The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-06-12

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he has ever been careful to avoid ipAurrinR
q charge Of religious pertiaanship. We, the
writer's Of this paIeT. bavs known no creed
would they would osunto ~ s.-bro.aiy
Christian. no one can charge us Of ieanina 70
to High Church, Low Church. Romanism
or Dissent. Religion is far too sacred .
matter 70 DO treated with the ignorant
iev1ty q EHnch, or the revolving indeli-
found a. little to admire in the Rook q in
the Tablet, - little to initiate In the Chxrck
Ners - In the Record. In fact, It has been
our VIII 70 ster clear, very clear, Of all
reh8ious discussi0ns, and that rule will not
now be altered. Let it be clearly under
stood ss then, that with the religious side of
the convent question We have nothing
whatever TO do. We decline to say whether
we think it good to hide from the world or
whether we think it bad, but we do not de-
cline to express our opinion about the right
that English ladies have to iDhabit con-
vents and hospitals, If it SO pleases them
to occupy such houses of prayer and mercy.
As a matter of fact, we have ample proof
before us that converts aud hospitals are
of the greatest possible service in reducing
the poor-rates and decreasing the pauper-
ism and misery of the country. Few even
OF the most rabid of bigots dare to abuse
such an establishment as Nazareth House,
Hammersmith, which has for years succored
thousands and thousands of sick paupers
sand starving children. We believe that
not even the lewd author of the filthy
Confessional Unmarked "-nay, not even
Mr.: Newdegate himself, would care to be
guilty OF such infamy. And in this cOun-
try there are many establishments conduct
ed on the same excellent principle as that
which rules the house we have held up for
example and admiration. Still, because
converts are In the hands of Roman Catho-
lies, every shallow bigot thinks it his duty
to carp at them and sDarl. Mr.. Newdegate
has been the leader of the shallow pated
fools, who have by some oversight or mis-
conception Obtained the consent of Parlia-
ment to hold committee. No longer is
the Englishman's house to be his castle, no
longer is his home to be sacred from prying
eyes and iewd tongues. Because converts
are garrisoned by women, these daring
warriors are to take the cloisters by storm!
Because the women they attack are ladies
by birth and position, these despicable de-
mocrats are to rave and to sting! The age
Of chlvalry will be passed indeed if those
ladies' fathers and mothers do not hurl
scorn and contempt upon the lying churls
and do not sweep them like paltry vermin
from the walls they would strive to defile
by their loathsome presence and still more
loatbsOme SANDERS!
LAX apart, mas 1t never occurred to Mr..
Newdegate and those who wallow with him
in his favorite mire, that the "nunsn (the
victims of his shameful imputations) may
be ladies like those pictured by poor j ohm
Leecll--are in fact the relatives of his dear
est friendsf Has it ever occurred to him
that he has; by his tftougltt|ess words; cast
a slur upon his intimate, Lord IS daugh-
ter, upon the sister of his acquaintance,
the Bishop of - He forgets (let us
hope that he forgets) that he is talking of
English ladies and not Of foreigners. We
know that he would not dare, as q gentle
man, to utter a syllable of his ISLANDERS in
the presence of the ladies whom he soundly
abuses. We know, too, that he would be
the hrst to oppose prying inquiry into the
manage ment of his favorite club, and yet
because the females are called s.nuns" and
not ladies, and the private establishments
are called "cOnvents" and not clubs, he
urges that all the sacredness of Briton's
home and hearth should be disregarded,
and Engiish ladies-his friends daughters
and sisters-sh0uld be treated with as little
consideration as the police treats the poor
creatures of paint and tawdry finery who
prowl about the Boulevards Of Paris after
nightfall to pick up precarious livelihood.
Shame upon you, Mr.. Newdegate! We
have called you the political Paul Pry,n
but reflect little, and your own conscience
will suggest far harsber title! Be quick
and amend, or we shall have to write upon
your tombstone, "Persecutor of the just,
l1su i, of thy Weak Defamer of wo-