The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-04

komaniss hifs1isg. Who rsvsaRsd the
slight LincoIn had once pat on the ca tho
iic church By defending an excommuni-
Gated priest In Illinois in 1859"
snch STUFF Is only &c % b. fed out 70
crednious fools. 1t Is trus that Hlaine's
mother Was . Cathode and his sister
nun. bat nobody Who rad Blaine,s indsg-
nsns letter 70 Father Ducsy who hastily
married bis soa. viii suspect hin Of Cath
oaicasm- II - true that Booth killed
Lincoln, but he did not kill him to please
Rome. for no sovereign Of Europe was
more zeaious 70 help catch she fugitive
fellow conspirstor, John Eurratt. than the
pope Of Rome. Did Rome tnstigass
G1iteaa to murder Garfeidf Did Rome
kin ths Duke nj Rockingham. who COM
maoded the Engiish army shat sried 10
help the French Protestants st Rochelle?
Did Rome astrike Billy Patsersoni What
viIlainers. incendiary rant il this which
imputes the assassination Of Lincoln to
the finger Of Rome?
Prof. Rudolph asserted that the war OF
the rebellion was only m organised At
tempt Of the Catholics to overthrow the
government and by the help Of Max,mii-
ian and French army found . Catholic
empire for the pope In Mexico.
What . stupid falsehood is this; Arch.
bishop Hughes. the head Of the Roman
Catholic hierarchy. vas sent By President
Lincoln with Thurlow Weed on . secret
diplomatic mission to Europe on the
recommendation of Secretary of State
Seward. There were thousands Of Cath.
olics in the army Of the Union. Gems.
Sheridan. Newton and Rosecrans were
Roman Catholics and Gen. Sheridan COM
handed the army Of the Rio Grande that
Grant hurried off to Texas after Lees sur
render. and whose appearance made the
French get ont and leave Macmillan to
bis fate The very Mexicans themselves
who fought the French and killed Maxi
milan are Of the Catholic faith.
These historic lies. huge. gross and PAL
pablo are simply laughable to . man Of
any intelligence; Roman Catholic Bishop
Ireland was . chaplain in the Union
army; Archbishop Hughes declared for
the Union at once on the firing on Sumter.
The Roman Catholics were no more d.
vidsd North and South by the war of the
rebellion than the Baptists, Methodists
and Episcopalians. Environment made
oil faiths fuse for or against the Union.
Episcopaiian Bishop Polk. who lived
South, was q Confederate, and Episcopa-
liam Bishop Potter, OF Pennsylvania, was
an enthusiastic Union man. A war which
separated families would Of course sspa-
rate men of the same religious faith or
denomination. The Catholic clergy. North
or South, like the Protestant clergy, gen.
orally went with their flocka
There are other things In Prof Ru-
dolph's lectures which are lies. but they
are not laughable lies. We quote:
Zone of the priests told the congrega-
to 60 into the confessional on that day, at
the same time pointing out the booth he
was TO occupy. As soon as he had done
this all Of the young girls and younger
women at once went to that booth in pref
erence TO one occupied by an elder priest.
Prof. Rudolph dweit on this fact"
The insinuation. the implication Is vile
and obscene. and We find it in all the ad-
dresses Of these anti-Catholic agitators
over the country. 1t 10 . gross insult to
the clergy and women of the Catholic
church and no man with spark of man
Illness would utter it. There are bad men
and bad women in all churches. but they
are not bad because of their religious faith
but in spite of IL. and it is burning shame
to publicly insinuase that the Roman
Catholic clergy or their communicates are
made corrupt by their faith or by resort to
the confessional.
For purity, philanthropy and upright
Christian conduct the Catholic clergy are
the equal, at least in the United States, Of
the protestant clergy, and when they are
not IL Is not because Of their faith but in
spite OF 1t. The Roman Catholic women
who visit the confessional are A. q rule
thoroughly upright. Christian people. and
if they are not il 10 not because Of the
confessional" but in spite of their faith
and Light.