The New York Herald Newspaper, February 18, 1872, Page 6

4 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. February 18—First in Lent. Sunday Religious Programme for To-Day. HERALD RELIGIOUS CORRESPONDENCE, Religious Notes, Personal and General. Services To-Vay. Rev. P. L. Davies will preacn morning ana even- fog in the Berean Baptist church. Bev. Henry Warren, of Philadelphia, will preach in the Central Methodist’ Episcopal church this Morning, and Rey, Mr, Longacre will oficiate in the evening. Rey. J. M. Pullman will preach in the Church of Our Saviour this morning and evening, His sub. Jectin the morning will be “Consistency.” Rey. W. W. Andrews will preach in the Catholic Apostolic church this evening on ‘The Melchisedek Priesthood of Christ.” Rev. Dr, Oagood will preach in the Church of St. Joun the Evangelist this mormimg on ‘Temptation ‘and Victory,” and in the evening on “The Agita- ‘ons of Our City Life and the Need of God's Peace.” Key. U. D. Northrop will preach in the Twenw- Bhird street Presbyterian church this morning and evening, The subject of his evening discourse will de “Pernictous Amusements,”” Rev, Dx. Merrill Richardson wii! preach morning and evenmng in the New England Congregational whureh. Rev. Dr, Flagg wil preach in the ball corner of Firty-fittn street and Third avenue this morning, Rev. 3. C. Sweetser will preach in whe Bleecker firect Universalist church morning and evening. Rev. Dr. True will peach this morning tn St Duke's Methodist Episcopal church, and Rey. Dr, Brown will oMictate in the evening. I S. Willis will preach this morning ana fvening in the Seventeenth street Methodist Epis- opal church. Key. Morgan Dix will deliver the sixth lecture in h‘s conrse this evening, in Trinity chapel, “Walking by Faith’? will be the subject of Rev. Charles , Lee’s discourse this morning, in Chicker- ing Hail (i ifth Universalist church), and in the alter. Doon his subject will be “The Church Militant.” Free religious services will be held in the Brook- Myn Academy of Music this evening, when Rev, Henry Powers, Rev, George Whipple and Dr. ia ward Ezgieston wilt address the congregation. Bishop Snow will preach this afiernoon im the Dhiversity, Washington square. Mr. Thomas Gales Forster will leciure before ine Society of Progressive Spiritualists in Apollo Hall Unis morning and eyening. Rev, Hugh Miller Thompson, D. D., recently elected recior of Christ Protestant Episcopal church, Corner of Filth avenue and Tiurty-filth strect, in Place of Rev. F. C. Lwer, will preach this morning, Bnd in the alternoon will deliver the first of a series Of Jectures on “Church History.” Whe Godless Constitution—Protest from a Jowlst Thinker Aguiust the Religious Amendment, To THk EpirorR OF THE HERALD:— The Americans are addicted to conventions. We have commerctal conventions, political conventions, Musicai conventions, agricultural conventions, cap- dtai-moving conventions and conventions to regu- Yate all possible and impossible subjects. The “con- veurtion,” to the American mind, 4s what the fearful Threat of “writing to the Zunes? 1s vo the full- Dlooded {nglishman. IVs an extinguisher, It set es forever—in the sanguine mind of the conven- Uon, at least—what otherwise would ve involved in painful doubi, and the members thereof adjoin sine diem the fal coosctousness of naving faithfully discharged their duty, ana retarn home in @ bloated Condition of patriotism and morality. Itts one of the peculiar “institutions” of our country, and acts as a sort of satety valve, which is never tied down, to let off over the heads of the quict, thinking world all sorts of “isms” and ‘“valins of Gilead” ‘which are gaaranteed to cure ‘‘all the ills that flesh or aught else is heir to.’’ Social, religious and polltico-economical pyro- gechnics blaze and bang and gyrate and splutter and 0 up very fast and bright and come down equally fast, but shorn of all brightness —in fact, the stick 13 fhe only visible remains, which is neither useful nor ornamental. Such was the resuit of the last con- wention which assembled in Cincinnati the past wreck. The “Pecksntff” family, with throats encased in Immacuiate white chokers, aud in very many cases suffering {rom conscientious motives, which, upon warefui examination, may be fonnd to be nothing ‘but aggravated and chronic dyspepsia, have bad at pretty much ail their own way, and have whereas"-ed and “resolved? themselves, tn the exhilaration of the moment, almost “into thin alr’ and to the very hearts’ content. Like the stalwart fellow who, when being whipped by his lite wife, exclaimed, “It amases her and Mocsn’t hurt me,” so we'll say, “Lf the ‘Peckanuf’ fam- diy emioy their own litue entertainment, all well and good,” bur they must excuse the non-PecksniMans ‘Yor not joining in and seeing their “ittie game” in ahe light whicu every lover of true religious lperty aiust View it in, No one great principle in our revered constitatton ‘Blands out in bolder revief, as compared with the avriiceu laws and practice Which ovtain ia other countries, than thatot religious freedom and separa- Mon of Church avd State. For UWus our lorefathers Youxht, aud out of whose suflerings and experience Ble: ved a government the blessings of which to-day aad Lardly Know how inach to ape n well said that “eternal vigilance tsthe , and Its this Cxercise of Vigilance J prompt every Ainerican ciuzen to Band visit: wits contempt ever, Jefort, come from what qu i may, to engral mpon the constitution any expression of religious Gain, Which 18 Dow sought to be done by a lew Sanatics, True, the cloud upon ihe politi- religious orizon 1s no larger than a Boan’s hand; but so long as it is in view bt ufust be sharply watched and deprived wl iis power to do injury, The sagacious framers of Abe constitution purposely and wdvisediy omitted Ale name of the Almighty, and as 4 maturai sequence wll expression of seciarian belicl. That this was Proper all expericnce goes to show; yet these “wise a ther Own generation,” in convenuon us- Beurbled in Cinciumau—these “ihree tailors of Tooley Btreei,” ua their “We, the people of Knglana,”’ style wf cflrontcry—dare to claim tuat the people demand ‘au acknowledgment in this sacred instrument of tue xisience of God and delet in the Saviour of man- ind. Ail this is unnecessary, and in our Judgment ecksuiMian, We hold that the constitution of our loved country 18 next only in holiness to the Bible itself, that the spirit of God ts in its every word wand sentence, aud has relerence, as 1 uid, to cartlly aifairs aud noi to tose of heaven; jai the conscientious convicuons of every human ing, Whether based upon the Jaws of the Bible or ‘Otherwise, are the connecting links between Bitmself and pis Goa, m which government has jv right to interfere, either directly or inairectly; fat is is not a Chrisuan country any more han itts a Jewish, Pagan or Mohammedan one, ji that fo declare in‘ favor of one reiigions de- jomination Would be to ie manifest injustice of li others; for, While to-day the majorti Mans, to-morrow the votaries of auother se predominate; and, surther, that ti this respect the Cousutution “Was hut made lor a day, vut for all mime.” ‘To Lue credit of @ very large hisjortyy of the press Of tha country be it said, tne would-be tiakers of Bue constitution have received Sut cold comfor where tuey have not beeo met by positive oppos Every liberal-minded Christian sees Ganger of a change-and ta Iree to acknowle’ ut to the Jew the injustice and danger are still more appalling, and arouse }us jears and memories of piccar days whose history is written Iu the carts’ bioed of his ancestry. ‘The Jews (tue writer baving the honor of being ‘one) are always wiiling to acquiesce m the customs prevailing in the countries hereto they dwell, aad ¢ ever loyal 10 “ihe powers Uiat be," aipelt local Jaws ntake Ut obligatory apon them almost every. where to ‘aostain from labor on Sunday and other Whristain holidays, while tieir