The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-07-02

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pointed to wait on Plus TX and tender to him
their sympathy and homage They were ad-
mitted to audience on the Goth, and were re-
ceived in the Consistorial Hall. They were
about 300 in number. The Pope entered the
hall little before twelve o'clock, accompanied
by eight or nine Cardinals Signor Pozzi, of
Milan, read the address, and about sixty thou:
sand lire with an album containing the names
of thousands Of Catholics were at the same time
presented to His Holiness. The Unita CattoRoa,
of Turin, sent over 4 500 lire as q contribution
to the monument of Garcia Moreno. After the
reading of the address, the Pope in clear tone
and with wonderful distinctness delivered the
following speech:
Surrounded by good Italians, by you who
are here present, aud by the affections of those
very many Itslians who have cent to me from
distant parts gracions letters without mum Der,
full Of affeotiOnate words, all of whom deplore
with me the sad conditions of Italy which they
! are laboring to alleviate, invite you for a mo-
ment to give with me most rapid retrospeo-
tive glance. in order simply to point out GER
tain past events which have given occasion to
the present
| to the captivity of the great Pontif, Plus VII,
and to restore him amid the applause of peo-
Piles and the triumph of Christianity to his own
Rome. Scarcely had he arrived here when he
| repaired to the Vatican temple, and among the
| applauders st the gates of the Basilica, found
King of Sardinia TO welcome him, full of filial
affection and reverence. All Italy from the
Alps to the Trinaorian Valleys was rejoioed.
and laying aside the garments of mourning put
on those of gladness, in honor of the days of
peace which had commenced, a peace after
which all men lopged. All places resounded
with peace. The cities, the plains and villages
in the country, echoed the cry of peace. Aud
peace, peace" was repeated by ali the people
with supreme exultation.
Bu6 this Dleaaed NOT them who in
those days were mbitIous in the peninsula,
much less did it please those very numerous
persons who, religious practices having been
put aside, and God in fact forgotten, were ac-
customed TO fish in turbid waters and had n aed
of revolutions and agitations to feed the in
satiable appetites of Revolutionists. What
happenedf The first idea of the agitators was
that of corrupting the hearts and minds,
especially of the young And recollect that
it was then said that never had 80 many copies
of infdel authors of the eighteenth century
been seen beyond the Alps as had appeared at
that time to infest the nations, while to those
of the eigh tenth century were added contem-
porary publications. of the came stamp. Italy
followed suit, and even here wicked writer's
joined in the evil work, and inundated the
country in all directions with little poisonous
books, the multitude of which it would be i'm
possible to specify. Especially in two great
cities, the Press vomited forth immoral books
and sosndalous romsnces, which even in these
last years recollect that tried, not, alasi to
destroy, for that was to me impossible, but at
least to diminish.
"Then arose a sect, black in it's name, and
blacker in it's deeds, and scattered itself over
fair Italy, penetrating, by little and little, into
many localities. Later on another sect arose,
which pleased to call itself Young, but in truth
was old in malice and ipiquity. Two other
scots came afterwards, but all at last carried
their turbid and filthy waters into the vast
marsh of Freemasonry. From this masonic
marsh Issue to-day those pestilential miasmata
which infest 80 large q portion of the world,
and which deprive this poor Italy of the power
of presenting her real wishes before the eyes of
all nations. These were the secret societies
which kept the people in agitation, and which
introduced themselves by little and little into
places where not only should they never have
been admitted, but from which, the con-
trary, they shond have always been sedulously
kept distant. Let the past be 3 lesson to in
struct for the future.
Here leave all useless observations and
equally useless lamentations. L will merely
say that the agitators obtained at first only a
partial success, but afterwards deluded men,
with q constancy worthy of q better cause, and
certain agitators, sped on by blasts from hell,
succeeded in causing the triumph of disorder
and the victory of the most perfidious revolu
ton. But the revolution is a wild beast which
devours its own children and the first proof
she showed of this her savage character was
to expose to her vengeance him who, through
vanity and through ambition, had placed him.
self at the head of the great scheme of disorder
and disturbance
"We, meanwhile, remain as spectators of
the miserable triumph, and not merely specta-
tors, but participants in the bitter and deplor-
able consequences. We now see more clearly
than ever the hypocrisy of those cries of Ho
sanna, to which succeeded the expressions, the
despoilings the acts of Injustice which smote
the Church and her rights. oh, how many
illusions, how many old hallucinations have
been removed from the minds of many and
many of the deceived But mean not now
infandum renoudre dolorun, with repeating the
series of the evils which at present Cypress the
Church of jesus Christ. l will only observe
that sometimes to tyrannical oppression was
added cynical disdain. ne shalt not go to Ca
noSsG.' cries out, with contemptuous sarcasm,
the standard bearer of the present revolution,
and all his blind satellites applaud him. We
will thus answer him. To go or not to go to
Canossa, is a thing uncertain. But it is GER
tain that all will be brought before the trium-
plant Cross. aud before this glorious standard
ali will appear even agatnst their will, accom-
panied by terror and CONSIDERATION. The Cross
will be for them their title of condemnation, but
for Us it will be a source of comfort and joy.
at is also certain that God has determined
to save His Church and to restore peace to her, |
even here on earth, by virtue of the Cross.
Proceed then under this banner, my beloved |
children, to combat and contend for Justice. |
If the Cross be our banner in the strife, it will