The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-07-25

most active intriguers to seize that power
aud WELD it arbitrarily; they have been
for some the enemies of learning, for others
of worldly science. Whatever their Oppo-
nents wanted them to be, that they were
whatever the prejudices or principles OF
men taught them to abhor, that has been
always charged to the account of true
Christians, the charges varying and con-
f1icting with every CLINE and every preju-
dice.
In this country it comes handy to have
them the enemies of civil liberty, just as in
ancient Rome they were enemies of the
Empire, and as they are held to be in
modern Russia hostile to the arbitrary rule
of the Gear. One would suppose from the
idea of the Catholic Church so sedulously
propagated in England aHd this country,
that it would luxuriate in the congenisl
atmosphere of such courts as st. Petersburg
and Berlin. The fact lie that the Catholic
Church is az much maligued, illuminated,
hated and prosecuted in such countries as
| in any other, the wicked spirit of the world
| being equally intolerant under any form OF
government.
| If one should set about selecting an I'm
sophisticated, arcadian region, where sim
plicity of manners and native kindness OF
heart were as yet uncontaminated by the
bitter prejndices of older communities,
| where would he look with more confidence
than to Ohio There the open-handed,
open hearted generosity of the Western
| to oil Of ha
pansive magnifcence of the Western States,
capable of welcoming and sheltering all
corners. But, verify, of all American locali-
ties, Ohio is the one to come forward in the
most vindictive and intolerant manner
against its Catholic citizens.
From the st. Louis Times, of a recent
date, we gather the following:
The Republican leaders seem to have grown
80 desperate in Ohio as to have lost all sense
and discretion. Certainly none but mad men
would put out q circular like the following
which is being privately distributed by the
faithful:
"oUR RIGHTS AND OUR LIBERTIES"
"Dear Sir-In view of the intolerant, 6
gressive efforts of Romanists, their avowed de
. Termination to subvert the government Of thu
United States and to destroy our civil and re
ligious liberty, desire to submit to You tn
following questions
! '3. Do you regard Romanism as tn
enemy of civil and religious liberty Ans
= WEIR
"A, Is it not, in your opinion I'M wise and IN
safe to appoint to civil, politieel or militar
lance to the neS pope sD Of Rome and who hav
g sworn to obey him Answer"
u "5. Are you in favor of maintaining th
: principles of one general, unsectsrian schoc
:. organization fAnsweI".
= IL. Can you furnish the names, ages, re
d sidences and occupations of-%en who ar
willing to become organized and be governe
o by the above principiesi Answer-.
e (Signed)
h Madmen, says the st. Louis Times. w
70 think that the parties who got up the abov
D. crusade are, in the American point of view
70 worse than mad they are ridiculous. The
l. have made themselves ameuable to tt
" charge of the most absurd ignorance. RI
r manism the enemy of civil liberty! WI
q. the authors of Magma Chsrta were ever
of one Romanists, some of them Bishop
and Magma Charta is the principal basis
Or civil liberty for England and Americ
"A Under "Romanist" influence the barba
,e ism which overwhelmed the great Roms
I'd Empire, ripened into culture and civiliz
he ton desPotism gave way to law, anarcf
be was replaced by order, civic rights WEI
of wrested from feudal seignioiralty and hum,
re slavery was abolished. All this was dol
al before Luther was born, and the Chur
,ls in it's teachings and it's influence is pr
Il. csely the same now as it was then.
nd the ungrateful or shamefully ignora
IA children of those to whom the Church ga
in freedom now scott at Her as the enemy
mt civil liberty forsooth.
nd We give four interregatories only, out
N. list of eleven, for want of space. Of nul
he Der three we have just noticed the extrel
m. absurdty. Number four is the climax
N. nonsense. Unsafe to appoint to Office of a
kind, whom Catholics. 1t means b
rd does not say so z: 1t was wrong in Was
he ington and his Congress to confide offices
- auch men "a Iafavette and EosciuskO