"MATTHEW RICHEY, _Wesleyan Minister_."
"Montreal, Nov. 16, 1835.
* * * * *
"Although we could produce several other affidavits, of an equally
unimpeachable character as the above, yet we deem the evidence advanced
more than enough to show the entire, falsehood and extravagance of the
fabrications in the _Protestant Vindicator_."
* * * * *
Here closes all the testimony that has been published or brought
against me. It requires the suppression of my feelings to repeat to the
world charges against myself and my companions, so unfounded, and
painful to every virtuous reader. But I [illegible] to the truth to
substantiate my narrative, and prefer that everything should be fairly
laid before the world. That my opponents had nothing further to produce
against me at that time, is proved by the following remark by the
Editor of the New York Catholic Diary, to be found in very paper in
which he published the preceding affidavits:--
_"Here, then, is the whole!"_
In a N. Y. Catholic Diary of March last, is a letter from Father
McMahon, a Missionary, dated at Sherbrooke, in Canada, in which, as
will be seen by the extracts given beyond, he does not even allude to
any other testimony than this. Of course my readers will allow that I
have reason to say--"Here, then, is the whole!"
The following extracts are given for several reasons. 1st. To prove, by
the admission of my adversaries themselves, that no new testimony has
been produced since the publication of the Montreal affidavits. 2d.
That no disposition is shown to bring the truth to the only fair
test--the opening of the Nunnery. 3d. That they are inconsistent in
several respects, as, while they pretend to leave the characters of the
priests and nuns to defend themselves, they labour with great zeal and
acrimony to quiet public suspicion, and to discredit my testimony. 4th.
Another object in giving these extracts is, to show a specimen of the
style of most of the Roman Catholic writers against me. In respect to
argument, temper, and scarcity of facts, Father McMahon is on a level
with the editors of the Diary and Green Banner, judging from such of
their papers as I have seen.
* * * * *
_From Father McMahon's Letter to the editor of the N. Y. Catholic Diary
of March, 1836._
"The silence by which you indulge the latent springs of a mal-propense,
so far from being an argument for culpability, is based upon the
charitableness of a conscious innocence, and is, therefore, highly
commendable. I say it is highly commendable, inasmuch as these worthy
and respectable characters do not deign to answer falsehood, or turn
their attention from their sacred avocations by effectually repelling
allegations which all men, women, and children, able to articulate a
syllable, in the city of Montreal, have repeatedly pronounced to be
utterly false, detestably false, and abominably scandalous.
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