The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-04-19
HONOR TO CATHOLIC JOURNALIST.

HONOh ~ a ChkhOLAS JVoANAAAoA.
BRIEF OF THE HOLY FATHER TO LOUIS
yEUILLoT, EDITOR OF THE PARIS UNIvERS.
From the Freemans' Journal
M. Lonis Veuillot, the renowned editor
of the Unirers, of Paris, has had much to
suffer- during his long career as the first
and best champion of the Catholic Press in
Christendom. 1t is precisely thirty years
ago, this 9th of April on which we are
writing, that venerable priest, the Able
Combalot, was condemned to fifteen days
imprisonment and four thousand francs fine,
for pamphlet in defence of the "Liberty of
Education for Catholics" against the
doctrinairc University monopoly of Louis
Philippe's Government. M. Louis Vueillot,
then young as a Catholic journalist, avenged
the honor of the Able Combalot, with that
pen of his that, " in the hands of one en-
tirely wise is mightier than the sword"
Among other things he said "M. the Able
Combalot has DETAINED the University, his
memoir has been suppressed, he will 90 to
prison, he will pay the fine. Nothing great,
or useful, triumphs IN this rorld, 'cithout
traveling that road :"
For defending the Rev. Able Combalot,
Louis Veuillot, and the publisher of his
paper, were prosecuted and condemned to
one months prison, and three thousand
francs fine, with costs, etc.
In 1860, Louis Veuillot-who had sup
ported Louis Napoleon 80 long as the latter
gave peace to France and did not prosecute
Gods Church, having disregarded two
warnings " that he must not take the
side of the Vicar of Christ against that
arch hypocrite and Carbonaro. called Ma
poleon I'LL, had his paper, q Univers sup
pressed, for having published the Papal
Encyclical Nullis certe, in which the Holy
Father exposed the hypocrisy of Louis
Napoleon in helping on the Italian usurpa-
ton of the Piedmontese robbers. This
suspension of the UnircrS lasted for seven
years.
In 1871, during the seige of Paris, the
| Unircrs was published, half of it in Paris,
the other half at Nantes, at Bordeaux, or
| wherever the undaunted editors that &C
eompanied it conld find a shelter from the
| German invaders. Louis Vueillot remained
in Paris. When the Commune was
proclaimed there, the Unirers was sup
pressed, again. 1t was not for long.
Now for the fourth time, Louis Neuillot
has had the honor of suffering for his glo-
rious and fearless defence of the Church,
| and of the Vicar of Christ. On the 10Th of
January. lately passed, the Unirers pub
lished the Pastoral of the Bishop of Peri
gueux, promulgating and commenting on,
Holy Father. His prosecutor, this time,
was " NJ. le due de Broglie," polite al
manager of the abortive Septenate or
| Seven Years What is It" that calls itself
the Government of France. M. Brolie gave
| several reasons, publicly and privately, for
this lawless act. These reasons were dis
cordant, and impossible of reconciliation,
one with the other. If the "late lamented"
Candidate of a "late lamented" part of the
Democratic Party, for the Presidency
| Horace Greeley-were alive and writing,
and found such a doubled and twisted
potroon as Broglie in his way, he would
have said to him, as he did TO another
humbup in hiS undiDlomatic Dlain snaech e.