Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-11-18
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| orounb therefore for the Tribune to adj
wise The Republicans how To act when 1t
secs the slightest symptom ot break
AMONG the Democrats. Meanwhile we
rather guess the Republicans will stoutly
adhere 10 their own party organization
desni,e the dsnterested advice from the
Tall Tower.
eirlEW oE THE GCIB0RD fiRI4L
CdSE.
\ Montreal correspondent of the New OH
Times gives the following interesting review OF
the Guibord burial case, which was completed
Tuesday by the intcrment of Gubords remains 10
the Catholic cemetery.
.Joseph Guibord was French Canadian printer
in this city, whose fame and prom hence ha'S 'teh
entirely post -mortem. as he was IN h,S NE uh-
known outside b; own c.TcIe OF mems nSn
the Institut CaEadIen free feadlnS-i anu az
h,ary was founded. he became member Inc
Ip>rigp, haa upon It's shelves certain books that
werv iuterdicted by the Pspal index, ana biShop
B}ur..et Of this diocese, eNCommuhicatcu its lhcm-
beers t,uthord, however, refused 10 sever ms con
pecfion with the Ins,itat. In 1869 he died SO sud
.i,uly tbs, 10 priest could be summoned, and OF
ones, without opportunity TO confess, recant,
ard reerive the last sacrament OF the Shufch' va
the sch of November. 1859, his TRENDS sought 10
h,r, III. remains and were refused admission 10
to,c ,es Neiges, the Parish cemetery, as the
Church authorities would not permit an cNcoElmo-
nicatel nerson to be buried in consecraed ground.
His wife, herself true daughter o. the Church,
hesoncht her Father CoLtessort to recent ana mar
w. at the instiga of her late husband trends,
applied to the Superior Court for an order to com
pei the Church to allow his burial IN the lot ne
had bought, and at the time OF has dea'h owned,
IN the cemetery. She obtained the order, ana
h,,t tbn httyr oh
frou q Roman Catholic Justice, but tue ehufch
oppcaled The widow Guibord soon after died,
and was buried in the lot alluded to- The lnstitut
Canadien appealed the case to the highest iiiou-
nal the Queens Pryy Council, ana on NOV. .
1874, that body granted an order commanding the
Church authorities TO receive the uody oil Joseph
Gpiborl for burial. with the full n'es OF the
Church in the consccrated ground OF his own lot,
n right which they declared his remains indublta-
blv possessed under the old French law. On re-
ceiyipr the Piivy Councils order last july, lhe
Superior Court issued mandanius coihinalo, ~
the Fabrique dc Notre Dame who control the
cemetery, to bury the body with the usual rites.
This was served Aug. 80, and on Sept. the re-
mains were taken from the tomb where tEev hao
rested SIX years and borne to Cote des NeiSes.
The events of that day will be well remembered
The IGNORANT French Canadian people of the par
sh, infected with the bgotry and Intolerance OF
their religious instructors, through repeated IN
iammatory pastoral harangues, Hooked TO Inc
cemetery to the number OF thousand or more,
corteee. which was attended by about three hun
dred of the friends of Gubord. Nj. Doutre, Prcs-
ident of the Institu and counsel and leader Of the
Guibord party, attempted TO address the mob,
| which so infursted them that they attacked the
hearse with stones and compelled its driver to
seek safety in flight The driver was seriously IN
iured, and numerous wounds and bruises were in
flctcd in the conflict of the day, but no lives were
lost. The body was returned to the tomb, where
it has since been guarded by an armed force
Bishop Bourget, evidently alarmed at the serious
results of his intolerant preachngs, at once pub
lished letter in which he deprecated the riotous
proceedings and urged his people to refrain from
further violence, promising an easier and satsfac-
tory solution of the difficulty by cursing the spot
of Guibord's nterment thus protecting the conse-
Grated cemetery from pollution. The next Sunday
Bishop Bourgeois decree cursing Guibord's lot was
! read in the Church of Notre Dame. An interest
| ing feature of the decree was its assumption for
the Church of Rome of the power to apply its
anahema to any specified patch of ground, and
within any desired limits. The dispute was prop
erly between the Liberal Catholics and the Ultra
montanes but in the heat of discussion its limits
were enlarged somewhat, that it came to be a
weapon in which an allied force composed of
Protestant and Liberal Catholic elements, and
those protesting no religious sympathy, were
ranged against the Cltramontanes.
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