The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-03-07

rebuke:-
nAnd now there only remains for me the
hardest and saddest part of the task "h'cn
has not been sought by me, but mas oeen
forced npon me- A few months ago j
could not have believed that ! should nave
ever written these pages. nave never
written auv with more pain, ara none y,
tb. IN have cost me so mnch as tnat WHY"
am about to write. Thus far nave GU
deavored to conf ne myself to the sunJect
matter of Mr.. Gladstoue's pamphlet out /
before end, feel bound by an lmpeta
tive duty TO lay before him, 10 behalf o1
| his Catholic fellow countrymen, the nature
of the act which he has done. lie has not
only invited, but instigated Cathoiice 10
rise against the Divine authority OF the
| Catholic Church. He has endeavored TO
create divisions among them. II Dir;
| Gladstone does not believe the Authority OF
the Catholic Church to be Divine, he knows
that they do. If he thinks such rising
to be moral and mental freedom ne
knows that they believe it to be what
his own L,tany calls 'schism, heresy, and
deadly SIM If he believes religious sep
| arations to be lawful, he knows that they
| believe them to be violations of the Divine
law. | am compelled, therefore, To say
that this is at least an act of slgnai-rasn
ness. No man has watched MT. O'ad-
stones career as statesman with more
4 generous and disinteTested good Will than
/ have No one has more gladly apprecia
ted his gifts no one has more eqnitaoly in
terpreted certain acts of his political life,
NOR has hailed his successes with greater
joy. But when he casts of the charac-
ter of a statesman, for which he has shown
so great a capacity, to play the Canonlst
} and Theoloeian, for which he has shown so
little and that with the intent OF sowing
discOrd and animOsities among Six millions
,, | of his countrymen-and, must moreover
r add, with an indulgence of unchastened
o language rarely to be equalled-l feel
v bonpd to saw that he has been betrayed
f into an act for which can find no adequate
b excuse. l must tell him that if he would
incline the Catholics of the Empire to &C
|" cept the ministries of his compassion, he
. % IN ust first purify his style both of writing
"a and of thinking. Catholics are not to bt
% convinced or persuaded 6y such phrases a.
70 Papal chair, it's aiders and abettors )
o. the great heirarchic power and thos'
who have egged it on the present
y degradation of Episcopal order Sub
y serviency or pliablity of the Council,
D. hideous mum meries,' headquarters tn
"a folies of ecclesiastical power foreigr
ia arrogance the myrmidons of the Apos
Oh tolic Chamber the foreign infuenc
he of a Caste transcIibe these words frou
ne his pages with repugnance; not, indeed
81 for our sake against whom they are ievelleo
90 but for the statesman who has thought tbeI
X.
~ bat he cannot do all things. He has
n, strong hand but there lie a bow which b
ne cannot bend. He has here tried IA
ds hand at task for which without some
TT, thing more than mere literary know
re ledge, even his varied gifts will NJ
as suffice. This e1postniation is, as
w have already said, an act out of all ha
No mouy and proportion with great stat'
,el mans life. have written these WORD
ne with painful constraint but cost VIII
rts it may, duty must be done and BELLE
he it to be my duty to record this jadgmeu
'ea on an act Just in itself, and therefore n
e. e. only barren Of all good result. but charg'
oe with grave public dangers. But. cam
lao break off with q note 30 cheerless. If Jt
ous Expostulation has cast down many hop
rod both of u public and private kind, we ca
not altogether regret it's publication.
Till such mistrusts and misconceptions existt
i ied in the minds of our fellow subjects, Il
w, nf sooner aud more openly they were ma
of public the better. We are not content
on be tolerated as suspect dangerous pc
of sons, or to be set at large upon COED b
lin havior. We thank Mr.. Gladstone Tor gar
sue ing us the hearing which we have had
ace, fore the public justice of our country "A
ray we are confident that his impeachmeI
ing will be Withdrawn. His own mind is I
large, too just, too upright, TO refuse
acknowledge au error, " hen he sees II
hat and too accurate not to perceive that 81
and is now tho fact. l see In this the augr
lem of happier and more peaceful fut,
tile than if this momentary contlc had me-
1t is arisen. We shall all understand eli
egAi other better. Oar civil aud religious pc
anu anu at home will be tirmer by this trial. If
: hs Great German Empire shall only learn
fail time, thirteen millions of contented Cat
once lie subjects, reconciled as they still Il
sed, be by a return of just laws, will giv'
" in support to it's unity which nothing
Id a shake. If Italy shall ouly come to
r rSG, that the "Roman question:" is, and
a lnn1 ever will be, a source Of weakness, C
nnt tention, aud danger to it's welfare q
his seeing this, shall solve it peacefully,
When Italy alone can do, by und"ing its
ltual Catholic aud therefore unItalian pol
in then its unity aud Independence will
that secured 10y this spontaneous C" opera
H | OF of a united people, gathered around
I ntre centre of all it's Christian glories. Sue
vino solution would then be c0usecrated by
,iety, highest sanctions of it's faith. If
we'll councils prevail, and wise friends of l
moth shall gaia it's ear, it may he again, v
idea once it was the foremost people in