The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-04-30


mind in conVulsive aberratlOns, like some
irritable unmentionable in the sports of the
Spanish people. was not seldom tempted
by the, perhaps, uncbaritable thought, that
their vanity eleVates them s0mueh iu their
sslf-esteem, that they deem no adversary |
worthy enough for their grspple, and ade-
quate to their exaltatiOn unless he be pope,
or at least a cardinal.
Deeming now the Pope safe from the in
consequential sspersiOns of Mr.. Douglass, l /
will try my hand in freeing even Cardinal |
GranVella personally GranYella was a man
of great faculties of mind and character, q
man born to rule. Master of seven laDguEs,
ges, several worlds were open before him
Initiated into the whole psychological art of |
delling with those most consummately ski !
led in diplomacy, he was invaluable aud ;
hence generally in high, honorable stati9Hs
in Church and State. Pale envy must IN
the nature OF man, alwas follow such a man /
and blight the memory OF his worth. He
was accused by Catholics at the court of
Philip that bis leniency and forbearsnce
gave furtherance or sllccor to Professionalism;
and Protestants Of the Netherlands, where
he was counsellor of the regent, Margaretha
of Parma, burdened upon his shoulders the
system, which he did not create. He left
his post l564-tWenty years bsfore the as
sassinalion of William tie Silent. A man
of so many exalted positions, the honOred of
the great, among whom he always moved,
the man Of treaty-making, in whose vast
mind the fairs Of 4 world rsvOlTed, could
hardly stoOp down to stain his character
with such a useless assassination. Philip
was capable of doing this: but doubt
very strongly whether Mr.. Douglas can give
clear proof, that GranVella was the guilty
man. 1 have read history to some extent,
but have failed to see such damning deed
of his EE
Let, now, Mr.. Douglass prove his asser-
tious; he has no right to detract, ad hbitum,
from the reputation Of a living man, much
less dead one, that cannot defend himself
His (the caidinal) begrudgers, though they
fretted al his superiority, did not make him
murderer, if memory and my present
means of information serve me right. "The
murderer of William wished to obtain the
reward, which Alex. of Parma had set upon
the hero's head" says Rotteck; and the
confession of the murderer himself did not,
criminate the cardinal Historical persons
are not football 10 be tossed about at pleSs-
ure; they have a character to save, and if
Mr.. Douglass does not give clear and logi-
cal evidence in support of his defamatOry
lQQKUGuls no ulueH 5-alA III huC uuonNAdOAO
light Of a man, to whom the sscredness Of
character and memory is a by-word.
Catholics feel cause for shame for the
acts of their ancient brethren" Well, if
we do, it is not, however, as compared with
the acts of Protestants. No. indeed.
at is no fault of mine, that the record Of
the latter (Catholics) is blacker and blood
| ier than of the former (Protestsnts).
Sol Well let Us see, Mr.. Douglass. We
have long history; you a short one. We
have the immense majority of Christians on
our side; you the minority. Even this goes
some distance TO account fer the 'blacker
record. l beg Eow pardon Of my Protes-
tant readers for the following statements =
| They proceed not from bitter spirit of big
otry; and those that are personally scquain-
ted with me need not even my saying so 10
convince them Of this Ny friends are Pro-
| testants, my associates are PrOtestants, and
with them like to mix on all occasions in
social conversation. l avoid, as much as
possible, by referring to prosecutions, to
| make old scars bleed anew aud to rekindle
and intensity the old acrimony of the inhu-
man savagery of an unproPitiOus iime. =
| Neither would now mention the complaints
of Catholics against Protestants in this re-
spect, had not Mr. Douglas, instead of keep
| ing to the question (the ill-msnnered appeal
to Oatholics) and of excusing himself pro-
perly, ETC., fred bros1sid of the staple
invcclives so commonly in vogue by such,
that spsak.snd write to catch popularity
Pardon, then, friends, when tell Mr.. Doug
lass, in answer, that we have a long account,
also, to settle with PrOtestants on the score
of prosecutions.
viii pass in silenc4 the scenes of Gene
va, Denmark, Sweden, North Germany,
Munster and Scotland, let US dwell OnlF
for momentum the land of Mr Douglass
hero-William. There lies before my eyes
the graphic description of our venerated
Schiller Protestant--of the vandalism of
Protestants in the Netherlands. Like an
avalanche from the snOw-clad peak of the
Alps, or like mighty swelling tidal-Wave,
irrisisiable io its fury, rose the Protestant
iconoelasts = picture breakerE-and swept
over Flanders, raging in the plundering,
profaning and sacking Of Catholic Churches.
