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M. /VLattison, D. D. PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. 1808. 3Xm7 AFFIDAVIT. As pastor of the Church to which Miss Smith belonged, and the prosecutor for her release from imprisonment, I have knowu all the facts in this case ; and having read the following narrative , prepared by Dr. Mattison, am prepared to say that, excepting the false testimony printed there- in, it is substantially correct, according to the best of my knowledge and belief. ^ J. S. GILBERT. Sworn and subscribed this eleventh day of Sep- tember, A. D. 1868, before me, Stephen" B. Ransom, Master in Chancery of New Jersey. Entered accordin^^ to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by H. MATTISON, In the Clerk's Office of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Roman Catholic Priest, Newark, N. J. Son op the late Bishop Doane, " High Church;^ Protestant EpUcopal Biahop of Mw Jersey. CONTENTS. • ♦ • PAGE Introduction 5 I.— Early Life and Conyersion of the Abducted Girl. 6 n. — The Plot for her Abduction, and How it was Accomplished 9 III.— The Priest's Confession and Excuse for his Con- duct 10 IV. — Commencement of Proceedings for the Release OF THE Prisoner 15 v.— "Father Doane," the "Mother Superior," and • Mary Ann in Court 21 VI. — The Suit continued — Respondents enter formal- ly UPON THEIR Defence 38 VII.— An Adverse Decision, and a New Line of Defence. 48 VIII. — Analysis of the Testimony, and General Remarks UPON THE Case 64 IX. — ^FiNAL Hearing and Decision by the Court 69 X. — Comments of the Press 71 XI.— New Development — Mary Ann a Devout Catho- lic ! 82 XII. — ^The Forged Letter Challenged — Correspondence with "Father Doane." 89 XIII.— Present State of the Case and Hopes for the Future 101 XIV. — Other Similar Cases of Abduction and Persecu- tion 110 XV.— Startling Facts respecting Romanism 118 XVI.— What Can and Must be Done 138 INTRODUCTION The Eoman Catholic Inquisition, or Holy Office, as it is called, is a tribunal established in Roman Catho- lic countries to search out and try and punish heretics and those who disobey the law of the Church. It still exists in Spain and in Eome, and both in principle and in practice is now seeking to plant itseH upon our shores, and to find toleration and legal recognition under the flag and laws of our glorious Union. For wherever any person, old or young, high or low, is seized, shut up, or in any way punished on account of their religious belief, there the Inquisition is in active operation. And it makes no difference what the age or sex of the victim may be ; the principle is the same. No father, or master, or priest, has either a moral or legal right, in this land of freedom, to seek to make his child a Jew or a Christian, a Eomanist or a Pro- testant, by temporal pains and penalties. And it is to prevent the establishment of such a precedent, and to vindicate religious freedom and the rights of con- science, as well as to release an imprisoned and friend- less orphan, that the proceedings herein described have been instituted, and the following chapters writ- cen. In Austria, every child of fourteen can choose his or her own religious belief ; and even the " heathen " 6 ABDUCTION OF MAEY ANN SMITH of China have just stipulated, by treaty, that "citizens of the United States in China, of every religious per- suasion, shall enjoy entire liberty of conscience, and shall be exempt from all disability or persecution on account of their religious faith or worship." And yet the Eoman Catholics of this country are imprisoning and half starving people to compel them to become Eomanists. For the case herein recorded is only one of several similar cases which are known to exist, and which should be called up and investigated with the least possible delay. But for the present, let the reader carefully ponder the following chapters, not for- getting the apostolic exhortation, "Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them," and striving to feel and to act accordingly. CHAPTER I. Early Life and Conversion of the Abducted Girl, About the middle of January, 1868, a young girl by the name of Mary Ann Smith, who was living with Mrs. C. L. Brittins — a Methodist family in Newark, N. J.— went to the Franklin Street M. E. Church, of which Rev. James Rogers was jDastor, was awakened and happily converted to Christ. She was then a lit- tle over fifteen years of age, a bright active girl, of Irish parentage, but altogether American in conversa- tion and manners, and of more than ordinary personal attractions. Her mother died some six years before, since which time Mary Ann has been left to earn her BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 7 own living as best she could, and has been out at ser- vice most of the time. Her father and step-mother are both Eoman Cath- olics, neither of whom can read or write, and, though living in a city abounding in the best of free public schools, this poor girl, now a young woman and deeply mortified at the fact, has been so neglected by her in- temperate and inhuman Catholic father, that she can neither read nor write ; but was trying to learn her letters in a Protestant family at the time of her abduction. Up to the time of her conversion she had been a devoted Eomanist, going to confession to "Father Doane" — the priest by whose order she was finally imprisoned — and praying regularly to the Virgin Mary and to the saints, as all devoted Eomanists do. But going for once in her life where God's truth was preached, she was convinced of her sinful and lost condition, and, with a truly penitent and believing heart, sought mercy at the hand of God. At least all the circumstances seemed to indicate this. Her own account of her conversion is, that being burdened wdth a sense of guilt as an awakened sinner, and while praying to the Virgin Mary, without finding relief, something seemed to whisper to her, " Why not pray to Jesus Christ ? Mary is away up in heaven, and may be she does not hear you. And if she does, may be she cannot relieve you. Jesus is everywhere — why not pray to him ?" And she did pray to him, and thus obtained a sweet relief from her burden, and a precious assurance that he had heard her prayer, and forgiven all her sins. She then went to the South 8 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH Market Street M. E. Church, of which Eev. J. S. Gil- bert, is pastor, related her experience, and united with the Church as a probationer. A few weeks after- wards, for reasons hereafter explained, she left the family of Mr. Brittins, and went to live in another Methodist family. Learning of her conversion and connection with the Methadist Church, "Father Doane," a young Catholic priest of Newark, to whom she had all along confessed, tried to get her into cus- tody on a writ of habeas corpus y but his Catholic judge being out of town, he did not succeed. At this time she was at the house of a Mrs. Fitz- gerald — a most exemplary Christian lady, and the mother of Eev. Mr. Fitzgerald of the Newark Con- ference — v/here she was not only contented and happy, but was highly appreciated as a modest, well-behaved and faithful servant. She was regularly at her church and Sabbath-school, and not a whisper had ever been breathed against her character, or a suspicion enter- tained, so far as was known by her Protestant friends. The young people of the Church associated with her as a modest and pure-minded young girl, and com- muned with her as a sincere and worthy Christian. She had the entire confidence of her pastor, who never had, and has not now the slightest suspicion of her want of integrity or of virtue. Such were her condition and prospects when the Catholics entered upon the work of abducting her and confining her in a convent, to compel her, by imprison- ment, hard labor, hard fare, and despair of ever being released, to renounce the faith of Christ. BY THE KOMAN CATHOLICS. 9 CHAPTER II. The Plot for her Abduction, and How it was Accomplished. At the time referred to there was living in the family of Mrs. Fitzgerald a Catholic servant girl, and through her the schemes of the inquisitors were carried out. First, Mary Ann was told that a cousin of hers, in Brooklyn, was dead, and to be buried at a certain time ; but when she proposed to go, Mrs. Fitzgerald, suspecting some mischief, advised her not to go, and she remained at home. It turned out afterward that the "cousin" was still alive and as well as usual. Then she was told that a child that she loved dearly was very sick, and that she had better go and see it before it died ; and either for that purpose or for some other, she went, one afternoon, to the house of Mrs. Carrolton, a Catholic aunt of hers. There she was met by " Father Doane," who, finding her " stubborn," as to giving up her religion, advised them to keep her there till she could be sent to a nunnery in New York. Accordingly, she was locked up in a room, and not al- lowed to go back to her home at Mrs. Fitzgerald's. To get her from Newark to the prison, they per- suaded her to " go and see the place," under the sol- emn promise that if she did not wish to enter the "institution" after she had seen it, she might come home with them. But once there, they turned the key upon her, and that was the last she knew of freedom, or of the society of friends, for many long and dreary months. 10 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH Her going out that afternoon was the last that was heard or known of her by her Protestant friends for some three months. Her trunk and clothing were left at Mrs. Fitzgerald's, and when inquiry was made by her mistress, as to her whereabouts, she was first told that she was in Brooklyn, then that she was in Jersey City, and finally, that she was at her father's ; all of which was false. She had been spirited away, and locked up in a nunnery,. where she was kept in confinement all this time. Such is the dependence to be placed upon the word of Catholics, when anything relating to their religion and church is concerned. CHAPTEE III. The Priest's Confession, and Excuse for Ms Conduct. The sudden disappearance of a young girl, under such circumstances naturally awakened no little inte- rest in the community ; and in a short time the follow- ing appeared, under the head of " Local Matters," in the Neivarh Daily Advertiser : Alleged Religious Abduction. — Considerable sensation has been produced by the alleged detention of a young girl from this city in a Roman Catholic institution iu New York. It seems that a young girl, about fifteen years old, named Mary A. Smith, the daughter of Roman Catholic parents, professed conversion in the Franklin Street M. E. Church, on the evening of January 16th. She was living at the time in a Protestant family in Jefferson Street. On the 26th of January she joined the South Market Street M. E. Church as a probationer, and often expressed fears of violence from her own family, who, she stated, had become greatly incensed at her change of religious faith. On the 24th of March she left her place of residence upon an errand, and has not since been seen. Upon investigation of the subject by her Protestant friends, it appears that her father in- BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 11 formed her that one of her cousins, an infant, whom she loved, was at the point of death ; she went to see it, but instead of the dying child met a priest, by whom she was taken to the " Convent of the Good Shepherd," in New York, where it is alleged that she is re- strained of her liberty, and compelled to labor and fast, with no probability of release unless she renounces her Protestant faith, which she manifests no desire to do. Such are the circumstances as they are reported by those of her Protestant friends who have become interested in the subject. It seems that her father, who is her natural and legal guardian during her minority, is the principal party concerned in the transaction, and the presence of the priest seems to imply that he consulted his usual spiritual adviser in re- claiming his child to his own faith. This " informal explanation " by no means satisfied the public ; and Mr. Doane felt himself obliged to ap- pear again in print, and this time over his own signa- ture. Here is his confession and excuse for his con- duct : AIle§[ed £^eligiou§ Abduction. Me. Editor : I had hoped that the informal explanation in your columns of a startling paragraph, headed " Alleged Religious Ab- duction," would have been sufficient; but it seems that it was not, at least with one member of the community, and who wrote to you on Saturday evening, who may perhaps represent others. This being the case, I must ask you to publish the following simple statement. I do not intend to enter into any controversy on the matter, but simply to state what I did, and why I did it. My con- science not only acquits me of all blame, but would condemn me if I had acted otherwise. I simply did my duty, and under similar circumstances should* do the same again. WHAT I DID. Some weeks ago the friends of Mary A. Smith came to see me, telling me that she was giving them a good deal of uneasiness : that she was neglecting her religious duties, being out late at nights, keeping company of which they disapproved, and that the persons with whom she lived were tampering with her faith. I told them to see her and ask her to come and see me. This they attempted to do, but she refused to see them. i then advised them to get a writ of habeas corpus^ and gave them a note for that purpose to Judge Teese. The Judge replied that he had not the power to issue a writ of this kind, and referred the friends to Judge Depue. They called upon Judge Depue, but he 12 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH was out of town, and would not be back for a day or two. In the meantime the child paid a visit to her aunt, Mrs. Daniel Carrolton, in Lock street, and she sent me word that she was there. I went up to see her, and found her very headstrong and untruthful. Among other things she positively denied having had anything to do with any religious body other than her own. Finding her in this state, and knowing that so long as she was under the influences under which she was, it would be hopeless to attempt to reclaim her, I advised her father to take her to the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, in New York, which he did the following day. WHY I DID IT. I advised this course because, as I have stated above, I knew it was useless to try and do anything with her while she was under the influences under which she would be while in Newark, with persons whose motives I do not wish to question, as they, no doubt, thought they were doing a charity to the girl, but whose acts I must condemn, who were alienating her from her friends, and from her faith. Eeally, if anybody has been trying to prosely- tize, it is they, and not we, and the cap is on the wrong head. I knew that in the House of the Good Shepherd she would be kindly treated, instructed in her duties, and taught a trade by which she could afterwards support herself The Sisters of the Good Shep- herd, who were established in France many years ago, and who have houses in most of our large cities, and whose worth and use- fulness are recognized by all who know them, whether Catholic or Protestant, devote themselves to the reformation of poor girls who have abandoned the path of virtue, and to the preservation of others who show a disposition to evil, and the correction of dis- obedient and incorrigible children. Of both classes, they have at present, in their house in New York, three hundred — of course, kept entirely distinct. I have visited the child since she went there, and found her well pleased with the Sisters, and the Sisters in hopes that she would profit by their care and advice. I need hardly add that all stories of unkind or harsh treatment are abso- lutely false. Eeally it seems to me that this matter is being carried a little too far, the people of Newark being led to believe that some fright- ful act of injustice has been committed under the direction of a *' priest," when a Catholic father has simply removed his child from what he considered dangerous influences, and placed her in what is nothing more than a Reformatory School. I offered the other day, through you, to give any respectable person a note of introduction to the Sisters, but no one has applied for it. It seems to me that before any one else interferes iii this matter, they had better inform themselves thoroughly about it, or otherwise let it alone. BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 13 . My motive before for requesting yon to correct the statement that had been made, editorially, was by no means an unwillingness to be known as the "priest " who had been spoken of, but to avoid controversy, for which I have no time ; but as your correspondent seems to insinuate that I have been endeavoring to keep in the background, for purposes of my own, I subscribe my name to this simple statement of facts. G. H. Doane. The Cathedral, Newark, May 4, 1868. Now, let the reader note the following points in this letter : 1. Mr. Doane pleads "conscience" for his ungodly transaction. " My conscience not only acquits me of all blame, but would condemn me if I had acted other- wise." We see by this what sort of a "conscience" Komanism gives to its votaries, and even to its priests. 2. Mark, imder " What I Did," that the only com- plaint is, that Miss Smith was neglecting her " reHgious duties," that is, the confessional, * Fitzgerald, John D. Fitzgeeald, being duly sworn, says : I am the husband of this last witness, Osee M. Fitzgerald. I never saw anything in the conduct or conversation of Mary Ann Smith, whilst she was with us, to cause me to doubt that she was a virtuous girl, and I believed then, and believe now, that she was a girl of unblamable and spotless moral character. Cross-examined : I did not talk much with Mary Ann Smith nor with any of my servant girls. I meet them in the house only. I never saw anything in the conduct or character of Margaret Lan- non, my chamber-maid, while she was with me, to cause me to doubt that she was a virtuous girl, up to the time of her pregnancy. I noticed at length that she was in the family-way, as I thought, and I have been informed that said Margaret has had an illegiti- BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 83 mate child since she left my house. I know nothing of the char- acter of Mary Ann Smith other than what I saw of her in my house. John D. Fitzgerald. Sworn to before me, this 24th of June, 1868, D. P. Ingeaham, Justice, Such is the testimony of Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald, with whom Mary Ann was living at the time of her abduction. Despite all the efforts of counsel to show, by cross-examination, that Miss Smith was out nights, etc., the worst shown is that she went one evening a week to her religious meetings ; and the unequivocal testimony of this most estimable and honored Chris- tian family is, that while with them " she behaved her- self with great propriety and consistency — more than usually so ;" that is, more than is usual for girls of her age. Mr. Fitzgerald says, " I believed then, and I believe now, that she was a girl of unblamable and spotless moral character." Let not those strong statements of those with whom she lived be lost sight of in reading the testimony hereafter produced to sink the poor girl to infamy. Mary €. €rregory, Maet 0. Gregory, being duly sworn, says : I reside at Ko. 15 Monroe street, Newark, N. J., at home with my parents. I be- came acquainted with Mary Ann Smith shortly after she joined the South Market Street M. E. Church, about the 26th of January, 1868. I was and am still a member of that church. I associated with Mary Ann ; after that I saw her occasionally during the week, and on the Sabbath she would call at our house on her way to church, and we went together. She went every Sabbath as a gen- eral thing. She was an intimate friend of mine, and I certainly should not have associated with her if her character had not been good. I believed then, and I believe now, that she was a girl of good moral character. Si ABDUCTI02T OF MARY ANN SMITH Cross-examined: I shall be seventeen years old in July. We went to church together on Sundays. I never go out evenings except to church. Of my own knowledge I don't know how Mary Ann spent her evenings. I don't know Margaret Lannon. I knew Mary Ann lived in the same house with her. Maet 0. Gregoet. Sworn to before me, this 24th day of June, 1868, D. P. Ingraham, Jmtice, This, it is seen, is from an "intimate friend" of Miss Smith — a girl of seventeen, and a member of the same church. And yet, intimate as they were, she swears, " I believed then, and I believe now, that she was a girl of good moral character." We shall next hear the testimony of W. S. Van Ness, another member of the same church : William §mitli Van Nes§. Wm. S. Yai^ Ness, a witness produced and duly sworn on he- half of the plaintiff says : I am acquainted with Mary Ann Smith, now present. I am twenty-three years old; am a carpenter by trade ; resided at INTewark about sixteen years : I am a member of the South Market Street Methodist Church, the Church Mary Ann Smith joined. I got acquainted with her at the said church. I used to see her at the Church meetings about three times a week. I used to speak to her every night when she was there, almost as the members are in the habit of so speaking to each other. I never heard any harm of her, and always believed her to be a re- spectable girl. Her general reputation, as far as I know, was that of a respectable and modest girl. I am not acquainted with Mrs. Fitzgerald, her employer. I used frequently to accompany Mary Ann home from the meetings. This was customary for the young members who were acquainted with each other. When I first was acquainted with her she lived at Mr. Brittins, afterwards she moved to Mrs. Fitzgerald^s, and these were the only two places to which 1 accompanied her. I believe I was the only young man who went with her after she joined the Church. I don't know of any other, excepting that I have seen her walk with Mr. Gilbert, the pastor of the Church, as far as his house. G ross-txandnation : 1 knew Mary Ann Smith about four months. I met her at church about three evenings in the week. Church opened about half-past seven o'clock, closed about nine o'clock. I was in the habit of going with her when the church closed. I gen- BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 35 erally went home. About twice I took a walk before going in the house. We talked about the church ; she said her people "wished her to go to a convent. She said she did not want to go ; that they would not get her to go if she could avoid it. I knew she was a convert; talked about Catholics. I don't know what this girl's previous character had been more than I have seen. I only knew her in the church. I never inquired as to her character. If I thought she was a bad girl, I would not have gone with her. William S. Van Ness. Sworn to before me this 24:th day of June, 1868, D. P. Inge AH AM, Justice. Here, again, we have the same unequivocal testi- mony — never saw or heard any harm of Mary Ann, but she had the reputation of being a respectable and modest girl. We come next to the testimony of her pastor and the prosecutor for her irelease, Bev. J. S. Gilbert : J^e§§e §. Criifoert. Jesse S. Gilbert, a witness produced and sworn on behalf of the plaintiff: I reside at Newark. Am pastor of the South Market Street Methodist Church, of which Mary Ann Smith is a member. I have been pastor about fifteen months. I know Mary Ann Smith now present ; have known her since January, about five months. I used to see her nearly every evening at church, where we had revival meetings nearly every night. I used often to speak to her. I never heard anything against her reputation ; and I then be- lieved, and still do believe, that she is a virtuous and upright gu*l and, considering her opportunities, very intelligent. I am ac- quainted with Mr. Van ISTess, previous witness ; he is one of our members in good standing. Mary Ann^s reputation among the congregation of that church was, and is still, that of a good and upright girl. She often asked the prayers of the congregation for hei* parents ; never manifested an undutiful spirit to my knowledge. I have seen her father; I don't know him personally. I have heard that he is an intemperate man. Cross-examined : I heard Miss Gregory say that she heard that he was intemperate. I don't know what the father's reputation is. Kever saw nor knew him till I met him here. I know nothing about the family. My congregation consists of one hundred and twenty members ; thirty-six probationers ; Mary Ann is in merely on probation. The majority of my congregation are young people. Mary Ann joined on probation the 26th of Jan. 1868. She professed 36 ABDUCTIOJS" OF MARY ANN SMITH conversion one night in Franklin street cburcli when I preached. I might have seen her previously to this. I used to take lessons in vocal music at Mr. Britton's, and she attended the hell. I saw her once or twice at Mr. Brittin's house, and saw her at revival meet- ings almost every night, I knew her while she lived at Mr. Fitz- gerald's. She did not attend the meetings so frequently then. I never walked alone with her on the street or sought her society. She never made confession to me. Once or twice she asked spirit- ual advice of me. Once she accosted me on the street, in front of my house, as she was going by. Others were present ; she stopped a minute, the others passed on, and she asked me if she might pray for her father. I had a conversation with her at brother Brittin's on the difference between the religions., I don't profess to be a theologian in the technical sense. I have been in the ministry nearly three years. I graduated from Princeton College. Did not study in a Divinity School. I am twenty- one years of age last November. I am not married. I never inquired into tlie charac- ter of Mary Ann Smith. I don't know of her keeping company with young men outside of my church. I don't know what girls she associates with. While I knew, her she has been a servant girl. J. S. Gilbert. Sworn to before me, this 24th day of June, 1368, D. P. Ingeaham, Justice. This testimony needs no comment, except that it should be remembered that it was drawn out by ques- tioning, and was written down by the attorneys. On that account it contains expressions which Mr. Gilbert would have modified as to their form. But if is clear, and unequivocal to the point, that having known Miss Smith for five months, he had never seen or heard any thing improper as to her character or conduct. Here, then, we have, exclusive of the testimony of Doane and Miss Smith, that of seven witnesses, name- ly, John S. Brittins, Mrs. C. L. Brittins, Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald, Miss Gregory, Mr. Van Ness, and Eev. Mr. Gilbert, who all testify most explicitly and emphati- cally to the good character and deportment of Mary Ann, according to the best of their knowledge and be- BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 37 lief. And even Doane does not really allege anything against her moral character. EUlen \Y. Atoer. Testimony of Ellex W. Aber, a witness produced and sworn in the above entitled matter, in behalf of the plaintiff: I reside in Newark, N. J. ; Have resided there about forty years. Am mar- ried. Question, What was the first you knew of the taking of Mary Ann Smith from Newark, and the putting her in the convent ? The first I knew of it was when I saw it stated in the "papers" that she had been so taken. I subsequently saw Mary Ann Smith at the convent, about two weeks after she came there. Father Doane gave me a permit. Mrs. Fitzgerald went with me. We had a long talk there with Mary Ann. They brought her down on one side of some iron bars, and we were on the other.* We went into the chapel ; were shown where the penitents sat.t I could see no separations in the gallery where they sat ; we did not go up into the gallery. I have heard somewhat of Mary Ann from time to time, and always favorably. I never heard anything against her character.! I do not know her father. Father Doane told me her father was a bad man ; not fit to have charge of the girl. Cross-examined by Mr. T. O'Connor : I never knew Mary Ann Smith till I saw her in the Institution, of my own knowledge. I know nothing of her family. I was never acquainted with them nor with her father. I went out of curiosity to see Mary Ann at the convent. Father Doane advertised that any one wishing to see the convent could do so. I remained in the convent about an hour and a half. E. W Abee. Sworn to before me this 24th day of June, 1868, D. P. Ingeaham, Justice, Here the Prosecution rested for a time, and the Respondents entered upon their defence the next day. * What an exhibition in this free country, and that, too, in an in- stitution supported by the State ! f Here is the machinery for sectarian drill and " discipline,'' and yet it is not a religious institution ! X How strange, if she was the public character which her Catholic friends represent her to be. 38 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH CHAPTER VI. The Suit continues— Eespondents enter fojpially upon their Defence. The first witness called was James Smith, a very stupid-looking Irish Eoman Catholic, who testified as follows : James gmith. James Smith, called as a witness for the Respondent, being duly sworn, deposes and says : Direct examination-hj Respondent's counsel. My name is James Smith. I reside in Newark, and have resided there and in Jersey City twenty-two years. I am a laboring man. I have always been in employment while I lived in Newark. I am now employed in the brick works; have been employed there about nine years. Previous to that I worked for Sister Brothers, Passaic Carbon works. I worked for them five years steady. I am the father of Mary Ann Smith, named in the writ of habeas corpus. Her mother has been dead for years. I have had other children besides Mary Ann. Am married again. I have always kept house in Newark, and still keep house. I have always seen to the children. I have always treated Mary Ann good and kind. I have always taken care of Mary Ann. She was sick with the small-pox a year ago last July, and I kept her at home while she was sick. When Mary Ann's mother died, I sent her to live with her aunt, Mrs. Carrolton. The aunt procured her a place, which she left and came to me. I have always kept her in a situation since her mother died. I sent her to work in a family when she left her aunt, and when she was out of place she lived with me. She is going on sixteen years of age. She never till the last five months maintained herself. Till lately I provided her clothing. I left her almost entirely with the aunt after her mother died till I got married again. Last March I placed her in the House of the Good Shepherd. I put her there because she was misbehaving, keeping bad company, and late hours, and disobeying me. She is there now by my authority, and kept there by my will. I intend to leave her there till she becomes good, or until I find a good place for her, where she will be taken care of and not be left to her own inclinations. I have taken her from several bad girls ; one BY THE ROMAlSr CATHOLICS. 39 named Sweeney. About five months ago I ordered her into my house. I saw her in the streets nights with dissipated young men and women, and took her home forcibly and brought her to my house. I am of ability to maintain her and willing to do so. She never gave me any of her earnings except three dollars, which was due her when she was placed in the House of the Good Shepherd, for which I bought her shppers and sent her mother to see her. I think she had better be in the House of the Good Shepherd till I find her a more suitable place. Tis not for the church I put her in, 'tis for disobeying me and keeping bad company. It had been reported to me that she walked the streets and acted bad in 'New- ark^ and that is why I watched her and I found it so, and took her off the streets for her safety. When she lived out, she was accus- tomed to come to my house at eleven o'clock and sometimes after midnight. I always took her in — that is, my wife took her in. My wife is very fond of her — too fond she was of her. Cross-examined : I work now in the Zinc Works. I earn about fourteen shillings a day. I work every day I have my health. Last week I only worked two days ; I worked four days the week before. I generally earn twenty-three dollars and ten cents every two weeks by my labor — sometimes thirty, and sometimes more by making overtime. For the last year I have been earning as much as stated. I sent Mary Ann to her aunt's about five years ago until I should get married again. She staid there about three years. She was at school a part Of the time. She can't read and write. She acted as one of the family at her aunt's. Can't say how long she was at school. Don't know what she did when she was at her aunt's. Went there to see her when I had a chance. Don't know how often, perhaps every three or four months. I did not clothe her during that time. Her aunt clothed her. There was no agreement about clothing her with the aunt. The aunt was willing to take her and do for her until she got stronger. My boy was in Jersey City during that time ; don't remember how much I earned. I boarded at ^JsTewark. When my daughter left her aunt's, she went to a place with my consent. I went to see her at the place and brought her a set of garments. She did not stay long at that place, and then I got her another place. She stopped only a short time there^' and then was home with me again. She stayed home until she got another place, and after- wards went to work at her uncle's shop. She got a place in the country and stayed there a month, and from there came to me, and from me came to this place where she become a Protestant. I don't know the families where she lived at all. It was since my wife died that I suspected Mary's character — about two years. I heard people say that I ought to keep my people in at night from bad company. Her uncle, Mr. McDonald, told me she was no bet- ter than a common prostitute ; that was while he employed her ; that was six or seven months ago. I went out to look for her in 40 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANIST SMITH the street ; I found out she was keeping company with had boys and girls. She kept company with one Kate Sweeney, who bore a bad name. She was in her company some time. I took her away from her company. I have not seen my daughter with her for five or six months. I have seen her with several young men. I did not know whether they were bad or good, only I didn't like her to be with them. I can't think of any of their names ; that is all I know against Mary Ann, that she went on the street with Kate Sweeney and several young men whose characters I did not think to be good. In the latter end of March last, I went and took ad- vice of her aunt, Mrs. Carrolton, and Father Doane, and they ad- vised me to put her in the House of the Good Shepherd. I did not know of my own knowledge that she had joined the church when I took that advice. I had heard rurnors of her having joined, and had asked her about it, but she denied that she had joined the church. I did not threaten her ; I went to see a lawyer at that time, but did not see him. I saw another lawyer since and told him about the case. I told him my girl was disobedient and I wanted to know what to do with her. He wrote a few lines and sent them to Father Doane. I don't know what was in the lines. 