The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-08-16
Ecclesiastical Intervention.

not to have anything to do with party poll
tics and that it has lately been meddlinl
with those matters. All of this is to b
found in an article of last Wednesday il
that journal.
Let us see. AS to the LIST point w
deny that this is an ecclesiastical paper il
the ordinary sense of the word. 1t is
Catholic family paper. IC is not every
Catholic who is an ecclesiastie the vas
majority of them are laymen. Just 30 the
great majority of Catholic papers are secu
lar and not ecclesiastical even when edited
by ecclesiastics. Suppose o priest should
write on surgery or music, the work would
not for that reason be ecclesiastical.
As to the second point-that we ought
not to NEEDLE in party politics,-that is
precisely our opinion, and we never do it.
In this the Republican would do we'll to
profit by our example. We assert that the
Republican is an essentially sectariau; or, as
| it terms it, ecclesiastical paper. tbs, if We
are not mistaken, Low Church Methodist
(or perhaps Baptist we forget which).
It's affinities are, we believe, with Mrs.
Van Colt. Not only is it sectarian, but
the chief of sectarian papers in this city
faeile princeps. Slurs and ISLANDERS against
Catholicity, that the Presbyterian and
Christian Advocate would exclude from
their columns as too baseless, the Repu1h-
can hashes up with as much gusto as though
they had not died natural death and been
buried many years ago. Yet the Republic
can, Notwithstanding its theology, does
not hesitate to take hand in poll
tics,-and what kind of hand Why,
the hand of Briareus to be sure,--that is,
with hundred branches to it and every
one OF them in the Treasury. The Repub-
Hcan may deny being ecclesiastical, be-
cause it does not care SO much for the
flock in this vicinity. True enough, but it
makes up for that GOODNESS by it's devotion
to the fleece.
Its third point is that the MORNING
STAR deals in party politics. This we
deny, and have often explained our posi-
tion in that matter. A Catholic paper
ought to be neutral in politics, Us are many
secular papers, from the fact that it has
patrons among all parties. AS widely as
men may disagree inpolitics, they can unite |
on the common ground of Catholicity, and. |
in sustaining journal which devotes itself
in considerable part to Catholic interests,
they ought not to find themselves inveigled
into sustaining partizan paper adverse to
their own views. This paper therefore has
nothing to say upon the national |
questions that divide the two great parties,
but it contends, and has always commended,
that the oppression and plunder of the
South under set of marauders who choose
to call themselves Republicans, cannot be
classed as question of party politics or
any other kind of politics. Carpet. baggery
is as far from politics as piracy is from war.
The attitude of the public printer on
this QUESTION is most edifying. See how
oiously the man who takes away your cloak
argues that you ought to give him your
'oat also. He quotes from this paper as
peaking of:
The undoubted right that the white men in
his State have to rise in arms against the
earful despotism that is crushing it under ir-
eparable ruin, ,
nd then adds quite ironically: ,
This is admirable doctrine for au apostle of
'eaco and good will among men.
Why the innocent Quaker! He evil
emily thinks that the Christian idea of
peace includes submission to every
omer who chooses to call you slave, and
hat good will would prohibit the pun
'ment of robbers and assassins. This ia
cry convenient idea of Christianity for
hose who patrorize it just as far as they {
an profit by it. ,
As to the negro, our position towards
i'm is one of kindness. We desire to pre-.
ent him in his folly from running himself i
long with the State. If a man sees his 8
wn son about to do deed of insanity, he 6
annot be blamed for taking apparently 6
arsh measures to deprive him of the op- t
ortunity. Because the negroes, under Y
le instigation of bad white men, have de- Z
rmined to ruin the white people for the Il
of these few adventurers y
no profess to be their friends, we do not n