own religious Obu- Walions necessitate their doing the same on Satur- Gay, which is their Sabbath. These, together with mhout twelve festivais anu fasts, make sixty-four days, besides the Christian Sundays and holidays, ‘Wich sum Up ip the aggregate about ove hundrea wud tweuty non-working days year, or one- Lird of weir enure ume! The opp iveness of Huis double set of holidays i4 ObV/OU never complain, Wut go ou tuelt Way mish ho imtounity, 1€t us BUpPpuse the Jowlsh laws predominated ud Christians had to keep (ue Jewisi sabbath and ais While they observed ua holy Lilt OWO Sundays and festivais, too—do you not think, Mr. Editor, they would become a little restive and claim 80 me exemption ? Besides these evidences of good citizenship it may not be improper to mention that the Jews are sel- dom, If ever, & care upon the Siate; for they support their own poor, house their own widows and orphans, and the doors of their many large hospials are as freely opened to their Gen- ule’ brethren in of medical or surgical aut as to their own “sons of the covenant.” Are not these facts to be considered, and is not the poucipe involved the same whether 1t applies to is hundreds of thousands of Jews or its millions of Christians? These are some of the reasons why the Jews und several other religious denominations of non-believers in the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth respectfully and with all opinions of others protest against any change in the constitation Of the United States which will give to it a religious or sectarian bias. SEMI-OCCASIONAL. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 6, 1872. tpiscopal Church. To THE EpITORK OF THE HeRALD:— Recent developments in the Episcopal Church have so brought the topic of confession and its law- fulness or unlawfulness tn that Church vefore the public that it were folly to attempt to blink it, 1b 18 the topic in the counting room, and it was the topic in our parlors ou New Year's Day. The move- ments of the ritualists are bold, determined and re- gardiess of fear or favor. We have to deal with @ set of men who, whatever we may think of them, are at any rate thoroughly in earnest, One of them astonishes the moneyed men of his vestry by calling upon them to cease interfering with and cneckmat- ing him with their money, or that he would resign and go where he could be free, Another sets up one of the most magnificent altars in this or any other. country, and covers it with lighted candies. A third openly adyertises in one of our journals that he hears confessions on 8 certain day, ‘These men, struggling in poverty and through much unpopularity, evidently mean work, They may be ridiculed, bat the day is gone-when we can afford to despise them. Money does not seem to weigh @ featner with them, nor abuse to swerve them from their purpose, ana they daily gain ground, It ts high time for’ a general rubbing of spectacles and examination of what 13 going on. First along they were laughed at for their candies and their vestments, ‘they were thought to be eccentric folk, But 1t seems that ali the time they have been burning candies and wearing vest- ments tney have also been hearing confessions. ‘The whole affair 1s evidently deeper than candies, lace and eccentricity, This is clear from the follow- ing:—When the Bishop of New York prohibited excessive ritual he was obeyed by all the ritualistic clergymen instanter, OM came their colored chasubles, and there has peen noexcessive ritualism in New York since. But the moment the sishop of Connecticut took one of these New York clergy- men to task for ialking in his diocese about seven sacraments (and, among the seven, confession), the Said priest” bristied up, showed fight, did no: budge an inch,and published the correspondence. And the moment the Bishop of Pennsyivania takes an- other to task tor the coniessional that other, tuo, shows tight, Wins lus case and publishes hia corre- spondence also, And the instaat the question of ritual m the General Coaveation touches the doc- wine of the real presence of Christ, under the forms of bread and wine in tue sacrament of the aliar, & third shows tight on tne fluor of the Coavention, and defes any inan to present him for trial, i he uares; and no one dares, It is evident that it 19 not @ mere matier of empty forms, and candies, and tomfoolery, and taste, aud colored ciotns with these men, Jt is sometuing More profound and Tundamental, Shrewd fellows, they keep 23 quiet as night while the world is wasting ils powder on tmeir candies, But men do not willingly go into ua- popularity and abuse, nor leave lucrative positivas on mere questions of taste. In sooth, 13 1t ut ciear that ritualism means something else besides ritual- ism? Jem credibly informed that ts tt not merely e1ghc or ten persons that go to confession, and they Jadies, but that kpiscopulians are quietly fockiag by we hundreds; and iat among those that go ile men, Uf anything, are In tue majority. Also Wat the phenomenon is by no means confined to New York, but that it has shown Itself simul- | tapeously in Maryland, Massachusetts, Khode Isian.l, Coanecticut, Lexas, Illinois, Tennessee, Flore ida, Louisiana, Canada, kngland, scolland—every- where, Mere ridicule before so great and grave a miwveme Dt 1s rdiculous, ana mere scorn 1s impotent. Jam credibly intormed, loo, that this aliair of hear- ing conte=si0n8 In the Protestant Episcopal Church 4s not of recent Occurreuce eititer, a8 has been sup- posed, nor confined to one or two New York priests, Indeed these facts are incontroverubie, Now, Mr, Editor, were this ritualism @ mere local piece of whunsicauty we might lauga at it and let it go. Bul i, 18 a Movement too sviemn, and widespread, and steady, and sient lor that.” 4 hear that there 1s actually more ot tois ritual movement in Baltimore than there 1s In New York. Atone of te cuurcaes | there Lam informed that there is an attendance at te early communion of no less than tity every day iu the year, And the early atvendance at st, Luge’s, in Balumore, 13 Said to be somethig won- derial. Here, mm New York, on Christmas morning at daylight, it 1s said that there were no less than @ hundred communicants at St. Igoauas’ church, Now old-fasuioned churchmen must wake up and face the music. We are sorely troubled about confession. The dilemma is this—aoes the Provestant Episcopal Church sanction the coniession Of one’s sins to a priest? If so, inen there is an end of the matter, and it 1s the Church herself, and not the ritualists, that we should ridicule and oppose, if any ridicule 18 to be thrown or opposition to be made. Ji their Churct sanctions coniession then how can churchmen have the face or temerity to oppose ity ‘The churchman toinks everything of nts Church, and when ite oppuses conlession he 1s sim- ply hoist on his own petard. But if, on tne other vod, the Protestant Episcopal Church does not per- mit sinners to open their griefs to their pastors, for the purpose of getting comtort, advice and absolu- tion, then an exampie ought promptly ta be made of soine of these ritualists by trying and deposing one who hears and excommunicating one who makes confessions. li, however, the Anglican Church does not sanction the confession of one’s sins to a priest, how happens it vhat I find in the Prayer Book of the English Church (with which the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Untied States ot America 1s avowedly at one “in ull essential points of doctrine, discipline and worship,'’ a3 sue says she 13 in the preface to her Prayer Book), the following:— “Here shall the sick person be moved to make a Special coniession of sins if he feel his con- science troubied with any weighty matter; alter Which coniession the priest shall apgolve hi he hainbly aud heartily desire it, after tis sort;— Our Lord, Jesus Christ, who hath left power to His Cuurch to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in Him, of His great mercy lorgive tnce thine offences; and by His authority committed unto me I absolve tnee irom all thy sins, in the Dame of tie Father, and of the Son and ot the Holy Ghost. Amen.” Now, 1 am a cuurcuman and have opposed confession; but this bothers me. Will any a your correspondents enlighten us? Who ure right, toe churchmen who Oppose or the rituallsts who are not afraid to practise aud openly to deieud | confession’ Mi we are going to have confessions it 1g not manly to hide the matter under a bushel. If itis right to hear them tt 18 right, and no one need be ashamed of it; if 1% 18 wrong now 13 tue time to stop it, If itis wroug will some one tell me what I shall say in answer When a ritualist asks me what the Protestant Episcopal bishop meaus when, in ordatning @ priest, he says, ‘Whose sins thou dost forgive they are forgiven, and whcese sius tnou ‘dost retain they gre retained; sand ve thou a: laithfal dispenser of the Word of God and of His holy sacraments?’ and when the Titualist asks me, moreover, whether a priest can be # faithful dispenser of Christ ‘His merits to the sinner unless he uses the “authority” thus “committed” to him? And will some one tell me what our rectors mean when they tell us, every Sunday morning and evening, that Almighty God hath given power and that He hath given command- nent Lo His ministers to declare and pronounce to His penitent people the absolution and re.nission of theirsinsy Mr. Editor, | have worshipped in the Protestant Episcopal Church and partaken ai her aitar nearly thirty years, but I am airaid I have heard and read her words innumerable times with- out realizing what they meant; and if the Protestant Episcopal Caurch sanctions confession I am either going to leave ner or | am going to stay in her and defend coniession, and, in man-fashion, derend Mose Who hear and those who make conlessions. I Must at Jeast be honest, and one or the other as an honest man I must do. A CLLURCHMAN, A Church Hubbub in Baltimore. ‘The Baltimore American says:—Sir John Hutch- inson, @ clergyman of the Church of England, a Member of the Passionist Society, and a disciple of the advanced school of ritualtsts, oMiciated at Mount Calvary Episcopal church, corner of Madison avenue and North Eutaw street, on last | y. Inthe celebration of the commuyton se the titied divine introduced some oi those ct monies which are desigued w symbolize the talih of the celebrant in the “real presence,” in the con- | secrated elements. These genufiections and otier nitv@l.suic postures are practisea vy the Oxford diviues, but are vot prescrived by any of the authorized standards of the Episcopal Church im this country, and the rule of falta which tiey teach was expre-sly declared against at the late General Convention, These unauiborized proceea- ings coming to the cars of Bishop Whittingham, ne forluwith interdicted Rey. Sir Jonn Hutetioson from oMeciating a Mount Calvary, or in any otner 1 piscopal church in the diocese of Maryland, Since the resignation of Rev, Alired Curtis, Mount Calvary has been without a rector, and tor better security hereafter the Mishop bas placed the church under the care of Kev, Dr. Leeds, of Grace chureb, and Rev, Mr, Randolph, of Pinanuel cuurca, Revival in Leavenworth, Kansans, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1872- then a third, Morning meetings for prayer and in- quiry have been continued, ‘and enilaren's meetings in the afternoon of each day. About one hundred and fifty children, from the age of six to sixteen, and a large number of adults, have thus far been carefully examined by the pastors of the several churches, and have given sausfactory evidence of a change of heart. Yesterday afternoon more shen prayer, ‘texpressing the have found ite ‘Saviour, the rest gto find Him, three hundred rose for hope that Co earnestly desir in Newport, RK. I. ‘The Baptist Union mentions an event which took piace at Newport, R, I., five years ago, and repeated every year since, which it represents as {uil of in- terest, It 1s the intercommunion of the Congrega- tional, Baptist and two Methodist churches upon the Sunday evenii chosing the Week of Prayer. This year the four congrega ns assembled in the edifice of the Ce egationai church for the celebra- tion of vhe Lord's Supper. The spacious edifice was fillea by an audience numbering probably a thou- sand persons. Mont of those present were church members, representing not only the four charches mentioned, but ‘also representing almost every church in the ctiy, Spirlied Revival tn Ohio. An interesting revival has been in progress in the church at Chagrin Falls, Onio, Rey. G. W. Walker pastor. A correspondent of the Herald and Presbyter says of 1t:—‘The church had observed the ‘Week of Prayer,’ and was in @ good state of preparation for an outpouring of the Spirit, Up to this me seventy persons, mostly adults, have iound peace in believing in Jesus. Yesteraay iorty-elght of the number stood up in the great congregation and Parag expressed their faith in the Lord Jesus hrist. A ii nomber of these were baptized, among whom were five whole families.”’ Religious Notes—Personal aud General. Rév. M. R, Deming was installed pastor of the First Baptist church at Greenpoint, L. 1., on the 8th inst. ‘The Hudson church diMcnity has been arranged by the translation of the Rev. James S, O'Sullivan to another field. Rey. Dr. Bridgeman, of Albany, N. Y., has been called to the pastorate of the Tabernacle Baptist church of Philadelphia. Six women commenced the new year at St. Anne, Kankakee county, Il, by renouncing their former faith and becoming Protestants, Rey, Dr. Osgood has taken charge of the Wain- wright Memorial church, in West Eleventh street, where his tine pulpit abilities will be appreciated, The new Methodist Episcopal church tn Washing- ton street, corner of Eignth street, Hoboken, will be dedicated to-day. It is one of the finest buildlugs erected in Hudson county. Rev. Dr, Hamilton, the venerable Methodist min- ister who died recently in Washington, met his death from @ fallon his back while crossing an icy walk, He expired soon after, Rev. 5. W. Pratt, late of Hammonton, N, J., has succeeded Rey. D. H, Palmer as pastor of the Pres- day, Judge Lord sent Dr, byterian church of Prattsburg, N. Y. Te com: menced his lubors with the beginning of the year. In the Superior Criminal Court at Boston, last Fri- James McDonough, a Catholic witness, to jail because he refused to kiss the Fag prelerring ‘to “atiirm’? with the uplifted an According to late news from Rome the Rev. Father MeNierny, Archoishop McCloskey’s secre- tary, has been Het rny 48 coadjutor bishop to the Ordinary of the Albany diocese, Dr. Conroy. The bulls are expected to arrive in a few days, The laymen of the Lutheran Churci are to hold a convention in York, Pa., on the 21st inst., for we purpose of discussing the subject of publication and devising ineans by which the Lutheran publishing house 14 Philadelphia may be placed upon a perma- nent and enduring basis. Rev. W. E. McLaren, of the Westminster church At Detroit, has notified bis congregation taat he had decided to leave the Presbyterians and take part with the Protestant Episcopat Church, His congre- gation united im Kind resolutions, and requested the Presbytery lo dissolve the pastoral relation. The Bangkok (Siam) Advertiser of the latest mail date reports:—Dr, C, Vrooman, the medical mission- ary, Who has heen appointed vy the American Pres- byteriau Missionary Board to labor at Chiengmai, the capital of a Laos State under the protectorate of Stain, has left thts city ior his destination, Rev. James Marshall, of the Westminster Presby- terian churen, of Troy, N. Y., has accepted a call to the Presvyterian church of Hoboken, J. A year ago he assumed charge of what was tnen but a 1 r mission enterprise. His faithtul labors have been ichly blessed oy its rapid development iuto a promising church organizauon, Joseph, at Yonkers, N. service oh Almighty On