The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-04-19
NEwPuB1IcAr1oNs.

Henry White. New York: Harper Bros.
1865.
The above work is a very pretentiors
one, and is introduced to the American
public under the auspices of a publishing
house which has been noted for it's sectarian
and sectional Bias and intense bigotry, as
INDICATED in their policy from the murderous
riots and church burnings in 1s44-45, down
to the prolific Munchausen emanations OF
their self-styled Journal Of Civilization.
On no historical question has there been
SO much studied Misrepresentation, or mel
ancholy ignorance as that involving the
real facts of the Massacre of St. Bartholo
metz. The number of the victims of this
outburst of French Lynch law and farati-
cism has been grossly exaggerated, for Fox,
the reformed .martyrolOgist, obtained from
the ministers of the different places where
Tins, and he was able only to secure the
names Of seven hundred and eighty-six,
which were published in 1852. The cause
of this outbreak was political, and in some
degree sectarian, for in succeeding times
there have been instances of cruelty and
determination as great, if not worse, such
as Cromwells massacre of the men, women,
and even children in his invasion of Ireland.
This Massacre of St. Bartholomew was a
most shocking affair, and was the result of
the murders and assassinatioHs committed
by fanatical Huguenots in various portions
of France. The Reform, so-called, COM
menced its by such crimes as burn
ing and destroying churches, assaultiug and
Staying of priests, and, finally, eliminated
in a bloody and tel rible massacre of Catholics
in 1867 by these sectaiies-these disciples
Of Calvin, at Nismes, five years prior to the
Massacre of st. Bartholomew. The massacre
of the Catholics by the Husuenots is hardly
alluded to by the very bigoted Protestant
historians.
D,Adrets, a cruel and ferocious Huguenot
leader wishing to make his children as
cruel as himself, forced them to battle in
the blood of the Catholics whom he had
MISUNDERSTANDING, Hist. Dict.) We men,
ton these facts, not in justification of ST.
Bartholomew's day, but simply as re-
minder that people in glass houses should
not throw stones. The Church authorities,
SO far from conniving at the murder endea-
vored to stop them and the clergy shell
tered hundreds and thousands from the pur-
s suit of the Infatuated populace. The joy at
Rome was not, as is incontestibly proved,
because of the massacre, but on the i,st
intelligence, on account of the escape of the
sovereign from assassination. This is Gus
tomary at the present day among all crowned
heads. The King of Prussia recently con-
II III, 4 .1.,Eao fr,f
the Garibaldians. The French court had
dispatche, news to Rome that the king had
lust escaped from plot to assassinate him,
and hence the rejoicing, not from any SYM
pathy with the riotous ADVANTAGEOUS Lynch
law, or vigilance committee outrages, but
on account of the alleged escape of the SOW
ereign from murder and treason.
The ignorant Dopulace were enraged
against the Huguenots because of the be-
trayal of their country to n foreign enemy,
in the war with England.
In the Irish Citi=en of the 18th Instant, we
find the following able and conclusive re-
view by John Mitchell, himself Protest
ant-ofMr. Whites envenomed work, which
We commend to the attention of our readers
as fair and impartial ext'nguisher of the
authors pretension as an historian:
1t is not easy to comprehend the motive o
such a hook as this, unless we are to suppose
that it is intended to stimulate and eNasperat'
the "No Popery" fury of the British public
- Here i'm America, indeed, it assure of larg
aud appreciative audience amongst the NOR nor,
ignorant Protestants The author himself, Will
oreat professions of fairness and earnest dis
Chalmers of any intention to rake up and infiam
religious animosities, writes his whole nara
That affair of the St. BaItholomew's was
snredly a hideous and hateful atrocity; yet eve
this writer is compelled to admit that it WA
the result. moi of a foul premed ;ated conspilac
INIT of n Iaroxysm of pari" and passion. II
makes he total numbe : of his mrtdeicd In