Vincennes Gazette, Volume 5, Number 6, Vincennes, Knox County, 11 July 1835 — Page 1
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cathohcs as u body, it i absurd lo appeal
to those atrocities which throw a gloom over the history of past centuries. The catholics of the present day are no more responsible for those acts, than we nre for the execution of Servettii, or for the decapitation of Charles I; and an inference to
vtilfhe in-ert.-d three times for one dollar, and (heir prejudice, drawn from the acts ol
t went v -five cents for every suh-npient insertion! ! the c hu rch in the dark ages, would be loUir-T advertisements in the same ratio. j j,Ht a3 ,H)f,,,r as (n charge any part of the
nil i f,e insrrteil until toibid, and charged accordingly. Sot h urhrlrs of product! ns are used in a family, will be received ill payment for uh,i ripti "is, at the market price, delivered in Viuc e i in f I g n . iwi ' iwimijii' t l"",:'""T.-"Tt 1'ruui the Western Monthly Mogazine . Tllil CATHOLIC jL r sno.v, ( (Joii tin itti.) There are unhappily persons enough in this world. who have sufficient wisdom speaking af'er the manner ol men to know that wherever there i delusion, then? i money to be made; and there is no hallucination which has furnished a richer harvel than the one now under
American people of the present day with
the intolerance and superstition of the puritan. In both case, the errors were those which were peculiar to the time, rather than la a class of actors. The mi-deeds of the catholic church in the days when it was boUi corrupt and intollerant, should be viewed now only as abstractions, with which living individuals cannot be ruoperly connected, and which can only be reft-1 red to as points of b ist o iv, affording evidence f the depravity ot the human mind, humiliating to all alike, who are lileial enough to lot k at such matters in u calm spirit of philosa-
! phy. i It is with the catholics of our own timet
discus-ion. The printer, the engrav er, , aii,j country i hat w e have to do, and ei-pe
the book peddbr. have thriven upon U. i cially in reference to the liberality of then
civil, political , and religious opinion? -
Ihpir common country, with equal devo tedness, their lives, their fortunes, and and their sacred honor. Nor should it be forgotten, that in the conllict thus peculiarly marked, a catholic king was our ally, when the most powerful- of protestant governments was our enemy. The intelligent reader will draw his own inferences from these (acts. To ur mind they bear incontestable evidence, that whatever Catholicism may once have been, and whatever it now is in countries where it i, the established religion, and stands connected w ith despotic gover nments, the American catholics have become imbubed with the spirit of the atmosphere and the age in which they live, and being men of like passions with ourselves, are equally devoted to the land which cherishes and the laws which protect ihcm. Nor do we believe that thu American catholic church exert any systematic influence, either to keep its people in ignorance, or to in-til into them opinions hostile to fieedora. We are satisfied, as to the first branch of this proposition, by the zeal winch they have shown in the
establishment of seminaries nf learning,' upon the most sound and libera! foundation, lor (he education of their youth ol both sexes, and by the high degree ol refinement and ciudiliou whirl) prevail among the gentlemen of (hat denomination, both lay and clerical. And we state here, upon uttquediuiiable authority, the corroborative, hid, that the discussion be Iween the Kev. Mr. Breckenridge and Mr. Hughes, relative to the fundamental tents ot the. catholic creed, and which the former was acknow ledged , et en by his opponents. lo hav? managed with great address and ability, was republished, iti exttnso, in the catholic paper in the United Slate!, and the lorcible arguments of
Mr. l)i eckenrnige against their bum of
Repeat your arguments twice or threat sea the sun go down in the west. She times over, at least; tor if they are good j watched grew tired with looking. She arguments, then are they worthy ot repe-jharJ just seeu his ravs as thev lingered tuion but if they are good for nothing,!upon the distant hills", still she'w as placed they require to be hammered in, by hard 1 in a more reposing posture when the
and repeated blows, epecrally if they
have no points. In your arguments, be honest, give good measure, be assured more depend
upon the length than the depth of them;
very room where she lay became ihft scene of strange confusion. From the hoarse throat of the drunkard! were poured forth a volley of oaths and imprecations. The room was tilled with stem h
ior an persons can junge ot length, but e his sepulchral breath The care-worn depth is concealed by darkness. The tra -and broken hear ted wife was rudely drivveller does not care how long a road is if;en from the bedside of the dying Ellen it be smooth, and the gooduets ol the sur-j The younger children were huddled
lace is all be requires. together in one corner of the room pale
Never take any notice of your adver
sary1 arguments, lor, i( they are weak
and worthless, let them alone, and they
with tear, and their eyes red with we ping. The senseless, babbling and noiy
violence of the drunkard still continued.
