The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-10
THE MORNING STAR AND CATHOLIC MESSENGER SUNDAY JANUARY TO-

up arms even against such hesthen per-
secutors as Nero or Bismarck, and are
content to conquer by suffering, but Dy Mr.
Gladstone's Liberal allies, who encourage
arrives to let it loose in their own. 10y
alty.n is the keen reflection of Mr.. Carlyle
'like patriotism, of which it is form. was
not praised till it had begun to decline )"
and both are dying ont, except among Ca
tholics, because, as he adds, "the Divine
idea of obedience" which Catholics alone
retain, has been killed by Liberalism, first
in the spiritual, and then by an inevitable
progress, in the civil order People VINO
cast down the Altar are not likely to re-
spect the Throne, and Kings become jest
when Pontiffs are despised.
We should have been glad to contrast
Burke's notion of the "mental freedom" or
Catholics with Mr.. GladstOne,s, but our
space is exhausted. To impute t. others
their own incorrigible narrow -minGedness
it may be said, in the words of the late Mr.:
Mill {: "He who knows only one side OF
the case knows little Of that" ION Liberty,
p. e7.) 1t is the se-called Liberals who re-
fuse to accept the benefits OF that Univer-
sity education for which the world is in
debted to Catholics and in the recent de-
bate in the French Chamber on higher
education, 10 the Paris Correspondent OF
the Standard Observes they once more re-,
vealed their true character, for these
friends of liberty objected to tho abolition
of the State monopoly, on the ground that
the Catholics, if they had fair field and
no favor, would beat the University out OF
the field.''
If Burke refutes Mz. G1adstoBs's calum-
nies on the loyalty Of Catholics "by the
| clear evidence of the most decisive facts"
in the past, he thus dispose of his pretend
ed apprehensions aboat Il 'eir conduct IN
the future. Englishmen will do we'll to
give heed to his we'rds. Aft er noticing tha
Parliament establis he'd the c. stholic religion
in Canada, he says: "som,e people, ana
dicted at that time that by this step we
should lose our dol ninions in America. He
| foretOld that the Pope would send his In
dulgences hither ; that the Canadians
would fall i1i with France; W ould declare
| independence, and draw or fOi ce our col
onies into the same design" And what
was Burke's answer to this ing enious pre-
| cursor of Mr.. Glad stone "Tl le indepen-
dence happened acc ordisg to his prediction,
| but in directly the reverse order. AtS our
English Protestant colozaes reUotl ed. Ihey
| joined themselves ITO France, and 1t go hap
pened that Popish Canada was the only
place which preser we'd it's fidelity the only
| place in which Fra nee got no foot ing; At
only peopled colon g 1chish ao'e remains to
Great Britain" (Lettsr. to Sir Hereudes
Langrishe, vol. vi :, p. 3z3l
/ We now know what Burke would have
| thought of Mr.. sladstone's Grimm al tex
postnlation." To him it. would have seena
ed equally discre ditable to the CT ristian
the statesman, al Id the patriot. Instead o.
stimulating evil passions, with the mean
est object, and impudently calumniatias
the most faithft Il and devoted subjects o
the Empire, Blu rke not only abhorred "sh'
malignity of 'rotestant tascendency," bu
declared in the face of all England: my
decided opinio n is that, in Ireland partieu
larly, the Ron ian Catholic religion shoal:
be upheld in nigh respect and veneration.
Mr.. Gladstone prefers to be parody o
tiau was an eritiabilis smperstitio. s'Taci
tus," as an eminent Englishman observes
"was the wi sest, most penetrating man Q
his generate IN and toeuch depth, an6n
deeper, has he seen into this transactiea
\ In like man ner the penetrating Mr.. Glad
stone, beca use the Holy, ChuIth of God ha
, defined ths t the Most High still reigns- Q
f earth, and that the Saints wisely taOgl
B that the oman PontiE, rules His Churc
), with the plentitude Of apostolic wisdoi
: and auth. ority, sees in this sublime deers
f only motive for Representation" an
!. hisees be tween his teeth, with less ezeu'
u than Ts citus-"eritieSitis supersttt'o'"
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