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U1II1ELH5III UF UI
VOLUME II.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 28, 1855,
NUMBER 13
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
BY JOHN H. CHRISTY,
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♦*, All work entrusted to his care faithfully, correctly
and punctually executed, at prises eorrospond-
janlS ingwiththehardnessottbetimes. tf
C. E. LOMBARD,
DENTIST,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
Roomsnver the Store of Wilson & Veal. Jan3
TITNER & ENGLAND,
Wholesale A Retail Dealers! n
Groceries, Dry Goods,
HARDWARE, SHOES AND BOOTS,
April 6 Athens, Ga.
MOORE & CARLTON,
DEALERS IN-
SILK, FANCY AND STAPLE GOODS,
HARDWARE ASD CROCKERY.
April No. 3, Granite How, Athens, Go.
LUCAS & BILLUPS,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES, HARDWARE, Ac: Ac.
No. 2, Bror.tl Street. Athens.
WILLIAM G. DELONY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
OiBce over the stare si Win M. Morton h Son
Will attend promptly to all business entrust
cd to his care. Athens, April C
P.
C. LANGSTON,
Attorney at Law,
CARNF.Syn.LE, GA.
Col. B-F.lfardeinnn, Lexington
Samuel Freeman, Esq. Kewnan
Gabriel Nash, Esq. Damelsville
Col. H. Halsey, Atnericus.
P. A. SUMMEY & BROTHER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Staple Goods, Hardware, Crockery,
AND ALL KINDS OF GROCERIES,
Corner of Wall and Broad streets, Athens
WILLIAM N. WHITE,
WUOLRSALE AXD RETAIL
BOOKSELLER AND STATIONED,
And Nctttyaptr and Magmiat Agent.
DEALER IX
MUSIC and MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
LAMPS, FINE CUTLERV, FANCY GOODS, AC.
No. 2, College Avenue, Newton limine, Athens, fla
sign of •• White’s University Hook Store.”
Orders promptly filled iit Augusta rates.
T. BISIIOP & SON,
Wholesale and Retail Grocers,
April 6 No. 1, Broad street, Athens.
JAMES M. ROYAL,
H ARSBSSM AKER,
H AS removed his shop to Mitchell’s old
Taveru, one door east of Grady A Nich
oisou’s—where he keeps always on hand t
geuerul assortment of articles inbisliuc, and
is always ready to fill orders in the best sty]
Jan 26 tf
LOOK HERE!
T HE undersigned have on hand a general
assortment of
STAPLE DRY GOODS
GROCERIES AND HARDWARE.
Which they will sell low for cash or barter
Call and examine.
April 13 P. A. SUMMEY & BOO.
$150 to $200 per Month!!
I WILL send instructions by which any
person can make from $150 to $200 per
month, without traveling or peddling, and
with the smallest amount of capital. This is
no receipt of auy kind whatever. 1 will for
ward the above instructions and all the arts
and receipts of value, ns advertised in the
different papers of the United States, free of
postage, to any person sending me the small
sum of one dollar, post paid.
E.S. SHIPLEY, Kingston,
Ross Count/, Ohio.
political.
PERRY DAVIS’
vegetable
FAIN KILLER,
STILL TRIUMPHANT,
A ND after a thorough trial by innumerable
living witnesses, has proved itself to be
THE MEDICINE OF THE AGE
Although there have been many medicinal
preparations brought before the public since
the first introduction < f Perry Davis’Vegeta
ble Pain Killer, aud large amounts expended
in their introduction, the Pain Killer has
continued to steadily advance in the estima
tion of the world as the best Futnily Medi
cine ever introduced. As an internal and
external remedy it is truly a source of
JOY TO THE WORLD.
