The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-09-26
Public Sympathy with the evr1aan RpisoOpats.

Falck, the Prussian Minister of Worship, ba,
just returned from q tour through westphaliI
| and Rhineland for the purpose of feeling the
public pulse notwithstanding the glowinl
| accounts of his reception, and the obsequiou
| batteries OF that portion of the Prussiar
press which is supported by Government pap
and the subservieDcy of the minor organs o
! the Kitchen" class, who gladly and raveuous
| ly pick up a few crumbs and bones from the
, , official dining tables, we have from other
sources an account of the sfghts and the mani
festations of popular feeling, by no means
agreeable to the Berlin administration, DIR.
Faick was forced to witness during his tour of
inspection.
His Excelleucy arrived at TIeves on the day
OF the anniversary of the accession of Plus TX.
to st. Peters chair, and he had AN opportunity
Of being present at the enth usiastfc demonstra-
tions of the sympathy of the population of the
city with the clergy of the German Empire on
account of the expressions and the persecu-
tions to which they have been subjected, and
who have preferred exile and imprisonment
rather than give to Ca sar" the things that
Gods.
10 the chagrin of the Bismarck party in that
part of Germany, $50 flags and banners were
suspended, in honor of Plus TX. and the German
bishops, on the Haupstrasse alone, while the
streets were thronged with thousands of all
cl' sGea of the population, prince and peasant,
mobiles and professional men, financial and
mercantile people, titled ladies and the honest
and sturdy mechanics ard ia5orers.
The oppressive acts leveled against the lib
erty and independence of the Church by the
Bismarck party, which now has possession of
the Government of Berlin, would not have
been Perpetrated, or submitted to, under such
constitutional governments as those of Great
Britain and the United States.
The liberties and independence of all
churches and religious sects have been guar
anteed by both the State and Federal Consti-
tutions in the United States; and it would be
impossible for any perjured ofice-holder to in
wade the liberties of the citizen, and make
arbitrary arrests on account of religious senti-
ments or church discipline; for we yet retain
some of the privileges of Magma Charta, such
as the glorious writ of habeas corpus, the
right of trial by jury, and the liberty of tie
press and the pulpit.
Such privileges, which are only found among
free people, unknown in Continental
Europe, and are hateful to tyrants and oil
gagcEs.
Great were TIE demonstrations of popular
sympathy for, and attachment to, the Clergy
manifested in Rhineland, and especially in Dus
seldorf, when the steamer, freighted with inno-
cent German subjects, who were banished from
their native country for the crime of profess
ing the Catholic religion and of being the
ministers of the gospel and faithful mission
aries of the cross in the Order of Franciscan
Fathers.
The Dusseldorf Tolksblatt, in a recent num-
Der, states that the piers and wharves of the
river were thronged with thousands of people,
to witness the departure into exile of the
Franciscan Fathers, amid Enthusiastic cheers
and waving Of handkerchiefs. These apos-
ties of the Church will remain away until
constitutional government and freedom of
worship shall have been re-establisbed, after
the present administration at Berlin is driven
from po " er by betrayed and Indignant nation
AIS.
SGraHndh- Ga.