The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-01-16
l1oRHIae gTAR AND cATHoLIC NEssENaER-
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yeneY> tho attempt to assassinate tne E ,
Sovereign. There are many who would be more
pleased with the jest than shocked Dy tne IN IN
decency. when dogs head was shaved in de-
rision of the clerical it OF wa ne IL its
month to bring ridicn1e upon the holy SacIa-
= ment; but the government can hardly be
blamed for showing symptoms OF anxlety .9na
alarm when prayer was publicly offered, that
the Queens heart might be converted nom
idolatry or else that her days might be short
ened when it was stated that the Queen was
Ultimate, and therefore o usurper; or, supPos-
ing she had come legitimately to the crown,
that she was q viper, and therefore qugnt 70 De
crushed Addresses from the pulpit answered
the purpose, in that age, of the Leading artl-
cles in modern newspaper; but though the
press was not then that mighty engine for good
or for evil that it has since become, the REFORM
ers invoked its aid. A jealous government in
a revolutionary age might we'll be alarmed
. when an appeal was made, fn-the name OF re-
ligion to- the worst passions OF mankind,
through works, most of-them, it may be, print
ed abroad, but widely disRersed- by enthusiasts
throughout England Thor very titles were
sometimes reasonable such as, Blasts against
the Government of Women for. which leaders
among the Calvinistic reformers, such as Knox
and Goodman, who were beginning to work
their way among the lower classes, We're re-
-sponsible Even in the present age, assumed
to be enlightened and liberal, we may doubt
whether the government would abstain from
strong measures IL n man III 0oOuuhanS po9l-
ton, and with his Influence, should deliberate
" call the sovereign de facto "a traitor, a bas-
tard, Proserpina.' Whittingham was the
editor, if not the author, of n book the object
of which as to show that rebellion was not
sin and verse was also employed toenforce the
same principle"
Apart from these matters, thus ably and can
didly laid before the reader, there was little in
the concluding portion of Cardinal Poles life
to form the subject for biography. The trou-
bles of the realm, the failing health of the
Queen and his own and the character of the
Spanish consort, whom unhappiiy she had
allied herself with, were matters of great tor
ment to Poles last days. Worn out by worry
and disease, he died in 1858, just twenty-fo
hours after Queen Mary, and, says DIR. Hook,
"the body of the last of our primates, whose
head was honored or disgraced by the red hat"
was buried ut Canterbury with the inscription,
"Depositum Cardinals Poll" His, let us add,
in conclusion, was lifethat nebly contrasts, in
its sincerity and consistency, with that ofnear-
ly all of his contemporaries. The last of the
English Cardinals, till the days of Nicholas Car
dinal Wiseman, stands nobly out from amidst
the crowd of time servers, changelings, and
hypocrites of his, day, and-in the biography Of
DIR. Hook his virtues and fame have received,
if not perfect recognition, at least very honor
able mention.