“by any pagan or infidel writer. . the

.

— oe ~ AEE See . mic » “ i onelude that t vy mve reeeived at GORRESPORUEREE, ‘ itapproval of Lis luxcellene)

ite ile Sik i me |

. un lo tree Eprror or vue Fever } When fic Dxeelleney, some three years ago,

Dear Sin—You will coafer a great favour on me should vou have the ‘Examines’ the e2 wi d

Allusion hae been made tepeveral of the Bland apers fo certal:. letfers sent by meto His Eye celleney the Lieut, Governyrtegaruing the Cy! Seeretary a peremptory manuer the diswicsal of this official. and te have used disrespectiul and jneult- ing language towards the © representative of the Qtieen.” ]t ja not dificult to divine the motives whien induced the ‘ Moniter,” ‘l’rotestant,’ and * Islander’ to make ynproveked aitacks on me and to muisyepreseut may letters. The election ie approaching, and,as a matier nothing which can afford political capital ehouwld be passed over without being improved to the! best advantage. The abuse et Catholic priests js milk aud honey to a certain class; and as ! have had eceasion to excite the ire of the Orangemen, the color of an excuse>is sufficient for these Chris

fian gentlemen-to.“ ventilate” theit merbid taste

* ‘Yor seurrility, In consequenecé of these Journass misrepresenting my letters to His Byeettency, 1/ sum compelled, in selfdeteuee, to publish the whole | _ferrespondencs: telative to Mr. Pope. te It appears to be extremely doubtful whether!

the personalities against me will serve the in.| teyded politiest_ends and enhance the respect duc | te “the representative of the Queen.” My first | letter to His Exeellency was alinded to in the! * Monitor’ before I had received an acknowledee. ment of its receipt. A letter to the nricvate Ne eretary was also alluded to in the same paper His Exceilency haa not deigned te acknowledse the receipt of my second jeiter to him, although irom an article in the ‘Monitor * which, it

kindness to publish in the

’ ourres pout. ice pero wk OC

' xenera

of « iMifse,

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would

entisfied that it has been received. quainted with the which the preseat “ representative af the (lueen”

Lam

ret oe.

is obliged to follow; but it appears that [lis Ex-! made the false step of tr

cellency can allow allusion to be wade ia bis or- xan to a letter addressed tothe prerate Secretory,

prodaction—in reply dressed to His Excellocey before this comamunie cation has been made publie. Am I to canelude from these facts that His Excellency is dispensed from the rules which are expected to gevern the conduct of ordinary gurtlem: [ the Col. Secretary's © unclean’

peculiar rules of etiquette |

Catholic tea party at Indiaa Biver, he war gevercly cepeur d by the’ Protestent’ for his lack of orthodexy and for his tewerity in presi

fing to give any countenance or Support ty any

jeocial gathering oF subscription, lawing for 1s object tv ndvaneement of * Vopery.” Now, when IG< Exeetleaey and itiends attended the fexamimation et that “Depish’ institution—st.

attended a

lam represented have demanded; Donstan’s Coilege—not ove w ord of condemmation

;

appeared, I understaed, im the + Pretestant* There appeared to be a@ taiy understanding this time, and the programing seem Ll to be that Elis

tained in office amen whe has sv tar iorgetien

1g "nithes P Va tation roprieéy. and wh asi very e ent even from his ‘een and of} the amenities of Christion propriety, and who bas | ve é. vid Te tine eat of Prince isdward | calculated to wound t ad fee ling or eee ee These letters,|to mar that state of Christian fmendslitp, ay

so far degraded his position as has Mr. Pope. I am aware that ib is seldom prudent to interfere

| with the liberty of the preas; but on the other

has not relinquished al! claim te respect, can por mit one of its principal offieials to write with im- punity in theimaygneria whieh Mr. Seeretary Pope has written.