1 don't remember saying anything to the lawyer about her being a Protestant. I know that Mary had a dispute with Mr. McDonald, who gave me the bad reports of her. Mary told me that he ac- cused her of stealing money. I didn't pay much regard to it. I went to see him and asked him if it was so, and he gave me no de- cided answer. I can't say whether it was then or afterwards he told me that Mary Ann was no better than a prostitute. I live at Newark now. I rent two rooms in said house. There are five in my family ; myself and wife and two boys and Mary Ann. It was from her aunt, Margaret Carroll's, that I took her away to the House of the Good Shepherd. I told her that she might not be a month there. If she did not like it I would take her out. I don't drink, except a glass of beer occasionally. Have not got drunk for some time. My wife does not get drunk. bis James M Smith. mark. Sworn to before me, this 25th day of June, 1868, D. P. Ingeaham, Jmtice, Any one can see by this testimony that Mr. Smith had been well schooled in the part he was to act be- fore coming into court. With Mrs. Carrolton, her aunt, he swears that Mary Ann was sent to school, and yet she cannot write her name or read a word. BY THE KOMAN CATHOLICS. 41 Observe, also, that important as it was for tlie father to convict his daughter of proflgacy, if possible, " for the good of the church," that is, to justify the abduc- tion instigated by Doane, the most the father could say was, " All I know against Mary Ann is, that she went on the street with Kate Sweeney and several young men whose characters I did not think to be good." But this was months before the project for her abduction. 2. The latter end of March he heard that she had joined the M. E. Church, and then went to a lawyer, who wrote to Father Doane, etc. How plain from all this that it was not the bad company she kept six months before, but the joining of the M. E. Church which made the stir, and was the sole cause of the ab- duction. 3. Notice that Smith admits that he told her she need not stay in the nunnery unless she wished to, and yet she has been there, against her will, now (Septem- ber 10th) for over five months. 4. It is obvious from the whole drift of this testi- mony that Mr. Smith had no idea that his daughter was dissolute. Hence, when two abandoned wretches swore to her bad character, and I asked the father if he had supposed her to be such a girl, he told me no, he had never suspected such a thing. And even the Mother Superior, in the early part of the suit, when some one intimated that Mary Ann was a bad girl, contradicted the statement, affirming that she could tell a bad girl, and that Mary Ann was not a bad girl. It was not then known that it would be necessary to 42 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH | make her out a courtesan in order to justify her con- tinued imprisonment, ssljs : Mrs. Bridget Smitli. Mrs. Beidget Smith, being duly sworn, testifies : I am tlie wife of James Smith, father of Mary Ann Smith, now present. Mary Ann has lived with me off and on as she was out of place. I know her to have kept late hours on the streets of Newark. She often came to my house at the hour of about eleven o'clock, seeking ad- mittance, and I let her in. I know of her keeping bad company. I saw her with a young man named Denis Clarey. He was then after coming out of jail. He was considered a bad character ; they called him a rowdy. He used to come to see Mary Ann when her father was out. I know of her keeping company with a girl named Kate Sweeny; she bears a bad name. Cross-examined : Mary Ann has not been at my house since last Fall. I have not seen her with Denis Clarey or Kate Sweeny since Christmas last. I know nothing against Mary's virtue. her Bridget M Smith. mark. Sworn to before me, this 25th day of June, 1868, D. P. Ingeaham, Justice, Mrs. Margaret Carrolton. Mrs. Margaret Carrolton, being duly sworn, deposes and says : I live in Ko. 112 Lock street, Newark. I am the aunt of Mary Ann Smith, sister of her deceased mother. At the death of her mother and before that, during the sickness of her mother, I took Mary Ann under my charge. She was then over nine years old. I placed her with my sister, Mrs. McDonald, in Plane street. She remained with her over two years, and part of this time she went to school ; when not at school she minded the baby. She was supported and provided for by my sister as one of her own family. While going to school, she played truant so much that her aunt took her from school. At Mary Ann's desire, her aunt sent her to work in a shop, and Mary Ann staid there not over two weeks. She then went to live with Mrs. Garrett minding children. She was then over twelve years of age. She remained there less than two months. She came home from there, and I went to see Mrs. Garrett, and she told me she discharged Mary Ann for stealing. I found a brush and comb and leggins and some other things with Mary Ann, and she confessed to me that she had stolen them from Mrs. Garrett. I compelled her to return them. After Mrs. Gar- BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 43 rett, she came again to live with mj sister. The aunt placed her in her husband's shop, Mr. McDonald, a tailor, to teach her to run a sewing machine. She remained at that a few weeks, and then he gave her wages, ^ve dollars a week. She stole from the shop silk and other things, and he was obliged to send' her out of the house to board, but still kept her working for him. She went to board to a place I procured her. I took her to Father Doane, and he told me of her lying and stealing, and he advised me to place her in the House of the Good Shepherd. This was two years ago. She worked two or three months after that for Mr. McDonald. The lady she boarded witb, Mary Ann told me, accused her of hav- ing stolen money, and I then took Mary Ann under my own charge. When she left McDonald, she went to the country to live out ; but she came back to her father's house. She then went to live with Mrs. Sponheimer to run a machine at what wages sbe could earn. Then Mrs. Sponheimer put her to minding children. She remained three or four months with Mrs. Sponheimer. Mary Ann was at this time over fourteen years of age. I then ascertained that she was keeping bad company. I went to Mrs. Sponheimer's to inquire about her, and was informed that she could not get along with Mary Ann. Mrs. Sponheimer discharged her. Mary Ann is a very stubborn girl, and she is dishonest. I have ever striven to take care of her. Her father, James Smith, has always come to see Mary Ann, and has always provided her with whatever she wanted. Mr. Smith is a very sober, industrious man, always seeing to his family. He has not drank for six years to my knowledge. Some years ago he drank freely, so as to be drunk once or twice a week. He does not drink now. He works constantly. Those times I speak of his drinking years ago he was never incapacitated for work. Cross-examined: It was three years ago that Mrs. Garrett ac- cused Mary Ann of dishonesty. It was over a year ago that her uncle accused her of dishonesty. Her stepmother has accused her since. I don't know how long ago, nor whether within six months. I guess it must be longer ago than six months. It was in last fall I heard of Mary's keeping bad company. I have not heard of her doings since that time. Mary Ann did nothing at my house. She boarded there. Within the last twelve months Mary Ann has clothed herself. I went with Mary Ann to the House of the Good Shepherd. Her father told her that she should come and see the place and make arrangements concerning staying. I did not hear him say she needn't stay unless she liked. her Margaret M Oaeeolton. mark. Sworn to before me, this 25th day of June, 1868, D. P. Ingeaham, Justice, In regard to this testimony, the following points are worthy of special note : 44 ABDUCTION OF MAEY ANN SMITH 1. Whatever there may have been of instability or dishonesty in Mary Ann, all that is here alleged was months or years before she went to Mr. Brittins, or was converted to Christ. Even then, if all was as Mrs. Carrolton testifies, how does that justify her arrest and imprisonment after she became pious and steady ? 2. She swears positively that Mary Ann was dis- charged by Mrs. Garrett, some four years before, for stealing. This Mr. Garrett contradicts. 3. She swears 'that " Mr. Smith is a very sober, in- dustrious man, etc.," which everybody who knows him knows is not true. He was not " sober " when Bev. Mr. Gilbert and the writer called upon him as nar- rated further on, and when he threatened to spill Mr. Gilbert's "heart's blood," though he was not very drunk. 4. She heard what the father said to Mary Ann about going to see the convent, but did not hear the balance of what the father admits that he said at the same time. But we leave "Mrs. Carrolton" for the next witness. €liarles Garrett. Chaeles Garrett, a witness produced and sworn on part of plaintiff, deposeth and says : I reside at Newark. Am a tailor. Have resided there twenty years ; am married. I don't know Mary Ann Smith now present ; would not remember her. 1 re- member that a girl of the name lived with me and my wife as a servant, to take care of our child, about four years ago next No- vember. I would have taken her to be about eleven or twelve years of age. She was with us about a month. My wife dis- charged her because she was too young and fond of play. We did not discharge her for stealing. I did not know of iier stealing any- thing before we discharged her. After she had gone, her aunt came to the house and brought some trinkets, which appeared to be ours, and which she said Mary had stolen. There were some glass marbles which children play with, a comb and part of an old BY THE EOMAJSr CATHOLICS. 45 brush, and a pair of old woolen leggins; they were all things we had known nothing at all about before her aunt came there with them. I never saw anything bad about the child while she was with us ; she was just like other children. We found no fault with her except that she was too young. Question, Your wife has been spoken to concerning this matter by Mary Ann's aunt ? A week or ten days ago the aunt stated to my wife that she wanted her to draw up and sign a paper stating that Mary Ann was a thief and a liar. My wife is seriously ill at present. (Coun- sel objects to the husband testifying as to what the wife did or said.) Chaeles Gaerett. Sworn to before me, this 25th day of June, 1868, D. P. Ingeaham, Justice, 1. Notice how Mr. Garrett contradicts Mrs. Carrol- ton, the affectionate aunt. *' My wife discharged her because she was too young and fond of play. We did not discharge her for steaHng." 2. Notice how the animus of the persecution crops out. She had become a Protestant and must be crushed ; and so her Catholic aunt goes to a woman with whom Mary Ann had lived years before, when a mere child, and tries to get a paper affirming that she was a thief and a liar ! And mark upon what grounds all this was alleged by her inhuman aunt ! Mrs. Mary gponlieimer. Mrs. Maet Sponheimee, being duly sworn as a witness for the Ee^'pondent, says : I reside at Newark. Carry on the business of ves^^making. Keep house, and have a family, my husband and four children. I know Mary Ann Smith here present. She has been in my employ about two years ago. I hired her to work on a sewing machine. She proved unable to do the work. Then I took her to baste. She was not accustomed to sewing, and could not earn her board at it. So I put her into the kitchen. I gave her four or five (I'm not certain which) dollars per month. She remained with me some four or ^yq months. The first time she was with me I liked her very well, and saw nothing bad about her. 46 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH When I hired her again, I found her untruthful and accustomed to stay out at night till ten and eleven o'clock, and sometimes all night ; twice she remained out all night. Down stairs under my house there is a carriage house, and a number of rough young men loiter there. I saw Mary Ann in company with them standing at the gate with them, and talking through the fence. One day I heard them talking with her. I don't know what they said, but I heard her make the reply, " Go to hell." I immediately took her up stairs ; it hurt my feelings, and I cried and talked to her as a mother. She seemed at first stubborn, but at length confessed she had done wrong and promised to do better. I am the mother of three girls and one boy. My girls are all young ; my eldest is eleven. I did not consider it safe to have Mary Ann with my girl, because she on ona occasion carried my eldest girl with her to some house, and then told my girl to tell me they were elsewhere, and to deny they were at this house. Mary Ann was so accus- tomed to keep company with the young men down stairs that I feared they would take some advantage of my eldest girl. I knew her once to be out carriage riding with one of these young men. I did discharge her. I told her I would not keep her longer in the house. This was, I think, last fall. I discharged her because I did not think it was safe for her to be in the house with my chil- dren. She was dishonest. She stole three pairs of stockings from u me ; she was not truthful. ^ Q. What is your religion ? A. I am a Catholic, but go with my husband, who is a Protest- ant, to Church. My girls go to Catholic Church; my boy to Protestant. Cross-examined : After I discharged Mary Ann, she came to me and told me she had joined the Methodist Church. The reason of her coming was that she met my little girl in the street, and my girl told her I was going to have her arrested for stealing the stockings and other things I had missed ; she told me she had ioined the Church and became a different girl from what she had been. I told her that was no proof to me of her being any better. This was shortly before she was taken over to this city. M. Sponheimee. Sworn to before before me, this 25th day of June, 1868. f' D. P. Ingeaham, Justice, All this, if true, was montlis 'before she joined the M. E. Church, and while she was a good Catholic. And if this was the ground of her abduction, why was she not arrested then, instead of waiting till she became steady enough to earn seven dollars a month ? How BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 47 obvious that all this, even if true, had nothing to do with her abduction and imprisonment. Mary Fox. Mary Fox, called as a witness for the respondent and being duly sworn, deposed and says : I reside in Newark. I keep house with my family. I know Mary Ann Smith here present. She came once to ray house, about six months ago, at eleven o'clock in the night. She wo aid not tell where she had been. She said she had no supper; I gave her some, and then sent her to her father's house. Cross-examined : I live in the same building with James Smith. It was about six or seven months ago since she came to my house, as above stated. I know nothing against Mary Ann's virtue. her Maey M Fox. mark. Sworn to before me, this 25th day of June, 1868, D. P. Ingeaham, Justice, Here we have the same story again, by another CathoHc. Mary Ann was wild, six or seven months before, when she was a CathoKc; from which Mr. Doane would have the public believe that this was the reason why she was imprisoned seven months after- ward, when she had become a steady and sober girl, and a consistent Christian. Mary MeI>oiiald. Maey McDonald, being duly sworn, deposes and says : I know Mary Ann Smith. I am her aunt — sister of her deceased mother. Mary Ann lived with me, since her mother's death, over two years, as a member of the family. The most of that time I sent her to school. She is a very untruthful girl. She has stolen several things from me ; stolen money and spent it. I saw to her ever since her mother's death, and tried to do all we could for her. She was very unruly, and I have had a great deal of trouble with her. Her father is an industrious, sober man, always working. Has always maintained his family as well as any man in his circum- stances. Her reputation in INTewark is bad. I advised placing her in the House of the Good Shepherd, in order to save her from shame. 48 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH Cross examined : I am the wife of Mary Ann's uncle with whom she lived. James Smith, her father, is a sober man now. Some time ago he used to drink. The latest bad report I heard of Mary Ann was about seven months ago, when she was at Mrs. Sponheimer's. I heard there she kept bad company. Ma.ky McDonald. Sworn to before me, this 25th day of June, 1868, D. P. Ingraham, Jiistice. Here it is again ; a bad girl, seven months ago, etc. ; at school most of two years, and yet does not know her letters ! What a " school" that must have been ! Was it a public school, or a parochial Catholic school ? CHAPTEE VII. A.I1 Adverse Decision, and a new Line of Defence. At this point in the trial the Catholic lawyer moved that the writ be vacated, and Mary Ann left in confine- ment, on the ground that she was a minor, and her father had a right to place her in a nunnery if he chose to do so. To this Judge Ingraham replied, that she was a young girl, and that no father had a right to put such a girl with such associates (alluding, doubtless, to the abandoned women in the nunnery), and that unless the case could be lighted up in some way, he should never remand her back to the institu- tion. This seemed seriously to disconcert Mr. Doane and his lawyer. If the place was unfit for such a girl, they must either disprove the character of its inmates or make Mary Ann a proper subject for such a *' Mag- dalen Asylum ;" arid the latter, it seems, was decided upon as the nearest possible, namely, to destroy the BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 49 character of their victim, and thus carry their point, and divert the public odium from themselves to her. Father Doane was heard to say to O'Connor, his lawyer, "tell me what testimony you want, and I will get it for you ;" and the Court was adjourned to the next day. The next morning Mr. Doane was seen in the corner of the room with two young men, vath whom he was in conversation, and looking and pointing to the place where Miss Smith and other ladies sat, as if helping them to identify her, preparatory to giving their testi- mony ; and in a short time they were brought on to the stand, and testified as follows : Jo§epli [Egbert. Joseph Egbert, a witness for respondent, being duly sworn, de- poses and says : I am twenty-one years of age ; am a painter by trade. I reside in ITewark. I work around the stable of Mr. Mullen on Warren street, Newark. Mrs. Sponheimer lives over at his stable. I am acquainted with Mary Ann Smith; this is she present. I have known her going on two years. I have been out with her. I went carriage-riding with her one Sunday last August. We were both together ; no one else with us. We went on the Plank Road ; Mary Ann drove. We stopped at a place she called " Snake Hill." It is a woody place on the roadside. Mary Ann got out of the carriage. She asked me if I was coming. I said yes, and followed her into the woods. * * * * * We then came out of the woods and to the carriage. I never, before that, nor since, had improper connexion with her. I have often met her in Newark, I walked with her at night. She offered no opposition to my cohabiting with her in the woods. I know one girl, whose name I don't know, who lived in Bank street, and was a companion of Mary Ann's. She was a prostitute. As far as I have seen of Mary Ann Smith, I have always seen her talk with fellows around the corner. Frank Mac- Bridge was one. He is a bad character. James Endice, a bad char- acter ; Jimmy O'Brien, a bad character, and others. They are all loose, disreputable young men. I got acquainted with Mary Ann while I worked in the stable. Mary Ann used to go around the 50 ABDUCTION OF MAKY ANN SMITH stable and carriage-house, look through the cracks, and talk to the fellows. She told me one night that she got a letter from Frank MacBridge. She told me that Frank MacBridge could go to hell ; that she wanted nothing to do with him. The next night I saw him and her standing together on the corner, between ten and eleven o'clock. I met her one night coming from dancing- school, about eleven o'clock. I do not know her father, I was at her house one night and stones were thrown at the door. I asked her what that was. She said some of her fellows were around. She was consid- ered a loose girl in Newark. I was brought up in the Methodist church, and go there when I go to church, which is seldom. Cross-examined : I had known Mary Ann about two years before I had intercourse with her as above stated. In August last I asked her on Saturday night to go riding, and she said she would go. The first I ever said abeut our sexual intercourse was yesterday; I then told the foreman of the stable. He asked me if I knew her, and had ever had dealings with her, and I told him yes, and told this story I have told to-day. I am sure I never mentioned it to any one else. Mr. Smith employed me last August. Mr. Mul- len is his partner. I got the carriage from Mr. Smith. I hired it for $3 50. I asked her if she wanted to go, and she said yes. I did not know how old she was. I judge her about sixteen. My character is about the same as that of the men in the shop. I have been in jail for assault and battery; also, my mother put me in these houses last winter, because I wanted to run away from her — just as Mary Ann is doing. I have had sexual intercourse with other women both before and since August last. The day we went out to ride, I took Mary in the carriage by her father's house. We rode down the Plank Road to the place where the road turns off to Snake Hill. From there we went down to the Plank Road and up to her bouse. Before we got to her house we met another girl; she got in the wagon along with u?, and we went down to Ferry street and down Ferry street to Mulberry street, through Mulberry to Market street, and down Market street to her house again ; they got out and I helped them; then went up to the stable with my horse. I saw Father Doane yesterday, and he asked me to come over here and testify. I was never in jail but those two times mentioned. I live at Newark, and did when I worked for Mr. Mullen. It is about eight or nine months since I have seen Mary Ann Smith before to-day in Court. I used to see her almost every day before that. I knew her name. I am positive tliat Mary Ann, now present, is the girl I had intercourse with, as above stated. Could not have been mistaken. I cannot write. his Joseph M Egbeiit. mark. Sworn to before me, this 25th day of June, 1868, D. P. Ingraham, Justice, BY THE EOMAN CATHOLICS. 51 Observe, now, how fortunate it was for Mr. Doane that, just in the nick of time, only the day before this testimony was given, Mr. Doane should ascertain from Egbert, through the Catholic stable-keeper, that Eg- bert could swear that Mary Ann was a prostitute. "What a singular coincidence ! And still more strange — he sees Mr. Doane the same day that he reveals the precious secret, and is invited by him to go to New York and testify ! But just such testimony must be had, or the prisoner would be released ; and so it hap- pened (?) to be found at the right time. The new turn thus given to the case, made it neces- sary to recall Miss Smith, and, long as her testimony is, let none fail to read it, and mark its several points and its obvious candor and truthfulness : Mary Ann Ssnltli. Maey Ann Smith, recalled by plaintiff, deposes as follows : I am acquainted with a man named Joseph Egbert, who lived at Newark, and worked in Messrs. Mullin & Smith's stables. T was present yesterday, the 24:th of June, and heard his testimony. The first time I saw him was in the stable, but I did not speak to him. I saw him mostly every day after that, for about two months. One Sunday afternoon was the first time I spoke to him. Katie Sweeny introduced him to me in the street, near my father's door. It was during the time I was at Mrs. Sponheimer's ; Egbert was in a car- riage, and stopped to speak to Katie Sweeny ;he asked Katie to go riding, and she said she had no objections ; then he asked me to go ; then I came back to ray father's and got my hat. Katie came with me, and then we both got into the carriage ; then we drove to the plank road as far as the bridge ; then we went back again up Market street and up Broad street as far as the Park, then rode down to my father's door; then got out. Katie Sweeny was with us all the time we vfere riding.* We did not get out of the carriage at all until we * Mark this vital point. Egbert swore that they were alone till they met Kate Sweeny after they hacl been to the woods. Miss Smith says, '' Katie Sweeny 53 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH came to my father's house. I have now stated all that occurred during the ride. Nothing improper happened between me and the said Egbert now present. I swear that, on my oath. I saw him the next day after the ride, but did not speak to him. I spoke to him only three or four times after that to the best of my belief, last time I spoke to him was about a week after the ride. About a week after the ride Katie Sweeny and he and me went down to my father's house ; we all went in to my father's house ; Egbert went in with us ; he stayed there about five or ten minutes. My step-mother was there. He went from there down to Oxford street, with me and Katie Sweeny. We went from there to tlie house of one of his acquaintances ; a lady. I don't know her name ; she was a married lady ; she told this young man about the death of her children ; tl^en we came from there to my father's house again. That was the last time I was with said Egbert or spoke to him. I have not seen him since then until yesterday. I knew his appearance when I saw him yesterday, but had forgotten his name. I never had any improper intercourse with said Egbert, or with any other man. I am willing to have this tested in any way the Court may direct.* I have heard the testimony of the man was witli us all the time ice were riding. We did not get out of the carriage at all until we came to my father's house. I have now stated all that occurred," etc' Now, this ^'Kate Sweeny" has since been seen by Mr. Gilbert and others, and she conj&rms the testi- mony of Miss Smith in every particular. She was in the carriage with her all the time, and nothing im- proper took place. At first, though a Catholic, Kate said she would go over to New York and testify, but since then she dare not go. The reader can well understand why ; and as she is out of the State where we need her to testify, we have not been able as yet to secure her testimony. But of the fact that she declares Mary Ann entirely in- nocent of any wrong at the time referred to, the public may be assured. "^ This she repeated in various forms from time to time. She was anxious to have a medical examination '^! BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 53 Egbert given in this matter, and it is entirely false, except as I have above stated. While I was at Mrs. Brittins^ I took some castor oil and cod liver oil. I took this myself without direction ; the above were all the remedies I ever took. I remember when I stayed at Mrs. Garret's ; remember when I left there. Mrs. Garret never accused me of stealing.* My aunt accused me of so doing; she never found anything with me ; this was right after my mother died. I never took anything from my uncle's, Mr. McDonald ; no silks, nor money, nor other things as testified, except one piece of braid which I took to tie on my hair and afterward returned. I have had several conversations with my father and aunts since this case began. My father offered to take me out of the convent, if I resumed my former Catholic faith and be a good girl. That was to-day.t Cross-examined : After my mother died I lived with my aunt, to vindicate her purity, and convict Egbert and Ellis of perjury. To this end our counsel asked the Court to make an order, assigning her to the custody of two of the oldest surgeons in New York, to examine her as she desired, and report under oath as to the facts ; but the Coart denied the request ; and there the poor girl was left, with two shameless villains, as we shall see, both of whom had been twice each in jail, swearing that she was a prostitute, and she prepared and anx- ious to demonstrate their perjury by an infallible test, and yet not permitted to do so. How Judge Ingra- ham, who seemed to be a candid and fair-minded man, could deny this poor friendless orphan, when thus blasted in reputation, the privilege of vindicating her- self and confounding her persecutors, in the way she deserved, is unaccountable. ^ So Mr. Garrett testifies. It was all the work of the Catholic aunt. t Mark this. And Doane has told her, since the de- cision of Judge Sutherland, that if she would renounce her heresy he would take her out in two days. 54 ABDUCTION OF MAHY ANK SMITH Mrs. McDonald. I lived with her about nine months ; no longer. I also lived with her before my mother died. After I left my aunt, I went to live with Mrs. Garret ; lived with her a month ; she dis- charged me because 1 was not able to do her work. I was taking care of children; don't remember how many. I can't tell what wages I got ; I think not more than three or four dollars a month ; received my own wages. I went to see my aunt regularly while I lived there. My aunt went there once ; she went to see Mrs. Garret there. I was living with her then. After I was discharged from Mrs. Garret's I went home to my aunt's. I lived with Mrs. Sponheimer ; the last time two months. It was while living with her that I became acquainted with Egbert. I also, then, became acquainted with Frank Markridge ; he was a jeweler. Another gentleman made me acquainted with him. I don't know what this gentleman's name is. I think his name is James Garrigan. I really don't know how I got acquainted with James Garrigan. It was at the stable I got acquainted with Frank Markridge. I knew James Garrigan before I came to the stable. Mrs. Sponheimer lives over the carriage-house. I saw James Garrigan in the stable. I saw Frank Markridge in the stable; I talked with Garrigan, standing by Mrs. Sponheimer's door. I know four young men about that stable. I saw those young men every day. Some of them would speak to me and I used to answer. Kate Sweeny first in- troduced me to Mr. Egbert. Kate Sweeny was a companion of mine. I saw Mr. Egbert in the stable after he was made acquainted with me. I spoke to him in the stable. I know a man about the stable named Schaughnessy. I don't know where "Snake Hill" is. The only time I was on the Plank Eoad was when I went with Egbert carriage-riding ; that was the only time I ever was on the Plank Eoad. Egbert drove on the Plank Eoad; I did not drive. It was in a buggy ; one-seat buggy. I can't say whether it was a one or a two-horse buggy. I didn't know the horse's name. Cannot possibly remember how many horses there were in the buggy. This is when I lived with Mrs. Sponheimer that I went riding; it was towards evening that we went out riding; this was the first young gentleman that I ever went riding with. I never since went riding in a buggy. I never rode with Frank Markridge. I was never with Frank Markridge ; I never spoke to him except when I saw him at the stable. I never drove a horse nor held reins in my life. I sat on the outside of the buggy. I cannot say v/hether I sat on the left or right hand side of the buggy. I know a girl named Elizabeth Hughes, when I worked for Mrs. Spon- heimer. I worked in the shop with her ; was not intimate with her. I never had any conversation with her other than to pass a few words in the shop; she was a good girl as far as I knew. I never told Elizabeth Hughes that I was in the family-way. I never told her that I was married. Mrs. Sponheimer never asked mo whether I told Elizabeth Hughes that I was married. Mrs. Spon- BY THE ROMAIC CATHOLICS. 