The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-07-05
HATRED OF CATHOLICS.

HdAhGO W CATHOLICS.
Among Low Church OF Evangelical Prot
estants in the Church OF England among
Scotch Presby terra ms, among Disorders from
the Church of England, whether Baptist. In
dependents. Methodists, OF what not. there
cism. itts, rs far as we could ever discern,
an earNst,, deep seated, unquestioned con-
victlon S1eng them that Catholicism is a
very Id 81ery shock religion, and that
to hseeRe 4 Catholic LTD commit great
crime c,Sa =, 80 the cseseqnence is that, as a
own principle Of the right of private iudg-
ment for the benefit Of Catholics. DR.. New
mans fifth lecture ON the present position
Of Catholics in England, 1851, illustrates
this, and is unrivaled "What is a more
fruitful theme of defamation against us
lhe asks) than the charge of persecution
Yet Protestants have felt it right, just, snd
necessary to break the hOlieSt Of earthly
ties, and to inflict the acutest of temporal
suffering on those who have 6rc&sedl their
private Judgment in the choice Of . re-
% daily. a sense Of duty to rsi is spin n.
ions, and of the supposed religions interests
Of those ints1eted TO them has trampled
over the feelings of nature. Years have
passed, perhaps death has come without
any sign Of recognition passing from the
and it's consequences may be sent away,
her children taken from her. because she
has felt q call in Conscience to Join the
Catholic Church. The sol, has been cut off
GAS they say to a shilling. The daughter
has been locked up, her books burned, the
rites of her religion forbidden her, The
third generation. The grandchildren, the
child unborn, has not been tolerated by the
head of the family, because the parents
were converts to the faith of their fore
fathers. I have been speaking of the upper
and middle classes; in the lower the feel
expressed and acted on more summariIy.
The daughter ON her return home tells the
mother that she has been attending and
means to attend the Catholic chapel, where
upon, the mother instantly knocks the
daughter down and takes from her her
bonnet and shawl and the rest of her clothes
to keep her indoors; or if it is the case of
a wife, the husband falls to cursing, pro-
tests he will kill her if she goes near the
Catholics, and that if the priest comes there
he will pitch him out of the window. These
scenes come out of the very depths and in
nermost shrine OF the Protestant heart; it is
undenlable; the very staunchest Protes-
tants are actors in them-nay, the stauncher
they are the more faithfully do they sustain
their part and yet, if similar occurrence
were reported of some Catholic family, in
Italy or Spain, those very persons whose
conuuct nave Deen describing would listen
with great satisfaction to the invectives of
any itinerant declaimer who should work
up the sterness Of the father, the fury of the
mother, the beggary of children and grand
children, the blows struck, the imprecations
uttered, the imprisonment, the over-per-
suasion or the. compulsory promise, into a
that Popery was nothing
else than a Prosecuting power, which was
impatient of light and afraid of inquiry, and
which imposed upon fathers, mothers, and
husbands, under pain Of reprobation, the
duty of tormenting their servants at an
hours notice. The hatred Of Popery is no
where more intense or more violent than
among the English Protestant Dissenters
ron, II the protestant Church of England.
Yet it is with these English Dissenters that
the wise men and chosen representatives Of
Catholic Ireland, have thought fit to con
tract an alliance.-LondoR Tablet -