The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-04-08
A Very Amusing Alabama CATH
Ollie, Named j. p. Mickey.


States, and one of them is The A4atid0te,
published in Hereford, Texas
The associate editor of this papal smell
pot, is one j. P. Mickey whose local habitat
is Opelika, Alabama.
Poor Opelika!
that's where the terrapin-back Democrats
deny that this Administration gave 100000
to the negro college, and $780, 900 for negro
bathing beach and pavilion, on the Potomac,
at Washington, d. c.
Which goes to prove that there are some
people who would deny the Lord whether
the cock crows three times or not.
This Mickey person pretends to write about
historical matters If his articles in the
Popes Antidote are a fair sample of his
knowledge of history, he doesn't know enough
to tell whether General Oglethorpe landed on
Tomochichi, or on Sandy Hook
[ suppose he knows that Andrew Jackson
is dead, but apparently he is still waiting for
confirmation and details.
You will remember that The Jeffersonian
made a statement to the effect that the Mexi-
can patriot-priest, Hidalgo, was put to death
under the condemnation of the high priests,
who ruled the Mexican Catholic Church.
In reference to this statement of mine, this
Opelika footzisser comes tearing along in the
Popes A2atidote with double-column edi-
deceive the American Catholics.
His absurd TRADE is too long to quote in
full, but the following will give you the gist
of it:
Charles Lea and Frances G. Taylor both quarrel
with the Catholic Church, both prise Hidago for
his advanced ideas" gained from his reading of
the atheist, Voltaire. Surely these will be &C
cptable real" historians. The former, in the
American Historical Review" July. 1899, says
4Io+ 4I1o o;I
with Hidalgo. why did not the hierarchy or
the clergy have four-ffths of the native clergy
shot to death?) Mr. Lea never dreams Of charg-
ing the execution of Hidalgo to the hierarchy or
the clergy. The latter, in the New Princeton
Review January, 1888, says of Hidelgo: He
chad the highest conception Of the moral and
spiritual obligations assumed with the care of the
humblest flock by the true priest We would not,
by any means, endorse so high q praise; but ii
you should accept this nOn-Catholic testimony as
true would it not seem strange that the hierarchy
should have him shot? Miss Taylor never men
tionS the Georgia fabrication.
But you may argue, Mr.. Anonymous "the
silence Of these historians does not disprove the
Watsonian effusion until you first prove that they
have given ALL the facts. Ait the best, they are
but negative testimony. Give something posi-
tive-something that says just the opposite to the
Georgia apothecary. And remember, it must be
Catholic historian
All right, Anon (you see, are getting better
acquainted). Bancroft is not Catholic. He
not be accused of any leniency towards things
Catholic; he be accused Of things ant-Cath-
Ollie. Take up his History Of Mexico (The His
tory Co., 1866, Vol. ", p. 282. You will
there that he fatty contradicts your strychnine
prescriptonist, that he asserts the hierarchy
through the ecclesiastical judge made earnest
appeal" to the military court sitting in Judgment
on Hdalgo so that the punishment might be
mitigated so that neither the death sentence nor
mutilation should be inflicted"
You will notice that follow my invariable
fair rule, Of copying the adverSary's full
statement.
The Romanists are afraid to treat me with
equal fairness.