55 heirner asked me whether I was marriecl. This was when I was living with her. I told her I was not married. I did not tell Mrs. Sponheimer that I told Elizabeth Hughes that I was married.* I never told any one that I was married. After I left Mrs. Spon- heimer, I staid a week with my step-mother. I did not tell my step-mother that I felt sick. I never told my step-mother that I felt as if I were in the family-way. I never went to a doctor in my life. I did not see Katie Sweeny since I went to Mrs. Brittins'. I did not see any of them since I left Mrs. Sponheimer. "When I was at Mrs. Sponheimer's no one ever asked me to go ride except Egbert. Egbert asked me and Katie Sweeny to go to ride one Sunday afternoon. I have been in Egbert's company twice. I knew Demmy Clarey. I became acquainted with him at my father's house. I cannot say who introduced me to him. My father forbade me going with Demmy Clarey. When I went riding I got into the carriage near my father's door. My step-mother saw me. My father did not. This was about a week before I left Mrs. Sponheimer the last time. Had seen Egbert before this. I never spoke to him before then. First went down the Plank Road as far as the bridge. Egbert asked me a question, I don't know what, but I answered " N^o." It was not an improper question. I was at Mrs. Sponheimer's about a month when I became acquainted with Frank Markridge. Egbert drove horses and washed car riages in the yard. There is a broad partition between the yards ; there are middling sized chinks in the partition, I believe. I never spoke through the chinks. One time while Egbert was drawing a pail of water in the yard, Egbert spoke to me. I was standing by the stoop ; I can't say what he said. I told him to mind his busi- ness, to leave me alone. Mrs. Sponheimer then called me up stairs. I told Mrs. Sponheimer I was not saying anything to the young men. Mrs. Sponheimer called me up stairs, and scolded me for talking to them. She was going to hit me ; she knocked my head against the wall. I cried. I did not tell her I'd do better. I have told a great many lies in my life without thinking. I am thinking now. Mr. Egbert never asked me to go to ride afterwards. Mr. Egbert nor any other young man never gave me any money. Mr. Egbert, on the day I went riding, did not give me any money. I was never in the woods on "Snake Hill." I don't know where '* Snake Hill" is. I never heard of the place till I heard of it here. The farthest I ever was on the Plank Road was on the bridge. I never walked out on the Plank Road. That was the only time I ever was on the bridge or on the Plank Road. I think I got into the carriage first that day. I left Mrs. Sponheimer's at two o'clock that day. Mrs. Sponheimer did not know where I was going. I ^ See testimony of Elizabeth Hughes, on page 28, which was given in before Miss Smith's was recalled. 66 ABDUCTION OF MAEY ANN SMITH then went to my father's. I met Katie Sweeny on the way. I went directly to my father's. I was not there half an hour. We then went out and met Eghert, Mrs. Sponheimer lives corner Warren street and Washington. My father lived on South Market street. It is not three miles from there to my father's. I took iny ease going along. The first person I met was Katie Sweeny. I met a couple of young ladies on the road, and talked with them, after I met Katie Sweeny. I saw carriages along the road. I can't say that I saw a carriage stop on the road. I might have seen a carriage stop on the road. I did not meet Mr. Egbert with a car- riage on the road. I did not go to "Snake Hill ''t)et ween the time I left Mrs. Sponheimer and went to my father's. I went to the House of the Good Shepherd a week before the first of April. I went then against my will.. My father took me there and left me there. I am a Methodist. I was converted a little after New Year's. I was at Mrs. Brittins' house when I was converted. I was doing house- work. Mrs. Brittins kept a boarding-house; I got $7 a month. I wished to go to the Protestant Church, and I went with her daughter. My father is a Roman Catholic. I had no reason for wishing to go to the Protestant Churchy I thought I could not save my soul by re- maining in the Catholic Church. I received Communion in the Catholic Church once a month up to the time I was converted. I confessed at the Washington Street Catholic Church, once a month, to Father Wigan and to Father Doane, and received sacramental confession once a month, up to the time of my conversion to Meth- odism.* I did not deny to any one ever that I joined the Meth- odist Church. I did not deny last night that I was a Methodist ; I never told any one that I would never leave the Catholic Faith. I have renounced the Catholic Faith forever. My occupation at the House of the Good Shepherd is sewing. I sew from eight in the morning until twelve at noon ; fine sewing ; then I commence again at one o'clock, and sew continually till six in the evening. There is always a Mother present while I sew. There is always a Sister present in the room. After I quit sewing, I go to tea. There is a Sister present while w^e are at tea. We commence prayers at a quarter to eight o'clock, and pray till eight. We are sent to bed at eight. When all the children are in bed the Sister leaves. We are all called children. We come down stairs at six in the mor- ning ; then we have morning prayers and go from there to Mass.t ^ Let the reader notice that she was a devoted Cath- olic all this time, confessing at Doane's church ; and if she did anything wrong he knew all about it. t *' To Mass," observe, and yet the *' Mother'' swore in her Answer that it was not a sectarian institution. See page 18. BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 57 I don't pray at the Mass ; thej don't require ns to unless we wish. I am acquainted with one child in there, about eighteen or nine- teen ; her name is Mary Bigelow. 'No conversation allowed during sewing hours, but we have it sometimes. I am desirous of leaving the convent. I did not tell my father I'd do anything he'd tell me to if he'd take me from there. I asked my father to take me from there. I get enough to eat such as it is. 1 think I sleep enough. The food I got there is not as good as the food I got when I was a servant girl. I told my father, if he took me from there I would do anything for him that was right — except change my faith.* I did not deny to Father Doane that I joined the Methodist Church. Re-examined by Plaintiff: I have not seen any of the fellows around the stable since I lived with Mrs. Sponheimer. I have not seen Katie Sweeny since I went to Mrs. Brittins', before last Christmas. I think it likely they were not good company for me. I have not seen any of them since I went to Mrs. Brittins'. I have not kept company with any one since I went to Mrs. Brittins', except Mr. Van Ness who used to see me home from church. I believe I used to tell stories sometimes before I was converted. I did some other wrong things them ; I was wild. I did not think about right and wrong as I do now.t Since I was converted I have tried to do my duty. I have left off aU bad company. I pray habitually to God for help to lead a virtuous life. My only object in joining the Methodist Church was to save my soul and to gain happiness. While I was at Mrs. Sponheimer's she was not kind to me. She was severe to me ; used to whip me. I don't recollect her using bad language to me. I have no ill feelings towards my father and friends. I forgive them what they have said and done about me ; but I cannot forget it, and I never wish to go to them again. her Maey Ann X Smith. mark. ^ Notice how firm she is, after having been three months in prison for changing her religion. t What an obvious frankness and sincerity in this testimony. She was an imcultured and giddy young girl, and does not deny it. Yet she was acceptable as a Catholic. But now that she is converted, and is liv- ing a blameless life, as a Protestant, she is seized and confined in a prison, and everything possible raked up to blacken her character. Yet mark the Christlike spirit in which she speaks of them after all this ! A lamb in the midst of wolves ! 58 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH 1 Sworn to before me this 25tli day of June, 1868. The above witness being sworn, and the signature of the Judge not having been appended, by inadvertence, it is hereby consented that the above testimony be received in the same force and effect as though properly certified as sworn testimony. T. O'CoNNOE, Atty. for Respondent, LoED & SKiDisioiiEj Attys. for Flaintiff. Josepti Egbert, recalled. JosEpn Egbert, recalled for the respondent, being duly sworn, testifies : I have heard the testimony of Mary Ann Smith yester- day. I do not, after hearing her, wish to alter my previous testi- mony about the carriage-ride affair. I was in the carriage. I over- took Mary Ann Smith on the road from Mrs. Sponheinier's to her father's house, about two o'clock, Sunday afternoon. She was alone. I took her into the carriage and drove down Market street, on to the Plank Eoad. When on the Plank Koad she took the reins and drove up to the bridge, then turned on to the road which leads to the wood. She then got out, and the cohabitation took place as I have previously testified. I gave her fifty cents in the woods. When coming back in the carriage, after leaving the woods, we met Kate Sweeny on the road. Mary Ann introduced me to her. Mary Ann and I got out, and then the introduction to Kate Sweeny took place. Mary Ann then asked Kate to have a ride, and Kate said yes. We then all got in and drove on Broad and Market Street and Fair Street, and on some other streets ; re- turned to Market Street to Mary Ann's father's house. The girls got out then, and I returned, with the horse, to the stable. I pos- itively swear, as I have before sworn, that when Mary Ann and I went to the woods, there was no one else with us.* Cross-examined by plaintiff: I live with my mother at Newark. Have lived there about eight years. Am a painter by trade ; I work at Mr. Mullen's stable. I make three and four dollars a week. 1 don't exactly remember the date of my ride with Mary Ann. It was on the 5th or 6th day of August, I am certain of that. I came from the stable when I met Mary Ann. I don't know what time I left the stable; it was about half an hour before I met Mary Ann. The last thing I did before leaving was to clean the 1^ " But Mary Ann, who has never been in jail, *^ posi- tively swears" that this statement is false; and Kate Sweeny could as positively confirm the statement un- der oath, if she were not afraid of violence from her Catholic friends. BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 59 horse I drove. I cleaned five horses there, before I cleaned my horse. I ate my breakfast at about seven o'clock in the morning. I had beefsteak and bread and butter for breakfast, and te^.; that is all I had. My mother was at the table with me ; no one else ; no one else in the room. I washed myself before breakfast. I recollect doing so. I got np that morning about four o'clock. It was middling light then ; light enough to see. It was a pretty clear day all day. After getting up, and before washing, I took the bedding from the horses ; I recollect doing so. I took the bedding that morning from Sorrel BiU, Frank pony. Dr. Kitchler, Major, bay pony Chartie, bay mare; that's all I remember. I remember taking the bedding from each of the horses I have mentioned on that particular morning. "When I left Mary Ann I went to the stable. I got there about six o'clock. I unhitched the horse from the buggy and put him in his stall ; then went into the office and took ofif my coat ; then went outside and bedded them. I mean all the horses ; there were fifteen or sixteen in all ; then went down the cellar and got the feed, cut the hay, put it in the box. Then went in the office and put my coat on ; then went up home ; got my supper ; about half-past seven or eight o'clock ; after my supper I went back to my stable again ; stayed there till ten o'clock ; went home and went to bed at half-past ten or eleven o'clock. I got the carriage at Mr. Mullen's for $3 50 ; I asked the foreman of the stable for it. I asked him for it the same Sunday morning. I asked him after I came from my breakfast. I was then washing some wagons. I said I want to hire a wagon and a horse for half the day. Says he, I'U let you know by noon. So he asked Mr. Smith, and he said I could have it for $3 50. He told me I could have it exactly at twelve o'clock. The bells were ringing at the time. I had one horse in the wagon ; this horse was a sorrel; his name was Sorrel Bill ; I don't know how old he was. I went right down Market street on leaving the stable, as far as the gas-house, where I met Mary Ann in South Market street. I met her and pulled up to the sidewalk and she got in. Rode down to the Plank Road ; down towards 'New York as far as the bridge ; turned round and came back as far as first road to the right which leads to Snake Hill. We were about three-quarters or half hour going from the gas-house to the bridge on the Plank Road, and from there to the road that turned off about eight minutes. I think it was about fifteen minutes before we got to Snake HilL There is a wood right along the road at Snake Hill ; not on both sides of the road ; only on one side; there is a lot on the other side; an open lot; no houses on it. I tied the horse to the fence at the right hand side of the road ; a post and rail fence. I put the strap through a hole in the post, and tied him very short. This was the side the wood was on; we were about half an hour in the wood before we got back to the carriage. I had a whip in the buggy. I remember all these points distinctly; She sat on the 1 eft hand side, not next 60 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH the whip. I can't tell what time we met Kate Sweeny. I don't know how long it took to get back from the woods to where we met h^er. I had never seen Kate before. I did not know her name Mary Ann was driving when we met Kate Sweeny. • From the time I got into the carriage at the woods, till we met Kate Sweeny, I was talking with Mary Ann ; talking and laughing all the time. Don't recollect what we talked about. his Joseph M Egbert. mark. Sworn to before me, this 2Gth day of June, 1868, D. P. Ingraham, Justice. There is much in the manner and appearance of a witness to modify the impression made by his words ; and in this case there was an air of fearfulness, and an irritability about the witness that impressed us that he was telling a tale which he had woven to order, and that he was fearful of being caught in some way. We have seldom seen a witness more wanting in candor and apparent fairness and truthfulness. Yet he per- formed his part, and the above is the result. But it was not deemed safe to leave the case to hang upon the testimony of one man, and so a second was in readiness to testify. These were the two men who were seen with Doane, identifying Miss Smith. Now hear what this young villain has to say : Sdward Sllis. Edward Ellis, called as a witness for respondent, being duly sworn, testified : I reside in Newark. Am a file-cutter by trade. I know Mary Ann Smith named in the writ of habeas corpus. This is she (witness points out Mary Ann Smith). I have known her since last September. I first became acquainted with her at Smith and Mullen's stable corner of Warren and Washington streets, Newark. I was working at the stable at the time driving coaches. I first made the acquaintance of Mary Ann Smith last September. One day when I and MacBridge were in the hay-mow, Mary Ann was on the roof of the stable with Mary Ann Bowers. We com- menced talking through a hole in the top of the mow. A window BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 61 opens on the roof of the stable from Mrs. Sponheimer's house. A week afterwards I met Mary Ann Smith in the stable yard. She was alone. I asked her to come in the other stable yard, and she said yes, and came with me into the other yard. This was about half-past seven or eight o'clock in the evening, last September. After she came into the yard, I asked her to come into a coach A close coach, doors on the sides. I went in right behind her. * * H! * * * ^ * * She then got out of the coach and went into Mrs. Sponheimer's house. I worked in the stable about two months after that. She soon after left Mrs. Sponheimer. This is the same Mary Ann Smith here present. Cross-examined : I was eighteen years of age the 2d May last. I drove coaches while at the stable. I don't recollect what day of the week or day of the month it was that I got into the coach with Mary Ann. It was early in September last. Mrs. Sponheimer's back stairs came right into the stable yard. I came in the yard first ; Mary Ann next. I said, " Good evening ; where are you going?" she said, "Nowhere." I said " Come into the yard." She came. I said " Come take a look at the coach." I opened the door and we got iu. I said nothing more to her at aU. I saw her twice after that, down in the lower part of the city. The last time 1 saw her was over six months ago. I never had intercourse with her more than once. I have had with other women both before and after that time.* I never had a venereal disease. I have been accused of crime ; to wit, of assault and battery, and of breaking away from apprenticeship; nothing else. I have been in jail for three months at one time, and for twenty days for assault and battery on a policeman. I knew the witness Egbert ; he was in jail the same time I was.t I don't know for what offence. I attend ^ No doubt of this part of tlie testimony ; and it shows his general character; and his whole bearing and manner in Court showed him to be a depraved and hardened villain. t Beautiful witnesses, these, to swear away the vir- tue of a young girl, with the character given her by her Pastor, and members of the Church, and Mr. and Mrs. Brittins, and Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald. And one one of them is now in jail for stealing fourteen dol- lars, since he testified. Such are the witnesses pro- cured by Doane, to keep his victim still in confine- ment. 62 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANJST SMITH the Fifth Baptist Church. I have been there three times in the month. The foreman of the stable spoke to me about coming here to testify. I know Father Doane ; have never spoken with him. I had never spoken to Mary Ann but once before I got in the coach with her. I thought she would get in the coach from the way she talked on the top of the mow. There was no one in the yard either before or after. :ii :{: H: Hi Edwaed Ellis. Sworn to before me, this 26th day of June, 1868, D. P. Ingraham, Justice, So weak was this positive testimony regarded, that, in the opinion of Doane's counsel, it needed to be braced by something additional from the " stable," and the following was furnished by a burly Irish Catholic : Jolin §liaugline§sy. John Shaughnessy, called as a witness for the Eespondent, be- ing duly sworn, testifies: I work at Mullins' stable corner of Warren and Washington streets. I sleep in the stable office. I know Mary Ann Smith here present. I first came to know her when she worked for Sponheimer. She frequented the stable, and kept company with the young men who used to loaf around there. I saw her talk to Markings and Egbert and Sleming and others who used to come around. She was not around in the day time; at night. Almost every night she was around the stable with those young men at and after the hour of eleven o'clock ; sometimes as late as half-past eleven at night. From her actions and being out late I considered her a rough girl. John Shaughnessy. Sworn to before me, this 26th day of June, 1868, D. P. Ingeaham, Justice, Let the reader keep in mind that she lived over this stable, and that whenever she was on the back stoop, or in the yard, she was exposed to the gaze and re- marks of these "loafers.'* What a place for a young girl to be placed in any way. And yet the witness does not say she was ever in the stable-yard where the loafers were. She " kept company " with them by BY THE ROMAK CATHOLICS. 63 ^seeing them, and sometimes being spoken to by tliem. That was all. And Mrs. Sponheimer does not inti- mate that Mary Ann was ever out thus late nights while in her employ. This testimony, also, is there- fore obviously a manufactured make-weight. One more *' good Catholic " witness and the testi- mony is all in : Elizabetli Muglie§. I know Mary Ann Smith, and knew her when she lived with Mrs. Sponheirner. I worked on vests in the house. I have known Mary Ann for two years. I talked with her while she was at Mrs. Sponheimer' s. Mary Ann told me, she, Mary Ann Smith herself, was in the family way. Did not say by whom. She lived at Mrs., I think, for near a year. I don't Imow exactly how long. Gross- examined : I am twenty-three years old next September. I asked Mary Ann how long she had been married. She said three weeks. When she told me she was in the family way she said she was going away. I couldn't say as to her being in the familyway. I never saw any reason to suppose she was. She told me honestly and privately that she was married, and that the young man's name was Denis Clarey. This was in the Fall when she was at Mrs. Sponheimer's house. I know Father Doane. I am a Catho- lic, and a good one. Elizabeth Hughes. Sworn to before me, this 26th June, 1868, D. P. Ingeaham, Justice, The production of childish gossip which occurred, if at all, between her and another girl months before her conversion, shows the desperation of the defence to ruin the character of the prisoner if possible, as the only means of keeping her in confinement, and thus making a " good Catholic " of her. But let it stand for all it is worth. And now, having the whole case before us, so far as the testimony is concerned, let us briefly analyze the evidence and see how far it justifies the " Ansv/er," that she is confined for other reasons than for becoming a Protestant. 64 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH CHAPTER VIII. Analysis of the Testimony; and General Eemarks upon the Case. Having the whole case now before us, the following points must be obvious to every unprejudiced reader : 1. Except in the ''Answer" to the writ, there is not a shadow of evidence, nor even an allegation on the part of Doane, her father, or any one else, that Mary Ann was not living a regular and virtuous life at the time of her abduction, except that she was attending a Methodist church, and that she was thereby " in dan- ger of losing her faith and morals." 2. The great effort to impeach her virtue was not made or contemplated till the decision of the court made it absolutely necessary in order to retain their hold upon her. Up to that time it was only charged that she was " stubborn," and "disobedient," and "in danger of losing her faith," etc. 3. All the improprieties alleged were from six months to four years before she was abducted, at which time she was a Catholic ; and yet, if all that is alleged is true, nothing was done by her priest to- wards shutting her up or restraining her, though he was her " Father Confessor," and must have known through the confessional all that was going on. For she testifies that she went to confession and commu- nion every month up to the time of her conversion. Why, then, did not Father Doane lock her up for being such a dissolute young Catholic ? }\ BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 65 4. We have the unequivocal testimony of Mr. and Mrs. Brittins, Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald, Eev. Mr. Gil- bert, her pastor, and two other members of the church to which she belonged, that her deportment was in all respects blameless from the time she went to live at Mr. Brittins, some three months before her abduction, to the time of that event ; and none of them had even lieard of or suspected anything amiss in her character and conduct. Now allowing, for the present, that all that Egbert and Ellis allege was true — that in Septem- ber she had been guilty of fornication with them (once each, for that is all that they allege), and suppose that in January following she is convinced of sin, repents, finds mercy, and enters upon a new life. Suppose, even, she had been as wicked as Mary Magdalena, and had repented and reformed, and was Uving, as all affirm or admit, a blameless and Christian life, except that she was a Protestant ; what justification does all that afi'ord for her abduction and imprisonment ? At the very worst, even allowing that this young girl had been, seven months before her abduction, dis- solute and wicked ; but had seen her folly, repented, been pardoned and renewed by the grace of God, and was living a consistent. Christian life ; the sins of the past are no justification whatever for her abduction and imprisonment. Though a Catholic at the time when it is said she was abandoned, she is neither im- prisoned nor excommunicated ; but as soon as she be- comes a Protestant, and is leading a regular and con- sistent life, she is pounced upon by the priest and his alKes, and shut up in a Catholic prison ! So far, then, as the question of her former virtuous- 66 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH ness is concerned, it really has no bearing upon the case, whatever may have been the facts. Her wicked- ness while a Catholic in September, would be no reason why she should be arrested in March, if she was then a consistent and well-behaved Protestant. In this light, therefore, this desperate attempt at a justification is an utter failure. 5. But we deny that the evidence of her criminality is worthy of the slightest credit. Look at the charac- ter of the main witnesses — two jail-birds and compan- ions of lewd women, and one of them since in jail for stealing. Here is the certificate of the warden of the Essex County (N. J.) prison, showing when and for what Egbert was imprisoned : Essex Co. Pbisox, Office, ) Newark, Sept. 7, 1868. \ I certify, on honor, that Joseph Egbert has been an inmate of this prison, committed by his mother on the 25 th day of Septem- ber, 18G7, as a disobedient son, in keeping female company she did not approve of; and on the 2d of March, 1868, he was convict- ed of larceny, and sentenced to two month's imprisonment on said charge, which term he served and was discharged. A. J. JOHXSON", Warden. Remember, also, the sudden manner in which the testimony of these two men was discovered — the fact that neither of them had ever before spoken of their exploits, or repeated them with her ; — the calm and strightforward testimony of the victim of their slan- ders ; and the testimony that Kate Sweeny tvoiild give, if she dare, that Miss Smith told the truth, and that Egbert swore to a falsehood — look at all these BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 67 facts, and see if the testimony of such men is to be be- lieved for one moment against that of the prisoner, whose good character, aside from this testimony, is fully certified to by her pastor and six other worthy citizens and Christians, and stands unimpeached and animpeachable before the Court and before the world. And it should be borne in mind that MuUin, at whose stable Egbert, Ellis, and Shaughnessy worked, is a Catholic, and furnishes most of the carriages for Catholic funerals in Newark, and had every motive of sectarianism and of interest for doing his best to please Doane. Hence he was at Court from day to day, and could easily help to drum up the very testi- mony needed when the emergency came. For all these reasons we put no confidence whatever in the testimony of these men. The whole thing was an after tlioiight, resorted to when every other justification for her confinement had failed, and they must either set her at liberty or resort to this desperate expe- dient. 6. We should not lose sight of the important fact, that after the testimony of Egbert and Ellis, and feel- ing crashed and ruined in reputation thereby, this poor girl, when conversed with upon the subject by ladies present, was anxious to prove herself a virgin, and her accusers, conspirators, and perjured villains, by a surgical examination. The writer had consulted an aged and competent practitioner, who avered that, under the circumstances, such an examination would be conclusive. We were ready and anxious to apply that test. The girl was as anxious as we were, though she knew that if she was 68 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH guilty, it would convict her of fornication and perjury, and consign her to her prison-house, perhaps for j^ears. Now let any candid person read her testimony, and consider the character she bore among her Protestant employers and other friends, and see if you can be- lieve it possible that she was guilty of what was alleged, and knew it all this time ! In vieAv of her consistent life since she has been with Protestants ; her candor and artlessness in giving her testimony; her firm adherence to the faith of Christ all this time, and her excellent spirit under such trying circumstances— in view of all this we firmly believe that she is guiltless as an angel of the crimes charged upon her by these two men; and that her anxiety to clear herself by an examination should not only have been met by an order from the Court per- mitting such examination, but is, of itself, of far more weight in her favor, than the testimony of a dozen such men as Egbert and Ellis can be against her. 7. One other thing should be borne in mind. During the whole trial she was in the hands of her enemies, and usually well surrounded by them even in Court. It was with difficulty that any of us could speak to her. She was brought from the convent in the mor- ning, by nuns, and taken back and locked in at night. These were hard circumstances under which to testify, especially for a girl of sixteen. Whether she would be released or not she knew not ; and if not released, - what would be the consequences of her having testified as she did, she could not anticipate. And yet, with all these surroundings, and not knowing what was be- BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 69 fore her, she was as Jfirm as a rock from first to last . Her whole bearing, conversation, and spirit impressed those who saw and heard most of her, that she was a really converted person, and possessed the martyr's spirit ; and would probably die before she would re- nounce the faith of Christ which she had so cor- dially embraced. But of all these things the reader will judge for himself. CHAPTEE IX. Final Hearing and Decision by the Court. During the process of the trial, the case was before three different judges. First, it was before Judge In- graham, who, so far as he went, seemed disposed to administer even-handed justice. Then it was before Judge Barnard once or twice, who simply adjourned it over, and finally it came before Judge Sutherland. After the testimony was all in, he took all the papers and fixed upon July 10th, as the day for a hearing of counsel. Mr. Lord prepared his points in waiting (and in our humble judgment they were very strong and well put), but instead of a hearing, he was told, as he was opening his plea, that he could not be heard — there were so many other cases waiting, or something of the sort ; and the following decision was rendered, without hearing anything from counsel, viz. : ** This is an embarrassing case, and not free from doubt ; but, upon the whole, I think the writ must be dismissed and the pris- oner remanded to custody." " Counsel for plaintiff then asked the Judge to make some order 70 ABDUCTION OF MAEY ANX SMITH for the disposition and custody of the child until the case could be reviewed on appeal; but this the Judge refused to do, on the ground that he had no power to do so ; his former order having terminated the proceedings." Of course the Eomanists were pleased with this de- cision, but the poor girl and her friends w^ere sad. Mary Ann wept, and seemed almost broken-hearted. Nearly all the reporters present were touched by the scene, and spoke of her distress in their reports for the papers. After she left the court-room, Mr. Gil- bert and the writer^ got access to her, in the presence of two or three. ^ Her pastor bade her *^ good-bye," as cheerfully as he could, and we said to her " do not de- spair. You have friends outside, and we shall not re- lax our efforts; and you may yet hope to get out." At this the " Reverend Mother " snapped out, " Yes, get out, and go to hell !" Upon this Mary Ann turned to her, and in a mild and respectful tone and manner said : " Well, Mother, you may shut me up, and starve me, and do what you please with me, but I shall never renounce my religion.'' We asked her if she was obliged to attend services in the convent ; to which she an- swered, ** Yes, I have to go through their forms of ser- vice, but I worship God in my own way after all ;" and she was led away as a lamb to the slaughter. This is the last that any of her Protestant friends have heard from her, and she has now (Sept. 15th) been in confinement nine weeks since that time — in all from March 26th — nearly six months already in prison for being converted to Christ and joining a Pro- testant church. And unless the reader has learned to the contrary through the newspapers, he may be sure. «S! BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 71 as he reads, that she is still in confinement, if not dead and privately buried. As to the decision of Judge Sutherland, we can only say that it strikes us as a very singular one. It was a misfortune to us that the case was not all heard before the same Judge ; for, as it was, the Judge who finally decided it, knew nothing of its animus, except what appeared in the testimony, which was quite volumin- ous, and some of it hardly legible. It seemed to us, therefore, that he scarcely entered into the merits of the case. But so it was. Upon one point, however, in our view, the decision is self-condemned. If the case was "not free from doubt," the poor friendless girl should have had the benefit of the doubt. But it was not so. The Judge doubted, but took the oppressors' side rather than that of the oppressed. In this we are free to say that we think he erred, and ignored not only justice and mercy, but all wholesome maxims and precedents. Happy will those judges be who can say of their ad- ministration at the last, as old Job said of his, " I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil ^ut of his teeth. CHAPTEE X. Comments of the Press. As a matter of history, and to show in coming years how the matter was regarded at the time, we give a chapter of extracts from the religious and secular press. 