One positive proof of its efficacy is, that
the sales have constantly increased, and
wholly upon its own merits, as the proprie
tors hove not resorted to advertising to gain
for it the rank it now holds among the great
number of preparations of the present time. 1S
The effect of the Pain Killer upon the pa
tient, when taken iutcrnnlly in cases of
Colds, Cough, Bowel Complaints, Cholera,
Dyssentcry and other affections of the sys
tem, has been truly wonderful, and has won
for it a name ninotig medicinal preparations
that can never be forgotten. Its success in
removing pain, as an external remedy, in
cases of burns, bruises, sores, sprains, cuts,
sting of insects and other causes of suffering,
has secured for it such a host of testimony,
as an almost infallible remedy, that it will
be handed down to posterity as ouo of the
greatest medical discoveries of the nine
teenth century. The magical effects of the
Pain Killer when takenor used according to
directions, are certain. You have only to be
sure that yon buy the genuine article and
adhere to the directions in its use, and you
will admit its wonderful medicinal proper
ties. . ,
The genuine Perry Davis’ Pain Killer is
now put up in panel bottles, with the words
Davis’ Vegetable Pain Killer blown in the
glass; and with two steel engraved labels
on each bottle—one an excellent likeness of
Perry Davis, the Original inventor of the
medicine, the o'lu r a steel engraved note of
hand—none others can txftwtiud upon as ge
nuine. Price of bottles 12 1-2 cents, 25cents,
50 cents and $1, respectively.
PERRY DAVJS & SON, Proprietors,
No. 74 High st., Providence, R I.
The Pain Killer is s Id by C. Wjfc H. R. J.
Lox<;*, and Smith «i Hill, Athens.
Beware ofc« untcrfeits put up in the
old style. May 3.
From the Louisville Courier.
PROFESSOR MORSE’S REPLY
TO BISHOP SPALDING.
Poughkeepsie, (N. Y.) May 2, 1855,
“ IF ever the liberties of the United
States are destroyed they will be by the
Romish Priests.” Lafayette.
To Bishop M. J. Spalding—Sir :
Your remarks in the Courier of April
14th have been sent to me. You will
excuse the delay and my apparent neg
lect m noticing them, which, however,
will be of no damage to the cause of
truth, since, in the interim, 1 have nei
ther been unmindful of you nor remits,
nor unsuccessful in my search for the
means of gratifying your important in
quiries. In common with the rest of
the intelligent public, whose object is
to arrive at the knowledge of an historic
It makes the French patriot say, in
fact, directly the opposite of what he
did say ! Here is the extract from his
letter to the Protestant gentleman in
New York, written from Paris, in 1820,
shortly after his return from his visit to
the United States, which letter no doubt
gave occasion for concocting'the calum
ny :
“ The friendly expressions of regard
for my health and happiness conveyed
in your kind letter to me of the 15th ult.
1 beg you to be assured, are grateful to
my feelings ,* and 1 shall cherish the re
collection of the many services and
kindnesses towards me, on the part of
both yourself and lady, while I was
your guest in America, as among the
most pleasing reminis.cences connected
with my late visit to the United States.
* * * I cannot but admire your
noble sentiments of devotion and attach
ment to your country and institutions.
But I must be permitted to assure you
truth, I am under great obligations to .
you, sir, for bringing this subject so pro-1 t ‘ ie fears which, in your patriotic
minently and distinctly before the Ame- zeal, you seem to entertain, that if ever
riean people. the “ bert JJ °J the United States is destroy-
The motto of Lafayette, which stands e ^> it will be by the Itomisli priests, are
the head of this letter, has been quot-1 whainly without any shadow of founda-
ed to them for some twenty years with- * lon whatever. An intimate acquain-
out its authenticity having been ques- H ance of more than half a century with
tioned, unless, indeed, your assertion be the prominent and influential priests
correct that “ some time ago,” (which and members of that church, both m
a somewhat indefinite date,), it was England and America, warrants me in
called in question by the Freeman’s assuung you that you need entertain no
Journal. If so, it has never till now apprehension of danger to your repuhli-
been brought to iny knowledge, and is I can institutions from that quarter.”
