The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-27


Wild desire 20 see what was Eosn- on.
The military marched up TO the ladies'
entrance and. after lining UP on either
side. Sla-tery and his guard marched into
the house followed By parting boots and
insults from some Of those on the outside
AS soon as he was safe inside the military
+ was marched back TO the respective arm
. ories and disbanded.
/ When the crowd cleared away from the
Masonic Temple to follow Slattery a
7 carriage was secured and two ofsicafs
I rode down to the hotel with Mrs Siafter7r
. There was a strong police guard around
Z the carriee on all sides when IL drove IN
. to the entrance. The crowd was pushed
+ away from the entrance, and when some
little turbulence was shown Alder
man Falligant obtained the at
I teuf.on of the crowd and said.
J Gentlemen. one Of the finest qualities Of
\ an American citizen is to protect a uso-
I man. ] am sure there are enough manly
I hearts among YOU 10 protect this lady
I from any harm" The crowd Immediately
Z became quiet and permitted Mrs. slat-
tery's escort to lead her peaceably into
+ the hotel
/ This done. the policemen at once set to
work to clear the crowd away from the
hotel, and II was driven across the street
I ana over into the square. where. after talk
+ ing while, IT dispersed.
Slettery was wise enough 70 20 early
/ 70 the lecture hall before the crowd be-
+ gan to gather, otherwise he might not
I have reached there AT S o'clock the
+ time announced for the lecture TO BEGIN.
I there were about 900 people in the hall.
/ but they came in rapidly after that and
Z ten minutes later, when the lecturer as
cended the platform, the hall was more
/ than half filled. He first began by an
nouncing that to-day at 2.31 O'Clock Mrs.
Slattery would deliver her lecture TO
women only and that tonight at O'Clock
he would deliver his lecture to men only
upon the secrets Of the confessional. Con-
les Of the books upon the Catholic church,
Of which Slattery is the author. were dis
played upon the table behind which the
speaker stood. The lecturer began by
congratulating the authorities Of the city
upon the stand which they had taken in
taVOr or free speech, the bulwark of
American liberties. One OF his yosng
men, he said, had been sandbagged at the
door Of the hall as he was about TO enter
/ only short while before. This. he said.
was a sample Of the arguments used by
catholics. He then took up his subject,
"Ihe Roman Catholic Priesthood and
Why I Left It." The speaker said he
was born and reared Roman
/ Catholic, and was trained up
TO believe implicitly in the pope and his
agents. He was trained up for a priest.
having been designed for one by his moth
er, and at twelve years of age was sent to
a Catholic seminary at Limerick. Ireland.
and afterwards to college, where, besides
the usual course of studies common to all
colleges he studied the moral theology Of
I the church. The speaker made very severe
structures upon the theology studied by
the priests, describing II as an immoral
I theology. The literature was of such an
obscene character. he said. that it had to
be printed in Latin, and he was ashamed
TO translate Il for his mother. He said he
was ordained priest for the archdiocese
/ Of Dublin. He discussed the character and
work of the priesthood and asserted that
the Roman Catholic priests of the United
States We're a tainted lot of men"
This was the first expression used which
could be construed as directly offensive.
Fl declared that the priests and bishops
of the Catholic church were it's rulers, and
that all the people had to do was to foot
the bills. IF the people had more voice in
its affairs there would be less tyranny in
tho Catholic church." he said
The lecturer then gave an account of his
/ experience as a priest, leading up to the
reasons that led him to quit the church.
lie attacked the convent system and the
convent schools and inveghed against
I Protestant parents sending their children
to such schools He gave a description of
/ a Carmehte convent which was a one time
under his jurisdiction. The converts were
not always ahodes of peace and love, he
/ said, being often disturbed by bickerings
and jealousy among the inmates.
The first rock smashed through the
window nearest the stage on the Whita-
f ker street side a this juncture. It at
tracted the attention OF the crowd, but
I the lecturer only stopped for moment
4 and then went ahead with his lecture
/ The yeils OF the crowd could De heard out
side. hut the noise was not sufficient to
] disturb those in the hal.
The decree Of the council of Trent COM
monty known as the doctrine of intention
was the point OF difference upon which
he split with the Catholic church. This
/ doctrine OF intention, he stated, declares
4 mat unless the action of the priest or
4 higher officer of the church lie done with
+ the proper intention the act itself was
nuI ana void and of no effect. If the
priest who baptised him and the arch
i bishop who consecrated him did lot have
4 the Intention in their hearts TO do those
I things he reasoned, that his baptism and
I conservation were void, that he W2s
4 no priest and that he stood no more chance
in the next world according to the Cath
! Ollie faith. than an unbaptise3 unbelieVer
/ lie referred the point to q number Of
( priests and higher authorities Of the
i church. all of whom held to the interpre
/ tation stated py him. Such doubtful doc
/ trine. he said, did not SUIT him. and he
decided 10 leave the church. He told of thu
/ difficulties with which Catholic priests met
4 who left the church. He was disowned by
( his own family, he said, and his own
mother was turned against him and drove
him away from her
IF there were not another argument I'M
I der heaven to prove the Internal origin
of the Roman church." declared the lee
turer ''then this should be sufhthcient
that it should turn aside a mother love"
Another stone smashed in at the window
just then, followed by the yells of the
crowd on the outside. The lecturer fired
up at this and as the stones began TO
como thicker, his denunciations of the
Roman Catholic church became stronger
Il blame the Protestant people of this
| town for this work, he said. You have
| slept over your rights too long. You have
been asleep for years"
The sympathy OF the crowd was evil
| IDENTIFY with the lecturer, and there were
| cries Of yes, yes" and loud applause.
The lecture said that having once been
Roman Catholic priest, his person was
sacred in the eyes Of the Catholics. and no
priest or bishop in the country had the
/ power to give absolution to a man who
/ should strike him. Satolli, he said is
the only officer of the church in this
+ country of sufficient authority to give