The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-08-30


to to- have BEEN ''rvery possible sir. 1 think
also it is the first time a Mr.. Smith has beer
Duke of Northumberland !n
| 1hsre seem to be some persons near Mr.
taunton FISH who profess to be better ind pes
OF style than he is; and some of these saw that
tne ring OF the dispatches is other than the
gaiianG oid Admiral Polo would have given in
| style, but as to the signature. Bnt r see moth.
ing In The style not in the competence of an
ora wary officer of Spain, goaded to desperation
py the imbeciles of Madrid.
But, with style, or precedents, or works of
,nIernal evidence, have nothing to do |
hoid the transcript of the dispatches on the
e ,ot s on which l have received them, I do
u! noo holo them subject to the call of Mr.. Ham.
ilton Fish nor of1hny one oocunving nnbiic
place. Had the neopie, of the United States
az ao n;es, had men fitted for their
Washin gton. or at Madrid, or at Berlin. /
would have had no revelations possible for me
to make. The matter was " on the cards - a
year ago.
have only to say to the Herald. whose fora
cast In this matter was correct that am GER
tam of my information, and that ought not
a ana, therefore, will not betray the source
o"he one Day says it does not doubt nv hon
estS: ou1 may be the "dupe" of some Carlist
again, with remarkably bland air, it invited
me to produce my documents, because old Mr.
Fish thinks they are not authentic The Ere
ntn9 Post remarks on the fact that these dozen
ments, so interesting tothe American public,
800 hS' aubueubICaGiOn, because thew
n n4ve oeen given by a paper of avowedly
" Papst and Carlist sympathies" At first |
thought the suggestion intended to be often |
siye: but, on second reading I see that the
Post, being Puritan and Plymouth, . considers
any amount of false assertion and, perhaps
false swearing altogether in order for the
Promotlon OF the cause one has at heart /
decline altogether that Puritan code of morals
Following the code was reared in and have
made my own, do not seek to promote any
dearest cause by my lie.
7 stand ~
me, and declare that the overtures of the
wretched Spanish Junta at Madrid and the re-
'ponses of Admiral Polo are such as 1 have
stated them to be. 1 will COMPROMISE no one |
oy revealing my sources of information at
present. In shoIt time-it may be some
nonths-when King Carlos VII. will be in the
and hold Madrid and all the SPANS,
OF their honor will, perhaps, tell who my
nformants have been.
The Herald has had the kindness short
i ime go to Say the story of my being made
Jug; also OF my looking after any other Papal |
ionor. Please, then, let me say that your
suggestion as my being the Pen
qually absurd. The true Spaniards that hold
'ith their King are q very noble people, but
hey are the most jealous of nations All they .
SIX is to be let alone This done, King Carlos
III soon settle with the foes of order in Spain.
IL nave done has been private ia the st, =
lchsefs Association of New York, to help in ,
'nnding little aid to the Pontifcal Zouaves in
~ Spain, IOr nO3plGal IurpOS6S-
d (under Her Royal Highness Donna Blanca, a
lie OF Don Alfonso, brother of the King) as r
eeiy used for the unhappy oonscripts of the
adrid Dictatorship as for the Carlist wound
But, coming, some months ago, into ACCT n
ntat knowledge of the intrigues of the over g
own and insolent German Empire for getting 81
foothold through which to expand it's poweP OF
this Western hemisphere, my sentiments, as n,
democrat of the old school, and an adherent r
its fullest extent of the " Monroe doctrineD "
he nla 81 II an
thorizcd. That have done, and that-te
, confusion of Serrano and of Bismarck-I m
dice has SO perfectly succeeded. :.
JAkES- A. MONSTER ="