The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-01-23
ITALIAN UNITY.
Tho Recent Mass Meeting and the Assertion
Made Therent Emphaticaiy COntradicted-

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| Tho Recent Mass Meeting and the Assertions
| Made Therent Emphaticaliy COntradicted-
Lecture by tho Rev. DIR. Brann.
At the Institute OF St. Paul the APOSTLE on Eighth
avenue Fityfth street, last evening, the Rev.
Dr.. Henry A. Brann, OF Fort washington delivered
a lecture, IN the course Of which he forciby re-
fted OF the assertions made ut the Ita,
ian unity meeting at the Academy Of Music The
hall was crowded to It's utmost capacity and the lee
ture was listened to with much evident interest and
frequently interrupted by applause.
The subject was ''Sins of Intellectn The lee.
turer first explained the meaning OF his subject
showing that although every SIN was SIN OF INTEL
lect, certain crimes were attributed to the in
teect than to the Senses because they regarded
tellectual rather than sensual objects. He then
showed the influence OF ideas and principles ON so.
cety. working their way down either tor good or
evil among the masses. Society is corrupted from
the head before 1t is attacked In the heart. This
point, said the lecturer, was always insisted by
Savonaroa, at Florence and Is well illustrated IN
Massilons great Lenten sermons on the duties and
faings of the leaders in society. The princes and
rulers Of society. the true pOlmene ld0u especially
10 this country, the great orators and writers.
THE MEN OF GENIUS AND INTELLECT,
who either corrupt the masses by spreading false
principles false notions, false theories distorted
views among them, who using their gifts for the
purposes intended by God, become mouthpIeces OF
truth for mankind. There is great difference be-
tween an idea and a fact IN importance. Using the
word idea, even though not IN strictly metaphysl-
cal sense, every knows that the denial Of 1t Is
more pernicious than the denial OF an ordinary fact
as the denial OF universal law Is worse than the
denial OF Its individual application. The man who
gets drunk ana Is put In jail ID less guilty than he
who denies that temperance Is virtue and breaches
the awfulness OF intoxication. the man VINO picks
your pocket or steals your horse IS less foe 10
cety ana far less OF criminal than the communist,
disciple of Pierre Jerome or 81. Simon who denies
the right OF property. Some facts are more impor-
tant than Others owing to their social relations or to
the universally Of their application, ana their de-
NAL implies a universal denial Revelation or dog
ma Is
A FACT OF UNIVERSAL BEARING,
and Its denial OF greater crmnalIty than the denial
OF lact not directly Connected with universal. II
deny that the Pope has right to the tembora
power l deny principle of greater importance,
owing to its immediate relations with other matters,
than II simply deny that John smith owns tho
Tho conclusion Of this argument was that the men
OF intellect, who deny the truth wiiuy, misrcpre
sent important facts or abuse their powers for the
propagation OF falsehood, calumny or injustice are,
GREATER CRIMINALS THAN THE PROSTITUTES AND
THIEVES
The lecturer then instanced the two great sins Of
intellect IN regard TO the school question and the
Men Of intellect are guilty Of calumny toward the
Catholic Church when they represent her as opposed
70 education, because she is opposed to the system
at least, necessary to ch!ld as arithmetic aud
spelling; and system which gives an hour In the
education Is certainly not catholic not universal,
not perfect. Men OF intellect, who know that Catho
lies love education much that they pay double
tax for it, one for public schools the other for paro.
chlal schools; who know that the actual pubic
e a eaeheTs owe e To re
political influence, and that the politicians are
making thousands OF dollars out Of 1t by their con-
troll OF tracts who know that our system Is far In
ferior to the Prusslan system; who know, from
statistics published regularly In the Educational
Monthly that thousands and thousands OF children
GETTING NO EDUCATION AT ALL,
owing to the imperiectOn Of our scnool system, still
prostitute their intellects IN It's defence What
criminals before God they must be, since they I'm
pun the s known truth ror.s o,,or ,n..ono :,
slns OF intellect Here the lecturer described the
he praised the intelligence OF It's chief abettors men
OF standing and OF learning yet guilty Of nm afro
lecturer ne TACT Of taking away another mans
possession by armed force, without rlght title.
rlis is an approval OF robbery, and 10 the name OF
American honesty protest against It,"
He then quoted statistics To show that the socalled
21eOiScfte In Rome was
CONSULATE FRAUD.
According to the G0@eft1 ONC1dfe az Roma there
were 40 ssl votes cast in ten hours In the Twelve
polling places OF Rome. This would give almost
Six persons voting uninterruptedly every minute.
during the voiing time, from eight oci9ck A. M.
ten IS seconds Yet tho voters mad to go
up o fight Of steps and make other preparations,
and eye witnesses attest that for hours no one went
to vote. If this is not Of ballot stulng where
shall we nnd one Yet the classic General Dix the
eloquent Beecher, the philanthropc, h-lest Horace
Greeley, the poet Bryant approve Of tns But more:
these abettors OF Italian robbery have illuminated
the illustrous living and dead The Rev. DR.. Joseph
p. Thompson at this meeting fnsinuated aud inti-
mated IN resolution that Goberti, ROsmini. Lnc0r-
daire and Dol inger, 'eminent and SANITY Catholic
OF the Pope. 'Now have taken tho trouble to ex
anime this point with impartiaty said the speak
err land hereby challenge and defy DR.. Thompson,
or any other OF the learned gentlemen who APP
nlauded his resolutions to produce line, sentence
from any othose writers, even from Dolinger which
Will Justify the assertion. pronounce 1t
A FALSEHoOD AND CALUMNY,
and am prepared to prove It, Mr.. Greeley has a
paper let hun prove the truth OF the assertion which
ne abetted
Not Horid prose nor honied lines Of rhyme
Can blazen evil deeds consecrae crime.
Such are some Of the sins OF intellect. continued
the lecturer From the tracts published by the
American Tract Society to the Sunday school paper.
the controversial work. the magazine-au are full
OF calumnies, falsehoods Measurements and mis-
representations of Catholic doctrine. have read
| them by the score and nave never yet found one
| sermon of Protestant minister one article or q
| Protestant newspaper, one Sunday school tract,
treating OF Catholic dogma or OF Catholic doctrine
which did not betray ignorance, or which was not
libel!ous and calumntous. These are grave charges
to make against Protestant inellects but they are
\ unfortunately, too tue. These criminals are not
amenaple to the laws Of men, but God will punish
them in the life hereafter II they persist In their
| farious system Of falseho0d and calumny. Let US.
| however connding in the power OF justice, which
| always wins at last, remember that
! Truth crushed to earth will rise again;
4 The eternal years OF GOd arc hcrS