The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-11-17
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. What was the beginning Of th1
"a OF sta'at very republic, 90 celebrated
"a, the rival Of Rome-imperial Car.
70 long as her people were sober
tne roman soldiers, the uncon.
iegions that mastered all the rest
ofics were not able 30 stand before
pie lcgions Of Hannibal. With bis
esrcned down right through Italy
- the Alps. No power could 70.
,GEoatness OF his genius and the
O1 bis men. At length shese
j EsPubiican soidiers went into winter
IN city Of the South OF Isaly
J Cq&aA, where they remained for the
lae OF winter, drinking the rich
: the grAPes that grew upon the
~ Naples, by the sea shore around
OF Mount Veeuvius. There they
- these men of iron. No sooner
egin to drink than their muscle,
kA4d courage began to fail. Soul and
9re 90 shattered that when they
Eeme out to fight the Romans, the
they encountered swept them
~ deid-swept them a. the whirl.
leeps the chair from the thresbi ny
bat was eaBier than for the Ro-
Sgi0ne to conquer and destroy an
reelng, besotted, unmanly drunk
so back further into history.
e history Of all the great nations
oe and h0urished in the world, and
IN ma the same story over and over
ehe Medes, the Peraians, the Scythi-
the Assyrians. It was
NE same story. The State fell, soci-
~ ruined. The curse and the ruin of
81 mas been, as history attests, inva--
pgought down upon them BY this
1emost bestial Of all the sins-druak.
= = it in this landf How shall it be 7
4America lies future the most clio.
onat God ever gave to q people on this
"A mighty continent, vast in its do.
tand that continent teemipg with
erm of riches soil the most fer.
the most rare and precious.
fruits and flowers of eyery
~ beauty and sweetness-.nothipc.
2xcan hinder America from becoming
ESQ great that her mere shadow
- the rest of the world utterly into
kGles Nothing except that sin, if
~ have the misfortune to become the
- u; the sin that will rob her states
t11e1r brains and OF their intellect; the |
= will rob her senators of their virtue
4e1r manly, honest, Independence /; !
{ 9Aat will rob the people Of their in.
habits the ain that will rob her |
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bring down, If America indulges !
ypAieh God forbid she should. the
Hatvlsions, the curse Of rival fac !
70 scnrse Of FLASHING interests, until
8n1hcent continent breaks up into |
NJ thirty small States, ana wastes I
% the blood of its best citizens, in
f1s; which must of necessity come.
councils are divided aud weaken
aims of drunkenness. I believe
80 Archangel Guardian Of Amer.
make his voice heard over this
IND entrusted to him, he would
deaS to arise, '"People Of Amer.
and God viii do the rest
f$snean to say that faith IL not nee.
10 ls! Catholicity 10 necessary to
-. And whyf Because religions
% centre of all union, the highest
el union the secret Of that
rength which must be here, and
= Axercised In this land; that uaion
come upon this land in the day
enerlca Is Catholic, as Catholic as
But do hold and believe that
! eOme And speak now from an
which had not before, my ex-
sf the American people; the high
arrest, and the best experience of
speak from experience when ;
the sbrewd intellect Of America,
lofty, pe1etrative, intaitive in :
OF America be not spoiled by ;
sss as national sin, that that !
ee VIII soon learn 90 appreciate, :
20 embrace the glorious religion :
IDLY CATHOLIC CHURCH. :
est there have been bright stars,
in the armament of American
bright magnificent stars; men {
very infancy of the State, stood i
rite their names In characters a
! sever perish upon the annals of {
t*s history, az statesmen, as sol r
3 sailors, as philosophers, and as b
pS, oh is IL not o sad truth that Q
30 brightest Of these stars Of in &
magnificent mind, Of heroic will 4
se Of the very brightest OF them II
Sred until their light became al &
ness itself! And whyf By what {,
- 1t by any mearue0s Of spirit 2 b
~ it by any American fault or sin q
PCT cowardicef NOi But it was b
- Of drunkenness. Some Of the n
names that should be, and were Ii
ny the Almighty God to be the Il
slta Of American history, were OBJ "
~ this and lost 60 their country for Of
'EAtional purposes in which they II
fEn served, r.