Sunday, February 4, the new Church of St, \. Y., Was dedicated to tne a by the Very Rey. Dr. ached an appropriate dis- Many clergymen were ent aud a large congregation. ‘The Rey. A. A. Lings 15 the pastor of the new church, Re . Johu Seyes, D. D., died at his residence in Springfield, Onio, on Friday night last, aged seven- i | she calied them, she followed, not very I A correspondent of the Observer states that a power/ul work of grace is In progress tn this piace. It began with the weex Of prayer. A few earnest Christians trom each of the evangelical churches ty-five years. effect. He was tor many years Resilent Minister from the United States at Liperia, and also @ missionary in West Alrica, He made ten voyages between this country and Atrica previous to nal return home in 1870, The Chicago Standard has a correspondent who Wants to know what should be done with @ candl- dave for admission to the Church who In all oiner respects 1s sound and acceptable, but who hesitates to accept the doctrine of eternal punishment. ithe Standard sensibiy quotes Paul’s advice:—**Him that is weak in the taith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations;’' and adas:—“We think the Aposue’s rule has respect to precisely such a case." On the Feast of the Purification, February 2, four young ladies received the habit of novices in the Congregation of Sisters of Mercy, in Ga., at the hands of the The names of the postulants were:—Miss Anne Broderick, of Augusta, Ga,, who receives in religion the mame of Sisier Mary Alphonsus; Kennedy, of Savannah, who now bears the mame of Sister Mary Magdalen; of Savaunab, now sister M: Brown, of Savannah, now sister Mary Paul. Savannah, ht Rev. Bishop Persico, Miss Etlen Miss Agnes McMahon, lary Rose; Miss Agnes The ministers of the Congregational, Baptist, Upi- Versalist, Methodist and Disciples churches in Dans bury, Conn., have publ.shed w statement in the local Papers to the effect that, while neither of them wishes to be held as endorsing the opinions of the others, they desire cordially to unite in Curistian work, 30 far as they may. is held every Monday evening, in whicn all the churches named participate; and they also unite in thelr thanksgiving and fast-day services, » This nas been golag on now for several months, and at the A union prayer meeting ast advices hovody had been hurt. MISS SMILEY AMONG THE METHODISTS, During the past week Miss Sarah smiley, the preaching Quakeress, wnose ministry ia Dr. Cuy- jer’s church at one service only created such a sen- sation that Brooklyy came near being turned upside down, las ministered in the pulpit of Trinity Meth- odist church, Thirty-fourth, street, near Eighth ave- hue. (and it has been filled every evening. On Weanese day night it was literally packed with human be- ings. were drawa thither by Curiosity, and @ great many came [rom other churches and from distant parts of the city. The lady bas already made her mark and the Brookiyn Presbytery have given her such an excellent advertisement that she will find very little diM culty tn securing large audichces wherever she goes, ‘The churcn is one of the jargest in the city, A very large number, it may be presumed, Miss Smiley is a very pleasing ahd interesting speaker, to be heard once or twice or half a dozen times, but it is doubtfal whether a p.omiscuous congregation of any denomination would sit pa- uenuly under her ministry for a tweivemonth, or even half that time. HER STYLE IS VERY PATHETIC, and she appeals very strongly to tne more tender feelings aud affections of the soul, Sue is given to anecdote and filustration in her sermons, and can preseat both with remarkable patios and thrilling Her voice 18 sweet and her manner casy in the pulpit, She speaks slowly and distinctly, and without raising her voice much above the pitch of ordinary conversation she can be heard and under- stood distinctly even m a large building. On Friday evening Miss Smtiey preached in the Methodist church om the love of God, its manifesta- ton in the Lord Jesus Christ and the results of the Saviour'’s propitiation, Without opening the Bible she fooited @ couple of verses from one of the epis- ties of Jonn In_ tis Was the love of God mani- fested,” &c. Three lines o1 thought were suggested by three words in the text—“love,” “lite” and “propitiation’—and these lines, or pathways, as oh to be sure, but certainly very theologically, She mildly discarded an old theological theory which prevailed here not many years ago, that had little or no love toward the human race until Jesus Christ came im the flesh and stood side by side with humanity, and then the fountain of love in the Great Father's heart was opened up for His gon, and through him ior all men. This was contrary to | the Bible, whicn declares that ‘God so loved the world that He gave His only begotien Son’? to die for our iallen race. And in THIS MANIFESCATION OF THE PATHER'S LOVE and the Son’s love an appeal was made to the corre- sponding attribute in te human soul. Ap tliustra- ton of the power and force of such an appeal to hu- min hearts was drawn irom her own experience on one occasion among tae ragged children of London, to whom she was invited to speak. She told them how interested she had been in her childhood days in reading about them and hearing her father read, and how sue frequently lay awake at night thinking about them and joving them im'her heart, All at once she said she heard a deep sigh heaved and simultane. Ously cowl sleeves were raised Lo brush away the Jaliing tears, and she then tuok advantage of this tenderness of spirit to speak to them about God's love Jor them, wnie the big tears continued to roll down their cheeks. And as tne good lady related the incident to her Methodist congregation many observed the appointed season in datiy union | were seen to brush away the tears, meetings. ‘Their hearts were warmed and} trom their eyes. So, again, she related encouraged. hay abserved # govoud week | aa lucidcnt of & wilt youne man win had left home and gone to other lands, ana during nis absence his mother sickened, and ne was written. to to come home if he desired Lo see her alive. He hurried back, but to find that nis mother had died the day before. Kneeling down alone, as he sup- posed, beside her corpse, he asked God’s fargive- ness, and as he rose from ils Knees he saw his fatuer, who, In another part of the room had been praylug also, rise and come toward him. Reaching HIS HAND ACkOSS THE DEAD BODY of his Wile, ne took his son’s hand and said: “My son, you have broken your mother’s heart and uear- ly broken mine; but I lorgive you; let us live to- gether in neace and love the rest of our lives.” “Even 80,’ said the fair preacher, “God reaches out His hand over His dead Christ and seeks reconcilia- tion with every one of you.” The effect of tts 1n- cident, told as it was with touching pathos, was very profound indeed, Miss Smiley is to preach in the same place this evening, THIRTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE, Moses the Greatest Human Discover—Signifi- cance of the Sanctuary. Yesterday the synagogue in West Thirty-fourth street was fille] with worshippers, Jew and Cbris- tian, and the éloquent rabbi, Dr. Vidaver, seemed to have been unusually inspired for the occasion. He preached from the text, “And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.” — Exodus, xxy., 8 ‘he history of nations, as well as tne kingdom of nature, he said, testifies to the glo- rious fact that Providence bounotifully supplies all the wants of nature and of nations, Whenever in the history of mankind there has been a demand for some master spirit to meet any extraor- dinary emergency or to grappie with any pressing events arising in the life of a le that demand has ee supplied, Israel's nory. as well as that of OUR OWN AMERICAN History bears glorious evidence of tnis fact also, When the cry ol the American colonies ascended to God He raised up George