The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-10-16

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Might prove his doctrines orthodox
BY democratic blows aud knocks.
From the long interregnum of order that
has prevailed since the Ark OF Tammany was
lodged in the new wigwam in Fourteenth street
it might have been supposed that the political
"strikists" had hung up their ''bruised arms
for monuments and that the grim-vsaged
gentlemen of the political arena had 'smoothed
their wrinkled fronts" The spirit Of the old
wigwam still lives, however, and the affair
night before last looks like revival Of the
brisk political bouts Of former campaigns and
an Inauguration of lively times in the coming
November and December elections.
Napoleon and the French Canadian Bishops.
Our kilograms from Ottawa, the capital Of
the New Dominion, report that the Emperor
Napoleon has ordered that the expenses which
will be incurred by the French Bishop Of
Quebec, and it is to be presumed by others Of
the French Canadian prelates, in going to and
returning from Rome to attend the Ecumenical
Council and after its close shall be betrayed
from the imperial exchequer in Paris. BY this
the indestructihility of the French race and
the indivisibility Of French sentiment. besides
performing useful and well-timed act OF
Catholic voluntaryism. The French Cana
dams are, after all, Frenchmen still, and the
memory and traditions of La Belle France
cheer and console their frugal hearths and
rudely constructed homesteads amid the bleak
rigors and many difficulties and privations Incl
dent to a North American winter just as effec-
tually as If the three thousand miles of ocean
which intervene between them and the land
of their fathers were oblterated. Thrifty and
industrious in their humble every day pursuits,
the French Canadians are poor in the goods
of the world, so that there is little doubt
that the contribution of his Majesty-coming
as it does from the imperial private exchequer
or 'privy purse and not from the tax budget
of the empire-will be vastly agreeable as well
as very timely relief to their spiritual guides.
The French Canadians have never been
fused with tho British people or Anglo-Saxon
interest in North America. They read back
to the period of the settlement Of Jacques
Cartier and the war triumphs of Montcalm, but
still endeavor to ignore, in memory at least,
the action and victory Of General Wolfe,
which brought them only British taxation,
complex, ill-de6ned system of jurisprudence
and law, State Church for time, religious
discussions, Irish Orangeism and Prince
Arthur. They remain, Notwithstanding, USE
full subjects of the British Crown when left
bal IN az nOv o;r
bishops should attend the Council in Rome Is
quite natural and proper, for the reason that it
is Catholic. With Canada divided and distracted
by religious feud, as it just now is, the ques-
ton of their transportation to the Holy City
may have come up as an embarrassing one to
the Governor General, Sir John Young. Tic
King of Prussia, with other rulers who dis
sent from Rome in belief, have stepped for
ward in aid of the poorer of the Catholic bishops
serving in their respective domains, so as to
enable them to 60 to Rome, and it may be that
certain French Canadian lie gislators have asked
the Governor General to contribute in like
direction and for the same purpose on this side
Of the water. Here may have arisen the diff
fculty. To be intolerant or exclusive or even
parsimonious towards others for any reason
Of difference Of creed is not in order just at
presents but how could the colonial represent
tative Of the Head Of an opposing Church,
sort Of female Pope-step forward with cash
levied from men of every shade Of belief In
Canada to aid in the propagandism Of q system
Of religion condemned by Henry the Eighth.
Elizabeth, George the First and "every person
in power at home," you know, down to the
freethinking era Of Gladstone and Clarendon.
II would not do, and here Is the point, in the
spirit OF the entente cordiale, where Napo-
Icons Catholic act has effect as such. By the
timely appliance Of little cash he cuts away
a fine excuse for the Haunting Of the Orange
Canadian banner in the face Of q friendly gov
eminent, as we'll az for any counter display or
advance OF the ''rale ould Irish Sum- Burst"
Of Brian Boroimhe from the borders Of the
United States. In fact, his Majesty serves the
Canadian bishops, Sir John Young, President
Grant, the Irish Orangeman and Irish-Ameri-
can Catholics all at the one moment, besides
provinr. almost concinsively, that the ''empire
lie peace"
Napoleon, as everybody knows, 10 very
economic in his differences and calculates con-
sequences and effects very strictly True
charity, on the contrary, never reasons, and We
are, consequently, almost ashamed to ask how
after this would the French Cana dian bishops
be likely to throw their interest In the event Of
the election Of new Popep Would they head
their ''sate" with the name Of Cardinal Bona
parte and instruct their representative, or
exponent In the conclave, to Ego for hmr"
Perhaps 20. Tho French are grateful people.