The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-04

The sSss. f. q re Spanish

deputes, bie CarulnM Archbishop of Santiago,
the Bishop of Jaen, and the Canon of vitoria,
all remarkable men-remarkable alike for their
piety and learning as for their eloquence and
their hostility to every creed but their own. 1t
had been rumored for some days that the ceri
cal battery in the House was shortly to open fire.
Expectation was on tiptoe when it was given
out that the assault was to be initiated on April
IL, by Senor Manterola, the Canon of Nitoria
AS soon rs he had concluded, Senor CASTELAR,
arose and replied.
He began by reviewing the effects of the inn
position of a religion by the State. Those who,
like Senior Manteroa, believe in it ought not to
condemn Henry VIII of England issuing de-
cree converting his Catholic people into Pro-
testants; nor the French Revolutionists re-
quiring the alteration OF the Goddess of Reason;
nor Robespierre promulgating, by coercve
law, as a creed without which no one could be
French citizen, the doctrine of the Supreme
Beng nor Napoleon believing in Theodore, the
Roman Emperor, who by coup detdt imposed
Christianity on the Roman Senate Napoleon
believed in the right of the civil power to exert
itself thus in matters of religion, and for q
time hestated whether he should restore to
France the ancient Catholic religion, or impose
the Protestant religion on her. He decided
eventually for the former, but why? Solely
because Catholicism was essentially authorita-
= tive, and obliged men to bow the knee. Never
theless, those who studied France Impartally
would see that though Catholicism was restored
in the churches it was not restored in the con-
sciences. 1t was an error, the grayest of errors,
to ask, IN the name OF moral and religious ideas,
as Senor Manterola had been asking in that
chamber, the coercive force and the material
aid of the State. IL we believed in religion the
voice of our own conscience was sufficient to
make us follow its precepts. If we did not be-
lieve in it, the protection of the State highly
Injurious rs it obliged us to be hypocrtes and
TO make professions with our lips which we had
not in our hearts. Religion might then be the
means of helping us to deceive our fellow men,
but we could never deceive God-God, who
penetrates to the depth of the will and of the
conscience. There had been two ideas
which never succeeded yet in the
world-one religion for all and one
nation for all Various lustrious Pontiffs tried,
from time to time, to accomplish the first but
y failed. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, Charles
V, and Napoleon tried to accomplish the second,
and likewise failed The idea of variety CON
quered the conquerors, the variety of con-
sciences conquered the Pontiffs and the variety
OF people conquered the warriors. He com
batted Senor Manteroa's ideas rs to the progress
of Catholicism. AS to England, its progress was
not religious, but social 1t had not been effect
ed in the conscences, but in the laws, and this
they owed to the Liberal Protestant party, whom
they were every day anathematizing and whom
they would persecute if they could. As to the
United States, she had 81, 100000 inhabitants,
but only about ten per cent of them were Catho-
lies and they were due, to very large extent,
to the annexation of States which were origi-
nally of Catholic settlement-Texas, Louisiana,
California. He said there were four funda-
mental races in Europe-the Latin, the Ger
manic the Greek, and the Scavonic The Latin
reflected its socalistic character its love of
unity, its tendency to discipline and organ
ization, and universal vassalage to
Catholicism. The Gcrmanic race
reflected its individualism and its
love of personal independence in Professionalism.
The Greek race manifested the predominence of
the metaphysical idea over the moral. The Scla
vonic adored a species of armed Messiahism,
sort of autocratic religion. In the Government
there were two races, the Indo-European and
tbnG nha Ind hn rrp-
gressve one, the creators of the ancient Greek
and the modern German. The Semitic was the
religious race, and represented by Moses,
Christ and Mohammed. The Jews and Arabs,
those children of the desert, adored the one God.
The Christian Semites adored principally the
first person of the Trinity, and scarcely noticed
the second the third The Indo-European
adored the Virgin and the saints, and scarcely
recognized God. (After thus establishing his
general principles, he took up Canon Mantle
rolas question to when the Catholic Church
had ill-treated the Jews.) Why, the TACT was
they were treated as slaves, and reckoned
up with beasts of burden! He had with
him the inventory of the property of the
Monastery of San Cosme and San Damian
in 97S. Did the deputies know how those
monks catalogued their goods Here it was:-
SO mares, 20 female Moors or Jews, 30 male
ditto. He then asserted Spain had not always
been an intolerant country. Witness the times
of Ferdinand III the Holy, and OF Alonzo X
the Wise the first of whom conquered Seville
and the second Mercia. Religious intolerance
began in the middle OF the fourteenth century
and in the fifteenth. Then it was that San
Vicente Ferrer preached that sermon in the
Cathedral of Toledo, which resulted in the ter
rible massacre of 5000 Jews in that city. Senior
Manterola had said, tauntingly, that the Jews
were only fit to make slippers, and had asked
him to cite what illustrious men had sprung
from their race since their expulsion. He
could cite many, but he would only give Spinosa
the first of modern philosophers, who, had il
not been for their Inquisition might have been
born here, and his glory might have gided their
horizon, for he was born OF Spanish descent
and of Spanish Jews. They might dissent from
his ideas, but they could not deny his genius
Intolerance had deprived them OF that glory
Disraeli, his (Castelar's) political enemy, the
Tory, conservative - call him what they
liked-in politics; but he was great orator
a great novelist q great Hterdtus, great states
man and the head of the British aristocracy
He was IA glory which, but for their crimina
intolerance, might have belonged to the Spanlsl
nation Daniel Manin, too, the Italian patriot
was born of parents who sprung from expelled
Spanish Jews. The fact was, that IN depriVms
themselves of the Jews they had deprived them
selves of an infnity of names who might hay
been the lUstre and the glory OF the country II
then proceeded to fierce onslaught against I'M
body Canon ManterOla represented-the Neo
Catholics winding up by saying OF them, IN
OK knoweth its owner; and the ass its master
crib: but the eo-Catholic party knoWeth not IL
Lord" (This peryersion of the Bible caused ID
tense amusement to all but the Reverend dePu
ties who did not look at all pleased, especlah
as it was very evident that Castelar, was calrylmn M
the house with him. Abiding 10 peTSecusion uSnnl
he said that Senor Manteroas puerlle asser
ton that the Church did not XIII tn
heretics, but the civil power did, was equiVaien
10 the assassin saving he did not Kill III