Washington, who led the con- Unental armies in triumph and became the liberator ofa nation, And when a race was to be treed from the hideous shackles of slavery Abraham Ltncoin @ppeared, and the cry of this people for complete freedom was satisfied. And ail the achieve- ments of these men are graven upon tho pages of history and are remembered with profound grautude, And thus likewise are the invenuons Or discoveries which elevate one race or nation, but Which conduce to the welfare of humanity at large. As, for instance, the discovery of this Western worla; the discovery and application of steam, of the printing press and of electricity to the affairs oL muen. These are surrounded with @ hato of glory and usefulness, and men will never cease to look Upon them as well-spriungs of human happiness. And yet far higher than these discoverers and their discoveries rises Moses und bis great discovery. ‘True, he was great also as @ liberator of an en- slaved race, as the wisest of legisiators, as the best of teachers and educators, and as the frst and greatest of Israei’s prophets. But, more than this and above all, he was chosen to be the benefactor of mankind and THE EDUCATOR OF THE HUMAN RACK. And the great discovery made by Moses 18 not the bringing to light of hidgen countries or unknown poruons of the eartu, but tue revelation to our mina’s eye of the heaventy land, whose everlasting radiance Hills us with joy unspeakavie. His uis- covery briugs the most aistant parts of Goa’s uni- verse together, and has the power to elecirily the human soul, it briugs man and God together and unites earth and heaven. And it is of this great discovery that the text speaks—the erection of a sanctuary, the buuding of a house of God, the insti- tution of @ plan ol worship, which, accoraing to the ancient rabbies, is an achievement little Jess than that of creation; for the sanctuary is the spot where inan 13 to be recreated—created anew. And Moses, as Josephus declares, was the first mortal who instituted a nouse for the public worship o1 God where all the people might mingle their prayers and praises together. Belore Moses and Israel there were Many Civilized nations, but none coud show public places where the masses could assemble to worsnip God. In Egypt, that most ancient land of culture, the priests gathered im her pyramids, where the bones of her kings iay buried, or assemblea in sub- terranean vauits, to which the people were not al- loved access, and there pertormea their mysteries. The Assyrians and Phwnicians erecied altars on hills and mountain tops, where the masses dare not approach; and even tue Persians, Greeks and Ro- mans had no house for public worsbip where the people cowd assemvle, Lhe Greek philosopher scorned THE IDEA OF CONFINING GOD within walls; the Persians in their wars with the Greeks desiroyed all the altars and statues which had any relation to religious rites, and the Roman had his penates—nis household gous; but tue idea ol a sanctuary for the puolic worship of God was foreign to taem ail. it was lett tor Moses to instl- tute and for Israci to perpetuate a public sanctuary for the Worship Ol the Most iligh, where rich and poor, high ana low, the culuvated and the ignorant, the Lond and the iree, the priest and the layman, alike may meet on equal terms as children of one Father in heaven ani be bound togetner by the most sanctiiyiug cords of faitu and devotion and the Knowledge of God. Moses taugut Israel not as the priests of Benhadad taught that God was a God of the mountains but not Of the Valleys, but that He 4s the God of the spirits of ali flesh, the God who made the heavens and the earth, wno created the sea aad the dry land and filled them with teeming itie. And in this discovery of Moses was opened the Louse of God and the gate of heaven to the human race. 1s it not, therefore, the most blessed of all dis- coveries? Indeed it 13, and the civilized world, ‘who have learned from Moses to build public houses" Tor the worship of God, testify to this fact, and that religion 1s uot the heritage of the priesthood only, but is the common heritage of all mankind. For we are all chiidren of one father, and have a right vo approach Him with our tlial affection, aevouon and ilove. and by tnis discovery and wivhin the Sacred walle of the sanctuary all the differences which exist among men and Which grow out of the adventitious circumstances of rank, fortune or birth or social position are thrown down and for- gotten, These must vanish and disappear where man recognizes in his fellow man a brother whose suul fs fashioned like unto nis own. Having thus treated of the erection of houses of worship, the Doctor neXt discussed the spiritual idea of TUR SUPPORTS OF THE SANCTUARY. The two pillars upon which it rests (Jachin and Boaz) are prayer and instruction. The nature and effects of these rightly exercised were beautiully elaborated and entorced. The need of such a sanc- tuary for poor, fallen humanity was aiso sown, Where, from its Eden stream, the thirsty may drink and be refreshed, and where they may rest and Cleanse themselves from the filth’ and impurities Which earth heaps upon thém. We do not, he said, by the erection of sanctuaries manifest a disbeuel in the omnipresence of God’s glory, but rather admit that thouga God is with us everywhere, we are not with Him everywhere. “The swallow nath found her house and the sparrow her nest, even thine altars, my God and King,” ex- cialms the Psaimist. “As the hart panteth for the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, © God! My soul thirstetn for the living God and for the courts of His house.” There upon the seraphic pinions of fervent prayer man rises above the level of every-day liie and 13 borne up to the mount of Goa, where the purest air obtains, to refresh and revive his spirit. A very nice distinction was also drawn by the Doctor between erecting a sanctuary for God and of God, and with a thriuing portratture of the heavenly land and its sanctuary and God's dwellmg among his people the eloquent Kabbi closed nis discourse with an art to his people to honor the Lord God of sabbaoth in his sanctuary, and to make nis house a house of prayer and of in- struction for all nations, PROPOSED CREATION OF CARDINALS, (From tne Saturday Review, Feb. 3.) The Roman Catholic papers, which on such & point are likely to be well informed, report that the Pope contemplates very shorily filling up some fourteen or fitteen of the twenty vacancles in the College of Cardinals, and eleven names are men- toned of those expected to receive the red hat, Prominent among them 1% Archbishop Manmng, and with him come the Archbishops of Munich, Cologne. Mechlin (Dechamps), Posen, Baltimore (Spalding), and the Patriarch of Lisbon, who makes an ex oficio claim to the dignity by virtue of @ privilege accorded by Clement XI. To these are added the names of four high officials of the former Papal government—Randi, Pretect of Police; Negroni, Minister of the interior; Vitellescht aud De Merode. Of the ciaims of many of these per- » tae reward of tueir labors in the sm” there can be no sort of ques- There is astory told of an Erglish Catholic Visitor expressing to @ very distinguished German ecciesiastic his regret that ad Newman was not made @ Card “My debr frend,” was the prompt reply, hatis not the stuff Cardinals are made of,” Exactly 80; but such men as Manning, Dechamps, Melchers and the reclaimed Archbishop of Manich, who has been good enough to excom- Municate his old friend and counsellor, Dr. Déi- linger, are just ‘the stuff Cardinals are made ot,” und have fairly earned their promotiou. The Arch- bishops of Westininster, Mechiin and Baltimore were leaders of the infaliibilist party at the Councii, while their brothers of Munich and Cologne, who were rather troublesome at Rome, have still more creditaly distinguisiea themselves since by their aon of their former associates. Considering ow Important, though hardly