The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-23
DR. SHANLEYS LECTURE
Massacre of St. Bartholomew Sub-
 ject of Address.
Danbury News.)

Danbury News.)
 Rev. Walter J. Shan1ey, LID, de- | livered a lecture on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew" in T. & L. hall Tuesday evening to members of that society and St. Peters Y. M. C. A., Dr. Shanley spoke in part as fol ows;
 'It is alleged by unfair historians that the massacre of St. Bartholon ew
 was instigated by religious animosity. The massacre occurred on the 24th of August, 1572. On the 26th of August, clared in parliament that the deed had
 been done by his express orders. to
 head off conspiracy of the Husenots
 (ProteStantS), against himself, the royal house, the King of Navarro, and
 the noblest subjects of his kingdom, Admiral Coligny was the head or the Hugenot party. The journal of his receipts and expenses laid before the royal council and the Parliament and his other papers seized after his dea h revealed deeds and projects. which would have ensured his capital con demnat tion in any country of Christ endom.
 Concerning these papers, Bellievere said to the deputies of the Thirteen Cantons:
 '' The king learned from them that the admiral had established, in six teen provinces, governors, military commanders, and a number of Soun- sellors charged with the task of keep ing the people armed, and of assem- bling them together at his first sign
 Charles TX, wrote to Schomberg his ambassador to Germany:
 better obeyed by those of the new religion than I was. By the great authority he had usurped over them, he could raise them in arms against me whenever he wished, as indeed he often proved. He had arrogated so much power to himself that I could not call myself a king, but merely ruler of part of my dominions. I Ia 1k knI1 r, ,f,11 7nT7 a I determined to give the rein Of jus tice which was indeed extraordinary and other than I would have wished, but which was necessary Wflleroy, volume ", Letter to Schomberg, Sep tember 13. 1572).
 "In the same letter to schomberg, Charles TX, states that: Recently he (Coligny), ordered the new religionists Fontainbleau, where I was to be at that time, the third of August. Since it has pleased God to deliver me from him I may we'll thank Him for the just punishment He has inflicted on the admiral and his accompIices.
 Make war on Spain, sire, or we (the Hugenots), wage war on you (Tavannes Memoirs from the year 1850, Paris 157D, was Coligny's threat. Would any monarch tamely submit to such a dictation? CoIigny had cor rupted his followers so that he coula use them against the government. Writers who are friendly to Coligny have not freed him from the charge of having directed the assassin's blow against Duke Francis of Guise.
 ' The motive which impelled the massacre is revealed by the Calvin ists themselves in their own historic co., eligious textbook, their discursive artyrology. The author, informs us that the perpetrators of the massacre, in their joy of success, would show the corpses of their victims, saying: These are they who would have killed the king And the courtiers laughed, say ing that at length the war was ended and they could live in peace
 'It is well known that the HugenOtS had drawn entire provinces in'o re- beIlion, and had introduced foreign troops into France, and had subjected France to disorders such as had not been seen since the fourteenth cen tury, during the insanity of Charles
 Tn 1863 the Cagvinists had so far succeeded in influencing the peasant s with the worldly profita bleness of that the rustics began to refuse to pay taxes. Show us,' they "a page of the Bible wherein we are taught to pay taxes; we are r"f sses, even though our ancestors were
 in fine after the murder of Francis of GuiSe, the Hugenots had so thor oughly abolished the authority of Charles TX, in the south Of France, eating, endowing, negotiating with for eign sovereigns and coining money which bore his own efffgy with the in scriptfon Louis XIII, First Christian King of France.
 '"There was no bitterness of religious animosity.
 '"The Calvinist Martyrology informs us that at Lyons many of the Huge nots were sent for safety to the archi- episcopal residence and to the Celes-