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The Montana post., 1868-09-25

STILL CHANG1NG.-The Herald which
FIRST claimed to be Republican, then In
dependent, then semi-Democratic, and
then Radical, finally comes out fully
fiedged Democratic chicken of the mod
ern breed. Hear its cackle of Wednesday
night:
"We are tired of Republican misrule. We
are sick of this trampling upon the rights of
the people. The Republican party has lied to
the people,-has b1asphemed God,-and has
murdered innocent women and children.
I" The leaders Of the Republican party are
spoon thieves, house robbers, grave openers,
cotton stealers, drunken butchers, renegade
Democrats who never had an idea above
pocket and pIunder; biggots, prison birds, fa-
natics, shoddy aristocrats whose pockets are
full of bonds stolen from the people while
poor men were forced to fght; and in all that
party there are not now i've honest leaders,
nor one statesman of ability"
What the next change Of the Broad
way weathercock will be, we cannot fore
tell There seems to be but one place
left for il TO go, and that is.-out of ex-
istence. WHO is that "Parson" of the
Herald7 ?
The Montana post., 1868-09-25

Nasty says OF the late Mrs. Menken
that "she leaves several widowers to
divide th> grief between them.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-03-22
ANARCHY AND AUTHORITY.

Matthew Arnold's name must be familiar
to all readers of English literature, partic-
ularly that portion of it relating to criti-
cism. Professor of Poetry in one of the
English Universities, his trenchant pen has,
on many occasions, been engaged in expos
ing the shams prevalent among his country
men. John Bull, of course, did not receive
this with equanimity, and Tray, Blanche,
and Sweetheart were set barking ut his
heels, until finally he resigned his profess
sorship, but continues his excoriating essays.
His latest appeared in the CornhiU Maya
sine, showing that an Englishman's idea of
liberty is, that he may do as he pleases,
even though that involves an Infringement
and destruction of the rights of all others.
A few extracts are subjoined M
Freedom, 1 said, was one of those things
which we thus worshiped in itself, without
enough regarding the ends for which freedom
Is to be desired. In our common notions and
talk about freedom, we eminently show our
if1elatry of machinery. Our prevalent notion
is--andI quoted a number of instances to prove
It-that 1t is a most happy and important thing
tor man merely to be able to do as he likes.
On what he Is to do when he is thus free to do
as he likes, we do not lay so much stress. The
central idea of English life and politics is the
assertion OF personal liberty. Evidently this is
SO; but evidently, also, as feudalisIn which
With its ideas and habits of subordination was
for many centuries silently behind the British
constitution, dies out, and VS. are left with
nothing out our system OF checks, and our no.
ton of its being the great right and happiness
OF an Englishman to do as far as possible what
he likes we are in danger of drifting toward
anarchy. Our leading class is an aristocracy,
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-03-22
BY THE OCEAN SHORE. 1865.
pART II.


That scene lies afar-from that mount gpne-
And stand by the wild solemn alone:
The moon, cold and calu throws her light on those
In whose depths and empires have sunk to their
graves
The stars, pale and quiet, smile down where stand
On the white cleaning shells srewn over the strand
Not cloud In the leavens not sound on the shore,
Save the deep heaving oceans mysterious roar.
oh, say is that strain that comes up my
drssf lat sad ,niserere heart
oh, no for IL rises in numbers sublime,
How il steals how it peals my pulses keep time!
IT'S no sad ,nsercTe, no funeral dirgc
Rising up those depths finding voice in the surge
Tia the worship! Every lifts its voice;
Deep calls unto deep and the cry is Rejoice
.'Gloria in Excelss T. For myriads of years,
,Is the strain that Jehovah has heard and still hears
When the God shouted and morning stars
And from throne to dominion the jubilant rang
rolled the echoes trembling out from the sky,
Till deep caught the strain laundering back i'll reply
"Glorin In Excelsis!' The loud anthem roll
Came surging and sounding from its innermost soul.
And since then, since, in tempest in calm
That unweared ocean hath cbanted that psalm;
What though In it's bosom whole navies have sunk.
And myriafs it's briuy death.pOtOns have drunk
What though in its bOsom are mysteries unread,
And halls all paved with the bones of the dead
That strain shall arise in each billow' deep
Till il heaves last threb on Times frr.girt Shore
Rtadensbsirg. Nd, March, 1865.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-03-22
LETTERS OF ST. JEROME.

