The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-05-17

two Rev. editors of opposing religious fac-
tions IN the Methodist church of this city,
hurled the most damaging charges againAt
each other-one Adcocase 'assai1iIg the
other Advooate with imputations which
would damage the regulations of the In
mates of Noble's institute. ON Lafayette
street. But let Catholics, their schools, aad
religious institutions be ON the taPia, and
presto-here il neutral ground and tho
moGt endeaIing, raternal eFdthsts aye used
in uniting them in their labor, Of love. = 70
A correspondent Of the Mobile Times, in
his letter Of the 4th inst, furnishes MS with
tho following pertinent pazagraph: = ;,
The anniversary is the safety valve Of
Puritanism. 1t gives the man with long
hair an opportunity to let of his spleen
against the CathOlics, tho rebels, and the
Jews, and thus frees him from the danger
Of exploding. What horrible things the
Catholics viii hear Of themselves this
week! How the rebels will be excofiated !
How the sable man and brother win be ex-
|tolled And how the Jewfwilf be g ameE-
grated J" The Catholic will learn that his
religion il tho sum Of all villaniesy shoagh
he won't believe . word Of f.; tho rebel
hanged long ago; the som OF Africa win
hear that the colored people fought nobly !;
and, possibly, our Hebrew fel1ow-citixens
VIII be informed that . few Of their faith
have beenconverted at q cost Of thirty thOa-
sand dollars . head: This IL q high price,
but, - remember arighti IT. was tho cost Of
each Of the t~c Jews whose conversion wss
reported last year. The Women's Rights
Society, the Anti Slavery Society, all the
Bible societies, and q vast number of mis-
cellaneeus societies will be in fu1t blast
from this Monday morning until next Sat-
urday night, and the newspapers will be
speeches. But New York can stand II alE
It stood Butler longer than that, and after
Butler it can stand anything go
Probably it was with a view to paving, q
way for the anniversaries to make an attack
on the Catholics that the ItSbase and tho
Union League opened their guns ON thisi
sect Last week. The tax levy for the year
contains appropriations amounting to about
$56, 600 for some twenty Catholic schools In
this city, and this is denounced by the Til
bune and the League as a scheme to rob the
tax payers for the benefit of the " Romish
Church"-which " Romish Church, y by the
way, is said to be growing entirely too fast
in this country. The editor of the Tribune
and the "narrow-minded blockheadsn Of
the Union League may quarrel on the
question of battling Mr.. Davis, but they are
sure to pull together when Catholicism is
to be dragged in the mire. The schools to
"hAen onoy grunge tnc AppIOp1AatiOn pro-
posed to be made, are conducted for the
benefit Of the children who attend them,
and not for the advantage Of the Radical
party; hence, suppose, the exhibition Of
spleen and prejudice by the Iribune and
the League. The same levy contains APP
preparations to the amount Of half q million,
at least, for the benefit of nom Catholic
bodies of various sorts, but these are not
denounced as robberies of the taxpayers.
In fact, they are not mentioned at all, for
the very good reason that most of the
money proposed to be given to them will
be at the disposal of men whose loyalty to
impeachment aud reconstruction, instead
of the Constitution, is not to be questioned.
Somehow the Catholics, as o class, are gem
orally found on the anti Radical side Of the
ballot-box, and this may account for the
hostility they meet at trooly loil" hands.