The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-07-08

loAsoeu sogetner 70 destroy the rights {
properly to degrade marriage to enslavt
NOT wholly to overturp, the church: 4
cut her Off from her connection with he
earthly head; to reduce her prelates,
they were permitted to exist at Ali. To IN
conoition or servants of the civil power
TO exile her contemplating and tsaShioT CT
ders to take from her the right of ed1ca
ting her children and to drag France, err
long, into an alliance with the revolution
airy associations in Germany, Italy, Bal
GUM, Spain, and Russia, which dream O
establishing on the ruins of religion and o
society new confederation from which
goo shall be banished, and over whict
satan shall rule supreme. Comparatively
few OF the constituents of the Gambetts
party In the French assembly are aware OF
the designs of the leaders of this faction
bat enough light has within the past few
weeks been thro wn upon their machina.
| tions fully to jastify the President in max
ing firm stand against their further pro-
gress.
Mr.. Jules Simon refused to aid the Pres
ldent in executing this determination an d
NJ. Simon was removed to give place to a
minister who would CO operate with his
chief. So powerful had the Gambetta fac
too become in the Assembly that the
whole of the cabinet followed M. Simon in
his enforced retirement from office, and the
PRESIDENT was for. the moment left alone.
q. W.
ever, and who indeed, had encouraged
him to dismiss NJ. Simon, were prompt in
taking up the fallen reins of Office, and
the government, without a days delay, be
gan it's work of preserving France from her
worst foes. The task before them is a
most arduous one, and it has been begun
none too soon. Let US show how it be-
came necessary that it should be under
taken at all.
The French Assembly was reoonve at
Versailles on the LIST of May after the usual
Easter recess. During the vacation events
mad occurred which made it probable that the
long threatened rupture between the Gambetta
faction, or Extreme Left of the Chamber and
the conservative elements in the executive de-
Partment of the government could not be de-
lsyed much longer. The administration had
indeed gone to the very furthest point of con-
cession In endeavoring to satisfy the demands
OF the Left. The consent of Marshal MaoMa-
hon had been given to these concessions, but
it was known that this assent had been ex-
torted from him ith<dif1ioulty, and that he
was personally of the opinion that the more
they ask, and that the true and safe course was
that of steady and incorporating resistance
to their unconstitutional and revolutionary de- |
nands. The Left, by skilfuI management of
The press in its interest by the manipulations
,f the local public functionaries who had from
lime to time been appointed at its req uest or |
whom it had been able to purchase by adrois |
and exaggeretiOns of the |
policy of the conservative Members of the As.
embly and by the not infrequent maladroit |
ltterances and acts of certain of the imperialist
md monarohicsl members, had contrived to |
make an imposing show of their strength in |
he country as we'll as in the Assembly. 1t is |
10 doubt true that, all other things being |
qual. large majority Of the French people |
government. But the republic which would |
atisfy them is not at all the republic which
Vould satisfy Gam beta and his friends. The
epublic which the majority of the French peo-
In Mi IT. ,:ak,
you'd be safe in which law aud order would |
eign in which God would be respected and
q which the church would be free. The re-
hese characteristics /; but GAM BETA and his
eutensnts had been allowed to assume the
ttitude of the special friends and defenders
LENDERS in the Assembly owed their election
} the votes OF good Catholics and sober citi-
sps. They now felt themselves strong enough
, advance further, and to wress from the ad.
Marshal MaoMahon was himself irremova
!e for three years longer only four years of
is septennate having expired. Bat it might
Q possible. in the opinion Of the GAmbettists,
} force him to accept o cabinet which should .
. dictated by Themselves, and which would ,
and over to them the virtual control of the
overnment. One of the members of the then
1binet, they believed, would be useful to !
lem, and their plans involved his retention. | ,
hat was the nature of the Communications
hich are said to have taken place in secret :
'1Weon NM. damDeLGo ana simon cannot at r
esent be known. Nor can We unveil the
ysteries of the oorrespor demo, which has 4
zen kept up during the last few ears between +
9 controlling members of the French Ex.
eme Left aud the revolutionary leaders in !;
1gland and throughout the continent of y
rope. The operations of the secret societies q
Q seldom brought to light until sf5er their 7
,rk has been accomplished-and not al ways n
en- then. The once famous International ~
ciety of Workingmen" has ceased to exist q
all practical purposes but it, at the best, n
Is only an engine invented and put in mo. n
N by mon who still are laborlng in the So :,
10Y of Masonic lodge-rooms and in the eau n,
chambers of hidden political organizations IL
accomplish the destruction of Christian So ii
ty and Christian government. 1t canpot be nj
q bted that certain solidarity unites the So *
lists of France. Germany, S Switzerland, Bel W
I'm, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Russia, Spain, ia
Portugal, and that they have the means n
acting together. The Gsmbetta faction in ed
ance by no means stood alone in their recent VI
empt to gain the upper hand in the admin w
rattan of the republic; they had the &C. hi
9 sympathy and the moral support of their ii,
frSres throughout Europe. an
low, the great bulwark of the conservative of
ublic in France is the Roman Catholic Fl
1roh, the Roman Catholic faith, the Roman to
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