now confined solely ta your assertion of * ou / ,ere > sir ' uot raere ly deny that
the fact. Whatever may be the nature General Lafayette ever uttered such a
of that notice in the Freeman’s Journal j sentiment, but, as I have said, you as-
a matter, at present, of very little con- ser * *bat 1C wro ^ e a letter, which letter
sequence, since your denial of the au- y° u . H uote > a letter in which this very
thenticity of the motto has been distinct- sentiment and motto are recorded, and
ly brought to my knowledge, and I can recorded for the express purpose of re
settle the question with you, once for pudiating them. This, sir, you charge
all, and forever. upon Lafayette. You quote that letter
My letter from Poughkeepsie of March 03 genuine; you rely upon it as genuine;
19th, was not, and could not be, the Y°y l, int "°* the slightest peradventure
intended answer to your “ appeal,” pub- °l* ** s spuriousness; you even persist in
lished in Louisville, March 19th. Still, adopting it without doubt; you deliber-
for reasons best known to yourself, you ] ately announce that you " have publish-
choose to assume it to be my reply to ed a a second edition of your Miscel-
ycur appeal. The public will see, if-jlauea.” and this after being distinctly
you cannot, that a letter of 19«h March, apprized that its authenticity is more
written and mailed four days distant than doubted ; even when the charge of
from Louisville, could not he a consc- forgery is made against it from many
quent of an article published in Louis- respectable quarters. On the strength
ville on the self-same day, whatever may °f *bat l etter alone, you affirm that La-
have been the accidental order of its fayette actually said “ directly the op-
publication. They will also duly appre- P os ’ te °* what he did say.” You pro-
ciate this artifice by which you assume a bounce the motto a “ calumny and
triumph from my presumed default. 1 y°. u profess to have “ no doubt” that
can, however, well afford to you this brief *bis letter *• gave occasion for concoct-
season of self-gratulation, of which the * n g *bat * s > °f inventing the motto.
apparent success of this Jesuitic ruse, It is not necessary, sir, to charge up-
enables you to avail yourself. on you the forgery of that spurious letter.
My own self-respect, os well ns the It is sufficient for me that you have en-
respect due to the shrewd and reflect- dorsed the counterfeit as an historical
ing minds by which you are surrounded, fact, and passed it off upon the commu-
will restrain me from any mere personal nity as genuine. You have made your
retort, which the indecent personalities I self particeps criminis, % by giving it jour
in which you have indulged, would imprimatur, and this, after a warning
seem to provoke. A far more important that should have induced caution, that
question than the comparative skill in the letter was more than suspicious,
personal disparagement is involved in You would evade the responsibility of
this discussion. such an act, because, forsooth, you could
The question whether the illustrious cite a protestant source for that letter,
companion of Washington, the consistent, This is a subterfuge too shallow to pro
long tried, ever vigilant friend of the re- tect you. I shall follow you into your
1 made to the honorable Court of Ordinary P ub,ican liberties of the United States, I r’treat for your “ Protestant authority
of Walton county, for leave to sell the lands ever g ave tb > s significant, faithful, just, —You have not quoted that letter from
belonging to the estate of .Elisha Casey, de- and most important warning to the | the editorial columns of a Protestant pa-
TAKE NOTICE
A CCOUNTS for the last quarter are now
due, and payment thereof required. My
terms are cash, or three months.
Ap5 WM. N. WHITE.
Notice.
rpW O months after dute. application
April 12.
n. H. CAMP Adm’r.
SPRING
TS upon us in all its glory, and summer is
X is fast advancing. With these seasons also
come diseases peculiar to them, in the form of
Eruptions, Pimples. Blotches, and worst of
all, King-Worm. The best remedy for such,
andcertaiuly the most agreeable, is “ Mar
shall’s Ring-worm and Tetter Lotion.” It will
.cert tinly cure, and quickly—it does notstain
the skin, aud is an agreeable perfume. For
sale by the Druggists generally, and by
W. H. <fc J. TURPIN,
Dealers iu pure Family Medicines,
JunelS Broad street, Augusta, Ga.
NEW GOODS.
1 H A Y E just received a large stock of choice
Family Groceries, and a general assort
ment of Crockery, which I will sell for cash
or prompt payment at the end of each quar
ter. D. N. JUDSON.
Jan. 18,
M855.
Coach-Making and Repairing.
JAMES bTbURPEE,
A T the old stand recently occupied by K. S.
Scltevetiell, offers for sale a lot of superi
or articles of his owq manufacture, at redu
ced prices—consisting oi
Carriages, Buggies, &c.
Orders for anything in hislinetiiunkfnlly
received and promptly executed.