At a peiiod nearly contemporaneous with the settlement of the Uritish colonies in America, the French begun to settle Canada and Louisiana; and if w e compare the early colonists, we (iml decidedly moi (deration and ber.e velenre on the part ol the French catholics than on that of the Fnii-h puiitans. In the treatment of the Indian tubes, the Freuih weie, wiili a few exceptions in lowei Louisiana, just, kind, and cniiiderale, while the English
col.-uistf-, all but the followers of Fenn,
weie decidedly reckless, cruel, and urjuM.
We are not aware that Catholicism pro- belief, placed in the hand of the whole liu red in this instance, any d tier e nee ; the j cat hwlic community . disparity between the policy of the two) The other point is, we think, equally
nation aio; out of the native amiability i clear of diilkulty; catholic gentlemen j these rules, no mortal cundivine which ol (he one, and I be natural r uggednes of I ha ve served utir county in vkimui- ci v d j par ty will gain Ihe victory, and the victothe other ; but it is w orth while to ehow,and rniiit-uy stati-n.s and ha v e not pro- i y once w on, be as-u f ed the Court of Ap
that papacy, it lot more elhcacious than ' ved let faithful than otheM thev are ; peals will never revere it.
Cuke xipon Littleton. IN' FA LI.IIILL lin.Tf FDIES. To cure a Flea Lite. Submit the wound
win never trouble you but it theyarejThe breath of Ellen grew fiinter and strong, take care how you meddle with (shorter. She raised her little skeleton them, lest they turn upon you and defeat hand and beckoned her mailer, who tootl you, in your face and eyes. The old I on the other side of the room, to come la adage is not forgotten, "never raise a Dev-iher. She came. The poor child had onil unless you can lay him again." j 1 v strength to say " Why dont you ask j a' If you can work the facts of the caseo (Je still zihile Fm dying!"' 'l;lie?e were into your own argument, so as to make the lust words of Ellen, but they were in any thing of them, so much .Ifie better; j vain . With the last sigh of her gentle but if you cannot, then make some facts ! spirit there went up fo heaven also the inof your own out of-whole cloth, and ar- human ravings of the drunken father ! jue from them, though this may seem like i Th is story is not a fiction not ft matter putting new wine into old hot ties, still itl(1f imagination but of a real occurreuce.
