The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-06-27
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sert, little eondiment of it's own.
How birds of q feather flock together. As
the dog days are approaching the biped ami
NAL is becoming ferocions, and will attempt
to bite with all the rage of canine fury. The
hrst victim of its mendacious rage will be tho
priest, especially the Irish priest, of whom it
has such hatred; and shrinks from and hates
the truth as those afflicted with hydrophobia
shrink from and dread the water.
With what audacious effrontery those falsi,
flying seribblers lay before their readers {, IFS,
sue of the most glaring 'untruthsi can only
say OF them what the author and lover of truth
said to his traducers: you are of your father
the devil, and you do his works for he is q liar
and the father thereof II 5}.
With what pertinacious audacity do the two
papers referred to above come out before the
public with what they know in their hearts to
be FALSE 1t is false, that said to any woman
in the Sabbath School room that she onght to
be burned at q stake. 1t is false, that said
she was bringing up little boys to be thieves.
It is false, that / said she was training the
little girls for prostitution. '7r
One word of the above was never uttered by
me. 1t is falsa8Sat went to the Sabbath
School room 11xsnpanied by n man or any
| other Individual. All these assertions the re-
porters well knew to be false, and yet they are
put in black and white, in the shape of news.
papers called the Presbyterian, and the Christian
4dcocdte, and remorseiessiy spread before their
| readers, who, of course, must have q holy hor-
| ror of priestly interference.
feu like an American priesthood (Which /
doubt very Innch) and hate an exotic, especial
| ly of Irish growth. That is not Christian it
| is not even in accordance with the teachings
of your own Bible Oh ! but that horse-whip
| in the hands of an Irish priest, Well, surely
1t 1t is not pleasant thing to get a few CRACKS
! he knows well how to use it with those who
deserve it. That l call tea without sugar.
And to be candid, friend ddrocate, had you got
a little of such tea in your Juvenile days, from
the hands of an Irish priest, you would have a
better knowledge of the truth, and would not
be so apt to spread fasehood in public print
4 before yonr readers. Unfortunately for your
| self the whip was spared the child was spoiled,
and now, in manhood, he has regard for
| the truth.
hundred years existence of the Catholic Church
| in America, there is scarcely an American
priest. My sweet boy! really, you deserve SUI
gar plums for your information, and for tlI6
new light ypu have thrown upon the subject.
| viii you please tell us where you get your in
formation In what history! Perhaps it was
Wizards Universal, you handy at Dor
rowing from each other; but must say your
| cooking is not very savory, nor at all agreea-
4 BILE to palates accustomed to taste the truth.
7 Really, until saw it in the Christian Adro-
| cate, l was under the Impression that there was
a large sprinlling Of American priests and
bishops, indigenous TO the soil not mere eSot-
les, but to the manor born; men, too, N learn
/ ing, and piety, and talent; men who We're
taught and trained from their youth to speak
! and write the truth; whose pens and
tongues are employed in vindication of the
truth whenever they hear its divine lustre and
! dazzling splendor furnished by those who love
! darkness rather than light 7' because their
| works evil"
You have given the death blow to the Ro-
man lady. She is Kilt, outright. You have
! laid the to the root of the evil. You have
| laid embargo on those roguish Irish priests,
| whether from Killarney or Dingle, Kinsale or
| Clonakilty, who come here with their biar1iey.
And it takes we'll that, with sound logic and
sprinkling of the Bible, they rob your fold of
not a few. OF your sheep But now that is all
over, since our modern Scion, the Christian III
| rocate, the Boanerges of New Orleans Method
ism, has devised plan to keep French priests
StNaa I1lt in,
priests in Germany, and, above all, Irish
| priests. ought to be kept in Ireland-who never
become naturalized, who the enemies of
freedom, who undermine the government, who
are opposed to the spread of the Gospel.
Did not the Christian Adrocate laugh in his
| sleeve when he was peuniug the above mass of
falsehoods and preparing them for his deluded
readers. How is it that he did not turn evil
dence against himself, and convict himself OF
the most glaring untrutbsY Did he think that
his readers would really believe what he
wrotef Perhaps he did; for bigotry aud pre-
JUDGE are bind especially when arrayed
against Catholic truth. And there is a disease
of the eye which ocuiists term NSetolopia
Perhaps the -idrOcate laborea under that OPP
thalinic malady at the time Of writing those
gross absurditics. / fear the disease is chronic,
and therefore ncurable. There is also another
disease of the eye called moon blindness pecu-
liar to Quadrupeds of the equine genus :, but as
the idtpcnie is 4 biped, perhaps he is free FROM
the lattey. But there is another blindness
which fear has strong hold of hiIn--a spirit
Dal blindness, or the auecuce, IN ms own cant
phraseologY. of tho "indweling spirit" and an
incorrigibfe .,bstiHaeysiH the way of error aud
falsehood. You wish to have the Spanish
priest retained in Spain, the French priest re-
iaineti in France the Italian priest retained
in Italy, the German priest in Germany aaA
above all, the enemy you dread most, the Irish
priest retained in Ireland. AS charity COM
mands me to love my enemies and my neighboI
as myself, will call you by the fraternal name
Ii of brother, though AN erring and incorrigible
one. Irish-American as L ana natnralized
citizen at that, and this gives the fiat contra
diction to your assertion that Irish priests do
not become naturafzed citizens, (you see how
dangerous it is to tell lie, for the lie will
ooze ont sooner later and be detected)-I
give you one piece of advice, but perhaps your
obstinacy will not allow you to take it. AS
you love the American priesthood and hate
the foreign imported ones, in your zeal for
the retention of them in their own native
countries, you left yourself ont. So full oil
aDIegarfon and seff:drniIf arc you that yen
don't care about self. Well, my advice to you
is this--it will spare a great deal of money to
the missionary and tract societies, first of al
go to the Bible House i'll Camp street, say to