72 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH The Koman Catholic papers all did their best to sink the character of the poor girl to the lowest depths. The New York Tablet led the way as follows : The New York Tablet, July 25th. " "Who is Mary Ann Smith V Why, Mary Ann Smith is simply Mary Ann Smith, the new '*Mortara," an interesting juvenile who, haviDg graduated with distinguished success on the streets of New- ark, has attained to a degree of precocious profligacy that com- pelled her own father to apply for her admission to the House of the Good Shepherd, etc. And thus on tlirough a column and a half. Was ever anything more libelous and diabolical ! And yet the poor victim of this Eomish malice is dumb herself, and has no relative to take her part against her fiend- ish maligners. The Pittsburg Catholic said : After her mother's death she went to live with a Methodist fom- ily, and was persuaded to attend Methodist meetings. Her virtue was in serious danger, if it had not been already lost among her new associates. She became the companion of lewd women and Methodist young men, etc. A fair specimen, this, of the truthfulness of the Catholic press, in regard to all the operations of their church and priesthood. The other Catholic papers followed suit, some not quite so gross, but others even worse, till the impres- sion is made all over the land among Komanists, that this innocent young girl is nothing more or less than an abandoned prostitute ! Thus Eomanism deals with all who leave her pale. Hence, Thomas Quinn, the priest who immortalized the already immortal " Eev. J. McMillen, D.D.," spoke of Hogan and Leahy, two Catholic priests of many who BY THE KOMAN CATHOLICS. 73 Lave come out of Babylon, and of Maria Monk, as " tlie execrable Hogan and Leahy, and the prostitute outcast Maria Monk." But she, too, was a good Catholic, and even a " sister " without rebuke, till she unveiled the impurities of Eoman Catholic nunneries. Then she was little better than a demon. The Protestant press were of one mind, and with one exception that we remember spoke out boldly in regard to the outrage. But we must not take space for extracts. A few from the secular press are all we have room to quote. From the Is'ew York Times — Editorial. Imprisonment of a Young Woman in ITew Yoek foe Tuening Peotf.stant. — A case of the deepest interest to Protestants as well as Catholics, and involving principles of religious liberty as well as of parental jurisdiction, was decided by Judge Sutherland, in the Supreme Court of the State, in this city, yesterday. The circum- stances will be found reported in detail in our legal columns. A young woman of Catholic paternity and training was convert- ed from the Eoman Church to the Protestant faith. She was a person of good character, excellent conduct, intelligence, and strong convictions. Shortly after she had become a member of the Methodist denomination, her father had her arrested for the offence, and incarcerated in a Catholic institution, known as the *' House of the Good Shepherd," — an institution which has a de- partment called the Reformatory Department, the inmates of which are forcibly detained and disciplined for the benefit of their souls. A few days ago, some friends of the girl attempted to secure her release on a writ of habeas corpus ; and she was brought from the institution to the Court. She reiterated her renunciation of Catholicity and her adhesion to Protestantism, and expressed her anxiety to return to the friends who had protected her. Her father, however, declared she was a wayward girl, and that it was to keep her from evil that he had put her under restraint, by con- finement in the Catholic institution. After the hearing of evidence and argument, Judge Sutherland decided that the writ must be dismissed, and the prisoner remand- ed to the custody of the House of the Good Shepherd. There- upon she was taken out of Court by her custodians, evidently (ac- cording to our reporter) *' in a very distressed state of mind." 74: ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH From the New York Times — Law Report. The particulars of this case, heretofore published in the Times, are somewhat peculiar, and withal interesting — so much so that we will briefly recapitnlate. Mary Ann Smith is a motherless girl, aged now about sixteen years. At the instance of her father, she was some time ago placed in the custody of the "Sisters" at the House of the Good Shepherd, a reformatory institution located on the upper part of this island. For some months prior to her arrest and incarceration in the above-named institution, she was living in a quiet way, with a most respectable family, in the city of Newark, N. J. Her father is a Eoman Catholic. What her mother was prior to her death does not appear. A short time ago, and while in the family at Newark, Mary Ann became strongly impressed with the idea that the Eo- man Catholic is not the true faith. She, therefore, abandoned it and joined a Methodist church. Affidavits made by her friends show that for months prior to her admission to the Methodist church her conduct was most exemplary, and that her character was as good as that of any in the church. On the other hand, her father — who seems, by the way in which he swears, to have more sympathy for Satan than he has affection for his daughter — insists that she is disposed to be a bad girl, etc. Of the nunnery this reporter said : During the investigation it transpired that this House of the Good Shepherd is a very peculiar institution. There is first a de- partment which may be termed the voluntary department. Gills and young ladies go there of their own choice, or are sent thither by their parents or guardians for the purpose of obtaining a good education. In other words, it is a convent so far as the training of youthful females is concerned, and none of the other sex are taken into the institution. In another department young fe- males are taken, as it were, on probation, but in the third class they are taken in as if it were a place of punishment — that is termed the reformatory department. The idea is to punish young women, and at the same time reform them if possible. What are the rules, regulations, penances, punishments, etc., as practiced in the third department of the House of the Good Shep- herd upon the young lady inmates thereof, did not transpire upon the hearing before the Court. After the final decision was rendered he says : The girl was thereupon taken out of Court, evidently in a very distressed state of mind. It is not probable that a case of this na- ture will be allowed to rest where it is. BY THE ROMAJST CATHOLICS. 75 From the N. Y. Sun — Law Keport. Upon the argument, Mr. Lord, for the relator, stated the facts as developed hy the testimony to be, that Mary Ann Smith, who is now sixteen years old, had since the death of her mother, about five years ago, lived out at service most of the time, and for the last year had supported herself. In January, 1868, she became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in ITewark, and since that time had lived a good and consistent life, as appeared by the evidence of her employers and the Rev. Mr. Gilbert. In MarcJi last she was induced to go to the house of Mrs. Carrollton, her aunt, where she was detained until her father was sent for ; and subsequently her father, acting nnder the advice of Father Doane of iSTewark, induced her to go to the House of the Good Shepherd in this city, under promise that if she didn't like it she needn't remain. After being thus induced to enter, the promise was bro- ken, and she was compelled to remain contrary to her wishes, &c. The whole history of the case was then drcum- stantially related : From the Evening Post — Editorial. The following facts were proved in one of our courts yesterday ; A girl of sixteen or seventeen years of age, who lived as a domes- tic with a private family in ISTewark, N. J., was recently taken by her father, against her will, and lodged in the House of the Good Shepherd, in this city, a Roman Catholic house of refuge for fallen women. This girl has no mother. Her father has brought her up in the Cathohc faith ; but she has, in his view, fallen from the true faith ; for she has become a pious and exemplary Methodist. There is no doubt she was li™g a life without reproach at the time of her arrest. She was brought before Judge Sutherland, at Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, on a writ of habeas corpus addressed to the keepers of the house in which she was detained. Their claim to her custody was under the authority of her father, who appeared in person, and in a coarse and profane way attempted to break down his daughter's character. He brought witnesses, decidedly the reverse of prepossessing in appearance, to testify to her shame and their own. But this effort to destroy her character utterly failed. Judge Sutherland spoke of the case with great hesitation, and plainly admitted that he had serious doubts whether he was doing right; but, not being satisfied that the facts justified him in taking the child from her father's custody, he gave her back to the ^' House of the Good Shepherd." 76 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH It was shown oq the trial that this House is to her a prison, in which other punishment is inflicted than confinement; and it is to be feared that the application of this Protestant girl for personal freedom, and for the protection by law of her conscience against violence, will not improve her situation there. Harpers' Weekly — Editorial. Let us have all the light possible upon the subject of the impris- onment of Mary Ann Smith. She is a girl of sixteen or seventeen years of age, who has lived as a domestic in the city of Newark, New Jersey. She has no mother, and her father has educated her j in the Roman Catholic faith. But she has become a Methodist, j and against her will has now been imprisoned in this city in a | Roman Catholic house of refuge for fallen women, called the House ' of the Good Shepherd. ' * * * * » This seems to be a case in which the moving cause of imprison- ment is a change of religions faith. If, indeed, the girl is dissolute, and the parent seeks her correction under the auspices of the church which he prefers, and she consents, nobody will object. But a prostitute desiring to reform may choose her place of de- tention, whether Protestant or Roman. But if a girl is being punished for preferring the Methodist to the Roman faith it is a matter of the profoundest public concern. It is a most shameless outrage, and the fact that an unsuccessful effort has been made to remedy it will but aggravate the girl's suffering. The Roman Church here as elsewhere will get all it can. Its steady effort to secure a separate share of the school money ; the proposal in the last Legislature to appropriate money for the support of the secta- rian schools of that Church ; the municipal partiality for it at the City Hall, all show a disposition to foster it, of which the Church is fully conscious, and which it will not fail to improve to the utmost. It is most unfortunate that the law does not furnish an opportunity for an immediate and conclusive investigation of this case. If the girl is illegally detained she must, so far as ap- pears, continue to be the victim of injustice until the General Term of the Supreme Court in November. Should thejudgment of that court be unfavorable the case will be carried up to the Court of Appeals. f The Evening Journal of Jersey City spoke out re- peatedly, and with great force and clearness. In one of its elaborate editorials it said : IN PRISON FOR CONSCIENCE' SAIOl. If there be one thing more than another which this government and this nation is solemnly bound by its genius, its traditions, and its laws to guarantee and protect, it is the unrestricted ]iber:y of BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 77 conscience — ^the absolute, uuquestioned right of every human being to choose his or her religion and religious associations ; yet, with- in the last few days, this most sacred right has been most flagrantly infringed on and violated in New Jersey and New York, and, we shame to say it, with the sanction of the courts of the latter State. To-day, Mary Ann Smith, a girl not yet seventeen years of age, a member of a class on probation in a Methodist Church, in Newark, is restrained of her personal liberty, imprisoned behind the iron gratings of a Eoman Catholic institution in New York city, against her own wish and will, in violation of her religious convictions, and in defiance of her clear rights under the law. We have, up to this time, made no comment on this atrocious case of oppression, because we desired to know the facts, inde- pendently of newspaper rumors, and the statements of interested parties. We have taken the trouble to read through carefully all the testimony taken in this case, and now are prepared to present the case to the public. Judging solely from the sworn evidence on both sides, we now say, that the decoying of Mary Ann Smith into the House of the Good Shepherd, a Eoman Catholic institution, her forcible deten- tion therein, the means resorted to keep her there, the attempts made to blacken and destroy her character, and the decision of Judge Sutherland, remanding her to the prison from which she has in vain sought to escape, form one of the blackest chapters of persecution for conscience' sake, of priestly deception and tyranny, of baseness and cruelty engendered by religious fanaticism and ser- vility, and of the power of the Eoman Catholic church to pervert the law to its own sinister purposes, that has ever been recorded. What are the facts ? The reader will please observe that all the statements we make are drawn from the sworn evidence in the case ; the testimony is in our possession, and can be examined by any one desiring to see it. Mary Ann Smith, daughter of an Irishman, James Smith, of Newark, who had been brought up in the communion of the Eo- m.an Catholic church, in January last renounced Eomanism, and, professing conversion, was received as a class-member of a Metho- dist church in Newark. There is no particle of evidence showing 78 abductio:n" of mary ann smith that any undue influence was used on her to produce the change in her views, or, in fact, any influence at all, other than the ordinary preaching of the gospel at a series of revival meetings. Iler re- nunciation of Romanism was public, and was known to her father and other Roman Catholic relatives. Her mother had died five years ago, and since that time her father had made no provision for Mary Ann's support, though he had had the grace not to claim i) the wages which she earned while at service. She continued in her place as a servant in the family of a gentleman in Newark, and J regularly attended the Methodist church with which she had con- ^ nected herself, in all respects conducting herself, as numbers of respectable witnesses testify, in the most exemplary manner, and bearing the reputation of a virtuous, discreet, industrious girl. Suddenly Mary Ann Smith disappeared. She went out one day in March last and never returned to the house of her employer. For many weeks no trace of her whereabouts could be discovered* Finally the following facts transpired. That she had been decoyed by lying messages, sent to her by some of her Roman Catholic relatives, telling her that some relatives were sick, which was " wholly false, into the house of her aunt ; that there she was met by a Roman Catholic priest. Father Doane, and by her father, who importuned her to enter the House of the Good Shepherd in New York; she refused, but finally, under a solemn pledge, that if she would go and see the institution, and did not wish to enter it or to remain, she should be free to come away, she did go thither; that the moment she was inside the gates the key was turned, and permission to leave was denied her ; that in the House of the Good Shepherd she is classed with and compelled to daily and nightly associate with prostitutes, thieves, convicts from Black- well's Island, in fact with the worst female characters ; is fed on |^ poor food, compelled to work twelve hours a day, and is treated in all respects as a prisoner. There in this condition to-day is Mary Ann Smith, and the only reason is that she has renounced Roman Catholicism and prefers to be a Protestant and a Methodist. This is evident from the testimony of the girl herself, from that of her father, and that of the priest Doane. Now comes the other additional and far more atrocious chapter BY THE EOMAN CATHOLICS. 79 of this history. The Methodist friends of the girl ascertaining hei whereabouts, succeeded in bringing her before the courts on a habeas corpus process and demanded her liberation. After the ex- amination had proceeded several days, and most of the facts here- inbefore stated had been disclosed, her persecutors took up a new line of defence of themselves, by attacking the character of Mary Ann, and attempting to prove that she was unchaste, and that her father had her placed in the House of the Good Shepherd in order to reform her and save her from a life of prostitution. Two fellows were procured, one of whom swore that he was a jail-bird and a libertine and generally a scoundrel, and the other was apparently of the same sort, who swore that they had personal knowledge of Mary Ann's unchastity. One of these rascals, the one on whose testimony this girl's persecutors relied, was compelled to admit that he gave his testimony in obedience to the request of the priest Doane. We read carefully every word of the testimony of those two fel- lows, and have no hesitation in saying that it shows on its face de- liberate perjury, and that any intelligent juryman, after listening to such testimony, would not only discredit it as utterly unworthy of belief, but would feel it to be his duty to bring these witnesses be- fore a grand jury and have them indicted for false swearing — and nothing more would be needed to convict them than the concocted story which they told. This conspiracy to swear away the good name of this poor girl, and to afford a pretext for her father's interference, is the most utterly fiendish that could be imagined. The girl herself modestly but indignantly denies under oath every accusation, and to show her sincerity consented, nay begged for an examination by compe- tent medical men, in order to prove that these witnesses were ly- ing. Why was not her request granted ? Yet Judge Sutherland, who took the case out of Judge Ingraham's hands, on account of the illness of the latter, has sent this girl back to the den of pros- titutes from which she begs to be released. He said the case was one of much donbt, and he gave his decision in favor of the priests and the unnatural father and against the girl. Judges who make such unrighteous and weak decisions ought not to escape criti- cism. 80 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH What sort of a father is James Smith, to have the custody of a daughter, when he confessedly has left her to take care of herself, and only shows any anxiety about her when she turns Protestant? What sort of a man is he to have the liberty of his daughter de- pendent on his word, when he sits calmly by and connives at the villany of profligates who swear away her virtue and seek to make her infamous ? Had he been half a man he would have throttled those lying witnesses where they stood blackening his child's char- acter. The contemplation of the atrocious features of this case is too much for human patience. What sort of a place is the House of the Good Shepherd for an innocent girl, filled as it is with the vilest characters to be found in the lower strata of New York de- bauchery? We would give the "Sisters" who seek to reform the vicious, and reclaim the erring, all praise for their benevolent and Christian efforts ; but what right have they to put along with these objects of their reformatory labors and keep behind prison bars an innocent and persecuted girl, because she has seen fit to renounce Eomanism and join a Methodist church ? A Judge, put in his place by the votes of Eoman Catholics, may wrest the law and turn the "doubt" to oppression's side temporarily. But we are sure that the public generally will agree with us, that such a use of the power of any church as has been made in the case of Mary Ann Smith, to coerce her back to Romanism, is an unmitigated outrage, a wrong that must be redressed. The real friends of Mary Ann Smith must not let her case rest as it is now. Mean- while, after what has been developed, is it too much to say that it may well be doubted whether the chastity of the life of this girl is safe where she now is ? The Jersey City Times was also outspoken and em- phatic upon the subject. In one of its issues it said : A Eeligious Outeage. — When, a few years ago, the Pope stole from a Jewish ftiraily, in Eome, the boy Mortara, immured him in a convent and brought him up as a priest, it was hoped that the indignant protest which rang through the civilized world would BY THE KOMAN CATHOLICS. 81 have prevented the recurrence of such an enormity. That there was really very little reason for such an expectation, was shown by the fact, that notwithstanding the outcry raised against him, the Pope stnck to his prisoner and refused to surrender him, the boy of less than ten years of age, to his rightful guardians, his parents. The fact is, the spirit of bigotry and persecution dies hard, and that it has yet by no means given up the ghost, is shown by the case of Mary Ann Smith, who, in free America, has been imprisoned for conscience' sake, and whose application for a writ of habeas corpus^ and its subsequent denial has been before the Courts of New York. The facts of the case are fully spread before our readers in the ser- mon of Dr. Mattison, published by us yesterday, and if we have be- fore refrained from any remarks on the facts of this remarkable case, it has been because we were unwilling to prejudge it by hasty comment on isolated facts, as they appeared from time to time in the li^ewark papers. IsTow, however, one phase of the judicial in- quiry is ended, the facts are all in evidence, and the season for longer reticence no longer exists. As they were developed in Court, they are fairly recounted by Dr. Mattison, and may be summed up as follows: A girl of blameless life, forsakes the Catholic faith in which she has been born, and becomes a member of a Methodist Church. Hereupon her drunken and degraded father, who has in no way taken care of her for years, sets up a claim to control her actions, induces her by trickery to enter the House of the Good Shepherd in l^ew York, and there, under his directions, she has since been held a prisoner, and the writ of habeas corpus^ granted at the request of her Protestant friends, been discharged by Judge Sutherland, who, however, expressed very great doubts of the pro- priety of his action. In the conflict of opinion, the Judge, how- ever, seems to have thought it incumbent on him to lean rather to the side of parental authority than the right of personal and reli- gious liberty. This, too, when the girl's father was self-convicted of the inconceivable vileness of attempting to destroy her reputa- tion by producing witnesses who swore to having had criminal in- tercourse with her. It was no true religious feeling which prompted this effort on the part of parent, priest or superior, to destroy this girl's character, and the baseness of the effort is characteristic of 82 ABDUCTION OF MAKY ANN SMITH the whole affair, and the fact that the girl's father could he a party to sucli a proceeding should have decided the Judge at once that he was no fit person to be the custodian of, or even to control the movements, of his daughter. We are glad to know that the case is to be taken to a higher court, and that we are to have the opin- ion of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York as to whether it is such offence for a Eoman Catholic girl to turn Protestant as justifies her being incarcerated with female thieves and prostitutes. Without desiring to raise the least prejudice against our Eoman Catholic fellow-citizens, this case plainly shows that we cannot be too jealous of the assumptions of priestly power, and the assertion of special claims of institutions like the House of the Good Shep- herd, or the numerous nunneries springing up all over the country, to control and restrain the movements of their inmates. Let the right of such establishments to retain the custody of any of their inmates, be strictly limited to those who have been sent there un- der a conviction in a court of justice, all others to be treated as voluntary inmates only, free to go and come as they please, and all bequests or gifts of property made in such places to be absolutely null and void. Every country in Europe has had a great fight with such establishments. We shall be saved much trouble if we exercise a little vigilance at the outset CHAPTER XL A New Development— Mary Anil a Devout Catholic (?). On the 22d of August the following appeared in the New York Tablet, a leading Eoman Catholic paper : Mary Ann Smitli. " We understaud that the girl, whose case has acquired consider- able notoriety in the public prints, owing to the attempt, on the part of a Methodist minister in Newark, to remove her from a ])lace where her father had placed her, and who, unfortunately, by her conduct and language in the court, did all she could to assist BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 83 him in his attempt, has, since she was remanded to the House of the Good Shepherd, regretted her conduct, and now desires to do what is right in every respect. She assisted at the Betreat which was given in that institution in July, and approached the Holy Sac- raments. She has since written a letter to her father, which she requested him to show to her Methodist friends, asking them to cease all proceedings in the matter, that she is a Catholic, and wishes to remain one. " They, however, paid no heed to her request, and are putting her parents and friends to additional trouble by further litigation. The other day they went so far as to take up a collection at the Camp Meeting in Sing Sing, to pay the legal expenses. Have they no young girls of their own going astray that requires attention, that they must needs try to steal a lamb from the Catholic fold ? If Mary Ann Smith is now let alone, and ceases to be the object of notoriety which she has been, and which has had a dangerous in- fluence upon her, and remains for a while longer with the excellent Sisters of the Good Shepherd, there is a good chance of her turn- ing out a prudent and well behaved girl. She is learning a trade, and is happy and contented. Under these circumstances we think the Methodists might as well draw off their forces, and not waste their strength in a hopeless undertaking." The same day the following appeared in the Neioarh Daily Advertiser^ it having been furnished for its col- umns by Mr. Doane : YoEKYiLLE, August 1, 1868. ) Convent of the Good Shepherd. ) Very Reverend Father: Please excuse the liberty I take in writing to you. Be so kincl. Rev. Father, as to put a stop to my trial, as I consider there is but one true religion, and in that I mean to live and hope to die. I confess myself a Catholic now, and I hope forever. Rev. Father, the Religious here are very kind to me. I am happy, and as I have but one soul I shall try and not lose it. Be so kind as to tell my father to send my trunk and all my clothes. Rev. Father, if it is not too much trouble, I should like to see you. I feel as though I shall never leave here. I have a great desire to become a Magdalen. I trust after a little while the dear and honored mother who has charge of my spiritual and temporal wel- fare will think fit to send me to that holy Retreat of retirement and prayer. Rev. Father, I most humbly beg your prayers, hoping that our Divine Lord may be graciously pleased to place me in that situa- tion in life wherein I may serve him be^t. We have had a Retreat 84 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH here, and I am so happy since that I would not, to gain a crown, leave here. During that holy time, 1 have had the very great hap- piness of receiving the body and blood of my Divine Lord. So now, Eev. Father, you know that I am happy, and sliaU conclude by remaining, Your respectfully and penitent child, Mary Ann Smith. Eev. Father, I had nearly forgot to mention that I had received a valise with my name. The articles it contains I do not claim as mine. You will, therefore, Eev. Father, be so kind as to ask my father if he has sent such articles here. m. a. s. In republishing this letter, the Jersey City Times said : It would not, perhaps, be considered a courteous proceeding to call a reverend priest a liar and a forger, but tbe letter purporting to have been written by Mary Ann Smith, which was published in our columns on Thursday, if it does not create suspicions of for- gery and falsehood, does certainly excite an apprehension that the letter was produced under influeoces not the most honorable. A set of men who believe that the end always justifies the means, and who have already proved their faith in the principle by forcibly immuring an innocent girl in a prison, would not be likely to stop at a mild forgery, or to procure the girl's signature to a document by the appliances of threats or force. The letter published in the New York Tablet bears evident marks of a hand more skillful in the use of the pen than that of the imprisoned girl, who can neither read nor write ; and if the writer, who so accurately worded the epistle, did not give it publication without her actual signature, it is more than likely that she sub- scribed her name without a knowledge of its contents, or under influences of fear or force. Tbe request '' to put a stop to her trial," which is the principal point in the letter, will have but little weight with the men who have taken up her case. It will be answered by even more vigorous eflforts to liberate her from incarceration, and by a more forcible demand that the rights of all to freedom of opinion shall be respected. The Evenmg Journal oi Jersey City, whose editor had read all the testimony and well undertood the whole case, reprinted the letter, and accompanied it with the following pertinent observations : In the foregoing we have given our readers all that is accessible BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 85 by us up to this time, and they must judge of the statements made. Our own clear conviction is, that the letter purporting to he signed by Mary Ann Smith is no work of hers. It bears in every line of it evidence of having been carefully prepared by some priestly hand. It is unquestionably a put-up job, and not very shrewdly put up at that. Now let Mary Ann Smith's Protestant friends insist, without de- lay, on seeing her, where she can, without intimidation or undue influence, tell the whole truth about this letter. It surely cannot be impossible to get such access to the poor girl as will insure the finding out of the exact truth. No such presentation of the case as is now made by the Tablet and Father Doane will ever satisfy any reasonable mind. The desperate and dastardly attempt made by hired jail-birds to swear away the character of this persecuted girl, will make all candid minds look with grave suspicion on any- thing in which Father Doane has a hand. The man who would stoop to the infamy of urging a conscienceless villain to swear that he had destroyed a young girl's virtue, must not expect the public to hold him incapable of manufacturing letters to which the same poor victim might be compelled to affix her signature. This Mary Ann Smith case looks to us darker than ever before, and it will be a gross and cruel wrong if the whole power of the law is not used to ferret out the whole truth of this business. " Carl Benson/' in the New York Times, oi August 28th, says : Tlie Isiearcerated Girl Mary Ann ^mitli. To the Editor of tlie New Torh Times : Ever since that article from the Tablet appeared in your columns last week, I have been expecting that some notice would be taken of it, either editorially or by correspondents. Allow me to call your attention to two grave questions which it suggests : First — Of what value are the words or letters of this young woman under duress, and obliged by, no one knows (but we may shrewdly surmise) what, mental or physical influences to write whatever may be dictated to her ? Compare them with her protes- tations in open court when not acting under pressure. Can any candid and rational man hesitate as to which of the two are to be believed ? Secondly. — It is assumed by the young woman's father and the Tablet, that she was a " bad girl." In what her depravity con- sisted, beside wishing to be a Methodist, is not stated, nor is there before the public any proof of its existence, only the insinuations of persons with whom insinuations and even downright assertions are cheap, it being part of their system that the end justifies the 86 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH means. Certainly it does seem rather cool to affirm of the Metho- dists — the largest denomination of Christians in the country, I be- lieve — that any person wishing to join their Church must neces- sarily be bad. Let us have the proof. Let these people tell the truth, if they know how and can be made to. Unless I am greatly mistaken, the public will expect something ftiore than the loose as- sertions and vague hints of persons whom it is not always quite safe to believe upon oath. Cakl Benson. Such were the frank and bold utterances of two secular editors, in the very neighborhood of the trans- action, and in the most ''Catholic" city in America. Though they make no pretensions to religion, yet, knowing all the facts as they did, they had too much conscience and courage to remain silent over such an outrage. But the Standard — a "Democratic" daily in the same city, run in the interest of rum and Ro- manism — published the extract from the Tahlet, and the pretended letter from Miss Smith, but refused to publish a word upon the other side. This, we suppose is Democratic gallantry and justice. The Neio York Examiner, a Baptist paper, had an editorial upon the subject, in which it said : In this N"ew York branch of the Inquisition this young Christian was imprisoned, forced to associate with women of the vilest life and character, and compelled to submit to such "reformatory" measures as the " holy father " and " sisters " of the institution deemed necessary for her restoration to the Eoman fold. * * It is said that the efforts of the girl's friends will not stop here, and we earnestly hope they may not. If there ever was an outrage upon religious freedom this is it. Austria herself makes fourteen the age of religious liberty from parental restraint, and if in America a young woman of sixteen is mature enough to have con- victions, she ought to be protected by the State in the unmolested enjoyment of them. Under the head of " The Inquisition in America,'' the Church Union, of New York, thus refers to the case : BY THE ROMAIC CATHOLICS. 