is better than empty bottles and no wine
When j on come to the solemn and pathetic part of your argument, be sure and give fair anil seasonable notice of it, that eyes, mucles and handkerchiefs, may be prepared to meet the consequences. The exordium should consist of a dissertation upon things in general. This will puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer, and your opponent can never answer it. Hut when you come lo our peroration, Inch is an important afJnir, give it ample form, and, if you cannot compress what you have been urging before, then go all over
the ground again, winch is a kind of pio
Every corner of the union has been visited by tl itinerant vender of books a person -f grave depoi tmeut, professing himself the disinterested messenger of benevolence, entering the dwelling ol the farmwr with demur aspect, and breaking to iiiui in scarcely mnUble whispers, the intelligence, that he brings to bun an invaluable volume, which disdose all the dark and dreadful secrets of the inquisition illustrated with elegant engraving, price one doi! a r vu!y . The faimei hat:s lb cathidjcs, suspects the book ped!lar. and di-!ike to (.art company with the dollar; but the curiosity of (he wife, pei aventure bis own, prevails and as the volume u'Uh'.Iv turns out to be a cheat, he !a!ei out the warth f hi money in heai1 1 1 v hating' both ptietand peildlar. during the remainder of his natural life. Not so hi children. To them the. books
thu actively disseminated through the . (,ilt r j'UI fI)!t ,,( 'faith, w as not less so, in the j Uunid among our writers ui.d are not
land bv a legion ot unprincipled niercena-i forming singe ot our society, so tar as les pure in the tone of d.pir timisl fen jih, are r ank poison. They agonize either influenced the political relation of ' limei.t. i.ur less orthodox in the character over the sufT'erings of the martyrs, and ; the colonists. !uf their political faith, than their content-
itand ayhast as thfiy contemplate the en- The French catholics', at a very early I porar its. In the pai ! contest w bich have ; ed part to the tee(h of a bed bug, which gmr s of torture, the thumb screw s, the ; pi jod, commenced a sv etem of mission ; involved dogmns more or le-n ii jble , we ; will aggravate the svmjdoms; so, that the gridirons, the pinchers a tut the red hot po- ; ,,r the con v e rsion of the Indians nnd j hav e in no ch seen l ho inline nee of : hat flea- bi te will be no luiuger tell.
ker, which uecoraie inese neiectanie were remarkably successful in gaining i at ueu cnuich concent ruled upon !) or j To cure the Iiheumalitm Drink win
convert and oncili.itinjr the c.oi.tidcnf e ' lb othr ue ; uoi b;.?c rvo tl. siihle(t ,,,, :,.ji v,iril,ir ... i,;-,!, i;ril ut
and allections of the tribes While th Fe- evidence of any cunceulrated action on , iir;n,r th o.nt un(( , it
Lowell Fltdgt. From the Courier and Inquirer. Tit I A L FOIt SLAM)i:H. CIRCUIT COURT.-Hcfora Judge .Edwarpi Sarah Maria ll'illiams vs. Jonathan Hill. This was an action brought by the plaintiff Miis Williams, of Hudson, N. V. to recover damages of the defendant, Mr. Hill, Post-nater of Geneva, for certain slanderous expressions alleged lo have been used by the said Hill concern, mg the plaintiff. nr ii- .1 yf
juiss v uiiarns, the piainiiii, is a very
lessional rhetorical cross ploughing, youc! i ,,i,m!some S60'1 ,0,oki"& f'nIe alout
in rough ground.
it ihe counsel on both sides w ill observe
volnuifd; no 1 they grow up with inveterate prejudices, unjust to ethe rs and injurious to themselves. Even the affair to which we have alluded, as having been supposed to have taken place in Cincinnati, ha been the means ol" turning an honest penny for an ingenious artist in New York, who has, executed an engravirg representing that persecuted jouog gentleman. Alexander Duncan, in the hands of a ci'h'lir. mob. In the foreground stand the suffering martyr, clingniir for conscience sake, rime to bis hat,
which a furious, two-h.ted Irish catholic, is endeavoring to force from his head a priest holds up the cros,and an armed mob nre rushiKg upon the devoted heretic while a gallows in ihe back ground shows the fate that awaited the unfortunate Alexander Duncan, had he not been rescued by the civil authoiity from the Lands of the infuriated papists! There i another description of opposition against the catholic, which is laudable, and which we should be the lat, either to condemn or to 1 real with levitv the
quods and other northern tribe were he- the pari of the priests, ti arrange an or
cotntng exterminated, or sold into slavery, the more fortunate savage of the Mississippi was listening to the pious counsels ot the catholic misionarv. This is another
ganizatiou for political action, or to keep up the party discipline. Aid none "-bo are familiar with the workings ol ti man mind, and are acquaintuci with the
(hat when ibis lust has once placed its screws upon you, you will not feel the r heumadim.
