THE CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS.– The Union in referring to the charge that the two Catholic chaplains had been sent to Mexico by the President in the capacity of spies, says:
It is scarcely necessary for us to say, as we are authorized to do, that the President never conceived such an idea– much less could he have conveyed such an one in conversation with Mr. McCalla– as attributed to him by that person.
It is proper to state also, that neither at the time the Revs. Mr. McElroy and Mr. Rey went to the army, nor at any prior subsequent period was there any conference or communication with them, by any member of the administration, nor between the President and the cabinet or any member of it, nor anything in communication with Gen. Taylor, to whose headquarters they went, which sanctioned, in the remotest or slightest manner, the idea that they were expected to act as “spies.”