87 "We inquire not now, whether her faith was Jew, Turk or Chris- tian. We simply say that whatever it was, so long as no violation of good morals was involved, the child had just as much right to her religion as the parents to theirs, and any attempt to use paren- tal power to coerce or punish her choice, was an outrage upon tne natural rights of every human being, and in particular upon the constitution of our free country. After speaking of her persecution and imprisonment the writer proceeds : What means of intimidation and chastisement were used further to break her spirit and bend her to the purposes of her ^' instruct- ors," we cannot guess. It is known that there are such means as, in the case of a girl at or near the age of puberty, can reduce the strongest spirit to abject and slavish submission, moral or physical, to her master. * * * ^ result that might have been relied on with certainty — supposing the means were sufficiently unscrupulous — is before us. A letter purporting to be from the girl is just published, after some six months' incarceration, etc., if we mistake not, in which she begs to have a stop put to her atrial,"as she returns to the faith she had abjured. The letter is '' most piteous expression of a crushed spirit, exhibiting a dread of returning to the world and an anxious desire to find a final retreat in a Magdalen Institution. The significance of this sad wish, God knows, not we. May the true ''Good Shepherd" yet save his lamb at the last ! If she ever sanctions that letter, there is reason to believe that the above suspicions are well founded; but we do not believe she has the slightest idea of any such letter, even down to this hour. To the letter purporting to have come from Miss Smith, Eev. Mr. Gilbert, pastor of the young girl, and prosecutor in the case, made the following reply in the Advertiser of August 20th : liCtter from Rev. Mr. Gilbert. Mr. Editoe: — In last evening's "Daily" a letter is published claiming to come from Mary Ann Smith. As Miss Smith can neither read nor write, and according to Mr. Doane (the Kev. gen- 88 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH tleman will excuse me if I decline using the term " Fatner." I do not find it ever in Scripture applied to a minister of the Lord Jesus. It is used in connection with the Devil, but as he is called the *' father of lies," I suppose this will hardly be quoted as a prece- dent,) has a mind of almost the lowest order, this letter is certainly a very remarkable production. Perhaps mingling with those by whom sbe is surrounded, street walkers, '^ disobedient children," etc., has produced so great a change. She begins with the request, " Be so kind, Kev. Father, as to put a stop to my trial." Were we in Rome or Spain, there would be no difficulty in putting a " stop " to anything that interfered with the designs of the Papacy. A Roman Catholic Alderman in Chicago thought that a "stop" could be put to Dr. Hatfield's preaching on the subject of Roman- ism, but found that the time had not yet come for such '' stops" in free America. Seriously, Mr. Editor, this letter, so faultless in grammar and style, could not have been composed and written by a poor girl who can neither read nor write. Mr. Doane will remember that once before he proclaimed through your columns that Mary Ann was pleased with her surroundings. We have her own testimony that she was not. "When we have the word of Miss Smith herself, from her own lips, that she has been reconverted to the Romish faith, and does not wish to leave the " House of the Good Shep- herd," we will stop proceedings, and not before. The Tablet says that Miss Smith wrote a letter to her father, desiring him to show it to her Methodist friends. Why has the letter not been shown to those who have charge of the legal proceedings in the case? "They, however," says the Tablet^ " paid no heed to her request." This is false, for no such request has been presented. "Is it honest ?" LuTnER. BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 89 CHAPTEE XII. The Forged Letter OhaUenged— Correspondence with "Father Doane." Having seen the alleged recantation in the Newark papers, I immediately repaired to that city to inquire into the matter ; and on the 22d of August, not having seen the foregoing suggestion from the Evening Journal^ as to seeing Miss Smith, addressed the following let- ter to " Father Doane," through the columns of the paper in which the forged letter appeared : tietter to Fatlaer I^oaiie* Jeesey City, August 22, 1868. Eev. G. H. Doane : Dear Sie, — I notice in the papers a letter published by your direction, purporting to have been written by Miss Mary Ann Smith, in which she avows herself a Catholic, and contented and happy in her confinement, and that she wishes the suit for her re- lease abandoned that she may become a Magdalen, etc. E"ow everybody knows that a conversion or reclamation effected by im- prisonment, hard fare, and hard labor, with despair of release, is just as valid as a note of hand or a bequest procured under duress, and no more so. Even if she wrote the letter, it is of no account, since it was wrung from her by the discipline of the Inquisition. But waiving all that, as a party interested in her release, and as you have published the letter, I address you through the same medium to say, that if Miss Smith wrote or dictated that letter, and the facts are as therein represented, I am willing for one to discontinue the suit. But I doubt the genuineness of the letter ; or, if it is genuine, believe it has been procured by threats or bribery, or in 90 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH consequence of her despair of ever being released. Besides, as the poor girl can neither read nor write, it would be an easy thing to deceive her, and get her consent to the letter, when read differ- ently from what it really is. In a word, I believe the whole thing a forgery, an outrage upon the unappy prisoner, and an insult to the public. My reasons for this opinion are these : I. Miss Smith gave evidence of genuine conversion to Christ, and of the existence of a principle of devotion to Him which would not be easily shaken by bonds and imprisonment. II. After having been in your " religious institution " — (such you declare it to be in your first published letter, which you swore in court was true, although the State of New York pays twenty-five thousand dollars a year to sustain it,* and your " Mother Superior " swore in court that it was not a religious institution) — after having been in this Bastile three months, working twelve hours a day, and subsisting mainly on mush and stale bread and molasses, she was as firm as she was the day you sent her there, in her adherence to the true faith of Christ ; and so declared in court and to yourself and the nuns who surrounded her. III. After the decision remanding her back, I heard her say to the "Reverend Mother," as you style her, ''Well, Mother, you may confine me, and starve me, as long as you please, but / shall never renounce my religion^ I have seen enough of the Eoman Cath- olicsy This last remark had reference to the false witnesses pro- cured to prove her a prostitute. The last we heard from her, therefore, even after the decision against her, she was as firm as at ^ In 1867 it was $5,000, and in 1868 $25,000. We state this upon the most rehable authority, and can verify it by public records. On the 10th of September, 1868, the Board of Supervisors for the city and county of New York, appropriated $15,000 more to the same institution, making $40,000 this year. All this while the case of Miss Smith is pending in court, as a defi- ance to the Protestants of the city, and to help con- solidate the Catholic vote in the presidential election. BY THE ROMA]^ CATHOLICS. 91 any other time. I told her not to despair — that she had friends outside, and that she might yet hope to he released, to which the old " Mother" snapped out with a vengeance, "Yes, get out and go to hell!" J^ow, with all this before us, we are asked to abandon the suit for her release, upon the evidence of such a letter, procured from her if at all, we know not when, or how, or by whom, and without our seeing or communicating with her in any way ! Surely, sir, you must think us and the public a set of fools to be caught by any such chaff. But I have further evidence that the pretended letter is a for- gery. IV. I went yesterday, in company with Rev. Mr. Gilbert, to see the father of Mary Ann — ^told him I wished to talk with him in a friendly way about the case, and that if Mary Ann really desired to stay in the nunnery, we would withdraw the suit. I then proposed to him to go with us to the institution to-day, promising that if Mary Ann said in our presence that of her own free wall and ac- cord she preferred to remain where she was, we would drop the suit. Instead, however, of accepting this reasonable proposition, and thus settling the matter forever, he flew into a passion, and turning to Mr. Gilbert, said, ''You are the prosecutor, are you?" I answered, "He is." "Well," said he, "I'll pursue you till yer heart's blood!" I said to him mildly, "0, don't talk of heart's blood ;" to which he replied, " Yes I wiU, and Fm the very mon for it." Upon this we left ; from all of which I infer that the father Icnows the whole thing to be a fraud, and was maddened by the proposition which he knew would expose the whole plot. If Mary Ann dictated the letter, and desires to remain where she is, why should her father fear to have her see us, and tell us her wishes face to face ? Y. Some days since Mr. Smith visited Mrs. Fitzgerald, with this letter, or another purporting to have been written by Miss Smith, and urged Mrs. Fitzgerald to do what she could to stop the suit. Mrs. F. promised to do so, in case Mary Ann desired it ; and as she had seen her once in the institution, under a permit graciously granted to her by yourself, and when there the ladies in charge 92 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH had invited her to come again, assuring her that no new permit would be necessary, she concluded to go and see Mary Ann for herself. Accordingly, she went yesterday with her husband, and after encountering all kinds of excuses and pretexts for an hour and a half, was finally refused permission to see her, on the ground that to see Mrs. Fitzgerald might disturb her tranquility, or make her discontented. Hero is a fijth proof that the pretended let- ter is a fraud. They dare not let Mary Ann see any Protestant, because they know that she would expose and denounce tho whole plot. These, sir, are my reasons for believing the whole affair to be but a '' pious fraud," got up to deceive us and the public — an affair in which no honest man, and especially no professed minister of Christ, should knowingly participate. Your favorite organ, the New York Tablet^ says : " In God's name let the matter be again thoroughly examined — let there be light." We Protestants all say Amen ; let the truth come out, hit where it may. And we are resolved that it 8hall come out. And v/e are not going to be fooled by so transparent a ruse as the pre- tended letter from Miss Smith. And now, sir, to settle the whole matter in a day, and have an end of it, I make you this proposi- tion: On Tuesday next, August 25th, at ten o'clock a. m., you shall meet Eev. Mr. Gilbert, Eev. Dr. Poor of your city. Gen. Runyon, Mrs. Fitzgerald and myself, or such of us as can attend, at the House of the Good Shepherd, on Eighty-ninth street, near East River, New York, and procure for us an unrestricted interview with Miss Smith. I will read the pretended letter to her, and question her as I think best as to the whole affair. The questions and answers shall be written down, and signed by all of us, and published the next day in the Daily Advertiser ; and though Miss Smith is thus confined, and in the hands of her enemies, and would be liable to punishment and perhaps death if she testified against you, nevertheless, if she tells us that she dictated that letter of her own free will, and that she wishes to remain where she is, the suit shall be withdrawn, and there the whole matter shall end. Tlie public can then judge from her own words, printed in these col- BY THE ROMAJS" CATHOLICS. 93 umns ; and if the facts are as the letter afSrms, both yourself and your cause will thus far be fully vindicated. I^ow, sir, let there be no evasions or equivocations about the matter. Let us see Mary Ann together, and see whether the let- ter is genuine, or a shameless forgery. Your obedient servant, H. Mattison. In republishing this letter, the Evening Journal of Jersey City said : The Newark Advertiser of Saturday publishes the following let- ter from Rev. Dr. Mattison of this city, to Rev. Father G. H. Doane of ISTewark. It requires no comment. But if Father Doane does not accede to Dr. Mattison's fair and reasonable proposal, there will be much comment and something else. In answer to my fair and reasonable proposition, Mr. Doane published the following sweet-spirited and manly reply, in the next issue of the Advertiser : I>r. Mattis©n'§ iRaillsig Accu§ation, Me. Editoe — Dr. Mattison must feel better. For some time he has been running around the ecclesiastical arena looking for an an- tagonist. Were he of Celtic origin I should say he was '' spoiling for a fight." Last year he publicly invited me to hear him show his ignorance and prejudice on a subject upon which I need no in- struction from him. This summer he boldly attacked the Catholics in Chicago, but for some reason or other he retired from the field when their champion appeared. And now he has delivered him- self of a direct violent and personal attack upon me. I am sorry to disappoint him, but I cannot recognize his right to interfere in the matter on which he writes, nor hold any controversy with him on this or any other subject. With regard to the letter which he charges with being a forgery, I can only say that I received it through the post, and that it gave me great pleasure as indicating a happy change in the girFs spirit- 94 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH ual and moral condition ; that I answered it, expressing my gratifi- cation, and urging her to persevere ; that in a few days, as I had been requested, I went to see the child, and that she confirmed by word of mouth what she said to me in the letter written for her by one of the sisters,* and that being in your office last Tuesday I showed yon the letter, and you asked leave to publish it. This is the simple history of the letter. It was not even written for pub- lication, and only accidentally some three weeks after its receipt saw the light. Dr. Mattison winds up his letter with a proposition for me to meet him and his colleague, Mr. Gilbert, Dr. Poor, Gen. Runyou, etc., at the House of the Good Shepherd, next Tuesday, August 25th, at ten o'clock, to examine into the question as to whether that letter was a forgery or no. Were this a personal question entirely, I would not allow my truth and honesty to be doubted by submit- ting the matter to a mixed commission, but as it is, to a certain extent, one of general interest, for the sake of truth, and waiving my own feelings, I am willing to meet, not him, nor Mr. Gilbert, for I have too much self-respect to associate with persons who make such reckless charges, and too much regard for the sisters to ask them to admit into their houset those who suppose them capable of such conduct as they have attributed to them, but Dr. Poor, Gen. Runyon, or any other gentleman, any day that suits their conve- nience, ask the sisters to show them the Institution from top to bottom, see Mary Ann Smith, the poor unhappy incarcerated girl, and they can publish the result of their visit as they see fit. As the name of the Bev. Mother has been mentioned in the let- ter, and in the New York papers at the time of the trial, I would simply say that she was not in Court at all. Mary Ann was accom- panied by a lay sister who attends to the out-door work, and who must have lost her patience from the remark that is attributed to her at listening to the poor girl's falsehoods and misrepresentations, ^ Mark Mr. Doane is careful not to say that Mary Ann said she dictated the letter or had any knowledge of it. t It is '^ their house" is it ? BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 95 and at the loss of time to which she was subjected by her frequent journej^s to the court, caused by the interference of these persons. A simpler explanation than the existence of a plot which he wished to conceal might be given to the angry remarks of the justly incensed father in the presence of those who had tried to steal his child from him. I am only glad, for his take, that there was noth- ing more than an angry word. Were he a man of means these persons would not have dared to approach him as they did. A summary ejection would have been the consequence. They think to take advantage of his poverty, and humble position in society, to trample on his rights, but they will find that there are those who will make his poverty and his humble position respected. Were the case the opposite of what it is, and w^re Mary Ann a Methodist girl, under age, who had fallen under Catholic influence, and been removed by her friends from it, for that and other causes, what would be said of a Catholic priest, or Catholic friends, who sought to see her and interfere ? Would such a thing be tol- erated in that instance ? Why is it in this ? 1 have done with Dr. Mattison. I have tried not to answer rail- ing for railing, though under great provocation. It is not for me to judge, but I can only say to him, as did St. Michael, the Arch- angel, when, contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses, *' The Lord rebuke thee." G. H. DOANE. Newaek, August 24th, 1868. In publishing this letter, the Evening Journal^ of Jersey City, accompanied it by the following editorial comments : The offensive personalities of the writer of the foregoing, and his obvious annoyance and ill-temper, contrasting as they do with the straightforward, manly proposal of Dr. Mattison, cannot fail to make on every candid mind a strong impression that Father Doane is in the wrong in this business, and that he knows he is. Dr. Mattison's reputation as a scholar, a clergyman and a gentleman, is quite as well established and as widely known as that of Father Doane, and the latter's expressions of contempt are evidence only 96 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH of an affectation of ignorance, or of that impertinence which marks assumptions of superiority in those who have no just claims to it. They do not at all affect the merits of the matter in contro- versy. As to Dr. Mattison's retiring from the Chicago controversy last spring, it is well known to the public, and to Father Doane too, that it was the Catholic ciiampion who made the attack, and that it was he, and not Dr. Mattison, who ignominiously retired from the field. In a matter of history so recent and so notorious, Father Doane should be more accurate if he wishes the public to place any reliance on any statement which he may make. Father Doane is careful not to deny that the letter, purporting to be the production of Mary Ann Smith, is a forgery. He says he " received it through the post." "Why not? That was easy enough if it had been ten times a forgery. The real point is, did the girl herself either write or dictate any such letter, or does she now assent to what is therein contained? This is what Dr. Mattison and the public wish to know, and not by what means it reached Father Doane. And we cannot help suggesting to Father Doane, if as he says, the letter was not written for publication, that it is most unfortunate for him that it ever did see ''the light." The air of injured innocence which Father Doane puts on both for himself and the managers of the institution where the girl is confined, will avail nothing with the public. Father Doane and the Catholic sisterhood may tell us that they will not allow their truth and honesty to be doubted, but they will find that a candid public will doubt both, if they persist in their present course of conduct. Father Doane's sneers about " Mary Ann Smith, the poor, unhappy, incarcerated girl," and his cruel repetition of the charge of -'the poor girl's falsehoods and misrepresentations," indicate that he has as little heart as he has good judgment or command of his temper. Seeing from this evasive, untruthful and insulting letter, that what I had heard of him before was true — namely, that Mr. Doane is not only a man of small calibre, but is quite reckless as to his statements — and seeing also, that he was disposed to divert attention from the BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 97 matter in hand by provoking a personal altercation, I at once responded to his epistle through the same me- dium, correcting some of the falsehoods of the letter, in the following straightforward and emphatic man- ner : I>r. Mattison to " Fatiier I>oane." Jeesey City, Angnst 24, 1868. Rev. G. H. Do AXE — Deae Sie : — Your response to my letter is abont what I expect- ed. I had no idea that you would dare to have Rev. Mr. Gilbert, Mrs. Fitzgerald or myself — the parties who know most of the case, and have the best right to be satisfied — see Miss Smith, and ques- tion her as to the letter, and her present contentment and wishes. Notwithstanding all you have said now, for the second time, as to her happiness in her confinement, you dare not allow us to see her. You fear she might contradict you, as she did before under oath. For this reason alone you decline to have those persons see her, who, from their connection with the case, would be most likely to expose you and your devices. But I must notice a few things in your letter, point by point. 1. You say: "For some time he has been running around the ecclesiastical arena, looking for an antagonist." This statement is without a shadow of foundation in truth. 2. You say: ''Last year he publicly invited me to hear him show his ignorance and prejudice upon a subject which I need no instruction from him." I did invite you to a lecture ; but you had not sufficient courage to listen to the proof that Eomanism is dying throughout Europe. Perhaps you feared another sudden conver- sion, this time back to the religion of your fathers, which you so suddenly abandoned to become a Catholic priest. 8. You say: ''This summer he boldly attacked the Catholics in Chicago, but for some reason or other he retired from the field when their champion appeared." ^N'ot a word of this is true. "Father Hecker" attacked Protestantism, and I answered him- and when " Pev. J. McMullen, D.D.," challenged Bishop Scott, or 98 ABDUCTION OF MAKY ANK SMITH " any other gentleman, lay or cleric," to meet him in dehate, and, at the request of Bishop Scott, I accepted the challenge squarely — McMuUen ingloriously fled from the field. And so far from ''re- tiring from the field " am I, that I stand ready at any time to meet either Dr. McMullen or yourself in Newark or Chicago, to demon- strate before any audience that Roman Catholicism is at best but a corrupt form of Christianity. This offer, which I make to you publicly and in good faith, will, I hope, convince both the public and yourself that the fling about "retiring from the field" is not applicable to me, but to a blustering Eoman Catholic priest in Chicago. 4. You complain of " a violent and personal attack upon your- self." When? Where? There was nothing of the kind in my letter, and the public know it. But you, who could advise that a young Methodist girl be abducted from her pleasant home, and locked up in a nunnery, begin to feel a want of pubhc sympathy with you in your efforts ; and so you cry " persecution," to start the emotions, Verily, sir, you are one of the injured innocents! How you have been assaulted and abused ! Ye who have tears to shed, prepare to shed them ! 5. You "cannot recognize my right to interfere." It matters little to me what you do or do not recognize. But the public may know that I have been invited by those who had the case in charge, to assist in it ; and am as legitimately in the prosecution as you are in the defence. Please bear this in mind in future. 6. Your assertions as to the latter may satisfy your partizans, but they fail to satisfy us and the public. You have been mistaken as to her contentment and happiness once since you locked her up, and you may be again. We prefer not to get our intelligence from Miss Smith through the man who ordered her imprisoned, and who claims that she has been reconverted by confinement in a nunnery. We remember the recantations of Galileo and Archbishop Cran- mer. 7. As to your offer to go with Dr. Poor (who I understand is out of town) and General Runyon, who has no personal knowledge of the case, it is a mere evasion, and an offer which you knew could not be accepted, otherwise you would not have made it. BY THE EOMAN CATHOLICS. 99 Rev. Mr. Gilbert, the prosecutor in the case, and myself and our lawyers, are the parties to investigate it, and not persons who have little knowledge of it. 8. But you decline to go with Mr. Gilbert and myself, on the ground of " self respect!" Really, sir, I was not before aware of your exalted dignity I But knowing it now, I will reheve you from further embarrassment. Stay at home, sir, and nurse your dignity ; but send me a permit for General Runyon, Rev. Mr. Gil- bert, and myself, to visit Miss Smith without the presence of your Reverence, and thus the same end will be reached and your " self, respect " remain unsullied. By the way, let me advertise you here and now, that the time is not far distant when citizens of ]!Tew York will not be obliged to ask Roman Catholic priests for *' per- mits " to visit institutions that are supported from the State Trea- sury. 9. Speaking of our visit to Mr. Smith you say, "I am only glad for his sake that there was nothing more than an angry word." That is to say, but for the legal consequences to Mr. Smith, you wish he had shed Mr. Gilbert's "heart's blood," as he threatened to do. Such, then, is your religion — smash the windows of Pro- testant churches, kidnap young Protestant girls, and then shed the " heart's blood " of those who wish to ascertain the truth as to a forged letter ! Really, sir, you are worse than Peter, your first Pope, who only lied and cursed and swore a little, and cut off the ear of Malchus, without shedding his ''heart's blood." » 10. You say : " Were the case the opposite of what it is, and were Mary Ann a Methodist girl under age who had fallen under Catholic influence, and been removed by her friends from it, for that and other causes, what would be said of a Catholic priest, or Catholic friends, who sought to see her and interfere ?" This is a false presentation of the case. You have done more than remove Miss Smith from her chosen home and friends. You have im- prisoned her because she would not submit to your dictation and renounce the faith of Jesus. 'No Protestant ever did or ever will do such a thing. We believe in civil and religious liberty and the. rights of conscience. And we care not who abducts and imprisons 100 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH another, whether a minor or an adult, for conscience' sake ; we will resist all such oppression by whomsoever perpetrated. You have a wonderful regard for the rights of parents all at once. How was it a few years ago when your Church stole young Mortara from his parents (a Jewish boy of seven years, who had been secretly baptized by a Catholic servant, when an infant) and kept him in spite of all they could do ? This is a case exactly in point, and the whole Catholic press and priesthood approved of the abduction. 