The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-11-13


Word for Germany" This article contains
sing, though it sets forth certain other
views which we thought entitled to fair
and impartial hearing. 1t appears, how
ever, that some of our friends of French
blood or extraction have felt aggrieved at
80 open an endorsement on our part, as
they construed it, of reflections anything
but kind OF complimentary to their race.
Though we protest against being held as
endorsing every selection that we repub-
fish from contemporary, we take this occa-
sion of directly denying any sympathy
with the offensive sentiments alluded to.
We we're glad to see the vindication of the
German race, and reproduced the articlefn
a spirit of fair play to our Teutonic friends.
AS to joining in the self-laudatofy strain
INDUCED in by the Tablet when>it consigns
Celt and Gaul and every body else to a
position inferior to that 81 the Z" blue eyed
Saxon and Teuton,,'we never dreamed
that any one could suspect us of it.
The fact is that your man from the far
north has a. good deal of the aurora borealis
mixed up with his brain. Your genuine
Britop, home bred, is a thorough business
man with a great amount of hard sense but
with sundry highly tinted views of human
affairs. He invariably thinks that the
"blue-eyed Saxon" especially the Anglo
Saxon, is naturally the noblest specimen of
creation, and decidedly superior to all
other branches of the human family. This
idea undoubtedly arises from the fact of
his living on a small island, where he sees
but little of the world. His own little
world is very prosperous and very iDtelli-
gent, and it is somewhat natural that he
should believe it to be more so than any
other place. But it could not be expected
that we, who live in a big country, who
daily witness a friendly rivalry of Briton,
Celt, Teuton, Gaul, Spaniard, Italian. and
representatives from all other branches of
the white family, should participate in any
such nonsense. We believe that all white
races are equal, if not in actual develop
ment, at least in the power of development.
The gentleman who wrote the article
quoted from the London Tablet may be a
Catholic, but he is none the less a John
Bull of the most complacent type, as is evil
dent from the following extract. He says:
The present war shows the complete degen-
eracy of France. Italy and Spain have given
proofs of similar condition. 1t is the blue
eyed Teuton and the vigorous Saxon who are
the hope of tho future.
If the first place we do not for moment
attribute the disasters of France to the de-
generacy of her sons nor do we think that
"blue-eyed people have any right to tri-
umph because France has, nationally
speaking, received "black eye" The
Teuton and Saxon are undoubtedly the
hope of the future" for their own part of
the country, but we are at loss to see of
what especial advantage they can be to
Spain and Portugal. Each nation must
work out it's own regeneration, unless, as
our author may anticipate, there should be
general determination of black-eyed
people, brown eyed and grey, as unworthy
to cumber the ground. As long as they are
permitted to live, however, we cannot see
any special hope that they may find in a
"blue-eyed" future.
In the mean time our British friend, in
order to sustain his pet theory, is very Gre
dulous as to all the bad stories that have
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or soldiers. The gentry and bourgeoisie
are hostile to religion and the ideas of the
large towns are gaining upon the peasantry.
Now we have no doubt that much infidelity
and immortality exist in many of the French
cities, but that they are gaining ground is,
in our opinion, just the contrary of the
truth. The great French revolution left
that country deeply immersed in vice and
infidelity, but the Church has been steadily
gaining ground ever since. 1t is the piety,
the deep, undying faith, the simple, earnest
fervor of the peasantry, that are gaining
ground and winning France back from Vol |
taire.
So far from participating in the views of
the writer in question we regard France as
the main stay of the Catholic Church
among nations. Her hierarchy, her priest
hood, her efforts for the propagation of the
faith, her missions and her martyrs crown
her with glory which the mists of vice and
impiety and anarchy cannot hide. The true
view of this subject appears to us &c be the
one which we published last week as en-
bodied in a recent letter of Cardinal Cullen
to the clergy and people of Dublin. 1t is
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