Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-04-01

they really ask you I'VE thousand Hmes
to repeat them {? And more, too, for
the mather Of that And the priest
forbid you all of Eve thousand times to
repeat them ? That he did, to be
sure
Poor Tom Whall, no wonder he emf
grated, with FIVE thousand Protestant
tractmen at one ear shouting the Ten
Commandments and five thousand !
priests, shaven and shorD, at the other, /
shouting to him, Be kilt for your re-
Iigion, Tom. No wonder he was oblig- |
ed 10 emigrate. Now that may be Cath
ole honesty, but it Is what we should
call very ike downright Protestant ~
ing.
But it was a darker, sadder scene /
than that when in narrating what was
told him by his boy, be stated what We
all knew to be false, deliberately. wretch
eddy false. The boy was called TO the
stand immediately-and there they stood,
father and son, convicted Of falsehood.
convicted of crime-without escape
without excuse-without any possibility
of evasion, even, through the readiness
of Irish wit. am sure that noone who
witnessed that scene viii ever forget it.
It was a dark and fearful commentary on
this fetch and pretense of a tender con
science which would be violated by the
Lords Prayer, which would be sullied
and stained by Gods holy Command
ments.
I turn from that dark scene 10 ask the
question which, as 1 said, viii throw 2
food Of light upon the darkness of the
case. Why was it that on the Sunday
before the boy first refused TO say the
Commandments. few parents and oaly a
few boys were gathered in basement
room in that Jesuit Church in Endicott
street? Why was It that this boy alone
on the next day refused to repeat the
Commandments which he for months and
years had repeated without a murmgr
Was It in order that he might be whip
ped? Was it in order that the Jesuit:
might raise the cry Of religious persecu
ton Knight under that cry arouse pub
lie feeling, and drive the Bible from tbe
schools?
If SO. they were disappointed. The
boy was not whipped he vas simply
told that he must obey the general regu
lation, or ne must bring his father Their
and have the matter explained. he va
sent home. That was on Monday. II
did not return, as his father swears. IN
Ill Wednesday. Why was that delay
Was there any consultation with tn
Priest going on: What followed IS yer
strange. The boy Is brought back
The teacher Is told with great care an
plainness that tue boy must say thos
very Commandments. He is told ths
the father wants the boy kept at scho0
and not dismissedif he refuses to reSpet
the commands utthat be must be puI
ished, and punished severely, # he It
fuses. How did the father know befor,
hand that the boy would refuse? Wh
did he wish him punished ssrsrely if /
did?
What fellows seems to explain Il
reason Of this. On the following Sal
bath, the same priest instigaied mir
hundred pupils TO break into open rebe
lion. The boys 60 to school. they STAN
on the floor and make a disturbance
whistling. loud mutteringS, and scrapic
their feet while the Lords Prayer is r
peated. This Whall boy makes himst
the most forward. he is the ringIesder
whom all the other boys turn. He &C
not be sent away. for his father earnest
requested that he should be Kept in scho
and punished severely
l think We begin 10 see the clou
breaking away a little. I think we Z
derstand something about the reason
those mysterious visits after dark to t
Jesuit's house, the night before the b
was to be a witness. / Think we bee
to know now how it came to pass I'll
the father should know beforehand IL
the boy would refuse why the fath
was 50 anxious. and why he called I
second time to repeat that he wanted I
boy kept IA school and punished seveye
/ think we understand now the mes
ing Of that significant confession wbici
extorted from the boy, that he was ana
because bis hands were bathed in C
water. after he was whipped. because
wanted to have them all swollen and lot
ing as bad as he could. think nou
Is no longer our unanswered questi
s7hy was that medal given BY the Jes
Wiget, to this boy alone, among all