The following remarks are from the Con-
temporary Rerie,r. Of course, it will be un-
derstood that there are some few things
which SAVIOR of their origin. With this
preliminary caution, we think they will be
found readable:
The letters of the great Church Fathers, from
more than four centuries, are, to an ordinary
reader, the most instructive portion of their
writings. They are, for the most part, the let
in the dearth of anything like good Church
historian, they form by far the truest and most
lively record of Christian history They are Of
unreserved simplicity, and, at the same time,
an unrestrained fire, which are q marked con-
trast to the more formal works of the same au-
thors, and still more to the productions
of Euseblus, SozOmen, and Socrates. Thus in
Cyprian we see the great Roman, the founder
of the high Episcopal spirit of the Church, deal
ing with those who resisted his authority at once
as the kindly Christian Bishop, and yet with
something of the tone of aRoman Imperator, de-
Gliding with practical Roman wisdom the case
of the readmission of the Lapsed, and denounc-
ing with Roman scorn the arrogant schism of
the Novatians In Athanasius, we have a de-
scription far more lively than we find else
where, both of the orthodox devotion of his
monklsh supporters, and OF what he held to be
opponent. The early history of Basil and Gre
CORY at the school of Athens, as it is described
in these letters, their romantic friendship and
singular quarreis, are pleasing episode in the
midst of the stern struggles and bitter polemics
of the Eastern Church while it is far more in
the letters of Basil than in his other writings
that we trace the versatile genius, the courage,
the gifts of command and administration, which
gained for him both the emnity and respect of
his schoolfellow, Julian, and made him, after
Athanasius, the one practical man whom the
East produced, the great Basil" In the let
ters, again. of the chief Latin Fathers, those of
Ambrose contain our only record of some of the
greatest scenes of Church history, in which he
was himself the actor and if those of Angus
tine are of inferior interest, it is because, like
ofsn sins s,s in
Finally, two centuries later, it is in the touch
ing letters of the first of the great Gregories
that we see the man who guided Christendom
from his bed of suffering-at one time control
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-03-22
LETTER FROM ST. JAMES.

PARISH OF ST. JAMES, La, March 8, 1868.
Editor Morning Star and Catholic Messenger:
Sir-It in presumable that an itenr of Catlo-
lie news must always be acceptable to
Catholic journal, and to it's readers. Therefore
there is no need to apologize for volunteering
brief report of the examination and exhibition
which we witnessed last week in the spacious
hall of St. Mary, jefferson College, in this
parish.
1t will probably he no news to you, Mr.. Editor
to be informed that for many years past this
institution was wholly under secular direction,
known then as jefferson College; and that,
notwithstanding large State endowment, it
was characterized but by intervals of preca-
rous success. The grand truth is, in fact,
g beginning to be understood ut last, that State
education, like State religion, is fated, sooner
or lator to perish by the unnatural alliance, for
as oil experience proves education without
moral culture to be an unqualified curse to the
individual and to society; and it is impos-
sible to divorce morality from religion, it is
clear that the State, in working the machinery
of Christian education, is entirely out of it's
sphere. And to this conclusion the popular
mind is manifestly tending, in spite of the
chicanery opposed from time to time by inter-
ested prejudiced writers, to the inevitable
fact.
SluCe, theil, w "o hiuce
como at last,1 it is noteworthy circumstance,
and one to be proud of, that Catholic educa-
tionists have pioneered the way through a null
titude of obstacles to the success of u principle
whose approaching triumph is already heralded
by the first notes of public reclamation /; and
it ia both hopeful and consoling to know that
the American mind, in spite of occasional par
cnthetic deviations, is, i'll the main, biased
toward sound principle.
To this evident tendency, doubtless, we may
ascribe the well-known fact that our Catholic
colleges are, generally speaking, patronized az
much by all denominations of Protestants as
by Catholics themselves. Whether this incl
dental feature of Catholic institutions is
desirable or not we do not now propose to dis
cuss, although the idea was suggested to us by
observing that st. Mary, Jefferson College, is
Mt present limited to an exclusively Catholic
patronage. 1t may be that this is owing, in
part to the social, political, and industrial per-
-, plexities in which the country is involved, and
partly, also, to the fact that the college is
located in the very centre of an exclusively
Catholic population. Whatever the cause or
causes there it, to our thinking, lone resultant
great good achieved in-ethe unmistakable
Catholic atmosphere of the place. Hero is
found no accommodation of Catholic doctrine
no softening down of stern dogmas to make
them more congenial to hssh and blood, no
word-diluting explanations OF eternal ami i'm
mortal truths to bring them into consonance
with that worldly-wise I" smartness" of which
we hear SO much, and of which, when the SUI
perlativc degree is reached, the " human per
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-03-22

