The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-25
THE ECTURE SEAS ON.


in Broadway before what might be called considering
the badness Of the weather, crowded audience The
lecturer T. Darcy McGse prefaced h' discourse with
the following observa tons Before prosecuting the
subject of the lecture wish to observe that regret
ceedngy, and by means desire TO be held liable for
certain reports that appeared in the papers of New
York. of expresA ons that have therein made to
utter. | belong to the press myself, and am willing to
make tie largest allowance for gentlemen who leave
places of meeting at late hours and have afterwards to
make up their repor for the morning papers, but il
there had only Civ three sentences of what used
that OCCASION shouh have been more pleased than
by their making me to "a, in the rst person. things that
never meant-to say "a pplause) do not mean to
them of doing in entlonay; the lecture was
perhaps too long, and perha ps on subjects that are not
well understood by the ProA stsn's OF New York But
when standing here, wish it TO be understood that
speak and DO not like TO be put in mouth
II has become quite general 'centy 10 speak Oh US
Catholics as foreigners and alien upon this continent
il has become fashionable to y, eak of other certain
clasc having sort fprecedene and priority here to
maintain towards the tone Of pein image as IL we we're
intruders and here By the perrin sion OF class oil
superior beings who have been here eiore u.s. there
fore propose TO prove, in these lectRn > tree PROPOSE
tonshrs that the discovery of AnlA c' was brought
about by Catholic enterprise secondly III at the only sys'
tematic way of cyzipg the aboignes as by us; and
that the liberties Of the United States obtained by
Catholic blood and Catholic treasure. The hrst OF these
propositions will be submitted to you MS evening.
If you can imagine the state of Aasn ica before
Columbus, ard that of Europe before L9e you can
conceive the epoch of time when this lectsr begins.
Four centuries ago. in 1853, America was yet IN
heard OF in the older parts of the world; 0N ceatu-
ries ago the only vessels that nayigated these waters
that hardly ventured beyond th Mar
and certainly went farther than Sandy. dook
The tmoke of no whse mans home mad gone upSA rd in
f1aua
and commercially different from what il ID as
America of that time from the America OF the pre-
sent Ships crep along the shore from to eape and
the merchants made their bargains with n hau -
for the mariner half sailor half soldier fighting is
way into the interior OF the countries where he wshs
to bargain. There moral principle of govern
ment, however, that existed in Europe at that time.
which above all natonalities above all dynasties,
and above all existent regal power name ythe urisdic
tion Of Rome which prescribed limits and gave to
the ambition and avarce both of individuals and
munities. This Europe and this America were in this
condition four hundred years ago. when it the
mind of llustIou in ividual inspired by Providence
to unvel the knowledge of new world will explain
the character of this illustrious individual and Of
his successors, in their spiritually Catholic cha
neter for, after reading Washington Irvng's
Mr.. Evere ts lecture the subject last season,
besides reading other works, do not find that any OF
them preeiae the Catholic character Of the early dis
America and therefore, they depart from the
matter of the subject which they have illustrated in
m and sniss s to
his motives Catholic that his conduct in the
terprse Catholic and, in fact that it Catholic
genius and Catholic zeal that gave patrmony to
the world. (Appause) Columbus born in 1886, in
Genoa and brought up at the university of pava at the
age OF manhood we find him following a seafaring life,
and the age of twenty four captain; in 1470 he
resident Of Lisbon, where he remained for fourteen
fifteen years. from thence he proceeded to the court of
through the Una. ne aa cenoe. re .sl hs
sailing due due east idea for med from DIX
knowledge of the spheny Of the earth lie first made
application at Genoa and Venice to see If these two
pabcs would assist him in the enterprise; he likewise
sent his brother Bartholomew to England and France
Henry VII of England and Louis XII of France had
no superuous squander upon what then
considered visionary enterprise He afterwards applied
the Spanish Court and referred to the Council of