L22 years of age, and was a member of she Methodist Congregation at Hudson, at the time that the slander in question, was first promulgated by the defendant ; she was also class teacher in the Methodist connection, and at the latter peiico, we believe, she was employed as a governess in this city, in Dr. Badeau'a family. The defendant, Mr. Hill, (bi above
jstated) is the Postmaster at Geneva; si
man reputed tote worth 20,()U0, Br,d n leader of a rthgious society, (we Leliev e ihe Methodirt) io the towo where he re sides; having also, as was stated, a chapel upon his own premises. The. trial occupied nearly the whole of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday last, and the substance of the slanderous ex-
presfioEj, alleged to have been used
fact, which deser es to be i emember ed, ; unit titudinou and perplexing difficulties and which should be weighed in the ex-jwhich interfere with the tegular action amination ef the testimony. It show 8 of a parly especially of a party thinly that the catholic atu-ctito for cruelty isUcatlered over a country to wide as ours
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not quite 6U keen as is usually imagined, that !hav exercised, of choice an t-xpan-
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sive benevolence, at a period when pro lestants, similarly situated, were bloodthirsty and rapacious. Advancing a little further in point of time, we find a number of colonies ad
vancing rapidly towards the prosperity
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tached, each making Us own municipal laws, and there being in each a predominance of the influence of one religious denomination. We might therefore expect the political bias of each sect car-
lawful war ot principle, waged against j ried out into practice, and it is curious their tenets, or their practice, and con- to examine how far such was the fact.
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can nelieve inai a cunning pnesinoou would tiffer their neonle to become ac-
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customed to a separate and independent certainly stretch your teaophaguf o that action, and to habits of liberal thought, it !ll,e potato will go lionu; or, it will so agthey possessed ti e power, and had con. 'gravate the symptoms, that you will no ceived the plan, of eventually an angmg linger trouble yourself about the potato, over them a regular siheme of party sub-! To get a gram oj said out of $ our eye nrrt,ni.,,n lli.iahnvoi.il h n mi. ra rrt-d'ut in a I'elbU. The reason of cure is
on our Atlantic sea board. In point of j ly comprehend the Hmarmg tatuity ollhal j v" civil Government they were somewhat da-1 intellect, which can inagmgc lhat such at To get a Jly eit of your ear. Put ia a
To cure the Tooth-ache. Get ycurnr !l j 'v the defendant, were that the plaintiff afflicted with the tic tioloreux, and -.i-.ei. ' b-?tn unchaste and unladylike in you may laugh at the tooth-at he, t et '-id- He;;ortmeut had been guilty of many though you si. .ild lifia out of the w so: -jy ; ? ' ' acts of i. propriety and indelicacy, side of y cur mouth. ! id among others had staid ail night in
To cure svtVocaiw;: from vjcallo-ssinz aiUe n0,,ie min fl,r JJalJ between whom
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hkl aw a riiirin.kii.--l hi wi "nu we.scii nu iiiiiii luicicourse nan
pdan could be seiiously attempted in the hoinet
bosom of a country like ours, at the bidding j f0 get yourself out of a stnali scrape.
