The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-01-18
ING STAR MESSENGER JANUARY ls 1874
lnscELLANKoUs 1oRKIaN NEWS.
ITO Dec. a7th.l
HUNGARY.

ITO Dec. 27th.l
HUNGARY.
Hungary is about to lose the services of
the Nestor of her statesmen, the man to
whom she owes her national independence
and her existence as a political 'entity.
Francis Deak has determined upon with
drawing from the leadership of his party
and resigning his seat in tie Diet. a It Is
not likely that the organization of the mod
crate Liberal party will long survive the
retirement of it's founder and maipstay.
Whatever Deak's shortcomings may be, he
has always been a sincere and Jealous
supporter of the Catholic Church .aud a
tower of strength of true Conservatism.
Henceforth Catholicity will have to- look to
King Francis Joseph for protection against
the Vaccinations Of its enemies in the
realm of st. Stephen, who, though, CON-
Paratively few in number, make tp for
their Inherent weakness by sounl and
fury" 1t is generally thought that the
present administration will not sable to
hold its ground much longer. 1t viii have
to make room either for the Radicals,
headed by Tieaa Karoly, whose immediate
aim would be to destroy Deak's WORK and
undo the settlement Of 1867 or'to the
q fervent Catholic, for its leader, whose
parliamentary autecedents proclaim him
statesman of the first water. In the latter
event it is to be hoped that by propitiating
the various Slavonic pationalities belong
ing to the Transleithan Commonwe alth,
szenneyi will secure good working ma
jority, and thereby succeed in guarding the
true interests of the country and the
Church entrusted to his safe keeping.
B1sMARck's CONSISTENCY.
His Serene Highness Prince Bismarck
has very strange views of his own on a
great many things, and more especially on
political morality and consistency! Five
and-twenty years ago, when member of
the Prussian Revolutionary Parliament of
1845, he on one occasion made an excellent
and most telling speech against a proposal
by which the French system of compulsory
registration was to be substituted for the
religious solemnization of marriages con-
tending that civil marriages, as they are
termed, were Gallicism both in name and
in nature, and expressing hope that he
should live to see the day "when the
fools vessel of the age would founder on
the rock of the Church." His address
proved a great success at the time, and the
motion so forcibly opposed by him was
eventually rejected. During the last few
he has presided on and off for more than
eleven years, brought in bill by virtue of
which the very principle that Bismarck
had whilom resisted tooth and nail is to
become the law of the land and, instead
of hiding his shame in the seclusion of
coming down to the house and attending
the proceedings on the subject. Thereupon
the doyen of the Landtag, DR.. Won Gerlach,
member Of the Centre party, twitted the
great man with his inconsistency and
treated bis audience to some elegant ex
tracts" from the chancellor's slashing
speech of five-and- twenty years ago as
regular argumentum adj hominem. Then
the great man rose to his feet and proceed
ed to show CONNIE quot consistency is a
very good thing in private life, but will
never do for a statesman, least of all for
statesman ofBismarck's stamp. The great
aim and object of Prussan statecraft at the
present day ia to combat Ultramontanism,
and as a means to put down "episcopal re-
volutionism" the introduction of civil mar
riages, though of questionable morality. in
itself, must convey its own justification.
This strange doctrine, that the end jusGifies
the means, is generally, though of course
erropeously, fathered on Bismarck's great
bugbear-the Jesuits. Then how could he
by any possibility borrow his weapons
mics of fatherland - But any stick will
do to beat q dog with and thus civil mar
riages, though "Gallicism,n must now be
resorted to as an arm against Rome. Still
any Jesuit could tell Bismarck that rather
than agree to q measure opposed to his
conscience he would throw up his brief and
resign his office. But then Bismarck is not
Jesuit while making war on them and
their alleged doctrines, he considers "poli-
tica1 hypocrisy" very good means to the
achievement of a political end. And now
he wants to convince his followers that by
the government registration of marriages
in Prussia the power of the See of Rome
will be smashed to pieces.
ROMAN CHURCHES ANb. TIE VATICAN.
The leaders of the Revolutionary opin-
ion in Rome are jealous of the activity of
their friends and brothers in Germany aud
Switzerland, and are eager to do something
towards the virtual suppression of the
Catholic religion. They are endeavoring
to get up an agitation for the seizure, in
spite of the law of guarantees, of oil public
monuments, Basilicas and churches includ-
ed, 30 that the State may acq uire the pow
er of dealing with the religion Of Rome, as
the Prussian Government is preparing to
deal with the religion of Germany, and as
the SWISS Governments have already dealt
with Catholics in Berne and Geneva. Es-
pecislly they desire to bring about the an.
nexation of the Vatican Library and
Museum, hoping by this means to drive
the Holy Father out Of the only habitable
palace left to him. We may expect soon
to Hitness q definite ATTEMPT in this dir