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

alOne-And that all this was sudden fyensy
Of passion, such as that which caused the mas
sacre in France, but long-settled and deliber
a te policy continually amended and made more
savage and more inevitable by successive acts
of Parliament. Moreover, it never entered into
Mr.. Whites head TO inform us, az he might
have done, that with all the violence practiced
in France against the Huguenots, they were
emancipated amt placed on a footing OF perfect
equality with Catholics full forty years before
the Catholics in England and in Ireland were
accorded tkeir pretended emancipation, which
is not complete even yet
1t is not, perhaps fair to complain of IL writer
who cOmposes altogether on one side history
OF herelig;ous wars and prosecutions OF those
days, that he suppresses or excuses, as far as
side. He holds u bcief for his Huguenot clients;
and his business is to present their case; but
such writ er cannot hope to be called an his
torian; lie is party pamphleteer. 1t is true
that in detailing the long series OF violent out
breaks and sanguinaEy riO,s which ut last cul-
minated in thai Wild st. Dartholomew's night,
the author is obliged to tell how the Huguenots,
wherever in France they hat-the temporary
power sleo Catholic by,c.tOlesale, solely because
tiIey were Catholics: how they outraged Catholic
ro1ea; tter eJaced and 4-tti.ted etNte&es and
conrens tore dotrn Tie crue: fires from ADORE the al
tt;s, polluted The sacred resses, dragged aucy the
priests in their restneats, and sc0urged, mmtlate,
daS slaughtered them. He does tell a small part
of these horrors; but generally contlives to
give them the air of retaliation. The Catholics
generally said they were retaliating, too. Who
is to judge between them at this a-yT Certainly
And when he informs us that Gin England, a
thrill of horror ran through the nation on le-
ceiving intelligence OF the Slaughter that
81 for some days the Queen refused to receive the
French ambassador, that Lord Eurley. said
"the Paris massacre YES the most horrible
crime committed 81 luce the crucifixon of Christ"
singham, exclaimed, "Will God sleepw he
might also have bethought himself of mention
ing that the same Bulley, Smith, and Wal
81 ngham were those very same counselors of
Elizabeth who had already lighted the flames
of religous persecution, both iii England and in
Ireland; ThO casseG l,.iesfs to be tortured AID
hanged for saying idss aad pr0crred the enactment
of Penal laws whose operation TUNED Ireland
iuto n GOl3othn. But to mention such ciicrm-
Stances would have maj ed the fine effect of
that solemn scene of VI. tuous indignation at
the English court on heaving of Catholic ciuel-
tieA in 'France.
In one mailer, indeed we have to charge Mr..
White with something worse than suppression.
He thus mentions o.e of the numel GUS cases of
prosecutions:
"In 1856 two 'most lascally hel etics We've
burned to death i'll the midst of Il pile of pesti-
]ept books from Geneva Oh, those books! How
tyr. my add ialsehOOd hate them!"
Now The ar;hor miaht have told us, (but took
moi 10 do SOY that 3out sixteen mouths before
.a:s erc,i, and Ill that same city of Geneva,
NJ c'1se Seiveins w:r denounced at the Instance
of Inc =. eat " ,eioIner," Calviu heretic that
Tie great '.IefDrmer" himself arranged tie act
OF accusation aga lst hin, and C5eing then all
powe jul at Geneva) procured against him the
senteuce 10 be bn. ned alirc at q stOr fre-whch
| YVES reli3iously executed. Five bales of his
co ltlem et .,oOk were also publicly burned. Oh,
those books! How tyianny anC-ort. odoxy
bate ihem But the author not o,::y omits all
menton of this business iii tie tissue of his mai =
= I'VE hou..;l IL is not immateiiai, man:
les. psy the spi it of the tine-he does worse i'll
his sho, p. eiace lie makes casual aiiusion to it
thrs:- 4-..-...1 -.---
w tie o. s. I'M c.. yiIis,s who JUSTIFY the bum
Ia; oi Servetus' CalviIists, grim or Other wise,
do MOI jrsiiy pei secution and as 1eS;,ids Sell
tcs;ant dires OF &c. nc ay aue, Switzel land and
(alrin was, pelila ps, the only man who ',Ied to
sare he q. ch-:.e etics life Whatever may have
DC IN Tie eros o. tie Reformer OF Geneva, he
| was one of ihe nreateFt men of his day. :"
Eualish.len, WHO owe so many of tier liberties
TO the ililuenceof his opinions dnr.ls the coun-
ter-re. 20. inaiion OF the seventeenth centrcy,
shorlt; lie tLe last people t, look unkindly upon
| his Jdiiings.
Ii would be hard to find any paragraph of
ren:, iess,'h containing SO much talschood and
Justify ne. secuiion;' but all Protestant divires
| approved t:Ie e.1ecutio 4 o. Servetus! Besides,
eve. y'oily, o course, :nows that to say Cal
v;n.s do not jrc,iy pe,secrtion," is, and
always was, ii ,e Ee Strange, that 1e-
forming C:irstia lis SHOULD lie!
| Anotner unaccorn tajle and most impudent
faiseiood is the $. atement that CALVIN tried TO
save The ilei et;c's life. No fac i'll history is
5eie: established than that the great Re
FORMER" adr:sed, urged OF, and made sarc Of that
murder; aud, mol cover, that he had threatened
yea beiote, i'll whiting, Tat if tae hereto ever
came to Geneva, lie, Calvin, would have his
,!ood For why! because he differed from the
I Eeln,ner OH the tlre OF the words person
and hypos;t Is, and had, more cover, in one of his
works. affirmed that Judea never could have
! Been a ie,t:lei country. If Bishop Colenso, or
NJ. Emei sou, OF d.. Bellows could only have
fallen ii 10 the hands o. that ReforIner, it is Il
sho sil. ;it they wcrld have had, and slow
lire.
But it seenn., :: Enylishmen" ought not to
think rn!>;nGly OF ,io Reioi me-; sentiment
| in which we quite concur; fof what could
make rs % k:nd : i. fcllow-Geeliry could not
We have devoted much attention to this
dishonest book, because il is /" malignant eilort
to rake up again tie sinonlGer ne as les of No
Pc oery" and to cec5 tla3 ot.ious purpose by
the suppress. OH OF what is tue, oae sugges
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