The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-12-12
The German Gazette on Catholic Ne
QrOeS.

| We have a next door neighbor which lie,
it seems, kind of living Inconsistency.
We are told (for its effdsions are printed in |
Germany that on paper it is q very Bis |
marck of journal in its antiCatholic bit
terness off paper, and in plain English
talk, it's staff are, so far as onr OVID per- !
sonal acquaintance, with them goes, a
genial, warm hearted, amiable set of gen.
tlemen. How Bismarck gets into the
editorial chair and yet is never met on the
street is the mystery. 1t seems that the
German Gasette, to which we refer, habitu-
ally INDUCES in assaults upon the Catholic
Church, thing in SO much the worst taste
that about half of its readers ought to be
found among our Catholic population. If
they are not, it so found is probably be-
cause of the animosity to their creed which
they find characterizing the Gazette.
Aswe do not read German (on account of
the curious type in which they print their
lauguage), these attacks pass by us un-
needed, except when occasionally a re-
yerberation of their thunder comes back
to US in the shape of q translation
furnished by some enterprising CO.
temporary. Lately, for instance, the
. , .a.tttakapas Register did one of lis arti-
ola into the vernacuiar, and We And its
effort reproduced in the N. o. Republican,
: of the 9Th inst. Not only does it attack the
i Church, but, contrary to all the laws of
Q gratitude for past forbearance on our part,
2 it has fling at the STAR itself. The fol-
7 lowing, in illustration of both points, is
It taken from the Registers resume of the
It Gasette's article:
"a The Gazette thinks that, outside of the re-
:, lioious. there is a political aspect of the con-
II yersions to Catholicism. To the question
j. will the negro vote the Republican ticket as
70 though the Catholic Church has practically
81 maintained equality of the races in wor
es ship, communion and burial, it's tendency II
90 decidedly Southern Democratic OF even Con
ty federate A paper more openly Confederate
ot than the MORNING STAR, under the contro
~ of the Archbishop, the oficial organ OF I'M
he over. From this fact the Gazette deduces, con
sidering the domination of the clergy over tn
that the negro, who has heretofore blindl!
voted the Radical ticket, will just as blind
vote the Democratic ticket presented TO mn
of by the priest in the confessional, under th
ire pepalty of losing the absoluton of his sins an
on eternal life if he dares to vote the Repun
ISL lican ticket.
at We are obliged to the Gazette for tn
or complimentary notice. We should cer
ar tainly have been Confederate paper II
,ed existence some dozen of years ago, but a
re- we were born into the journalistic famil
ar about three years after the Contederac
his had ceased to be, we think there must be
md mistake somewhere. 1t is quite true th
GGS ;n our venerable Archbishop was an inten'
Confederate, as also Rev. Father Rya
es- afterwards for long time editor of th
mt. paper, but that was while there was Co
.gi- federacv. Perhaps our neighbor has CO
lcb founded us with the PropGgateur.
and Or it may be that by " Confederate" t
hat Gasette means Southern" If SO: va
He yah. The MORNING STAR is Souther
,al- without ceasing to be National. 1t hol
hat that the South was perfectly right in t
ces. principles on which it fought the war.
the believes that the South had the right
in secede, and was wrongtully coerced pa
Ger into the Union. Bat it does not, by a
o to means, hold now that the South ought to
en- discontented until it gets out of t
Union again. On the contrary,
ong issue which took it out-slavery-is fna
hich dead, and the outrageous tyranny VIII
are has made union SO oppressive since the
,rty. is rapidly disappearing. We, thereto
tute hold that it is better now to stay in
de- Union. And as long as we are in it,
or a think that the South ought to rule
used country, as she always used to do, and
If she naturally must continue to do by vir
re- of her superior intelligence, morality
It is courage. We don't blame the North
people for their inferiority in saying t
how because it results partly from the rigol
, in their climate and partly from the fact
'licit Southern society has never been
de- thoroughly as theirs permeated with
?, we fanatical hypocrisy of the pilgrim faith
ed to Regarding the attack upon the Churc
,r to a political engine, it is perfectly grOundl
IN of The Gasstts fears that the Church In g
they ing over negroes to Catholicity will m
but them Democrats. Why not look at IA