conspicuous, a part ‘Was played by the poiice in the management of the Council, the bestowal of wie purple on Mgr. Randi can only be regarded as @ fitting and graceful ac- kKnowledgment Of the services of Negron! and Vitellescnt jess 1s generally known; but Merode 18 @ man Of mark in his Way, and a& stanch sup+ porter of Papal interests, though his fraternal atec- don betrayed him into the impropriety of order- ing a solemn requiem for the Prous, Dut too liveral, Montalemoert, which 111s Holiness, being quite superior to the superstiion De mormis nid vist bonum, countermanued, Dot Without a tolera- bly free expression of his sentiments ou the subject, On the whole, the progored nominees appear to us admiraviy quatil for their elevation, thouga tn the present state of things at Rome the precise mar- gxelable or other valne of the diwaky may periaps gular as their position when created, 80 to speak, through a chrvsalis ai state of existence—ii such & con{usion of metaphors may be allowed—betore the fully developed butter- fly displays its painted wings. cardinals in petio, who are eventualiy destined by the Pope to that high dignity, thougn no one but himself need know anything of the fact. usual at one period for the Pope to mention their names in done by Martin V.; but this Imperfect promulgation did not entitle them to act as Cardina practice was adopted of simply intimating ia Con- , sistory the number, but not the names, of the per- sons designated Jor the purple, which had no other effect than to limit the range of the Pope's power of creation, as these unknown members were held to belong since sprung up of the Pope’s writing out in sealed Packets tue names of Cardinals promoted in petto, tor however, wisnes in not invariably do so. credit of supplying the first example of a Pope an- nulling his own é1 pet/o nominations, and that, too, aiter It had been formally intimated. b: nominee, Who was, moreover, by tar the most cis- unguisned tury—Rosmint. dag notice to make preparations for his public re- ception, but his i uon of the Vope, placed on the index. for the chrysalis or in petto stage of development, from whica a freshly named Cardinal emerges into ‘what was formerly @ kind of novitiate, during which he is called a ci tae dignity, but debarred from ali active exercise of office, unt Pope has state inca} striction was removed by Pius IV. a century later, and accordingly Gregory XV. has ruled that every promulgated cardinal—as distinguished from those im petio—nas the self. become @ mere formality, though it still exists in theory, and might at ai closing and unseating of a new Cardinal’s mouth being accomplished in the same Consistory, other hand, a Cardinal’s right of franchise in Papal elections once acquired is so strictly ‘‘imalienabie,’’ wo use the term of Gregory XV., that ne suspension, Popes hee nilace Colonna Cardinais from their rank, per FR oe ee Cs for conspiracy by Adrian prison, th spite of the dying tnyunctions of the Pope, to vote in the eiection of his successor, and said the Mass of the Hol; clave, in been imprisoned for the most scandalous crimes, was taken out St. Angelo to vote in Conclave. This precedent has never since been reversed. real fected by & brief in 1867 to deprive the late Cardinal Andrea of ail ‘active and Ri but the Cardinal’ aren makes fs suspicious circumstances, two years Later, impossible to say whethey the vatidity of this un- precedented and illegal stretcn of authority would have been adimitved sad ne sarvived the Pope. TRIPLE SHEET. be considered ambiguous, There 1s something om® nous in the statement that the solemuities usual in the preconization of Cardinals “will, on thus occa. sion, Of course have to be dispensed with,” though the necessity, in fact, arises solely from the as. sumed captivity of “the prisoner of the Vatican.’” As regards Archbishop Manning, tndeed, we were & little surprised, not that the Pope should be read: 40 promote him, but that he should be desirous, if he 18 desirous, of accepting an honor likely to Hamper his action and to tmperii rather to enhance his influence tn his own conniry, Cardinal Wise- man, whose genius was greater than 11s common sense, fully expected to be received at Court as Cardinal, and was not a litte disappointed, if not soured, at Ohding that his new dignity conferred no rank or position in «england, and, from a foreign sovereign with- the sanction of his own, could not be recogmized by the government at ull, so that all official intercourse lo be carried ‘on through Bishop Grant, of southwark, instead of himself, Dr. Manning will be under no such illusions, and neither 18 he likely to apply to the Queen for per- Mision toaccept ls new title, which was, we be- Neve, asked aud ovtained in ‘the case of Cardinal Weld, He is, however, the best judge of what will be most conducive to his ecclesiastical aspirations; and @ higher status in mun © tholi¢ suciety, coupled with the reversionary chances of influence in future conclaves, May perhaps seem a sumcient compensation for the drawbacks of a princely rank which will not be recognizeu and cannot be Jaid aside, For tt 18 & curious circumstance, and one which oddly ulustrates the composite charac- ter of the Papacy, that the highest position in the Roman Church next to that of the supreme and ivfallible Ponta iy a secular and not a spiritual oflice, which may be, and ofien has been, hela by laymen, | ‘The whole history of the institution 18 so Tewarkable that it may be worth while briefly to recall 1¢ at @ time when the anomalous Court in which Cardinais rank as princes of the blood is passing through a momentous, if not final, js Of its long c Catholic Church,” manner, “18 governed by the Pope*and sevent; Cardinals, in memory of the twelve uposties, This is not quite an accurate account of the matter, out it represents with tolerable fidelity the popwa: Pression among Catholics and Protestants as to the de facto government of the Church. Proceed to inquire how the body which was once Tuled by twelve apostles came to fall under tne do- minion of a Pope and seventy Cardinais the answer can hardly be compressed ito the limits of an epigrammatic sarcasm. id chequered existence. ‘The Bald : M. About, in Ns peculiar © am- But when we For many centuries, even after the Bishop of Rome had attained in practice to a position of un- challenged supremacy in the Western Church, election was dependent on the joint action of Whove civic community in its threefold division—the government, Ul the midi IL, acting under the inspiration of Hildebrand, who was soon afterwards to succeed nim on the throne, effected the great revoluttion—tor such 1t undoubtedly was—which transterred the election of the supreme Pontiff from a large and mixed constituency, In which the civil authorities held a prominent place, to a small ecclesiastical senate nominated by bimseif atone, Nicolas’ Bul, after rehearsing the troubles and con; fusions of former elections as the cause for this mo- mentous chai shall appertain the Cardinals of lower clergy their acquiescence, About Alexander thirds of the Conclave essential to a valia election, and this provision still continues in force, pie composition of the Savred College is fixed nis te the clergy and the people. It was not le of the eleventh cenvury that Nicolas bapat The preamble of decrees that henceforth the right it to the Cardinal Bishops, then to Tank, and that the shall merely express @ century later voles of two- and people ill, made the The y a later enactment, dating Irom the reign of Sixtus V., mm 1685, which limits the number of mem- bers to seventy, divided ito six Cardinal Bishops, fiity Cardinal cons. nomenclature is purely Deacon may case with Cardinal and many Cardinal Priests are bishops, other hand, there may be Cardinal Priests who are not in priest’s orders, as was for many years the ease with Cardinal Dandini, who was also, while only a Oe erence according to Moroni were only in diaconai orders. cardinaiital title 18 @ purely secuar one; H 18 a grade in the Court of Kome, not in the Church; but as the Court is a strictly ecclesiastical one all who elo to astical habit, Monsignori, * for instance, laymen, Without resigning their digaity. mene tor @ Cardinal as sucn, and e Po) marry, a8 many lay Cardinals have actualiy done. As recently named by Clement XII. Archbishop of ‘Toledo and Cardinal, at the nature age of eight; and Sixtus V. made nis nephew a Cardinal when a bo ‘There are several instances on record where Cardi+ nals in holy orders have been allowed to renounce their dignity and marry, grounds. Only two centuries ago Casimir, brother of ‘the King ot Poland, who was both @ Uardinal and a Jesuit, received @ dispeusation to marry, and to marry his brother’s widow, on the Jewish principle of “raising up seed to hs brother.’ instances occurred in the same century of Cardinals 1m sacred orders being allowed to marry. fact is nat this hybrid dignity, while not @ sacred, is yet, as belonging to the Papal Court, an ecclesi- astical one, ficuon of appointing them for twelve months, with an obligation of taking deacon’s orders within that period, which, however, can be renewed loties quo- tivs by the plenary power of the Pope, just as French, Protestants were lavested with the Cross of St. Louts for ninety-nine years, when their right to wear it would be forfeited if they remained in heresy, It was, however, ordered by @ Bull of Pius IV, that Carai- nals not in deacon’s orders should not vote in con- clave; but this excluston 1s explained in a later Bull of Gregory XV. to be suvject to and accordingly the Cardinal Arc! afterwards married, voted in the election of Sixtus V. by virtue of a special license irom the late Pope. it waa the express wish of Pius IX. that all the Cardinals should be at least in deacon’s orders, and there are accordingly no members of the present College below that order. Priests and fourteen Cardinal Dea- it must, however, be remembered tiat_ the technical; a Cardinal in priest’s orders, as 13 the Antonellt at this moment, un the of Osime, There have even, been Cardinal Bishops who ‘The fact 1s tnat the to it nave and wear the remain mand. ecclesi- to unmarried. of whom are cannot marry ‘There 18 no ordi. he only requires ’s permission to return to secular life and dress as priests, a8 1735 Don Luis of Bourbon was ry of fourteen. generally on political Several other ‘The real it is conferred on laymen vy a legal Papal aispensatior nauke ‘Albert, Wud ‘The process of creating Cardinals is almost as sin- ‘They pass, an unfledgs First there are the It was Secret Consistury, a3 was Then the to the Sacred College. A custom has the guidance of bis successor, is not bound to carry out his the case of his death, and does Pus IX. has the drs who, ¥ letter to the talan ecciestastic of the present The future Cardinal, after rec v= not only found himself summarily rejected, atest work, published by the ibe pag muc! inal cum ore clauso, invested with ul the solemnly “opened his Eugeplus 1V, declared cardinais in this le of voting in Consistory; but the re- ” inahienable right of the franchise, Seven cardinais “with — closed mouths” voted im the election of Clement X. in 1670, one of them being Clement him- But in recent times this latter distinction has Moment be revived, the On the interdict, or excommunicaion can deprive him of ‘Th sri regulation was lntrodaced by a buil of Clement V. as @ security st the passion or caprice of partisan lll, who degraded the two vardinal aded and imprisoned was actually let out of Gnost at the opening of the Con- A still more notorious case occurred 1740, when Cardinal Coscia, who had of the —Uastie of Pius IX., indeed, af- ive voice” In Papal Peat, under sufficiently It 1s obvions that a rank and utle 80 exclusivel: connected with the Papal Court as distingaishe from the Church must be materially alfected, if not eventually superseded, the temporal soverergnty. at least of the Cardinals nave always been Italians, as was only natural when they formed the senate of an Italian prince and the constitaency that was to elect his successor, and from whom practically — for there 18 no canonical restriction on their choloe— that successor was to be chosen, nothing can be more dureasonable than that & which the chief pastor of the universal Whose ranks he 1s to be elected, any one particular country or ni necessary (hat te sovereign of “Rome should be a Roman, any iocal resyicion y place in choosing the spiritual Father of Cbristen- dou. the whole Sucred Uoliege twice over, ; watel With some curtosity his next batch of Car nals, if the twenty places: can hardly have an opportunity of fliltag more tuaa once awain, vy the loss of For centuries sour-fitths on the contrary, body the ordinary council of church, and trom should represent Af it 18 is to form nationality. 19 singularly out of lived to fill up almost Pius 1X, has aiready ‘We shail now vacant, and which he ro indeed about 1 be suited THE GHOST OF LAFAYETTE A Voice from the Wires Against Churchly Assertions. The Late Arehbishop Spalding and the Living Prof. Morse. Revival of an Old Know Noth- ing Controversy. To THE EpITOR OF THE HERALD:— De gustibus non est disputandum, It is the choice of a strange time, while the remaine of the late Archbishop Spatding were lying in state ‘m Baltimore, and the solemn ceremonial and tmpos- ing pageant were there being enacted, for your Bal- tuwore correspondent to make a personal attack upon me in his account Of the ceremonies, He may have supposed i was dead and would nut see his Misrepresentations, not recognizing that your jour. nal 1s before me every morning. I assure him I am Bull alive, and, altnongh beyond four score, have yet vigor enough to repel any attacks from that quarter. In your jcurnal of the 11th February your correspondent thus discourses, speaking of the jate Archbishop's literary !abors;— His love for history arose to the di; of @ passion, and his wonderful memory made him Ree ponent fa apy contest which necessitated a reference to precedents. He said himself udate or any event once impressed om mind was never erased. His “Kvidences of Cathol- icity’ will forever remain the stable bul of the Church tor whose protection he wrote it, Professor Morse, of telegraphic fame, can give feeling evidence of the rude torce with which his blows fell, an‘ the accuracy with wi which they were directed. About the time that the “Know Nothing pi nto. gather strength the Professor inad- vertently published as a fact that Lafayette had sald to hin that the liberties of this coumiry, if ever overthrown, succumb to the tyrannical encroachments of C.thohe priesta, The Archbishop, at that time Bishop o Louisville, flatly de- nied the assertion, and in the coutroversy that ensued, Pre- fessor Morse being compelled to retract the allegation that he had heard Lafayette make use of the ex) oa, played a much more ate knowledge of French history of the great French patriot tham us discomfited opponent, His manuer partook of the. re gion whence he came, It was surely @ strange time to make such an at- tack upon me, to bring me forward prominently by Dame as a sort of wopny to grace the tomb of the deceased, 4 slain victim of the “rude force” and Wonderful skill in controversy of the late Arch- bishop; but the time chosen and manner are mate ters of taste on wnich I have nothing to say. Bus to denounce me as a “discomfited opponent,” as “compelled to retract,” under the “rade force” of the Archoishop’s biows, &c., 18 a little more than I am willing tamely to submit to, The victory in the controversy is claimed for the Archbishop; before I have done I will show to whom, 1n this controveray, waged 1n the Western papers some eighteen years ago, the palm of victory is due, Your correspond ent in the exercise of his taste bas chosen the ume of his attack; I have therefore no choice tn the ume of my reply. | 1 beg a