^iS'Ropairing done al short uutice aud on
reasonable u-rnts.
W OLF’S Aromatic Schiedam Schnapps.
superlative tonic dinretic anti dyspep
tic and invigorating cordial, just received
and for sale by
Apl 19, D. N. JUDSON.
N EW CROP N. C. Surups, very choice,
just received by
Apl. 19. T. BISHOP a son*.
CHEESE! CHEESE!
L choice lot, at 16 cents, just received at
~ “ i. m. :
Dec7
KENNEY’S.
NOTICE.
T 1JB subscribers arc prepared to fill order*
for all kinds of
Spokes fop Carriages and Wagons,
Also, at the same establishment wo mauufac
tute nil kinds of
BOBBINS,
commonly used iq our eottun factories. AH
done ns g<iod and cheap as can be had from
/he North, Addrrss,
Pt A..SUMMEY & RKQ. Allien*,Ga.
who will attend to all orders, and the ship-
ping of the same. March, 1854.
O /ASacks Flour for sale by
o\J r “
April SOtli C.gAny itNtcjj into
Blank Declarations,
O F both forms, (long and short) together
with the process attached—just printed
and for sale at this OffiOc. Also, various
other Blanks.
HJ* Any Blanks not on hand-ns, indeed
almost any kind of job printing—can be fur
nislied on a few hours’ notice
P RESERVES—Ginger and Chow-chow
Preserves, and all sorts of PICKLES,for
sale by P. A SUMMEY & BRO.
Bacon ! Bacon !!
QA Ann LBS. The finest lot ever of-
OVJ UUU fered in ibis market, for sale
low by P. A. SUMMEY & BRO.
il.
Apl. 13.
E XTRA Fine French Calf Skins, just re
ccived aud for sale, low, by T. Bishop *
Son. ' March 22.
W OODRUFF’S Dyscuterry Cord ill. Bran
dreth’s Fills, and Moffat’s Life Pills
and P omix Bitters, arc still kept for sale at
the old stand of J. S. Peterson, corner
Broad street and College Avenue, by
Mayl7 WM. N. WHITE.
American people,is the point in dispute, per, but from one who conceals himself
After twenty years circulation of this under the mask of “ Old Line.” writ-
pregnant warning, no one, to my knowl- i„g in a Protestant paper, I hazard
edge, in all that time presuming to call little in saying he is no Protestant. Are
it in question, after being familiarly you sure, sir, he is not a Jesuit, who has
quoted in books and pamphlets, and taken advantage of an election excite-
placed in capitals ns the perpetual mot- ment to abuse the confidence of a Pro
to of some journals, your sir, at this testant editor, the more easily to deceive
late day have ventured to deny its nu- l a Protestant public ? Can the public be
thenticity. fully assured, when they know the prin-
In your denial you have chosen to c i p i cs 0 f allowed equivocation and per-
assail my testimony in its favor, to cast jury on which your entire corporation
a suspicion on my veracity, and unequi- known and proved to be based, and
vocally to pronounce my statement ttn- (be systematized fraud and falsehood au~
rcliable. I am, therefore, no volunteer thorized by it, that there has not been a
in this contest, but am called out by you convenient collusion between you, sir,
to defend my position against your at- and this same Mr. “ Old Line ?” Acts
tacks. I do not complain of this, sir j Q f this complexion, in the annals of your
I most cheerfully accept your challenge, corporation, are not so uncommon as to
I have for more than twenty years been make it impossible. May he not be a Je-
personally knowing to the fact that the suit? Listen to his style of defence oftlus
sentiments of the motto are the senti- apocryphal letter, alter being called up*
ments of Lafayette, and when I first met on to produce his authority for that let-
witli it in print,I could vouch for its truth, ter ; let him give it in his own style, (for
because it perfectly embodies the senti- even he has an authority to fall back up-
ments of the illustrious man, as often ex- on, such as it is.) He had been gently
pressed to me. told that his letter had the su-picious
And pray, sir, what is your authority look of forgery about it. He replies
(or denying the authenticity of the motto? ,« But cven upon the supposition that
That strict justice may be done you, I th e b ,* e 0 f proving the letter
quote your remarks from your pamphlet wh ( ch authority attributes to Lafay-
called «• Intolerant Spirit of the Times.” eUe to a f J y> (bu t which is a
At page 3 i, you say : moral impossibility,) and that no falsi-
‘‘To a ^’ a £ e suspicion against the Ca- f lcation been perpetrated ; still,,/
holic priesthood, the public prints have t} are at lU samc \ imc unaMe to show
long been circulating among the people * ine whmcc theJ obtainedit,
the extraordinary assertion that Lafay- J d ^ find it in the writings
ette warned American patriots against Qf Laf tte< „ wi „ the n, in that case,
priestly influence in the following lan-l Iy ,J, e acqu f Ued thcms elves of the
EU Jff>cr a. Hbe, t y of OalHji
States is destroyed it will be by Romish V-
. ,, \jorgcry.