I shell nuxionsly await Your Excelleney’s reply to thie conumnication; and I beg to acquaint you that should your Exeelleney say that it is net in your power to dismiss Mr. Pope on account of his repeated insults to the Catholics of this Island, who, it is unneevasary to observe, contribute very

Excetle: cy should endeavour to koopa the soth| largely towards his galary, 1 shall eonsider it my

svie of Catholies, whilst Mr. Secretary pope, by his abuseof everything “Romish,” veould merit

, tor His Excellency and the Government the sym-

pathy aud suppert of Orangemen, Ie it nota great disappointment that this game was not played over this year and it 80 near the general election! Would not the Col. Seer tary have had

jan excehieni chackle ia his sleeve had he had the

pleasure of recording in the same No. of the Islander’ the menijicent donation by His Excel leney of a“ Shakespeare” to the students of St. Dunstan's College, and ot publishing an tadecent and blasphemons letter such as that whieh suilied the columns of the last ‘ Protestant ?’ * Thermarked coptempt which His Excellency has shown by his disdaining to acknowledge the receipt of a vespeetfal letter addressed to Lim by a Catholic pricet is, perhaps, the surest index of his ren) feelings towards Catholics. Shortly after his arrival in this Colony His Excellency made no seeret of his disiike to the encouragement of Catholic institutions. Three years ago I con-

'sidered it my duty, from a motive of respect to

duty to lay Ge matter before His Grace the Duke of Neweartie, Her Mujesty’s Colonial Minister, to

| lonial Seeretary of ~ "s Colony should be permitted to insult in the gre vest terms nearly one half of its inhabitants. ' Ihave the honor to be, Your Exceilency’s most obedient And hamble eervant, A. McDonacp.

St. Dunstan’s College, June Sth, teer.

GOVERNMENT ITouss, lith June, 1862.

Sin,—T have the hener to acknowledge your communication of the 5th instant.

ie? . i £ fee cam } perhaps in the warmth of a polemic Contes” Is

i dressed Island” in July and August last.

lagreat deal of ilkwilh and angry fecling, Were neither “provoked” by a “ religious controversy nor written

Excelieney, Mrs. Dundas, Mr. Atkinson, the

Hon. Col. Gray, and other friends of the Govern- \ nent had assisted at the examination of the sta-| has hithe: to | dents of the principal Cathotie educational fo of your Grace.

itntion in the Coleny, with which they had ex- preseed themselves highly pleased. If jurther proof were needed to show that Mr.

| Pope’s reiterated insuits to Catholics were studied

fand Rot written In the “warmth of a pelemic| whom I shall send a copy of this letter and of | contest,” T might adduce the very ee Your Excelleney's reply thereto, tor ] eannet for odious fact that, not satisfied with having pub-| a moment entertaiu the idea that it is the desire | lished in two violent anti-( athole hewspapers, | <n of cur good and much beloved Queen that the Co-| condueted by Goveroment officials, bis grossly in-|

sulting letter of the 26th of February, to which i called your Excellency’s atteytion in my as communication, and wherein he insinuated that Catiwlie priests are the veriest immoral hypo- crites; he actually caused to be distributed amongst the Protestant portion of the community large numbers of this “ infuunous” epistle i pamphiet form, the more effectually to propagate “angry and unehristian feeting.”

I whould be most happy te entertain the pleas- ing hope that your Excellency’s © dislike” to the utterauce and publication of offensive scatiments and omnions way, for the future, have the very

desiralle efivet of restraining Mr. Secretary Pope |

Iu this you prefera charge against Mr. William Pepe, whom yuu aceuse of addressing you, in the columns of a pablic newspaper, in termes calculated | te give great offeuce to the Roman Catholics ot |

i“ the representative ef the Queen,” respectfully ! te invite

a holy and conscientious horror of every thing “ Popish” that he did not acknowledge the receipt of the iny

ifation. )Yespect a large number of those ever whom he

I never shall be wanting in that respect which | is due to the representative of majesty; but this not prevent me from defending myeelf

meddling of some of the friends of His Excellency thas dragved his wame before the public,and toreed me to pyblish this communication as wel! as the!

enclosed correspondence, yet I hope that the} coupled as that charge is with a condition so ex- , OF ain I to regard | writings of bis four friends, admirers, and defend-| traordinary. communication of | ers, Messrs. W.

H. Pope, Ewen Aimos, Donald

Wis Exeellency to attend the € allege | ! examinstion, but he seems to haye had at that qu wem, is His Exeellency’s private organ, } feel! time sneh ty

deign even to}

this Islaad.

’

| holdy, as Colonial Secretary. ‘ Fou inform me that in the event of my finding

! His! myself unable to do se, you will appeal to His | Exceligney may yet have cause to regret that he! Grace the Duke of Neweastle, befyre whou you eating with marked dis-! will lay the matter.

