The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-09-05
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Parliament what Mr.. Harlan is to the
American Senate, in the course OF debate
the other day CONCERNING Murphy the Bold,
and the prosecutions inflicted by British
magistrates in the pay of the Pope on this
fearless defender of Gospel truth, made
the following statements, which, we are
sure, will be received with astonishmento on
this side of the Atlantic: "There is no
established Church in the United States,
says Mr.. Newdegate, Sand the position OF
that country, therefore, is somewhat
analogous to that which will shortly be
the position of Ireland; and find that in
the States, up TO the period of the late civil
war, there was a system of persecution
pursued there under the sanction OF tile
authorities against those who ventured to
express Protestant opinions. Some of the
defenders of freedom of speech were murder
ed, and John Brown was executed, and the
persecutonwasin invariably carried on at the
instance of the Roman Catholic body!'
With whom Mr.. Newdegate has lived, or
from what source he has drawn his lnforIna-
ton concerning American affairs, we are
ignorant; but it is possible that he Is one
of the 'tpublic men" who, as we are told
by the Tribune, sit at the feet OF g. w. 5.
for instructions. Be this as it may, 1t
seems probable that John Brown is to be
trotted out in IN entirely new character,
and that his soul is to be made to march on
in the garb of a martyr to protestant
tsruth"-a victim of the Inquisition in
Virginia. He has been very useful to the
aboltionists as q martyr slain by slavery,
but now the Evangelical Alliance are, we
are told, to take him up as a saint slain by
Popery. 1t is pity that Mr.. Newdegate
did not give the name of the other "de-
tenders of freedom of speech" who Were
slain and prosecuted sat the instance of
the Roman Catholic body" in the United
States; but until their names are ascertain
ed there will be employment for those who
Of
history of John Brown. 1t Mr.. Newdegate
is correct, j. b. was q saint who went down
into the benigifted Roman Catholic province
of Virginia with his pockets fulls of Bibles
and Protestant tracts, supplemented per-
haps, by few copies of ''The Confessional
Unmasked;" he was then seized by that
Jesuit, Governor Wise, acting under in
structions from the Propaganda, and
cruelty done to death. ''This is the fate
witch would befall Murphy the Bold, says
Mr.. Newdegate, ''if it were not that there
is still little freedom leftin England,
rapidly disappearing, however, beneath
the constant aggressions of Rome" Mr..
Whalley quite agreed with him, and said it
was notorious that stthe newspapers of
London were under the influence of the
Romish priesthood" which was the reason
that they always represented Murphy as "a
or what he did do till the government shut
him up, was to go to towns where there
was n large Catholic population, and
advertise lectures about Transubstantia-
ton, the Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacra
ments, the Confessional unmasked, and the
morals of the priests and nuns; and to this
announcement would be added notice
that gentlemen only were to be admitted,
and gentlemen under eighteen not at all.
One may judge of the quality of the
lectures by the impu tations on the religion
of the Roman Catholics conveyed in the
notice that no youth of eighteen should
be permitted to attend; and it is no wonder
that the lectures We're everywhere followed
by riot. The Government very properly
sileneed him, and the attempt of Mr.. New
degate to rebuke the government for that
actof good sense was not successfully.
L. lK0Fld.