The New York herald., 1874-08-10
BISMARCK and THE CATHOLICS.
Result Of the Attempted Assassination
Of the German Premier.
The Catholic Societies of
Berlin Closed
WAR AGAINST THE PAPAoY.
The uItramontanes and the
Social Democracy.


NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. July "a, 1874.
The attempted assassination OF Prince Bismarck
ID stii the chief topic OF discussion in the press,
ana the "afterwoes'' are just beginning to be felt
No one living OUTSIDE Of Germany can possibly
Imagine the amount Of incorporate, angry Ian
guage used BY the oncial press OF Germany against
The ultramontanes. The German Catholics must
ieei terribly hurt and nsulted by the accusations
hurled indiscrlmtnately at them. The Berlin
omcial press has revealed its worst features, has
insulted day after day millions OF loyal German
citizens, and is only just now beginning, appa-
rently by orders from higher quarters, to back
down rom the high, virtu0us pedestal 1t has
occupied for Q week, and to endeavor to
calm the storm Of angry passions it has
naturally aroused In the minds OF men
falsely accused of crtme-of complexities in
the anatr OF Kissingen. The language OF the
kreNz- Zettun0 and of the Norddeutsche AuOeretne
Zettung has been intemperare. unfeelng, unjust
and repusive IN the highest degree. The pietistic
Krez Zettung SO far forgcts itself to IN the
Kissngen AFFAIR not only "rhe finger of God in the
Balvati0n OF Prince Bismarck's life, but also in the
permitting the deed to be attempted" again the
pious ultra Protestant sheet considers that ''On
the 18th OF May the Divine seal was placed by God
on the May ecclesiastical laws.n What the Nord-
deNtsche AU0ennefne Zettung has In mind when It
considers the ''goomy day OF Kisslngen will be
glorious morning In the history OF the wo-ldn
l am unable to say. The ultramontane and the
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES
viii certainly not mark this day with white
stone In their annals for 1t has given the govern
ment the long wished Tor opportunity of taking
The offensive against them ION the whole line,u
as You Will see further on in this letter. The Ger
man press as a whole Is guilty OF prejudginQ tho
ulrramontanes, simply because short-sighted, in.
firm, harmless old priest accidentally got before
the horses OF the Princes carriage when Kullmann
took IL upon himself to rid the world Of one whom
he considered tyrant and prosecutor OF the
Church to which he belonged. They began by
SOARING UP A RELIGIOUS CoMPLOr
against the Chancellor's life. The NoYddeutsche
AU0enetne zettung fancied that Germany, the
pious nursery, had been transformed into Roman
murderer's den - and O Frankfort paper, which
gets its inspiration from Berlin could say, without
q blush, that sit had come to pretty state OF
things when the old man Of the mountain could
sit in the Vatican, and from this throne command
murder and assassination whenever he chose.
An on1cial OF the Empire, who has drawn upon
himself the dissatisfaction OF the Pope, Is no
longer sale OF his life even in the midst of Ger
many, and cannot take the waters at o bathing
place without being guarded by military escorts
'sThe thought is grand one," answers the dem
ocratic Frankfort zettuno, "to 25,oOo.ooo fighters
for civilization come about 14000 600 papal gen.
darmes hangmen,' waiting to execute the orders
received from the Vatican,
ACCUSATIONS OF THE BERLIN PRESS.
But II We are to believe the Norddeutsche AL
penaeine zettung then the Jesuits are at the bot
tom OF the attempted assassination, as they have
been, we suppose, at the root Of every political
murder since the development OF the Order. Such,
at least, is the popular logic. The first comparison
OF Kullmann by the Berlin papers was with Fran.
cois Ravaiac, the murderer of King Henri w.,
and to support the comparison the NOrddeutsche
Al0emeine zeitung brought an entire column Of
quotations from the WORKS OF celebrated Jesuit
writer's prove that, according to the tenets held
by them, assassination was in some cases justifa-
BILE and for the good Of humanity. And undoubt-
edly 1t was, as historians do not hesitate to say
Here, as everywhere, the figure Of Hanthaler
seems to have stood before the of1cia vision like
q terrible nightmare rs the leader of diabollcal
plot concocted by the Catholic societies to which
Kullmann belonged. The papers cried out day
after day that the
"INTELLECrUAL oRIGINAroRs" OF THE PLOT
should be sought out and brought to punishment
The Berlin Auto0raphic Correspondence demanded
as the necessary consequence or the Kissingen
attempted assassination "that those persons re-
teTTluR 10 leauerS duu speakers OI Jne CaLn0liC
Union) who have stirred up the agitation should
De subjected to the sharpest weapons which the
law has placed in the hands of the government"
The same journal made Kuilmann to be the .'rep-
resentative OF the rude, ignorant masses of the
Catholic population, filed by persons OF ecclesias
tcal authority with q deadly hatred against the
German Empire and it's Chancellor" This Ian
guage, which represents only too well the tone OF
the entire Berlin press, received sharp rebukes
from some Of the more temperate journals OF the
South. The Frankfort Journal declared 1t was
time ior an end to be made to the insane hue and
cry against the ultramontane party. Truly" 1t
said, tbs is the same method with which we charge
the Jesuits first insinuate the crime and then de.
nounce the punishment. The principle of the pun
ishable moral completely OF political party in the
crime OF an individual or in coiDpl0t is logical
absurdity. We demand that the guilty persons be
sought out and punished; but we refuse to admit
the principle Of moral completely on the basis OF
which campaign Of persecution can be opened
against an entire party"
HOUSE SEARCHING.
Yet the very first step which the government
takes is to open an attack on the Catholic party.
The residences OF o number OF prominent leaders
Of Catholic societies have been searched by the po-
lice. Last Saturday the private dwelling OF Chris
toph Joseph Crsmer, the acting editor Of the Ber-
Iiu 0e'"~"", wal seurCheo py tue pOllce, VINO
conhscated letters, manuscripts and some PAM
pnlets. The next visit OF the police, seven
In number, was to the house of LIE.
CATION Councillor Won Keller, the Secretary
Of the Mayence Catholic Union, and their booty
was considerable, about eighty documents letters,
circulars, the names OF the members OF the society,"
On the same evening Herr von Kehler's worKroom
In the Radziwin Palace was also searched, and
again on the following morning. but without any
great results. The place Of meeting OF the Berlin
Catholic Gesellenveren tunion of journeymsn). tho
house Of Vicar Spiritual Councillor Muller uhe
Iather of Catholic societies In Berlin) were
proving that the government suspects
the existence of conspiracy against the Empire.
And these police inquistions have been followed,
quick as thunder alter lightning, by the temporary
CLOSING OF THE CATHOLIC SOCIETIES OF BERLIN.
The Retchsanzei0er OF the 21st inst. ntains the