The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-03-21

would have been neither riot nor Ill.,,
shed. But this firebrand missionary my
he held account tai BILE for all that transni. u !
His miserable cowardice when the dstns1
aDce that he himself created, culmins,sI
is just on par with his malignity and
chartableness.
WHAT A MEXICAN MERCHANT HAS To s.v
THE ACAPULCO AFFAIR.
General Rosecrans brought Co the on.
of the Post, Friday, February 26th, a Mss
lean gentleman, Don Juan Huarte, fo,sH
erly a merchant of Acapulco, but now
siding in Colima, who is recently fnN
Mexico, and who is acquainted with A.
parties aud circumstances of the AcapnlE
massacre. General Rosecrans knew him
Mexico, and vouches for his reliabilis
Don Juan Huarte's account of the affair &.
as follows:
The widow of Senior Rosales built
chapel in Acapulco on her own property h
her own devotion and for her SOD, ~
was educated and ordained q priest in o.
city of Mexico, but who died some h.
years afterward, leaving his sister, Ma
in q small town north of Acapulco. Pm
copio Diaz, the leader of the Protesbs
movement, has lived for twenty yean e
this neighborhood, and has made Eis livh
as clerk. He has published ten to fifts
numbers of scurrilous anti Catholic shes
Procopio DiaE wrote to Mr.. Hatchinsc
in Mexico, that all the people Of Acaput3
were ready to receive Protestant pastc
but on his arrival in Acapulco Mr.. Hutd
ipson publicly stated that DiaE had d
ceived him. The only members Of Ii
Protestant congregation were twenty
thirty stevedores. Don Huarte furh
states that it is publicly notorious as /
Diaz received two dollars q day for
services to the Protestant minister. 81
settling in Acapulco Mr.. Hutchinson
piled to the Gefe Politico for the use Of d
chapel belonging to the Rosales family,
the Gefe assigned it to the Protesu
mission.
Diaz, in his little paper, immediate
tegan series of libelous articles again
the parish priest, accusing him of idolatE
SHINING, selling the sacramento, absolute
and communion, of being a debaucbs
character, etc. The American Consult
Acapulco testified to the irreproachak
morals and integrity of this priest Ped
Justi, aud Mr.. Hutchinson likewise vi
kuowledged that n" evidences whateu
could be found to implicate him in co.,
spiracy. Mr.. Hutchinson was guilty of IL
the deplorable imprudence of speakingss
the streets against the most cherished ks
lief of Catholics, affirming that the bless
Virgin was the mother of seven other eh5g
dren, that she was not the mother of Cd
etc.
WITH RESPECT TO THE FIGHT
Senior Huarte states That Hutchins
was warned by his friends of the storm e. !
cited, and the personal dislike to his on
obnoxiou. proceedings. On the mornils
of the fray he received notice of the dn
ger, but affected illness. AT 2 O'Clock Pig
Diaz called for him, and said that the CO,
gregation were waiting for him to con
up aud preach. Mr.. Hutchinson decline
on the score of his sickness. The congrs
alton was prepared for the fight and Wt
armed with pistols.
An American fruit dealer, at present s
this city, who has been for some ten ynF
10 Acapulco, and it is well known there's
Protestant, met the crowd of Catholic
dams going to the church, aud SALUTE
them. They answered him by name, az
offered no violence. This gentlemen at
to Signor Huarte: 81 take great pleasass
ln saying to you that this mob was "
against Protestan tism, but against HutchEa
con aud Diaz. / am a Protestant, q
nothing has ever been done to ipjure mel
The attacking party, amounting to abe
fifty nice, entered the church, and the tE
then occurred as has been generally stats
Don Huarte states that the Catholic Ps
pie of Acapulco, while strongly reprOS
| ting the conduct of this mob, are indigun,
at the false imputations aud insin uate.
against the parish priest, and at the
tempt to make the American people To-
uaon this ARRAY as a conspiracy OF intel
gent Catholics.
In another column will be found the card.
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