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The following extract from Letter from w ash
ington, under date of May 20, ls47, published in
the Vermont Gazette, is an additional circumstance
going to establish the fact that the proposition in
the government paper for seizing on the property
of the Mexican Church was one in serious contem-
plation by other persons than the government
editor


"A perfect yell has been raised by the Opposi-
ton papers about the Unions proposition to Sc
quester the church property, if it proved to be
true-and it was undeniabe-that its funds were
: being used to continue the war with the United
1 States.


"Ihe proposition of the Union was wise, and !
hope get TO see II carried om. The property be-
longing to the church in Mexico was given ex-
pressly for certain objects, and those who admin


lister Its funds take upon themselves high and holy


trusts, and have no more right to apply it to the


support of the miserable brigands in power there
than the executors of the estate of Lorlard in
New York would have to apply portion of the
property of the heirs to the prosecution of the wal
by the United States"