-Four hundred Churches we're thus, in Flan-
ders alone, ,desecrated. On the Slstof August
1866, the acme of their fury was spent in
that master piece Of architecturs-ihe Ca
thedrah Of Antwerp The crueiix, the stat
ue Of the Madonna are cut in pieces with
azes-only the statues cf the two thieves are
preserved--symbolic, indie dl--the sacred
vessels ssolen,--the euchaFistie hosts trod
under foot with dihbolic remarks aud sacri-
ligious depravity This is no excuse what
ever for the subsequent hardness Of Alba;
should we wonder at the same, however, af-
ter such anteeedents3
Even the ''hero Of religious liberty, VIII
liam, had Law pissed SURPRISING Catholic
service. What . herol SO s. &
Passing now over the chaRael into Eng
land, what picture does thes slse of PrOtes-
tant persecution present. 91s9. the Bishop
of Rochester, Fisher, and Fss@ss aRsE@ss Morus,the
noble chancellor, down to the last couut,
bishop, priest, or common lsyman, how
many are the viotrms of that soFdid, inpnres
rake-- Henry Yl1If The block made. cath f
moist with the noblest blood Of the nation,
AM the stake filled the air with the aroma
of the holocaust 0
Pass on now, TO the neighboring isle-Ire-
land. Excepting Poland, never did one ma
tion receive such a S s'epgmOtaerly treat i
zInent from aRdihsr As Iielaa d,freI m England
and that for religion sake. There is here no
persecution of i0dividuals; noinqu;ring after
strsgglers; there is a wlloHssle ekteEnina-
dOn me6itatsd. Ehglsad becomes one ex-
tensive inquisitiOn; its ruler the hangmsq.
Details, such as "High OommissiOnP-t
true Protestant inquisition-are here of
course out of the question:; space allows
them not; ] can make Oply isg mighty
strokes of historical Feminiseenee.
OromwenAth5 soldier of tie Reformation
-Eith semi-slvsge soldjery, the Bible in
one hand, and the sword in the other,-like
Mahommed with theiK K0ron onA-succeeded near
ly in making Ireland, for It's religions sake,
a desert waste. Untold are the horrors that
the noble Irish suffered. Death was By no
means the greatest Of their suffsTings-snd
that they got plsntifullY, for Cromwell want.
ed bis ,ldiers to treat the Irish like J65aa
treated the Csuaanites-but they we're made
strangers in their own land, which, by the
millions Of acres, vas f9fs6 from eh9ai apd
given to Protestant intruders, that now live
rom the sorroWful sweat of the Door tenant
of his ancestors acres, aud has TO pay high
Fent for the n iggardly privilege of being al
lowed to raise that poor esculent-the pOta-
to-to keep him alive, only to remain long
er the victim of his OppressOr. The Irish
are monumental nation. All over the Pro-
testant- English world Providence seems to |
have sent them % oshame, by their very pres
ence, into silence the exaggerative stories of
Catholic persecution. Above the din of
three eenlurie5 the cry "to OoAnaught or to
He'll resOuhds in the ear of Ireland's sons,
and 10 upbrald taem With "Inqdisition" in
the face Of their unspeakable suffefings, |
makes their revenge rush to madness. Only
o most sudaeious confidence in the gullible
credulity of an audience can, in the light Of
such scenes, enlarge upon the horrors of
Catholic PersecutfOhs, as though Protestant
ism were immaculate.
Now, Mr.. Douglass! are Catholic persecu-
tions blOOdier than those of Protestahts?-if |
so, it must be, because, by Psychological |
construction, Catholic victims had less blood. |
There Is q philosopbY of history, which, in