Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-01-04
THE JESUITS DEFENDED.

with the early history of America, as may be
seen in the pages of Bancroft and Parkman.
that historians. are Obliged not o ,ly to recount
them but to borrow material from their rel
atoms published in Paris Mr. Giardin, in a
paper read before the Michigan Pioneer So
cety, showed that the Jesuits were the pio
neers Of the country. The Indians still rev.
erence the memory of the Jesuit Father
Marquette, who broke through the painless
forests of Illinois and explored the Mississippi.
The Jesuit Father Dressillettey, first of Euro
peans, as Bancroft testifes, made the painful
journey from the St. L.wrencs to the Kenne-
bee. The Xavier of America, Brebeui, trav-
ersed the country of the Hurons aud made
the first maps of the territory, as a brother
Jesuit had before made the first map of China
and the East Indias Jesuits bore the cross
to the confines of Lake Superior five years be.
fore the New England Elliott addressed the
Indians six miles from Boston Harbor From
Mount Desert in Maine to California the Jes
uits have left their mark, aud rs Bancroft
says, no river was crossed, 40 cape turned
cation of the Maryland Historical Society
shows that the first great plea for liberty of
consciousness was made in 1868 by the Jesuit
Father Fl xler6ert Jssuits began coll, IS
in Quebec and New York before Harvard was
founded. From the days when the Jesuit
Serbiewski, the Horace of Poland, by the
spirit of his fervid poetry stirred up the Poles
lander Sobieski to sweep the Moslems from
the beleagured walls of Vienna and rescue
Europe, Jesuits have ever been the friends of
liberty. In the struggles of the American
colonists, unlike other sects that were bound
to England by ecclesiastical and other ties,
the Jesuits had every reason to give their
sympathy to the young republic One of the
first acts of England on securing Canada was to
e1pel the Jesaits, and it was peculiarly fitting
that Jesuit Father Carroll, cousin of Charles
Carroll, of Carrolton, should cooperate with
Franklin in gaining the friendship of Cav ad
ians at the outbreak of the revolution. 1t was
sitting also that Fran kiln should have for a
coaborer member of the order W hich through
Father Strada as may be seen in Addson's
Spectator mo. 24 had anticipated his discov |
cry of electricity. Among the very few |
friends of the colonies in Canada |
we're the Jesuit Fathers Huguet and Floque'.
Washington evinced his regard for the Jesuiis
n bis visit to the college at Georgetown and
Lafayette. Memoirs Paris expressed his own
,artiality for the Fathers at the institution in
.pesch hefors the Frepeh ecisa,ur, Whom |
he Republic was established the Jesuit Arch
bishop, Carroll, composed the beautiful prayer
or the authorities, which is still rected by
catholics. When Andrew Jackson saved New
orleans it was Jesuit who delivered the ad
rsss, which, it is said, moved Old Hickory to
earful emotion. When Father Kenny, Su-
erior of the Jesuits in Ireland, visited this
ountry he was greeted with cordial welcome
y Congress. And when the Father Of his
ountry was no more it was Jesuit who
ffered the most touching eulogy Now, Mr..
'dtor, let me compare some Of the other
,cts with the Jesuits.-That the Methodists,
'r instance, were not always III sympathy
it'll the young republic is evidenced in the
ct that their founder, John Wesley left
lis country in consequence of dissensious
hich he had stirred up, and on his return to
ngland wrote the address to the American
,oniss, which, As his biosrsphers testify,
a. 30 anti. American that it's destruction was .
70 salvation of Asthodism in the United y
ates. A Protestant writer, John Hampson, *
a contemporary memoir of Wesley (vol. 2,
ge 145), says Methodists rendered them s
Ives obnoxious to the Americans by their
Dlent opposition to the cause. One preacher
Is obliged to make precipisate retreat, and
other was captured by American scouts spG A
nvictsd of doing the work of spy for the
itish army. Southey, Whitehead, Tyer, n
IN and many other writer's testify to Wes-
Is continued opposition to the struggling
lenies. And yet the Jesui:s have been 1
'ksd upon by many as enemies to this re-
bio, and the Nethodists claimed to DO Pc J,
iarly its friends. Mr.. Editor, tho Jesuits
their doctrine are not foreign to this
lntry the Jesuits and their doctrine were
tied here long before the foot Of Pilgrim O,
Their ever touched the shores of New Eng
d even Catholic Blshopries were establish
long prior to the time of tho arrival OF =
Mayfower. The doctrines Of the Church
e taught by the Jssuits to the real native
,ericans for centuries before thu keel of