The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-02-20
The New Orleans Times and National
: Morality.

morality
Most assuredIy the Times of this place has
acquired of late very happy or unhappy
iSnack at getting into trouble; a knack, it
is to be presumed, it has omitted no oppor-
tuuity of learning, since it claims to be the
champion lobbyist of the South. On one
side it is stung by the Bee, on another it is
pomnielled by the Busletia. The Picayune
replies to the nick-names sought to
be fastened on it by its upstart neigh
Dor with dignifed silence. Last Sunday
one of our collaborateurs gave it a lesson in
pure English and good manners; and to-
day, the present writer, who bears it, nor
any one connected with it, the least ill-will,
deems himself bound, in duty to it's many
readers and the majority of his own, to adj
minister to it a gentle castigation. >
For want of brains, or matter, or what
ever other sort of stuff some peoples skulls
are filed with, the Times of the first of this
month, treated its readers to an article
copied from London weekly, (name not
givcn) in which Il discussion long consid-
cred hushed is revived the only aim of
which we can imagine is to renew old sores,
reawaken long dormant animosities, and
reinaugurate in a community, the wonder
and admiration of every stranger who has
visited it, the enmities, the jealousies and
the rancour of more intolerant age. True,
we are late in noticing this bitter insult to
our religion-afi insult wholly unprovoked :;
but situated are we-thOugh whose busi-
ness is it to know how we are situated,
so long as we are in situation, while there
is breath in us, to defend truth, correct
error, rebuke bigotry and unmask misrepre-
sentation7 The Times has lost nothing by
our tardiness; and whoever belonging to it
that inserted the unlucky article referred
to, will soon be forced to the conclusion,
that people living in glass houses might
find some more innocent amusement than
throwing stones at their unoffending neigh
bors. We enter upon this discussion with
some misgivings and no little repugnance {;
we are certain of an easy triumph, but in
achieving this triumph may we not wound
the tenderest feelings of many, who though
estranged from us in religion, yet are of
the same flesh and blood as ourselves
May we not exceed the limits of Christian
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the rules of that divine charity which mer-
cifully draws its sacred mantle over the
ulcers which refused to be touched by it's
healing hand7
The article in question we should like,
in justice to our contemporary, to give in
full, for otherwise there may be room for
the charge of unfairness on our part, to
| which ol1 vhn know
never could plead guilty. Truth is our
only Ohject-and the truth, even with our
eyes glazing into the lustreless film of
DEATH we shall always turn to as our only
guide. Prejudice, passion, early education,
habits of life, personal idiosyncracies, and
all those big words, meaningless to SD mary i,
who use and abuse them ut random, with
us have but little weight. Truth is our OBJ
ject, and-tIuth in all our pursuits and stud
| ics is our singl" aim. a great many points
in the article from the London weekly will
come in appropriately for animadversion
while we prosecute our studies on Ration
alism but we will here give the substance
of 1t since the want of space prevents us
! from giving it whole: "Of all European
countries Bavaria is the most corrupt, since
illegitimacy of birth is the only test of
moral corruption. Bavaria is two-thirGls
Catholic, and the confessional is there more
of u real institution than it is anywhere
else" Next come Saxony and Wurtem-
burg, both almost exclusively Protestant.
! In the whole of this article Protestants have
the best, Catholics the second best in the
trial. Taken in order of immortality Bel
GUM ranks first-how does that tally with
what has been asserted of Bavaria 2 Next
Russia, then Prussia, lastly England. Ire
land is omitted, "since from that country
thcrc-are no Trustworthy returns, albeit
pubic opinion agrees that that country
ranks very tavorahly in this respect. For
! Chrhulic countries Spain stands the highest;
tor i'rrtrstant Holland hears the bell of
m"tniitA. Al the lose of the article, we
SO tad thai ''IriI.Iun has nausht to do
! NH n.''irIIA, ana tue puus author of the
( - 'II," and Fall" - quoted Ia establish
+. 'uisu, that i,liGI"u Is ''aiI powerful to
ar p"N"ri.->> /" STEM, the siIeam of
~ m.iuu, - ll,.tr We give the rate
-iI,mItrr mItn> a. siatrd=hN our CO.
.,iIN: 'Crlm.,I,r Bavaria, 2O7 !:
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