brief space in your columns to correct his misstatements. THE ORIGIN OF THE CONTROVERSY. In the heated poitical controversies of the times of 1864 and 1855, the motto or saying attributed to Lafayette that ‘af the liberties of the United States are ever destroyed it will be by Catholic priests,” Was producing a disastrous effect in the view ef some parties at the West on the elections at those dates, especially among tne Roman Catholics, Hence it was deemed a vital necessity to devise some mode of destroying the influence of that solema warning of Lafayette; and now, gentle reader, pre- pare yourself for the manner in Which this damag- ing Motto was to be disposed of. An article appeared in the Ciocinnatt Enquirer in 1854, under the title of “Disgraceiul Forgery,” which went the rounds of the newspaper press, and in which it was stated that the motto In question was “dug out”? by some villanous wretch from a letter of General Lafayette written in 1829 (please note the date)to a gentie- man in New York, in which letter the General is ee to say that the tears expressed tne New York gentleman trom perusing that molto were undiess, The pretended letter of Lafayette to this gentlemen in New York 18 short, and is as follows. General Lafayette 1s made to say:—“I cannot but admire your noble senuments of devotion and attachment to your country and tts institutions, But I must be permitted to assure you that the fears, which in your patriotic zeal you Seem to entertain, that ‘if the liberty of the United States is destroyed it will be by Romish priests,’ are certainly without any shadow of foundation what- ever. An inumate acquaintance of more than halt a ceutury with the prominent and influential priests and members of that, Church, both im Europe and America, warrants me in ete g Fan) that you need entertain uo apprehension of danger to your Tepublican institutions irom that quarter.” Ne sooner was this pretended letter of Lutayette read by me than | was thoroughly convinced that it was @ base forgery. Forgery was stamped upon it im almost every line. I therefore called upon the writer through a Poughkeepsie paper to give to tire puadiic the evidence that sucn a letter was ever writ- ‘ven by Lafayette, He replied under the nom de piume of “Old Line.” I leave out of the quotation from “Old Line’ his passionate phraseology, imterlardea as his reply 18 With such terms as “base talsifica- tion,’ “infamous and seli-convicted falsifiers,’” “damning exposure,”’ “‘damnabie cnme,” “damn. able desecration,” ‘‘villanous falsifier,” ‘diabolical Machination,”’ &c., which he very liberally oe to those he charges with ‘digging out” of the letter of 1829 the motto of Lafavetie—“lt the liberty of the United States is destroyed it will be by Catnolie priests.”” Mr. “Old Line’ says:—‘In the excitement consequent on the discovery of the stupendous fraud at the time I prepared the articie ior your ee the proper credit Was inadvertently omitted. ie work was obtained from the private library of @ French gentleman residing near this city, and is entitled ‘4 sur la Republique des Etats Unis d’Amerique, par M. Jeane Bap. Marchand, a 1836, 12 mo., pp. 245,’ being an essay on republicam overnment, with his correspondence, &c., which ¢ published on his return to Paris,” &c, Now here 1s a startling array of professed facts, which, species them to be indeed facts, would without close scrutiny seem to establish the more important and central fact that such a letter had been really written py Latayetie. For here is the title in full of @ work, the name of its author, lace of publication, the size of the book, the num- Ber or pages and the date of publication. Surely this was enough, but, further, a copy of the book was said to be in the library of a gentieman near Cincin- nati, Was not this sufiicient to convince me that the pretended letter of Lafayette was genuine and that he had repudiated the sentiment of the motio attributed to him? Not at all; | was only the more thoroughly conyinced that indeed a “stupendous fraud” had been practised. I cailed for the book froin the French gentteman’s ltbrary to be shown to reliable gentieiuen in Cincinnat!. it was not to ve found, and to this day, after eighteen years have elapsed, has never been seen. I determined to ferret. out the forgery. It 18 not necessary at this ume to give im detail the process by which I dis- covered and pronounced the whole array of pre- tended tacts base forgeries. No such book was ever printed in France, no such letter from Latay- ette in 1829 was ever written, from beginning to end the whole story 18 a gross labrication. THE ORIGIN OF THE LAFAYETTE MOTTO. The venue of the controversy. was now changed to Louisville, the residence of bishop Spalding, who enters the lists in support of Mr. Old Liae’s for- gery, on Lhe plea that he found the letcer in Protes! ant papers, an‘l, therefore, be considered it genuin: and as such he tuserts ‘it in his “Miscellanies,> Basing bis attack on me on this flimsy foundation, he charges me with inventing or circu: te Motto, because in 18361 edited the work of a con. verted Vatnolic priest, entitled, “Confessions of atholic Priest,” on the title paye of which work the motto in question, expressed in these words, in “america liberty can only be destroyed by tae Popish clergy’’—Lafayette. In rebutting this charge of originating the mvtto, I showed not only that the motto was inserted ia the title page of his work by the author himself in 1886 and not by me, put also that this very motto had been in current use for more than ayear at least previously, ft being nsed as the motto of three different journals -in 1885, and thereiore could not have been invented by me in 1836, But this dace of 1835 1s not the earliest use of the motto, & the forged letter of Lafayette of 1829 18 supported as Gone Whence did the pretended author of the etter to Lafayetie from New York, to which it is said Lafayette repiled in 1829, optain the motto? for he quotes it in full and in ¢psissimnis verbdisin ws letter to Lalayette, snowing conclusively that the Motto Was current, at least as far pack as 1829, Is the nailing to the counter of this charge a proof of my being @ ‘discomfited opponent ”” Talso asserted and proved that Lafayette had used nearly the very words of the motto to two Amert- cans, Whose names are given, and-in nis conversa. tion with ine had expressed the same sentiments, I knew him to be hostile to the machinavions of the Popian ciergy, and I quoted trom bis published Speeches passages Which showed his hostlity to them, iu Words by tar more scathing than anything con. tained in the motto. 1 will cite irom many exam. ples which £ quoted but one only at present in proof of what | averred, im his speech in the Cham. bers, September, 1841, lie says:—Behold the success with which We abolished the sysiem of robbery” (in Italy), “which has been resumed with more audacity thanever. Robbery, injact, wil! always subsist ina country governed by priests and aristocrats, ene- mies of every iberal sentiment,” Does the motto in question denounce priests iu stronger term#® One word more. Where is the proof that | was “com. pelled to retract” anything? I retracted nothing, for [nad nothing to retract, If the public desire te see and judge tor themselves the merits of that con- troversy, Lhave had the whole controversy ready for the press for many years, Whenever, trom any circumstances Which might arise, it might be neces- sary to publish it, Lhave no desire to disturb the reugtous or social feels fecliags Of the irtends of the deceased Archbishop, nor vo revive old controversies; but I shail not permit such palpable Inusstatements Of the facts and resuita of that Controversy a8 your correspondent has ipade © pass Without reouke and refutation, even i hue re- sult be the damaging of the trumpnal caplet thrown aq ny expense upon tie bier of the deceased prelate, “Kesvectiully, your obedient v SAMUEL FB, 2 ‘ant, HORSE,