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MOMIS ATTITUDE,
Mn OppoMt nil tl,PM'i"rii ol Hip
Srtrtlly,
IV..,', Co, I', Itu.lotph, Ph. D.. In hi
IhMiU, ''Tim Ureal Roman AntM'on.la,"
ny;
"It'MiiimUiii l afrnl.) of n i ti t T t.-uti
f i trm if governiiiciii, mill yet Roman
Ism I prospering under the constitu
tion lf the republic
"(ml what Archbishop livlnml,
f HI, I 'mil, Minnesota, mtiil nt
the Catholic cotigrusn nt Baltimore In
November, l!i; 'of inestimable ad
vantage lo tlx in the Utterly tlin church
enjoy under IIiii constitution of the
republic. No tyrant hero casts chains
around hor; no concordat limit her
lift Ion, or cramps her energies. Sho In
free a thu eagle upon tin? alpine
heights, free to spread out to unob
structed flight her pinions, to hoiii to
highest altitudes, to nut Into not ion ull
bur native energies. Thu lnw of the
hind protect hor In hor rights, ami
ask In w turn no sacrifice of thews
rights, for hor rights uro those of
Amoriciin citizenship.'
Any clear minded American can see
from thin eulogy on religion freedom
that Romanism taken thu advantage
over the constitution of tho United
States and boldly encroaches upon this
constitution which protects religious
liberty. Romanism in not satisfied with
freedom in tho exercise of its religious
worship; not satisfied with tho protec
tion of Its rights, which is guaranteed
by tho conntitution; but it ban been
sedulously at work not only to main
tain full freedom of religious worship,
but actually to subdue this country to
Romish rule, Tho samo archbishop
said: 'Our work is to make America
Catholic, If wo love America, If wo
lovo the church, to mention tho work
suffices. Our cry shall hi, 'God wills
it, and our hearts glial 1 leap with
crusader enthusiasm. Tho conversion
of America should over bo present to
tho mind of Catholics in America as a
supremo duty from which God will not
hold them exempt,' When Koinlsh
bishop publicly preach tho 'Reforma
tion' of tho United States, is it policy for
Americans to fgnor: tho encroach
wonts? Ourcouritry y flooded with liter
ature pointing out the schemes ofHoman
Ism; danger signals have b on hoisted In
every State of tho Union, and yet our
people arc blind tr tho fact that tho en
emy is not only marching in upon us, but
has already gained a solid footing in our
midst, is controlling many of our cities
and schools, and to a groat extent, tho
press and tho pulpit. Hundreds of
thousands of dollar aro yearly drawn
form the public treasury for tho Ro
inanlzation of American youth, white,
colored and Indian; public office are
entirely In tho hand of Romanism In
tho cities of New York, Boston, San
Francisco, Buffalo, Cincinnati, and of
hundred of smaller cities, town and
village from tho Atlantic to tho Pa
cific, and from British America to tho
Gulf of Mexico, Our politician go
hand In hand with Romanism, and our
population of sixty-throo millions of
"free American citizens" 1 ho com
pletely vitiated by Rome rulo that free
peech and a free pros aro nothing
moro than a mockery, and men who
daro to express their thought by word
of mouth or In print aro systematically
boycotted by tho priesthood and by tho
priest-ridden horde of Romanism,
American liberty Is at stake; and tho
twentieth century will only know it as
a thing of tho past unless a general
revolution will eventually snatch it
from tho omlssarle of Romo and ro
Uro it to tho American people. The
grandest fundamental principle of the
republican form of government, ex
pressed in our immortal declaration of
Independence, "that the just power of
government were derived from tho con
nent of tho governed" will forever bo
burled where tho one-man-power of the
papacy obtains control of tho destinies
of a nation, Romanism and tho repub
lic can never harmonize; there can bo
no peace and harmony where tho white
and yellow flag of the papacy 1 floating
In the breeze alongwlde of tho red,
white and blue of American Independ
ence. Romanism does not want to bo
tolerated; Romanism 1 not satisfied
with equal rights; Romanism I not
content with rellgiou freedom; Rome
want to rule an control, to subjugate
and to domineer.
Since the loss of tho temporal power
In Romo (1870) tho papacy ha made
constant effort to attain civil authority
In tho United State. Thi I not done
In secret, nor under cover, but openly
and boldly. Tract number 40 of tho
Catholic Publication Society, on the
"Temporal Power of the Pope," tell It
plainly in these unmistakable words:
"How can thl Independence of civil
authority be secured? Only In one way.