ot toieign potentates iios.ne to nueny ; .Qet mto u bigger one
lhat the indigent catholic foreigners, who
ducted according to the established usages of courtesy, and christian foibearance. Those who believe this form of belief to be unscr iptural, to be pernicious in its tendencies, to be inefficient in its code of moralit v. or to be unsafe as a guide lo sal
vation, have an undoubted right to erect a j whole, and are now the boast and piide ofl
barrier of moral antagonism against it, j our n;.t ion The impartial recoid of his and to oppose it with all the weapons j tory affords on thi subject a proof alike which may be used consistently with truth ; honorable (o nil. but which rebukes alike and fairness. To combat er ror i u duty , t,. e. ti nal or sectarian vanity of each, incumbent on evpry man whose sphere of Vv England was settled by E' glish pu action i such ns to gi ve him s m ay o vei thjni;ins, l'eiv York by Dutch protectants, minds of oilier; but it is not allowable to; pemv 1 vania ty (juakers, Maryland iy nnnose even en or, bv hi tifice or injustice, catholics, Virginia by the episcopalian ad-
bv violating priv ate ngnt, or uistui oing ei.ts oi i lie siua i auu oouui vai ohu.i the public peace. i by a mingled population of roundheads and It will be perceived that in all wo h-.ve ' ravelierei In-m England, and of French . . i i .i... .,...,. 1 i ... , 1 1. t.r.t. iiinufi Cum.
we Slave imi idip lieu nit- uor tioh, . i.ijijiienui!- ci ioc uic munvj i.-u,.
datiousof civil and political liberty were laid timultaneouslv in them all, and
ha v e lied the lash of ep pi est ion, and come among us breathing hot and bitter curses against the despotic of the old world, are destined to become, the willing instruments in establishing the same pollutions in the new! We can imagine no motive which could induce Ihe pope to employ his clergy in sa hopeless a ta-k. unless K
And so in any caee of pain or difficulty,
taken place. It was also stated that Miss Williams had, by Mr. Hill's slander, been expelUd from participating in the fellowship and communion with the members of tl e ehurch to which she then belonged", and
by whom she had, up to the time that Ihe slanderous aspersions were circulated, been regarded es an examplary female; and that she had also been in many otbi r respects the subject of considerable degradation and very unpleasant treatment
from individuals who implicitly Leliev e
lake such measures as will produce an ag- in the unfounded statements which Mr
gravution of the cae, and the cure is! Hill had caused to be circulated
It is the more curious, because the writers and orators of one branch of this
family of republics, are in the habit of
attributing to their own fathers, the principles of religious and political toleration,
which became established throughout trie) were lhat which constrained I tie wizzard
Michael Scott, lo engage one ot Ins sub ordinate spirits in the endless and fruitless work of making ropes of sea saud the want of other emp'oim- i i To be coac'udid i-erl n-eefc.
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whether the catholic are, in fact theologically, or politically in error. We have not the slightest partiality for their form of belief, their mode of worship, or the practical operation of their system. We like our own faith and practice better. But these questions are not material to Ihe iee now under discusinn . llovever ,uomr they may be, they have a right to
be consideied as being conscientiously wrong, and to be treated with kindness. We. come, then to the point. and inquire, is there any part of the present or past conduct of the cathrdics, which would authorise us to thrust them out of the pale ,f chiistian charity, and carry on a on trovers)' w ilhthem on pi inciple dilTei eni r..m (hose which regulate the intercourse
of their christian sects. We have t-bow n that much of the prejudice against them had its origin in histoiical reminiscences, partiaUv and injudiciously preserved r,.uri of it mere fanaticism a greal leal is heer pretence got up ou specula
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the same spirit oi resistance animated each community, when the oppressions ol ihe mother country became intolerable Ueligiuus intolerance prevailed in early iifT.n nnlv in the eastern colonies, but
the witchcraft superstitnion , though most strongly developed there, pervaded some other poitions of the new settlements We shall not amplify our remarks on this topic; it is enough to say, that if the love of monarchy was a component principle ol the catholic faith, it was not developed
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lit OUT CUlllllI Jf "lit" '" j.(Juiiu,M,j was offered for its exercise; and that in the "lorious stiuggle for libeity for civil
and religion emancipation when our
fathers Hrrayed themselves in defence ( f the sacred principles involving the
whole broad ground of contest betwen liberty rid despotism, the catholic and the
Protestant stood side by side on the battle
Geld, audio the council, and pledged to
From ihe (jharlHINT'S TO In the fil t plai it lor granted th.
one, and that the c ; , ? ' ( :. v ,s of terminal to cheat yotii -u! o s i--itt t his conviction . chen-br i through thick and thm, it ."ill animate you to huld on and hdd OUt.
