The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-02-16

died In torture at the hands Of, savage
Iroquois aud Mohawks. Yet they were
all liars. As to those heroes Of Christian
ity who spend their strength upon evan
gelical tea parties, and sacrifice themselves
to the tune Of six or seven thousand dollars
q year for two sermons per week, Of course
it is we'll for them to hold up their gloved
hands and turn mp their dainty noses at
men of such low tastes: they may even
call them liars and heap opprobrium upon
them but the question will present itself,
would these new witnesses testify to the
truth at the stake and amid the burning
fagots .
49, s,. ha II.-Iertullian.
Here we are charged with nine or ten
distinct viilainies. We have not the faint
est memory of any one Of them, and are
not in position now to examine them.
We have not complete file Of the Presby-
terias, and have not it's number of October
9th. Sending for it we found the Office
sbnt. II our neighbor will send the num-
bers alluded to, with the places all marked,
we shah be-happy to republish it's decade
Of crime (cbarged to us,) and employ a
lawyer to make our defence, if we can't
do it ourselves. ., -
=. III.-Ronanism and the State.
Our opponent is very fearful that Ro
mish lecturers are striving to secure the
ascendancy of Romsnism in this country.
1t is an extraordinary piece of presumption
in Romanism to aim at anything of the
~EaaR hat 49,
wonld scorn to do such thing. Presbyter-
ianism would not have the aseendancy here
If it could. Certainly not. We must for
get it's dsings ia Geneva, in Scotland, in
New England and every locality whore
either its numerical force or its impudsncs
could thrust it into the control Of affairs.
Why, all modern history is fall Of proof
that ProtestantismI 10 essentially political.
Wherever it has power it inprints its every
characteristic On the control of public
affairs. Without government alliance it
is nothing. It has never been able to
make the slightest progress in any country
without the, active support and undue
Partially of the civil powers. At its ir-
ruption like an epidemic into, Europe it.
enlisted princes and potentates on its
side at the very outset by giving them I'M
bridied icence for the vilest passions, and 4
by bribing them with the plumber of con-
iscated religious property. It stepped
into the arena full clad in armor, with ma 1
tions and armies at it's back. Wherever it
could not corrupt the civil powers, it has
made no Roadway. Wherever it has nu.
4 q
government and public policy is dictated by
its spirit.
How totally different is the character of
rCatholicisml 1t takes root in countries
tho n.ost hostile net mako an ALI
ance with despotism or revolution and sud
denly burst like o tempest over the land,
sweeping away by force every vestige
of opposing con viction and securing it's
foothold by, rapine and robbery. No!
Gradually but surely it wins over the pop
ular mind and heart to truth and Christi
anity. 1t does this without the aid Of the
civil powers, generallysln the face of their
open or secret hostility, just as it is doing
now in this country, in England, and in
Germany. Thus far the movement Ger
tainly is not political, for it is without any
connection with the Government.
But after gaining the vast majority of
the people, what thenf Then there is still
as little excuse for calling it Political.
Then, 80 far-from controlling the Govern
ment and impressing its influence upon
pubic policy, it refuses to interfere, and
it is generally active opponents of the
Church who control affairs. The Govern
ments Of France, Austria and Italy, man
ipuiated by Jews, Pretest.nts, Free
Masons and Inadels, show this conclusiyely
If these countries had Protestant major
ity as strong as that Of the Catholics, their
Governments would be mere Church ap-
pendages-machines ran in the inter-
est of the Saints. Even in this coun-
try, where Protestanism is at heavy dis
count and far from being paramount in in
huence, where great majority of nom Ca
tholics have no utilization with it, even