The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-02-07
The Spanish Populace.


a recent number of the New Orleans
Christias Asfroeafc, in urging the deleteri-
GUS eject of Catholicity on education, has
I'm instance of popular sentiment on that
subject, referred US to the banners of a Span
ish populace flashing with the notices
q Down with the Jesuits,p Give us free
schools, etc. i
We arc not prepared to contradict or ex-
plain any and every extravagance OF which
i. mob may be capable 10 doubt the puT-
lieus of Madrid can fnlaish as brutal q
crowd as any other, and such a mob may
even be called populace. But can it prop
erly be styled thepeople Can the reyei-
lings and dehaucheries of ontcasts and
ruf1ians be called an expression of the pop
ular sentiment9 Isit fair to infer that the
Spanish people l.aFe given their verdict on
any question, because, under the inspiration
| of hireiing army, the worst element of So
cicty takes the ascendant, piliages church
es, desecrates affairs, tears to shreds the
paintings OF great masters, breaks .up the
| finest specimens of art for fuel, and revels
! in the destruction Of monuments that the
real national heart holds most dear and
| most sacred
| u It is easy for military usurpation, in
1 possession of such q city as Madrid, to find
material enough for the parody of popu-
| lar demonstration. Various agencies would
combine to aid lis purpose. IrreIgion,
and hatred of every thing divine, would send
their retain.G& as volunteers; money would
make partisans of needy wretches, who
might otherwise be indifferent, and the
plrensy of revolution and indulgence
Mould swell the crowd with lnwless men
I capa3le of every excess. 1t is evident that
fsrssl Il populace, if it could be called by that
.aalfy would be ready to carry any kind Of
banIsTk, and echo every cry that5w would suit
TIE purpose,of their patrons.
The eRenlies or the Church everywhere
Jake up the same cry, and triunphantly
/ rraelaim It as a popular verdict.
EseyFif it were a genuine and spontane-'
] ons outburst of national feeling, what would
! &c be worth In answer to this, we need
only refer our readers to an extract to be
found in another of our columns to-day,
taken from a correspondence of the London
Tablet, and descriptive Of the revolution
as found in Seville.
What q picture, and what q verdict.
"Abajo Jesu - +" Down with Jesus"
4 1t &rcibly reminds one of the popular YER
dict cs Calvary. The High Priest, how
ever, in, procuring the sentence of death on
his Saviour, still proclaimed the existence
of God, and the Roman soldier who assisted
in the execution of that sentence recognized
a divinity in the Jupiter whom he worship
ed, while the renegade priest who preached in
Seville gave God only five minutes to prove
his existence by sending flash of lightning,
4 and the demagogue who spoke as mouth
piece of the Spanish mob, scoffed at the the
ory of any Jupiter who could not be seen
With the naked eye,
! is this the populace whose verdict our
neighbor so triumphantly records and en-
dorses The heat of controversy some
times carries the champion into an outpost
that he cannot maintain, and q community
of interest sometimes makes us consort
, with comrades of whose company we ought
to be ashamed. @ =
No one can read the description alluded
TO without being reminded of the atrocities
, Oh bu6 CECHcu iSCtOlutAOH.N NO S&6iLA0 OEBLeR
that ushered in its darker terrors are being
re-enacted ia Spain, and the family likenes.
of impiety and ruthless vandalism is plainly
stamped on both historiess-Perso %
both sexes specially dedicated to the service
: of God-priests and nuns-7are violentl!
] robbed Of the property used by their com
: munities, torn, without days notice
from the holy retirement where they haG
hoped to end their days, forced to travel
: sick or well, to the seaboard, and thel
crowded upon sailing vessels, where the.
remain perhaps several days without any
thing 20 eat, and thus banished like con
: victs from a country which they hav
! always sanctifed with their love. and thei
!, 1abors.
N 1t is true that the guiilotine has not ye
! unsheathed its bloody knife, nor has th
Goddess of reason been enthroned In
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