The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1896-03-07
AFANAncAL ORGANIZATION.
! The American Protective Asso


iation has again manifested It's
madness and fanaticism in the re-
solutions adopted in regard to the
statue of the priest Marquette
that was rendered the general
government by the state of Wis
consin. Such baseness and mean
ness as exhibited on this oc-
casion finds no parallel within
the boundary Of civilization.
The resolutions adopted by the
state convention of tha body at
Peoria, Ills, would lead the unin-
formed to believe that Linco In
was assinated by the hand Of the
Jesuit Marquette thereby casting
. reflection on tho Jesuit order.
Whether the author of that de-
ceptive document intended this
construction to be put to his un-
founded accusation, or whether
his ignorance was too dense to
understand the meaning of what
ne had written weAare in no posi-
ton to state, but ye do maintain
and contend that such expressions
OF base and malicious misrepre-
sentations. are calculated to stir
and disseminate feelings of unrest
and insecurity in the hearts of
mankind. Ofcourse the intelli-
gent and impartial element of
are aware that the assassination of
Lincoln was not the result of a
conspiracy on the part Of any re-
ligious sect or political party; but
the work of a demented and ire
sponsible man. No sensible and
unprejudiced individual the Echo
ventures. would give credence to
to the preposterous charge pre-
ferred against the Jesuit or rath-
or the ordes of Jesuits. But
there are those corrupt and un-
scrupulous enough to profess
their credulity and thereby influ-
ence the weaker and more igno-
rant into q belief of the veracity
of that cringing and cowarhly lie.
The most abhorrent vice in the
calendar of wrongsis1ying. Man
kind although at variance in re-
gard to certain wrongs, arc uni
versal in their determination TO
crush the perjurer. Lying aud
deceit are the sediments of all the
crimes and cruelties that ever is
sued from the beastly part of
mans nature; therefore, when
an association finds it com pulso-
ry to have recourse to that low
lest and most repugnant vice in
order to accomplish a bastard de-
sire, we are astounded at it's pro-
longation of life. We cannot
conceive how it is not poisoned
by its own corruption.
The A. p. A. was organized
for no other purpose than the one
in which it now figures so con-
spicuously. Its whole aim and
intent is to destroy by deception
and falsehood a faith that is
guaranteed protection from vio-
lence and molestation under the
constitution of tho United States.
This country was made an asylum
for the religiously prosecuted of
Europe, when it was but a speck
almost invisible among the nations
of the earth. That same spirit
Of liberty and justice that made it
possible for every man to worship
his God according to the dictates
of his own conscience Is still exis-
tent in the breasts of the gener-
ous and broad-mindsd, and not
until that divine spark is com
pletely extinguished will the life
Of a mad and fanatical association
be nourished.
The diffusion of religious
hatred and animosity has caused
the flow of rivers of blood and
more pangs and agonies than the
mind of man can conceive. The
and Generalization
that prevailed at that period, is
not By any n cans effaced in the
memory of this generation, and
how anyone can support an or
that is attempting to
inauguratc q similar state Of
affairs is, we confess, beyond
sur comprehension. Who de-
sires a reintroduction of the
rack, the torch, the inhuman
strokes Of the lash? None but
The beastly and crazy.