Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-02-02
FATHER CHINIOUY.
hISsFaceful Scene i'm n Moutreei
..Wreh-A Protestant CLERGYMAN
hobbed by Papist RabhIe

| TsS..E scene In MontreH
- rch-A Protestant CIerpvmp
"opbed by Papist Rabble.
From the Montreal Gazette. Jan. 1o1
Last evening Father Chiniquv held
s6IYlce IN the French Evangelical Cburct
on Craig street The buiIdino was dansaI
packed, IN some parts with crowd 7
roWdl3s, who would have diseraced the nj
OF our not very immaculate theatre. The
congregated together, and even before tn
services had begun, disturbed the reenecl
able portion of the congregation by noise
ana other manifestations of ill-wili Ont
/ side, still worse crowd was assembled
and varied the entertainment bv broakin,
the windows and insulting the passers.by
Inc noise becoming perfectly unbearabls
a gentleman IN the congregation went ON
| ana procured couple of policemen. hon
ing with them able TO quell the disturbance
! NO sooner were the police inside the caprcl
than Alderman Bastien. arose in his sea
ana ordered them to arrest the gentleman
VINO nae brought them into the BUILDING
1hey replied that they could not do it, al
no charge had brought against the gentle
man.
! Alderman Bastien, waxing wrothv. toll
them that if they did nct obey his orders
. oy MS maglsterlal authority he would bay,
them discharged.
Upon this the men became subservient
ana, recollecting wives and children a
nome, the hard winter weather, and lack O
employment arrested the unoffending gen
| tleman, who was a. once carried off to tn,
Central Police Station.
Alderman Bastien accompanied the pris
oner, when the party arrived at the Centra
Pollce Station, and the prisoner wa,
brought before the Sergeant in charge
and the process of searching begEn. re-
Tented, and ordered the prisoner to be dis.
charged
Meanwhile matters at the church grew
worse than ever, and Dr. Chiniquy was
oohged to leave it, attended by two police
From the Gazette, Jan. II.
Father Chiniquy gave a second sermon
last night in the French hEvangelicalcburcb
on Craig street. AS on the previous even
ing, large crowd congregated outside. bnt
the demeanor was far more quiet, owing
doubtless to the large force OF police on
duty.
The services were open at about 7:30,
and were continued without much inter
ruption until $50, when the loud and con-
t1nuous cries of the mob outside, and the
sound OF stones knocking against the wallis
tnghtened the timorous, many of whom
lett their seats and went out
Father Chiniquy begged them to sit quiet,
as Their moving made it impossible for him
to be heard, and explained that as thew
were protected by strong body of police,
they were in no danger.
Quiet reigned for a few minutes longer,
when well directed stone broke window
in the gallery The confusion then became
somewhat worse, and it soon became me-
cessary Tor the preacher to close his dis
course. -
When Father Chiniquy had done speak
ing, tie Rev. Mr.. Conissirot rose and said
that he protested in the name of all GOOD
law abiding citizens and Protestants against
such disturbances as were made He said
these disturbances were wrongs against the
rights of Protestants, against the Queen of
England who was Protestant against the
Government of Canada and against all
good citizens. They, (the French Protes-
tant} had right to have their preachings:
they did not ask those who did not wish to
hear what was said to come; they only
wished TO hohl their meetings in peace
He appealed, as he had right to do, to the
law to protect them from such insults and
the law should protect them. His ances-
tors had suffered for the cause of Protes-
tantism, and if the law would not protect
him, he was prepared to suffer.
The Rev. MIR. La Fleur thanked the con-
gregation for the quietness which they had
preserved during the evening He said
that there was another law beside human
law, which should protect them from in
suit, and that was the law of common
Christianity.
Father Chiniquy said he knew well who
were exciting the mob to persecute him
self and his hearers. He had once perse-
cuted Protestants. He coniured those
present TO throw off the iron chains of
slavery which bound them, and to adopt a
better faith 1 III i
The meeting then broke up, and the
congregation dispersed quietly.
Outside, the crowd for some time con-
inued to augment, large numbers of men
congregating on the Champ de Mars It
was from there that the stones were thrown
AT last, Deputy Chief Tetu gathered a num-
Der OF his men together and went at the
mob hammer and tongs. - At the first
sign OF a move among the police, the ardor
OF the crowd began to decrease, and in a
few moments they were scampering away
IN ali directions, chased by handful of
policemen. ar1
The arrangements made by the police for
keeping order were excellent. About sixty
men, among whom were the Deputy Chief
Sub Chiefs Naigle and Hughes, and the de-
tectives, were present. and did their work
in good style.
Father Chiniquy's sermons are advertised
to continue for some time. 81