The Irish standard., 1894-04-14

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from sthsr,, islhop Chsp slls, 81
New Msxkiioo; va buried . Catholic from
|St Matthews church, Washington, DC.
Cardinal Gibbons preached the funeral
sermon, Father May ham said the funer-
al mass, md the plot of ground IL which
he is buried 80. Arlington .cemstery was
consscrated BY the bishop Of Michigan
according to the rites Of the Catholic
Church lApplause) Now, my friends,
I want to say to my brother here that he
should be careful what authority he
quotes There is set Of internal scoun-
drelg somewhere at the background of
this organization. Kisses, and cries OF
"down.") The last lie they put up was
q proclamation purporting to be signed
by the Pope, and in that proclamation
the Pope directed the Catholics of the
United States, one out Of. ten, to rise on
the 5th Of September last and massacre
every Protestant in the country. (Laugh.
ter.) And as I told you the other day, at
Toledo they bought 5000 rifles with
which to resist this rising, and then when
the rising didn't come off like the Mil
lerites' end of the world they refused to
pay for the guns. (Applause.)
Sims next spoke for fifty minutes and
quoted lot OF so-called authorities to
substantiate his charges. Some of them
were the stereotyped quotations found
in A 2. A. papers and were forged dis
tortions. He quoted papal encyclicals,
utterences Of Catholic prelates, priests
and laymen to show that the Church was
the foe of civil liberty and of the Amsri
can public school. There was nothing
new in his entire harangue.
In the closing address MIR. Donnelly
spoke for twenty, minutes and made s
crushing reply. He said the great griev-
anoe of Sims and his supporters is the
question Of offices. Now, have under.
stood at our debate in Milwaukee, that
there was possibility OF our friend go
ing to congress. and I would recommend
to him when he gets there that the first
bill he introduces should be something
like this: "Be,it enacted, where's, the
1 ~ ofob E0r
the Roman Catholic for getting fat of.
fces; therefore, be it enacted that to
equalize the difference no Roman Catho
lie shall run for any Offices in this coun-
try without frat ha Ing a hale ton Of
bricks carefully attach ed 20 his coat
tails" (Laugnter.)
LIN reference to Wilkes Booth being a
Catholic and that he mad upon his neck
d scapulnr when caught, Mr.. Donnelly
{, SAIL:
Ihave here the record Of the trial q,
the conspiracy. Thaun't slime to read it.,
as intended to- do, but could show il
to any one VITO doubts it--this record
allowing just what was OIL the body Of
Booth, and there YVES no scapular upon
him ut all. Booth was an Episcopatian
by descent, hut, in fact. he Was OF nc rs
ligion, for he was dissipated rous ana
a scallawag generally. (App!ause.) But
among the conspirators Was Baptist,
an Epiacopalian and a German Luthe.
ran. Now, how unfair would it be fox
me to get up here and say that the Bap~
lists had a conspiracy to kill Abraham
Lincoln because one of the men was L
Baptist, and the son of Baptist milie,
ter at that. But OH Booths body--I have
got the proof here-was found bills q
Exchange from Canada, where my friend
came from. (Applause.) 1t was. proved Ii
this trial that the confederate govern.
ment had sent $180,OO0 iuto the United
States from Canada to secure the lcur-
der of Abraham Lincoln, and wher
Booth was killed he had the bills OF ez,
change of Canada in his pocket. Nov, /
don't say because this WAS so that it was
a Canadian conspiracy that killed Abra
ham Lincolo, and I don't say that 10y
friend here was party to it. daughter )
The only ones that were mixed uy, II
that thing that were Catholics were john
Surratt and his mother. John Surrat.
fed to Europe and entered in disguise
the papal guards which existed, ara
when Cardinal Antonelli found be was
concerned in the murder Of Abraham
Lincoln he wrote to Secretary 6eRaca
and offered to return him, and he dls'
return him, and Surratt was tried for
the crime and acquitted on tie GROUND
THAT he had really no part in the sssas~
sination. His mother was hung, but it
was more from the passion of the timss
than from the right and justice Of the
tease. applause and hisses.)
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