The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-03-20
Attest: ). L. SHELDON, Coroner.

ST. BARIHoLoMEw's Massacre AZ GIVEN IN Ap-
PLEroN's CYcLoPXDIA or EIaHrEEs YEARs AGO
AND THE VRRsIoH N THE NEW Az JEsuIrHED
BY DR.. O'REuLY.
The old Cyclopedia gives nearly three pages
to this event (vol. II. PIP. 68i-7), and the New
Cyclopadia less than two pages (vol. H. Do.
347-9). The old begins by calling 1t .' a fright
full and nearly general assassination OF the
Huguenots in Paris" II seems sufficiently
fair toward the Catholics, LAYING the crime
chiefly at the door of Queen Catherine de-
Medici; but says :" 1t Is known that the Duke
Of Alva and the Cardinal Lorraine had both
counseled an open and general massacre OF the
Protestants throughout the kingdom on sew
eral previous occasions" The colonng OF the
story in the New Cyclopadla is much tanner
than in the Old one, and the two articles seem
to have been written by different hands. In
the Old Cyclopadia it Is called "tragical deed, -
"a frightful massacre" horrid slaughter. .
"blackening the Kings name with everlasting
infamy," scene OF havoc, horror. and disor-
der, " hideous deed" bloody coup de- eto;. 8
and "heinous political crime"
None of these graphic phrases referring to
the Massacre are used IN the New Cyclopedia.
and it omits also the statement that the Duke
OF Ava and the Cardinal Lorraine advised a
general massacre OF the Proteetants in France.
one Of these men being the trusted general
OF Philip H., the Most Catholic King OF Spain,
and the other an exalted. French d,gnitary of
the Roman Catholic Church.
The New Cyclopedia quotes long passage
from lingard the Catholic historian of Eng
land, but nothing is quoted from any Protest
ant writer; and to excuse the supposed CON-
plicity OF the Pope for having re Deum sung
at Rome over the event, a quotation Is made
from dispatch written in .cypher by the I'apal
nuncio at Paris month after the massacre.
This dispatch is alluded to in the old Cyclo-
pedIa, while in the New quotation is given
from it. Nearly half the account IN the New
Cyclopgdia is devoted to pslating Roman
Catholic connection with this event, and the
horrible details in the old Cyclopedla are con-
densed or omitted.
As the witnesses are all dead and the litera-
ture of that age cannot furnish much new
liSht, we have ground for believing that DIR.
O'ReIlly doctored this article also: for the
Massacre OF St. Bartholomew's Day has been a
standing reproach against the Roman Catholic
Church. He argues the case in favor of the
Pope with all the ingenuity OF jesuit. and
shows that he learned their tricks "a well az i,
he had been one OF them. Let every reader
who would judge fairly OF the religious spin,
Of this Cyclopedia, where the Roman Catholic
Church is touched, read the two articles on 81.
Bartholomew Massacre. We AJAX nobody 10
take our statement without veriioation. And
the same difference will be found to exist be
tween the account in the old and the New
Cyclop@dias-The latter having been Jesuitized
by DR. O'Reiy-of
BISHOP BONNER.
In these days, when the Episcopal succes-
sion" has taken a new start, il is important 70
know as much as possible about Bishops.
Those Bishops, therefore. who were leaders in
exciting times, and who stamped their policy
upon the Church.-or rather we're used by the
Church to carry out her established policy
are figures of chief interest.
The old CycIopedia Cvol. ii. pp. 4ss--90) de-
votes to Bishop Edmund Bonner upwards OF 4