THE SHADOWS OF LIFE.-The shadows of the
mind are like those of the body. In the morn
ing of life they all lie behind US; Mt noon, we
trample them under foot, and in the evening
Are not, then, the sorrows of childhood rs dark
as those OF agef Are not the morning shadows
of life as deep and broad as those Of its eve
ningi Yes but morning shadows soon fade
away, while those of evening reach forward in
to the night, ana mingie with the coming dark
ness.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-03-22
MORNING STAR AID CATHOLIC EEsaENaE
NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY. MARCH "a. 1855.
Iron Southern Society.I
aLoRIA IN EXCILsIs DE0.
ny JOHN COLLINS A'cABR, DID.
ON THE MOUNTAIN, 1864.
ON THE MOUNTAIN, ise
PART L.
~ JOHN COLLINS A'cAI

The morning bslmy. and softly the gale =
Like Ie.uI. re-, ths ioT.nd: y sysliGS' May nay
Of Upland 1 and iowiand how lovely. how rare!
Waving fields rich green pastures and sleek grazing
The wild mountain blossom, the gay plumaged bird
The Blue Ridge in grandeur rolled away to tho West
With the sun ON their brow. and the mists on the
whilo between in the distance the full bending grain
Waved In luscious luxuriance from mountain to plain
Up those sleeps grand and glorious the fresh morning
Kissed our checks stole wantoning mongst the
Al there with barred brow and with up-glancing eye
We lifted our hearts aud our songs to the sky.
We stood that mountain; aye manhuod in prime.
And woman in beauty, to bless the Spring time;
ssis in 1ts PasI heard strain
From s% s%pes with
when from Ortel 90 tr.nsept the setting sun .niles
TM Il. toes He shirt nv niehtdreams did haunt
But obi ON that mountain, that beautiful morn.
There smiles there tears both OF rapture
We felt that our Father" made all that we saw
That the Saviour there. bending down from the
Der the smiles on our checks in eyes
We felt. .. We eazed, that tho Heavenly Dove
And the song and the shout up. up into heaven.
Gloria In Esceissi" Ye valleys rejoice
We grain. teeming plains give the chorus voice!
We wild blossomn, laugh in the gladness of Spring;
.Giori. in E.celsis !s-earth, heaven and sea,
Aye, Universe, join in the grand jubilee!
ON the sun. glowing mountains almost descry,
As away in the distance the yapors roll of. $50
The % chariots of Israel, the horsemen thereof
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-03-22

III ~ I'D No. II AAH w IxnH.
ONUhAs AAHAVA 90, AoVo'
frent cirouu.rta suess from our present, (butAl-
ways MA 6 systo Engiishmsn doing Q. they-
TEs ".,6 :. az eiear Iefter 0f the law must be
aCnYnst our Enr3ishman who does as he like,
and not oniv fhe snirit of the law and putliP
policy, and as government must neither have
ia own interpretation of the law if any ona
aisnntes it. it e. Evident our laws give our play
full eiant. In doing ss he likes, considerable adj
rToTsS to oo%mit commit, an iiisgahty in doing as he
me- thereis aiways tljo RESOURCE of not putting
the law in force, o. Of Sbslishing it. SO he has
Lis way. and 81 he has his~way, he lie soon sat-
habit of taxing It oftener and oftener, and at
last begins to create by his operations q confu-
sion Of which mischievous pcoplesmay take pa
the common course of business throughout the
country, tends to cause dissress, >shd 90 to In
crease tho sort Of anarchy apd<social disinte-
grafton which had previously commenced. And
thus that profound seps6 Of settled order and
security, without Which . society like ours can
not live and gro~ ct ALL is beginning to threat
On us with tsdng its departure.
/ haye>0ften wondered whether upon the
wholesarth theFeis any thing 90 unintelNgent,
- -dhAPt to perceive how the world - really
going On, - an ordinary En9lishman. And all
this while We are in IN epoch Of expansion
|. OF tho excesses of the day NO better repre-
sentative can poasibly be Imagined than the
Rev. w. Cassel, q Dissenting minister, from
w 8I0Au, VINO C8Q0 D61O10 tu0 pUuAC Ii COMIoO.
t:ea -;sk ....e ;..csees;ns- ~ Ri-.ninghez of
Mr.. Murphy, already mentioned. Speaking In
the midst Of an irritsted population OF Catho-
lies, the Rev. Mr.. Cassel exclaimed: !" say,
then, away with the NASAL 1t il from the bot
tomless pit; and in the bottomleas pit ehall all
liaIs have their part, in the lake that buIneth
with fire and birthstone" And again; when
Ill the praties were black in Ireland, why didn't
tho priests gay the hocus-pocus over them, and
make them all good again - =, He shared, too,
Mr.. Murphy's fears Of some invasion Of his do
mestio happiness: "WhAt wish to say to you
- Protestant husbands is-Take caro- AZ Sosr
eisas n And, finally. in the true vein of an
have at some length pointed out the present
dangers, he recommended for imitation the ex-
ample OF some churchwardens at Dublin, among
whom, said he, "there was q Luther and also 3
MISUNDERSTANDING who had made very short work
with SONG ritualist OF other. handed him down
from his pulpit, and kicked him out. Now
it ia manifest. a. was the case of Sir Thomas
Bateson.-if We let this excees Of the sturdy
Engiish middle-class. this conscientious Pro
testant Dissenter. so strong, so self-reliant, so
fully persuaded in his own mind, have his way,
he WouId be canable. with hisl want of light.
OF, to use the language Of the religious world,
with his zeal witRonf knowledreeof kindlinR
n Are which neither he nor anT one else could
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-03-22