The pope must bo a sovereign himself.
No temporal prince, whether emperor,
or king, or president, or any legislative
Jxxly, can have any lawful jurisdiction
mil- lb '. Wliitt ilfcM lis tin-
'h III I'vl, It.t, Hi o( 4'41-I V thi!
i' It h it lit t li'titK nthl dih'-
nil.V n tit.' tiefii i.ft liiit. riiiUt Mm
wit U klntf of k Ihk: but tin' !i' guv
iru th clntivli in tin iuiiiiii nl ('In it
in H III in ptviM'iiInt lt. Hit hi,
ollliv Hti-tvfntv, iiiiiki-o him ii'i'inr to
i-ii) nlitli-Hl, tttiiNii ill mul liiiman
g.ivi-i-nm.'iit," With thl "illt hio
I'litlin" In ultfhl, can miy Aiih'I'Ii'iui I'lti
"ii Ix'llevo miy loiigi-r that the Uointtn
Cat 1ml U chiitvli U KittUlifil with cijuul
right ami thu protect inn ot our cuii-il-tutiim?
I'a pa I l!oui. litis i-uineil the
republic of pagan Rome; the piipucy
htt warii'il iigaliixt kliigiliiui and em
pires from the days of Boniface III and
Kmperor PliiH-as (iio7): from thiMlavw of
Gregory VII and Kiiijioror Henry IV of
Germany (lo?3) down to the day of
Pius IX and King Victor Kinmanuel
(IH70), and the sunie pii)iicy that ruined
the Roman republic is now employing
the same tactics and t he mime means
for the establishment of Its sacerdotal
and pontifical supremacy over tho re
public of Hie United States of America.
While tho American people Imagine
that they live in perfect safety and aro
not afraid of any danger to American
liberty, from without, they are blind to
tho busy st ir of their greatest enemy in
their very midst. The political divi
sions among the ruling parties keep tho
people busy fighting for some unim
portant issues; it is either free tariff or
protective tariff, and the constituents
of the different political parties fight
for these imaginary planks in their so
called party platforms as though tho
future weal or woo of the whole nation
depended on their campaign. The
close observer can readily perceive that
the political issue of our free country
are vastly dictated and fluctuated by
foreign magnates and liy, American cap
italists. The average American voter,
especially tho foreign-born citizen, who
was reared under autocratic rule, prides
himself of the republican privilege of
the "ballot box," and ho casts his "free
vote" with a dignity and pride that
gives him the satisfaction that hi vote
is just as necessary for tho destiny of
American liliorty and free government
as the whim of an emperor or king for
tho maintenance of a throne. Our
people at large iiuagino that they are
part and parcel of tho government
while- they have the right to vote; and
now that the Australian ballot i lie
coining so popular, the "saorednos" of
the secret ballot box 1 considered un
impeachable. After every campaign
and election, however, the constituent
of the winning party discover that they
have voted a et of politicians Into
office, and that these politician and
tool of monopolies are simply laughing
over the credulity of tho people; and
they go on changing old law and mak
ing new one for the benefit of the rich,
for boodle and bribery, and the con
stituent of their own party are given a
few smaller ollce of civil reform ser
vice and now and then a little ap
propriation of some kind or other to
keep them quiet, whije tlie constituents
of the opposing party seem to bo re
signed to their fate, and take it for
granted that the "spoil belong to tho
victors," Thus the nation Is kept In a
constant uproar for political promi
nence, and ha to suffer under tho ener
vating system of political demagoguery
which favors the few in power and
opens tho way for foreign enemies to
enter into our land of freedom and to
crush our Ixiastod liberty, because they
find us unable to restst,
Romanism l taking advantage of
thl condition of affairs, and tho papal
authority Is Insidiously advancing In
America, When tho "Infallible" head
of the Romish church sees fit to con
demn certain political opinion, or cer
tain form of government, tho faithful
must sustain the decision of tho "holy"
father under penalty of excommunica
tion. In answer to the question, "Are
priests bound to obey tho civil laws?"
Romish theology gives tho following
decision; "They aro certainly not
bound to obey those laws which aro re
pugnant to ecclelastlcal immunity, to
their state and to the canons, They
are bound to oley those law which con
cern especially tho common welfare,"
(Gury, part I, number 03, page 38.)
