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We find the following in the National Intel
ligencer, written by Roman Catholic of Wash
ington city. The writer thinks with US tina
the proposition of the Government organ t
rob the Mexican churches was the result of ;
Cabinet conference:


To the Editors of the National hdtclligcncer:


Gentlemen: have read the editorial expla
nations in the Union of the 18th and 18th inst
exonerating the President and Cabinet from any
responsibility for the atfocious suggestion,
made in that paper Of the llth, proposing tc
seize upon the propety OF the Mexican churcl
TO defray the expenses of the war. have als(
read your courteous admission of the Union.
enforced disclaimer. Still, although / would
not willingly be outdone in politeness by any
one, am sorry to be compelled, by circumstan
ces, to withhold my belief in the truth of thai
disclaimer.


1t must be observed that the suggestion
appeared in the Union, which bears date on the
llth of May; and it is notorious that that paper
is never put to press until very late hour Of
the night on which it bears date. Therefore nc
person see it, nor is it ever put into circula
tion here until the morning after its date. In
your paper of the 18th inst, find the following
extract of a letter to the editor of the Journal
VI III ANcN 1CIh. WIllleu
on the llth of May:


"You will see that it is now contemplated, or
rather suggested, to sequester the property of
the Mexican church, during the wars Ihapc no
doubt 1t is to be done, as the church influence is
now the main support of the war;


Now, where did the letter-writer get the in
formation, that sit is now contemplated" !" etc.,
and what authorized him to say SO emphatic
ally, 81 haUe no doubt 1t is to be dOne,9. etc.,
Certainly not from the columns of the Union,
for that paper as not printed 1chcn the letter
pGs aoritten. No one will believe that he OBJ
tained his information from the editor, for be-
leve it is not the habit of editors to babbe about
their editorials before they are published. Is
1t not evident that the editorial and the letter
had a common origin? If the suggestion was
not made "by authority" and thrown out TO
feel the popular pulse, why was it suffered to
run eight full days without retraction or deniaR
tOri,y answered.


Until it is so answered, / shall continue to
believe. and the public will continue to believe
that the suggestion" was the result ofa Cabi-
net conference, and that, but for the prompt
manifestation Of the public indignation, the
design of plundering and spoliation who'd have
been put in execution. Iwould here say some
thing of the Unions ''Sott sander" about the
intelligence, patriotism, and social virtues"
and all that, of their Catholic brethren" whilst
thrusting dagger 'under their fifth rib" but
no doubt you are tired of the subject.


A CATHOLIC OF WASHINGTON.