One ward in Boston is taxed for more property
than the whole city Of st. LOUIS
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-01
The Bdtt1e-Roya1 Between Free Trade
and Protection.

The Lion and the Unicorn Of nursery
story have ceased to fight for the crown,
pugilistic encounters no longer adorn the
streets of every fashionable city, the boys
have ceased to march, and at last the war,
love, is over. But Greek fights Turk,
Abyssinian THEODORE holds the British in
chancery, and, throughout the United States,
The legions Of free trade fight the armies of
protection. Every man demands freedom
from taxation for himself, and full desc
of fiscal medicine for all the rest of man.
kind Whiskey and iron, tobacco and dry
se>ds, ships and wooden clocks, coal and
telescopes. have entered the lists, and each
branch OF trade, is doing its best for itself
by doing its worst for its neighbor.
Neutrality-suspicious. those who sell nut
megs to those who build locomotives
mildly ask that their little tax OF Eve per
cent, may, like slavery, be abolished.
Whiskey tells the tale of its medicinal
uses, its powers for heating and cooling
for inspiring and cheering, for oblivion and
death, end cries out that it will not cheat
the government any longer if Tue tax is but
reduced.
Tobacco smoothly murmurs that this tax
upon smoke is tax upon air, which is
freest of the free in the lungs of the Amer
ican citizen. 1t points to its power for
soothing and calming, vows that it is apub-
lie benefactor, and promises Congress some
homemade segars OF native cabbage leaf
if the tax is only repealed.
Philosophers write that the tex upon
philosophical instruments is so high that
the only stars they can see with plainness
are those upon shoulders at Washington,
and on the ice.ponds in winter. They
complain that chronometers are wrong, that
ouadrants are inaccurate, that thermome-
lcrs are unreliable, that science is going to
the dogs;-al, because Of their fifteen per
cent. tax.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-01
The Daily News Returns Thanks.

