The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-02-20
Bad Faith of Archbishop whately.

DR.. Quinlan, in series of articles on educa-
ton, published in London, shows the treacher-
GUS part played by Archbishop Whately in re-
ference to the National Schools of Ireland.
Cardinal Cullen and others have also turned to
good account the exposure which Mr. Senior,
and his own daughter, in the memoirs of Der
father, have made of the Archbishop's bad faith.
Another writer contributes his share in show
ing the underhaRd and infamous schemes Of
this man against Catholics, as follows:
In 1850 the Commissioners of National Edu-
cation, of whom DIR. Whatey was one, passed
q new order respecting religious instruction {;
and in publishing it, which, according to their
custom, they did in their report for the pre-
vous year, lS49, they gave utterance to senti-
ments of the utmost liberality. Adopting the
conclusion of o previous Commission, COM
posed exclusively of Protestants, that "nO plan
for the education of the lower classes in Ire
land, however wisely and unexceptionably
contrived in other respects, can be carried into
effectual execution unless it be eXplicitely
avowed and clearly understood, as it's leading
principle that attempt shall be made to influence
disturb the peculiar religious tenets of any sect
or description Of Christians" they add on their
own part, No person who does not from his
heart adopt the sentiments here expressed by
the Commissioners, and which are embodied in
Lord Stanley's letter, can conscientiously avail
himself of our grants" Such was the public
declaration of DR.. Whately in $780, No person
who did not from his heart repudiate every at
tempt to influence or disturb the religious
tenets of Catholics could conscentiously avail
same time the National Board established one
of their notorious model schools at ClonmeI
under their own exclusive control. The C1on-
mel model school had on the roll in 1852 the
names of 212 Catholics, 60 Episcopalians, IL
Presbyterians, Unitarians, 3 Christian Breth-
rem, 2 Separatists and Wesleyans, and of
other creeds The Catholic parents had OBJ
iected to the Boards Scripture extracts and
9th la w hat
had not been forced upon the pupils. No SOON
er, however, did DIR. Whately ascertain this
fact, while on n visit to Clonmel, in July 1852,
than, according to his own evidence, he was 30
indignant that he did not even wait till his re-
turn to Dublin, but wrote off instantly, the
very same hour in which he ascertained the
fact, letter to the Board to complain of this
unauthorized departure from their rules, and
to insist that their Scripture extracts and other
Protestant works should be read by the Catho-
lie children. This was in the summer of 1859,
and so strongly did he urge the point that, on
failing to carry it, he with two other Protest
ant Commissioners seeded from the Board.
But in the autumn of the same year Mr.. Senior
records in his journal a conversation in which
DIR. Whately stated his belief that these very
Scripture extracts of the Board contain so
much that is inconsistent with the whole spirit
of Romanism that it is difficult to conceive
that person who sacquainted with them can
be q thorough-going Catholic" In public
therefore, this disihgenuous and faithless
Archbishop proclaimed that no one could con-
sc1ent1ousiy avail himself OF the National sys-
TEN who did not from his heart condemn and
repudiate all attempts at proseytism, while
this same prelate used hsswhoe influence as a
National Commissioner to force upon Catholic
children in National Schools the reading of a
book which in private he declared to be so well
calculated to disturb and unsettle their reli-
gious tenets, that acquainted with it
could be conceived to be thorough going Ca
tholic. These facts, while they damn the repu-
tation of DR.. Whately, should be a caution Just
now when Catholics are invited to intrust edu-
cation to the Protestant promoters of the Bir-
mingham League.