where he showed his Catholcity by quoting
the works Of St. Ambrose and st Basil proving from the
Scriptures and the Fathers that there world at the
anpode thus illustrating the bent Of his early reading
lie wrt Ferdinand and kabeiia from the island OF
IsIanoa, called Hayti he speaks of voice which
him that God had reserved him to do great work. and
bring barbarous nations into the fold Of the Catholic
IN he 's to be hs
ton devote the pzoceeds of his share of the pro
fits Of the enterprise to the rescue OF the holy
sepuchre at Jerusalem from the hands Of the
ipfdel-a most Catholic intention. (Apptase) Co
lumbus may be considered the last of the Crusaders,
descendant of Louis of France and Godfrey de Bouion
who thought it great disgrace that the holy sepulchre
should be left in the hands of idolaors and believers in
the m hs' w n Ga as S
fore departing upon his last voyage we find that the hope
recove ing TIE holy sepulche always in his mind
men should be equipped for the lvery of the holy
pulchre at his expense, and that his nephew and heir
Don Degoshoud place them under the thory of some
Christian prince. Such had always been his intention
he expected by aling west to find some strait which
would bring him to JopIa and 6y thus means ms ma maGn 70
deveance there had not for so long period been felt
any sympathy in Western Europe: lApplause) Wash
ngton Irving says this part of the subject that Co
umbus intended the most noble project relative to the
disposal of the proceeds Of his dscoveryhe desired to
found muncent institution in his native city for the
moo TO a
forever the souls of those who sailed the VOYAGE
and to effect the of the holy epuchre Judged b,
these intentions, greater Catholic ayman than Column
stood upon the continent of Europe continent
of America With regard to the Catholic cooperation Il at
he received in his enterprise find that he came to
SPAIN twelve fourteen years residence in Lisbon
a sea captain offering TO find world for any power
that would furnish him with two vessels. When he
rived Ferdinand and M bella epgagedin against
the Moors of Granada they brought to conclusion in
1492 and at the same time, agreed with Columbus upon
the terms Of his outfit In the ement made with the
court Spain he stated that il his intention to bring
the into the fold of the Catholic Church, and
TO spend produce of his discovery in the of the
hoy sepulchre We are stoned TO form low opinion
knowledge Spain at that persd The university of
Salamanca may have been behind the age but 1t Is certain
that Columbus to his opinions the principal pro-
Of cence in the coury To hold in that ago the
oP ion that the world round and that by sailing
due be might return due east and that there was
n antpcdes u.s. most repugnant TO the general be-
lief that time but still the University of Salamanca
open conviction and 1t Is to her credit that Column
bus allowed for seven years to preach doctrines ap
arenty the Scriptures for David calls the
tent and the earth hoor beneath H. FROM these cir
cumstances have been extra ordinary for the
people that age swallow such apparent nconsisten
than for us, in dern times the wonders OF mes
u ersm. Those who have mentioned that Calico, hun
ditd yeats later than Columbus perecuted by the
Catholic (huIch for this dscrne have only one Of two
TO that the churchmen Spain
in the Of Columbus endeavored to reconcile sense
sh scripture or The fact of their end savorng to
do preof that they were consts mt sudents Of the
Scriptures and readers of the Bible (Applause) The
conduct of the most Catholic Of nations, and of
its court under Ferdinand and Isabella, is com
plete refuta,ion of the inference that mad been
drawn from the treatment Of Calico, that the
church opposed to sound sense and that wished to
keep the people in ignorance Of the revelations Of God to
man Columbus, at Salamanca, says Washington Irving,
converted the most learned Of the university The two
great Dominican rars Francisco Perez and his apostle,
who were afterwards Archbishop Of Seville and tutor to
the young prince &ere his first disciples and supported
him In his contest. l wish from this circumstance to
prove that the cooperation which he received was
Catholic and without the aid of these two rars he could
not sailed at the time that he did from the coast
of Spain. Delayed and put OIL from time to time at the
court Of Spain in 1902 after years of attendance
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