The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-12-25

One of these, CERTAIN DroWo. AamoU ON@
IittIa more than two centuries ago, and now n
nnntber denizen of the same country named
Adams of 70 " s
MnII was rather rough customer, and
whether it was q kings head or speakers
n aatt;nr his own will by very short method.
Read Adams has also short method Of his
own. and he asks for public support while he
nroc,aims to the world that. although the sub
i.ct has not yet been brought before Parliament
55Ubch seems irrhis eyes tritie,) the Catholic
Emancipation at is really repealed:
1T ,,s look at the facts. A short time ago
Lord Robert Montagu received the priceless
grace of conversion to tho Catholic Church.
Now, in England the land OF the tree,' it
ought to be expected that If man, on serious
nsideration, change his religion, he would
he left nnmolested. She is always boasting
that every person has right. to decide upon
his own creed, and to place bis own construc-
tinn y" on ~ the words OF Sent bture. But tho
mr.; v;,.oe il seems, is like certain joint stock
companies, "limited; ana .hs Emit! nmit Is rsaehed
liberty of Thought" Gas an orator called 1t the
other day) ventures in the direction OF Po-
perry" Let him take any shape om. .na1 ana
ner - Ninprletoui,n, a Brownist, Mormon or
n Shaker. and he viii he eftfn the undispnted
possession of his rights rs rec e ooin bfiton.
| But let him become a member OF the one true
! fold. which old England heid for d thousand
wears and he is immediately outlawed, and if
| he be not dragged on huIule W pn," w oe
nan nan .h,.,r+'1 martyrs we're for the same
"crine," it is net, we fear, th;t prosecutors
are extinct, but that their Claws htn oesh gu. cn1
away The law does not now sanction bodily
torture for change of creed, pht come seem 10
think thai it allows deprivation OF civ'i rights
To This class of thinkers belongs Mr. head
| Adams aforesaid and accordingly when this
inI;yidua,-not only illustripns is being the
| great Read Adams, but also as belhS the
Ionorarv secretary of the Huntingdon Protest.
ant Observation-Disclosures of the sad fall OF Lord
Robert Moutasu who is member for the conn-
ty he proceeded to enact the parts OF Judge,
iury and excnTtiouer. He asked LORD hopert
IF the rtport vas true, and Lord Robert most
properly sent him the following note: -
Sir have received your letter OF the !3th,
y in which Yea address t" me certain questions
BEFORE I answer those questions permit me to
ask you'll. With what object you ask them,
ard what is your intention Also please 70 let
me know. What religion yon proiessT 8.
Whether YOU acknowledge the fundaiRental
principle OF Professionalism, VIZ, the risht OF
: private Judgments a. Whether you CONSIDER .1r
, that reli zion is inseparably connected with
politics /, On receipt of definite answers to
these questions, 1 shall be happy TO- answer
Tho undaunted Adams at once resumed the
men, and proving that his epistoiary guide.
book was not q very "Polite Letter writer"
began by calling Lord Robert a p" pervert. de
tben nrocecfls to. announce the awinl conse-
e nanca nf this "uerversion to be that proba-
b bIv the constituency of the thoroughly fro-
testant county of Huntingdon" Will CONSIDER
= if it be properly represented by Roman Ca
n tholic member His strange epistle then goes
:. on to announce that, although Lord Robert
= must be believed to have acted CONSCIENTIOUS,
# IL, i'm b;s change of creed, he, the great Read
g Adams what n pity great man should have
such a little name y is forced to think that the
L peryert conld not conscentiousiy CONTINUES
to represent county which is both !" actually
and additionally Protestant" AS to the &C.
e tnal" Professionalism OF Huntington we 90 n ;oI
probes to be very accurately informed, ana its
Htr,ditionaI Professionalism is generally con-
II rec.eJ in history with Cromwell, who put 70
g death the great Protestant martyr" KING
=" Charles 1. adams the Great, further ae
clares that he himself processes the rehgion Oh
It the Gospel (rather an evasive answer), ~hicn
a religion has done SO much III receht cehGu-
ries for England, aud through them toe~1L .
5, world that it causes him to wonder when ne
n sees them forsake it," He admits the rignt OF
private Judgment; he would not think OF le-
priving any man OF such precious hei pta,t
- except member of Parl anent. Lord RonerS
=, replies in no cowardly "r evisive styir, ont IN
Il straic forw ard and manly language; ne SAYS
/, :. l am a Roman Catholic The present posi- sN
ton of the affair is that the Huntington iro-
testant Association has passed resolutions tne
e purpose of hch is adopt steps TO cali %" Losa
rs Robert Montagu to resign his sat IN tarma
ment and that some of the Low Church pisots
y have bnrnt him in efiigy 100
% We hope that his lordship will not resign his
Il seat. He owes it to every high ana h io.as
\ principle to resist nianfully any such bgoteo
ID dictation. Is it not enough that, notWitn
;, standing all the boosted liberty of England
Catholics are still practically hel"ts "i ndiea
u, bench. The CHARACTERISTIC of England must
by a barbarous relic of tie penal laws, be heit
fs by a Protestant. The other judges are all FRO
~ testants though for the last f"rty-one year
Catholics have been, according to statute en-
~ titled to wear the ermine. One Catholic only
m Mr. Justice Shee, received the proper rewar'
OF hi oh professional standing in all those forty
- one wears. Look at the Senate! We ADM
~ that a few, very few, Catholics have been late
+o Nv placed in the House of Lords after centnrie
of exclusion, partly by penal laws ana part.
IL by anti Catholic bigotry. But what OF Tn
!, House of Commous! Is it not the facr, fac
-. most ,iisgraceful to Great Britain, that there
I'll not now among the English and Scotch mem
a | hers even Que who Catholic when eiec'
=, ed Sir John Simeon by powerful local 'nilt
az errc obtained TIE representation OF the Isle
WIGHT but he has died. AT the last electro
n Preston rejected such a man rs the then lor
!, Edward Howard and other constituencies r.
ca i.ct,d c.!irr "a thnIic candidates on sertarin
an grounds This il no policy. In les
r. when Lord Arundel aud Surrey (after"ar'
Tie Dukc OF NnrfuIk) driven away from I'll
So family borough of Arundel he could not cnt
the House of Commons for amy place in Gre;
'"S Britain. Ireland rghted the great wron
&c. which i,d been doue to him, and sent aim i
.,. 10 Parliament as the representative ot Lame
icl
III This narrow effectiveness does not prera
,, elsewhere. The rrinc minister ot Cathoi
~" Austria is "A I'l4teslnut. and Guizot aud "h
Pru-t,tan7s have hsld the post of Prime mi
lister in France. In England there is no z
tlolic in TIN" Cabinet. There is a Cataoilc NJ
III lIonsclD in Office, but he is only, after all,
he understanding. Cross the Channel to lieintl
" TbAr+~ we find Catholic chancellor and oth