The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-04-18
! The Grand penonstrasLOn.

! So full and graphic we're the details o.
the grand Catholic demonstration Of LAS
| Sunday as published in some of our daily
contemporaries, that We donot attempt any.
thing more satisfactory, and content our.
selves with reproducing that found In tbs
Times of last Tuesday. Some inaccuracies
! it is true, have found their way into that
| account, bnt these were almost unavoidable
| in the haste with which information had to
| be obtained and compiled. EheyIare, more
over, of such comparative unimportance
that we publish the report verbatim rather
than mUtiiate it. ~" 100 Z. esf ssi,,a !,
| A few circumstances, however, besides
those embodied in the report, are worthy
/ of being additionally notsd. =
b The highest praise must be awarded to
the police for its earnest and efficient aid ID
| preserving order. Notwithstanding the
heavy demands npop his department at the
Fair. Grounds, and elsewhere, the, Chief
promptly put considerable foreeaat the
disposal Of Col eGirardey, the Grand Mar
shall, besides detailing men to accompany
divisions on their route before reaching
Canal street.
Nfr. RIOS. 6,Neil deserves great credit
|, for the skill with which in so short a space
tsof time he erected in front of the Cathe-
drai the lofty platform, with its broad flight
Ihof steps, calculated to seat comfortably
1900 persons. With SO precious. q load Of
human life ON it, and as the danger in
creased with the height of the structure,
great strength and occurrences were requisite
and were successfully obtained.
The elegance and taste with which the
whole structure was ornamented, and the
beautiful altar and repository decorated, is
due in great measure to Mr.. Ma1lard, who,
under the direction of the proper commit
tee, had that department in charge.
r. A. Bourke, Esq, merits the thanks of
all Catholics for his energy in getting up
and distributing a number of badges, by the
sale of which handsome little fund for the
Pope has been obtained. St. Theresa's
parish, too, has contributed to the same
fund special donation of $500, for which
it and it's Jealous pastor, Father Kenny,
gre entitled to every COMMUNICATION. We
heartily commend this example to the other
parishes. -..
We are proud of the demonstration, and
hope that faint echo of its enthusiasm
may reach to the throne of st. Peter, and
gladden. the heart of our illustrious Pom
tiff with it's tones of true devotion and
affection.
: There was, indeed, no tumult of passion,
no noise of excitement; the earnest spirit
animating all was manifested in the calmer
and more tempered mood which deeper
principles and frmer resolves always give.
It was evident to all that this demonstra-
ton was the spontaneous outpouring of q
profound popular conviction, not the page
antry of o royal reception, bought and paid
for, nor the labored effort of political
party gotten up for political effect, nor yet
the feverish excitement of populace
wrought up by. the partisan issues of
heated contest.
Z Viewed as an item in the progress of his
tory, it shows in strange contrast with the
condition of things some twelve years ago.
Then large majority of our Catholic fell,
low citizens were liable to be hunted down
like wild animals. Their most ordinary
political and social rights were violently
wrested from them, and such thing as q
Catholic demonstration would have been
looked in as an impossibility or piece of
madness. The fury of that day has passed
over, and we are fallen upon happier times.
g To-day, catholicity in New 0rIeans,-ip-
stead of being an object of .odium and
fcsuse of persecution, is vast moral power
in our midst. 1t and the spirit of the world
are STILL as. eser, in deadly antagonism, but
the world which, of course, can never love
it, has been obliged, at least, to respect it.
The Catholic line of march .last Sunday,
Contained, it, is true, many women and
many children. Like the Church itself, it
embraced every element of health and
vigor, of meekpess and dependence but
nobody could watch that line from one end
to the other without recognizing manhood
in its sternest type, unmarried by any air of
canting hypocrisy, as well as the gentler
presence of womanhood in it's purest and