The record-union., 1892-12-27

81 4ooLC VI ilIdL paper SIIlCS lu6l4, L lldN0
concluded that the gentleman who runs
that establishment is unwilling to pub
fish it. 1 was vainly hoping against
hope that he would do 50, and thereby
uphold the character of honest Journal
ISM" By inserting these explanatory
lines, together with said letter. you will
oblige me and mine here in Sutter Greek.
Following is the letter, which explains
itself:
SUFFER- CREEK, Dec. Goth.
Editor Of the Bee: Pagan mythology tells
us that Mercury sprang from the head
OF JoYe. But as your presence seems to
be absolutely necessary for the existence
of Sacramento, may the Gods avert any
such catastrophe from the operations of
your upper story" / frankly confess
that the signs of the times are very
omlnous; as recently, at morning, noon
and night, you seem to have had our
! Holy Father, the Pope, ION the BRAIN"
Recognizing, l presume, the heretofore
| bralnIess character OF your paper, you
now foolishly imagine that you can creep
into the realms Of notOriety and fame by
! having little bit of a "merry-gO-rOund'
on the back of the Pope's Irish hobby
! horse. l say Irish hobby-horse," as
/ your great amount OF positive knowl
| edge cannot help informing you that all
AlOOyg -hO1SSS ellS LII DOl lGAA IL jill OUlti
| Ireland" But in doing SO, my dear sir,
| you must remember that other great men
! like yourself have ANONYMOUSLY failed
and persisted in the attempt. Don't for
get the fate of Phaeton, who, for his bold
ness in trying to rein i'll" the chariot of
the sun, was hurled down into the regions
| below! You might as well be baying
the moon or whistling jigs to milestone
as to try to circumvent our Holy Father
or to oppose him one iota in the perform
ance of his legitimate duty.
| see by your issue Of the 18th inst, and
| to which my attention has Just been
| called, that the bugaboo of excommuni-
cation, as you ungentlemanly call it, has
no terrors for you. Upon my word and
! honor, l almost admire your seeming
! boldness and independence. But, Mr..
! Editor. if this bugaboo has no terrors for
| you, why, in the name of common sense,
| do you make such hullabalOo about it
1t seems to me that you are only trying to
murder the stings of your own con-
/ science, as you try TO belong to that species
of leprochaun which has no fear OF God or
no concern for the salvation of your i'm
mortal soul.
Still, [ flatter myself with the hope that
| you have manhood enough and magnan-
unity enough yet left to do justice to the
Grand Old Man" of the vatican. BY
way of penance, then, for what you
have done 1 know you viii have that
great goodness so innate in you and
that great kindness so characteristic of
| the American gentleman to insert in the
columns of the Bee the following tribute
to our holy father, the Pope, from the
pen of one of the most distinguished his
torians of his age. By doing so the Bee,
| in her majestic flights, and in her anxious
pursuit for more honey (which is knowl-
edge, might be able to undo the great in
! justice which you have done to one of the
most illustrious men of the age. [ mean
Leo Kill, Vicar of Christ on Earth, and
head of the Holy Roman Catholic Church
The words are taken from the faciIe
pen of the great Lord Macaulay himself
Coming from such brainy and distin-
guished source, it cannot help producing
the desired effect. Even the esthetic
Roscoe Conkling himself acknowledged
that all the sparkle and fancy of his brill
liant Imagination, all his graphic powers
of description, all the grace and beauty of
| his iniinitable diction, If not his matchless
eloquence itself, were all derived from a
study of the writings Of Lord Macaulay
| Now Roscoe ConkHng-peace to his
| slumbers-was universally acknowl-
edged to be one of the great ''honeyed
bees'i of the United States Of America.
By a study of history (of which they seem
to be so weofully ignorant) perhaps some
of the little 'busy bees'' of California
may profit by his example. Following
is Lord MacaulaY's tribute to the church
and to the papacy:
There is not, and there never was, on this
| earth work of human policy so well deserv-
/ ing of examination as the Roman Catholic
| Church. The history of the church joins to-
gether the two great ages of civilization. No
other institution is left standing which carries
! the mind back to the time when the smoke of
sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when
| cameleopardS and tigers abounded in the
| Flavian amphltheater. The proudest royal
| houses are but of yesterday when compared
| with the line OF the supreme pOntItls. That
| line we trace back, in an unbroken SERIES
! from the Pope who crowned Napoleon, in the
nineteenth century, to the Pope who crowned
| Pepin in the eighth; and far beyond the time
| of Pepin the august dynasty extends, TIL it is
| lost in the twilight of fable. The republic of
| Venice came next in antiquity; but the re-
| public of Venice was modern when compared
| with the Papacy. And the republic OF Venice
| is gone, and the Eapacy remains, not in decay
not mere antique but full of life and youth
| full vigor.
The Catholic Church is still sending to the
| farthest ends OF the world missionaries as
| Jealous as those who landed in Kent with
| Augustine. and still confronting hostile
| kings with the same spirit with which she
| confronted Attlla, The number of children is
| greater than in any former age. Her acquisi-
| tons in the New World have more than com
| pensated her for what she has lost in the old
| Her spiritual ascendancv extends over the
| vast countries which lie between the plains of
| Missouri and Cape Horn--cOuntries which a
century hence may not imprObably contain q
! population as large as that which now in
| habits Europe. The members of her COM
| munion are certainly not fewer than one hun
| dred ana fifty millions, and it will not be
| difficult to show that all the other Christian
| sects united amount to hundred and twenty
| millions.
! Nor do we see any sign which indicates that
| the term of her long dominion is approaching
! She saw the commencement of all the govern
/ mentS and OF all the ecclesiastical establish
| ments that now exist in the world, and we
| feel no assurance that she is not destined to
| see the end of them all. She was respected
| before the Saxon had set foot in Britain; be-
| fore the Frank had passed the Rhine; when
Grecian eloQGence still tourshed at Antioch;
| when idols were still wOrshiped in the temples
| of Mecca; and she may still exist, in undi-
minished vigor, when some traveller from
New Zealand shall, IN the midst of a vast
solitude, take his stand upon a broken arch
OF London Bridge to sketch the ruins OF ST.
PauPs.
By inserting the above in the RECORD
UNION you will oblige a good many of
your readers. l am, with esteem and re-
spect, ". MoLoNEY, Catholic Rector.
Suffer Creek, Amador County, Cal.
the weekly Union"
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Charles Francis Adams does not con-
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to be member of the Common Council