The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-02

HAN present with Few stray cOrkS In MS
pocket? (Applause.) I would be glad IL
they would put them in-Oong and contin-
ued applause)-I would be glad if they
would put them in the mouths of those
demijohns up stairs there. (Applause)
My friend told you that he would defend
the Catholic churches of this city if they
were attacked. He might, but if he did he
would be departing from the principles of
the history of the organization out of
which this is an outgrowth, for I can re-
member in Philadelphia, my native city,
seeing the heavens lighted up with the
flames from two Roman Catholic churches
BURNED BY THE KNOWNOTHINGS.
l never heard of the Catholics burning a
Protestant church. Applause.) Why, even
in Ireland, where in most of the country
there isn't one Protestant out Of ten, none
of the Protestant churches have been as
sailed or destroyed Who have been the
great leaders of the Catholics, Of Ireland?
Why, Parnell, a Protestant Of American
extraction. Applause) The Irish Catho-
lies stood by Parnell in spite of the thun-
ders of Cardinal Cullen, and of the pope
himself. Applause) And they would have
stood by him to this hour but for the errors
and sins into which the poor, unhappy man
fell. Who were the leaders in the past?
Why Grafton, Protestant; Flood, a
Protestant Whose honor today do they
celebrate every year with tears and Ia
mentations? Why, Emmett, a Protestant.
cloud applause) And so you can go
through the list They have elected time
and again from districts where there was
scarcely a Protestant living except the
candida te-they have elected Protestants
out of those Catholic districts to the parla-
ment of Great Britain. Oh, oh, he says to
you, and he will say to you, that the Cath
ollc cannot be good citizen, but must
necessarily betray his country. Why, my
friends, you have the crucial battle of this
war; there the battle of Gettysburg.
a q of hn frap cd in, fho 1,o1
ances for three awful days If we had lost
that battle Pennsylvania would have fallen
New York and Washington, and we would
have been today disrupted country per-
maps sitting under the banners of the COM
federacy. Who commanded in that awful
battle? George C. Meade, Roman Catho-
lie, born in Spain of American parentage.
Cloud applause.) If a Roman Catholic can
not be a good member of the community,
why didn't the pope telegraph him to give
away the fight and let the rebels win?
(Appause) Well, then we had Rosecrans
and a host of others, Mulligan and Shields,
our own Shields, corporal of the 69th regi-
ment, and all the rest of the Irishmen and
Catholic heroes in that great strife 1 re-
ferred the other day in my debate with the
professor at Milwaukee to the case of Gen.
Philip Sheridan, that wonderful little hero,
the most picturesque and heroic soldier of
the war, the son of an Irishman, from
Ohio, and a Catholic. Applause.) 1 told
how he rode 20 miles when our army was
beaten at Winchester and turned defeat
into overwhelming triumph and saved the
glory of our cause. My friend replied-and
l say it in all kindness to him, for 1 know
he repudated the thing-he replied by
terrible story He said that Gen. Sheridan
was not a Catholic; that on his deathbed
his wife secreted priest in the house in
Chicago and brought him forward at the
critical moment and thrust the holy wafer
into Phil Sherdans mouth, and Sheridan
had strength enough left to spit it out.
Well, now, my friends, in the first place
any man that knows anything ought to
know that you can't induct religion into a
man by force. Naughter.) There has got
to be the mental consent. Any man who
knows anything about the Catholic religion
or any other religion knows that member
ship must be preceded by consent GAP
plause) And you can't administer the rite
of communion to a Catholic until he has
confessed and repented of his sins The
next thing we will hear is that Bishop Ire
land met my friend mere on Hennepin ave-
nue. and took hold of him and forced the
holy wafer into his mouth daughter and ap-
plause) and made a Catholic of him by
force, Qaughter) and that he went around
afterwards making Catholic speeches.
Well, my friends, to settle this thing
wrote to a member of Gen. Sheridans
family-a prominent mamie didn't want
his name given, or he didn't want to be
dragged into such a controversy, Qaughter)
but he made this statement, and my friend
can take down the names he refers to, and
if they are false he can prove them on me
hereafter. He says
GEN. SHERIDAN WAS BORN A CATHO-
baptized a Catholic, confirmed Catholic
married a Catholic, received the sacrament
of holy communion on the morning of his
marriage, attended st. MaryS Catholic
Church in Chicago and ST. Matthew's in
Washington. Before his death he received
the sacrament of holy communion and eX-
IRENE JUNCTION from Father now Bishop
Chappelle, of New Mexico; was buried
Catholic from st. Matthews Church, Wash
ington, D. c. Cardinal Gibbons preached
the funeral sermon, Father Mayham said
the funeral mass, and the plot of ground
in which he is buried in Arlington cemetery
was consecrated by the bishop of Michigan
according to the rites of the Catholic
Church. (Applause) 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 scoundrels some
where at the background of this organiza-
ton. OHisses, and cries of "down.'D The
last lie they put up was a proclamation pur-
porting 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 this coun-
try Oaughter.) And as 1 told you the
other day at Toledo, they brought 5000
rifles with which to resist this rising, and
then when the rising didn't come off like
the Millerites' end of the world, they re-
fused to pay for the guns. Applause.)
l have got but a few minutes left, but
will devote them to another charge, and
my friend here admitted in our debate that
that was a forgery. Why, where is the
end of this business? Now, them l have
here statement of his that the murder of
Abraham Lincoln was caused by a Catho-
lie conspiracy and that Booth had upon
him scapular when he was caught and
killed. have here the record of the trial
of the conspiracy. l haven't time to read
it, as I intended to do, but l could show it
to anyone who doubts it-this record show
ing just what the body of Booth,
and there was scapular upon him at all.
Booth an Episcopalian by descent, but,
in fact, he was of no religion, for he
disSipated roue and scallawag generally.
(Applause) But among the conspirators
was a Baptist, Episcopalian and Ger
man Lutheran. Now, how unfair would it
be for to get up here and say that the
Baptists had a conspiracy to kill Abraham
Lincoln because one of the men was
Baptist, and the son of Baptist minister
at that. But on Booths body-I have got
the proof here-was found bills of exchange
from Canada, where my friend came from.
(Applause0 It was proved in this trial
that the confederate government had sent
$3.50, 900 into the United States from Canada
to secure the murder of Abraham Lincoln,
and when Booth was killed he had the bills
of exchange of Canada in his pocket. Now.
I don't say because this was so that it was
a Canadian conspiracy that killed Abraham
Lincoln, and 1 don't say that my friend
here was a party to it. Uaughter) The
only ones that were mixed up in that thing
that were Catholics were John Seward and
his mother. John Seward fed to Europe
and entered in disguise the papal guard
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