The Irish standard., 1890-11-22

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Let the LIGHT enter Had his life not
always been In the dark and this the
revelation 4. 8 ...5
= There must come reaction, "a nearer
faith.a brighter light than any ever yet
seen. Y on young men OF Harvard, who
are to be the guides and leaders Of your
felloW-men. God grant you may help to
disseminate its rays ssss-e.ss
The Sources Of the Catholic History Of
the Country.
The Catholic history of the country
begins with the earliest explorers by sea
and land. For many wears these were
all Catholic. Cabot, Verazzani, Gomez,
Ponce. de Leon; Hineda on the coast;
Cabeza de Vaca, Father Mark of Mice
Coronado in the interior were all Catho
lies. All bore with them their Catho-
! lie faith and the services of the Catholic
Church. Our first chapter is to be
sought in the record of these expedi
tions. Here we can trace the Catholic
names given to points on the coast from
Ste Croix or Holy Cross River to Corpus
Christie. When settlements were at
tempted the first were made by Catho~
lies. Ponce de Leon in Florida, Ayllon
on the James river in Virginia, Tristan
de Luna at Pensacola, Menendez at ST.
Augustine. Onate at Santa Fe, Cham
plain at Neutral island. ALI were
Catholic and their history is to be traced
| in the Spanish annalists like Barica in
the history of religious orders, in docu-
ments in the Spanish archives, in the
works of Champlain, the Relations OF
New Mexico. Is all mention of these
settlements excluded from general his
torres of the United States and even
State histories from ignorance or preiu-
dice7 Why do they suppress all mention
of them? II Catholics try to bring for
ward some real true history they are
denounced. Evidently some people love
ignorance better than knowledge.
| When English settlements were made
on the coast, Catholics settled in Mary
land. Their history is noble one. but
how, of late years, men have strained
their ingenuity to falsify it! Heayensl
there is not a baser chapter in Ameri-
can literature than the malignant eff
forts to decry the Calverts, and the
early Maryland Catholics and deprive
them of their just glory. Before 1929
not syllable was uttered. but when
Catholic emancipation was extorted in
England. Professionals began to Try to
show that Professionalism had always
been the very pink of toleration. and to
consign the penal laws to oblivion The
real history Of early Maryland is to be
| read in the Relation, in Father Whites
Narratio, IN the Foley Documents. and
| in the terrible penal laws which cannot
be blotted out Of the statute book. in
the published Archives; and in unpub-
lished documents. The laws of Massa.
chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
| Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia
show the Infamous penal laws of those
colonies, the war on Catholic education,
industry, civil rights and. we might al
most say, existence. To the North,
West and South we trace Catholic pro-
gress in the Jesuit Relations, the Mar
rative of Marquette. of La Sale and his
companions. Membre and Hennepin, in
brave IbeTvelie and stout Penecant, in
the printed works of Dumont, LIE Page
du Pratt, Bernard de la Harpe; In works
on New Mexico, Benayides, Lopez
Salmeron, MORT, Signenza, in Palou's
Life of Sierra and his larger narrative,
in the lives of venerable Anthony Mar
gil and in unpublished documents.
Later still, when the Catholics of the
county were placed under a single head
and single organization the works Of
Catholic priests and Catholic lagmen
are TO be sought in hundreds of sources,
and repositories too many to enumerate
in an article.
Now, what history of the United
States used in schools shows even In
adequately the progress of the Catholic
element from the earliest days to it's
present attitude, when 0ne-sixth OF the
whole population belongs to it. In the
books used IN the Protestant public
schools the Catholic element is studi-
ously ignored or maliciously misrepre-
sented. More space is given to the re
ligion OF the Separatists and Puritans
Of New England. lsrepresented to suit
the times than is even given to the
Catholic, in the whole country, for a
period extending from 1913 to 1890. and
geographically extending from the
whole Atlantic seaboard to the shores
washed by the Pacific. Poet and artist
seek inspiration in Catholic annals, but
they are studiously ignored by those
who profess to give history. HISTORY
Catholic news.
The Blarney Stone.
Blarney literally means a little field