The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-09-05

parl;ament What Mr.. Harlan is to the
American Senate, in the course OF u oSu1so
the other day concerning Murphy the noiI,
and the prosecutions inflicted by brl.i ,s.
magistrates in the pay of the Pope on TINS
Fearless defender oe Gospel truth, made
the following statements, which, We are
sure will be received with astonlshmenb on
this side of the Atlantic: "Ehere Is no
established Church in the United states,
says Mr.. Newdegate, land the pos n'ewbo at
analogous to that which will shortly pc
the position of Ireland; and L lind that In
the States, up TO the period OF the l'sle et CIV.
war, there was a system OF perseocVlo"
pursued there under the sanctlon @ol tie
au ehorities against those who yentureu TO
express Protestant opinions. some OF the
defenders of freedom of speech were lnuTuer-
ed and John Brown was executed, anu tne
persecution was invariably carried on at the II,
instance of the Roman Cathollc ooay
With whom Mr.. Newdegate has Hved, OF
from what source he has drawn his lnIorna-
ton concerning American affairs, we are
ignorant; but it is possible that he Is one
Of the "public men" who, as we are told
by the Tribune, sit at the feet Of y. w. 3.
for instructions. Be this as it may, 1T
seems probable that John Brown is to be
trotted out in an entirely new character,
and that his soul is to be made to march on
| in the garb of martyr to "frotestant
truth"-a victim of the lnqulslf1on IN
Virginia. He has been very useful to the
abolitionists as martyr slain by slavery,
but now the Evangelical Alliance are, we
are told, to take him up as a saint slain oy
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 persecuted 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
fancy that kind of work, in rewriting the
history of John Brown. Ii Mr.. Newdegate
! is correct, J. b. was saint who went down
| into the benighted Roman Catholic province
| of Virginia with his pockets full of Bibles
and Protestant tracts, supplemented, per-
| hans. by q few copies of !'The Confessional
Unmask ed;" he was then seized by that
| Jesuit, Governor Wise, acting under in
structions from the Propaganda, and
crueIly done to death. "This is the fate
witch would befall Murphy the Bold" says
| Mr.. Newdegate, "if it were not that there
| is still Il little freedom left in England,
rapidly disappearing, however, beneath
the constant aggressions OF Rome" Mr..
| Whalley quite agreed with him, and said 1t
was notorious that ''the newspapers of
London were under the influence of the
! Romish priesthood,n which was the reason
| that they always represented Murphy as a
dangerous agitator. What Murphy does,
or what he did do till the government shut
| him up, was to go to towns where there
twas a 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 a notice
that gentlemen only were to be admitted,
land gentlemen under eighteen not at all.
One may Judge of the quality Of the
lectures by the imputations 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 Were everywhere followed
by riot. The Government very properly
silenced him, and the attempt Of Mr.. New
degate to rebuke the government for that
act of good sense was not successfully.
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