The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-01-07

so large pOrtlOn OF you are fallen into al
these troubles, that you have been tried BY
dearness of living, and that, moreover, il
the struggle which you do not cease t.
maintain against the Powers Of Darkness
many Of you, brethren, have fallen victims
of excessive labor.
Nevertheless, we experience peculiar
you have supported all these trials, and
the ardor with which you set yourselves to
fight the battles Of the Lord, feeling well
assured that our faith is the victory which,
triumphs over the world. That which
renders still more precious to Us the
homage which you have addressed to Us,
is to see you animated with such charity
your own situation, you seem to be touched
only by the misfortunes OF the Church and
of the assaults hurled against the Holy
Pontif, 1t is TO see You armed with such
courage that, in concert with Us, you Ia
Dor zealously, in spite of all obstacles, to
overcome evil by good.
eve sustain the cause of God, beloved
sons, and this is why, being assured Of the
victory which He has promised Us, We
await with an mistaken confidence, the
support of His all-powerful arm. But We
know that death was not destroyed except
through the death on the cross Of Him who
is Life itself, and that the preachers of the
Gospel have in no other way triumphed
over the world. Do not allow yourselves,
therefore, to be overcome by any difficulty.
On the contrary, let it be the occasion to
re-animate your courage, for you know
that the works of God are not usually ac-
eonplished without apparent contradic-
frightened by the imrensity of the work.
You know that an ample recompense is
attached to it and that the sufferings here
below bear no proportion to the glory
which shall, one day, burst upon us.
I'VE wish you, with all our heart, an
and, in the same manner, that We bless
your illustrious Archbishop, at present
with Us, as we'll as all his diocese, we ac-
cord affectionately to all, as q pledge of
Our gratitude and Fatherly care, the
Apostolic Benediction.
Given at Rome, near st. Peters, on
the 10th November, 1867, In the 22d year
of Our Pontifcate.
P1Us TX, PORE.
words of that noble soldier of Jesus Christ,
my protector and intimate friend, Mgr.
Ducosquer, who, while he was alive, was a
member of the Legion of Honor of France,
Protonotary of the Holy See, Apostolic
Legate and Archbishop Of Hayti, and who
now sleeps in the sanctity of the tomb.
1t is proper that l shoald glorify his
memory because he did great things for
Hayti, because it may be said that, from a
moral point of view, he made Hayti greater
than certain Republic whose God is the
Almighty Dollar.
1t is right for me to say that this noble
prelate, more patriotic than the majority of
great men in the last named Republic, after
repeated efforts established the great truth,
heretofore not appreciated there, but now
fully understood, that the Catholic religion
is the safeguard of our freedom, now mem
aced by Yankee rapacity, of which we have
the proof in the organized brigandage of
in this matter, SO important to US, as in |
many others, the Radical Administration |
of the United States would disgust us for |
ever with Democracy, did we not have Sc
firm faith in this form of government.
I maintain that the Government of Hayti |
Gen. Grant and as altered and conducted |
by TIE Republican party during the last
decade.
Hayti, which longs to live as q free coun-
try, has infused into it's new constitution |
the fruit of sixty-six years of struggle, the |
ideas and principles, which shine controll
ngly in each article of the compact be-
tween the thirteen original States of the
American Union.
Being of such great fertility as to excite
the admiration and envy of the United
States Government, Hayti is essentially an
agricultural country, but many years will
be required before its resources can be
'ully developed. An English writer and
after testifying to the physical,
Intellectual and moral superiority of the
inhabitants of Hayti over those of Jamaica
md other neighboring colonies, attributes
t to the influence of liberty, religion and
material prosperity.
Having shown the benefits accruing to
aayti through the instrumentality, princi-
9ally, of the clergy, it only remains for me
% state that during the early troubles in
'he Island, and when Concordat existed
between the Holy See and the Government,
here were foisted upon the people, as cler-
yymen, some men whose conduct certainly
was not edifying, but this Concordat hav-
ng expired, Mgr. Ducosquer proceeded to
France, and went from department. to de-
9artment, from city to city, from seminary
If reparation and of religious regeneration.
bis eloquent voice found its echo. He
made his harvest of priests, and that har-
7est was noble one. He returned to