The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-12-06
No Popsry
ILouisville Ledger. Nov. a7.l

"a ooi'uoeS oI our country men, Gh8G we warn
them there is reason to believe that a de-
liberate and concerted effort is making
to raise this disgraceful cry in this free
country, in the belief that it will subserve
the interestpof political party. We
directed attention in these columns some
days sipce to the fact that every radical
paper that had noticed the Gladstone pam
phlet had made it the occasion for a more
or less covert attack upon the Catholic
Church and the loyalty of our Catholic fell
low citizens and these attacks have already
become SO marked and so open that 1t is
almost impossible to mistake their mean
ing.
The Chicago Tribune, which has certainly
redeemed its promise of being under Mr..
Medill's management a thoroughly radical
paper, and which may properly be desig
mated the organ of the party in the North
west, leads off in this matter, and sounds
no uncertain note. Its zeal indeed is SO
great as to make it forgetful of it's manners.
1t has allowed itself to speak in the most
disrespectful terms of the venerable Arch
bishop of Baltimore, in commenting upon q
letter written by that prelate IN reply to
one from member of his Church, asking
his opinion of Mr.. Gladstone's statement
"that every Catholic is called upon to TO-
nounce his mental and moral freedom and
place his civil loyalty and duty at the
mercy of another" The Archbishop's let
ter was not written for publication, and is
dashed off in that delightfully."- racy, I'M
reserved and ingenious manner which is
one OF the Chief charms of q confidential
letter, and that would convince any but the
most unfriendIy critic of it's perfect honesty
and sincerity. That which particularly ex-
cited the ire and indignation of the Tribune,
against'the Archbishop's letter, was the
declaration in it, "when person tells me
that my religion requires me to be disloyal
to my country the old Adam comes up in
me, and feel more disposed to pull his nose
than to answer him politely" Now this
disposition may be little unbecoming in
an Archbishop, but it is most natural to o
Maryland gentleman, and we acknowledge
2. he hearty sympathy with. it, and recognize
lt az most convincing proof of Archbishop
Bayleys patriotism and loyalty. Indeed,
we are by no means sure that nose-pulling
isn't altogether the properest answer to
such charge, and the fittest argument to
address to its supporters. 1t really seems
IKE waste of reason to prefer it to
newspaper that, like the Chicago Tribune,
believes, or affects to believe, that Arch
bishop Manning has summoned a congress
to meet in London to demand the surrender
of the temporal power of Great Britain to
the Pope!
an editorial of the Chicago Tribune, which
we print in another column. 1t is a gra-
tuitous and provoked Insult to every Cath
olic in the United States. 1t is, to speak of
it as it deserves to be spoken of, a peace of
insolence that makes one long for some
nose pulling layman that will administer
the rebuke it deserves. And painting at
the heels of it's bigger brother comes the
Cincinnati Gazette yelping its feeble note
in the same strain, and whining over the
thread bare theme of Jesuitical" reserva-
ton. In reading the article from the
that it is inspired by jealousy of any claim
for infallibility in any quarter except that
of "the government" it adores 1.-THE
government" is harped upon ad nauseam,
and will be found referred to by name no
less than four times in the short extract
Catholics in the impertinent style which
the Tribune has adopted is claimed for
"every true subject of the Government,"-
phrase which will soon cease to be ridicu-
ious if the spirit which prompts the Chicago
Tribune be unrepressed. 1t is the spirit
of intolerance which in all ages has been
the arch foe of freedom, and which is never
satisfied until it has made "subjects" of all
who come within it's reach. That spirit
has always existed in this country, in it's
vilest and lowest form. 1t is continu ally
showing iteelf in just such unauthorized,
im pertinent, inquisitorial intermeddling in
the opinions of others as that We are now
considering. 1t has its embodiment in
that most despicable of all animals, the
canting, whining, self righteous New Eng
lana Radical, and his canting, whining,
seif-righteous progeny, to the third and
fourth generation and it is this beast that
is now preparing to below the mo Po-
perry cry. We protest against is as an
insult to the honor and intelligence of the
country as a cruel aud cowardly attempt
at oppression as a strike of the assassin
at the civil and religious freedom of the
people.
1t will be to no end that we bring rea-
son to bear against these fanatics. 1t will
avail nothing to point out to them that their
crazy deductions are unsupported by facts,
that all experience is against them that
Catholics like Protestants have been good
citizens and true to governments that pro-
tected them, and false and hostile where
they have been i'll used and prosecuted.
Archbishop Bayley declares of MT. Glad
stones charge that sit is false-a shameful
calumny-and would appeal with per-
feet confidence as to the truth of my as
sertions to the conscience of every Catholic
over the face of the EARTH" After stating
that Archbishop Manning exhausts the ar
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