The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-08-29
REVIEW OF TIE WEEK.

Versy gong ON between the Christian rr,s
and DIR. Hatfield on the one hand and D..
Leonard w. Bacon on the other, relative To ~.
publication of documents against Catlio,icsI y,
the former, known to be spurious The ;ne
my of this transaction has called forth sos.
controversy, in which Catholics have IittIa Z.
terest, as the falsity of the work in eontro,,a,
sy-Secret Instructions of the Jesuits \,
long been acknowledged, except by sucb =.
pers as the New York Observer and such wr;ta..
as DIR. Hatfield, for many years clerk of A.
Presbyterian Assembly; of which latter N.
New York Independent thus writes. AS this (.
point of veracity, and indeed we might say
of common honesty, between Presbyterian.
and ConSregationalists, we leave the matte,
Perhaps our friends of the Southeastern P,esbv.
te1idn may throw light on the case:
Anxious to defend the directors of the Arne,
lcan and Foreign Christian Union in their COR.
test with Rev. l.. w. Bacon, he wrote for tl,a
Observer defense of the authenticity of isfhe
Secret Instructions of the Jesuitsb Tn fbis
work he took from the library of the ITn;an
Theological Seminary an ancient book called
81, iuoa Magma and Its second edition called
IN the country The first edition spoke of the
book with some doubt as au thentic and NH
hshed the entire Confessions. The second
edition retracted that opinion and omitted fhe
Confessions" DR.. Hatfeld-will it he he.
lieved 'T-quoted only the strongest express;ar,
in in the Tuba Magma and entirely suppressed
the fact that in the "Tuba Altera" the author
had reversed his Judgment! To make it NOR.
ally certain that DIR. Hatfield knew of what
sHppressio reri he had been guilty he refused
again and again, and before witnesses, to LET
Mr.. Bacon verify the quotations. or see thc
books, although he had kept them for months
out OF the Seminary library. We hardly know
how TO characterize such trckery. 1t is only
what may be expected when u man not natn
II
nature is put, "a DR.. Hatfield, for years clerk,
of the Presbyterian Assembly, has been mt
into the very centre of ecclesiastical politics -
1t would almost make Gabriel Jesuit, much
more DR.. Hatfield. And Leonard w. Bacon,
What shall say of his honor22 In the last
-idcahce he asserts anonymously, but over his
easily recognized signature of Oriental" that
the Independent has become ''the organ of the
Progressive Frends~ Mr. Bacon is as bad as
DIR. Hatfield. Has he never heard of the fate
of the false spies of Canaan.
LORD BYEoN.-The sensation of the week
has been the recent article or Lady and Lord
Byron, written for the .1tldRtic Monthly by Mrs
Harriet Beecher Stowe-whch bids fair to be-
come famous, or rather infamous. She repre-
scnts Lady Byron. as saying:
She expressed the feeling, too, that the Cal
whistle theology, heard in Scotland, had
proved in his case, as it often does in certain
minds, subtle pelson. lie never could either
disbclieve or become reconciled to it, and the
sore problems it proposes embittered his spirit
against Christianity. 1.-THE worst of it is, I do
bcticte," he would often say with violence,
when he had been employing all his powers OF
reason, wit and ridicule upon these subjects.
In the letters published by Moore, in his life
of the poet, we find one in which he directs
that his daughter born on the continent, be
brought up Catholic.
METHODIST MASNERs.-Some person has
sent us paper containing report of the Lou
isville Annual Conference of the Methodist
Church South. There is nothing remarkable
in the document. Perhaps our anonymous
friend intended to draw our attention to that
portion of it which speaks of Catholics and
their educational institutions. But we find
nothing novel in this respect, made up it is
of the low, vulgar vituperation which forms
the staple of the Christian -1drOcatc of this city
whenever it aludes to Church. Here is "A
specimen of Methodist decency
Better our children should remain ignorant
all their lives, and die without any knowledge
of letters, than expose them to the willy decep-
lions of the bidcl-rciLr monsters and mitred eWis
s"jcs o. The dcrt,-thnt conduct Catholic schools.
And these people pretend to be teachers!
We should suppose that any person of ordinary
prctensions to dccency would he ashamed to
brothers Shaw, Ford and Browder have no
qualms of conscience i'll performing the disre-
pntab1c role assigned them, Ladies of the no
blest birth and OF the most accomplished parts
who have abandoned every earthly eonsid-
Grafton to accomplish the will of God, in min
istcring to his creatures, both mentally. and
physically, "emissaries of the devilw Whether
the person who forwarded to us this fulmina-
nation of Messrs. Ford, Shaw and Browder, be
a friend or opponent, he must excuse us from
dwelling any further on an emanation for
whose paternity we have not far to seek.
ABDUCTION OF JEwEss.-Wales-or rather
the people of that ancient principality-rarely
figure before the world in the way of a.sensa-
ton. But the land of the Davises and tho
Joneses, of leeks, goats and long geneologies, -
has been at last aroused, and makes its bow
before civilization, and claims its share of no
toriety. The case in point is that of the alb
luction of Jewess, which has occupied the