The Pope And The Freemasons Correspondence Of The N. Y. World

I 'ME, Juij 26. STtií ,,i thc Conáibtory, bofure thu close oí the pro-' OOeiÜI I . .{iy lulullllc. you, thu Fopu ,! i'. ir-, sued iu the bishopa present tliu toDuwiuy remarkabls disoourse : 'L'o tlir bonediution whieh I gire wiili nll njy iieiut to tile bishopí who luivo been pruuognized and to tlic peoplo who uva cuuflUud to their care, tor whora 1 lrnvo euU.'bratiíil tlu.s morniug the divine n;ur tiiji', L Jesiro to add soiae words wliich will be to ftil a whoiesome uiomoiy. St. John íiie Baptist, in the simple deeiru oí uíilighUjiiiug Lia disoiploB as to tlie true Messiuh, Bent somo oí thoiu to tho divino Ltedeemer, cbarging theta to duniaii'l of hiiu it he were the true Messiah. What answered Josus'r' Ho did not say, " [ uin he." No ; but ho uiade this roBponso: 8ay to John that the blind see, that the deaf haar, that the lame walk mat ti, e aeaaare raised up, anti that the have tliR gospel. He wished to say by all this that bis works jugtified his divine mtBsien, aud that he was verily the truo Mtssiah. I ex hor, y ou, oh dear brothers, to follow this iublimo example, and to act alWiiys ii sueh a way that you may be kuownto be bishops by the sanotity of your oonduct and the holmess of your words. In thus eoudueting yourselves have !io doubt the peoplo will recognizj yuu upon the instant, and will rectiye you with the most profound joy aud wkll the afi'ection of devoted children. 'F-here is a certain olass of peoplo who very certeinly will say to you, " Who aro yon " lt is to this olass, more than to any wther, that it is necessary to respond with deeds and by examples. ïhis olass, who, by the permission of God, find themselves iiow in high places, will annoy you and prevent y.m front iakiug that which beiongs io you ; will often oppose the exereiso of episcopal jurisdiction, and will manifest in different ways their hatred Hgiiinst Ihe liborty of the Church. Let your oonduot towurds this claes ut' pernona be al ways inspired by oharity and gentleness ; but if this should not öuffice, umi yourselves with courage and geal, and learn to repeat with this síime John the Üjptist, and with the samo fiiiuness that he ewployed, Non iicetj Fer a o t hing ! God is with you, and he ■will always give you the stiengtn and vigor n cossaiy to enable you to deilnd the rights of tlie Church. At this moment a struggle is going on betwteu some bishops aud a Catholio American governmeat. The Freeniasons, who havo penetrated everywhere, sro there, and, not content with sitting nmong the councillors of the sovereign, they havo introduced themselves into tho pious absociiiüons, such as the confraternIties. Thero they have sought to niake it Bppear that the Preemasons of this party in America are not at all like those of Kurope, but aro simply a charitablo society. Deceitful assertion ! In America the Freemasons are not less excommunicated and anathematized than these elsewhere. But. in aid of this deceit, they have atteinpted to display themselves in the administraron oí' our pious works ; and now that the bishops say, with holy John the Baptist, non Heet, tney cry out, threaten, créate agitation, and as is their custom, go so far as to puc in peril the Church and tho throne. I recommend you, very dear brothers, to cry out in time in every case when tmjast preteiibions are put forward; to lift up yo?ir voice and to speak boldly, non Heet Feai nothing, for, I repeat it to .vou, (Jod is with you and shail be with yuu, even under strokes of pevseoution, as ïiniy cíearly by what has arrived to those bisbops ot' whoin I havo spoken, and who have f-poken, and who havo rcuisttd with 'courage ;.í immovable fiiinness thete iniquitous pretensiong. Unit_d in heait üiui soul let us engage in the niut noble vï eombats, that in which we euguge tor the glory of God, i'or thc; rights of th Church, and to preserve tlie wLole human fa-mily irom the daugers which nienace us. Let us right with courage, tor God is with us. Judgo George P. Hoar has printed in the "Worcester Qazettea, letter m reply to tlie 011e recently sent forth by General Butler in defunse of the saiaiy grab. First he thus s'eiks of his own disposition of his back p.iy : ' Instantly oiftht passage of the bilí I deleimined not to reoeive the nioney. lt tvus hjgatty urine. It was placed by lauto mycitdit, thete to reuiain until 1 uisposed of it in some way. I iuquhrd of several of the leaders of the opposition to the measure what they proposed ,to do, and was informed that they propo'sed to take the mouey ; that if the salary had been icduced Uiey must have submitted, and they saw no reason why they should not receive the nioney, althoegh they disapproved of the law. Under the cireunïstanees, it seemed to rue that it was not just tb at while this district was to be taxed its share of the whole nionoy which was drawn by representativos of other districts, tho snm allotted to me Bliould be put in the Treasury to go chierly to the benefit of the eame districts who8e represeutatives had dravm like sums for themselves. I acted at once, within ten minutes after my return home and not then having reason to believe that a single other representative proposed to decline thia money. I did not then think, nor do Inow think the money was stolen, or received in breach of a contract. I.thought tho votiug it was a very objectionable and extreme exercise of an admittedconstitutional power." He then turus to General Butler as follows : "General Butler's real grief arises froöi tiie'opposition lie is encountering in his plan to get possession of the government of Massachusetts by a fraud on the lio publican votéis. A few officeholders of feeblo virtue, whom he has succeeded in persuading that they aio iu danger froin his roveuge if they do not lend themselves to Bchemoí-, a lavish expenditure of the ' conipeteut private fortune' - these aro tho inatrumentalitïes by which he hopes to cheat tho Eepublicau voters of Massachusetts out of the honest expression of their will. I think Goveraor Wáshburn au honester, ablcr and fitter man; '■■■ m " '-feneral Butler has dono, unless he has egrégiously imposed upon us, two things well. Ho out blackguarded a Kew Yori mob in 1864, and, with a United Status army at his back, he kept down a rebel city in 1862. MassachuButts is not likplv soon to stand in need of either of these x-roeesses. But he never has accomplished anything else of mueh importance, when his point cuuld not be carried by sheer blustering. 'Che history oí' all his other attempts may be coiapfised in three words- swagger, ouarrel. tuilure. "It would fe hard to find a leading supporter of Butler who will say that he deerns him honest, truthful, disïnterested, or incapable of using power to gratiiy both hi ambition and his revnge. The men whom General Butlei wtll beat are tho men whom hepersuadr to support him."