pri r??. r . t I. 1 1 • “ In the excitement consequent upon
The fact of such a declaration coming tfa d i scover y Q f t j,e stupendous fraud,
from one »ho was „ Cu boho bimself, .1 , j red ', he ar , iole for
he was anything, bears the stamp ofim- * 1 „„jj # •
probability, if not of downright absurdi- P° ur P res ^J 10 P. r ” p , >
tv on its very face • vet it tossed cur- verten »ently omitted 1 he work was
ty on us very lace, yet u pastel cur bt j d f th private Rbrary of a
rent for iruthniidwa., we.tank gener. gentlemen residing near this
ally helmed by the messes, who «« city a „ A entitled Esstrf .<£•/<. Jtenni
prepared to devour any absurdity, pro- |
vided it militate against Catholics ! Now
what will the impartial public think,
when it is ascertained [that this charge,
like most others, which have been late
ly circulated in the country to our dis
advantage, is not only utterly groundless,
but is directly the reverse of the truth!
lique drs Elat* Unis iV Amcrique, par
M. Jeane Bap. Marchande, a Paris,
1835, I2nio., pp» 245* being an essay
on republican government, with his cor
respondence, &c.„ which lie published
* It will be scon tba't no publisher is ve»:
turned to be named.
on his return to Paris, for the benefit c f
his friends, the Liberals and Republic
cans of France. The work, I presume,
has never been translated and published
in this country, for the reason that it
does not possess sufficient merit to
justify it.
“ The author was a private, retired
gentleman, and lived some years in
New York city, but was not, perhaps,
very generally known as an author in
the literary circles of either this country
or of Europe. The significant fact
that the work is rare may, in all proba
bility, have been the very circumstances
which first suggested the idea of per
petrating the falsification ; for if the
sentence had occurred in the published
writings of Lafayette, now in general
circulation in this country, it i& reasona
ble to be presumed that the certainty
of the speedy detection of such unhal
lowed and damnable desecration of the
fair fame and sacred reputation of the
name and memory of the honored dead
would have deterred the base and villain
ous falsifier from his diabolical machina
tion, and the impartial historian would
have been spared the painful and hu
miliating necessity of handing down to
posterity the record of a species of politi
cal perfidy and moral turpitude in the
nineteenth century, the development of
which exceeds in enormity the infamous
pious frauds.forgeries, falsifications, and
interpolations which disgraced the dark
ages. Old Line.”
The italics are his, and I have omit
ted his declamatory preamble swollen
with the verbiage of the same bombastic
and scurrilous phraseology, a phrase
ology which a disturbed conscience
would be apt to select to vent in charac
teristic epithets, the torment of persist
ent guilr. Its dialect betrays the Jesuit
in every line as sure as the brogue be
trays a native of the Emerald Isle.
Now, sir, either your judgment or
your honesty suffers from your uphold
ing of this double attempt to deceive
the public—the attempt to palm off upon
an intelligent community such a misera
ble apology of an authority for the sup
port of anything, and the attempt to
practise upon the credulity of the pub
lic with such a letter of Lafayette. Your
judgment suffers if you did not.suspect
the fabrication, your honesty if you
did.
