The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-11-17
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The TCWntkADlt COHIIlCl uNel wv ""l '"'
olJo.ph Guibord, which has claimed
h,isc Canadian Metropolis during the
,,,, summer quite an unusual share Of
,p,p,iop from the prcss and public Of
uocontincnt,, was terminated yesterday
h, ,he burial Of his remains in the Ro.
man Catholic Cemetery at Montreali and
nov that the struggle between civil aud
ecclesiastical law is over, brief review
Of the story will serve to refresh the
memory upon ils incidents;
4owph Cinibord was French Cana
ll,n printer in the city Of Montreal,
whose fame and prominence have been
entirely post mortrm, rs he was in his
lil.nnkuoyn outside his own circle Of
friends, When the Institute Canadien, n
frea reading room and library, was
founded, he became II member. The In
giM,c had upon it, shelves certain books
thl, were inrrrlictcd by the Papal Index,
ani Bishop liourgct, Of this diocese, ex'
communicated its members. GnibOrd,
hoVeyer, refused to sever his connection
with the Institute, IN 1869 he died 30
suddenly that no priest could TO sum.
m0ned aud, Of course, without an oppor.
unity lucrOic.s, recant, and receive the
la, sacrament oi the Church, On the
6thoi November, 1869, his friends sought
to bury hi. remains, and were refused
admission to the Cote DIES Neiges, the
parish cemetery, AZ the Church authori-
tie. wOnli not permit al exCommuni.
Gated person to be buried in COnseCrated
ground. IIiswiic, herself u true daughter
Oithc Church, bcsOught her Father Con.
lessor to reent and at the instigatiOn Of
her late husbands friends, applied to the
Superior Court for an order to compel
the Church to allow hi1 burial in the lot
he had bought, and at the time Of his
death owned, in the Cemetery. She oh.
tanned the order, and from n Roman
Catholic Justice, but the Church appeal.
ed. The widow Guibord soon after died,
and wa. buried in the lot alluded to. The
Institute Canadien appealed the caac to
the highest tribunal, the Queens Privy
Council, and On November 2S, 1874, that
body granted All order commanding the
Church authorities to receive the body Of
Joseph Guborl for burial, with the full
rites Of the Church, in the conseCrated
ground Of his own loi n right Of which
they declared hi4 remains indubitably
pos es'cd under the old French law. On
receiving the Privy Councils order last
July, the Superior Court Issued Il man
damus commanding tho Fabriquc dc
Notrc Dame, who control the Cemetery,
to bury the body with the usual rites,
This was served August 30, and on
September the "a the remains were
taken from the tomb, where they had
rested six years, aud borne 10 Cote
dei Neiges. The events Of that day will
be well remembered. The ignorant
French Canadian people Of tho parish,
injected with the 6igotry and intolerance
oil their religious instructors, through
repeated inilammatOry pastoral haran-
CUES, locked to the cemetery to the mum.
berOi thousand or more, and violently
resisted the entrance Of the funeral cor.
tege, which was attended by about three
hundred Of the friends Of tinibord. NJ.
Doutre, President Of the Institute, and
counsel aud leader Of the GuibOrd party,
attempted to address the mob, which so
llnIariated them that they attacked the
hear'e with stones, and compelled its
driver to seek safety in flight. The driver
Ta' seriously injured, and numerous
wounds and bruises were inflicted in the
conflict Of the day, but no lives were
lost The body was returned to the
tomb, where II hassincc been guarded BY
inarmcd force. Bishop Isourget evidently
alarmed at the seiiOuI results Of his intOl.
Grant preachlngs, at once published n let
YET IN which he deprecated the riotoul pro.
Seeiing' and urged his people to refrain
from IurtheF violence, promising nm easier
ana satisfactory solution Of The difficulty
Oycar'ing the spot Of Guibord's inter.
ment, thus protecting the consccrated
cemetery from pollution. The next Sun.
aH Bishop Bourgeois decree cursing Gni.
93o'ds lot wa' read in the Church Of Notrc
Dime An interesting feature Of the de.
T,ce p wa! it' assumption for the Church Of
=, n'lle OIL the power to apply its anathema
70 any specified patch OF ground, and
within any desired limits. The dispute
vas VA properly between The Liberal Catho.
l I'C' and the uItramontanes, but in the
neat Ol discussion its limits were enlarged
somewhat, so that ii came to be Il weapon
10 u which an allied force composed Of Pro.
e',ant and Liberal Catholic elements
ana AZ those protesting no religious sympa-
tanes.' '''''