Runcorn Examiner. — 1893-11-18 (Runcorn, Cheshire, England)

JOHN PEERS. • HOME RULE AND TIIE PROTESTANT MINORITY. •  Sir.—Mr. J. C. Dalton in yours of Saturday last,again attempts to throw his Popish dust into our eyes. He would have us think his history true. He charges me with making haphazard statements. This is not true. The massacre of St. Bartholomew in France in 1572 is a fact of history ; the then Pope had the "Te Deum " chanted in Rome to return thanks for the extirpation of the heretics; he alk• ordered a medal to be struck off, a copy of which I possess, and there is an oil painting in the Vatican in which the murder of Coligny is the subject. Mr. D. says I am an" Orange fanatic " and a "bellicose Orangeman." This is another untruth, for I never was an Orangeman. He places before your readers Cardinal Manning. Well, I must tell Mr. D., as I once told a Popish priest, "that when Manning joined the church he sold his reason." Listen, Mr. D., to what your grand advocate for Home Rule wrote on the system of Popery, and bear in mind it is the system I contend against, and not individuals. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., in h s " Vatican Decrees," p. 6, says, "Rome has substitited for the proud boast of semper eadem a policy of violence and change of faith. That no one 'an now become her convert without renouncing his moral and mental freedom, and placing his civil loyalty and duty at the mercy of another." and in his (W. E. G.'s) " Vaticanism " he writes : "I have stated that the Pope condemns liberty of the Press and liberty of speech. His (the Pope's) condemnation is illustrated by his own practice as Governcr in the Roman States, where no opinion could be spoken or printed but such as he approved. It is not possible, in the limited space here at, my command, adequately to exhibit a state of facts, thus created by the highest authorities of the Roman Church which I shall not now shrink from calling horrible and revolting in itself.and dangerous to the morals of society, the structure of the family, and the peace of life," p.p. 21,22, 27, published by John Murray,London, 1875. Mr.-D. are these haphazard statements? Well, sir,Cardinal Wiseman affirmed on oath : "Ilereties,schi.matics, and rebels to our Lord the Pope or his foresaid successors I will to my utmost power persecute and wage war with "—see correspondence published in the "Times," November, 1850, and in pamphlets, copies in my possession. Canon Stowell,of Manchester, preached sermon, subject: "One Lord, one faith, one baptism," result, he drove Wiseman out of Manchester for ten years. Popery cannot stand the test of the Scriptures, for the modern creed is not in it. Wiseman and Manning put their imprimatur to the "Glories of Mary," a book full of the grossest absurdities ever printed. Professor Gilmartin, of Maynooth Colle;zedast year published a manual of Church history (i e., Papal history), and Archbishop Walsh gave it his Imprimatur. In p. 226 he says: "Universal religious tolerance is as indefensive in theory, as it has been found impossible in practice. And the more one loves religious truth (!),and the spiritual interests of his neighbour, the more must we seek, within the limits of justice and prudence, to stamp out heterdoxy." Does this look like tolerance ? Until Mr. D. gives proofs of the grave charge of inhumanity of the late Dean McNeile, I shall put it down as another untruth.—Yours truly,