You are near the source whence y»>u
say you have derived your facts. A
single day would suffice to verify “ the
book in the library of the French gen
tleman residing near Cincinnati,” in
which the pretended letter is said to he
recorded. You have been called on for
months to produce that book, and the
call has been in vain. And, let me
say, sir, it is likely to be in vain, since
no such book can be found in Paris !
nor is there uny evidence that such a
hook was ever published there ; on the
contrary the evidence amounts almost
to certainty that no such work is in ex
istence, and was never published.
Presuming, sir, from my knowledge
derived from years of careful study and
observation of the governing principles
of your clerical corporation, (not from a
bigoted prejudice against the Catholic
Church, as you have charged,) I had
good reason to suspect that a pious fraud
was in process of being perpetrated by
you and your accomplices upon the
American public. To what extent you
would presume to think yourself safe
in concocting and sustaining it, in the
enlightened community which surrounds
you, I did not know. I only knew you
had gone to the length of quoting
forged letter.
For myself I needed no other evi
dence of its forgery than the letter itself
affords as quoted by you, especially as
it is made manifest in the light of my
own personal intercourse with General
Lafayette. My first expectation, indeed,
was that I should actually find such a
letter as you quote in the alleged book,
and in such connexion as would afford
some clue to the culprit, and so I sent
to Paris to procure the work. To my
surprise, I learned from my correspond
ent that the most eminent bibliopolists
of Paris after diligent search, know of
no such work, and they write me with
one accord that “ no such work is to be
found in Paris /” I could hardly bring
myself to believe, notwithstanding the
well known and avowed principles of
your corporation warranted the extrem
cst distrust, that the bold fraud had ex
tended not only to the forgery of a let
ter of Lafayette, but to tht forgery of a
false title to a book, a false author,
false place of publication, a false date,
afalse size, a false number of pages
and in connexion with these, a purely
fictitious account of the imaginary au
thor, and all the other fabulous circum
stances of its ideal existence! But to
this extent, in the present state of the
research, this p’.ous fraud seems already
to have reached.
Since writing to Paris, I find that
was not necessary for me to have written
there, in order to ascertain whether such
a work had been published even in any
part of France. In the Astor Library
of New York, is the •* Bibliographic dc
la France, ou Journal General de Vim
primerie, et dc la Libraire,'’ which is
weekly periodical, containing a com
plete catalogue of all the works publish
ed in Paris, or in the departments, ar
ranged in three tables—1st, an alpha
betical table of the works; 2d, an alpha
helical table of the authors, aud, 3d,
systematic table of the works.
This catalogue is so comprehtnsiv
as to include everything that is publish
ed in Paris, down to a four paged
ephemeral election address.
In company with the accomplished
librarian of the Astor Library, I care
fully examined this catalogue and tables
for the years 1834-’3o-’36, and no such
work, nor anything that could be mis
taken for it, is therein to be found —
The most insignificant four-paged pam
phlet isnot omitted, and yet a work of
so much political pretension as to occu
py 245 pages is omittei! With the
facts before you, sir, you can draw your
own conclusions, and the public will
also draw l heirs.
With this exposure of the “stupendous
fraud," in which your own reputation,
sir, is compromised, as well as that of
your accomplice “ Old Line,” I might
safely leave the motto of Lafayette to
stand (unscathed as it is by your attacks)
in history a3 a truth; for the very means
you have so unscrupulously used to de-
s roy its influence, as manifesting the
sentiments of the illustrious man who
uttered it, have but reacted to its more
complete confirmation.
I have as yet, however, only exposed
the essential baselessness of the nega
tive side of the question. I am yet to
bring out the positive proofs of the au
thenticity of the motto.
I can glance only at the sophism
which you have gravely and earnestly
exalted as an argument, that “ Lafay
ette, being a Catholic, (which you as
sume, in a sense of your own,) it was,
therefore, impossible that he should
have thus spoken of Romish priests.’
It is at best a flimsy gloss which the
sequel will expose.
The positive probabilities are now
already so strong in favor of the motto as
I^afayette’s, that my own evidence, from
my personal knowledge of the senti
ments of Lafayette, might be disrcgnrd-
thus emblazoned in staring cnpitals to
attract a marked attending, are flauifted
before the public as if the insinuation
and charge were both true and significant.
They are neither the one nor the other.
