And Advocate •

And Advocate •

C T,IfOLICTELEGRAPII, AND ADVOCATE • "IN NECESSAIUIS UNITAS, IN DUBIIS LLB EHTAS, IN miNIBUS CAHITAS." ~ r~ L , XXIII. CINCINNATr., OHIO) SA ~1'URDAY) JUNE 17) 18 54 . NO. ~4. ~ ·tl1e lips of the orators, it did strike me as some­ if the King and his Private Secretary in cour- 0, says Gen. Cass, "that was a mob ." My what strange that the above resolution should teous language, well known to diplomacy, a.nd answer is, "So much the worse for his side ~f t\ r~~EL!n~,~~~'~~ f,~y ~e~ . ~ . ~R11~~~Io~~ have been introduced. The question that arose with refined man ners becoming gentlemen on the comparison." The State of Massachusetts Itf·S.U. ed every Satulrday 1ltorni'/ill by J lJhn P. lJulsh f'#and P~· ~IT~;(j taph PrhlUng a.nd PubU,~hing EslabUskment in my mind was, "How came it there?" 'rhe both sides, had said to 1\11'. Barnard, "Mr. oug.ht not to .have .all?wed those ladies to spend dt~CWliOl jc t. e1 ttl $2 00 per annum,. 1l@:,.. Wh.en deliveTcd S'J~mores Ie , J circumstance, however, seemed to me to be a, America.n Minish r, will YOlI have the kindness their money III bmldmg a house and cO ll fidinO' t.,,,rrier, $2.50. """'" sufficient reason for referrilli£ to Gen. Cass by to m111. db·your ow l USlness." No-w, as a citizen ~ h Cl· r saf' ·e ~y and prop.erty,,'.to the hig h promise ofe name, in a. l.etter which I wrote some time after. of the U nited States, I should be sorry that our Its soverClgn protectIon, If the State of l\1assa­ ~ eligious Liberty, I have ascertained since, that l'l.ev. Dr. Baird, foreign representatives, by any legislative rnles, chusetts felt its~ lf incapable or'jlrotecting them. rUBISHOP nUGTIES IN P.EPLY TO GEN. CASS, who might be called the chief conductor of the sh ould ever be obliged to leave it in the power But although 111 any count.ry in the world it ~ AND IN SELF-VINDICA1'ION. Madiai meeting, was found in a short time after· of maj esty or ro.valty to lower them down in a may h appen, as it. has happened in nearly all, wards, perfectly conversant witll the proceedings ,. perso uS imao·ine that a high h onOl" has manner like thi, . that a . mob have VIOlated the laws , still , when ",me 0 b h . going on in the Senate, touching religious mat· d lerred UIJ on me y t e Importanne as­ If under the slncereprofession of respect for or ,er IS restored, such sovereign State havin~ ~nCo ll . h h h· I ters abroad. He is reported to have proclaimed the cha.rader, services, and position of General plecked itself to protect perso;]a:l O\[O'h,', :$<1 to my name.m t e great speec w lC 1 ~ rio'ht~0 , ~ ~ I Cass has thought proper to prononnce in tIl e hall of the American Institute in Balti· Cass, which has already bee n tendered, it should to be prepared to ma.ke such puny reparations 'filheSener, nate of the U. mte· d dates.R 'I'h e proVl-. tim Ol'e, on the 17th February, 1853, that Mr . happen that anything may be said by me in this as would be possible, with a view to viudicate ~ of God has directed that General Cass Underwood, a Senator, h ad done him the honor writing apparently [l,t va.riance with that pro. its own eh~racter of' sovereignty. Massachu­ ~~d serve not .only his coun.try but his race of'reading his (Mr. U nderwood's) report on the fession, I trust that he knows m e tllO well to setts has neIther protected nor has she compen ­ , c order of Me, and that It should be my subject referred to, before reporting it to the believe for a moment that I am' capable of say- sated. General Cass thinks that reparation ;J:le privilege ~o serve b?th i;l anot? er . I Senate, and that he (Dr. Baird) approved of it. ing one thing l;tnd intending another directly should ha.ve been made. This shows the be­ That report, if ever published, I have not been r.l lhat my punty of Ill otlves IS n~t 1I1fer1Or the reverse. Yc t his speech has imposed upon neyolence of his heart. But the outra(!:e has \Ms. But wlii lst he ? as steered. Ius pros12er- able to find, but I think ' iL not improbable me the obligation'\.of speaking frankly, within been on record in the public annals ~f the " hrk on yielding tIdes and wIth favonng that such report wonld have been, in consequence tho limits that conrtesy prescribes. I complai n country and of the world for the last twenty 6~, nsolle of the a12proved and cherish ed great of the reference of a