L regret that you have ¢hought proper to adept

, (Was sent to rule qs the “representative gf the} towards myself & tone vv dietatorial as virtually te that he deems it beneatiy his dignity te achuow- | Queen.”

ledge the receipt of a letter addressed to him by i a Catholic clergyman, and that the maa with! ” " cae be allowed to publish a let-) shat ter—or rather a very blasphemous and abscene | agains the attacks of Gavernment officials; and

to a communication ad- | aithough I very much regret that the officious

tocainpl; with your requirement will, iia manner, forma ground of courplaint against myself, 2nd be

brought, by you, under the notice of the Colonial

Minister.

Under these circumstanzes, I have no alterna- tive, but to decline altogether entertaining the

charge you make against Mr. Williain Pope,

You have yourself thus deprived me of the ep-

the 2nd inst. as His Exeellency’s reply to my| Currie, and J. B. Cooper—a holy quarto—may | portunity of expressing my opinion regarding the

letter of the Leth of June,

| not tend to accelerate the diminution of that large | language you quote as that of Mr. Pope.

I under-

If the ‘ Moniter' is the private organ of His! measure of profound respect which I desire should, stand, however, that Mr. Pope’s letters are not

Excellerey, I am extremely sorry that he has! been se ii advised as to velest this Wiereal which, | 1 anderstand, is published by a man who has heen | y eccused of “having diddied the public | out of # ‘serge sum of money, besides exhibiting | such couduct towards ax ayed parent as renders | more than doubiful his clajuns te the posression of | one honest or honorable principle,” sad which is | anid te be edited by two gentlemen who have ob-! tained for themselves an wnenviable notoriety in| this community, the ane as a washer of “ dirty | linen,” the other aaa ‘convicted swindler and’ ferger." The gentlemen of our Government must, in my | ble opinion, bear a share of the odium at- tached to the Col. Seeretary’s filthy letters. Some | time ago, when Mr. Dope as editor of the Islan | der* gave expression to sentiments regarding the Loan Bill which did not agree with the opinions of the Government on the same subject, the Hon. Edward

t rushed into print, brought the | juatly termed it.

Seeretary to task, and publicly disapproved of the

scathoents “ ventilated” in the ‘Islander.’ But when Mr. ineglts Catholies, this hon. gentle- man and hia toexhibit,

, are

by their silence, their tacit approval of the vile

publications of their Secretary. In the ‘ Protes.

sant" of the Sth instant is a letter signed “ W. H.| Vope,” which for vileness, turpitude, and horrible | blasphemy, has never, I believe, been surpassed | The members of

exewutive Connecil, viz: the Honbles. E.

Palmer, Col. Gray, A. Laird, J. Yeo, T. H. Ha-

viland,- Jeremiah Simpson, J. C. Pope, and J.

Longworth--who permit the Celenial Sceretary- | ship of this Colony to be degraded, must bear ‘a! very large share ef the disgrace inseparable fror

Mr. Pope's last most abominable production. It public shame and derenev have fallen so low among the Protestants of P. EF. Island as to tele-! rate such infamous writiag in a Government official, I am sure such is uot the ease in the neighbouring provinces, where Mr. Palmer and, his colleagues may be brought to their senses for, the outrageous indecency of this publie officer | who has, by bis last ketter, done more to brand bis | name with infamy than all his most bitter enc- | mies could effect in ten years, who has clearly | shown that he is “unclean” not ouly as to his | “bands” bat “ all over,” and that he is a moral | teprosy tlat should be avoided by all who desire | to preserve their morals unsuilied and vet to be! wade partakers of his pollution,

Kt is fall time that the Protestanis of P. E. Eeland should awake to the true character of the man who has been their champion for the last three years. Is not Mr. W. H. Pope the ma who in my own hearing eaid that if there was a/ true religion in the world it was the Roman Ca-| tholie religion ? He eertainly was not a true Frotestant then, and | we all know he is not 2 Catholic new. And what | is the relizion of this grent réligious champion whe | has laboured incessantly for years to sew the seeds | of religious ranceur in this Isiand?) What ie the fai of this. man—the highest oficial of oug! “ God-feaking” Government? Some may say thai he is a Mahormmmedan; others, with more reason |

perhaps, may say that be is, both in theory and practice, inelined to be a Mormon; but I myself |

ain disposed to believe that he is of the rel/vion of Tom Paine, and a warmer admirer of the be lief of a Julian and of a Voltaire. What a elori- ous champion have the Orangemen of this Fsland ! Tam wilimg to believe that the great majonty of | my Protestant fellowColonists liave been “de- ceived relative to Mr. ope. Did they know the | man, they could net fail to hate and to despiec him, and without preteading te be anything of 1) prophet I venture to say that the time is net far! distant when every man in the Colony who re-

daring piece of presuutytion in any Romish Priest to

He will not dare to deny this. |donguage:—

be always given and be due to every representa- tive of our good and gracious Sovereign. I have the honor to be your ubed’t serv’t, A. MCDONALD. St. Dunstan's College, July 9, 18462,

