The New York herald., 1872-12-08

ministered and 0utrages and crimes will almost
cease. Then the sec lions OF the Christian Church
In America and England Will not only control the
administration OF those States. but will move the
world.
We are living in glorious age when the
most distant lands are being connected by rail-
ways and telegraphs and visited by our enterpris-
ing merchants and most OF them are thrown open
to the reception OF the Gospel In this Providence
Is giving us noble opportunity to extend the in
terests OF the Christian Church
But you will possibly be surprised why should
write you this letter. NV reason Is simply this
have taken an active interest in political reforms
for the past seven years and we have other
ton Will be in sound condition And ! am
profoundly impressed with the conviction that we
shall ne building on sand. and not on rock, un-
less we have sound Gospel ministry established
over the land. The best political government and
character. The Gospel alone. by the grace OF God,
can reach the heart of society aud give the solid
points OF a well-ordered Commonwealth.
A FRIEND
Catholicism and PrOtesta ntism.
TO rHE EDITOR or THE HERALD
The communication OF "A Catholic" pub lshed
in the HERALD Of the oath ultimo and Intended as
reply to mine Of the week previous, imputes to me
sentiments which dtsown and abhor, ana so i'm
peaches my veracity by gross perversiOn OF facts
that am reluctantly compelled to take notice
OF what otherwise would have passed over in
silence. overlooking mis- personalities, in which
and man." "A Catholicn accuses me Of ofinsnuating
that the catholics only want numerical strength
to cut the Jroats Of every Protestant in the land"
Such an insinuati0n exists only In the imagination
OF "A catholic :" for while wage war against Ro-
manism az a SYSTEM respect individual Catholics.
and would not harm a hair OF their heads. But II
"A Catholic" cannot distinguish between SYSTEMS
and individuals the fault is his and not nine.
He pronounces my quotation from Lafayette, "If
ever the liberties of the United States are de-
strOyed they will be by Romish priests" "KnOw
Nothing ie,r forgetting" he says, "that this
SANDER on the memory OF the great hero was ven-
tilated at the time by Archbishop Hughes. | am
not at all surprised at "A Catholics" adoption Of
this ''sh0rt and easy method" of squelching dis
tasteful matter Of fact at beats "Lese's Method
with the Dests' oil hOllOw) for 1t is bitter pill
for Catholics to swallow, knowing that the General
was himself a Roman Catholic. However, there is
no other alternative left them. The TACT that
Lafayette did express these words was published
in the United States as early az 1885, and was
never contradicted that am aware OF, until 1856,
when they were repudated by Jared Sparks in
letter to the Roman Catholic Archbishop OF Louis
yille Spaulding and afterwards by Bishop Hughes,
30 that the time when ''this slander was venti.
lated" by the New York Archbishop was twenty
years after its first appearance in the public
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truly. Bur until the present year there was a
living witness to attest its truthlulness in the
person OF the late Professor samuel +. Il. Morse
who heard it from the Generals own lips, and
whose intercourse with Lafayette was OF the
most intimate character, as did also that excellent
Christian minister, the late Rev. DR.. T. J. Vanpe-
gentlemen whose veracity no Catholic Archbishop
In America dare ever for a moment seek to call in
question. But the fact Is too well authenticated
and established to require any defence from me.
Next, "a Catholic feels dreadtuly put out at my
having brought forward the Bartholomew mas
rNfD tiptN nn1 initial
erance, which he denounces as the great standby
OF all bigOts' tProtestants) | am glad that "a
Catholic a t4at maye
suppose that this also would have been pronounced
a Know Nothing lie: but in the same sentence
forgetiul OF his having committed himself-he de-
MES most emphatcally that the massacre was
either ''drectly or indirectly sanctioned or inSt-
gated by the Catholic Church, and that the con
not for the success OF the horrible event, but tor
the preservation of the Kings lire-a matter of
erful nation u wonder II he sent congratula-
tions to Queen Victoria as II matter OF diplomatic
courtesy to the ruler OF great and powerful ma
tom for the preservation OF her life in the recent
attempt at assassination by a fanatical Irishman
Guess not.) But for being able to prove that the
Church of Rome, both directly ana indirectly
sanctioned the horrible butchery, have to thank
his infalble Holiness the Pope for perpetuating
the memory OF his own acts. In my former
letter | mentioned the fact OF the Pope having
commanded a medal to be struck In honor of
the event. but this fact seems to have been
reverse OF this medal were the words ''HugO1a0bo-
rum st,uges"-the slaughter OF the Huguenos-
beneath which was the figure of destroying an
gel, holding the cross in one hand and SWORD in
The other. and at whose feet lay the slain Protes-
tants. But If this Is not prtlnd facte evidence OF
her guilt perhaps "A Catholicn will explain the
symbolical figure OF the angel with the in the
one hand and the sword in the other AS an Offset
to the Bartholomew massacre he refers me to the
persecution OF Catholics during the reigns OF GER
tain Protestant kings, whom he specifies, especially
in Ireland as also the massacre of Glencoe, ''when
a whole Catholic colony OF men. women and chill
dren were butchered In night and the recent
expulsion OF the Jesuits from Protestant Prussia.
Now, he seems to lay great stress upon Catholic
persecution in Ireland, would inform "A Catho-
icr OF what that bigoted paplst, Ronquillo the
Spanish Ambassador to the Court OF st. James,
wrote to his ghosty father, the Pope upon that
very subject, and that too, at a time when Catho-
lies were in the ascendant :-"What Roman Cath
olic suffered in London is nothing when compared
with what Protestant suffers in Ireland.n The
Glencoe massacre was not butchery OF Catholics
by Pr0testants, as "A Catholic insnuates, but was
in obedience to an order from the government to
Gencoe), whose sole occupation was one OF rapine
and murder, who did not number more than
two hundred persons. and out of this '.whole
colony" many of whom escaped. tSee .'Macau-
laws History OF England Philadelphia edition,
volume 4, page 57.) With respect to the expulsion
of the Jesnits from Prussia / would remind "A
Catholic of what he seemingly has forgotten, that
these mild brethren of the Order OF Jesus have not
only been expelled from Protestant Prussia but
from Catholic Spain, France, Naples, POrtugal-in
fact, nearly all the Catholic countries in Europe
anu 10 cTOWn I'LL, lHcy WERE suppressed D] Ills liz
lalbe Holiness Pope Clement XIV, who Is sup
posed to have fallen victim to their vengeance.
Now, why should "a Catholic" complain when
these gentlemen are expelled from a Protestant
country who only followed the example set them
by the head Of the Catholic Church Surely he
does not believe that Pope could be tyrant, and
vet Germany has done nothing more than the
Vicar VI Christ did IN the year 1913. But perhaps
he VIII call this a ''Know- Nothing lie" also. As q
triumphant proof OF the lberty-loving, religious.
toerating spirit of Romanism, "A Catholic"
gives an extract from the HERALD wherein
1t is stated that the Presbyterians and
others found a refuge from Puritan perse-
cution In the Catholic colony OF Maryland; but
perhaps no better proof could be found, nor one
more satisfactory TO "A Catholic" of priestly ty
ranny and religious intolerance than to give, as
"Roand for an Oliver,n another extract taken
from the HERALD and almost 1.-the same column
with his own letter. Ever since Mr.. Van Meter
went to Italy to establish Protestant schools and
churches he has met with relentless opposition at
the hands OF the papal clergy and so incensed
were they at his having succeeded in establishing
a school in Frascati-a suburb OF Rome-that, says
the HERALD "they gathered up all the Bibles they
could lay hands on and burned them' Remark.
ahIo ipof ia nj IN tiOn and