The Irish standard., 1896-04-11
HAVE WEE COME TO THIS?
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Some Intelligent lien Tell Us
Something of the
"A. p. AZ.
What They Would Du II They
fiad Supreme Control
of Affairs.
The Story of the Assassination "
Eincoin Told i'm Very Pc
culiar Way.

The Independent Of New York again
merits the gratitude OF Catholics. and
Of truth-lovng people In general, for it,
manly refutation OF A. p. a.. ISLANDERS
against them. The disproof Of these re-
curing calumnies appearing in ehe
Catholic press. il Of comparatively little
use, inasmuch as Catholics do not need
it. and it usually reaches but ~ small
proportion OF nom Catholics.
But when a distinctly Protestant jour
nal, of the high standing OF the Ipsle-
pendent, detects and damns the lie made
out of whole cloth. and the wosse lie of
dishonest quotation, then. indeed. are
honest Protestants ser To thiIking-nCt
only ais to the immediate calumny ex-
posed before them, but of many another
strange assertion, which they heretofore
accepted unquestioaing as against Ga
tholcity. Says the Independent i'll It's iaBt
issue:
"Solely III the interest 81 truth and
righteousness We have exposed the fal~
sity OF statements seeking to disoredit
the loyalty of Roman Catholics u our
government and civil institutions One
Of these mendaeious charges was that tne
Pope had recognized the Southern Com
federacy; another attributed q The war.
department statistics, purponting IA
show that the great mass of daser1sHs
from tho Union army We're catholics To
revive these SANDERS In the face of the
facts as we disclose them is deliberately
to bear false witness. Both other charges
are made which seem to be quite az base
less. Scott +. Hershey. p. d., pastor of
the First Presbyterian church Boston,
published recently in the Boston Daily
/ STANDARD, an article in which he made
i these statements;
d) Bancroft, the greatest historian
our country has yet produced
asserts that in the Revolutionary War
the mass of the Roman Catholics follow
VA the Jesuits in opposing the interests
i of the colonies, ard that they turned out
u completed regiment III Philadelphia for
| the British, and that nearly ave hundred
4 of them deserted from the American
| army
! sThis il not what bancroft says. He
does say that the mass of Catholics, who
| were then but one iii seventy-fve of the
population and were chief
" newcomers in the Middle States fol-
lowed tie Jesuits, and that q regiment
OF Roman Catholics was raised in Pnil-
adelphia; but the words which follow the-
phrase for the British relate TO what
| Clinton did for Lord Rawdon. Clinton
/ raised. says Bancroft, = large regimen,
exclusively Of Irish including nearly
i Eve hundred desertera from the Ameri-
can army: but he says 1T was composed
j alike of Catholicssand Protestants-' DR..
Hershey leaves out the word 'Protes-
tants.' 1t would have spoiled bis QUOTA
ton. But could not still strongeE point
be made against the Episcopal and Meth
odist minister's
90 "During our last war President
Lincoln directed orders to Bishop
Hughes. of New York, chat IL there were
any more riots in New York city, work
ing against the interests of the Union,
he would hold him personally RESPONSE
J ble'
"Diligent search gives us no clue to
any such orders, which would manifestly
: have been absurd We find NO evidence
that Archbishop Hughes persuaded some
of the rioters 70 dispsrse, and that he
4 made patriotic addresses ii favor Of the
: Union.
(3) 1.-THE president, about the same
, period Of peril (the period Of the draft
z riots, directed Secretay Seward 70 direct
our minister at Rome to inform the Pope
that this country would confidently ex-
nect no interference afrom foreign sources
4 at the time Of our internal troubles
1--WE had no minister AT Rome until
! Rome became the capital OF United Italy
n which was several years after the close
a Of the Civil war. Even If true. what
4 would IT amount to2 England. France
II Spain and other countries had recogni2ed
] the belligerency OF the Southern confed-
y eracy two years earlier
s f4) "U. 8. Cen Baker. the govern
y nlent's reporter,in the trial Of the Bootn
s conspiracy, closed his report with the
v statement that alI the conspirators u
Ii custody were either members Of the Ro-
% man Catholic church, or were educated fn
IL its schools.