The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-06-13
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to keep from laughiRgs ia piece of Catho
/ Iic 4b@praiy. Ana Fnat is its Simpl.
lfhaA tie Ghurchs saved &he Indian tribes
and Kad patience with their barbarism
This the Pres1yteSfan is rather inclined t,
Idenys but admitting it, for the sake of ar
gument, pooh POOLS ttas a3"mighty con
sideration" and a 2 gross absurdity." 3
/ The Presbyteriaa is fond of charging
upon the>Catholic Church a responsibility
for the lower degree of civilization in the
Catholic countries of America. The sim
Pile explanation of this phenomenon is fur
nished TO our aeighbor in the fact that
Catholicity saved the Indian tribes while
Presbyterianism annihilated them, and
therefore, in Calvinistic point of view,
the Church may betsaid to be responsible
for the remnants of barbarism among those
people. n Instead! of candidiy admitting
both the trnthfalness aud the sufficiency Of
the explanation, our neighbor tries to
ljsquirm out of the difficulty by special
pleading, by sophistry, and what is worse,
an open perversion of facts.
Its effort may be reduced to these three
heads: 1st That the Church did, not save
the Indians, but was a merciless extermi-
-nator; I'd. That it has permitted the sur
vlvors of the native tribes to retain all
their barbarism and to dragdown the white
population to their own level, and 3D..
the Indians, it was nothing great after ali,
but rather ridiculous.
To show the merciless character of the
Church in its dealings with the Indians the
Pfestyteria" commences with the follow
ing ominous language:
The history OF the Kindness of the Ropish
Church to the Indians is On the shelves of our
public library.
Very true! History Is written by gen
tlemen like orr Presbyterian friends, who
q having eyes will not see,'' is plentiful not
only III our public library, but in our pub
nc schools. From the highest to the low
est-down to Peter Farley and his honest
mitators, the policy is the same as that ex-
in this very editorial of the Pres
'yterian, though not so barefaced in its mp
Here goes the Presbyterian
When Pizarro initiated his converting con- I
uest of Peru he announced himself an agent
hu VI hOHl;lnlStn .
Of course; the Inca is made prisoner; Pi-
AFRO agrees to ransom him for an immeDse
um of gold, which is paid; the Inca is then,
. death. J TIA s
Cortes, in Mexico, represented himself as
ne exponent and representative of Romanism
nd he has never been denied to be such His
rst act on arriving in Mexico was to burn,
live, the general and officers of body of pa
lot Mexicans. attastsNsa. A1ruinfSsn
ndness.
Granting all this to be true, does the die
I'M of Pizarro or Cortes bind the Church ?
hey announced themselves as agents of
e Church; did that make them such7 Is
re spirit of the Church to be sought in {
e bloody records of every military ad-
'nturer that thirsts for wealth and re-
OWN, because he may chance to be q. bad
atholicP Why, Garibaldi is u Catholic :
ictor Emmanuel would not dare deny I
mself to be one; no doubt Laftte, our
ouisiana pirate; was Catholic; all the Z
ccaneers of the Spanish Main were Ca
Olics, as are now all the bandits of the
allan mountains. Is the Church respon- 8
Die for all her bad children who disobey IL
# injunctionsf Was Judaism to be p
90 SSSA ."A1h VIC OI GnS golden
If, or Christianity with the treason of o
,ariot7 Il
ffhe-fp restytcZiuH itself tnnocenfIE-Fe- P
rds the protest Of Catholicitx- against 3
. works of iniquity.- says: s .
)viedo Valdes records the story of the awful .
leltieS perpetrnted upon these poor people in q
West Indies Las Casas, Bishop of CHA >,
J, gave an account of the general system of u u
icy adopted towards the Indians, which d
Tiled all Europe with horror. II
Where was the protest of Professionalism 8
ainst the determination of the aborigiues ri
oughout Puritan Americas g
But the question is beyond argument. s,
suits speak for themselves. The facts Of
nd patent to all men who, having eyes, st
willing to see, and are not determined w
go on along the brink of the precipice, CT
blind leading the blind, until all tum- CT
over together. The facts simply are G.,
t the aboriginal population is still in
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