To Grorée Dunpas, Esquire, Lieut. Go-} vernwor, &e. &e. Ke.

Sim ;—In the ‘ Protestant’ of the lat of March }

last there appeared, over the signature of as

Hi. Pope,” Colonial Secretary of this Colony, a|

letter addressed to me, which coutains the follow- |

ing passages :—

“ Had the fathers of the first five centuries arisen from their graves previously to the Réforniation, do you net think, Reverend Sir, they would have tailed todiscover the Vicar of Jesus in harlot-chosen vecupruts of the papal chair, his ministers in the ecclesiastics, or his religion in the teachings of | Rome—the “then hell of the living,” as Petrarch >." have no right, and it ia a

> through the dighways of this Protestant Colony with a god, the work of his own hands, when he knows that ‘ /nfallible Church’ has pro- neanced an anathema against ull who say, as do all Protestants, that this god should not be carried in procession and adored. Vid not the Pope autho- rize “ Dens Theologia’? Is there to be found in all the vilest publications of all the licentions presser | of the world, as much licentiousness of thought as |

is contained in that most infamous beok! The | Tecetpt of your Excellency’s communication in re- |

reductions of the Latin Poets are obscene and} i

filthy enough, but the mind of Martial, of Horace, |

‘nest secure guide for Ecelesiasties.” If the Ro-|

‘a 3 rae ' pA | jan Catholics of Charlottetown who have wives, |

} daiigist rs

oF sisters, Were to go te the College and

| fequest you to read to them thore portions ef Dens

which relate te the Confessional, would you dare | lo compiy with their request! : read that when ene Augur met another ip t streets of smiled at the thought of the extent te which they |

Pray, Kev. Sir, did ever such a thought enter your mind! Deo you ever langh at the credulity of those whos believe that you can from a litt le wheaten four create Almignty God, or absolye erring mor-|

tals from their sins!” j Tn the saine letter Mr. Seeretary Pope says:—!

the only letters on the subject. I am informed that yeu have yourself entered into, if not pro- voked, a religions controversy, that you have at great length and in no gentle words challenged discussion; and new when the battle has been

fought, and upwards of three months have passed

away, you bring under my notice words written perhaps in the warmth ot a polemie contest, and whieh it would have been wise to forget.

1 make no secret of the dislike I have to the uticrance and—in a still greater degree—to the publication of sentiments er opiuions ecaleuiated to wound cr offend, when no possible benefit ean result in the ventilation of such sentiments or opinions. It is my earnest hepe that neither you, Mr. Pope, nor any other gentleman here may, in future, be induced to devote your talents or your time to the prosecution of a paper war, such as that now I trust ended, but which, like most similar contests, has been probably as barren in good results as it has been truittul in the propa- gation of angry and unchristian feeling.

1 haye the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, GeoRGE Dunpas. The Rey. A. McDonald, : St. Dunstan's College. ahithiinalie To His ExcetLency Georcrk Duxpas, Es. quire, Lieut. Governor, &c. &e. &e. Sm;--I have the honour to acknowledce the

ply to my letter of the 5th inst.

l regret that your reply is based on the mis-| or of Juvenal, wos pure, compared to the mind of | construction of the last paragraph of my letter to) by me tewards my )& Priest who has studied ‘ Dens Theologia, that; which yeu attach a meaning which, I fee) assured, | which can be no”

my language does ivt convey. When 1 stated thal, in the event of your Lixcelicuey’s expressins your inability to dispense with the ecvyicc, of Mr. Pope on account of bie igeults to Catholies i was resolved 6 bring the matter under the con

I have somewhere | sideration ef His Graee the Duke of Neweastie | to

and forward to him a copy of our correspoadence, inight not be taken by surprise, gud the thought

never entered my mind.

