The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-11-09
nsokLLANE0Us YoRKIaN NEWs.
ITO October Isth.I

ITO October 18th.
: THE RESTORATION or MONARCHY IN FRANCE
= On the 18th Oct. remarkable article b,
MI. John Lemoinne appeared in the Dsbats
AN Immediate solutiop,n SO writes tn,
cieverest OF French political essayists, "i
{ absolutely necessary" "The nation ha
put one phrase-We must put an end t,
leslstlbiy, its moment has come, It must b,
disposed of. Whatever may be said of the
progress of reason and philosophy, it can
not be disguised that on the minds, th,
r habits, and the education of q considerabl,
portion of the nation, the idea of order, o
, the traditional and historical idea of Mon
: archy." France, he says, would readily have
accepted the Monarchy, after her disasters
had not the Monarchy, itself, been divided
rms is now no longer the case, and "there
is but one sole Monarchy before the coun-
self however great it may be, its name
will not suffice. The last representatives
of Legitimacy has it in his power to revive
or to slay Monarchy in France" Louis
XVIII, in the preamble to his Charter,
acknowledged that he was bound to re.
place and "that the desire of his subjects
for Constitutional Charter was the ex-
preston of a real want. During the half
century which has succeeded" says Mr..
Lemoinne, many other thing have been
accomplished which will never be updone,"
But the partizans of an absolute Monarchy
make a tabm9a rasa Of history for them
nothing "has occurred. If that be so,
| then nothing will return" Let US hope
that the prognostic will not be verified. The
Comte de Chambord has often declared his
acceptance Of Constitutional Monarchy,
though ne will not express his intentions in
any form which may be interpreted as o
bargain or stipulation.
CLIMAX OF THE PERsEcUT1oN AT GENEVA.
The intelligence which has arrived this
week from Geneva is very much worse
t than what appears on the surface of the
expulsion of the Catholics from all their
churches. These are three in number,
two of them, with their episcopal and clerl-
cal residences having been built by the
voluntary subscriptions of the faithful, and
one having been previously restored to the
Catholics by the State. The Auxiliary
Bishop was cure of the whole city, which
was divided for ecclesiastical purposes in
to three rectories under him; one of Notre
Dame, which was the episcopal residence /;
one of st. German, the old church; and
one of st. Joseph, in the suburb of the
Faux Wives. The State has now caused |
three cures to be elected, and as the Cath
oiics could take no part in such an I'M
proceeding, the members of the |
new sect, 27 in number when reinforced |
by all the infidels and freethinkers who had |
been nominal Catholics and, according to |
an eyewitness, by many who were not Ca |
tholics at all,-carried their three candi-
dates were the apostate priests MM. 10y
son, Hurtault, and Chavard, and as the |
new law enacts that the churches and
presby teries shall be used only by those
clergy who are recognized and paid by the
State, we fear that nothing can save the
n N phao xrb fn1, ho-a ha4 A.
of Catholics, at the cost of
great labor and many sacrifices, from fall
ing into the hands Of their bitterest enc
mics. In that case the churches will of
course be laid under an interdict, and the
population, consisting not only of
the Genevese but Of many foreigners, will
be left without any place of worship what
ever. The ancient church of St. GeHmain,
which the Government considers the par
sh church of the city, has been already
given over to the apostates, and the pas
tors Loyson and Chavard took the oaths in
It as cures on Tuesday.
THE LONDON DAILY NEWS ON PERSECUTION.
There is not much use in arguing with
people who are resolved to distort facts,
but there is an article in the Daily NeaUs
Of Wednesday which deserves to be speci-
ally held up to Reproduction. It is an apo
logy for the ecclesiastical tyranny of Prince
Bismarck and of the Geneva Government,
and contains perhaps greater number of
incorrect statements, to use the mildest
terms possible, than any we remember to
have seen. Archbishop Ledochowski is
first represented as moved by "zeal for the
of Protestant EMPIRE" ,
aud is stated to have combined his cause
with that of the antiPrussisn party in
Posen, and to be Aattering the secret hopes
and aspirations of Catholic Poland" 1t
is not without grave indignation that one
can read such arguments as these. Is it
the Church or is it the State that has in
troduced an alteration into the relations
between themf What does the Church,
what does Archbishop Ledochowski de-
mand, but that those relations should re-
main what they have been for 80 long
tmef But what has the State done 1t
has passed completely new laws which are
q direct usurpation of the Pastoral Office
and q prohibition against Bishops perform
ing their most sacred duties. And then
when the Bishops resist, they are treated
as aggressors, and an English so-called
''Liberap Journal undertakes to persuade
it's readers, often ignorant of the real facts
that there is no persecution in the case.