The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-09-04
NUMBER 81.


The Chinese Massacre.
The whole civilized world bora ,..
startled by the narrative of the massacre OF
Catholics in China. There is no palliation
OF Its atrocity. This news comes at a fine
when, for mercenary ends, thousands of
this alien race are coming amongst us Ia
dispiaee legitimate labor, and, thanks to
our rulers, to share the elective franchise.
we beg leave to remind these philanthro
plsts who are SO sympathetic with those
whose complexion is other than white. that
these are of a breed which< with impnnitv
and enjoy ent, murders poor priests ana
helpless Sisters of Charity. The New York
World furnishes the following comments
ON this act of vandalism:
And what a comment is this wholesale
outrage on innocent and unoffendinR men
ana wom 1,, at the very imperial centre
Kung, is all powerful, on the imposture of
chinese progress and amelioration. In
speaking of Christian missions in the East.
we, In this enlightened land of ours, are
apt to forget that there are others besidass
~ 81 Liao.estane onss.those prim settlements
et shanghai and Tien-t sin, and the other
treaty ports, where mild privatious are en-
duEed, infant missionaries born periodical
~ and education in limited form. makes
its feeble scratch on the strong surface Of
heatbendom. So different are the habits
ana processes of the Roman Catholic and
Protestant missions that the Chinese. as IL
sarcasticaiiy, have different sign for them
In their language; and in the Americas
treaty OF 1858 they are described and pro-
lection secured to them by different form
OF words-one being "the religion of the
Lord of Heaven and the other 50 IF the
Lord Jesus Christ" There are no I.,ers.
:an catholic missionaries in the East and
but few Catholic laymen. They are an
either French or Italian-Spain and Por
sugal having given mp the business, the one
ne tinkling of cracked church bells at
Macao, the other with repairing earthquake
damages on the banks of the Tasia. I'm
long Kong, under the shadow of q strong
cathedral aud in the Episcopal
zee OF victoria, is the nest of Italian
priests, able, accomplished and courteous
gentlemen, who send their missionaries, az
'ast peril of life-for it is brutal region
III over the province of Quang- tong. Il
shanghai there is Catholic cathedral; and
c oikawa, eight or ten miles in the in
eriOr, is, or was, d cluster of church. mon
stery and school, where French priests
ressed aud living like Chinamep, educate
rowds of adults and children. aud native
.hinese converts offer daily the sacrifice If
ne Mass. AT Tien-tsin and the ImperiG
'Pi'''i' "s lhis outrage shows, there WME
he same work doing and against it al
nd at the very moment when China as
poken OF as about to take her l,.ace in tao
iihiiS OF nations, this terrible blow Jig
truck. 1t VIII not do to say that this is az
f''"ehthi a"i'n'nr distfi i',,,. such .as
''Sht hapren ANY "ncie--ti,..t l'hiladelphia
nee, not very long ago, burned at least G.
race of " Ronish" churches, and chased
ut OF their homes priests and nuns that
ondon had its No-Popery riots and that
ie unavenged and unrequited ruins of
Tench Catholic boarding school stands to
us day III sight of the column of Bunker
III. These were all family ouarrels-the
tolerance OF one form of Christianity
yainst another; the religionists of the
Lord in Heaven burning those of "the
ord Jesus Christ )" Geneva and Smith
cid over again. Not so this Pekin out
reak. 1t is not sprout of, religious per
'c9tion at all. The religion of China-its
buddhism and Tauism--is no religion in
ny sense. The priesthood is the most de-
Fadeo class. The temples are caravensa-
es where the traveller is put to lodge. The
pig, redolent with spices, and
svered with fantastic flowers, is placed
IT moment before the idol, and then
aten up by the worshipers; and people
no venerate their ancestors don't pretend
} think that they are immortal. They are
ot devout ike the Mussulman, and hence
icy never prosecute for opinion or prae-
&c. But not to be Chinaman is the
ime. 1t is the Far quei, the white out
de barbarian, who is hateful to them;aHd
at hatred, as this nineteenth century in
Dent shows, is as fresh and vigorous COW
IL was when, eighty years age, Loud
acartney wendell his weary way to felin,
, twenty years back, when that model
d tsman, Yeh, was cutting off headaSig.
'nton. Our honest belief is, theFs 10 no
ange for the better; and this, as our
Aders are well aware, we have asserted
fhrnnUh the vvhOla ur II
delusiOn.