Your Exceliency will admit that the Imperial Government possessés more extensive powers thau those delegated to any of Her Majesty’s repre- sentatives, and that if “ it is notim your pewer to dismiss Mr. Pope,”

You conclude your letter to me by tacitly re- iring me to disiniss Mr. Pope frow the office he

"| priety of retaining ir connection with the Govei "| ment an individual who appears to have laboured

it may be in the power of . 2 . i e ‘ , * *) ¥ s » on . - ; 4 . ‘ i “Withont enlightening you as to whether I did or} His Grace the Duke of Neweastle to do so, or at | and Urat you have eaded to your aid a niimber ot |

and other Gevernment officials from giving * ven- tilation” to sentiments and cpinions caiculated, in a high degree, to weund the ieelings of their Ca- i tholic fellow-Colonisis, aud to propagate “ angry land unchristian feeling; and | trast that, should j your Excelleucy’s persenal influence prove in- istfficient to exercise such restraint, you may be | graciously pleased, at least

}yeur Executive Conneil on the waseem]

, to remonue!

unceasingly for some time mm the unholy attengpt

rien hatred and animosity between thei and ie Protestants of this Colony. T have the honor to be, Sir, Your obed’t and humble servy’t, A. McDoNaLp. St. Dunstan’s College, June Is, 1862.

To His Grace tue Duke or Newecastre, &e. &c. My Lorp Duke;

| Asa loyal subject of Her Most Gracious Ma- |jesty the Queen, and as one sinecrely desirous of promoting a spirit of friendship and muiual tele- ration among the various denominations of this my native Island, and of averting as much as pos- sible all religious animosity in this mixed commu- nity, I beg leave most respectfully to bring under your Grace’s consideration some of the writings of an official which are calculated to give grave offenes to a large number of Her Majesty's faith- ful subjects in this Colony and to raise up againsi

&c.

tical proseription and social persecution. On the 28th of February last, W. H. Pope, Esquire, Colonial Secretary of this Island, ad-

{a letter containing sentiments, expressions and insinuations most offensive to Catholics. Consi- dering that the low character of this letter—a copy of which, in pamphlet form, I herewith en- close to your Grace — did not allow me to send him a reply, I remained silent for a considerable time expecting that our Government would see the propriety of publicly manifesting their disap- rebation of |Le Colonial Secretary's unbecoming

rguace. But seeing that they took ne notice of it, I ealled the attention of His Excellency the Licutenavt Gorervor thereto in a communication addressed to him on the Sth of June last. I here- with enelose to your Grace a copy of the corres- enemy between His Excellency aud myself re- j dutive to this matter.

Your Grace will pereeive that Mr. Pope, in his iletter, says that I dragged his name before the peblic and treated him to a mumber of abusive epithets, and tat be lectures me ou the wibecom iInguess of some expressions suid tob<+_*- cn used oppanc:.’ Lhe bost reply

‘nose insinuations, regerd- | ing mv! gage, is to give theee portions of a let- /-s« OF mine upon whiel: Mr. Pope grouids his ‘| charges. Before doing this, I may observe that j the Colouinl Seeretary, during the past year, al- | laded sever: times, in the most offensive tenns, « Catholic precession said to have taken place in 2 remote settlement. Whilst I was writing

ancient Rome, the two istinctively | I did co from a motive of courtesy so that you | some letters on “ Edueation and the Church” 2!

communication sppeared inthe ‘ Protestant’ news-

| duily imposed upon the credulity of the people. | of preferring a ehargo against your Excellevcy | poper signed “ An Orangeman,” referring in un-

\hecoming langnage to the same procession. The jours ot this journal asked me what I hed to say on the subject. In my next communication tu bim I wrote zs follows :—

“ Young os the priest of St. Dunstan's 's, it ap- pears that you are ungble to reply to him yourse!,

. - . . ‘ ‘ : *" 5 a » »} ‘ anys * : ay “20°e Hat did not write the eontiibutions signed ‘On-looker,’ | least te remoustrate with our Government on the nasetanits who are such sneaks that they have net ‘A Protestant,’ and ‘An Orargeman,’ I beg to| impropriety of having retained the services of an the moral courage te append their proper names

sequence of this declaration, Mr. Pope adopts the | following mest violent, uuscemly and disgraceful |

