The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-12-22
CHURCH N STATE.
THE GLADSTONE AGITATION.

The London correspondent OF the Cincin-
natl Commercial, writing under date of
Nov. 2S, gives an unusually interesting
chapter of personal history connected wish
the appearance of Mr.. Gladstone's late PATE
phlet on the Vatican DEGREES :: The agita-
ton which Mr.. Gladstone's pamphlet
against Catholicism has caused, awakens in
me a vivid remembrance ofthe evening when
it was inscribed on the iron leaf Of rate that
this blow should be administered. 1t was
that on which the Irish Catholics abandoned
BIN and joined the tories in defeating bis
Irish University bill. The humiliation of
that defeat was peculiar. In framing his
plan Mr.. Gladstone had strained the friend
ship of his nonconformist supporters to
the utmost, and had awakened general dis.
trust among Protestants. And, after all
this, the Irish liberals-eIected as
his own soldiers-tore up his costly con-
cession to their church, and threw the frag-
ments in his lace. Looking that night on
the pallid face of G~ladstone-who seemed
suddenly to become eighty-the suspicion
crossed my mind that he had been flirting
more deeply with Romanism than the world
had yet known. Ii he had ever loved the
most ancient See in Christendom, that night
his love was turned to hate. Bat while
he sat in stony stiffness his parliament
tary friends and supporters could not
contain themselves. They rushed into
the peo,t lobby crying out against the
stone stood in the lobby, his face rcd with
wrath, as he gesticulated and poured forth
his invectives against the Catholics. / Joined
the circle around him. at is all owe now
he cried, "they have broken faith with us.
We have been defeated by the pope. The
vatican has become a chamber of the En-
gIsn Parliament. But they win have rea-
son to repent il. It's our turn nowi" Mr..
Gladstone was not a man for the Cstho-
lies TO offend lightly. No man better thar
he knew the vulnerable heel of Romanism
in Great Britain. No man In England
knew better that this defeat, with which his
downfall began, was the result of a cardi-
NAILS whip, and that the handle of it was
held by Antonelli. No man has more en-
perience OF the jealousy OF Professionalism in
this country, or was more fully aware that
the ace o trumps may always be made "no
popery." Disraeli is not in 2 position 70 play
It; he can not afford to offend The Irish
Catholics. Hawthorne's story of the man
with
SERPENT IN HIS BOSOM,
ever needing to be fed, and threatening to
throttle him il not fed, is true OF every Eng
lish prime minister. The snake (tbe meta
phor will not go on all fours) is the Irish
Catholic vote in Parliament, and it has now
been transferred from the breast of Glad
stone TO that of Disraeli. He may "put
down ritualism" as much as he pleases. for
the tories are angry at everything which
compromises the self-subsistence OF the ma
tional church, but be must conciliate Cath
olics. 1t is now within the bounds Of posi-
bility that Mr.. Gladstone may float into
power again On the swelling anti.
Catholic cry which gathers fast
around us. There is a pre-.
vailing impression among the people
that the Jessuits are coming in unusual
numbers to this country because Of theil
roubles in other lands. and indeed Their
does seem to be an increase in the number o
black uniforms on our streets. However
that may be, certain il is hat there is a ris
Ing bitterness manifested toward Catholics
Just now / heard a we'll dressed man exclain
loudly, on passing some priests, There g
the black beetles!' Here in Kensington
where the pro-Cathedral and the new collegI
stand, the walls are scrawled with such sen
fences as No Popery," "Down with Man
ning," /" Converts places of crime" Ever,
night this latter sentence is chalked in larg
letters on the Catholic Retreat in thi
neighborhood, and on the Bromptoi
Oratory;. it is rubbed out ever
day, but each morning finds it re
newed. Some say we are on the verge of
c~onflagration. The feelings of the Catholic
toward Mr.. Gladstone is ndescribablV BIT
ter, particularly because he has brought q
light the skeleton in their -closet-namelv
an extensive division in the ranks who's
unity has so long been their prOudest boast
No longer can they point to the division O
Professionalism rs contrasted with their owl
unity, when every Gay the papers TEEN wit
the letters of eminent Catholics repudiatinl
the Vatican DEGREES. While a Butte and
Ripon are seen going in at one door, al
Acton, a Camoys and y Petre are seen de
parting at another.
Blu there is another element in this cas-
which has not attracted much attention il
this country, and probably has not been al
luded to in America, but which may We
prove to have been a very important one il
determining the curse of Mr.. Gladstone
Society of st. Sebastian, which has its head
quarters in Ireland and and has gradual.
f extended over a large part of Europe. 1t
t object is the restoration Of the tempora
/ power of the pope. Among its member
are some of the new Irish members OF PAL
lament. One of these, Mr.. O'Clery, havin
served as a papal zouave, was created b
the pope a knight of the orde
, of st. Gregory. This gentleman, nc
long ago declared that he deemed
!: A HIGHER HONOR
to have served as a papal zouave than TO be
member of the British Parliament. Th
. Irish Brigade, which was organized for rt
sisuance to the king of Italy, is indeed tn
center of the Society of st. Sebastian. Ez
actly what this association is about, Jus
now. is not generally known, but that it
) in some connection with the Carlist insul
~rection, that it has representatives in Gel
I many, and that it is anxious to kindle
general European conffagration, are thing
f not in the least doubtful. Its leader j
; Ireland, the member of Parliament (Hom
Ruler already referred to, recent
, said in a speech at Cork: al loo
t forward to the time when Catholic Irelan
will share with Catholic France the gloriou
' task of restoring the holy father 20 his pos
. sessions" The society has a paper Gale