The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-10-15
The Bulletins Squirm.

things it had said nearly q week before, but
our neighbor should remember that, owing
to certain circumstances, it would sometimes
be inconvenient for us to answer an article
the next day. Moreover, we had not supposed
SO staunch aud ancient journal unwilling
to be held by it's utterauces of week old.
However, if it cannot he expected that q
paper shall maintain the same opioions for
so vast length of time at stretch, we
shall, of course, be obliged to 60 TO press
every day for its convenience.
In fact, our excellent ueighbor may have
some good reason for its dissatisfaction, as
it does really seem, whether from lapse of
time or otherwise, to forge: the issue. Our
propositions were and are lst, as to Pro-
testantism, that it's true spirit is one of per
secution, even unto murder; 2od, as to the
Catholic Church, that its true spirit is absO-
lute tolerance of religious convictions.
To the let proposition the Bulletin replies
by changing it iuto q totally different one,
VIZ: that " Protestants habitual!y resort to
fire, sword, pillage" etc. We never even
hunted any thing of the sort as to Protes
tants, but merely said that such WAS the
real, vital principle of PrOteStdntiS,n. These
are two things totally distinct. We attack
ed the native, inherent spirit of Protestant
ism; not the traditional adhesion to Pro-
testant forms and names, which We find
every where existing. On the contrary,
we distinctly said, and the Bulletin quoted
it, " There are thousands of good men who
call themselves Professionals aud who could
not be brought to persecute anybody" In
the face of that distinction our logical and
candid neighbor Gays:
We know several Proeestants-due with
them at Aoreaus sometimes, AID otherH Use
frequent their company. We don't like to hear
them talked about in this style, because we be-
| lieye them to be innocent.
Innocent Bulletin ! How long after these
big dinners does the Bdlletin get of its
editorials Certainly we could not sus
pect of persecution any gentleman who
dimes at Moreau's. It's the fellows with the
dyspepsia that We are after.
But we believe the Bulletin, after work
ing off some of Moreau's champagne in the
above paragraph, woke up somewhat to the
real issue, for it adds:
Now if the Star, and Thipgamy. wants to
| transfer the controversy to the middle ages,
We have nothing more to say. We're not in
terested in the middle ages or in middle.age
| fellows. No doubt they cut throats and burnt
| things and robbed with beautiful enth Ut asm a
| few centuries ago.
A very clear admission. The spirit of Pro
testantism was at that time one of robbing,
burning and throat cutting, but it issnot so
NOW, because good-natured men dine at
46oreau's.
| This is really queer in the way of an ar
gument. The spirit of Protestantism has,
iueu, changed :; it Re no longer the same
thing. Shades of Luther and Calvin
of Knox, and Wesley! What would these
y mighty founders say TDe very spri
with which they gave vitality to their woIl
has passed away and is repudiated by thei
uugrateful successors, These admit tina
Professionalism was all wrong originally il
) its moral laws of robbery aud bloodshed
] but contend that it has worked aroun
rigLs st last. Such is the Bulletins squirn
The admission stands; let us see if th
sqairn is q good wriggle. What abou
8 Crom veil, the bloodthirsty butchers Is
E not Protestant hero to dayi Are not Ii
t achievements applAuded by bigots q
highly now as they were while the bloc
OF Slaughtered babes and women was sti
= warm on the earth2 What abou; Bismarck
=, Do the gentlemen at Moreau's drink to h
a discontinue in his " ar on C4tholics2 If g.
!, there is no echo of their sentments to
8, found in the BWLetiR. What about tt
\ frightful persecution of Catholic Poles
d Ruesia9 You say Ruseia lie G reek, not Pre-
> teetant- True, bat is Professionalism shocl
e ed or pleased by it's bloody intolerancef
T. Yet the innocent Bulletin RENTS all til
= spirit of blood and intolerance back to Il
earlier days of Protestantism-to Il
=; middle ages, as it says. The middle sg
!. ceased when Protestantism began, but /
III that pass The history of earlier Prote
tantism is by no means obscured by Il
haze of antiquity, and it's history of Il
~ present day gives ample evidence that