allied to the most ancient “and illus-
trious families. Vast portions ef the soil of
poral lordship which stretched over many.
millions’ of, subjects. Great in. the empire
were the authority and the influence of the
In the electoral , college, of eight
ic
the Archbishops of Mayence, ‘of Tries
of Cologne; the college of princes, was pre-,
sided over by the Archbishop of Saltzburgh,
and all the bishops,'as well as a great number
of abbés, brought their voies into the diet.” ; AIL
this oppulence,’ and splendour, ‘and power,
disappeared before the unjust, domination and”
the rapacious sacrilege of the, eigbieenth and,
nineteenth centuries, and. the clergy. of Ger.
many are now reduced to that state of, depen-,
dence’and of mediocrity’ in which, nearly all:
the remainder of the Catholic clergy , are,
place
“But shall we in this” recognize an ‘evil to,
the Church?’ I dare not gay, so, ; 1 consider,
that the bishops deprived of temporal domain,
which ‘might be very useful for the stistain-,
nrent ‘of the ‘ecclesiastical spiritual abthority,,
when it was applied to-that object, and d des
spoiled of a portion of their riches and power,
will be more docile to the yoice of the sovee,
reign pomtifts ‘and ‘that ‘we shall see none of
them treading in the the footsteps of the proud,
and the ambutious Patriarchs ‘of Constantino=
ple, nor pretending ‘to’ an_almost sehismati-
cal independence, , Now also the Catholic
populaon of all these extensive dioceses will
e able to contemplate in the pastoral visita-
tions the face of their own bishops, and the
sheep ‘shall al t ‘eecasivnally hear the
voice of their own'pastor.” In the ‘nomination
of canons and digitaries and of chap xers of,
fathedrale, they shall have more fegard, pert
haps, to merit than to illustrious births it will
no longer be necessary, to brush the dust from.
the archives to estab! samong: other quali.
ties of candidates, six quartering of nobility;,
and ecclesiastical tiles shall bene more what,
they bad been, surrounded ‘with wealth; no,
more shall be witnessed Ww at has heen” more ,
than onee beheld—the wing, a high: digni-)
vacant, nobles wh
0 other past but one'in
1
the army, laying aside 2 theit uniforms and their,
military decorations, and all of a sudden invest’
themselves with the dignity of canons, and’
ornament with rich and brilliant mitres heads
which ‘but afew years before bore helmets.”
‘The grave ideas of the sanctary did notalways*
prevail over those of soldi ery
ine may then
better instructed and more ‘aifying pastors,
“With respectto the different sects whieh’
aré found in Germany, ‘the obstacles that op-!
osed themselves to the return of their” mem-_
bers to Catholicity, are equally! diminished,
There ‘are states and governments’ which ‘as |
yetname’ themselves Protestant, but in which’
Protestantism no mote exisis.” "That sich
the apologists of the Catholic religion predi
in the sixteenth’ century has been. fully
accomplished—the _prineiple of private “yodg-”
ent triumphant, and each Protestant claim='
ing for himself the right of explaining the sense’
of Scripture, by Title and little all the dogmas
which at first preserved thé’ pretended feform:
have disappeared, and it but Temains for its:
adherents to fall into pore deism i
At the commencement of my residence at
Celagne. it happened’ one day that 1 was en-*
tertuined by a Protestant ‘diploma well”
instructed maa and Vistinguished wrier? the®
conversation . fell on’ the scientific’ jour rnals |
which were then published in Gerioany- ‘This’
diplomatist informed me that for’ some years!
there appeared i in Berlin’ a catalogue entitled’
‘Bibliotheque © Allemande reelle “(the ©
Universal. Library of Geriiany, vhatin’
shat, they, professed various relerne it in maiters*
of religion euch ‘as they expect ‘from, Protes-*
tautism.’ I desired to have the early’ Volumes*
of this journal, and to apply my: a reading,
them.” Behold, then, in a few
were these theological reforms.’ thei inapiras’
tion of holy books, of the’ Divine scriptures, i
was rejecied; they’ did not say (a ‘word ‘of!
mysteries, very. reasonably, bectuse, ‘they did?
not adavit them at all; there Was
4
whatever of a° ministry” ‘and ecclesiavtical”
hierarchy—in a word, in their pretended out-
wear te
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