The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-08-09
LECTURE BY CARDINAL CULLEN.

LECTURE BY CARDINAL CULLEN
His Eminence, the Cardinal Archbishop
of Dublin, delivered an address before the
Literary Society Of the Catholic University,
on the cath ult., which was largely attended
We append few paragraphs:
say nothing of the goddess colleges, in-
to one of which stranger was introduced
to teach us, poor benighted Irishmer, that
MahOmet and Luther We're to be placed on
the same level with Moses, the inspired
law-giver OF the Jews, and our divine Lord,
whose name IL ever to he blessed. When
bishops, who are placed by Christ to feed
HIS sheep and lambs, to drives them away
from poisonous. pastures, and to defend
them from proving wolves, considered the
sad picture, could they do less than make
the demands which they submitted to the
governments? Were they not fully justified
in asking to be allowed to exercise a control
over education sufficient to enable them
to preserve from error and immortality
the hOcks committed to their care by
Christ The demands certainly were not
over new or without precedent in this coun-
try; for every one knows what stringent
measures have been adopted by Protestant
universities to exclude Catholic books and
doctrines from their halls, how inexorably
any professor teaching Catholic dogmas,
would be banished from the place. All this
Ii luuceO luCOuSlStcUI, lOE Wu1lSC COuUeuu.
ing Catholics, the heads of such UNIVERSE
ties loudly proclaim that every one has q
right to Judge for himself, and to form a
code of religious opinions for his own direc-
ton. However, where Irish and Catholic
rights were to he treated of, neither justice
nor precedent was to beeonsidered of much
weight
But passing all this over in silence, will
merely observe what is more to>our pur-
pose, that the projectors of the national
system seem to have determined to prevent
the growth of Irish and Catholic literature
as much as possible; and if this was not
their object, why was it that, in almost
writer's were selected in the first instance
to prepare the books for the Irish national
schools, and that everything Irish and
Catholic was banished from them If you
look over the catalogue of these books you
will find that no Irish Catholic was allowed
to compile anything of more Importance
than spelling book, or treatise on arith-
metic; and that the preparation of every
book bearing on religion or morals. or rela
ting to Scripture or history, was committed
to English and Scotch Anglicans and Pres
byterians-men .well-disposed to give an
and anti-Irish coloring to
everything that came from their pens.
Hence, the national school books are COM
pilations without any life, without any
without any religious feelings,
and it is not to be expected that they can
inspire the rising generation with a proper
spirit, or prepare them to be good citizens
and good Christians.
One of the cOmpilers of the national
school-books, was the late Protestant Arch
bishop of Dublin, who, for a long time, was
extolled for his liberality, and his desire to
give fair play to Catholics, but who threw
off the mask before he terminated his NOR
tai career. In fact, in his last pastoral
charge. addressed to his clergy in Kildare,
he did not hesitate to state that his great
object in preparing national school
books was to excite doubts in the minds of
Catholic youth, to shake their religious
convictions, and gradually to emancipate
this benighted land from the baneful dark
ness of Popery. This avowal of intended
treachery has been fully confirmed by the
revelations made by Miss Whately, who, in
a memoir OF her father, preserves his own
words to the effect that his great object in
promoting national education was to Under
mine the r0st fabric of Romanism in this
l feel so much indebted to that
good lady for the information she has
given us. that | am determined to omit no
opportunity of thanking her, and brin ging
before the public the revelations she has
made. But, however, that may he. such
were the benevolent intentions of our
friends when pretending to confer great
boon on Ireland
QUEEN VICTORIA AND LuTHEK.-It is
known to our readers that a great con-