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 306 ,uReaToa'. [Boo, I[. only can be named. There is, however, the greatest importance at. teeheal to their being buried in their own consecrated burying ground. So that if Roman Catholics die at a distance from such places, their bodies are conveyed to their own places of sepulture, however distant, and at any expense. The greatest reluctance, nay, unbending oppo- sition, is manifested among them to the burial of Protestants, or ant heretic, in their burying grounds. In Blairsville, in western Pennsylvania, on the great canal, ab0t forty-two miles east of Pittsburgh, there is a singular instance of this superstition. On the outside of the Roman Catholic burying ground there is a grave, the end of which touches the line of the yard. On the inside there is another grave, directly opposite to this, and within a few inches of coming in contact with it. The g"ave on the outside is that of the husband, who was a Protestant, and that on the inside of his wife, who was a Catholic. Permission could not be obtained to bury the Protestant heretic within consecrated ground; he was therefore buried on the ouuside, in the open street, or commons, unpro- tected by fence or any other enclosure. The following description of Spanish intolerance toward Protestant heretics will present a true picture of their sentiments concerning bu.- ing Protestants in Roman Catholic burying grounds. The account s from Dr. Young's Third Night, entitled Norciasa : "And on a foreign shore, where strangers wept, Strangers to thee, and, more surprising still, Strangers to kindness, wept: their eyes let fall Inhuman tears: sfange tea! that tickled down From marble hearts*. Obdurate tenderness ! A tenderness that cail'd them more severe; In spite of nature's soft persuasion, steel'd; While ,ature melted, maperJtition raved; That mourn'd the dead; and this denied a grave. Their sighs incensed; sighs foreign to the will: Their will the t/gcr-suck'd outraged the storm. For 0 ! the cunt ungedliness of zeal ! While sinful 1elt relented, p/r/t nursed In blind infa[iibihty's embrace, The intr. d ,pirit, petrified the breast; Denied the charity of dut to aprsad O'er dust, a chariiy their dog enjoy. What could I do. What auccour! What resource ! With pious eacr;lege, a grave I stole; With npios piety, that grave ! wrong'd; Short in my duty, coward in my grief, More like her murderer than friend, I crept, With soft, suspended step, and, muffled deep In midnight darkness, ,ohtsl,*d my last sigh. ! u*hityd what should echo through their maims; lor writ her name, whose tom5 hould pierce the skies. Presumptuous fear ! How durst I dread her fo, %*bile nature's loudest d;ctates I ohy'd ? Pardon necessity, blest shade ! Of grief And indignation rival horsts I pour'd; Half execration min.led with my prayer, ]indled at man. while I his Goi adored; Sore g,dged the savage !and her sacred dust; Stamp d the curst soil; and with humanity (Denied N/,it�lsaa) wish'd them all a gra;,-e. Glows my resentment into guilt ] rhat guilt Can equal violatimm of the deatl. Digitized by GO021C

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