“To seek Seripture proof for the doctrine of! Indulgences. ...is an act of vudacity uneqnailed | hy Satan hituself, even when he were an unwiati- | luted face, or was not robbed of his nose by St. | Dunstan, and when ke quoted Seripture to prove |

that Christ might cast himself headiong frou the |

jpinnacle of the temple.” (See “Onlecker” in|

* Protestant’ of Peby. Ist, Inez.) :

“The Papists, I presume, have a right to exer- cise their idolatrous mnammeries so often and as fuliy as they please, procidid they, in doing so, |

inantfacture their wheaten god inthe sanctuaries | of their chapels,” &e. (“An Orangeman” in the sume No. of the ‘ Protestant.’) “Has this young | (your humble servant) “already lost all} sense of shame? is his devotion to the Roman! Sve so ‘unlimited, that he, like the veriest and!

” nae

large proportion of the inhabitants. Tam unable to conceive how my writing to the Colonial Min-

pondenee between your Exeeitwscy and myseit, can form a ground of complaint agains you; fer T presume tiat your Excellency is not prepared to assume all the responsibility of Mr. Vope’s violent tirades, although I fear that your implied

apel for them is caleulated to induce the belief | can be duc to . aes | * Notwithstanding {ii rou are obliged het), by |

that you are not altugether uuwiiling to do so

In the latter part of your reply your Excellency and that you have been “ informed” that 1 have “entered into, if net provoked a religious con-

your dislike to the “ ventilation” of sentiments or opinions ealeulated te wound or offend.

As it does not plainly appear what the “snb-| puop does im the secial one... . As you do not ap-! | pear to ‘ have lerure to reply’ te my communica: |

ject” is to which your Excellency alludes, Iam unable to say whether I have written anything

thercon or not. | have, however, written several

or honor, ney, and religion, will regard | finer feeling of humanity? aud have his eyes Let) by the son of au Executive Couneillor, and eaten- W. HL Pope with feelings of ptter contempt and | tears to shed ever the harrowing history of his! jited to exeite very unjust prejudiees against St.

thorough detestation.

A man who is sincere in the practice of a false religion is to be pitied but he is not to be despieed. | Whulst be has a relivion he haa 9 conscienee, and whilst be is simeere there is reason to hope that

weg may open his eves and point out to him the right path, We may not admire the doctrines of a Mr. Fitageraié or of a Mr. Sutherland; bat if they are sincere even in the belief that all Papists will have rather warm quarters im the next world, they are not tu be Lepined or insulted for their sincere convictions. But a man whe lias no religion, no faith, no belief except what a salary of theee or four hundred pounds per anuwn gives him is a maa most dangerous to society. If such & person had an rtunity he would not seruple to abstract unfairly money from a bank to the tune of theusands—he would charge for leases, not guly two pounds but tea id he could get them —he would besmear doers with filthy representa- tiows, he would abuse iv the most flagitious man- ner the generous hospitality of a tenant,—ia a word, there is no enormity which he would not

Or What are we to firm of the man, who, im a neighbouriag provinee said, to the utter dis- of ns hearersthat the only way of governing

. E. Island was to.set. the Presbyterians against the Cathelies? Au anpriacipled man who would for 1 or other ends work on the sincere couvig; ious of Protestants or Catholics,

- excite ther, azainst ove another, ix the most theranghly infymous character that can well be jeeoy Christian community. Notwith-

1 Ul unite with their Catholic “iti defending religious toleration tieal equality.

‘khe * Islander’ and ' Moniior’ have scen fit to allude.) a letter sent by me te His Excellency s praaae Setretary. Thy meddling of theae jour- nals wdiu pels ine to publish this letter and the one to WhET it is a reply. It is strange respect that

Messrs. Pope and Cooper sow the “ representa: | outrageous manner, as

tive of the Queen” by dragging dis private uisitery

before the public. Lut what respect ean np Lieut. |

Gotérhor expect to receive from an individual!

