The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-09

port. 1t was during his reign Of terro
that General Armand was assassinated a
; Lyons, because he dared to oppose tn,
Dictators rule and it was admitted, be
cause 1t conld not DO denied that he act
ually Issued an imperative order to Genera
Bresolles to shoot General officer and hi
corps of French Mobiles, who had taker
the field against tho Germans merely be
cause these patriots marched under the
heur de lis instead of the drapeaa rouge
Nor could NJ. Lacour deny the accusation
of the Comte de Segur, who charged him
with allowing the French Volunteers to
starve because they were not Communists,
while he squandered money upon the Carl.
| baldian corps of cut-thronts and brigands
from Italy and Greece. The result is q
| resolution of the Government to remodel
| completely the municipal administration
guarantee that in future the government
ofLyons shall not be the rule of mscreants.
GERMANY.
The PruSSian Episcopnte.-The attitude
of the Prussan Bishops is admirable. They
are about to meet at Fulda, and as soon as
the new infamous ecclesiastical laws pass
the Lower House, will address protest to
the King and the House of Peers. Two
thirds of the committee of twenty-one to
is believed, vote in favor of them, and the
reporter, DIR. Geniest, is bitter anti Cath
Ollie. They are, therefore, certain to come
back to the House with favourable re-
port, in spite of the opposition of the min
ority in tho committee, comprising Herr
en- Won Mallinckrodt, August Reichens-
perger, and Brul, Protestant Conserva-
tive. Then will come the time for the
Bishops to speak collectively, but DR.. Con-
rad Martin, Bishop of Paberb born, has taken
the bull by the horns, and affeady address
ed declaration to the Prime Minister, in
which he states first that the laws are
negation and humiliation of the Constitu-
ton ton secondly, they, tend to destroy every
kind of ecclesiastical organization thirdly,
that they would entail the violation of his
oath as Bishop; and that consequently
he can never under any circumstances lend
his hand to putting them into execution.
Lutheran Protest.-The Lutheran Synod
has addressed g petition and formal pro-
testation against the new ecclesiastical
laws to the Landtag. 1t represents that
under the said laws, any exercise of dis
ciplinary authority will be totally impossi-
Bile, as the offenders according to the new
laws must not be named. "The Govern
ment, 1T adds, "by these laws, has set it
sell In direct opposition, not only to the |
rights of all Churches and sects, bat to the |
express words and commands of Christ and |
His Apostles; and it has thereby. entered
on an anti Christian course, by following
out which it may easily arrive at forbid
ding the administration of the Sacraments |
and the preaching OF the Word of God I'M
der penalties, and finally will Danish the
Church of Christ from all public life. These
avs are in fragrant contradiction with the
constitutional Charter, Article Is, which
secure to the Roman Catholic and the Ev-
angelical Church, as well as to every other
religious society, the indepen deut ordering
and government of their respective con-
Germs. These laws are in equal opposition
20 the highest intereets of the State itself.
sound policy always holds fast to the prin-
'iple of Roman Jurisprudence, 'peccata'
1ocentium nota esse ct oportere ct expedire,
md in so lawless time as the present, the
state ought to rejoice at the possession by
he Christian churches of public disciplin-
.ry powers, which may come to it's help.
tbs qnite impossible that such proposal
IAN ever become the law of the land.n