11. You "have done with Dr. Mattison." Not quite done, sir; or, if you are done with me, I am not yet done with you. Nor do v/e mean to be, till it is forever settled that no person, adult or minor, Jew, Turk, Mormon, Catholic, Protestant, or Infidel, shall be kidnapped and imprisoned, by father, priest, or Pope, or all combined, on account of their religious convictions. That is the issue we mean to try before this whole nation ; and unless you re- lease Mary Ann Smith — and all others now in confinement for their religious opinions, and recognize religious freedom and the rights of conscience, as the birthright of every American citizen, it will be some time before you and your church are '' done with Dr. Mat- tison.'' You may kill me, as your co-religionists have more than once threatened to do, but my blood would be a worse heritage to Popery than that of John Brown has been to slavery. Meanwhile, the suit for the liberation of Miss Smith must go on. Yery respectfully yours, n. MaTTIS02T. This is the last we have heard of '^ Father Doane." He has '' done with Doctor Mattison I" ij BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 101 CHAPTER XIII. Present State of the Case, and Hopes for the Future. Upon the decision of Judge Sutherland, the girl was taken back to her prison-house, where, if not dead, or spirited away to some other similar place, she still re- mains. But the remarks in the bogus letter about her becoming a Magdalen, and going to a Magdalen re- treat, indicate a plot to remove her from New York. But the future may settle all these questions. NOTICE OF APPEAL. The following Notice of Appeal has just been served upon Doane's counsel : SUPKEME COURT. City and County of New YorTc^ ss: The People of the State of New Yoek, on the relation of Jesse S. Gilbert, against The Lady Superior, Reverend Mother, or other person having charge of the House of the Good Shep- herd. Gentlemen : Please take notice that the plaintiff appeals to the General Term af the Suprerae Court from the Order of the Special Term, entered herein on the 18th day of July, 1868, and from the whole of said Order. Dated July 15th, 1868. LoED & Se:idmoke, To ' Attys. for Appellant. T. O'CoxNOE, Esq., Atty. for Respondent,, Geo. W. Loed, Of Counsel, Chaeles a. Loew, Cleric Supreme Court, 102 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH Since the appeal was taken to the General Term, E. L. Fancher, Esq., has been associated with Messrs. Lord and Skidmore, as counsel in the case. The General Term will commence in New York on the first Monday in November. Judges Barnaed, In- graham, and Cardozo, on the bench. "What the decision will be here, it is not possi- ble to predict ; though it is believed by those whose opinions upon such subjects are entitled to great re- spect, that this Court will reverse Judge Sutherland's decision, liberate th^ prisoner, and allow her to choose a guardian till she is eighteen. If we fail there, w^e shall go to the Court of Ap- peals, Albany, on the first Tuesday in January next. This Court consists of seven judges — one from each district — and will be presided over by Chief- Justice Hunt. The names and residences of the Judges are as follows : Hon. WAED HUNT, (Chief-Justice,) Utica, N. Y. '' CHAELES MASON, Hamilton, N. Y. " LEWIS B. WOODRUFF, New York City. " THOMAS W. CLEEKE, '' THEODOEE MILLEE, Hudson, N. Y. " WM. J. BACON, Utica, N. Y. " CHAELES C. DWIGHT, Auburn, N. Y. Whatever may be the result of this case, we propose to appeal to the next Legislature of New York, and to all friends of Eeligious Freedom and the rights of con- science throughout the State and country, for laws under which commissioners, or inspectors, appointed i BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 103 by governor or otherwise, shall be authorized and required, (upon the oath of any reputable citizen that he believes that, in any specified monastery, nunnery, or school, there are persons restrained of their Uberty, who are legally entitled to freedom,) to visit such in- stitution, and ascertain whether or not such are the facts ; and in case they are, to liberate such prisoners. If we have inspectors of State prisons, etc., much more do we need inspectors of Eoman Catholic nun- neries and "schools." We Tcnoio that there are other Protestants imprisoned in New York for "changing their religion," and we believe that there are hundreds of nuns, in the three hundred nunneries in this country, who in an evil hour have " taken the veil," but have since bitterly repented the fatal step, and sigh for an opportunity to escape ; and that if once seen, and assured of freedom, and of fTotedion when liberated, if they desired them, would rejoice at the overture and go out by hundreds. This offer they should have, if need be, once a year in every nunnery in the land ; and Protestants should never rest till laws securing such freedom are enacted in every State in the Union. In fact they ought to be enacted by Congress, and enforced by all the power of the General Government. For every such instance of imprisonment, except upon conviction for crime, or by order of some judge, is an infraction of the Consti- tution of the United States. The Xlllth Article of the Constitution, sec. 1, says : Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punish- ment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, 104: ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH shall exist witliin the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Of what "crime" lias Mary Ann Smith been " duly convicted?" By what order of any court of justice is she confined?" Why, then, is she imprisoned and kept at hard work, " involuntary servitude," at the bid- ding of a Catholic priest ? Still further, whatever may be the result of this struggle for the rights of conscience and religious lib- erty, at these earthly tribunals, the case will go to a Higher Court than'all — namely, to the judgment seat OF Chkist, where all persecutors will be confounded, and all false witnesses and oppressors will meet their deserved and irrevocable doom. When the millions who have bled or burned, or have been broken on the wheel or rack, or slaughtered in cold blood, in Eng- and, and Ireland, and France, and Spain, and the Ne- therlands, and in Eome, by the Papacy, shall stand be- fore God, and bear witness against their murderers, tlien will the persecutors and maligners of Mary Ann Smith appear also ; the secrets of the " House of the Good Shepherd" will be revealed; and all who have been concerned in this most infamous transaction, be covered with " shame and everlasting contempt." But we have hope of justice at last, even in this world, and for the following reasons : 1. We believe God is ever on the side of the op- pressed, and that He will aid us in defending the in- nocent. Thus far. His hand has seemed to be with us at every step ; while every movement of the Inquisitors only made their cause look worse and worse. And so we believe it will bo to the end. BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 105 2. There are several precedents already on record ; decisions which settle the principle of the rights of conscience, even for minors. For although we could have shown that James Smith had forfeited all right to the custody of his child, by neglecting to take care of her, etc., we chose to concede the question of custody, as we wished to test the naked question of the reli- gious rights of minors, upon its own merits. The following decisions, covering the same princi- ple, are already on record. (1.) It is said that Judge Ingraham, a few years ago, told an Irish Girl, whom her father was seeking to con- fine for changing her faith, that she was too large to be coerced in such a matter, and that she could go where she pleased. We have not the record of this case, but are assured by a New York pastor, who was present, that such are the facts. (2.) Jaimes Steel, Esq., of Huntington, Pa., sends us the following : I observed in The GJiristian Advocate^ a short time ago, a deci- sion of Judge Sutherland, of ISTew York, on a habeas corpus in the case of a Catholic girl who claimed to have the privilege of choos- ing what form of faith she should profess agreeably to the dictates of her own conscience, which privilege was denied by her father, claiming that lie had the sole power over his child's conscience, and to this his honor assented, saying that the case was a very dif- ficult one to decide, and therefore remanded her to the custody of her father, to be by him handed over to be incarcerated in the House of the Good Shepherd, or really delivering the lamb to the custody of the wolf. Our judges in Pennsylvania have not found any difficulty in deciding such matters, and in order that your judge may be somewhat enlightened, I give you two decisions on the subject taken from the Pennsylvania Law Journal^ and these are not all the cases : 106 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANK SMITH ISTeither parent^ guardian nor master have the right to exercise any arbitrary control over an infant as to his religious principles. Commonwealth y&. Farley; 4,th Pennsylvania Law Journal, pcige 896. Pai'sons, Justice. A father has no right to control or interfere with the rights of conscience of his minor child who has arrived at the age of discre- tion, in relation to the worship of Almighty God. Commonwealth vs. Sigman — Quarterly Sessions of Lehigh County, Pa. ; dd Penn- sylvania Law Journal, page 252. I hope this matter will he stirred up again, so that another deci- sion may he had in the case of this girl more in accordance with the dictates of common sense and religious liberty. James Steel. (3.) A similar case has recently been decided in Og- densbnrgh, N. Y., in which an Irish boj^, who had em- braced rehgion and united with the M. E. Church, was taken by an Irish constable, at the instigation of his mo- ther, and, without legal process, handcuffed and locked up. But on being brought out on habeas corpus, the judge ordered his release, and allowed him to chose a guardian. We hope to have all the particulars of this case in time for a future chapter. From all these considerations, and the far-reaching importance and justice of the case, we cannot believe that the Supreme Court, or Court of Appeals will settle it as the law, in this land of freedom, that any parent has a right to imprison or punish a minor over fourteen years, for his religious opinions. This is the great issue involved in this case ; and in its righteous settle- ment, not only every Protestant, of every name, but every Jew and Free Thinker in the land has an inte- rest. For if one may be thus imprisoned for conscience sake, so may another. As to expenses, though it may cost a thousand dol- fill 86 201 00 11 20 20 00 5 00 BY THE K0MA2C CATHOLICS. 107 lars to carry through the suit, we cheerfully take the responsibility, trusting to the Protestant public to sup- ply the means as they may be needed. Thus far our receipts have been as follows : From Camp-meeting at Northport, L. I. Sing Sing, N. Y. . Barnsboro,* N. J. . Loder & Co., New York (Volunteered). From an unknown friend, through Dr. Curry. Total . . . $349 06 Of this sum, $189 50 have already been expended, leaving, at this date (September 15), $159 56 now in hand to carry on the suit. Of course we must have more money ; and if the reader desires to aid in the matter, he can inclose his donation to the writer, and it will be duly acknowl- edged, either through the religious papers or in the next edition of this pamphlet, or both. We depend mainly upon members of the M. E. Church to see this matter through, and if need be shall make a public ap- peal for funds through our religious journals ; but we prefer not to be obliged to issue any such public re- quest. Better that it be done silently and without special effort. And as the battle is being fought in the interests of all Protestantism, and of Religious Freedom for all, there is no reason why other Chris- tians, and men of no religious denomination, should * In this case no appeal was made for money. 108 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH not aid in meeting the necessary expenses of the suit. We trust such will be the case. But we have been asked, " Suppose she has really recanted, and is willing to remain in the convent ?" We ansAver, so much the worse for Eomanism. She was firm and true while out of prison, and after she had been in it for months ; and if, after a month's effort to secure her freedom, finding herself still in bondage, she has given way to despair, or to worse in- fluences, the more execrable the " religion " (?) that will consummate such deeds. She has been told repeatedly, both by her father and by Doane, that if she would abjure her faith she should be set at liberty ; and she may possibly have resorted to a recantation to secure her freedom. And yet she is not liberated. And if she has recanted in her imprisonment, and with what other terrors before her God only knows, she has not been the first who has done so. Take the case of Archbishop Cranmer : " Lured by the promise not only of pardon but of royal favor, he was induced to sign six papers, by which he recanted his princi- I)les, and avowed his sorrow for having entertained them. In spite, however, of the promises made to him, he was brought to the stake, March 21, 1556. He had by this time recovered his firmness ; and he died with the utmost fortitude, holding in the flames till it was consumed the hand which had signed the recan- tation, and exclaiming, " This unworthy hand I this unworthy hand!" After Galileo, the Florentine philosopher and in- ventor of the telescope, had professed his belief in the earth's rotation upon its axis, he was twice prosecuted for heresy on that account by the Inquisition, sent to BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 109 prison in 1615, and again in 1633. On both these oc- casions he was compelled to abjure his " heresy " or die. Here is his recantation : "I, Galileo, in the seventieth year of my age, on bended knees before your eminences [the cardinals and bishops], and touching with my hands the Holy Gospels, do abjure and curse and detest the doctrine of the earth's movement." But to what did the recantation amount ? As he rose from his knees, and walked forth into a haU, he stamped his foot and said, in a low tone, " it does move after all." And so it would be with Miss Smith, even if she had recanted. Set her free and she would defy the Inquisition and all its heresies. And what a system for converting men and women to a religious belief ! Think of it, American citizens ! Ye who breathe the free air of our native hills ! Think of buildings and stools for penitents, and grated in- closures, and unseen and unknown "discipline" or punishments, in this land, to force converted Roman- ists back to the " Mother of harlots !" In God's name we ask. Are such things to be tolerated in the United States? Is the Inquisition to be transplanted from Eome and Spain, to take root among our free institu- tions ? This case is the entering wedge — a test case, so far as the law is concerned. If the camel get his nose in, the neck and body will follow, and our reli- gious freedom be forever lost. And now is the time for successful resistance.. 110 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH CHAPTEE XIV. Other Similar Oases of Abduction and Persecution. Although we might fill a volume with accounts of similar transactions in this and in other countries, we have not the space here. But a few additional in- stances, showing that such is the practice among Ro- man Catholics everywhere, will not be out of- place. 1. The Case of Young Mortaea in 1858. In 1858, Edgar Mortara, a son of Jewish parents, residing in Bologna, Italy, was stolen from his parents by Eomish priests, and taken to Eome and kept there, in spite of all his parents could do, to be educated for a priest. The following is an account of the transac- tion, taken from the Civilta Catolica, published at Rome : " In the early part of last summer a Catholic servant, in the fam- ily of a ^Qw at Bologna, stated to an old woman that the youngest child of the Jew was sick and in danger of death. The old woman told her that in such circumstances it would be a beautiful and pious act to baptize the child. The servant replied that she had already baptized an older brother, six years before, when he was in danger of dying ; and that the child was then growing up a He- brew, notwithstanding his Christian baptism, and she should not again do a similar thing. The old woman, however, thought the affair of great consequence, and made it known to several others, till at last the story was related to the Holy Congregation at Rome. An inquiry was immediately ordered into the facts of the case ; and on the testimony of the servant, who said she had received insfruc- BY THE ROMAK CATHOLICS. Ill tion respecting the way of administering baptism from a certain grocer in Bologna, it was decided that there was a moral certainty that the boj had been baptized. The Holy Congregation then pro- ceeded by force to bring him to Eome, where he is now retained to be educated by the priesthood." Such, in brief, is the Eoman Catholic history of this child theft. The boy was then in his eighth year, and in spite of the tears and efforts of his bereft parents, and the remonstrances of the civilized world, was re- tained by the Eomish heirarchy, and for aught we know is with them to this day. In this case, the rights of father and mother were of no account with Popery. Now, let us see how the Eoman Catholics of this country looks upon the affair. In Broicnsons Quar- terly, then the great central organ of Eomanism in this country, we find the following : "The withdrawal of Edgar from parental custody, in order to se- cure his Christian education, was in virtue of an immemorial law of the Eoman States, grounded on religious principles, and on the Christian view of individual rights and duties. The fact that he had been baptized obliged him to receive instruction in Christian doctrines, and the fact of baptism having been administered by a domestic does not affect its validity, since although the office of baptism belongs to the bishops, priests and deacons of the church, every one can validly baptize by using the prescribed form of words, and making simultaneously the ablution. " The baptized infant, born according to the flesh of Israehte pa- rents, becomes a child of God, being born of water and of the Spirit. Without his knowledge he receives heavenly gifts, — with- out his consent he is subjected to the law of Christ and his Church, since the boon of regeneration is granted on this condition. This Is the teaching of the Catholic Church, as to all baptized infants, without regard to the religious faith, or the wishes of their parents. 112 ABDUCTION OF MAKY ANN SMITH Without baptism the infant cannot enter into the kingdom of God, or partake of the glory of heaven." ^' Our courts of law seem to acknowledge in them [parents] a religious guardianship over their children until these attain to full age ; but the ecclesiastical tribunals hold that the child is free from his earliest use of reason to submit his mind to God, without regard to the views or wishes of his parents, etc. He owes obedience to his parents in domestic discipline ; he must obey God in things divine." * Having stolen the child, and put him where none but Eomanists could see him, they claimed, as in the recent recantation (?) of Miss Smith, that he was a Eo- manist, and had the right to chose his own religion. So it is A sort of engagement, you see, That is binding on you, but not binding on me." " The ecclesiastical tribunals hold that the child is free from his earliest use of reason to submit his mind to God, without regard to the views or wishes of his parents ;" that is, if he become a Papist, but not if a Papist, and he chooses to become a Protestant. How exactly like Hecker's " Plea for Liberty of Conscience," which he defines as *' the right to embrace, profess, and practice the Catholic Religion. t And this is all the "liberty of conscience" that Romanism ever tol- erates. Upon the subject of baptism, and the right which it gives Popery to control those who have been baptized, * April, 1859, pp. 22G-231. t Catholic World for July> 1868, p. 1 of Number. BY THE KOMAlSr CATHOLICS. 113 either by priest or servant-girl, Mr. Brownson thus speaks : Since by baptism the recipient is born again, and born a subject of Christ's kingdom, he may be compelled by force, when once baptized, and become one of the faithful, to keep the unity of the faith, and submit to the authority of the Church, as the natural- born subjects of a state may, if rebellious, be reduced to their civil allegiance by the strong hand of power, and, if need be, punished even with death for their treason."* But we must not pursue this narrative further. The extracts cited show, what no intelligent Roman Catho- lic would deny, that they claim the right to seize and by force restrain or punish any person who has been baptized by them, even by a servant girl, if they do not adhere to the Romish faith. And there is little doubt that hundreds of children of Protestants are secretly taken to Catholic priests by servant girls, and baptized by them, and their names put upon record, of which the parents have not the slightest knowledge or sus- picion. And in case of the death of said parents, such children would be claimed as Catholics, as was young Mortara ; and if they were heirs to any considerable amount of property, or belonged to influential families, the right to control them would be strongly con- tested.t ^ Brownson's Beview, July, 1864, p. 267. f The extent to which. Popery carries this baptismal question is well illustrated in the case of Thad. Stevens, who was baptized by nuns after he was past all consciousness. The prize in this case was the prestige of his name as a prominent statesman, who died in the Romisb faith. 114 ABDUCTION OF MAEY ANN SMITH II. Case of Dr. McKinley's Daughter, Louisville, Kentucky. Under the heading of " A Lawsuit for a Million," the Louisville (Ky.) Coitrier of August 28, 1868, con- tained the following remarkable editorial : One of the most extraordinary cases on record is now pending before Judge Bruce, in the Circuit Court. The facts connected therewith, so far as we have been able to gather them, are as fol- lows : Dr. Samuel E. McKinley, son of Judge McKinley, formerly Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, and United States Judge of this circuit, was residing and practicing his pro- fession at New Orleans when that city was captured by the Federal army. He was retained as surgeon for the Confederate sick, and was afterwards retained in the United States service. The doctor married a very wealthy heiress, a Miss Morrison, of Louisiana, by whom he has two children, one a boy named James, w^ho is now with him in St. Louis, and the other a little girl, E. J. Lyon McKinley, twelve years of age. His wife dying during the infancy of the girl, the doctor, in 1864, moved to New Albany, Indiana, taking with him his two children. About a year ago last winter he moved to tliis city, where he remained till some time in 1867, and becoming desirous of going back to New Orleans to look after his property, left his little daughter at the Ursuline Academy, a Cath- olic female school in this city, for education, sending her from time to time money to pay her expenses. Before or about the time of vacation, the Doctor having moved and established himself in St. Louis, requested Judge Taylor to send by Adams Express his little daughter to him, the Express Company agreeing to under- take the care and custody of the child. "When Judge Taylor applied for the child, the Superior of the academy objected to letting her go till her tuition should be fully paid. The doctor, on learning this, declared that he had sent by mail the fuU amount, and then came for her himself. His counsel BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 115 advising him that the academy could not retain a lien on the child for their money, he sued out a writ of habeas corpus before his Honor Judge Bruce, and this case, as it happens, is the first brought before Judge Bruce since qualifying as our Circuit Judge. The Superior of the academy, answering the writ, stated that the girl was named Lizzie Brown ; that she was not the Doctor's daughter ; that she was fifteen years of age, and that the Doctor was drunken and unfit to control the child. This answer was yesterday ad- judged insuflScient, and the respondent was required to state the time and the means by which respondent obtained possession of the child; that a mere allegation that the Doctor was not her father was no ground for the respondent to retain her. While the Doctor was away, some two weeks ago, it seems that the Superior applied to the County Court to become her guardian, and exhibited, it is claimed, a printed envelope with the name of E. J. Lyon McKinley, in which her father had enclosed money to his daughter — this being the true name. It is also alleged he has letters from the Superior calling her his daughter, Lyon. It is further said that she has become a Catholic, contrary to her father's wishes, who is an Episcopalian, and that she will, at her grandfather's death, become the heiress of more than a million. The case coming up yesterday afternoon, and the parties not be- ing ready for trial on account of absent witnesses, it was continued till next Friday at nine o'clock, a. m. The Court ruled the answer of the respondent insufficient, and required her to be more ex- plicit. This trial will develop some of the strangest points of law and fact known to jurisprudence. Judge Jeff. Brown and Judge Taylor are attorneys for McKinley, and Judge Burnett and W. G-. Reasor for respondent. III. — Father Chiniquy and the Bishop of Chicago. There is, at St. Anne, III., one Father Chiniquy, formerly a Roman Catholic priest, but now indepen- dent of that hierarchy, and carrying on his religious affairs as he understands the Bible to direct. Of 116 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH course Popery is making every possible effort to crush liim, and among other things, he is sued, or arrested, on one pretext or another, by the Bishop of Chicago, every now and then, or at least, was a few years since. In most of these cases Abraham Lincoln was his coun- sel. A correspondent of the Montreal Witness furnishes the following anecdote in regard to one of those cases : Mr. Obiniquy was prosecuted on a criminal charge, in connec- tion, I believe, with the church property at St. Anne, and employed, so far as he knew, tbe best counsel to defend himself; but he was informed by a frienrf that he must engage Lincoln or the other party would get him, and then his case would be desperate. He telegraphed to Lincoln, and waited in the office till he got his as- sent; and when leaving it, the other party was just coming to tele- graph for the services of the same redoubtable lawyer. Through the whole course of the long and harrassing suits that followed, Mr. Lincoln gave great attention to his case, manifested the most unwearied kindness, and finally brought him off triumphant ; and when Father Chiniquy asked him how much was to pay, he replied, by asking in return : " How much can you pay me, Mr. Chiniquy?" Mr. 0. replied that he intended, as soon as possible, to pay what- ever was right, and asked again what it was. The other lawyer he employed had charged $3,000, which Mr. Chiniquy believed to be no more than a fair remuneration for his labor ; but Mr. Lincoln, who had done even more, wrote out a note for $50, which he handed to Mr. Chiniquy to sign, asking him if that would do. Mr. Chiniquy said it was far too little, hut Mr. Lincoln replied that rich suitors would make up the difference to him. A DRAJklATIO SCENE. The denoument of the criminal trial, above alluded to, was of thrilling dramatic interest. Two w^itnesses swore point-blank against Mr. Chiniquy, and it was clear that he must be convicted next day, and, if convicted, sent to the penitentiary. This the re- porter of a leading Chicago paper telegraphed, and the news was BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 117 at once published, as the trial excited much interest. A Eoman Catholic who had read the paragraph remarked to his wife, with satisfaction, that they were going to get rid of Chiniqny at last, and mentioned the news. *' She said if he is convicted on that tes- timony, it is false." " How do you know that ?" asked her husband. " Because I and another lady were visiting the niece of such a priest (naming him), and the door of his room was not quite close. He did not know we were there, and we overheard the whole bargain made with these two witnesses, that they were to swear so and so, and to get two hundred acres of land." " Can you swear to this ?" said her husband. " Certainly." " Can the other lady swear to it?" " Undoubtedly." The gentleman, though a Eoman Catholic, loved justice more than the priesthood, and started at once for the night train. He reached the place of trial about two o'clock in the morning, roused Mr. Lincoln, told him to telegraph for the wit- nesses he named; and Mr. Lincoln, after doing so, came to Mr. Chiniquy's room (who was spending the night on his knees) to tell him that he was all safe. IVhen these ladies appeared in Court, the priest asked what was their business, and if they were going to destroy him. They said they would have to tell the truth, but it was he who had de- stroyed himself. Thereupon there was a consultation, and the prosecution came into Court requesting leave to withdraw the charge, saying that further evidence had convinced them of its groundlessness, and offering to pay expenses and apologize to the accused. How forcibly this reminds one of the two witnesses procured by Father Doane, to swear away the charac- ter of Mary Ann Smith — men who were obliged to ad- mit that they had each served two terms apiece in prison. And yet upon such testimony a j^oung girl is to-day toihng in a Eoman CathoKc prison, on hard fare, and without pay, for abandoning Eomanism and becoming a Protestant. There are Eoman Catholics who are honorable and 118 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANK SMITH truthful in spite of their religion; but as a general rule no man's property, liberty or life, are safe, where the interests of the Eomish Church are involved, and human testimony, true or false, is to decide the ques- tion. This all history attests. CHAPTER XV Startling Facts respecting Eomanism. In view of the preceding narrative, and the vast im- portance of the issue now being pressed upon the American people, we call attention to certain moment- ous facts bearing upon the American Eoman question. 1. Romanism is fore-doomed ly the Word of God and must ultimately perish. The *' Man of Sin," 2 Thess. ii. 3, is to be "destroyed;" and ''Babylon," Rev. xvii. 2, 21, is to be " thrown down, and found no more at all." This heaven-revealed destiny should be borne in mind by every true Christian. Whatever temporary triumphs she may jei achieve in certain locahties, or blood she may yet shed to vindicate her hell-born assumptions and heresies, her doom is writ- ten, and the vision hasteth to its accomplishment. 2. Romanism is dtjing throxighout Europe, In Ire- land, Austria, Italy, Rome, and France, it is smitten with incurable decay. Throughout the dominion of Victor Emanuel every convent, male and female, has been sold out at public vendue by order of the govern- ment, and it is but little better in Austria. Dr. Stevens, who has just returned from Europe, BY THE KOMAISr CATHOLICS. 119 tlius wrote to the Christian Advocate during his ab- sence : Popery is doomed in Europe. * * * Even in France itself it is well observed that the Papal reaction is confined to the imperial policy, and to the hierarchy as a part of the machinery of that policy. The intellect and congcience of France go not with it, though they succnmb to it. Again : Protestantism, if not by its inherent evangelical force, yet by the impulses of the advanced civilization wMch it has produced, is evi- dently fast gaining predominance in all Western Europe. The de- cadence of Popery in Italy itself, where it is now sustained (as a State power) only by the bayonets of France, its late defeat in Austria, where the policy of Count Beust has overturned its last Concordat, but especially the irapotency of the Vatican policy itself, in aU its late demonstrations, show that it is smitten with incurable declension, and is tumbling into the abyss of the effete past. Dr. Bellows, writing from Kome itself, says : It is hard to find an intelligent man not a priest or a recent con- vert, in the Koman Catholic church, who does not speak sneer- ingly, disparagingly, or railingly against it. Judging by the state of public sentiment, as expressed by the thinking or talking men and women in Catholic Europe, you would declare the Eoman Catholic church an ocular illusion, or at best a vast ecclesiastical mansion in ruins, but too big to crumble out of sight, after having been so long deserted by its whole inhabitants. Eev. W. G. Morehead, writing from Sarzana, north- ern Italy, says : Time was when the Eomish churches were crowded with an ignorant, docile, believing multitude ; now they are comparatively empty. The priests and canonicals howl their meaningless, unin- 120 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH telligible liturgies to themselves. A few old women, and as many beggarly old men, constitute their audiences. Ask any one if he believes in the dogmas of infallibility and purgatory, or the power of the priest to absolve from sin, and the reply is, in forty-five cases out of fifty, an emphatic no. In one word, Koman Catholi- cism, as it was once in Italy, is dead. Of tlie unanimity of the Italians as to the abolition of the temporal power of the Pope, Mr. Morehead thus writes : Were the question of the temporal power to be s(/lved by a uni- versal and untrammeled Vote in Italy, there is not the leaut doubt but that twenty- three millions would cast their ballots against, and perJiaps two millions for it. And twenty millions of Italians would to-morrow vote for the removal of the Pope, with his cardinals and all their crew, to Malta, or Jerusalem, or China. And if such is the state of things at the heart, what must be the condition of the system as a w^hole. At Prague, in Bohemia, where John Huss was burned alive by the CathoUcs for heresy, in July, 1415, and Jerome, in May, 1416, there is about to be estab- lished a memorial college, for the training of Gospel ministers. An English correspondent of the Provin- cial Wesleyan, of Halifax, says : Bible depots are opened throughout the various Austrian states ; and in Prague, where the Bible was once burned, there is now an annual average sale of 13,000 copies. The people are educating their children in their own faith, and favorable opportunities are being presented for the preaching and teaching of the pure Gospel of Christ. In Ireland, the population decreased 3,832,457 from 1841 to 1861, or over forty per cent. ; and the Catholic population has decreased by death, emigration, and BY THE EOMAN CATHOLICS. 121 conversion to Christ, about seven millions during the last thirty years. This great breeding-ground of the Papacy is consequently landing fewer and fewer Irish Catholics upon our shores every year. For this every true American Christian will devoutly thank his God. While France is nominally Catholic, and is to-day the strongest piUar that Eomanism has on earth, it is nevertheless leavened with Protestantism and con- tempt of the Papacy, and cankered by infidelity from end to end. Of the city of Paris (and it is said that '' Paris is France ") the Catholic World recently said : Paris is not a Catholic city, but a city whicli v/as Catholic, and which Catholics are striving to reconquer. The Revohition abol- ished the Catholic Church and exterminated its clergy; and with all the efforts and zeal of the Catholics they have only gained a large minority of the people to any real faith and connection with their establishment. To this we may add that there are now in France about two millions of Protestants, led on by a thou- sand faithful pastors, and their numbers are daily in- creasing. It is estimated that there are fifteen thou- sand Protestants in Paris alone. Fifty years ago there was not a Protestant rehgious periodical in all France, now there are over twenty. But we have no room here to extend these proofs."