Excerpt from The Catholic Question in America: Whether a Roman Catholic Clergyman Be in Any Case Compellable to Disclose the Secrets of Auricular Confessions; Decided at the Court of General Sessions in the City of New-York Mr. George (wilson objected also on behalf of his clients. The case was novel and without precedent, and Mr. Simpson, as' amicus (auxin, interposed, and observed that in no: country where he had been, whether Protestant or Catholic, not even' in Ireland, where the Roman Catholic religion was under the ban of prescrip tion, had he ever hear-dictan. Instance where the clergy manwas called upon to reveal the solemn and inviolable secrecy, of sacramental confession, and. With the ready ass out of Biker, obtained an adjournment of the trial until, Counsel could be heard, in deliberate argu ment. A juror was thereupon withdrawn and the fol. Lowing Monday was assigned for hearing the argument. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.