The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-12-13
; Bishop Ramirez.

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On last Tuesday, the feast Of the Immac.
ulate Conception, High Mass was celebra.
ted at st. Joseph's Church, by the Right
Rev. Bishop Ramirezy OF Tamaulipas, Mex.
leo. THE eminent prelate, an exile from
HIS country, is at present in our city, thu
guest of Thos. Layton, Esq The parish.
toner's Of st. Joseph's had an opportunity Of
witnessing, in this venerable ecclesiastic, a
living proof Of the real Catholicity Of the
Church, not often to be met with in coup.
try from which the Saxon r9ce had exter.
minated the aboriginal population before
the Church had voice in its councils.
Throughout the broad domains of the glo-
rious Stars and Stripes, where will you find
an Indian bishop or priest, an Indian law
yer or physicianf Exceptional cases ara
spoken OF, where some red man has receiy.
ed even q college education, through freak
of romantic zeal, when the fate of his race
was already sealed, and hisexception could
merely serve to grace the car of a triumph
ant civilization, or pique the wonder of 1.
| vulgar curiosity. Even such exceptions
have been known to desert tho civilization
of an intolerant race, and bury their Latin
in the primeval forests Of their fading race.
Canada was, and still, to great extent,
is, Catholic. The Indian race has been pre-
served in Canada, and civilization has Won,
instead of destroying it. In all Spanish and
Portuguese American colonies, the aborigi-
nal race not only was notexterminated, but
reclaimed. Our virtuous Saxon family has
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courteously of its neighbors. Thus the
French are crafty and beartless-yet Can
ada retained its Indian population; the
Spaniard or Portuguese, according to Mr..
Bull, is q blood thirsty tyrant, a treacierous
cut-tbroat, yet he fraternizes with the red
man in Mexico, Peru, Chilli Bfazil; while
the fair-haired race, with its girlish skin,
its blue eyes, its mild speech, it's indignant
horror of those wicked neighbors, has swept
its path of wildcats and Indians with equal
remOrselessness and success.
Is this difference in results due to differ
ence of race in the invaders, or to differ
ence in religion Is the Catholic mis-
sionary of hope and life, while the Protest
ant is missionary of woe and despair
first making it solitude, and then pepu-
latipg the desert with the yellow-haired
race of SaxoDy7 1t would seem that in the
Christian code of some nations, an old
Gothic tradition of conquest has been re-
tanned. For them the Gospel is Teutonic
rather than Christian: the human race must
limit itself to the German race religion,
instead of being Catholic, must be Lutheran.
This selfish conceit is as abhorrent to the
Catholic of any race, as it is in conflict with
the designs of God in separating the human
family at the Tower of Babel. Variety is
now the law of our nature, and while one
ub-division may be inferior to another in
some respects, all are imperishable.
It is, therefore, with pleasure, that We
point to such men as the venerable prelate
whose name heads this article--a blessing
to his race, an honor to his country, and a
triumph to his Church. The blood of the
native American race flows in the veins of
the good bishop, as it does in those of many
other distinguished and able citizens Of
Mexico. The President himself-JuarezZ
is of this race, and though, perhaps, no or
nament to the faith he processes, islat least
monument of it's Catholic love, care, and
protection of all men, regardless of race.
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