e Catholic church,
or dared to speak the truth, or claim their rights. Now the
hundred-headed Cerberus of the press is silenced, and skulks into its
dark lair, beaten and silenced, but not ashamed of the filthy dribblings
of its lying tongue. Now all the talk, articles, and "leaders" go for
nothing, since Mr. Goldrich acknowledges "the priest is right; she is
his sister." But did not that clamorous press, that bellowed and
hallooed on the rabble to rob, murder, and destroy,--did it not recall
its words, apologize for its naughty language, and retract every charge
groundlessly made? Like a convicted felon, did it cry _peccavi_--I have
sinned, been misled, or misinformed? No; not a sign of repentance has
been manifested, not an apology made, not a word of retraction uttered
by these self-styled philosophers of the press, who think they are
responsible to no law, human or divine, and who say they have a world to
redeem, and nations and peoples to regenerate. We have read countless
folios of calumnies, misrepresentations, and black libels on every thing
sacred and venerable on earth, by the American press, during several
years that we have read newspapers; but we never yet found one editor to
retract, apologize, or mend his manners and language, except when
compelled by the cudgel or by the law. What an anomaly does the
observation of the conduct of the world present to us! They refuse "to
hear the church," or be guided by the teaching of men who have spent
their lives in preparing and qualifying themselves for the office of
public teaching; and they submit themselves blindly and without control
to the guidance of men whom they know not, who have not always the best
moral characters, and whose training, in most instances, does any thing
but qualify them for the dangerous office they fill.

The instance which is here given of the almost unanimous hostility of
the press to the cause of justice, truth, and honor, illustrates what we
say; and the obvious conclusion is, that the "fourth estate" itself
needs reclaiming--the great modern reformer needs reformation.

Soon after Mr. Goldrich's return home, he called on Father Paul O'Clery,
and, with a great deal of good nature, congratulated him on his very
providential discovery of his sister, "my dear adopted child. And now,
reverend sir," said he, affectionately, "I beg to tender you the
hospitalities of our house. As your sister has been for so many years
one of the family,--an