why abused and insulted, ia the mest unbecoming

terms, Sir L). Daly, * the representative of the weey 1”

fo May last Hie Execlleney Mr. Dundas sent me, through his private Secretary, a “ Shake- speare” to be on as & prize to one of the stu- “utes of St. drunstan’s College. For reasons which I deemed sufficient 1 declined accepting thus book, aud returned it in a respectfy) manner, aad J am very glad that { did se. We all remem. ber that ligt year Hig Exeeiiency assisted at the ree ea meeting Pn Ut bighty, plese Co!- eee, aud ex “nse ig with everything wt oe witnessed ; and that the Ion. are Gray expressed his surprise snd at the creditable manner in whieh the we acquitted themerlyes on that oceasien. ¢ all remember, tow, that only two days after: wards the firet of the Col. Secretary's “ phili a the Rouaue” appeared in the ‘ Islander.’ . Pope's virulent tirades againat Catholics hive

church? In his defence of Indulgences he has} broken through the restraints of becoming modes- ty; he has done what vo priest before him on this Talend has attempted ; and having no provocation, he is a volunteer in the work of self-degradation. And new he stands befure the public as the solli- tary prop of a mass of corruption and viieness, which no man would dare even mention in the detail of bare and incontrovertible facts! Pro- bably here lies bis hope of escape. Men who are taught to keep their hands and garments clean, instinetively and quickly recoil from contact with pollution ....-he may suppose that Protestants re- volt at the idea of dwelling upon this subject, so as minutely to deseribe the amount and degree of its putrescence, or to partieukarize the variety, ac- tivity, and strength of its fermenting qualities, the noxiousness of its odours, the death-Lke hideoua- ness that grins and reigns about it, and repulees al! but these whose feelings are hardened yy fa- iilarity. We warn him not to trast too much te such a principle; disagreeable duty must eome- times be duet It is enough now to add, had the Rector not made a covenant in becoming a teacher of St. Dunstan’s, to sink all true sensi- bility in hia dovotion to the cause of Rome, the very word Indulgences, wherever met ja print, would have crimsoned his cheek, since he nust know that money ean prucure the forgiveness of ai! erine whieh is past, and proenre also.a permit te range through the vilcnese of sin, and select therefrom the object which beat suits the taste of the siuners evil and wandering spirit.” (“On- looker” in ‘ Protestant’ of the J5th of eby.) “The Clurch—the Holy infallible Church to which the Reetor would tell us Christ gaye the promise ‘Io I am with you all days even to the consummation of the world, and i which the gates of hell shall not prevail,’ waa literally the ‘ mother of Harlots’s— ite supreme Head the diwinely appointed sucerseor of St. Peter — the Holy Father—the vilest misereant upon earth.” as er in the ‘ Protestant’ of the 15th eby.

These are choice extracts to be adopted by the Colonial Seeretary of a British Colony! This is not the first time that Mr. Seeretary Pope baa in- sulted Catholics in the most ungentlewantly and

can be seen by reading his jetlers published last year in the ‘Vsiander’ and ‘ Protestant.’ When his letter of the 28th Feby. last appeared I thought that the Executive Go- veyument would—it not en agecount ef the outrage done to the {velings of Catholies, at least in order w save the character of the Island~have iimme- diately disyiivsed him from office for having so grossly insulted the entize Catholic population, especially by writing in the most oflensive, eon- temptons and seoffing manner of one of the mest hallowed Laysteries of the Catholic religion,whose ministers are, according to his insinuation, t veriest hypocrites, and nothing better than the Augurs ot Pagan Rome. But J understand that Mr. Pope yet retains his office, and that, strange to say, not one werd condemnatory of his insult- ing language has been publivhed by any person wo ert ae It is for this reasod now beg leave mast respeetfully to eali the attention of your Excelleney to eas tracts above given, written over Mr. Pope’s pro- oe se sone to a Which he has rusod “ as I presume that Your Exevllency has pot been made aware of the offer-

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Dunstan's College; vut I have neither “ entered inte” nor “ proyoked” a religious cunt roversy, and this is more than can be said of my opponents whose language has been of so vile and virulent a character that it would be as degrading for a Ca- tholic priest to enter into a “ religious centre- versy” with them as it would be injurious to his reputation to enter into any “ controversy” with an individual who has fallen so low in publie esti- mation as has the Colonial Secretary of this Colo- ry. Dat 8u ing for a moment that I did enter into a“ religious controverey,” I may be permitted to observe, with all due respect, that even in this ease, neither your Excellency nor Mr. Pope would have any just right to complain, and that my doing so shouid not be considered a sufficient justification for the Colonial Secretary's violent tirades against Roman Catholies. I am not in the same position relative to both Protestants and Catholics as is Mr. Pope; for Iam not holding an office under Government and receiving a salary from the public funds as he is, neither am I re- eviving money from Protestants as he is from Catholics. Besides, 1 presume that your Excel- levey will admit that it is more becoming for a Catholic priest to enter into a “ religious coutro- versy” than it is for a Colonial Seeretary, who is believed to have no fixed religious principles, to be outrageously insulting thon one-half of those who contribute towards his salary,and to be using all his endeavours oa broad-cast the seed of religi unimority sectarian strife

onent rious denominatious of a i wank best interests can be secured on the exercise 4 writing “Excellency 1 dit not growed

