The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-01-29

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New York World, administsrs the follow
ing gentle rebuke to the philantilropic
philosopher Of the Tribune:
The Tribune, in its polemics reveraes the
maxim Of the magnanimous Romans. It
was their rule to deal gently with the de-
TO the overbearing. The Tribune meekly
adores the victorious, but falls with appal-
ling fury upon the defenceless- It is per.
fectly shocked at the ins0lcnce of those
gentlemen of the pavement who venture
to assert in France the authority of repab-
lie against the ambition of an armed and
truculent Emperor; but it refuses to a de-
throned and p0werless Pope even the right
to be recognized and sympathized with as
their spiritual head by the believers of that
church which embraces within its. fold the
majority of Christendom. So bitter is it's
indignation against the impotent. Pontiff
that 1t positively declares itself to he in
fear of him. 1t calls upoh the power of
the country to protect it's ter, fled editors
last night in the awful task of attending q
meeting at which DR.. Bellows and Mr..
Beecher were announced as speakers:
Every man who dare attend that meeting,
1t exclaimed, will be marked man and a
martyr. How in tue world Pope Plus TX,
were he never so ruthless and bloody mind
ed, could 60 about to torture and slay FL.
g., for soothing himself with clerical f1atu-
lency concerning the crimes of Papal Rome,
IL is not easy to see. The bowling of the
perturbed Tribune oddly recalls the old
story of the gentleman who unlawfully
butchered one ofhis neighbours sheep. "Did
you kill my sheep r. angrily asked the ag-
grieved owner eyes, did kill your
sheep" responded the aggressor. -'I did
kill your sheep; and what is more, any
mans sheep that bites me will kill"
If we understand the Tribune, its chief
homo from the rneptinn callad this nify
to night to sympathize with Italian unity
is that the meeting will denounce the Pope
for destroying the Roman republic of 1s46.
AS a matter of fact, the Pope did not des
troy the Roman republic of 1S46 but had
he done 80 we do not quite see why he
lS48 precisely what the Tribune applauds
and glOrifies King William of Prussia,
Kaiser in Deutschland" for attempting
in France in 1871.
This strange vituperation of the Pope by |
the Tribune abundantly justifies the doubts
which have been expressed in this journal
as to the wisdom of such meetings under |
such auspices.
The Tribune charges the World with .'de-
flying incontestable facts" because we re-
cognize with respect, the "religious rela-
lions OF the Roman Pontiff to the enormous
majority of Christian believers throughout
not realize that such relations if they exis-
ted would be materiai"--which is q mere
defect of vision butt declares that ''such
relations certainly do not exist"-which is
, defect of information. The enormous
majority of Christian believers throughout
;he world certainly do sustain religious re-
ations TO the Roman Pontiff, and, sustain
ng those relations, it is perfectly natural
hat they should express their sympathy
With the head of their church in what they
'elieve to be q great wrong sustained by
i'm and a great injury suffered by their
hurch. They may be mistaken in this.
What they esteem wrong done to the
'ontiff may be no wrong to him at all.
What they regard as q great injury suffer-
d by their church may prove, in truth, to
7ill hardly be led to adopt this view of the
ase by fanatical onslaughts upon their ]
ierarchy, their traditions and their faith. I