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

| their policy. They mean 10 suppress sI
Religions Orders aud to make the prOfes
sion Of vows illegal. They have command
ed the Prefects to prohibit all religious
! procession g, except on apecial occasions
and with special aanctioD, and have thus
declared war upon the national Customs
and sentiments, which are thoroughly
Catholic. They have taken from the
parish priests the administration of funds
btqueathed tn them for Distributor. Ihey
have ordered that the religious institutions
of Catholic testators should as much as pos
sble DO treated with contempt. They
| have in other ways outraged the Catholic
feeling of the country, and shown their de-
termination to treat the Catholic religion
as the enemy of Italy. All this theyhave
! Rore in defauce of the law OF guarantees,
and In the face of the laws which proclaim
the FREQ liberty of association and the
tuuality of all men before the law. So lar
have they gone that evea some OF tho
| Liberal oTgaGs lave condemned their
| policy as suoversive oil al freedom, aud IA
contrary to all principles of free guver"-
meUt.
That the policy of the pIesent Govern
ment is altogether wanton and purposeiess
! ia an assertion which there GIs grave
grounds for dispu,ing IL ia we'll kn"wn
that the Reyolutionis,s and Garibaldians
were extreme Republicans in principle, and
that they accepted the regal and coDstltu-
| tional form of government merely from ptu
Dental motives, and not from choice. The
extreme Revoutonists, indeed, were op-
posed to any compromise, and withdrew
| rather than accept Office under King Victor
Emmanuel. Some leading mem oers OF the
Mazzinian party have always held aloof
from the party of the compromise, and have
ever shown a suilen hatred of monarchy
| in every shape. But mauy OF the lees
feroCious Revolutionists acc pied the mon
archy as bridge to Republicans N. These
dishonest aod traitorous men have been
until very lately excluded from p"stn OF IN
| huence, although they exercised cnhsiuera-
bic power in the Lower House OF ParlIa
ment. Their policy was one OF abstention,
aud they gave DO open support to any set
of Ministers. But since the advent of
Signor Depretis to power the members of
this extreme party have manifested dis
position to give support to the present
Ministry, although they still adhere to
| their extreme and soclalistic principles.
The Internatiopalsts and Socialists who
met lately IN one or two of the great cities
of Italy proclaimed, as of old, their deter
mination to promote anarchy, destroy the
| rights of property, and introduce Commu-
nism, and at the same time recommended
| their dupes to give effective support to the
Ministry of Siguor Deprets. This fact ia
significant, and eypiaius why the present
| Government did not, as the late Govern
ment did, prohibit such International
meetings aud arrest the promoters. The
favor shown by Signor Mancini, the Italian
is another fact full of meaning. The agent
| in question, a young man named De Mata,
lay in prison under life eentence for a
cold -blooded and utterly unprovoked as
sassinatiou of a Government official whom
the Camorra had tried to bTibe, but finding
him proof against corruption, determined
to aesassinate him. De Mata was the agent
selected to commit the murder, which he
} perpetrated almost openly and under the
very eyes of the victims wife. In five
. 81, Tod T-S IrF-
nor Mancini, De Mata will be discharged
from his confinement and restored to join
: hia brethren of the Camorra in Naples.
/ Some officials of the Crown, relying per
haps on the known Republican tendencies
j in past days of some of the King 8 Ministers
went 80 far as to commit acts which were
9 an ipsult to royalty. One Sob Project or.
e dered the word "Royal" to be omitted OIL
, erased from the pubic documents which
e iss ned from his Office, and another Pretec
or Sub Prefect,, at pubic meeting II
! Verona over which he presided, spoke O
the "citizen King" instead of his Majesty
The imprudert zsalots were removed from
; of9ce bat II -is clear that they had imaginet
e they might manifest their Republican sen
! timents with impunity, and they cleari!
Ie expected approval, not rebu6e, from thel
At master, Baron Nicotera. Tie program
, laid down by the present Ministry for thei
T. future policy leaves no room for doubt tha
N Signor Depretis courts the taTor OF his OF
g, friends, the MaZzinlau ana GArlpaiu:a
at Republicans, and that he Teiies no longer o
l. the reluctant support OF the Tuscan cave
r, On the other hand, the late Ministry c
ty Minghetti, and the moderate party in gen
lie eral, have become seriously alarmed.
- 1t is felt that something more than
o. change of Ministers is at stake, and that til
re forthcoming elections may return majorit
at of deputies belonging to the extreme Left
h. Accordingly, associations have been her
ty aud there formed, calling themselves ICON
ct stitutional," the object of which is to pro
n. mote the return of deputies who will main
Id tain the "Statuto" and the present consti
n tuition against the assaults of the Socialists
to 1t is to be noted that the men of rank an
influence among the moderate party ar
r becoming scarcer every day. The me
Ii who retained some belief in religion, i
I'd spite of grave errors, and who commanded
certain amount of confidence from their re
spectability and general integrity, are nc
often to be found taking lead in politics
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