The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-08-02
AN APOsTATE's LYING.


and blood curdling narrative Of Lin
coins assassination on the authority of
Father Chiniquy. the French Canadian
ex-priest who was expelled from the
Catholic Church some thirty years ago
because of his immoral conduct. Who
is this Father Chlniquy that sensible
Professionals would pay any attention to
his wholesale ISLANDERS against the Cath
olic Church? He received his prelimin
airy education for the priesthood at
Nicollet College, Three Rivers, Canada,
and finished his theological course at
the Grand Seminary at Montreal. AT
ter his ordination he: was assigned to- a
pastorate at Kamouriske, lii the diocese
or Quebec Here he soon got into
trouble and was sent to DO penance in
the Oblate monastery at Montreal. He
exhibited such signs of repentance that
Bishop Bouget gave him faculties and
assigned him to mission in his own
diocese. Chinlquy was an eloquent
preacher and soon gained celebrity as a
pulpit orator. He again fell from grace
and was ignominiously driven from the
ranks of the clergy, He left Canada
and went to Illinois where he joined
the Presby terian church and married a
school teacher. He influenced some of
his countrymen in Illinois to apostatize
and now at the age Of so he boasts. to
have made IS. 900 converts fronl Roman
ism to Professionalism. Chiniquy claims
to have been on confidential terms with
Abraham Lincoln. 1t appears that
Lincoln. several years before reaching
the presidency, defended the ex priest
on a serious charge at Urbana, Illinois.
Since ChiniquY had renowned popery
and become blowout Protestant he
gave free rein to his passions as Luther
did before him. Chiniquy in mis- Fifty
Years IN the Church of Rome records
several interviews with Lincoln in
which the martyr president is made to
say many uncomplimentary things of
the Pope and the Jesuits. The LYING
scoundrel wants to makehis Protestant
dupes believe that it was the Jesuits
who planned the assassination Of Lin
coin, and he unblushinglY records it as
a fact that without single exception
the constructors were Roman Catholics
Though there is not particle of foun-
datiOn for this charge. there are papers
like the Times which has the impudence
Of repeatinglt on the sole authority OF
this libidinous blackguard. This
Ananias speaks Of the Pope's letter to
jeff Davis and says he told Lincoln,
that letter is q poisoned arrow aimed
by the Pope at you personally" a per-
son would think that the Pope's letter
was terrible document. ChinlquY
takes good care not to give the Pope's
letter but let's his readers infer that it
expressed sympathy with Jefferson
Davis, and that it encouraged him in
his rebellion to deal a death blow to the
Nothing is farther from the
truth. AS. a matter Of fact the Pope
never addressed q letter ito jeff Davisl
There IS . letter in reply to manifesto
issued by the Congress of the Confeder
ate States, and addressed to- the
Europeangoyernments. 3 It is dated at.
Rome. Decembe 3 signed BY G.
Card Antonelli. and dressed, not to
Jeff Davis, but to- A. Dudley Mann, j,
III. Mason and John Shdell, Commits
sioners of the Confederate States of
America who were then il Paris The.
letter can be seen III Mel herson's His-.
tory of the Rebel zion. page 81 andyis
as follows:
8.: Honorable Gent emen NJ Soutte
hrs handed ma yo,lr letter of AZ oYembers
11withs which. il conf rnlitY 10 the In.
struct ions 81 your goyerl,tdlent Foal|
hayeI sent q M = cop1 tl,e Iaanifesto