In writing to your Ex ey I di grou my charges mies Mr. Pope on mere hear-say, and state that I was “informed” that he gave offence to a large number of his fellow-Colonists ; but I called your attention te the fact that he gave publicity, in the columns of a newspaper, to ex- pressions, sentiments, and opinions most offensive to Catholics, and, that there might be no doubt about the matter, I gave most imeulting extracts taken fram a letter published over his own signa- ture and from other communications which he was pleased’ to “ adopt;” and I shall leave it to others to say Whether it was in accordance with that high degree of dignity which is expected at all times to characterize the conduct of the repre- sentative of our august and much beloved Queen, tor your Exeelleney to endeavour to extenuate,to some extent, Mr. Pope's violent language by inti- mating to me that you were “ informed” that I myself “entered into if not provoked a religious controversy.”

If I have, by several letters on “ Edneation and the Church,” endeavoured to remove preju- dices propagated by seme friends of the Govern- ment, it is searcely just towards me to insinuate that I have, on that account, prostituted “time” and “ talents” to the “ ventilation” of sentiments and opinions calculated to provoke angry and un- ehristian feeling. It never has been my desire to give unnecessary offence to those whe differ from myeelf in religion, as the general tone of my pub- lished letters will clearly prove; but it appears to be the policy of Mr. Secretary Pope tu leave no means uutried in the unchristian attempt to pro-

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pagate and perpetuate an undying spuit of religi- ous hatred and hostilit@ between the Catholics and Protestants of this Island. .

never hoon publicly disapproved of by any penon ted Wilh thedoveruyient,and Gunarqucttiy

sive language nsed by him; for if you were,I can- not suppose that Your Execllewey would have re-

That Mr. Pope's insults to Catholies have bc Writes with coolness und deliberation, and net

| inform you that T am quite willing tv adopt all that | official who has, by Lis repeated, unprovoked and | to their commuuications....You are desirous to ] 4 : ; a ; ° it - aninis ith regard he eesad 4) has been written over these sigustures.” Ty con-| wanton insults, given cause of great offence to a) BOW ly Opiteey with regard Lo the procession at ” i

| South-West, referred to by one of your correspon jdents. Tomey sny something on this subject on |

. saiiiein ie » eucemeenane Rus - vo cee - wile & lieter, and sending to him a capy of the corres-| sen future ovea ion, when ; L ather Angus will | present his respects to W. H. Pope,’ Esgq., Col. |

| Secretary, Editor of the ‘Islander,’ Defender of ,a rotestantisin in P. E. Island, &e. &e.—who, if | he des. *6e8 not the naine of * A Protestant,’ bas levery claim, Fauould say, te all the honor which | “Sn Orangeman.’

‘honor and justice te publish wie whole of ny reply | 3 . 38 ‘ + moetan? Tm . i states that you “ understand” * that Mr. Pope's to your unjust attack on St. Dunstan's < allege | : . ‘ letters are ee the only letters on the subject,” and the Pepea, yet you have not published tac ‘Mit. Secretary Pope has oflered nestraight-forward |

lwhieh were in the highest decree offensis et mpl i . ‘ery To enleui \ sworende b ” hand, I cannot imagine that a Government which | Catholics, and very much caleuiated to eugender | shoul

inthe “warmth of a polemic con- your Grace test,” but published almost immediately after your | premises, J

vite with | til »0- | ° ° . ’ P n- | In reply # Tb y Vou to equal t Tlis Exceilency

. ! | of the expression, by the Colonial Secretary, for | of Catholics aad | and peace which, in my hunmin opinion, | encouraged among jand Catholies of thisommunity. Wherefore, without presuming to | what action should be taken in the

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partiality by whieh: the control of Colonial aflaire therto been distinguished under the auspices

I have the henour to be, With profound reapeet, Your Crrace’s atest obedient And humble servant, | A. McDUNALD St. Dunstan’s College, LP. E. Island, July 7th, 1262. §