Per favour of the Auckland Examiner.

Auckland Examiner, Volume 1, Issue 40, 17 September 1857, Page 3

Per favour of the Auckland Examiner.

TO THE CATHOLIC ELECTORS OF THE NORTHERN DIVISION. Countrymen and Brethren, In one of the weekly publications of thii city, I see published the names of four individuals, as candidates for the ensuing Provincial Council. These are, Messrs. O’Neill, Cooper, Munroe, and Lee. To the first three names I take no exception, presuming that you yourselves, are fully competent to judge of the merits, or demerits, of such as seek your suffrages. To the fourth name, that of Dr. Lee, I object, because, although he yields a seeming acquiescence to the tenets of Catholic belief, it is in order to profit by that good will, and attachment, which he knows the Catholic people bear to proselytes who, from conviction, return to the fold from whence their forefathers strayed. “ Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees,” said the Great Author of our Faith, “for ye compass both sea and land to make one proselyte, and when yo have found him ye make him tenfold more the child of hell than yourselves.” What claims, let me ask you, has Dr. Lee to your s pport ? Look at your College at the North Shore, raised by the zeal of the clergy of a former Mission-— an Establishment which,under proper |nati agemen t, is capable of receiving, uA&teiuing, and educating all the Oatholis children of the Province, Native as well as European. In-

stead of containing a literary staff capable of drilling your children in that knowledge which would enable them to fight the great battle of life, it is occupied by one sjlitary old person. Instead of the anthems of joy and praise which should ascend from tho unpolluted lips of youth to heavfen before the dawn, you hear the cry of (he owl, perched on the gable of St Mary’s deserted College—the foul bird of night, a proper emblem of Lee aud his masters, beings who dread the light as much as himself. Catholics of Auckland, why do you not soeakout? Your ancestors went to the gibbet and the block rather than deny that faith which they left to you—the only legacy they could bequeath. You are disgusted and offended at seeing the whole management of the -temporal affairs of your Church in the hands of Dr. Lee; yes, and in the hands of another Dr. who is as great a quack in divinity as Dr. Lee is in physic. Look round you, and behold the Wesleyans, your political allies, observe their form of Church Government, see their alacrity in raising buildings for their worship, observe the jealousy with which they guard against any misappropriation of the money contributed by their people for building or beautifying their temples. Contrast their state with your own, and then acknowledge with shame that an. institution which has scarcely subsisted a century is well worthy of imitation by you who can look back to your origin through the long dark vista of nineteen centuries. Why is Dr. Lee sought to be foisted on you as a candidate for your votes ? Because he is the pliant aud unprincipled agent, in all legal transactions, between your Chief Priest and the greedy usurers who are always ready to advance money on the mortgage of church property, well knowing that you have too much zeal and spirit to allow these possessions to remain in the miser’s grasp if you can redeem them by any possible means. Electors of the Northern Division, spurn the unblushing hypocrite who has only fastened himself to your Church as the parasite plant takes hold of the adjoining tree to lift itself from the earth and flourish by the sap derived from the trunk which affords it nourishment and dies in its embrace. Yours, &c. BERNARD REYNOLDS. (To the Editor of the Auckland Examiner.) Sib, —In a lately published answer to one of your correspondent's the Know-Nothing- Order is mentioned. Will yon allow me io give another version of that Society, which I humbly beg to say is the correct one, and which may not be uninteresting to some of your readers:— Great numbers of emigrants annually left Ireland, anil arrived in the United Sta'es of America, bringing with them and disseminating full accounts of what they termed English misrule and injustice, and obtaining the eyinpaihy of the American people, who looked upon the Irish as .-utf'erers from oppiession. The famine brought the American’s sympathy to a climax, and they opened many paths for the advancement of the Irisn. Most or the vacancies in the Police were filled by Irish. Some of the Judgeships, and many important, offices were allowed to be tilled by them ; but unfortunately for the Irish Roman Catholics, their opinions caused them to show partiality to those of thei own creed, (in acting so, to do them justice, they believed they were doing right.) A single instance 1 will give. An Irish Itoman Catholic Policeman would not take an offender of his own creed to the lock-up. In the case of Baker who shot William Poole, a native-born American, the Police allowed Baker to make his escape ; but they did not fail in their d ity in the case of an American, or any other count rvnian, even their own, if he were not Roman Catholic. This partiality did not agree with the Am»i loan’s sense of liberty ; for to them it appeared an unprincipled attempt at mastery, and they determined to resist such an aggression on their rights. In order to carrv out such resistance, they instituted a Society, the object of which was to allow none but. native-born Americans to hold office r.o the entire expulsion of all foreigners (i.e , English, Irish, Scotch, &e ) The name given to this Society was the ‘‘Know Nothings it is composed of “ True Americans.” Yours, &c., A Working Man. September 11th, 1857.