The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-04-16
Iha Partisan hob and the Archbishop.

fine Partisan Mob and the Archbishop.
From all indications the demoniac spirit
Of the frat French Revolution has burst
forth in full fury among the goddess wretches
who now hold q high carnival OF blood
within the wallis of Paris. The same
brutal excesses, the same blind rage, mark
their deeds, moderated slightly, perhaps
by the presence Of an opposing power
from which it was free during lts nrst
reign. War upon the Church ana tne
rights of property is openly proclaimed.
Priests and nd-owners are denounced
Churches are riaed and desecrated, priests
slain, an Archbishop publicly scourged'
and the Almigha1 insulted in legal pro.
ceedings as "a person calling himseii Goo
The police is disbanded and the guiliotlne
Threatened. Officers of the highest rank
falling into their hands are murdered in
cold blood, and even the funerals OF their
own fallen brethren are made horrible ny
the frenzied rawlings of mob In which
men and women rival one another IN nru-
tality.
These things we gather from the tele-
graph and mail. No respectable authority
has disputed them. The English consul at
Paris has advised all subjects of Great
Britain to leave that city. He evidently
feels uneasy and uncertain as to what
blind excess may be yet committed oy the
revolution. An exodus of foreigners Is
taking place. Paris is by no means In
state of blockade, for it is only day or
| two ago that we hear of the interruption OF
it's railroad communication with orleans
Why then should we doubt the correctness
of the news which we getf Thousands
and thousands of sources are open for the
contradiction of these reports, If they are
false, and no contradiction is limited at.
Yet in the face of all this we find the
Republican newspaper of this csty denying
it all, and coming out as the open ally anu
advocate of the revolutionists. And not
satisfied with the simple denial of these
atrocities, its language in doing 30 is OF
the most insulting kind. We clip rev
lines from it's issue Of last Friday as 1oi-
lows:
The active and fertile telegraph handed IN
| another batch of church robberies from Paris
! Yesterday The agent could not stop to coun'
the instances, but Jumped his business ny say
ing that Charge number were piliage eu
E of COMPULSORY religious instruction which she
L has undergone, when her faithful, Jealous ant
? somewhat proscriptive Catholic population
turu upon their own churches at the nrst up
! portunity, and scourge the priests and piunae
q fhe cbapcel. 1t is because this thing seem
A unreasonable that we dispute the truth OF III
report.
y Here we find three most glaring errors
errors based upon either the grossest igho
rance or open faisehood.
J. First. There is no compulsory reilglou
g instruction" in Paris, and there have bee
Is no "long years" of such practice. 1t NJ
10 been 40 far as laws make anything compu
It, sory, fully as much a matter OF choice
n, receive religious instruction in Paris as
nj Bostou. and q great deal more SO, 30 TAR
10. compulsion from public opinion goes.
lat Secondly. The +" faithful aud Jealous"
the "Catholic population" have not turn
upon their own churches at the first oPpt
~. tunity. The dissertation il on the part
, =. the vile and miserable followers OF "
Au- taire, who have never trod the floor o.
vss church until this, the hour Of their "opp
OF tunity."
N. Third. "This thing" does not " SO
inch unreasonable" 80 a. to cause one to do
ana the reports. On the contrary it is the v
ON result which the same elements wrou
To- out once before, and would most natur'
- " tend to work out again. 1t would be
w.v tremely unreasonable to doubt this
nciai dency of Communist, Socialist, inf
10 re- mob in Paris, and everybody knows it
itous knows how to read.
fe so. In the meantime what are We to thin
ranch the humanity of that journal which, in
before hour of trial and blood, when Churc
VIII bleeding under the lash and the X
ol.en when the furious storm of persecution
'a I,. burst over her unprotected head, lend
: ,nora columns to the expression of the Goa
addi. vituperation and ill-concealed exultat
nbines "verily, Church of Paris, !" it says, in Ell
, good "you are a false teacher, and, behold,
rnians own children rend your entrails. Chur
Paris, you were tyrant and taught
'compulsion; behold the fruit of your t!
' - ~. ny and oppression" Is this suitable
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