The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-11-08


and of all other kinds. This is the pronunci-
amento Of the present English Government, |
and is in accordance with the practical pol |
icy of the last three or four hundred years.
English papers speak of the declaration of
the Prime Minister as "manly and
straightforward declaration Of principle"
What do American papers say on the
question: Do they not know what it is !
Do they not know that seven-eighths of the
population of Catholic country are forced
to support, out of their poverty, q religious
establishment in which not only they have
no interest, but which they regard with alb
horrencef
Suppose it were the other way. Suppose
that some Protestant community of six mil ]
lions of inhabitants should be forced by
Catholic neighbors to support small fac
ton of Catholic carpet-baggers in splendor
and luxury. What burst of indignation
should we have, in all the keys of the gam
NUT, from the whole army of newspaper
dom, throughout this goodly land. But
now it is only Ireland under the heel of
honest, bluff old John Bull, and oh how
! silent!
This is noble; oHtspoken, manly fair
play.
Again, Poland Poor Poland! The hon'~
of beauty, the birthplace OF heroism II
there is people on earth that oaght to
! CHALLENGE the admiration Of all chivalrous
men and the sympathy of all gentle women,
it is the Poles. But, alas Poland is Cath
Ole, therefore her territories shall be parti-
toned among hungry and more powerful
neishbors therefore her bishops and cler-
], CIV, her priests and nuns, her hish-born
danes and unyielding- lords, are sent in
, chains and rags to the mines of Siberia.
Women are emboweled and children brain
ed at the church doors, imperial edicts and
military insolence dispose, without stint, OF
life, liberty, and property, and our genial
brethren of the quill treat the whole affair
as a grand hunting match for the extermi-
u nation of vermin. Not one word of com
- ment when an occasinal item of these afro
cities is struggled across the wires.
v This is more of your genuine Anglo-Sax-
r on love of fair play. But let Hungary rev
Il olutionize against government nominally
g Catholic, or let gang of Italian bandits
ih""s'f"'o civil =, not from any pretenc'
10 Of oppression, but simply because they cal
= do so with impunity, and the whole pres
~ is alive with sympathy, Kossuth and Gar
ibaldi became heroes, and American men
:. of war are conveniently onhand rs refug
~ for miscreants whose crimes have justi
ns forfeited their lives. -
sh No matter how great your villainy, jus
ID cry Justify "down with Popcry," and A'
glo-Saxon fair play goes into ecstacies AN
rides you on its shoulders.
Look ut Spain. General Prm knew We
~ enough that he could count upon the N
es- plause and moral support of the whole a
m glo-Saxon family of the Protestant persu
his sion, in whatever scheme of lawless plu
ten der he might choose to devise as again
> Catholics The more pious the victir
lay and the more sweeping the rapine, t
os- more delicious the entertainment of
English and American applauders.
a36 This has always been the way with q &C
of tain phase of human nature, from the til
rail when the Jews stoned their prophe
adj tbrouob the imnerial era of Rome when
j. arena rang with the enthusiastic apPlar
Is i of the most polite audience the world eN
$ to saw, as Christians frame quivered in
the laws of a lion, down to this day of more
nta- fined but more skillful persecution.
s. This amiable aspect Of human nature
W. called into prominence partly by that NAL
r,ro nifty which evil always feels when tact
her rebuked by the mere presence of good, q
partly by an innate sense of cruelty.