The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-05-07
LLSPRLH1S IN THE DISPATCHES
In. Y. World [


There is come wholesome reading in the
| public documents "relating to foreign rela
| lions" which those of our uneasy minded
Republicans WI no think the n at,onal dignity
is likely to suffer by the reduction of our
diplomatic expenses would do well to pom
der, and thereby tighten their hearts. We
cannot suppose that the travels of ParsOn
Newman, extensive as they were, embrac
ed the whole orb; but either his spirit must
| have outrun the flesh, or there are mispriuts
| in some of the dispatches. For instance,
MIR. Thomas o. Osborn, Minister to the
Argentine Republic, writing from Buenos
Ayres, reports in his despatch No 80 that
1.-TWO patches" of Jesuits, arriving in the
Plata country in 1868, "went to work
quietly, and ia ten years they have filed
Buenos Agree with converts and schools.
1t is generally believed that the present
troubles are the results of the warm zeal
of the Archbishop in behalf of the Jesuits."
Assuredly here mnst be a n2isprint, or DR..
Newman has been with Minister Osborn in
spirit or in flesh, for only upon the bypo-
thesis of national church which regards
the Jesuits as men of Belial, woald MN
lister of the Uuited States find it a reproach
to a Christian order of priesthood that they
have filed an ignorant country with con-
yerts to Christianitv and with the means
for obtaining that education which VI are
taught to consider the very foundation of
the republic.
to the Central American states, and his de-
spatch No. 24O contains the following grave
typographical error with regard to the con-
ditlon of affairs in Guatemala
'Yet there has been progress. Intelligence
is more generally drffdsed people are slowly
learning epublican habits and adopting re-
Dn blcsn ideas; HnonGrchicGL hierarchy that
fostered superstitons, that only dUoued education
in a certain direction and chich gathered gear
unto itself by erery ,Cile,' has boon dethroHed
agriculture now has the aid of the numerous la
borers no were employed in the erection of
large editces for monks and nuns and religious
ex srcises," etc.
1t is proverbially the case with "begin-
ers in diplomacy" that they should not be
aware of the obvious fact that to express q
preference in one direction is to imply
slight in another, bat Williamson's Ian
guage is too brutal to be mere obtuseness
there must be a misprint.
Speaking of gathering gear to himself
by every wile," we are reminded of a few
other misprints in this came Williamson's
dispatches. In his No. 244 he mentions
the fibre of Guatemalan plant known as
Escobilla, which he thinks is not an
UTt'ea like Ramie. but "a species of jute or
CorchOrus edpSulGris (subject to the cOrrec-
ton of botanlsts), and adapted, he suspects,
to many manufacturing purposes, and he
adds
"If you think it worth while TO incur the
cost of attempting to send on to the Bureau of
agriculture iew OF the plants, shall be
pleased to undertake the task under instruc-
tions."
AS Mr.. Williamson gets $l2 900 a year
for salary and contingencies, aud has no.
thing to do that is worth speaking of, the |
above proposition has a thriftiness which |
might become Jesuit. In bis No. 257 |
Mr. Williamson's antiquarian spirit. breaks |
forth under the same conditions. He il
willing, it must be confessed, to undertake |
any sort Of job, bat always halts in pres- |