The original letter I hold in posses
sion. 1 have been in the habit of show
ing it to my friends and visiters for
more than twenty years. Thousands
have seen it, and as many more are free
to see it any time. This letter, sir,
which I have taken ** special care not to
publishwas published extensively in
the newspapers throughout the country
in 1832 and 1S33. Since General
Lafayette, in his letter to me dated
Paris, February 28, 1883, expresses
himself" highly obliged to me for pub
lishing it,” it must have been published
before the date of this letter of thanks.
Why you should deem the production
and exhibition of that letUT of so much
importance, (since it has never been pre
tended that the motto is in it,) you may
be able to show. I cannot be expected
to forecast vour reasons.
Among your other capital calls, sir,
there is another, to which I have paid
a respectful attention. You have called
upon me to produce the testimony
of even one to the declaration of Lafay 1 -
ette in the motto. You have madu a
call which I am under no obligation to
answer further than 1 have already ans
wered it by testifying that the sentiments
of the motto were, of my own personal
knowledge. Lafayette’s. I have never
theless taken some pains, for the sake
of historic truth, to trace it in its quoted
shape. That motto was uttered by
Lafayette, as I shall presently prove*
more than thirty years ago; it lias heed
quoted, without question, for more than
twenty years, and its author has been in
his grave for more than twenty years.
A period of twenty years, sir, is ordi
narily sufficient to scatter beyond tiie
cd in this position of the case, and so also mos . t diligent search living witnesses to a
might the evidence of the converted Ca- sa lf m 3 uttered even in the presence of a
tholic priest who quoted it in 1836. This ! iU S« aud, ® n< * ‘ so that lt3 authenticity
latter authority, by the by, on one who ? not . so rauch ^pendent on such a /ir
is acquainted with the genius of your \ n f f 0,1 being conforma-
corporation would he too simple as to sun- hle to . att ™ " °f the Racier and
pose, would have any weight with you. I ,he , P 6 ^ 0 " °J. wbo , m ,hu
I did not enact the fully of presenting it 3J, }' ,n S 1:5 affirmed. By t his rule, sir,
to the public, through my cot respondent, ( one ,? f J’°!" own proposing,» «t con d
with any expectation of convincing you, wc }* be proved to be Laiayette s.
sir. That Catholic priest you say,was 41 an * hy in g witness to the uttering ot that
apostate.” That word embodies folios of senlune,,t of Lnfayette is, indeed, fatal
argument with your corporation. Your ,0 .} -0U > but the absence of such a living
argument in such case is concise. He "'''ucss ’s not fatal to me.
that is for us is right, and always to be *“ New so ,™ da J s ? ,ncP >
believed; he that is against us is wr ing, an<i , m the ho P e *° find . » ,,v ing witness
and never to be believed. It is a con- ,n , ,,,e P T e , rson a miUlat 7 officer to
venient rule, and saves a world of inves- Hearned'twenty years ago that
ligation, but it is not the rule that guides Lafa * c “e bad used the words ot the
the opinions or judgment of the Amcri- ! aotto >} ,earapd that , a v * npra '
can public. From certain ambiguous ble a,,d t \ xce J, l l cn * n f nl6 } vr « *»»e Dutch
hintings in your article, you are prepar- ? r eforn ? ed .£ hU S. C \ 1 ' ,he « e '** Dl ’ 1 ’ 1
ing to apply this rule to Lafayette should } f ‘ , J h "*f . and in , , V, S 0 ™*
you discover, as you certainly will, that b«dlh.of body and mind, although in
he was not “ for you." Take care how h,s e, 6 h,,pt . h y ear : cou,d , . ,el1
you presume on such an experiment as “ e S0 ” e,h ! n S of interest on the subject
that with the American people. 1 -‘ccord.ngly addressed
1 1 him a note on my return home ou the
You have made a peremptory call 24th ult., asking him if he had any re-
upon me for a ‘‘retraction, on the as- collection of conversations he had with
sumption that 1 am responsible for the General Lafayette, when he visited this
first using and circulation of the motto. | country in 1824, and if so, I requested
You say:
As lie (I) first published and gave
currency to the calumnious statement
regarding Lafayette, lie owes (I owe) it
to the country and lo himself (myself)
either to prove its truth or to retract il, I
like an an honorable man.”
him to furnish me with his recellcctions.
