The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-10-01
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The Protestant Vampire.
Editor Morning Star:

| 50 ably and successfully hunted from the "fens
and nnorasses" to which it had reiterated. has
taken mp new position, which you have not
After the castigation yoa administered to Il
for Its gross and indecent insults to our modest
meek and devout Sisters OF Charity, and its
malignant calnmnies on our venerable priest.
hood, in which congenial work it showed itseif
true disciple Of its master, the Rufian Of
Popery, Russel, the historian, says aiyin~
strives with rage" I suppose It thonobss
retreat without defence the safest course Tor
Calvinism. It puts forth. however, from its
| last ditch, that you (the MORNING SrApS
have seen everything but the point, which r.
| that the Romish system is . vampire sucking
out national wealth, Expressing and impover
iissing the people wherever &c had . controlling
suppose you have not noticed these bold
assertions because You consider it labor lost to
continue hunting the Flea " any longer but
toned, over forty years ago, in Scotland, to
hunt just such vermin, and, indeed ratber
like the sport, although ct that time ali /
Catholic countries, until Samuel Laing, Scotch
man, showed that there were more common
schools in Rome than there were either in
Edinburgh or Berlin. Now this point has bean
abandoned, and Calvinists complain of onr
having too many schools.
If you afford meispace am sure that can
on Protestant authority, too, that it Is. and
has been, the Protestant system that is and
has been the vampire, sucking out national
wealth, depressing and impoverishing the
land for the last three hundred years. and that
the Romish system, as long as it had influence
made England more wealthy, and free than it
has ever been since the event called the Re
formation" took place.
But do not include Calvinists in the cateporv
of reasoning, thinking mentor your true Cal
whist dare not think, dare not reason on religion
he can only try to believe in the total de-
pravity of human nature, of human reason and
if he fances himself saint he could only
have received grace, according to the impions
doctrines of Calvin, by the supercedine or sun
planting of his reason.
do not, therefore, expect to convince these
men. The Apostle Paul foresaw that they
would exist in these later days, and has fully
described them: Men corrupted in mind, re-
probate as to the faith, having an appearance
indeed of piety, but denying the power thereof.
Always learning and never attaining to the
will, I hope, prove my position to the salts
faction of every ono except true Calvinist,
and I am happy to know that very few of them
nearly all abandoned, after having been dis
rgusted with the blasphemies of Calvin. But
we are very sorry to learn. from an article in
the f'restyte,ian, that the Scotch, while aban-
become nation of drunkarts and that in the
Protestant cantons of Switzerland, the cradle
of Calvinisu, according to report of the
Synod of Borne, /" Of every ten householders
there is scarcely TO be met one who now be-
lieves in God and Christ, or makes any use of
the Scriptures"
Calvinist, who, being sure of his election, does
not care shat crimes he commits 80 that he is
not found out, and ii he is, then blasphemously
says it was God that made him commit them.
The last and best specimen of the kind that
we have heard of was hung in the parish of
st. James few days ago, for robbery, arson
and murder. He is reported to have exclaimed
made me commit the crime, for without that
would not have known there was God"
shall quote the work and words of Cob
bett, who was, as he says of himself, Born
and bred a Protestant of the Church of Eng
land, having q wife and numerous family pro-
Tossing the same faith, having the remains of
testant church ard, and trusting to copjugal or
filial piety to place mine.by their side had
no motive in this undertaking, could
have had no motive, but a sincere and disin-
terested love of justice and truth. 1t is not
for the rich and powerful of my countrymen
that have spoken, but for the poor, the per-
secuted, the prescribed" After giving the
the time of the Reformation, he says: Here,
then, we are at the end of three hundred years,
from the day when Henry. VIII. began the
passing through scenes of plumber and of blood,
such as the world never beheld before; here
we are, with the awful questions still before
us; and here we are, too, with forty sorts of
which our forefathers lived for nine hundred
years; here we are, divided and split up into
sects, each condemning all the rest to eternal
flames here we are, motley herd of church
people, Methodists, Calvinists, euakers and
Jews, chopping and changing with every wind,
while the faith of st. Austin and st. Patrick
still remains what it was when it inspired the
heart and sanctifed the throne of Alfred
"Such, as far as religion is concerned, have
been the effects of what is called the Reforma-
ton > what its effects have been in other
spects, how it has e.feebled and Impoverished the
nation, how it has corrupted md debased the
people, and how it has brought barracks, tax
houses Warehouses; and jails, to supply the
place Of converts. hospitals, gaiids and aims
houses, we shall see in the next number; and
then we shall have before us the whole of the
consequences of this great, memorable and
fatal event."
Our author continues: "This letter is to
conclude my task, which was to make good my
assertion that the event called the Reforms
ton had impoverished and degraded the main :,
body of the people of England and Ireland.
told you that q fair and honest inquiry would
teach us that the word Reformation had, in
this case, been misapplied; that there was a
change greatly for the 'corse; that the thing
called the reformation was engendered in
beastly lust, brought forth in hypocrisy and