Those who strike out for themselves q
new path in any direction must be prepared
to meet with both opposition and intoler-
ance; and those are fortunate indeed, who
find that their efforts for the general good
are appreciated by the whole of those whose
favorable opinions are most to be desired,
and that disapprobation is only to be found
in ,aose quarters where adverse feeling is
not to be feared, and where it is wholly
powerless for injury or harm.
To this undeserved good-fortune the Pro-
prietors of The DAILY News may justly
prefer their claim. When they assumed
control they received cordial welcome,
urd the improvements and reforms which
they have already carried out have elected
for them the most hattering concentrations
from every part of the country.
Those who had known the Proprietors in
civil life gave them both encouragement
AMI praise. Those who had labored with
them as Journalists in New York, in Mary
lard, in Louisiana and in Virginia, predic-
ted for them prosperous career. Those
WHO had served with them, and fought with
them, in the armies of the Confederate
States wished their old comrades decisive
victory in the war of journalistic life.
Their contemporaries in the Northern and
Southern States, and in the country dis
tricts OF South Carolina, extended to them,
once and again, the heartiest assurances Of
their earnest and friendly sympathy.
For these kind words and kinder thoughts
the Proprietors of The NEWS now return
their thanks, and this they do especially to
the country and district papers of this State.
South Carolina journalists have always
borne high and en7iable reputation, and
shis reputation was never better deserved
ahaa tits By those who, in every District,
IRON; ;Abbsyille to York, ably represent the
rsants aud necessities, the hopes and the
fears, 81 this beloved State. The Proprie
tors Of TIE gsws have treasured up in their
aearts the remembrance of every gentle
speech and generous phrase, and they are
fortified and strengthened in their firm re.
solve to work only for the veal Of the South
and the welfare of this still undaunted peo-
pie.
From the public The NEWS has received
substantial and remunerative support, and
the Proprietors feel that their record in the
past and their conduct in the present are
sufficient shield against the shafts of malice,
the venom of prejudice, the specious croak-
ing of i'll concealed dislike.
To generous public, TO oil our friends,
to oil our kindly bfcthren of the press, the
Proprietors Of The DAILY NEWS wish, with
all their hearts, Happy New Year.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-01

Locomotive makers growl that the tax is
moro firmly rivetted than are their boilers,
and that its continuance will cause the
whole fraternity to explode in passion
and blow UP the government.
Men in the wool interest meI in the iron
interest, men in the Wes,ern interest, meet
at the capital and attack or support the
measure under debate whatever it may be-
not upon general principles but in view of
its presumed relations to particular places
or persons.
King Cotton, however, stands upon his
dignity and calls for repeal of his pecu-
liar tax for the benefit and profit of the
whole country. The plea is not on account
of white more than of black, not for the
South more than for the North-it is only
that now, for the first time, the interests Of
cotton and wool are identical and the. same.
How the fght will close, the oldest in
~habitant does not know. Whether Lion
will chase Unicorn all round the town;
whether iron will beat longcloth; whether
corn will be victorious over wooden nut
megs; whether income tax will whip heavy
import duties; whether whiskey will over
come Pennsylvania coal; cannot now be
said, but the contest will be long one and
a hard one, and will not end until each
interest learns that there is no natural in
ompatibility between the prosperity OF
East, West, North and South, and that iron,
cotton, wheat and wool may, like band Of
big brothers, live and flourish together.
In the meantime, the attention of law
makers, aud law. breakers, is called to the
advice given by an old legislator to his
young successor:
"My FRIEND" said he,-''always vote
for every appropriation of money that is
asked for-that will gain you credit for lib
erality. Then vote against every tax bill
that will make the people believe you are
anxious to shield them from taxation. So
you will gain friends on all Sides"
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-01
CHI A r E S TON
WEDNESDAY, MORNING, JANUARY /, 1868
HAPPY New YEAR say we, to our friend

HAPPY NEW YEAR say we, TO our friends
and readers everywhere. THE DAILY NEWS,
this morning, appears in fresh and more
attractive dress, and, although the proper
tious of our sheet are somewhat curtailed-
step which the universal prostration Of
business and consequent diminution of ad-
vertising has rendered expedient--we can
pledge ourselves, in entering the new year,
that there shall be no falling off, either in
the amount or quality of tie reading matter
presented in our columns. On the contrary,
encouraged by the generous spirit in which
We have been, SO fur, sustained, we shall
redouble our efforts to make this journal,
in every particular that tends to give COM
pleteness, variety and interest to q newspa-
per, worthy the confidence and support Of
the So ,rn public.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-01

land Governor Morehead, General Blackwoll'
and Hon. James B. Clay Of Kentucky, Hon. G..
L. vallandlgham, OF OHIO, George ". Jones',
D. A. M.hony and Henry Clay Dean, OF Iowa,
Messrs. Miligar, Bowlea and Aorsey, OF Indl-
ana, Al8ernop S. Sullivan and James a. Nc
Masters. of New York, number of clergymen
and lawyers OF Missouri, besides hundreds OF
Or miucnt citizens of every State in which the
tinkle o. Nj. Stewards bell could be heard dur
ing the war. Every State from Maine to Cali
fornia Chose which formed the Confcderacy
excepteS), will be represented. TIE conven-
tion Will not take any action whatever on tae
question of the next Presidency, but confne
it.ele strictly to the main object for which it
has been called-to assert the supremacy of
constitutional principles.