The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-04-18
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VII.

so..a,a resorted to by the present persecn
tiou. is the substitution of the STATE 10 'ne
sovereign rights Of God himself ana oil 'nose
delegated by Him to His Church, ana 10 'ne
natural rights of the family upon the eauca-
zion of the child, and the exclusion OF Gil
Christian teaching
We well rememb Der the great struggles which,
during the first half Of this century, the rehcn
bishops had to sustain against the university
monopoly, struggles to which France 10 nueo.
cd for having seen its territory covered VII"
Christian schools adapted to the wants Oh 'he
different classes of society, in which the you'n
of both sexes, while they acquire human KNOW
ledge, receive at the same time the teach'nss
of holy doctrines and pure morals, OF which
the Church is the special guardian. Inc state
has her lycees; the Church, her seminaries ana
countless schools. We also remember the long |
struggle of the American Epscopate against
the system of public schools, which are one Oh
the greatest moral plaques OF the country
Aud yet, leaving aside the iniquity OF the sys-
tenn which subject seven millions OF Catholics
to pay onerous taxes for the support of schools
whose immortality and irrelgion do not permit
parents TO send their children 10 them. the
Church in the United States, up to the present
day, has been at perfect liberty to establish as
many universities, colleges and schools as she
may wish without the intervention of the State
in any manner whatsoever.
But it is not thus that our modern persecu
tors would have it. What they wish, what
they do wherever they are the masters, is what
the Commune, of bloody aud Infamous memory,
did four years ago, viz to violently withdraw
the youth from all Christian Influence to do
away with all religious teaching communities
80 put in their place atheists and women OF
easy morals, and form to their image and
likeness q generation, generation OF inn
dels, thieves robbers, bankrupts, debauchees
aud prostitutes to bring back barbarian upon
she earth; to transform man into brute, and
10 give here below an insight of hell, the
region of woes and darkness, whence all order
is banished, and where dwels eternal horror.
In the face OF this persecution, of a univer-
salty hitherto unhcard of, of its simuitanel'
Gy of action, of the similarity of the means
which it makes of, we are forcibly brought
TO infer the existence of some given direction
sone united plan, some strong organization
which executes. some defined object whittier
all tends. Yes, that organization exists with
it's end, its plan "f action and the hidden direc
ton " hich il uLeys; an organization, compac
though ~4de tlH'hi tuTphHh INC "oilu al
organization u.iug led with all societies. with
out depending on any an organization, whos'
power is above all other power, that of Go'
excepted terrible organization, which 10
the religious ~ well as for the civil state o
life and the oivI'iz tiion of the world constitute
not only a danger bat the most to be dreade
of dangers; organization that has $" oftel
been mathematical, aud. that has deserved il
A., ind ;Gh ax hna az
it not, and woe to if many who could an
should have seen, have ei'her not seen or See
too late The generic name which this abom
uable sect have borrowed is upon all lips
FREE- MASONRY; the name which it holds froI
its nature aud from it's author is DESTRUCTION
The offspring, obscure at first, Of Protestau
ism and iufidelty, it's cradle guarded h
German LutherBnism and Scotch Puritanist
Enshrouded in mystery, it grew rapidly, III
at the end of the last century 1t felt stror
enough to preside over the saturnalia al
Inassacres OF 93. Ten years of accumulate
ruins aud of blood shed by torrents had i
creased its strength tenfold Aud whe
crowned with lanrels, the great Captain wi
had received from Providence the mission
bringing order out of revolutionary cha
presented itself to him. The eagle glance
Napoleon ut once penetrated its designs:
hated it by instinct, and, accustomed to CO
quer, he swoTe either to control or to cru
it. He did neither the one the other. Und
its rude bindings it embodied itself and esca p,
Shut up in impenotTabe darkness, it occuPi
itself actively in multiplying aud in organ
ing it's forces. Aud its lodges already cover
Europe when the great Captain fell and, in
person of IA Votaran Bourbon, who had
turned from England bringing with him C
rupt nobility, of whom the majority were
adopts, it took its seat on the first throne
she world. Under the title of liberalism,
which the true name is irrel Sion," dur
fifteen years, in the assemblies, in the mil
tries, in the University, in all the branches
the administrator, it governed; and from
went forth these laws and ordinances VIII
year by year, multiplied the shackles desti
To circumgcTi5 be the liberties of the church