The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-16

days. The church appealed from this de-
cision aud 1t was reversed on technical
grounds. The widows means were now
exhausted, but the institute made the cause
their own and carried 1t to the court of
queens bench, the highest of Canadian ju.
ducial tribunals and from there to the
privy council of Great Britain where, in
November, 1874, decision was given in
favor of Guibord's representatives and, IN
the July following, a decree was issued
commanding the church authorities to
bury, Or allow to be buried, the remains in
consecrated grounds.
Here the matter rested until the second
day of September last, when an attemp,
was made at burial, which was success
fully resisted by large, fierce and angry
mob, who stoned the hearse and carriage,
drove the funeral procession away, and
filed up the grave. From that day to this,
active preparations looking to the burial
have gone on. A sarcophagus as described
in our kilograms Of October 10, has been
constructed out of two blocks of Montreal
limestone, weighing nine tons, and each
being seven feet long, four feet wide and
some two feet thick, and in cavity made
therein, is to be placed the wooden coffin
enclosing the remains, the stones TO be riv
e,ed, and then covered with cement, mixed
with scrap iron, of thickness intended to
be sufficient to resist the most powerful
drills-this to prevent tamperng with the
remains after interment. In order to as
sure burial, the entire police force of
Montreal, armed with breach leaders, will
be placed on duty by the mayor, while
Judge Coursol, acting for the British gov
trnment, will call into requlstion the en-
tire military force at his disposal, consist
ing of infantry, cavalry and artillery.
Looking to the probable burial. the bishop
of Montreal has twice "cursed" the spot In
which the body will be placed, and threat
ems to repeat the act after burial. How
| this may complicate matters-tbe decree
being that the body should be buried in
"consecrated ground" is impossible to
say-but 1t is hardly worth the while to
| borrow trouble about it, any more than il
| is in reference to the ''open question,
| which is said TO exist, about the consent of
the authorities being given to having the
stone sarcophagus placed in the cemetery
| AT first sight, this may appear to be Q
very trivial matter to attract and hold tn,
| public attention so long-and so. in one
sense it is. 1t can make but little differ
ence to man, now or hereafter, in wha
particular spot his lifeless body may be de
| Observation-Disclosures in the crowded city o.
on lonely isle, whether in consecratet
grounds or on piece of earth ''accursed
by the church, whether beneath the sod o
suffered to moulder above the ground. Al
of this is of little consequence, but in tn
case of Guib0id is involved the principle o
religious tolera;ion the right of u churcl
to interfere in purely secular and privat
affairs. More than this, and the Who'll
civilized world is interested in the dec
sion, there will be decided, to-day, III
question whether the civil or the ecclesias
teal power is to be supreme in tempora
matters, and whether the law and its mir
listers are to give way to the lawless viz
ence of mob rule. The burial of Guibor
means the supremacy of the law and c
the civil authorities A failure in the al
tempt means the supremacy of the eccles
astical over the civil law ; it goes furtht
and will be the triumph of lawless mo
| Uvvr tine regular constituted .---..-o, iuic,
This is the cause of Montreal being tn
center of interest to-day. May God spec
the right.