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Article SIR CHARLES WOLSELEY'S LETTERS. ← Page 2 of 2 Article TO THE CATHOLIC HIERARCHY OF ENGLAND. Page 1 of 2 →
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Sir Charles Wolseley's Letters.
NO . in . To . My dear Sir , — ' ¦ Many thanks for thinking of me , and sending me the pamphlets . * But I have just received both by order . uVimporte , yours will do to send out , pro bono publico . You have been a papist all your life , and you do not yet seem to know them . How can you expect to get more than one here and there amongst our clergy , who will , whatever he may think , join with you in the Freemason
question ? ..,.... Why , it is natural—it is human nature ! I am a French Mason—of the Grand Orient of Brussels , appointed and constituted by tbe Grand Orient of France—and I assert , not one word of politics did I ever hear broached , or of religion either . I was made under Napoleon ' s consulship . "Now , sir , let me give you another fact , which you may also make use of , if you please . Some twenty-five or thirty years ago , a Peer ' s son had some idea of starting for Westminster as M . P ., and asked me , as a Mason , to attend some of the Lodges in London with him , for the purpose of securing the votes of the Masons of these Lodges , my friend
naving been made a Mason on purpose . I told him he knew little of Freemasonry , if he supposed we could broach the question of politics in Lodge . He , however , pressed me to go with him ; and I said I would were it only to prove to him what I expected . Well , we attended , but all to no purpose . " That vain fellow , in his last article , speaks in a more subdued tone . I suppose he finds the cash retiring ! You see he now admits articles from people who are not Freemasonsand who are not ' clergymen !'
, The fact is , he has received such broad hints of his having gone the length of his tether , that he is in a panic . '' The nonsense about the marriage , —that fact being the only truth in the article , —has been traced to a clergyman , whose hand-writing on the envelope was acknowledged . The motive must be his own!—as that of the gobe-moche who published the untruth . " 1 am , yours sincerely , Wolseley , 15 th May .
To The Catholic Hierarchy Of England.
TO THE CATHOLIC HIERARCHY OF ENGLAND .
BELOVED PASTORS , —The time has gone by , when either individuals or systems must be presumed criminal , because prejudices of long standing have persisted in charging them with crimes , and pronounced their condemnation , on the supposition that the frightful phantom which their fancy conjured up was a hideous reality . No one can be so well aware as yourselves of the injustice of such a proceeding . The holy religion which you profess , has been painted by its enemies in the
most revolting colours ; made as hideous as the malice of man could represent it ; and thus held forth to the people for their contempt and derision . Millions thus deceived , believe it to be the monster it is represented . True ! you , who have the happiness to be in her holy commu-
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Sir Charles Wolseley's Letters.
NO . in . To . My dear Sir , — ' ¦ Many thanks for thinking of me , and sending me the pamphlets . * But I have just received both by order . uVimporte , yours will do to send out , pro bono publico . You have been a papist all your life , and you do not yet seem to know them . How can you expect to get more than one here and there amongst our clergy , who will , whatever he may think , join with you in the Freemason
question ? ..,.... Why , it is natural—it is human nature ! I am a French Mason—of the Grand Orient of Brussels , appointed and constituted by tbe Grand Orient of France—and I assert , not one word of politics did I ever hear broached , or of religion either . I was made under Napoleon ' s consulship . "Now , sir , let me give you another fact , which you may also make use of , if you please . Some twenty-five or thirty years ago , a Peer ' s son had some idea of starting for Westminster as M . P ., and asked me , as a Mason , to attend some of the Lodges in London with him , for the purpose of securing the votes of the Masons of these Lodges , my friend
naving been made a Mason on purpose . I told him he knew little of Freemasonry , if he supposed we could broach the question of politics in Lodge . He , however , pressed me to go with him ; and I said I would were it only to prove to him what I expected . Well , we attended , but all to no purpose . " That vain fellow , in his last article , speaks in a more subdued tone . I suppose he finds the cash retiring ! You see he now admits articles from people who are not Freemasonsand who are not ' clergymen !'
, The fact is , he has received such broad hints of his having gone the length of his tether , that he is in a panic . '' The nonsense about the marriage , —that fact being the only truth in the article , —has been traced to a clergyman , whose hand-writing on the envelope was acknowledged . The motive must be his own!—as that of the gobe-moche who published the untruth . " 1 am , yours sincerely , Wolseley , 15 th May .
To The Catholic Hierarchy Of England.
TO THE CATHOLIC HIERARCHY OF ENGLAND .
BELOVED PASTORS , —The time has gone by , when either individuals or systems must be presumed criminal , because prejudices of long standing have persisted in charging them with crimes , and pronounced their condemnation , on the supposition that the frightful phantom which their fancy conjured up was a hideous reality . No one can be so well aware as yourselves of the injustice of such a proceeding . The holy religion which you profess , has been painted by its enemies in the
most revolting colours ; made as hideous as the malice of man could represent it ; and thus held forth to the people for their contempt and derision . Millions thus deceived , believe it to be the monster it is represented . True ! you , who have the happiness to be in her holy commu-