The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-10-04


Mayf1oWer's load of bigots, nor any of the
Blue Law, parsons could have stated the
case with better assortment of Puritanical
can't slang = .5a
The immediate occasion of this outburst
is the present political crisis in Spain. The
telegraph informs us that there is one that
sundry generals are on one side, and several
on the other; that some Of the cities and
rural districts have espoused each side, and
that the army and navy have also divided.
From these meagre data the Delta con-
structs . Church and anti-C Church war,
revolt Af the champions of liberty and
progress against ecclesiastical tyranny.
Other publicists have thought that it was
another of those revolutions with which
Spain has occasionally been afflicted, which
are not based on any question, IF principle,
and do not even undertake to eject reform,
but are mere party movements for the pos
session of power as between different
branches of the same family. Others again
suppose the secret, of agitation to he the
question of foreign sympathy, the existence
of a. dynasty which will or will not favor
Louis Napoleon.
Why in the world the present queen
should claim the peculiar devotion of a
Church party, if there be one, or why
strong Catholics should side with Louis
| Napoleon and against the Orleanists, when
directly the reverse is the case in France,
is not explained. However, these are new
points which have arisen since the May
4 flower captured Plymouth Rock, and, con-
sequently, not relevant.
Let us yentilate q few of the leading
propositions and choice expressions in this
remarkable article, apparently clipped from
!. the Boston Tindicator, though not credited
| to it:
Tue dead weight Of ecclesiastical domination
in Spaiu seems about to be thrown on ny lts
| oppressed people. -4H l
Here is piece of information that ought
to be telegraphed back to Spain, for we art
confident the people there know nothing
either of the " dead weight" the DONNA
!. tion,n except in religion, or the "oppres
, sion.n We would guarantee that no appre
cable portion of either party have the leas
! idea of interfering with the Church.
o The inevitable ieno,ance and superstition
q eua endered by this spiritual Supremacy b,nt'
. the Wills, opinious, aud purses OF the people 1
tie Church, and fOims n dead wau to snut on
o the light of human progress ana clVhHatloi
+ just as in the cages of Faith," when a
e the great universities now existing wer
e founded, when architecture, sculpture
; painting, poetry, arts, aad letters wer
exhumed from the uins of Pagan civiliza
ton, and produced monuments which tn
= present age admires but dares not rival.
H Receiving all instructions with devout an
n submissive reverence fiOm the priesthoo'
Taught to reject altogether all doctrines, ten
l. poral or spiritual, that come not &c CaiheGr
the progress III civil and religions Liberty, tia
has rolled mountafn-high Mt tae'r very doc
I: diving the last two centuries, has failed
u wake them from their superstttious ietharg
1t What change from the days whe
n; Professionalism was unknown, and when tn
I. same priesthood led Europe from barbaris
of to civilization, from Paganism to Christian
O. ity; found them wandering tribes of savage
il and gave them houses, cities, and nation
ia !. governments found them incapable
as writing, and gave them the art of printing
&c But it seems that same priesthood is. n
be capable of keeping up with the model
e. tempest of progress, which rolls its way
I" mountain high" with the guillotine
the top, and ruin in the track of its retrea
40 ng tide.
no Civilization in Spain is but an empty woI
he q thing of ideal excellence and beauty for
educated men to dwell upon, but of practic
: deformty as it drags a dwarfed and pupy e
De- istence under the bIighting influence OF eccl
ID siastical tyranny and intolerance.
ew Let new edition of the biographies
I'd, printed, and let Spain be stricken from Il
~, rank of civilized nations. It's "civilizati,
N. but an empty word" The Evening Del