^ * Should the reader desire a perfect armory of facts and figures upon the present status of Eomanism in Europe and America, such as can be found no where else, let him inclose his address and fifty cents to the writer, and a large octavo pam.phlet upon the subject will be sent by mail. 122 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH 3. It is but little better off in the Dominion of Cana- da, South America^ and Mexico. In the latter Eepublic especially, it is virtually over- thrown. The death of MaxamiKan was its death blow. Its monasteries and nunneries, as in Italy, have been confiscated and sold, and even the churches are all in the hands of the Juarez government. The priests are even forbidden by law to appear in the streets in their sacerdotal robes. The Bible is freely circulated every- where, in spite of the indignant priesthood, and a Protestant minister is probably more safe there to-day than he is in the Papal city of New York. 4. While Hom^anism is dying everijichere else^ it is maJcing a desperate effort to get control of the United States. Of this no evidence need here be adduced. Already they have the whole land mapped out into seven Prov- inces, with an archbishop at the head of each ; fifty- three episcopal sees, and as many bishops ; eight vicars-apostolic, with their vicarates ; and three thousand two hundred and forty-eight priests, and nine hundred and thirteen clerical students in their colleges. They have thirty-two different periodicals, some twenty bookstores, over fifty colleges, and nearly three hundred monasteries and nunneries. From 1850 to 1860 their increase in churches was one hundred and eight per cent., while that of the M. E. Church, even, was but fifty per cent. The average value of their churches is six and a half times as much as the average of our Meth- dist churches ; so that the eight hundred and sixteen churches they have built since 1860, are worth more BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 123 than four times as much as those built by the M. E. Church during the same period, notwithstanding the numerous good churches we have been building all over the land. In nearly every large city an immense cathedral, costing from $300,000 to $1,000,000, is either completed or in process of erection. Away in the West, at Lawrence and at Omahaw, their immense churches and college buildings astonish the traveler. They are getting possession of the best sites for build- ings everywhere, and their real estate is already of im- mense value. The vast amounts in New York and vicinity, shown by Mr. Brooks years ago to have been in the possession of Bishop Hughes, is quietly held by his ^' successor," to the value of millions, without tax- ation, and wielded wholly in the interests of Popery. In a word, Romanism already controls the commer- cial metropolis of the nation, and many other of our larger cities. With their votes they buy judges, sher- iJBfs, aldermen, mayors, common councils, boards of supervisors, judges, and legislatures. A conscientious man in New York recently told a minister that he was once oflBlcially tendered a Democratic nomination as Judge of the Supreme Court, (w^hich in New York is equivalent to an election), on condition that he would agree beforehand to decide in the interest of the church, whenever any religious matter should come before him. He declined to make any such contract, and another was nominated and elected in his place. And the Protestant lawyers of New York — many of them, at least — say, that there is no chance for justice in that city, in any matter where the interests of Ro- manism are involved. What a state of things is this for an American city ! 12J: ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH In Chicago it is not much better ; and so of Brook- Ijn, and Baltimore, and Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati, and Oswego and Buffalo, and even Hartford and Bos- ton. Eomanism already has complete control of many of our municipal and State goyernments, and it is not a year since Father Hecker, editor of the CatJioUc World, and Director of the Catholic Puhlication Society, said, in a public lecture delivered in the Cooper Insti- tute, New York, that in twenty-three years the Catho- lics would have the, political majority in this country, — that it would then be their duty to take the con- trol of the government, and administer its affairs in the interests of the church ; and that it should be the business of his life to educate the Catholics of the country up to this idea. The " interests of the Church" means — Eomanism the national religion, and no other tolerated. At the same time Mr Hecker announced that Pro- testantism was dying out, and that it was to find its grave in the United States — a reproduction of Bishop Hughes's prophecy years ago. 5. It is doing its utmost to break up the Public School Systems of the several States, These are fatal to Eomanism. A thorough ac- quaintance with Arithmetic, and Geography, and Phi- losophy, and uncorrupted History, is sure to unfit the mind for the dogmas of Popery and for priestly domination. To make Catholics, it is indispensable to keep out of the mind science and general litera- ture, and to fill it early with superstition, and Pa- pal legends of saints and false miracles. Hence BY TnE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 125 the grand assault — East, West and Central — upon the Common School System of the country. Their pastoral letters are devoted to the subject ; their periodicals pour out curses and bitterness upon the schools ; and efforts are being made in almost every large town and city to break up the system by getting part of the public funds, to support their sectarian schools. And in several instances they have suc- ceeded, one of which is in New Haven, Connecticut. And any man can see that if one denomination is al- lowed its pi^o rata dividend of the funds, another must and will be, and the system is inevitably destroyed. The only relief then would be to compel every denom- ination to sustain its own schools, and not tax Protes- tants to pay nuns and monks for teaching the dogmas of Popery. A recent Chicago paper says : There seems to be reason to fear that a more vigorous attack is to be made by the Roman Catholics upon the unsectarian system of free schools. The German Catholic tjnion, which recently met in this city, is a well organized and enthusiastic army of laymen, which is ready to enforce the well known opposition of the priest- Lood to our Common School System. Three resolutions whicli they passed will show their animus. The first urges that Catholic children be sent only to Catholic schools ; the second that each member " exert his personal influence, that more good Catholics be appointed as teachers in the public schools ;" and the third reso- lution suggests to the American Catholic Episcopacy '' the propri- ety of petitioning the State governments to obtain a proportionate share of the school fund in the States " for distinctively Catholic schools. Another Western paper says : Bishop Randall, of Colorado, has recently made the discovery that the ''ground which he supposed entirely fallow and neglected, he found to be full of Jesuitical laborers who had been long at work. Btate money to the amount of $30,000 had been granted to 126 ABDUCTION OF MAKY ANN SMITH their schools, while most of the Protestant young ladies of Denver , City, and the neighborhood, are their regular pupils ; and the next ^ generation of Colorado bids fair to be educated with as intense a : hatred to our reformed religion and free institutions as are the hi- ■ dalgos of Spain or the peasantry of Connemara. i i This does not relate so much to Common Schools, as to the kind of education that Eomanism is giving to its pupils. 6. They are resorting to every conceivaUe expedient to destroy our American Sahhath, and make the first day of the tveeJc a mere holiday. Witness the Sabbath parades and processions, with bands of music, in nearly all our large cities, during the past year, upon the Holy Sabbath, disturbing pub- lic worship, and in several cases preventing ministers from getting to their pulpits at all, on account of the crowd. In other cases pay lectures and concerts on Sabbath evenings are resorted to ; and in still others, fairs have been kept open, and gambling carried on, after the fashion of the Catholic priests in Mexico. In Pittsburg, after the consecration of a Bishop, they had a great consecration dinner, with a long list of wines and ales, and brandies and whiskies, in the bill, and several of the bishops got gloriously drunk — all on the Sabbath. So says the Pittsburg Christian Advocate, in the very city where it occurred. In Cincinnati the mayor declared that *^the people of Cincinnati had repealed the Sabbath laws of Ohio ;" that is, that they had decided not to obey them, and he, as mayor, tacitly consented to the rebellion, in violation of his solemn oath to enforce the laws of the State. But Bishop Purcell wanted a Mexican or Parisian Sabbath, BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 127 and tlie mayor must obey the bishop. And thus, lit- tle by little, Eomanism, in conjunction with the various forms of infidelity, is destroying the sanctity of the Sabbath, in the popular estimation, throughout the land. For when the Sabbath becomes a day for pa- rades and pageants, and concerts and fairs and amuse- ments, Eomanism can turn it to her own aggrandize- ment ; and not very well until then. 7. Eomanism is already exercising a controlling influence over the Secular Press of the country. This is especially true of the Democratic political Press. Many of its editors, and we believe a majority of its reporters, are Romanists. Standing thus at the gates of knowledge, they keep back everything that will militate against the interests of the Romish church. To this there are here and there exceptions, but they are very rare. And the same is true, to some extent, with the Republican Press, though it is far more free and outspoken, and is generally Protestant in its tone and management. But Popery knows the power of the secular Press, and is doing more to-day to subsi- dize it to its interests, than all the Protestant denom- inations put together. 8. Eomanism is to-day a political party in this coun- try, as much so as the EepuUican party is. It does not go by any party name, but it acts as a party. Who ever knew a Romanist to vote the Repub- lican ticket— especially an Irish Roman Catholic ? We have inquired for six months past for one such case, and have not found the first well authenticated in- 128 ABDUCTION OF MAKY ANN SMITH stance. Yet we doubt not there are Germans, and perhaps scores of them, who are nominally Catholics, and yet vote the Republican ticket. The Neio York Tribune, of April 17, 1868, contained the following editorial note : J. B. L. writes us a very absurd letter, complaining of our state- ment that nearly all the Roman Catholics in our country are hos- tile to" the Republican party. He says, "I know a good many Catholic Germans who are republicans." We do not doubt it ; yet the fact remains that nine-tenths of the Adopted Citizens, and at least nineteen-twentieths of the Roman Catholics, are hostile to the Republican party. We do not complain of this — they have the same right to their opinions that we have to ours — but we have an equal right to see and report facts as they exist. In the late Con- necticut election, at least Ten Thousand majority of the native-born vote was cast for the Republicans ; but this was overborne, as to the State ticket, by the foreign-born and mainly Roman Catholic vote. Many of these voters were virtually coerced by their asso- ciates into voting against their own judgment and choice. * * And it is high time that the American people be- gan to comprehend this truth ; for if we already have a Catholic party, it is time w^e had a Protestant party ; and the sooner we have it, the sooner we may crush Papal aggressions, and the less Protestant blood may flow in years to come. 9. Romanism is already heing largely sustained by the various cities and states, as such, at the exjoense of Protes- tant tax-payers. The New York Tribune of June 1, 1867, contained the following : The New York Legislature made religious appropriations last year to the amount of $129,029 49. The remarkable fact appears that only $4,855 35 of this sum was for the benefit of Protestant and Hebrew associations, the balance being for Roman Catholic institutions. The following is a pai-tial list : BY THE KOMAN CATHOLICS. 129 Evangelical Lutheran, St. John's Orphan Home, Buffalo. $9 93 Free School of the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Manhattanville 346 04 Le Cauteuxl, St. Mary's Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Buf- falo 24 62 Orphan's Home and Asylum of the Protestant Episco- pal Church, New York 777 59 Protestant Half Orphan Asylum, New York 1,304 87 Eoman Cathoiic Orphan Asylum, Brooklyn. 1864 2,189 21 Eoman Catholic Orphan Asylum, Brooklyn,' 1865 2,476 74 Eoman Catholic Orphan Asylum, New York 4,340 63 Society for the Protection of Destitute Eoman Catholic Children, New York 2,505 71 St. John's Catholic Orphan Asylum, Utica 310 52 St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, New York 1,007 48 St. Joseph's Male Orphan Asylum, Buffalo 318 90 St. Joseph's German Eoman Catholic Orphan Asylum, Eochester 9 25 St. Mary's Orphan Asylum, Canandaigua 26 21 St. Mary's Boys' Orphan Asylum, Eochester 89 40 St. Mary's Orphan Asylum, Dunkirk 423 04 St. Patrick's Female Orphan Asylum, Eochester 238 75 St. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum, Troy 180 07 St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, Albany 766 63 St. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum, Buffalo 267 62 St. Vincent's Infant Asylum, Buffalo 104 11 St. Vincent's Male Orphan Asylum, Utica 213 90 St. Vincent de Paul Orphan Asvlum, Syracuse 345 51 The Church Charity Foundation, Brooklyn, 1864 118 42 The Church Charity Foundation, Brooklyn, 1865 156 22 Troy Catholic Male Orphan Asylum 448 72 St. Mary's Orphan Asylum, Chfton (special appropria- tion) 500 00 St. Joseph's Male Orphan Asylum, Buffalo (special ap- propriation , 1,000 00 St. Vincent's Male Orphan Asylum, Utica (special ap- propriation) IT ; 1,000 00 Buffalo Hospital, Sisters of Charity • 8,949 84 Buffalo St. Mary's Lying-in Hospital 1,646 10 Jews' Hospital and Hebrew Benevolent Society, New York 2,484 32 Eochester St. Mary's Hospital 8,845 14 Eochester St. Mary 's Hospital (additional special appro- priation) 2,000 00 Buffalo St. Mary's Lying-in Hospital (additional special appropriation) 1,000 00 Church of the Immaculate Conception, New York 1,000 00 130 ABDUCTION OF MARY AKN SMITH St. Mary's Church and School, New York 2,000 00 St. Bridget's Church School, New York 1,000 00 Special Donation for the Protection of Destitute Roman Catholic Orphan Children 78,500 00 Thus the Eomanists had $124:,174: from the public treasury of the State of New York in 1866, while all the other religious denominations combined had but $4,855. A grand scheme was presented last winter (1867) for securing an immense sum for the same unholy pur- poses, from the State Treasury. Here is a full account of the plan, also taken from the New York Tribune : A covert effort has been in progress for some weeks past by cer- tain politicians of this city, working in the interest of the Roman Catholic priesthood, to secure numerous special appropriations by the New York Legislature for the schools of that Church. The plan has been to include these special appropriations in the general list of "appropriations for charitable and public purposes " in such a way as to be passed hastily and without protest in the closing legislation of the session. In order that our readers may see the Romish purpose of the appropriations, we give the following items, found in the Assembly bill, among the numerous gifts for "hos- ])itals, asylums, and other charities," relating particularly to this city and Brooklyn : For the Church of St. Mary, in the city of New York, to aid in the maintenance of schools under its charge, $5,000 00 For the Church of St. Bridget, in the city of New York, to aid in the maintenance of schools under its charge 5,000 00 For the Church of St. Vincent, in the city of New York, to aid in the maintenance of schools under its charge 1,000 00 For the Church of Transfiguration, in the city of New York, to aid in the maintenance of schools under its charge 5,000 00 For the Church of Immaculate Conception, in the City of New York, to aid in the maintenance of schools under its charge 5,000 00 For the Church of St. Patrick, in the city of New York, to aid in the maintenance of schools under its charge 5,000 00 For the school of the Church of Our Lady of the Angels, 3,000 00 BY THE ROMAIC CATHOLICS. 131 For the Church of St. Joseph, in Brooklyn, to aid in the maintenance of schools under its charge 2,500 00 For the Sisters of Mercy, in Brooklyn, to aid in tho maintenance of schools under their charge 5,000 00 For the Church of St. Peter, New York, to aid in the maintenance of schools under its charge 3,000 00 For the St. Lawrence School in New York 6,000 00 For the Church of St. James, New York, to aid in the maintenance of schools under its charge 3,000 00 For the Church of St. Paul, New York, to aid in the maintenance of schools under its charge 2,500 00 For the Church of St. Joseph, New York, to aid in the maintenance of schools under its charge 1,000 00 For the Church of St. Stephen, New York, to aid in the maintenance of schools under its charge 2,000 00 For the Church of St. Gabriel, New York, in aid of the maintenance of schools under its charge 3,000 00 For the Church of St. Michael, New York, in aid of the maintenance of schools under its charge, 3,000 00 For the Church of St. Nicholas, New York, in aid of the maintenance of schools under its charge. . . 2,000 00 For the Church of St. Theresa, New York, in aid of the maintenance of schools under its charge 3,000 00 For the Church of St. Rosa, New York, in aid. of the maintenance of schools under its charge 3,000 00 Here we have a total of $67,000, proposed to be filched from the taxpayers of the country to teach Romanism in sectarian schools. To this we will add a full list of the appropriation to the Roman Catholics since October 1, 1846, when the present State constitution was adopted. The figures are entirely accurate, having been obtained by a care- ful examination of the official records : Buffalo Hospital, Sisters of Charity $126,394 08 St. Mary's Lying-in Hospital, Buffalo 14,942 78 Eochester St. Mary's Hospital 61,112 96 Troy Hospital (Roman Catholic) 42,685 26 Buffalo Widows' and Infants' Asylum (R'n Catholic) . . 2,782 91 Academy of the Sacred Heart, Manhattanville 8,669 77 Le Cauteleux St. Mary's Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Buf- falo 619 20 Ronaan Catholic Orphan Asylum, Brooklyn ..,,..... 53 322 10 132 ABDUCTIOX OF MARY ANN SMITH Eoman Catholic Orplian Asylum, Brooklyn 76,716 76 Society for the Protection of Destitute Eoman Catholic Children, New York. 10,263 55 St. John's Orphan Asylum, Utica 16,790 79 St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, New York 7,219 16 St. Joseph's Male Orphan Asylum, Buffalo 14,280 49 St. Joseph's German Eoman Catholic Orphan Asylum, Eochester 51 43 St. Mary's German Eoman Catholic Orphan Asylum, Buffalo 1,250 81 St. ^ffary's Orphan Asylum, Canandaigua 2,433 48 St. Mary's Boys' Orphan Asylum, Eochester 430 47 St. Mary's Orphan Asylum, Dunkirk 2,474 64 St. Patrick's Female Orphan Asylum, Eochester 10,319 70 St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, Albany 22,385 79 St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, Troy 752 53 St. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum, Buffalo 9,023 89 St. Vincent's Male Orphan Asylum, Utica 2,235 11 St. Vincent de Paul Orphan Asylum, Syracuse 4,320 70 Troy Eoman Catholic Male Orphan Asylum 17,548 03 St. Joseph's College, Fordham 5,500 00 Church of the Immaculate Conception, New York 1,000 00 St. Mary's Church and School, N. Y 2,000 00 St. Bridget's Church and School, N. Y 1,000 00 New York Eoman Catholic Half Orphan Asylum 873 95 St. Joseph Orphan Asylum, Lancaster, Erie county. . 842 97 $519,242 81 These payments are exclusive of those made under the legislation of 1867, and of the large sums voted for many years by the municipalities of New York and other large cities of the State. Add to this the amount appropriated in 1866, ($124,174 14,) and we have a grand total of $643,416 95, given directly by the State Legislature, since 1846, in aid of the Eoman Catholics. By a timely effort on the part of the Pro- testant taxpayers of the city of New York, this ini- quitous scheme was defeated, but was, to a large ex- tent, carried out in another way. BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 133 10. Somanism is already setting at defiance the laics of the land, and is alloioed to do so loitli impunity by Catholic and other officers of justice. Not only is this true in regard to Sabbath laws, and laws regulating the sale of intoxicating drinks, but in various other respects. We have in New York a law requiring all clergymen to report to the Eegistrar all marriages consummated by them, with the date, name of the parties, etc. ; but the Eomish priests have set it at defiance from the beginning. They are not going to report their "sacramental" services to the civil au- thorities ! The pinch is, they wish the privilege of dating marriages hach, as they do and have done, for a consideration, in numerous cases. And so as to all other laws which come in conflict with their "reli- gion." They are already applying in this country their immemorial dogma, that the Pope is supreme, and the State and all human laws must be subordinate to his will. And it is to be decided very soon whether or not this shall be the rule in America. 11. As if confident of success, in subjugating this land to its oion sway, Eomanism is exhibiting a spirit of intol- erance and defiance, hitherto unknown in this country. The Neio Yorh Times, of April, 1867, had the follow- ing: The Rev. J. 0. White undertook to lecture on Romanism in Quincy, 111., on Wednesday night; but the Hall was taken posses- sion of by the Catholics, and, upon his attempting to speak, he was hustled out of the Hall, and barely escaped lynching. At least two thousand persons were present, inside and outside of the building, armed with clubs, stones, and other missiles. An appeal was made to the mayor ; but he answered that the people had rights as well as the speaker. 134: ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH Of this outrage the North Western Christian Advocate said : Distinguished soldiers of the war for the Union determined that free speech should be maintained ; and their determined bearing and inflexible will, cowed the mob, and counteracted the wicked course of the major. In the winter of 1866 the writer was delivering a course of lectures on Romanism, in his church in Jer- sey City, upon Sabbath evenings, when, just as we were commencing to speak, the Catholics stoned the win- dows, frightening many in the audience, and breaking seventeen panes of glass ; and the Catholic Press merely laughed at it, and charged us with procuring some one to throw the stones in order to charge it upon the Catholic church. Such is the veracity and reliability of the Eoman Catholic press. In July, 1868, Dr. E. M. Hatfield, of Chicago, preached a sermon upon " Romanism and Religious Freedom," on the Pope's Allocution respect- ing Christian liberty.^^ A few days afterwards (July 29th), Alderman Sheridan, a Roman Catholic, offered a preamble and resolution in the Common Council of that city, calling upon the Mayor to issue a proclama- tion to silence Mr. Hatfield. The document failed to pass, but it none the less exhibited the intolerant spirit of Popery, here, as well as elsewhere. It has the will to silence every Protestant minister in the land ; but, as yet, it lacks the power. But let it once get the ascendency and its intolerant purposes would * For this stirring and powerful lecture, beautifully printed in pamphlet form, in covers ; send ten cents only, with address, to the writer at Jersey City. BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 135 be carried out here, precisely as they are in Spain and in Rome. 12. Romanism is closely allied with the "Hum and ruin " interests of the coiint/ry. This is notorious. A ma- jority of the liquor dealers in all our cities are Roman Catholics. Eev. O. P. Pitcher, city missionary in Wash- ington, D. C, took a census of that city, and the result was as follows : Out of 764 groggeries, 440 were kept by Roman Catholics ; or 57^% per cent, of the whole. And Mr. Pitcher adds, that *^ most of the remainder are kept by persons w^ho come under no Christian name, so that very few are in the hands of persons who, in any fair sense of the term, are Protestants." And such is the case all over the land. What would the world think of Protestantism if one half of all the rum-sellers in the land were Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians, in good and regular standing in the churches ? 13. To this alarming array of facts, we may add that Romanism is receiving lo^rge sums of money every year, from the Propaganda, at Lyons, France, to sub- jugate this land to the Papal faith. Of this we have abundant proof, but, have not space for it here. All these facts being considered, w^e can but feel that there is great ground for alarm on the part of every well-wisher of his country. And this feeling of anxiety is coming to be very widely felt among all classes of our citizens; statesmen, educators, and the religious press. In one of his recent letters from Europe, Dr. Bellows says : There is an apathy about the Roman Catholic advances in the United States among American Protestants, which will finally re- IS 6 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH ceive a terrible shock. There is no influence at work in America so hostile to our future peace as the Eoman Catholic Church. The next American war will, I fear, be a religious war — of all kinds the worst. If we wish to avert it, we. must take immediate steps to organize Protestantism more efficiently and on less sectarian ground. Of the fact there can be but little doubt ; but whether he indicates the proper remedy is questionable. In a series of articles upon the subject recently pub- lished as editorials in the Christian Advocate^ Eev. Dr. Foster says : That there is imminent peril, no man in his senses can doubt. The abjects are themselves confident of success ; they are already organizing victory, and confidently publishing that America will soon be subject to Holy Mother Church. Do you say, Suppose it should, what then ? We have not the nerve to confront the an- swer to the question. * * * Our first duty is to become awake to the facts, to take in their full and appalling measure, to feel our danger, and then organize some enlightened Christian method of deliverance, and set about accomplishing it. If we awake not we we are undone, and at no distant day. Such are the views and feelings of thousands all over the land. We read it in almost every religious jour- nal, and hear it wherever we go. " Slavery is dead, and our next great struggle is with Eoman Catholic- ism." " If ever the Liberty of this Republic is des- troyed," said General La Fayette, "it will be by Eoman Catholic Priests." And thousands of American citizens are coming to feel that such may one day become the terrible fact. This anxiety, however, is a hopeful omen, as it shows that the American people begin to realize the situation, and the value of our free institu- tions Avhich they consider in peril. The editor of the Catholic World (October, 1868), says : '' The question put to us a few years since BY THE EOMAN CATHOLICS. 137 with a style of mixed incredulity and pity, ^ Do you believe that this country will ever become Catholic ? ' is now changed to how soon do you think it will come to pass ? " They are hopeful and defiant, and bold to announce their premeditated conquest. But many who see and feel the coming struggle, and would fain arrest it, are in doubt as to the best meas- ures. "What is the best thing to be done?" is now the great question with thousands of the best minds in this country. We have not space here to answer this question at length, but may venture a le^v sug- gestions : 1. We must not despair^ nor sit down in idleness and inactivity. If we do, Eomanism will triumph, our free institutions will be overthrown, our liberties taken from us, and our children become slaves to a corrupt priest- hood like the millions of Rome and Spain. 2. On the contrary, we must resist its encroachnents at every step. As Eev. E. S. Atwood, of Salem, Mass., has well said : Fight it everywhere and always — in all lawful ways — with every legitimate weapon ; Fight it, till Antichrist loses heart and hope ; Fight it, till it is settled, beyond the possibility of re- version, that Protestantism is to rule America. * h« ♦ * If Catholics want to build and support churches, let them do it, but do it themselves. If they want their catechism taught, let them pay their own bills. If they wish to erect ecclesiastical hos- pitals and conventual asylums, it is their right, but the dollar you give is a wicked dollar, and were better cast into the sea. And there is some ground already yielded that needs to be reclaimed and held. Put back the Bible and the prayer into every place from which it has been ejected by Romanist opposition. Without doubt there will be men enough with loose ideas of liberty, and without rehgion, who will join in the priestly cry of intolerance, and talk about the w^rong of coercing conscience. It is time that the doc- trine was broached, that Protestants have conscieaces, and some rights which Papists are bound to respect. This is BiMe land, was 90 in the beginning, must be so forever. Out of a free Gospel has 138 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH come all of grace and strength we possess. Its spirit lives in all our good laws — our educational facilities, our institutions of be- nevolence, making life and property secure, giving every man a fair chance, lifting up and blessing the down-trodden and oppressed. Put that Bible in bonds, and you do deadly hurt to all that is best in our national life. We have a right to it in our legislatures, our schools, our homes. Let the people rise up and say, " Woe to the man or church that thinks to take it from us, in any of our rela- tions or interests." Let them swear a solemn oath, that that Word which we studied at our mother's knee, which some friendly voice shall read over our new-made grave, that that Word shall never be removed from the places of power in this land, while a voice is left to plead or a hand to strive.* To these just and stirring words, let all Christians say Amen ! CHAPTER XVI. What Can and Must be Done. There }>s a theory abroad, in some minds, that we must treat Romanism differently from other forms of error, that is, must not antagonize it, or denounce it, but rather conciliate it, and win it by ignoring its horrid characteristics. This we regard as an inglori- ous compromise and a delusion. The old prophets, and apostles, and reformers, resisted and denounced error, and sin, and false religions. Thus did Jesus himself. What would Luther and Melancthon have ac- complished if they had not antagonized and denounced Romanism ? We should do everything wisely, and in a right spirit, but there is not a reason why we should denounce Spiritualism, or Universalism, or Moham- * Anniversary Sermon of American and Foreign Christian Union. Boston: 1868. BY THE K0MA:N' CATHOLICS. 139 medanism, or Mormonism, that does not apply with equal if not greater force to Eoman Catholicism. The history of the Dublin Union to Eomanists, by which five thousand a year have been converted to Christ, proves, that the first and best step to be taken with a Papist is, to expose his errors, and convince him that he is in the way to death. 1. We must have no fellowship wdth Eomanists, as professed Christians. To recognize them as Christians, is to surrender the whole question. If the Papacy is any part of the Church of Christ, then why protest against it ? nay, why not go over to it? As it is essen- tially anti-Christian in doctrines, government, worship, morals and spirit, its history one of corruption, and oppression, persecution and blood, the motto of all who fear God and hope to be saved should be, "No Fellowship with Eome." And the man who advises such fellowship or recognition, either of people or priests, as " Christian brethren," advises surrender to the enemy, and is already more than half a Papist. 2. We must preserve our Public School System at any cost. That is the great sheet anchor of our liberties, and the Papacy know it. Hence the desperate ef- forts to overthrow it. The free public school system is the citadel of liberty. The at- tenipt of any ecclesiastical party to control it to sectarian ends sliould be vigilantly exposed and utterly baffled. In this country, if the schools remain ecclesiastically free, if under no pretence whatever is any form of ecclesiastical authority permitted to in- trude upon their control, the efforts of any church at supremacy would be futile. Undoubtedly the hope and aim of the clerical party in this State is to obtain some hold upon the school system. The way to resist is to make the public schools wholly secular. There may be as many private sectarian schools as can be sup- 140 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH ported. But the State has no church, and the State schools should be under no special church domination.* Knowing their avowed aims and purposes as we do, no Catholic should ever be permitted to teach in any public school, nor to have a place in any board of edu- cation. They are avowedly disloyal to the system, and, like all rebels, should have no part in its government. Especially should we resist all appropriations from the public school funds, or from the State Treasury, to sustain Eomish schools. 