The Irish standard., 1894-04-07

and the famous Sixty y-nlnth brigade
composed entirely of Catholics. They
we're all deyout Catholics. Did theil
records and services show anything like
treason? If it could be ascertained, he
thought, it would be found that there
were 1OC Catholics in the Northern army
where there was one in the Southern
which fully disproved the allegation
that the Pope and his Church were in
favor of the confederacy during the war
which statement Prof. Sims had made in
a lecture at Ashland, Wis.
In the same lecture Prof. Sims, said
Mr.. Donnelly, had stated that the assas
sination of Lincoln was Catholic con-
spiracy. Booth, the arch conspirator.
was the son Of a Presbyterian minister.
Prof. Sims could have said with better
grace that because Booth was Presby-
terian the Presbyterians were responsible
for Lincoln's death, which would have
been equally false and foolish. Lincoln
was killed to help the confederacy, at the
head of which was Jefferson Davis, q
Protestant In the Confederacy, also,
were other Protestants-Mason aud Slid
del, Joseph E. Johnston and, greatest of
all, Gen. Robert E. Lee. 1t would seem
that if the Catholic Church was at the
bott ,m of the conspiracy it would have
had some of it's members among the
leaders. 1t was as foolish to claim that
the Pope favored the South as it was to
claim that Lincoln was assassinated by
Catholics The greatest traitor in the
history of the c .untry was Benedict Ar
mold, Protestant, bat that couldn't be
considered reflection on Protestantism.
Mr.. Donnelly referred to the Toledo, O.,
scandal concerning the purchase ct 5000
repeating rifles by A. P. Aista, who
feared that the Catholics would mass Gre
them on Sept. S last, commenting on it
as he did in his lecture on Sunday night,
aud also told what work the Catholic
Church had performed In preserving the
| art, literature and science of old centers
of civilization. In closing he counseled
charity and peace among Americans,
saying amid great applause that the re-
public was greater than any church. Its
constitution was the Sermon on the
Mount crystallized. He threw in many
little personal reflections on his oppo-
nent which drew forth laughter and kept
the audience in good humor. sS
"Sims. by the way, according to all the
rules of linguists as pertains to proper
names, comes of ancestors who were slaves
in old England;but the Catholic Church
whispered in the ear Of the slave owner
as he lay dying: You cannot see God if
you die with this curse of slavery upon
YOU Why, Sims tonight might have
been bondsman had this Church he
now has turned upon and is rending not
freed his ancestors hundreds of years
ago. He tells you what an awful man
this Roman pontif is. Why, according
to this insane man, he is II feet high and
will come stalking across our prairies
with cannon under each arm and q
brace of pistols under his 70 oes. But he
isn't that sort at all. He is pious old
gentleman. A good man whose life is
full of prayer, of kindness, charity and
good works. Last summer these poor
fools, these lunatics, went so far in their
internal nonsense as to tell people that
6, 100000 Roman Catholics were going to
massacre the other 100000 citizens of
this country who belonged to other
churches OR to no church. You know to
what frantic foolishness they carried this
thing in Toledo, how they bought guns
there and how they also failed to pay for
them. I wonder If my friend Sims here
bought one, and wonder if he paid for
his gun" Donnelly sat down, thunder.
ing about "such ungodly and awful non-
senee."
In following Mr.. Donnelly Prof. Sims
said the eloquent Minnesotian had not
touched question brought forward by
him. He wished to deny the charge that
the A. p. A. made fight on the Catho-
lie religion, or against Catholics as indi-
vlduals. Referring to Donne]ly's state
mont that Catholic France had sent La
Fsyette to aid America, he said it was
Lafayette who said, after being here,
that If ever this country went down it
would be at the hands Of the Roman
Catholic priesthood.
His opponent had talked as il there
were only Irishmen il this country.
Well, Irishmen held about 60 par cent Of
the Offices, municipal and others. and
they we're an important class but the
Irish have not ruled wisely whore they
haye ruled. How is il IN New York, Il
;ontinusd on Fage.