The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-07-15

strument making this appointment was av.
permitted to enter FranceI We must no lonpt
SSnan.e these things; we must drive back tn
Chufch TO the place where she belongs w
need not fear that the people will not be o
our side If there is one thing more than AT
UoLa aeaS rs repugnant to France, it is tb
800 y. oie'ioSlsm and 1t cannot be to
strongly said that clerioalism is the enemy q
the country"
10 this bitter barapgue N. jules Sino
mad no reply: he conteptenied himself wit
declaring that he and the cabinet were no
SUBJECT to tie dictation of any power be
hInd the threne, and that perfect harmon,
| existed between the marshal and himself
He fastened to add that he would accept
IN the name Of the government, the orde
OF the day proposed by NJ. Leblond, whict
was in these words:
The Chamber of Deputies, considering thai
| the recrndescepce of Uitramontane msnfesta
| tions constitutes o danger to the domestio and
foreign peace of the country, calls upon the
Government to make uRe Of the lawful means
| which it has ut it's disposal
This was adopted by q vote of 36I
against l2l; thus NJ. Gambetta won his
victory, and, so far as M. Simon could
pledge it, the government was pledged to
carry out the demands of the foes of the
Church: This was on the 4th of May.
Marshal MacMahoD, it appears, hesitated
| as to his future course; but it appears also
that he was conscious he had been BETRAYED
| into an intoierabIe position. He seems to
have determined, from that moment, to
dismiss M. Simon, and to appeal to the
country to sustain him in his refusal to
| comply with the unconstitutional and
tyranical demands of the revolution.
lists, but with what may seem to some an ua
wise timidity he resolved to wait for some
other act on the part of M. Simon which
might be made the immediate ground for
bis dismissal.
He had not long to wait. During the
next few days the sittings of the Chamber
were characterized by great excitement aud
tnmult. Nj. Simon was made the target of
continued attacks; he was accused of
having formerly belonged to the Interpa-
tionai society, and of having been morally
IN league with the Communists who assas-
sinated the Archbishop of Paris. He
defended himself with vehemence, but his
utilization with the Gambetta faction be-
came daily more apparent. He promised
to draw up and send to the bishops a strin-
gent circular, warning them that they
would be held to strict responsibility for
all their future acts The committee of |
the Budget, on the 18th of May, reported |
in favor of according the cum annually |
paid for the support of the Church, SIO.- |
626 1919, but it accompanied this recon-
mendation with the remark that it was
now the duty of the government to re-
Vive and enforce a number of obsolete
and almost forgotten laws which had been
enacted, from time to time, by various
governments which had desired to enslaye
the Church. If these obsolete enactmepts
should now be enforced, no French bishop
could visit Rome without the consent of
Inc government; no subscriptions for the
Pope could be raised in France: no papal
brief or bull could enter France, and no
council or diocesan synod could Assem- BILE,
without the consent of the government:
md the ecclesiastical seminaries would be
compelled to teach that the civil govern
nent is supreme in all things. NJ. Simon.
t was understood, was about to enforce
hese unjust and virtually abrogated re
trictions, and the Gambettists were in
Ugh feather. But their exultation was
Don to be changed into disappointment /
I'D rage. G
The Chamber of Deputies had before it I
palities, and another measure for the re. I
cal OF the law on the restrictions of the
ress which had been passed two ears ago 8
D secure social order. The cabinet had 4
opsulted upon these measures and bad il
greed upon the lire which the ministers n
1onld take in opposing them. To this Il
greemeht NJ. Simon was a consenting C
arts; it was we'll understood between him G.
nd the msrshal that when these measures
lme up for decision M. Simon should ,
lplaln that the government could not
'nsent to them. But the new masters of -
= oIiuOh Leiu Hlul 10 the engagement he in
I'd made with them; and when these i.
easures were brought forward NJ. Simon di
ind it convenient TO be absent from the w
1ambeT, and the government was again hi
'trayed. The patience of Marshal Mac pr
ahou was now exhausted: be was perhaps VI
ad that III. Simon had 30 soon furnished "a "a
m with sufficient reason for his dis of
ieeal. Early on tie morning of May l6 th
o maTshal, having, it is seid, passed az
eepiess night, addressed the following be
tie to III. Simon, and sent it to him with. a
It consulting with any of the other mem re
RS of the government: OF
. have read in the Journal O6feiel the report XII
last Digbt's proceedings in the Chamber of ca
paties. observed with surprise that mel. til
Or you nor the Keeper of the Seals pot for di
Ird from the tribune the reasons which VI
gbt have prevented the repeal of press law W
ssed less than two years ago On the motion CO
NJ. Dafaure, and which you yourself quite ab
,ently wished to zee spilled in tho courts of az
". And yet it had beeu decided in several tn
etipgs of the cabinet, and indeed in the err
IN Gil held yesterday morning, that you and tic
Keeper of the Seals should undertake to tn
pose the motion for thsFepeal of the law. OLE
y In view of such an attiGude nm the mart DR.