The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-06-24
lat BRING GLAD rIDlNGs OF GOOD rHINGsp

for the salvation of the country In receiving
| the supreme power from the hands OF Its rep
reeentatives, has shaken the world, and al
most entirely distracted attention from the
awful struggle which has commenced in the
East. Aud he is not wrong, inasmuch as ell
feel that war will not remain cireumscrioed TO
the shores of the Danube nor the monntains
of Armenia; that in spite Of all appearances
to I he con trary it is not q war of conquest be-
tween two rival nations but that in it Is in
carnate and manifest the first outbreak OF
colossal struggle long foreseen and appre-
bonded, and perhaps decisive. between hevo-
luton and Order, between Christianity and
unbelieving baIbarism Of new fashion, be-
tween Catholic civilization and the revivinG
pagan CRsarism. All feel that this war viii!
fatally pass from the East to tie West and
in the West o we'll ordered and Conservative
France is o formidable adversary to the Revo-
luton. Hence arise the hopes of the good,
and the timid aDxietes of the friends OF the
Revolution, among whom stands foremost the
Liberal faction which has taken possession OF
our Italy and put her to that wretched moral
and economic torture of which we are at once
| the witnesses and the victims The whole
Liberal press of Europe is furious against
Marshal MaoMahon, because OF the energetic
| and most noble precaution he has taken in dis
missing NJ, Gambetta, in the person OF his
| "thrall" Simon, as the Paris Figaro calls him.
These journals unanimously assert that the
| Catholics have provoked the crisis. We,
adopting the modern Parliamentary language,
| respect this opinion of theirs. They cay that
implacable enemies to liberty and to Demo-
cratic and Repub liCRn forms OF UOVeEnR0nbs
the Catholics of France and the woEid-the
Pope included-bavo forced Marshal MAGMA
hon to carry ont q coup detaf, and TO commlH
monstrous illegelity-two accusations e91aly
false. The President of this Provisional Gov
eminent of Franoe-to which, in order to give
it some sort of . name, that Of Republic was
tackled on-was in the right, Wnep, for the
good of his country, he thought 1t his duty to
dismiss Minister who was too evidently on
the high road to the reconstitution OF the
Defense Rationale. and of the glorious Com
mupe of 1870. Jules Simon was in reality the
arm which the mind of Gambetta moved OPP
oorrsot theories and Parliamentary usages
but has, Perchance. the present septennial
Constitution Of France any analogy to the or
binary Charters, or Statutes, or Constit9tions,
by which modern Europe is upbeldY Or 10 1t
not, on the contrary, true that the position Of
Marshal MacMahoD, which they would sudden
y transform into that of Constitutional
King. is altogether exeepsionalf He will,
they ssy, go so far as to dissolve the Cham Der.
1t may be SO; but has not this right been
given TO him by the came centennial Constitu-
Gion wbich precsrious1y rules FrsnceS
Bat this is only the superficial part of the
question; the root of the matter lies in the
principle involved in the great struggle to
which we have alluded above, and Of which |
the present war in the East is but an episode |
q war where we behold The singular spectacle |
of Autocratic Russia fighting for the revolu- |
tion, and Turkey fog the principle OF social
It is this basis of the great |
. uestion which has caused the whole Liberal
press of Europe to rise bydra-beaded and,
taking advantage of the French crisis, to ac-
,use the Catholics as being the eternal enemies
IF liberty, and as having now conspiIed TO
prevent wise, we'll ordered, Conservative
aepub bile from establishing and consolidating
tself in France. Here, in all the questions
low agitated, the Liberals again follow their
lncient, and not very honorable custom of
the question.
No, we are not the enemies of liberty,
leither do we hate Republics. Quite the con-
rsry but we desire TO have all civil liberties
lightly understood and honestly practised-
liberty in order and in justice. Forms of Gov
rnment are for us all equally good what we
ook at is the epirit whioh informs them. Give
Is Christian Republic, and we shall be ex-
client Repu We shall combat only,
nd always, that government, whether abso-
ute Monarchy, Representative system, or Re
'ublio, which does not leave the Church free,
Il worse, 10 hostile to it, and aims at throwing
own religious principle. And this Republic
t France, which now, according to the cries
f the Liberals, is threatened by its great
nemy ''Clericalism," was 1t ever attacked by
be Catholics until it touched upon the reli-
ious question: Let rs, Liberal gentlemen, !
peak out plainly as becomes honest men, aud
70 shall be able to understand each other,