The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-04-09

III HIS dppIicdItOns VI nlStOIg. Only ceTtdln
facts should be adduced in his illustrations
if needed; aud then they should be intro
duced with great m moderation, prefsced with
few winning words, ard with a most sp-
parent readiness TO mitigate and excuse the
toughest outlines il possible. Delicate sub
iects ought TO be handled with silken gloves.
1t is hard enough to hear simply unpleasant
truths; but wien euunciated with the un-
savOry exultation, that tells by tone and
action, "Fhis time can give you a spiteful
hit then they become revolving and will
Operate in an opposite way 10 that intend
ed by the speaker.
Doubtful, and at the same time Injurious
facts, cannot by any means be made use Of
by him. He should always give with kind
slacrity, the benefit of the doubt to those,
who, by their statement, would be wounded.
If his intellect, and erudition, in the vast
field of undoubted events of the checkered
past are not sufficient to him to treat his SUBJ
ject acceptably, he has no business to pre-
sumo 10 be lecturer, nor the vocation
to teach. 1t is not needed to state, that the
allegation of hurtful and fictitious facts, is
absolutely disallowed.
Summing up the remarks in paragraph Cd,
I say, that to state, first, painful FACTS of his
tory, when beyond dispute, in an unsym-
pathysing mauner-is ungentlemanIy and
unmannerly; second, when doubtful-un-
generous aud unchristian; third, when uu-
true-basely c1lumnious and highly GRIM
inal.
81. After this preliminary, let US come
again to the assertion of Mr.. Douglass of the
purported blessing of the Pope Oh the wicked
intention of an assassin. This allegation is
fictitious, false. Mr.. Douglass may have
raked up the kennels of history-as Arch
less Purcell 80 fitly expresses the conduct of
these historical ch;ffOniers-the filth of his
torical by-ways, the slanderous connections
of some malignant hater of "Rominish
Antichrist, to fud some shadow of ground
for the assertion, following the footsteps of
SO many ready to fearlessly falsify, to serve
up just such purpose as Mr.. Douglass had
in view. 1 will not say that Mr.. Douglass
lied, MOI he on'y babbled after an9tber.
There is no Authorization of such a con,
duct of the Pope. No honorable historian
writes anything of the kind William fell
by the hapds of Balthasar Gerard, who was
bsited on by lucrs and a sinful .fanaticism,
with which tBe Pope had nothing to do. So
fell the noble Gustave Wasa III, King of
Sweden, o. the l6,h of March, 1879, by the
Protestant" (the word is here uFed as an
and not by any means in a mall
lguaut sen'e,) CIpt. D. Aukarstrohu; SO
fell Gen. Kleber, the brave, at the hands Of
Soleyman, the turkish ftllah; so fell the good
Lincoln at the hands of Booth. There are
political as well as religious fanatics. No
blessing of Pore, Mufli, or Party leader is
needed to imp, tbem Onward to their nefar.
iOus deeds of blood.
Good Pore how miscsoscoricslIy small
IRE the souls of men, that must hel p their
bad cause always, by osdiHg upon thy
shoulders, and by burdening thy conscience, |
with the wrongful action of some abiect |
niscreant.
4th. Mr.. Douglass made very ugly in
linustion against Catholics (althOugh he
lid not mention them by name,) when he
poke Of the here-existiDg danger ofa dread
ID connection between Church and State
His clear view of the Dutch (let me call
hem SOY middle ages, and the nebulous
perception and crude insiRuatien of the
present, calls naturally to mind the techni-
al "Presbyopy' of the photographers.
This insinuation is foolish We Catholics
lave had enough Of such connections in the
I'D world. Every one conversant with the
manner Of thinking CT the Catholic Hierar-
by and Priesthood. and not biased by such
heets as Harper's Weekly, with its ridicu-
Gus and malicious hebdOmsdal articles on
he subject knows how totally averse they
re to such a connection. The Catholic
Jhurch has prospered well enough in the
last without such connection, and will con-
inue so to prosper in the future; all it
SKIS Of the State is ''Let me alone"
l may perhaps be allowed here to make
noFal ref ctiOn. IhaVe constantly held +, as
matter Of reason and historical experience,
hat an essential condition for a REASONABLE )
xistence of liberty in a nat::55n. as well as in
n ',.-. ... .uual, is truth. Fraud and mis-ep-
aud supite prejudice spring from
spirit Of oppression, and have direct and
n Immediate nhueuce in the subVerson Of
he order of equal liberty, and must in So
itty, corrupted by them, lead ultimately
nd surely to despotism. l Judge a mans
ight TO the immunities of such a high lib
rty, as we possess it under the benign in.
uence of the Stars and Stripes, BY the
ieasure of his impartial justice to others !
md how dare he to ssk the God-sent Drivil-
res of society, if in his wantonness, even as
mendicant as yet, be so glibly and unscrup-
lously discards the tiFe-honored and fOs-
cred privileges of others. The sheep
howing such ferOciousness, what may hap
en- after the matam1rphosis into a wolf
5. Had Mr.. Douglass left olt of his long
nd tedious lectura, all the repetitions OF
Pope" and "Bishops," and "Inquisition,"
nd "Oatholic persecution, " and all the 9TH
staple of the senseless TRADE of q mob
,cturer, he could have given all the really
ood sense of the lecture in Is minutes; as :
is, it lasted two long aud weary hours.
Now in conclusion permit me to say, that
lere are always sm lll-b-ained and narrow {
sarled b. ings that will give expression TO
leir 10y at such stuff by satisfactory smiles
i'd complacent gestures; but the esober, elu-
lted and thinking are psinfnlly Affected
be improperly and the evincing of such
Id taste, make them feel uneasy, and the
aggellatiOn is really often not felt in that de-
rec by the one directly coneerned, as by the
woll-bred gentleman on, the !
her side. This is an appree ated recon- I
snse to the directly offendsd-a highly val
I'd Naturalization, out-balapcing an hun {
red fold the v:turperation. often saw cause
by 1 should rather pity such well man I
cred gentleman. They cane with eager .
ypectstion to hear famed expoundeS of n
lose principles of liberty and human rights,
lat are their very souls lie.
Every vibration of a sympathetic chord,
lat the lecturer strikes 10 their genial heart,
Is an echo upon their Trembling lips, and
1sry hiOh "a 11Iattiment evoked in their lib5rty.
wing breast is mirro-ed in asserting smiles.
ut, alas, the lecturer destroys his work; he
rgets his place and his dg'y-be becomes v
scald. With depressed feelings the gentle
an iises. He is not the participant Of that =
nalloyed intellect ual pleasure anticipated, I
Ut he must carry home the small treasure of !
Ie few good sayings and thoughts wrapt up I
regret. s. BOwER,
Pastor st. Joseph Catholic Church. g