3. We must maintain the Christian Sabbath against all op- position. The destruction of the Sabbath, in this land, is the triumph of Eomanism. Make the Sabbath a holiday, and we could soon have no Protestant worship. Look at the bull fight held on last Easter Sunday in Madrid, Spain, under the auspices of the priesthood and the nobility, at which no less than eighteen bulls were tor- tured to death, and several horses ripped up by them. Such is the Eoman Catholic Sabbath, wherever they have the power to make it so. "We must use all available moral means, but, if need be, must use other. There are in most of the States wholesome Sabbath laws; and if Eomanists set them at defiance, under whatever pretext, they should be prosecuted and punished like other violations of pub- lic order. "Why should a military man be fined for an ordinary company drill on the Sabbath, any more than a bishop for calling out a band of music, and disturbing the worship of half a dozen congregations ? And, if ne- cessary, there should be Sabbath Committees organ- * Editorial in Harpers' Weekly, June 27, 1808. BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 141 ized in all large towns and cities, whose duty it should be, not only to remonstrate and protest, but to prose- cute all such public and defiant violation of the laws of the land. And so as to the refusal of the priests to obey the marriage laws, and to render a proper ac- count of their revenues or salaries — a thing which not one Eomish priest in fifty does. 5. The Beligioiis Press must he more outspoken upon the subject than it has hitherto been. We mean no reflection by this remark, but simply that the American Eoman question now looming up before the nation, must be given greater prominence than it has hitherto had. Catholic periodicals are ever at work in the one direction of subjugating the country to Popery ; while the Protestant Press — or many papers at least — ^have seldom said a word upon the subject. A recent writer says : The press, tliat mighty agency in a free land, should lift up its powerful voice, and like a true watchman publish the approaching danger to all the land. Our journals will more worthily fulfill their mission as guardians of the common weal, by waking up the com- munity to the solemn issue before them, than by sending their reporters to tail off a procession of priests, and take accurate note of the man-millinery that graces the occasion. We have slumbered too long already. The people need light and Tcnowledge^ and when that comes the battle is half won. And the Press is one of the chief agencies by which this light is to be radiated, and this knowledge dif- fused. We beg of Protestant correspondents to write, and Protestant editors to print more upon this all- important subject. And whenever a Protestant minister can do so, he should write for the secular press in his oiun village or city. Most of the Eepublican papers, and a few of 142 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANJsT SMITH the other party, will now print well written articles upon the subject. It is coming to be a great public ques- tion, and they know that many of their patrons feel in it a lively interest. And we should everywhere avail ourselves of this agency, as far as possible, to counter- act the designs of the Papacy. Reader, if you are a minister, do not neglect this duty. Write for the sec- ular papers in your vicinity. The cause of Christ, and the welfare of your country, demand this at your hands. 6. We need and must have more Preaching upon the sub- ject, "We are the last to censure the American clergy, — the most laborious, self-sacrificing, devoted, and faithful on earth. But ours is a new country, and rapidly ad- vancing, with many excitements and counter currents to arrest the attention and absorb the energies. Slavery and its consequent war have been absorbing subjects for years ; so that we have really seemed to have no time or place for any other great interest, outside of bringing souls to Christ. As a consequence, Roman- ism has for years received scarce any attention from the American Pulpit, — we mean formal and thorough attention. We have hit the abomination a slap now and then, in treating other themes, but how few of our ministry have ever preached so much as a single ser- mon on the subject ! There has been here and there a Dowling or an Elliott, a Brownlee or a Berg, but their number has been small. For thii'ty years the writer had been preaching the Gospel, up to the winter of 1866, and yet had never preached the first sermon on Romanism, till special circumstances called his at- tention to it. And so it has been with others. Has BY THE EOMAN CATHOLICS. 143 not the Pulpit of this land virtually withdrawn its pro- test? So it has been until recently; and while we have slept the enemy has sown his tares. But there is a glorious waking up of the Protestant Pulpit. Ministers are calling for facts — tracts, books, and peri- odicals — to aid in pulpit preparation ; and are speak- ing out nobly in all parts of the land. Thank God for this good omen ! May every "Watchman do his duty, now that the sword is coming; and God help the American Ministry to be as faithful and efficient in this our second great national struggle, as they have been in the past, in the great battles with slavery ! Header ! If you are one of God's Watchmen, sound the alarm in your congregation. If need be, send for fresh and reliable material, such as most ministers feel the need of in handling this question. Show your people, old and young, saint and sinner, what Eoman- ism is in its Doctrines^ Worship^ Experience^ Morals^ Spirit J and Antecedents! and what they owe to themselves, their children, their country, and their God, in this hour of peril. If you need tracts or books for circulation, take up a collection (if it be but five dollars) for the American and Foreign Christian TJnion^ forward it to us, and we will credit you for the whole in our Magazine,^ and will send you half the amount in just such things, as you need, for gratuitous distribution in your congregations. Above * Tlie Christian World — $1.00 a year, — is a 32 page montlily wholly devoted to this subject ; and the pamphlets named under " Announcements " (see advertising pages) are full of rich material for the pulpit, — jast what all ministers need, and can find no where else. 144: ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH all tilings, brethren in the Ministry, preach on Roman- ism ! And do it soon and from time to time till the great question is settled forever, for Eeligious Free- dom and the supremacy of the faith of Christ. 7. Our children must le enlightened upon this suhject, How little do they know of its doctrines, or character. or history. When or where have they heard or read any thing upon the subject ? Popery has a spy in al- most every family, in the character of a cook or cham- bermaid, so that eur mouths are well-nigh sealed upon the subject even at our own firesides. In the Sabbath schools it is seldom if ever mentioned, while in all the lists of Sunday School books in the land, taken together, there is not one volume on Eomanism in every five hundred. We have many catalogues, and have ex- amined largely, and are satisfied tliat such is the fact. What a state of things ! No wonder that the children of our Protestant families and Sunday Schools are growing up in almost total ignorance of what Eoman- ism is, and with scarcely a prejudice against it. Meanwhile, the Catholic pulpit rings on from Sab- bath to Sabbath against "the Protestant heresies;" and the thousands in their Sabbath and secular schools are not only thoroughly drilled in all their dogmas and superstitions, but are made to hate Protestantism with a perfect hatred. What is to be the result of all this God only can tell. But one thing is certain — we must have more said to, written for, and read by the youth of our land, in regard to Popery, or the next generation will be a pray to the seductions of Eoman- ism, and lost to the cause of true Christianity. BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 145 8. We must resist all approjpriations from public funds to huild up Roman GatholiGism, We should know beforeliand, when voting for candidates, whether or not, if elected, they will help to rob Protestants to build up their enemies. And when a man is once known to have voted for any such appropriation, it should be the last vote he should ever receive from any American Christians. They do it to get votes, and we have no alternative but to let all such men know that they will lose more votes. than they will gain by such injustice and perfidy. Let us closely watch our Legislatures and members of Common Councils ; and if they betray and rob us to conciliate the Catholics, let us spot them at the ballot-box, as a solemn duty to God and our country. We must do it, or we are en- slaved and ruined. 9. Protestants must fceep their children out of Ro- man Catholic Schools, as they would keep them from the gates of death. They are not only the poorest schools in the land, as to the advantages they afford for a substantial education, but their chief object is to pervert the children of Protestants to the Eomish faith. Hence Father Hecker boasts that in this coun- try the schools are the chief agency for converting Protestants ; and that seven-tenths of all the children of Protestants who are sent to their institutions, be- come Papist. And why should it not be so ? That is their great design; and eveiy thing is skillfully adapted to accomplish its object. And yet we hear of Protestants', and even Methodists' children in such schools, in various parts of the country ! 10. We must use all diligence^ and all legitimate 146 ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH means to get Roman Catholies converted to the true faith of Christ At the recent session of the East Genesee Conference (August, 1868), an evening meet- ing was held, in which some twenty or thirty ministers spoke of their observations in regard to the conversion of Protestants ; and some twenty different cases were reported during the meeting. There are thousands Avho were once Papists, now truly converted, and in the various Protestant Churches. And while we must oppose and resist the aggres- sions of the systeE&, we must not cease to labor for the conversion of the Catholic population. They can be reached to a certain extent through tracts and books, and especially if induced to attend revival efforts. They are usually emotional, and if the truth of God is once brought into contact with their minds and hearts, they are as likely to be awakened as any class in the community, and far more so than skeptics and scoffers. Let us, then, ply all laudable means to bring even Catholic laborers and domestics under the influence of the Gospel of Christ, that they may be saved from wrath through Him. 11. We whilst fully vindicate Seligious Freedom and the rights of conscience ; and let Eomanism know that men and women may turn from Popery to Christ, without being murdered, or imprisoned, or abused, or suffering any harm in mind, body, or estate. This is of the first importance. Tens of thousands of Catho- lics in this country are held to the system only by the dread of the consequences of renouncing it. We have before us a letter from an aged minister in the West, who has labored much among the Komanists. BY THE EOMAN CATHOLICS. 147 He says : " There are thousands in our country who are ready to leave the Catholic Church, if they could be protected. They say, if they leave they will be put to death." This terror the Eomish priesthood are la- boring to deepen and perpetuate, as an important means of holding their unhappy followers in hand ; and this is precisely where Protestantism should first exert itself. The right to worship God according to the dictates of our own consciences, whether we have been Eomanists or not, should be fully vindicated in this land, at whatever cost. And in such a holy work every friend of civil and religious freedom should bear a cheerful and an earnest part. 12. We must stop giving money to luild lioman Cath- olic Churches and schools, — "Who ever knew a Papist to give ten dollars to help build a Methodist or a Baptist Church ? And yet let a Romish Church be going up in a village or city, and they wiU ply every Protestant for money, and thousands of Protestants will give every year for such purposes, to secure trade, or to improve the town. Others, again, though professed Methodists or Presbyterians, but candidates for office, will give in hope of thereby securing Catholic votes. What an anomaly and what a sin is here ! A Christian giving money to build up Popery in the land ! God pity and forgive all such Protestants ! As well give money to a brigand to buy daggers and revolvers, with which to shed the blood of your children when you are dead ! Eeader ! If you have ever been guilty of this folly, however generous the impulse that prompted it, or pure the motive, ask God to forgive you, and be guilty of such folly no more. And warn 14S ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH others not to imitate your thoughtless and suicidal example. Eomanism is very shrewd to get up fairs, &c., just before elections to bleed the politicians; and that is of but little moment, so far as they are concerned ; but let no Christian ever give one penny, either directly or indirectly if he can avoid it, to build up Roman- ism ; any more than he would to help buy a barrel of strychnine to poison the Croton Eesorvoir. That would tend only to destroy the lives of men and depopulate a city; but to build up Romanism tends to the na- tional destruction, and the ruin of souls forever. 13. We, must vote riglity as well as talk and pray right. To talk and pray for the religion of Christ, and then vote for Papacy, is another contradiction and sin. To disfranchise men because they were foreign born, was the error of the American party; for a foreign-born Protestant may be as loyal a citizen as one born here. But it is different with Romanists, whether foreign or native born. Their first allegiance is to the Pope ; and in any collision of our government with him, they would obey him rather than the gov- ernment. "We have a Roman Catholic party now — whether we wish it or not ; and the sooner Protestants unite and vote together, the sooner the rapid encroach- ments of Popery will be arrested, and the future well being of our country assured. And w^e must come to this within five years, or it may be too late to retrieve what we shall have lost in less than that period. Think of this, ye who have votes to cast, and let your religion and your politics go hand in hand. 14. Finally : — All Protestants must unite in a common Br THE KOMAN CATHOLICS. 149 effort, and work shoulder to shoulder to save these United States from the grasp of Rome, This is now being done in the support of the Ameri- can and Foreign Christian Union — an organization whose objects are to antagonize Romanism here and every- where, by tracts, and books, and magazines, and lec- tures, and sermons, and missions. The principal de- nominations are already engaged in it, and the M. E. Church is fast wheeling into line, like the cohorts of Blucher, on the field of Waterloo. The following let- ters upon the subject, may interest the reader : Letter from Bishop Morris. Springfield, Omo, March 6, 1868. Eey. Hiram Mattison, D. D. : Dear Sir : I regard the American and Foreign Christian Union as a good thing, both as to the proposed object iu view, and the kind spirit in which it is prosecuted. Of course I approve of your accepting office therein. The Catholicity of the Union is very commendable, and should be sanctioned by all evangelical churches, as far as practicable. Wishing you peace and prosperity in your home, and in your official work, I am, dear Brother, as ever, Yours, in Jesus, T. A. Morris. Letter from Bishop Scott. Odessa, June 28, 1868. Eev. H. Mattisox, D. D. : Dear Brother : The American and Foreign Christian Union is, in my judgment, an institution whose agency is much needed ; and if managed with kindness, wisdom, and unffinching fidelity to the truth, must do great good. All true Protestants, ought to unite in it. The sickly sentimentalism of the so-called Protestants, who yet practically are the real friends of Komish pretension and delu- sion, ought to be sharply rebuked. May you be directed and sustained by infinite wisdom and love, Yery truly yours, L. Scott. The following resolution has been passed, in sub- 150 ABDUCTION OF MARY AN^^ SMITH stance, by the Baltimore, East Baltimore, Newark, New York East, Providence, New England, New Hamp- shire, Wyoming, Troy and Upper Iowa Conferences : Besolved^ 1st. That we hereby endorse the character and work of the American and Foreign Christian Union as worthy of the co- operation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and commend it to the sympathy and co-operation of the pastors and churcJies within our bounds. The late General Conference, at Chicago, adopted the following : The special committee to whom were referred sundry papers bearing upon the American and Foreign Christian Union, beg leave to recommend action by this General Conference, as follows : Eesohed^ That we look favorably upon the objects of the Amer- ican and Foreign Christian Union, and we are gratified to have our people give to it of their funds, so far as in their judgment it shall be consistent with their local and other church interests. This is the only public organization in the land whose special object is to resist the aggressions of Ro- manism ; and it is doing a noble work. Its receipts, last year (1867) were $138,526 44, and it is hoped that they will be still larger for the current year. Its Ma- gazine,the Christian World (one dollar a year) — has a circulation of some twelve thousand monthly, and is a power for good wherever circulated. We bespeak for this noble Society the co-operation and support of all friends of a pure Christianity throughout the land. Such is the history of the Abduction of Miss Smith, and such the startling facts respecting Romanism, and what we can and must do if we would save our beloved country from Popery and ruin. Dr. Mattison's Theological Works. Z. The Immortality of the Soul, Considered in the Liglit of the Holy Scriptures ; the Testimony of Reason and Kature ; and the Phenomena of Life and Death. 400 pp« 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. II. The Hesiirrection of the Dead ; Considered in the Light of History, Philosophy, and Divine Revelation, with an Introduction by Rev. Matthew Simpson, D.D., one of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 400 pp. 12mo, cloth. Price, $1.50. III. The Doetrine of the Trinity ^ and of the Divinity of Christ ; as against the Various Forms of Modern Unitarianism. Tenth edition. 18mo, 162 pages. Price, in cloth, 75 cents. IV. The 3Iinister^s Poeket Mitiial : A Hand- Book of Scripture Lessons and Forms of Service, for Mar- riages, Baptisms, the Reception of Candidates into the Church, the Lord's Supper, the Visitation of the Sick, the Burial of the Dead, the Laying of the Corner- Stones of Churches, Dedica- tions, Ordinations, Installations, etc., together with Practical Suggestions to Young Ministers upon the best mode of conduct- ing these various services. Adapted to use by all denominations. This is a long and narrow-paged 12mo in large type, and ele- gantly bound, with a view to its being carried in the side-pocket. Elegant morocco, $1. A pattern of taste and neatness — Christian Advocate and Journal, Every young minister, and most advanced ones, want such a book as this. It is elegantly gotten up, and arranged most admirably. Professor Mattison will receive many thanks for this little work, and we hope some profit American Baptist. V. Perfect Love : Speeches of Revs. E. L. Janes, Matti- son, Curry, Brown, and Buckley, in the N"ew York Preachers' Meeting, upon the subject of Sanctification ; with the remark- able Sermon of Bishop Janes, at the E'ewark Conference Camp Meeting, Aug. 18, 1867. 130 pp. 12mo. Paper covers, 50 cts. Cloth, 75. g^ Any of the above will be sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of the price. Very little risk in sending. Direct letters, Bev. H. 3IATTISON, Jersey City, N.J. VI* JPopiilav Aniuse^nents : an Appeal to Method ists, in regard to the evils of Card-playing, Billiards, Dancing Theatre-going, etc. 9G pp. 12 mo, in paper covers. Price, 25 cts VII. Select Lessons from the Holy Scriptures, Adapted to Responsive Reading in Sunday-Schools. 216 pp. 18mo, 30 cts. VIII. Sacred 3Ielodies for Social Worship. 432 pp. 32mo. Cloth, price 75 cts. The most complete collection of such music in existence.— Zion'« Herald, It furnishes the best variety of tunes and hymns for religious meetings of any book extant. — Rev. J. W. Dadmum^ Boston. The best collection of hymns and tunes for social worship that we have yet met with. — Canada Christian Advocate, IX. A Defense of American 3Iethodism, against the Criticisms, Inculpations, and Complaints of a Series of Sermons by Rev. Edward D. Bryan, Pastor of the Old School Presbyterian Church, Washington, N. J. 64 pages, octavo. Price, SO cents. Replete with new and valuable statistics that can be found nowhere else. X. Sacred Sheet Music. " Let the Angels In," *' The Cleansing Fountain," " Jesus is Mine," '^ Heaven at Last," "The Voice of the Departed," etc., fourteen different pieces, "Sweet and Heavenly," 50 cents. XI Joyful Songs for Zion^s Fllgrims. The same pieces in elegant colored covers, 80 cents. XII* Sunday-School Cards. No. 1. The Lord's Prayer and Ten Coinmandments. No. 2. The Apostles' Creed, and a list of the Books of the Bible. Ko. 3. Order of Exercises for a School, and Rules for its Government. These cards are on thick colored pasteboard, printed on both sides, and are extremely neat and useful. Price, $1 per hundred. ^^Any of the above will be sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of the price. Very little risk in sending. Birect letters, Hev. II. MATTISOK, Jersey City, N.J. ANNOUNCEMENT! The following Campaign Pamphlets on Romanism, are in course of publication : Z. Present Aspect of Romanism in Europe and America, and especially in the United States. 96 pp. oc- tavo — illustrated. 60 cents. t^ Full of the most important facts and statistics, especially for Min- isters. ZI. Is it Honest ? A Reply to the celebrated Tract of Father Hecker. 40 pp. 12mo. 15 cents. A complete refutation of most of the recent new dodges of the Jesuits. ZSE. Romanism and Religious Freedom. The great Sermon of Dr. Hatfield, of Chicago, July 26, 1868, upon the Pope's last Allocution. 24 pp. 12mo. 10 cents. One of the best things of the last twenty years. IV. Romanism and Popular Education. i2mo. 48 pp. Profusely illustrated. 25 cents. Enough to arouse the most dormant Protestant. V. The Idolatry of the Romish Church. i2mo. 48 pp. Illustrated. 25 cents. Such a pictorial demonstration as was never before printed. ITI. Romanism and Republican Institutions. 12mo. 48 pp. 20 cents. Enough to startle every true patriot in the land. VII. Should a Priest Marry ? 8 pp. l2mo. 15 cents a hundred. For circulation among Romanists. Has convinced several already that Romanism is false. VIII. The Abduction of Mary ILnn Smith, by the Roman Catholics, and her imprisonment in a Nunne- ry in New York for becoming a Protestant. 150 pp. 12mo., with Portrait of the Priest. 50 cents. A full history of one of the darkest deeds yet perpetrated in this country under the name of religion. ^° Any of tlie above will toe sent toy mail, post- paid, on receipt of ttoe price. Or a complete set (one of eacli) for $1,75. Very little risk in sending. Birect letters. Rev. H. MATTISON, Jersey City, FOR MINISTERS. SOMETHING NE\A^ AND USEFUL. DEAR BROTHER: You are aware that in the absence of a sufficient supply of Disciplines or Rituals in our Churches, we are obliged, whenever we baptize adults or receive candidates into the church, as we read over the Covenants sentence by sentence, to read the answers also ; and then wait for the candidates to repeat them after us. This, to many, sounds too parrot-like and formal ; while to others it indicates a hasty and blind assent to that which they have not previously considered. To avoid these practical difficulties, and to make such occasions more interesting and impressive. I have issued a Beautiful Colored Card, 4x6^ inches, for use upon such occasions. Upon one side is the BAPTISMAL COVE]SrA:NrT, and on the other side the FULL MEMBERSHIP C0VE:N'ANT. They are designed to be put into the hands of Candidates as they stand around the Altar, or before they come forward, so that they can respond to the different questions intelligibly, and without our repeating the answers for them. The type is large and clear, and a set of these Cards, properly taken care of, will last for twenty-five years. Every city and village Church should be pro- vided with from twenty to fifty of them, to be kept in the pulpit for use whenever needed. Their utility is so great, and their cost so trifling, that we take this method of making them known to our fellow laborers in the ministry. By Mall Twenty Copies for One DolSar. If wanted, address the undersigned, JERSEY CITY, N. J. H. MATTISON. M EIGHT-PAGE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Religious and Literary. This Journal is now in its EIGHTH year of liiglily successful publication. It is an able and devoted representative of the IIETHOTUST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, and the Advocate op Lay Representation. It is Edited, as heretofore, by REV. GEORG-E R. CROOKS, D.D., Assisted by the following Contributors : Eev. ABEL STEVENS, LL.D., Rev. JOHN McCLlNTOCK, D.D., LL.D., Rev. B. H. NADAL, D.D., Rev. H. B. RIDGAVYAY, PiioF. A. J. SCHEM. Among whom are the BisJiops of the 3Iet7iodist Ejnscopal Chnrch^ and Mev. Hem^]/ Ward Beecher. 1 M SliY IMY M fl8 ffi CU8EB Terms to Mail Subscribers, Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per Year, in ad- vance. Postage prepaid at the post-ofiBce where received, Twenty Cents per year. Twenty Cents must be added by Canada subscribers, to prepay postage. |^° Those who subscribe now for 1869 will receive the paper for the re- mainder of this year free. Any one sending THREE SUBSCRIBERS, and $7.50, will receive a fourth copy free for one year. t Subscriptions received at any time during the year. JB®* Liberal Premiums or Cash Commissions allowed to canvassers. SPECIMEN COPIES SENT FREE. Address j^E PUBLISHERS OF THE METHODIST, 114 Nassau Street, Neiv Torh. TAYLOR & FARLEY ORGANS & MELODEONS. This firm commenced business, in 1855, with but two workmen. Their business has constantly increased without any extraordinary effort on their part by advertising, &c., till now they employ a large number of men in their Factory, in which they have ample steam power, and every convenience needed in a Factory of this kind. Iheyhave added to their facilities for manufacturing, machinery the most perfect of its kind ever made for making reeds — and have no hesitation in sayiflg the reeds used in their Organs and Melo- deons are superior to any others. They have numerous testimonials from leading Organists and Dealers who have purchased and used their instruments. They leave it, however, to an intelligent public whether the increased and increasing demand for their Instruments, and the satisfaction they give in every instance, is not sufficient proof that they are equal to any manufactured. These Organs combine two new and valuable Patents, of their own invention, viz., a Patent Knee Swell and Patent Manual Sub- Bass, with Octave Coupler. These Organs and Melodeons have been exhibited in Fairs in competition with all the leading manufacturers of Boston, New York, and Buffalo, and in every instance have been awarded the 1^^ Every Instrument made by them is warranted for titr YEAES, and they are ready to make any necessary repairs not caused by accident or design, /?'€^ of charge, within one year from date of Bale. 5^" A liberal discount to Clergymen, Churches, and Sabbath Schools. FREEBORN GARRETTSON SMITH & CO., Geneeal Agents, 427 Beoome steeet, N.Y. ^W^ From personal acquaintance with this' firm, I can endorse them as worthy of the fullest confidence of the Christian public. New Yoek, October, 18G7. II. MATTISON. [l 1^ PRICE FIFTY CEXTS. ABDUCTION OF MARY ANN SMITH, BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICS, AND HER Jmpiiisonmeut in a ^unn^ij^t FOR BECOMING A PROTESTANT, By Rev, W. M.attison, D. D PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. 1868. a EIGHT-PAGE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER. Religious and Literary. This Journal is now in its EIGHTH year of highly successful publication, li is an able and devoted representative of the MMTHOniST HPISCOPAZ CHURCH, and the Advocate op Lay Representation. It is Edited, as heretofore, by REV. GEORGE R. CROOKS, D.D., Assisted by the following Contributors : Bev. ABEL STEVENS, LL.D., Rev. JOHN McCLTNTOCK, D.D., LL.D., Rev. B. H. NADAL, D.D., Rev. H. B. RIDGAWAY, Prof. A. J. RCHE^L ^rtsji lermntiB k\ fminmt |^iilpt (Drntnrs, Aim on g whom are the Bishops of the Meihodlst Episcopal Church, and Hev. Henry Ward Beecher, I m mu WW m m m cbiumi ! Terms to Mail Subscribers. Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per Year, in ad- Vance. Postage prepaid at the post-office where received. Twenty Cents pep year. Twenty Cents must be added by Canada subscribers, to prepay postage. 1^ Those who subscribe now for 1869 will receive the paper for the re- mninder of this vear tVf^e. Any one sending THREE SUBSCRIBERS, and $7.50, will receive i fourth copy free for one year. Subscriptions received at any time during the year. iS" Liberal Premiums or Cash Commissions allowed to canvassers. SPECIMEN COPIES SENT FREE. Addres, jHE PUBLISHERS OF THE METHODIST, 114 Nassau Street, New Torlc. ibbaTs S K^/s iSubUraticrrts. Stier^s Words of the Lord Jesus. 3 vols. 1st volume $5.00 : 2d and 3d vols. $3.75 per volume. Knapp ^s Christian Theology 8vo., 586 pp. $3 . 00. Bogue ^s Theological Lectures 2 vols., 8vo. $3 . 00 Mosheim^s First Three Centuries. PUNSHON'S SERMONS ' 1 vol. 12mo. $1.75. FINERY'S LECTULiES.., 1vol. 8vo. $1.50. Words of Jesus and Faithful Promiser. 32mo. 50c. Our Martyr President. Discourses and Orations on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. 12mo., 476 pp. $2.00 Schonberg Cotta Family. 18mo., 608 pp. Diary of Kitty Trevylyan and Diary ofBro, Bartholomew. 18mo., 476 pp. Early Dawn, and Sketches of the United Brethren of Bohemia and Moravia. ISmo., 516 pp. JUVENILE S. The Mother ^s Bequest 16mo. SI. 25. Rev. Dr. Peck, M. E. Church. " Here is ^«(? beautiful, thrilling story, which young and old may read with much profit." Rev. Dr. Spear, Presbyterian Church. *' The story increases in interest to the end. The moral purpose of the book is good;'* Rev. Dr. Sewall, M. E. Church. " * The Mother's Request,' is excellent. I wish that it was in every Sunday- School library.'* The Brother Soldiers By Mrs. Mary S. Robinson. Forivard the Flag By Mrs. Mary S. Robinsox. Each ISrao. 75c. The Children's Centenary Memorial and Celebration Book. 60 cents. Golden-haired Gertrude — By Theodore Tilton. Elegantly Illustrated by H. L. Stephens. Boards, $1.25 ; Cloth, $1.50. The Two hungry Kittens. By Theodore Tilton. Elegantly Illustrated by H. L. Stephens. 70c. Fodc's Marriage Certificate Per Dozen, 75c. New Marriage Certificate Per Dozen, $2 40. . Constantly on hand, a fine stockof SERMON PAPER, NOTE PAPER, VSTATIONERY, ALBUMS, a great variety of THEOLOGICAL, SUNDAY- SCHOOL, MISCELLANEOUS, and GIFT BOOKS. TIBBALS & CO., 37 Parh Row, New YorJc. ^^ Any of the above sent by mail on receipt of the price, postage free. BRADBURY PIANOS. Received the Gold Medal at Fair of Am Institute, 1868 THE BEST MANUFACTURED 1-WARRANTED FOR SIX YEARS!! Pianos to let. and Rent applied if purchased : monthly instalments received for the same. Old Pianos taken in Exchange ; ("r-sh paid for the same. S"Cond-hand Pianos at great bargains from $50 to $200. Pianos Tuned and R.^paired. Illustra- ted Catalogue sent on application. We refe^- to Bishop Janes. Drs. Durbin Sewell, and Porter, who are using our Pianos. A liberal discount to Clergymen. FREEBORN GARRETTSON SMITH & CO., Late Superintendent^ and Successors to William B. Bradbury, *2T Broome Street, New-York. From the " Christian Advocate^^'' of Sept. X2th, 1867. " We dropped in a few days ago at our neighbor's establishment in Broome Street, and were politely shown through the establishment whence come forth the famed " Bradbury Pianos." We were gratified to !earn that, notwithstanding the protracted indisposition of Mr. Bracburv, the business of the house has been kept in operation under the superintendence of Mr. F. C. Smith, who has been at the head of the mechanical department of the establisliment for a long time. We found among. the specimens of finished work on hand, some of the very best instru- ments that we have ever seen, whether estimated by their m.echanical finish, tone, or other musical qualities. An advertisement in another part of this paper informs its readers that this justly celebrated establishment has changed hands, and is now o\\ned and managed by Messrs. F. G. Smith & Co., who, having long been the actual managers, have now become the proprie- tors, as successors to Mr. Bradbury. Of course the peculiar excellences of these famous instru- ments will be continued, as they will still be prepared by the same hands, and under the sarrjc superintendence as heretofore. One fact that has come to our knowledj;'e we esteem important, and especially full of promise. — The new proprietors, who are worthy members of our Church, in entering upon their enlarged duties, feeling their dependence for success on the divine bless- ing, began their work by devoting a tenth of their proceeds to the Lord, to be used for benevo- lent and religious purposes. After that we can have no doubt oi their success, for in such *hings c^odliness eminently has the promise of this world, as well as of the life to come. From personal acquaintance with this firm, I can endorse them worthv of the fullest confidence of the Christian public. New-York, Sept., 1867. H. MATTISON. % C.'Cc-. f < c^^^ct^^. :«>«:: ^c 5 (C ? f - C C < ( CO < C^ cc C < (CC 5 C CCc rccc C C ex CCC _ c c^. cc - V^S^«-c >- <:c. c.« <: > CO ceo > CCcccC ^^ AC . CC^ c^c Cc c< cc- CC, ^cccr 5^1^ It Pi c C c CC, If cc : ^c cc Cc~ CC CC ^^<^: - C<: 5 4 ^ ^ # <: c =^ < c .c c: ^.cc -<^ c cc <^-C c vC 'X ^:^.<::^ 7^ > S ^ '- .- « cc • LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 017 285 695