In his letter to me in reply, dated New
York, April 30, 1S55, after detailing the
conversation at two special interviews
with Lafayette, one on the day of his
arrival on Staten Llnnd, before lie went
to Boston, and the other after his return
Were your premises correct, s >r, I f rom Boston, he gives graphically many
(which happens not to he the ease,) 1 interesting incidents of revolutionary
should prefer of the two courses you history as related by Lafayette. I omit
have so kindly mapped out for me “ to t i lcm as irrelevant in this plooc. but give
prods the truth," since l am not in the an extract from the close of Dr. Van-
habit, at less designedly, of saying, pelt’s letter, as to the point, >ir, b tween
much lesg of writing, anything to he I y OU and n)c .. In speaking of llie inter-
relracled. views, he says:
Your premises, I have said, sir, are not I ‘‘Oft he conversation nt both inter-
true. I was not the first who publish-1 views my recollection is vivid and di*|
ed and gave currency to the motto in tinct. * * ‘On the next interview and
question. The first publication of it in conversation with Lafayette,’ says the
which I was engaged is in the work of venerable Dr. Vanpcdt, 'after his visit
the Confessions of a French Catholic and return from I’oslon.’ lie said to me
Priest, published in 1837. The motto * my dear friend, I must tell yon some-
was published long previous to this date thing that occurred when I was in Ros
in several newspapers. It was current ton.’ I received n polite invitation from
in 1835. You will find it, sir, in the llie chief Catholic priest or 15i-hop of
Somerset Whig, published in Somer- the Roman Catholic Church in Boston
ville, New Jersey, of the date August lo attend his church on the Sabbath. I
4th, 1835. It is also in the Protestant wrote him one apology, say n>g. a- 1 1 never
Vindicator, of New York, August 26, expect to be in Boston again, and ns
1S35; and in other papers of the same during the Revolution tali- n in Ru«l$n, l
year. Whence the writers derived the j worshipped silling by the side of his Ex-
motto is not for me to say ; it is sullici- ceHhncy General Washington, and as l
cient for me that they did not get it from sec that the church and (he pews ai>
me, neither could they have got it from the same, except as they are deemonje.f
the work of the Converted Priest. I with paint, I wish to occupy the sam«
am, therefore, sir, quite as much interest- seat in that church on the Sabi) >th. ! 1
ed as you can be, in discovering how the took it in great dudgeon, that I did not
sentiments of Lafayette, in the shape in attend his church. Rut I could not help
which they are quoted tn the motto, got I thrit. I follow my inclination. Now,
into public use, and before I have done my friend, I iflhst tell you, dint I w i.s
I shall be able to give you the result of I brought up in France a Roman Catholic,
my discoveries in this respect. and believed that the Roman Calholii
That the motto embodied the senti- Church was the only true and Mothei
ments of Lafayette, I needed none to Church, till I came to this country, where
testify to me, as I have already said 1 I saw his Excellency General Wa^hing-
had ample evidence of that fact in my I ton, and the officers of the American
personal intercourse with him. At whal army of different religion, wor.-hippin'j
time they first assumed the shape of the in different churchca.
motto, I have nowhere as yet pretended ** My eyes were opened. I :ee men
to say. can be of different religion, and worship
You have been very importunate for in diffeient churches, and yet be good
the production of ** the letter which Christians; then saying, It is my opinion
General Lafayette wrote to me at I that, if ever th-. liberties of this country—^
Havre,” in which he “ alluded to the I the United Slates of America—arc dcs-
whole subjeet of the interview” of which troyed it will be by the subtlety of the
I had spoken, and you specially call for J Aowan Catholic Jesuit Priests, for they
the “exhibition of the original letterf I are the most crafty, dangerous enemies
with the courteous insinuation that 11 to civil and religious liberty. Tiny hare
never received such a letter. You charge instigated most of the wars in Europe.'
upon me that I have taken ** special He further said, ‘ I wish my country,
CARE NOT TO PUULISU it. (The France, liad such government anjwtt
capitals are your.-, sir, and these calls hiional liberty asyou have in this country
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