The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-10
: AN .APOsTATE.
The True History Concerning Rev. =
q u.r1r.v of Ratnn Rorre.

ing, which, from the Standpoint OF Tue IseV.
T.. A. Vaudray," the person more particular
Interested ia the matter, would Indicate o
singular condition Of affairs at Brusle Land
ing, In the parish Of West Baton Rouge.
The publication, which explains Itself, is as
follows:
ADVERTISEMENT
THE 1Npu1s1TIoN REy1vED-AN UH-AMERTcAN
DOCUMENT OR INSTRUMENT.
BRusLE LANDING. La. July 6, 1879.
Mr.. Il. "a. Vaudray:
resentinR the Catholic community. Of this par
Ish. smphatleally inform you that OIL lectures or
publications on your pals concefni H. oa a r.
minatfon In this respect is positive and 1Trev-
oelble. Your future residences among US. peace
ably and deRend Esa npeh W w KS e
no harsh nted6nres on our part Will De necessary
to eecul Q such compliance.
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Il. L. Vaughan. Alcida Landry.
B M% aes Tenrres u Won m4 pba BIRD
Il, Bird, Augnste Leverre, DR.,
vim. bernard. Burlington Babin.
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Tho Rev. q. A. Vhudray replied verbally as
follows to the bearer Of the above cartel:
Tell your friends that W. are not living To
Africa but In the United States OF America,
where freedom Of cons 5ience to guaranteed TO
every human being: that am an English eitf-
zen, and shall at once appeal to the British Con,
sul for protection and redress; and flaal.y that
treat their demand with scorn. and Will re-
sumo my course Of lectures as soon a5 protsc-
ton is accorded to me-
THE THREAT CARRIED INTO EFFECT.
We. undersigned certify that on the sixth day
prevented by mob headed BY William White.
Raphael Hebert and others. from delivering a
lecture a. CARES Hall Brusle Landing. West
Y. b. Blanchard, Frank B Comeau.
w. "A. Brarnple J. B. Labadiole,
n B-H necessary the names If fifty other
eye witnesses shall be added to this list.
Unwilling to believe that in the State Of
Louisiana, in the nineteenth century, u per-
son could be prosecuted and mobbed for
practlcing his religion or giving expression to
his religious doctrines and belief, and satisfied,
beside, that only one side Of q strange story
had been told. 9 DEMOCRAT reporter was
charged with the duty OF investigating the
affair Us well as he might at such q distance
from the scence Of tho affair.
In the absence OF Archbishop Perche our re-
porter last evening waited on his Vicar Gen
eral the Rev. Father G. A. Rouxel. to ascer-
tain whether he had any information on the
subject, which he might be willing to impart.
Receiving our reporter with much affability
frank manner. He had no Information con-
corning the affair excepting what he had read
in the Times, and the fact that the name Of
Father Jouel the present Catholic curate OF
| Bruse Landing, WAS not connected with 1t
was highly gratifying to him. He could only
suppose that whatever might have occurred
| WAS attributable to the conduct in the past OF
| the person called the Rev. [. a. Vaudray.
Who is this individual asked our reporter.
Said Father Rouxel: y can speak only in
| general terms OF him. | know that he is q
Canadian, anative of Montreal, and that he
was educated at some seminary In the North,
where he was ordained priest, and that he
| has made himself so obnoxious at different
| times during his career that he has shifted
| from seminary to seminary in the North and
| West, ever to be elected for his nnsonDd doc
trines. few years ago Archbishop Foley, of
| Chicago, had occasion to warn Archbishop
Perchs against this man, saying that he had
good reasons to believe that the faith was not
iii him; that be was too superb :ia,Iy educated
to preach the gospel, and otherwise implying
that Naudray WAS unit to preach CathO-
lie doctrines. Our venerable Archbishop,
however, ia his kindness OF heart took com
passion OF Vandray and appointed him to the
curacy OF Brusle Landing. Here he seems
to have occupied himset In ,Drejudiciag the
yestrymen against the Archbishop and pro-
yoking dsseusions III the church. rs the
differences belonged to the material things Of
the church and came Within the province Of
the laws OF the land. they We're appropriately
treated, but Mr.. Naudray began to estrange
bis congregation from himself, by assuming
the functions Of clerk to Mr.. j. Care, q gro-
Ger. and one OF the signers Of the certificate
printed above, a fact which, In the opin-
ion OF his parishiOners, tended to lower
the dignity of a priest OF the Catholic
his pledge Of ceibacy and of the absolute
laws Of the Roman Catholic Church, took
unto himself q wife, selecting, by the way, for
his spouse the daughter Of the said J. Cairo,
the church which he had sworn to defend.
Under the circumstances the church could no
longer retain him in Its utilization, and another
priest was sent to Brusle Landing to take
charge Of the flock there.
"Vaudray," added Father Rouxel "is a
young man Of Q bright but erratic and imag-
NATIVE mind, who has not received that solid
education to fit bin for the priesthood in the
Catholic Church.
As stated above Father Rouxel had no In
formation concerning the immediate cause of
the trouble alluded to; nor would the Church
Intervene, but would leave the matter In the
hands OF the citizens Of the locality for settle
ment.
These last words OF Father RouxeI evil
denced that while he had spoken with IN
Inistakab1e candor concerning the conduct of |
Naudfay when the latter was still within the
pate OF the church, the reverend gentleman
events, IS though the life OF the apostate then
belonged to the world and to himself, and no
longer to the church. Id SO far as Its author
ity 1over Vaudray was Concerned. But ia
other quarters onr reporter was told that the |
course OF Faudray has been for
q long time OF q most scandalous |
nature, even his marriage being pro- |
roked and fastened by condition |
Of affairs that left hio no other alternative;
and that this highly moral and much out |
ragged man has OF late from the pulpit, made
some OF the most Infamous and damnable |
sharges against priests and the use Of the |
confessional. to ruin and degrade the wives
ind daughters Of their parishi9Ders.
10 show the character 0t Vandray, II n !