In the next place, you Diut never ad
completed. The defence set up was that, Mr. Hill
- i j whs not the originator of the slander in AFFECTIMI INCIDENT. question; that he had merely repeated it Ellen was a lovely girl of fourteen, the to Miss Williams' friend as a statement eldest aud the favorite of a once happy j that had been told him; and lhat his only family. When the school hours were over: motire for repeating it was , io induce the she would hasten home and sit with herjfiiends of Miss W. to take the necesary needle work by her mother, or her tenderteps to contradict and put a stop to th little brother, yet io his cradle, or do!lander. Witnesses were called to show whatever else was required of her i0 that his character was highly respectable, kindly, so uncomplainingly, that her pre-; and l'jat lie wa of &00rJ t&dnj in Gesence in the family was like an angel's neva; that his name anJ fame were above visit. When she was about the house in reproach, and that be was incapable of rJu jfiiiit unit Mtiisvf iniktiivr Kur m r th.i wantonly altemntinsr to slander or de-
lei's blow of care would olten be lighted ! troy a virtuous (emale s reputation. u!jejup with hope ond joy. She would some-' The trial commenced at 1 1 o'clock on
liuaes sit and gaze fondly upon her daugh-, 1 uestiay morning, ami mo juuge 9 cnaig ter alter having listened lo the sweet' as given late on Thursday evening, tones of her voice, while she narrated! The jury brought a sealed verdict into some little occurrence, some passing event, ! lh cour t yesterday morning, in which and as bhe looked upon her in the loveh- they fe-und for the plaintiff, dimages nets of her young and uneuibitlered exis- $2000, aud coU teuce, she lelt alt the affection of a mater- "l"u '' nal heart. Aud yet her eye grew dim Hams. A writer in the American Fa r
mit a fact or principle, unless you want it
for your ow n use; for il you should, you I with the rising tear, as she thought of the 'me r recommends to pack hams, after they
might cut oil a limb you may wish tolfuture; as she more lhan anticipated the j have been smoken. in pounueu cnarcoai.
woes wnicn migm, in coming years, ue;u Keeps out me uiep, aim nrim mi (be portion of her beloved child. But'fatid smell and unpleasant taste loo often' only a short time from the period of ' found io hams exposed for sale, which I um speaking, a change came over J V- Farmer. the spirit of the mother: for a change had j To keep the hams clear of the coal, passed upon the lovely daughter. Ellen they should be wrapped in cleth or paper
became pensive and languid. Her eyesibefore being packed J
stand upon, or you may cut off your own
retreat at least, it is a kind ot confession that you have no !att or principle of ah r r ur fi
Whenever vou are about to draw a con
clusion, if the facts will nut justify it, why-
then draw so much the harder conclu l- . - l. .1 a
sions were mane io vr. uiu, uu n u
not. very safe for a young speaker to trust
them to follow; lor if he should, they might not come within a gun shot of him or his premises. Acquire the habit of making round asertions, for they are much better than sat ones. Many a coward has avoided a duel and passed for a man of courage, by dashing and bursting.
It is said to be a difficult thing for
were sunken her cheek was pale her form emaciated, and she lav languishing
upon her couch, over which her mother shad to climb up a tree tail foemast.
watched by night and by day, till the rr evening to which 1 refer. It wus the! The people ofGreat Britain drink over hour of twilight. !200,000,OUO woithof beer annually. The streets were getting still. All was) - huhed around the dwelling of where A Fact worthy if notice The fte lay the wasted form of Ellen. She had!of every finished Railroad il, at thia li;i. been raised up iu her bd that iha might!Tove par.