The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

Moreover we have a fair test of the relative
cruelty OF Protestant and Catholic persecu-
the Inquisition with the doings OF Elizabeth
GOOD queen Bess. Taking the number of ex-
ecuuons by the Inquisition during that reign
lot all causes we ind they amount to 100.
now we know that in England over $4,000
English priests alone perished during the
reign OF that virgin tyrant
Two hundred died on the scaffold and 1900
were shot down like carrion crows, while no
one knows how many perished in the hlthy
ejaculation does not take into account the
laymen and women who suffered the extreme
complete record of all the Catholics put to
oeath during that one reign, even Llorente's
ngures would pale into insignifcance.
might add that, while we have not on record
single expression of reproof from Protestant
ecclesiastic against the proceedings OF Eliza
beth, we have on record the protests OF Popes
against the cruelties OF the lnqulsltlon. Lecky
himself, who is not our friend, distinctly says
In sentence half of which DR.. Wendte
to the intervention OF the Popes: "One or two
Popes endeavored TO moderate its seventies,
and reproved the excesses OF Torquemada in
language that is not without something of
evangelical mildness."
Again, though Erasmus, according to Lecky,
endeayored to assuage persecution, though
of Bonner in the reign OF Mary, Lecky is able
70 say: "Among the Protestants it may, be-
heve be safely affirmed that there was no ex.
ample of the consistent advocacy or practice of
liberation in the sixteenth century that was
not yirulently and generally denounced by all
sections of the clergy"
2. The Htguenots DR.. Wendte produces the
Huguenots and the massacre of St. Bartholo-
NEW 10 keep company with the Inauisition. Dr.
Mendte, however, Is careful not to say that the
Huguenots inflicted as much persecution as
ever they received.
liberation, but as Mr.. Buckle remarks of Them
the Huguenots "were not content to exercise
their own religion unless they could also
trouble the religion of the others" And in
another place he remarks, f'Whateyer NAV be
the popular notion respecting the necessary
INTOLERANCE OF the Catholics it is an indisputa-
ole Iaet that. early IN the seventeenth CEN
tury, they displayed in France a spirit of for
Dearance and Christian charity to which the
Protestants could make no pretense''
Durlng the ten years before the massacre of
q. bartholomew the Catholics had been muir
dered IN cold blood and with circumstances
OF oenoerate cruelty at Orleans, LIE Mans
Iroyes, Tours, Bayeux, Angers's Bonrees
Rouen, Macon, La Rochelle, Grenoble, Poi
tiers and many other towns
At Mines on Michaelmas dav 1887 +ba
huguenots led out their victims from the Ho-
Tel del vile one by one, cut their throats and
cast their bodies into a deep well.
l do not offer these facts as an excuse for ST
BsrtnoIomews day. but as proof that Dr.
Wendte's ancestors were not the injured inno-
cents some would have them to be-
Dr.: Wendte speaks OF a Pope as giving thanks
for the massacre. 1t is true that the pope did
give thanks, but 1t is just as true that the real
nature OF the massacre was withheld from him
He was given version OF the tragedy which
led him to believe that the Ruguenots had
he
French King and had been defeated.
This version was believed by Philip of spsin
and Elizabeth of England. We need not won
der that II was believed by Gregory XIII. 1t
was for the preservation of the French King
and not for the massacre of the Huguenots
that he gave public thanks.
.. AtbfgeRses Having now OFFSET the Inuuisi-
ton with England and the Huguenot with
Huguenot we can pile the Dutch and the Al
blgenses together and set them against Ire
land, and Dutch and Alblgenses together will
kick the beam. Moreover we have left still
Scotland, Scandinavia, Denmark, the English
Ce4noiic sfroctiss PI5 oyer n sganst any
discover. l think that the unprejudiced histo-
rian viii ind that though the denominations
have only history OF 500 years they have
succeeded in spilling more blood in that Pc
rlod than the Catholic church throughout all
her existence.
% MARYLAND.
DR.. Wendte tries to make II out that the Cath
ollcs OF Maryland were compelled to grant
liberation through necessity, not through
choice.
If this hypothesis be true why was not the
condition insisted on in the grant? The grant
was the largest and most liberal ever given to
any colony, and the proprietor had full liberty
to exclude all but Catholics if he wished to
do so.
DR.. Wendte cannot argue against a fact. The
given by Catholics, and Catholic either
then or since protested against it.
(g) ECUADOR.
the concordat of 1853 with Ecuador. Until i1
4 he gives his authority for the authentic
vtty OF that document decline to consider it.
documents palmed off on me in this eontro-
yersy. 1 cannot reasonably admit this new
specimen until Dr.. Wendte authenticates it.
8. FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND OF THE PRESS.
DR.. Wendte SAID the Popes were opposed to
freedom OF speech and of the press.
answered that the COMBINATIONS which he
quoted were directed against precisely that
incense OF speaking OF printing against which
our own constitution provides by libel and
SANDER suits and by the suppression of i'm
moral books.
D.. Wendte replied, 'T am a very busy man. I"
4. THE JEsUITs.
DR.. Wendte speaks of the expulsion Of the
Jesults from several countries for their politi-
cal intrigues. DR.. Wendte is rapidly Learnt n g
the terminology of the A. P. A. assert now,
and am prepared to prove it, that in every
case the Jesutts have been expelled, they
pies of justice and liberty. The enemies of the
Jesuits in every land have been the enemies
OF society and constitutional freedom.
5. CATHOLICS AND REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS.
DR.. Wendte says that Catholicism farors
monarchy and Professionalism republfcanism
If this is So how is 1t that every Catholic coun-
try on this continent is republic? How is 1t
that the great Catholic nation OF France is q
republic? Why is not England, or Prussia, or
Norway or Sweden republic2 The fact Is,
and history proves it, that the triumph of
Protestantlsm meant everywhere and always
the triumph Of despotism.
8. CATHOLIC LEARNING AND PROTESTANT scHoL-
ARGHIP.
DR.. Wendte has expressed the opinion that
we Catholics are but poor, ignorant dolts and
that the brains of the church have been Prot
estant converts.
The only reply that will make to that asser-
ton is 10 quote against DR.. Wendte one of the
converts he mentions, Brownson. He says:
''I have as a Catholic felt and enjoyed a
mental freedom which never conceived pos
sible while was non-Catholic." (Vol. 5, p.
1859
al have known long and well the Protestant
clergy in the United States, and am by no
means disposed to underrate their abilities or
their learning and science, and although /
think the present generation of ministers falls
far below its predecessors, esteem highly the
Contributions they have made and are making
country; but our Catholic clergy, below in
many respects what for various reasons they
should be, can compare more than fayorably
with them In the correct and classic use of the
English language.
"They surpass them as body in logical
CHARLES NJ R0USSEAIvS DESIGN z