The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-03
Mining Star and Catholic Messenger.
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NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY, MARGINS. 1872.
AN uNc1vIL JOURNAL.

AN uNC1vIL JOURNAL.
Under the above heading the CatAolie
World, for March, contains scathing re-
view of the history Of the infamous
publishing house of the Harper Brothers
We regret that our space does not allow
us to publish the article entire, but hope
that all who can will purchase the book,
and, after carefully reading the article,
preserve it for future reference. After re-
ferring to the vast " protestant army Of
observation" as being on a footing suf-
fieiently well organized, active and effective
to- guard the walls of the American Zion
and sound the timely alarm, the World
says:
But the publishing firm of Messrs.
Harper & Brothers is not of that opinion,
and they appear to have discovered that it
10 thAiA daty to take .unier their special
nreAtion and keeping the public schools,
liberttes 81 Amefica ;-thps demonstrating
the ~tetcbed incapAcity and utter failure
Of uzstva authorities. our religious press,
&1a the PRotss1Aat nissStfy 70 do their
plainsst daty. Tia gentlsmensin question
Publish, here in New, York, Ha,pe,'s
esisa Ha;sses R.. IL . Jessnai q
Civilization. These periodicals. contain q
variety 81 Night MteFAt1re, papers on cur
rent toPfcss Psstsys ssscaosss, and highly
davOred Aktieies. sBesides these
last, the Rsssiy ssneral;y has one or more
worst falsehoods, and to excite hatred
towards Catholics and contempt for their
religion. -
For years past, constantly recurring
subject of its most offensive form of carica-
ture has been the person of the venerable
Pontif Plus TX. 1t is difficult to conceive
how any man Of even ordinary instincts of
propriety-we care not what his religious
prejudices may be-could have for this
revered parsonage any feeling but one of
profound respect. An aged bishop, four
score years of age, whose purity of charac-
ter is without speck or stain, whose long
piety aud virtue, beginning his sacerdotal
career as missionary in a foreign land,
then serving faithfully as the director of
charitable institutions and hospitals, whose
first acts of power were those of benevo-
lence and universal amnesty, towards
whom, on the part of the tens Of thousands
of Protestants who have seen apd spoken
with him, no sentiments but those of pro-
found admiration and veneration are ever
expressed--snch character as this is
selected by the Journal Of Civilization as
the favorite butt of it's indecent ribaldry.
consideration of the question of outrage
upon the religious sensibilities of millions |
of Catholics in the United States, and place |
the judgment Of the offence upon the broad |
ground of civilized propriety. The men |
who perpetrate this outrage seek to Justify |
temReral Ssoyereign of Rome they carries
lure Him. Tneir offence issaxSrSvatets byf
so fimsy and paltry pretext. The merits
Of the disputes among the monarchs of
Europe do not concern US here in America
to that extent, and, if they did, as ques-
lion of monarchical right aud precedence
IF seniority, the kings asd emperors of
Europe are all new comers and upstairs by
the side of the Roman Pontiff.
While these caricatures are essentially
addressed to sentiment of religious
oigotry, their authors seek, by the false
of some political idea, not only
% excuse them on that ground, but to re-
ntorce that bigotry with all the strength
" political hatred. Take, for instance, the
i.thy crocodile picture There is an ap-
zeal whose falsity is only exceeded by its
Then the "Roman Catholic
America" weekly, Dec. 30 1871, in which
he pure Christian, the devoted philanthro-
list, the perfect gentlemen - Most Rev.
Manning-i portrayed with
ron shackles in his hand, which he holds I
oncealed behind him, striving to entice 1
NS hSSIoeS 10 come TO MIN {: to whom q
egro replies ESQ naturally y mo, thank ,
ou. We have just been emancipated, {
nd, if England is responsible for slavery ,
4 the United States, don't care to jump I
rom ron tn the English frying-pan into the Eng
We can only qualify as impairment the a
oolness with which these scribes of the a
Iessrs. Harper talk about receiving" Ca !
lolics Hospitality into this free Protest +
ut land" When and how were these gen. F
emen constituted the dispensers of the t
ospitality of this free country When e
nd how did this country become :: Pro-
,stant land7" At what period in the his n
Dry of America were Catholics strangers v
ere9 a
Under somewhat similar provocation, the T.