petition from the Maryland of General Casso He has done me injustice; years, and even General Cass had never be :ffiofthe co untry, It has been my lot, though Baptist U nion Association, which General Cass not intentionally, of course, but yet he has clone fore betrayed, so far as I am aware the secret, lilizen of the same country, to have been had so eloquently recommended to the appro · me injnstice. He has presented as the caption of his kind sympathies to the po ~r ladies of ~pied in prop e lli~l g t?e Ii ttle skiff entrusted priate committee in a speech delivercd January of my letLer to the Freema.n's J 01t1'1wl a ca ption Charlestown. Neither has any of the great IIDycharge in a dll"ectlO~l ge ner~lly a.dve rse to 3, 1853, just four days previous to the Madiai which is noL Llline at all. And tbis circum· men of 1\1 assachusetts, so filr as has come to my ~ cur rent whether of wmd or tlde. General meeting. sta nce leads me to fear that time did not permit knowledge, expressed public]y such sympath}' it<~ a S~nator-I am, bef·ore the.1a,,:", only a 'l'he petition alluded to ha.d reference e~pe · him to read ll.ttcntively the document, insignifi. for them. Mr, ~ve r ett, or Ilis great predeeesso{', ?ralc citizen. I am also all ecclesHls tlC of the cinlly tu the co ndition of the Bll ptists under t he cant .as it W[lS, which h is speech professes to Mr. v;r ebster, Sl l1ce the burning of the convent. llj Catholic Church, ev.en an unwort? y prelate. Protestant GOVCl'llment of Prussia. A reference review. Again: wh enever he <loes not quote at Charl estown, has hardly been able to £i lld r~e duties and speculatIOns of our dlstlO ct de· to this subj ect is found in a Senatorial document, my own identical words, but professes to repre· himself in a locality from which it would be ~~uculs~pp e rta il1 to SUCII diverge~1t rebtions, pnblished from the fil es 6f the Department of sent the m eaning of my statements, he misl'e· possible to look on th e Bunker Hill iYIon ument. 1.Iouah intended to promote ultullately tbe State, and designated S., Doc. 60 . A letter presents me again, no doubt unintentionally. without having at the same time within th ~ !leireat beneficial ends we have in view, that from our Minister at Berlin, Mr. Barnard, dated His cO IllLllentaries upon these misrepresented rallge of his vision the black walls and the ruins ~i('l}lltroversy in regard to them must neces· January 31, 1853, addressed to Mr. :Everett, statements of mine mnst necessarily correspond of Mount Benedict. I have a V3!HlC recollec­ ~l appeal' to the America~1 people and the Secretary of State, gives an account of his poor with the misrepresentations tbemselves; and tion that Mr. Everett did on one oc~a f!ion, many ililized world as an ext;raorcltnary event, espe­ success in attempting t o obtnin toleration for thus I am placed, by implication, before the years ago, :·efer to the ~ubject in language of' ~ry under the constitutional charter of our Protes tant subjects of the Protestant Govern­ American people as maintaining sentiments and regret, but If I am not mIstaken in my memory, naooloved country, which hU8 ·· fl O wis{lly, f01" ment, to which he was nccreclited. T<l.king .this ~dvocat, ing p '" 4'iPles which I abhor and despise. he alleged on t.hat occasion that by false zeal ~circ umstances, eliminated religious questions document, in co nnection with what has gone Again: Gcneral C,lSS must permit me to com- the convent had beeul'aised, and bi false zoal it .. ~~ Ihe deliberations of Congress. before, there would appear to be a perfect h ar­ plain of him, in that h e suggests an immediate had been destroyed-thereby iO'n oring all dis­ liJat my name, or any views of' mine in an monyof benevolent feelings among the distin· judgment against ll1 e at the tribunal of what he tinction betwee n acts loyally and hon~s tly done lidenlal letter, should h ave attracted such guished . persons connected with the subject, calls the "nineteenth century," "the spirit of in Jhith of protection from the sovereig;)ty of fflJllS attention on the part of General Cass, namely, Mr. Barnard, Mr. Cass, Heverend Dr. the age," "public sentiment," and above all, the State, and acts done in violation of the nny other Senator, is to me rather a hnl1lilia· Baird, and Mr.

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