The Irish standard., 1901-10-19
A PRESBYTERIAN PEARSON.


euphonious name of Helwig, is the Off
ciating pastor OF the First Presbytcri-
an church Of this city. He attaches II
d. d. to his strange cognomen and is
afflicted with that peculiar malady
known as "rabies Romano" He thinks
TIL. Pope has horns anu that Jesuit
he left Ohio for Minnesota he had
achieved widespread notoriety as an
enemy Of the Scarlet Woman who sits
on the Seven Hills and from her throne
Of beauty rules the world, as Rienzi
used to say.
Helwig has been close student of
the rawlings and revilings of Chiniquy
against the church Of his fathers which
kicked him out from its bosom as it
had done long before to Knox, found
er of Scotch Presbyterianism, and "the
ruffian Of the Reformation" as dear old
DR.. johnson aptly called him. Chini-
guys dwellings against the Catholic
church have been accepted as gospel
truth by Helwig, and ON the unsupport-
ed testimony OF that lying scoundrel
and libdinous BLACKBOARD he has time
and again, by tongue and pen, repeated
the SANDER that the Catholics of the
United States are responsible for Lin
coins assassination. In an article to
the North and West, the Presbyterian
organ in this city, Helwig writes us
follows:
''Who were the assassins of Abra-
ham Lincoln? The members and the
adherents of the Pope's church. Where
were the headquarters of the conspira-
tors against the life of the president,
namely: Booth, Harold, Payne, Atze-
roth, and John II. ,Sulratt? At the
house of a Romanist, Mrs. Surratt, No.
541 X street, Washington Where was
John II. Surratt, one of the conspira-
tors, found when he escaped from this
/ country by the assistance of Romish
priests in disguise? In a company of
the Pope's ZOuaves--outside the city of
Rome What was found in the peck
cts OF Booth, the assassin of the presi-
) dent, when he was arrested? Some
pine shaTings, some tobacco and a
Catholic medal,
Having asked and answered the fore
going questions, Helwig goes on 10 say
| ~ po1-
Booth, said ut the trial that ''.all the
collspirators were attending Catholic
services and We're educated as Roman
Catholics" OF course, Generaa Baker
said nothing Of the kind. What he
says in his history of the secret service
during the Civil war is that Payne was
attended by Rev. DR.. Gillette of the
First Baptist church; Atzeroth by Rev.
Mr.. Butler of st. Paul's Lutheran
church; Harold by Rev. Mr.. Odds OF
Christ Episcopal church; and Mrs. Sur
raft by Rev. Fathers Wiget and Wal
Ter.
Baker says nothing OF Booths reli-
gion, for he was shot by Boston Cor
bett and was not, therefore. executed
with the others. His family. however.
We're members of the Episcopal church.
He gives the List of articles found on
Booths body as follows: Bills of ex-
change. Canada money, diary, two
pistols, a belt, knife. a compass. and
q pipe. There is no mention of Cath
Ole medal, as asserted by Helwig. nor
of Catholic scapular, as stated by
Professor Sims, the A. p. A. evangelist.
The only Catholics connected with
the conspiracy were Mrs. Surratt aud
her son. Nobody now believes that
the old lady was guilty. Her son fled
to Europe via Canada. but not "by the
assistance of Romish priests In dis,
guise," as alleged by Ielwig ,eG Chini.
guys authority. He escaped to Italy
and enlisted in the PApal Guards,
where he was discovered by Arehbisll.
op Hughes of New York. Cardinal
Antonnelli, the Pope's secretary OF
state, appraised Secretary Seward Of
his whereabouts and surrendered him
as an act OF courtesy. He was put on
trial, and the jury disagreed. On the
second trial he was acquitted on the
plea Of Limitations. (See Ellis's History
Of the United States. vol. w., page
1922
Helwig asks: "And who was Gull
teau, the assassin Of President Car
field, II he was not a French Catho.
Lief" That half crazy fellow. accord
ing to himself, was "a native Amerl-
can. a lawyer. and theologian." He
was OF Huguenot extraction. and with
his father Joined the Oneida Commu-
nifty In Illinois. Afterwards he became
q Second Adventist and died in that
faith.
What Helwig says regarding the Jes-
uits and the Pope's letter to JEFF Davis
IL not deserving Of consideration. Lin
coin never said what Chiniquy atttib-
utes to him in his abominable produc-
ton entitled "Fifty Years In the