The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-10-11

eu11uuHY.
OF all nations, we pride ourselves on our
astutenees and power TO sse farthest into =
millstone. With this deep penetration ma
supersensitiveness to the fitness u things.
orr country may justly be said to be the
paradise of humbugs. From the gross
delusions of Matthias the Prophet, the bold
profigacy Of Joe Smith, and the deviltries
of the Misses Fox, downward there be
q lower depth-each and all find numero11e
followers-not recruited alone from the
vulgar and ignorant, but having represent
atives drawn from what are called the edu-
Gated classes
We would not connect /" Protestant mis-
sions" with the foregoing in q way to
wound the feelings Of our separated breth-
rem; but we must be permitted to say, we
have read correspondencefrom this vicinity
intended to work on the feelings and
rockets of friends of the cause,n which
was not easily reconciled with good faith
in the authors or common penetration in
those for whose edifcation it was manu-
featured.
4 In this connection, we give the following,
, from the Brownsville Rdnchero:
4 ASTONISHING NEWS FROM Mexico VIA
| BosroN.-A Yankee Girl In Merico.-We
+ tlearn from the Utica New York; Herald,
: that Miss NJ Rankin, the Vermont lady
Who some eighteen years ago, went, alone
, and self-moved and self supported, to
Matamoros, Texas, and opened a school
!, for Mexican girls, is still engaged in her
u good work. In due time she moved across
the river to Monterey, and opened her
!, school on Mexican ground. and has since
u added to teaching the distribution of
y | Bibles and the employment OF itlnerant
q missionaries. In all her iab0rs she has
u been eminently successful, and richly de-
u serves encouragement and aid from the
IL observation-disclosures Iravcller.
!, The Yankee girl above alluded to is mono
q other than the pious Miss Malinda Rankin,
y the Monterey missionary. A Yankee girl,
&c Indeed! very virginia vergin' on sixty
:; years
Is Neither here nor in Monterey has this es-
IN Unable lady ever proselited SO much as one
rs soul Not one Mexican-man or woman
y can she, to-day, point out as the fruits OF
ne the vast sums of money which the fanatical
y! rs fools of New England have appropriated to
III this humbug mission. SO ignorant are the
&c pious papers of the North about this Mon
). terey mission, that they locate Matamoros
II. | the other. Yes, Monterey is on the othel
Ut bank three hundred hundred miles on thu
so so other bank. just to think that Matamoro
~ y, | is in Texas, and then that the west bank o
ms ms then to think that New Englanders are 81
'iu stupid.as to donate to o Mexican missiar
;sh thirty or forty thousand dollars, which the
II" lhave done, and then continue to be hum
lu plugged from year to year; from year
10y year to pay out money to Yankee Gil
in Texasf" =
But there is another screw loose in th
gre gre matter which needs tightening up littl'
e,y Quite. lately the Rev. Andrew Jackso
no. Parks announced to his Brownsville foe
oe, that he could no longer tarry with the
nls but was ordered by God to repair to MOI
eIs terey to aid the "Yankee Girl in Texas
ese to ply her mission. Of course he has goI
On. there to help Miss Rankin proselite Il
-, Az heather and help her misrepresent I'll
pm missionary cause and to help her USE tho
!. T. vast sums of money constantly coming
" from New England. Not one of these Mo
terey missionaries, from the Yankee G.
ne ea in Texas all the way down to Rev. Andre
aSn' jackson Parks, knows single word
AeH, Spanish, and knows but little more abo
,. i. SO the geography of Mexico than the Uti
i y. Herald 1t is intention to advert
a moS the Monterey mission as it deservesj
anu which this is the first notice. Vfve
ami Humbug!