The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-10-01
THE .IESUITS IND THE PRESIDENT OF
ECUADOR.

Gabriel Garcia Moreno, every one has been
on the look out for further outrages, espe-
cially against the Society of Jesus. The
Free Mssons had put 80 many faisehooGs ID
circulation about the Jesuits who have
charge of q number of the Higher Govern
ment Schools, that the Very Rev. Father
General, for some time, entertained the
idea of Withdrawing them. The report OF
this intention on the part of the Superior
General spread very rapidly, ana caused 30
much sorrow throughout Ecuador, that the
President of the Republic, Don Antonio
Borrero, and his Prime Minister, Don Jose
Rafael Arizaga, applied directly to our
HOLY Father the Pope to spare their
country this additional stt1Iction.
We translate the Presidents letter IN futi
that our readers may be able to judge how
anxious the people of Ecuador are that
their children shall not be deprived of the
advantage of Christian education.
The letter is as follows:
ANTONIO BoRRERO, PRESIDENT OF THE
REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR, TO HIS HoL1-
NESS Plus TX.
"Nost Holy Father: The deep interest feel
in the preservation and prosperity OF an me
religious institutions of the Republic, as well
as in the progress of true sciences, taught by
learned and virtuous professors, charged Win
guiding our children in the road to kno Wedge,
q pro1ress 80 closely allied with Catholic
principles, lead me to send Your Holiness this
letter, and at the same time to lay at your
feet the loving and flisl expression OF my most
Permit me, o Holy Father, to speak to You
in my capacity as President OF the Republic,
with all the frankness which owe to the Su-
preme Pastor of the Fold of Jesus Christ as
being the only one who can avert the misfor-
tune which now threatens us. The heart OF
your Holiness will open towards MS as soon as
shall have told you, with full confidence, OF
the sorrows of this people, who enjoy to 30
eminent q degree Your Holiness paternal good
will.
81 have been told the Very Rev. Father
General of the Society of Jesus oontemplates
Withdrawing the Fathers in charge of the
Polytechnic School in this city, founded at 80
great COST only few years ago. The more
enlightened people of the country and the gov
eminent have for too long q time been wont
to found their most cherished hopes upon this
school, directed by suoh learned and virtuous
Professors not to feel the greatest regret at the
report of removal If this report were to be
confirmed, it would be attended with the most
fatal consequence. The Mission established
here by the Rev. Fathers would itself be eheot-
ed by it. .,.,,
"No, the Fathers of the Society of Jesus will
not dissppoint the government and the heads
of families in this way: Ihey wiz no. tt a.o w
our shores the Fathers exiled from Germany,
to be made in vain; they will not permit the
enlightened classes of Ecuador to be deprived
of the Instruction of the Fathers; they Will
not oblige heads of families to see the closing
of the doors of that school wherein the sciences
have been taught, without faith ana the
Fathers were to be recalled, the influence and
respect which the Society so justly erjo
would be impaired, youth would be in danger
of wandering from the way of truth in which
salvation can alone be found. The discerning
eye of Your Holiness will fully appreciate all
the evils which may result IN the future by the
adoption of such q couree.
"But o Holy Father, am fully confident
that YOU will deign to remember this Republic,
which 80 loves and venerstes You, and trust
that your greatness of heart will give weight
TO nv PRAYER so that may obtain from the
Very Rev. Father General revocation OF the
order regarding the Fathers in charge OF the
Polytechnic School.
Holy Father, in the name of the Govern
ment, and in the name of the people OF Eoua-
DOR and in my own name also, ior' no" , enn -
and as father of Christian family, be lnsen-
sibe to the misfortune which threatens Us
The misfortune would be all the greater, for
the Society of Jesus would suffer greatly
thereby in the eyes of the public. l regard
this renowned Society as the most powerful
motor of Christian civiliE alton, and could not
see the glory of their name pale without re
gret. May it continue to exercise its salutary
moral and religious Influence and may IL CON
TIME upon its solid foundations in our Republic
von 9SG have seem Holy ES1n t EnG -
nad not been prompted by the interest feel II
tne Society of Jesus, and by the fact that re
gard their residence amongst us as vita
9Gestlon TO that youth upon which the future
OF the Republic depends.
In the hope of obtaining what humbly
request, 1 recommend Your Holiness to the
constant protection Of God, and beseeoh you
y holy Father, to bestow Your Apostolic Ben
SOD, ga 1yToNIO RORRRRO,
Executive Palace Of QGito, ,Juae II, 1876.
A friend of the ReichsEeitung of Bonn
iesnolng at Quito, has written to tia
Ip on, saying that Very Rev. FRthe
To- a mas revoked the order of recall, ant
that the Jesuit Fathers will continue il
their duties as heretofore.