Priest and people are only enjoined to
obey those civil laws which benefit their
church, and are approved by the papal
authority; for the pope claims to bo
a)ive all civil authority. This doc
trine can be found in all books of Ro
mish theology and all catechisms.
Such discrimination of tho law of a
civil government, taught and practised
by a religious liody, is tho source of
disaster, of rebellion iind of anarchy;
and such a doctrine necessarily dis
franchise all subjects of the papacy
under the government of the United
States.
Tho masses of our American people
do not know that the "holy" Roman
Catholic church in America is anything
else than a "peculiar" system of re-
t it: ;. ! li, f, nil l.tiu 1 1 iv s'i'1
l.ll.jl UHWIIllI pliil, "t tt til"
n i,-ii'Hii of tln lr bWti" u. tin-
MI. ,if ,tll),, tl.lf t.Kpl llt ll"t
iili.ti'l-fitiiuil the Cmln'He wltiiv, sin',
pat- no r.tieiit imi to It; but tiny ntv
lilti'ttlw Ignorant of the fit' i, wltmwil
by a b!iHly bintory of one tbiiurtliil
ji'it and tiiniv, that RuiiittiiMii I a
tte',1 nipltlll'il polhlritl wiwi-l', which
I ilirtiiictrlotilly ii-il to all other
mii in olieui'th. The hint ilei'iiile of
the nineteenth iviilurv will furnish
abundant proof toall who have hitherto
considered the chiii'i-h of Rome tn lie
nothing but a church, that thi-y have
Is-en grossly deceit id. History repeal"
itself, and the United States of Amer
ica will erelong witness the outbreak
of religion faiiatielNin and of religions
war; and Humanism will most assuredly
conquer our nation and make America
Catholic, not only In faith, but also In
polities. Those who take the Catholic
church to be simply a religion Issly,
like other christian churche in Amer
ica, will do well to consider the work
ings of this huge papal anaconda.
The Pope's Latest Order.
Tho pope thinks that the time has
come for Catholic to take a hand In
politics, at least In the diocese of New
York, and force denominat ional schools.
In his latest letter to the bishops of
this province ho commands thorn, at
their next meeting, to seriously de
liberate as to the best means of pro
venting Die children of Catholic parents
from attending schools where
instruction In the Catholic creed
is not given. Moreover, he says
to the bishops, "we desire that
you should endeavor to induce those
who govern in your various states, and
honestly acknowledge that all things
the most salutary to the republic Is re
ligion, to secure by wise legislation
such a mode of teaching as shall not
offend the religion and conscience of
Catholics, who, equally with their non
Catholic fellow-citizen, furnish tho
means of education. Wo have the
conviction, based on tho fair-mindedness
and practical prudence of your
countrymen, that they can be easily
brought to lay aside suspicions and
prejudices offensive to the church, and
to recognize freely the services of that
pc" which dissipated pagan barbar
ism with the light of tho gospel and
created a new Hoclety with all its glory
of christian virtue and human culture.
Such considerations will, we hope, lead
every man In your country to tho con
clusion that Catholic parent should
not bo forced to build and support
schools and institutions they cannot
use for the education of their children."
What this means Is, In plain word,
that tho Catholics shall force, by mean
of their Ignorantly compact mass of
voting tool, our state government to
set iij) and maintain denominational
schools, giving the selection of teachers
and course of study to tho official of
the various ect. That tho pope ha
given till command at tho present
time, and for thl dloocHO, shows that
ho know tho power of Tammany Hall
and Is not only willing to uu. It, but
intend to use It. And there I too
much reason to fear that ho will uo It
successfully. Ho may not bo able to
establish the system of denominational
schools at once, but hi tool may find
omo way of turning state fund over to
Catholic schools, a they now obtain
money to maintain their asylum and
convent on tho pretext of supporting
children which would otherwise boconn
state charges. Tho Frmnm' Journal
says; "With union, fearlessness, and
perseverance In our ranks, wo can win
In this battle for religion and education
one of the grandest of victories, not
only for ourselves, but for the mass of
our countrymen who fail to appreciate
the de-christianlzing influence of an in
struction which sharpens tho wits at
tlio expense of tho heart. If, in the
deliberations recommended by tho holy
father, our bishops map out a plan of
action which, in their judgment, will
bo feasible and satisfactory, they will
find a ready co-oHration in carrying it
out from laymen, who have for years
been hoping and praying for some such
word from those whoso duty it ha been
to take the initiative in such an im
portant matter. Pope Leo has spoken
wisely and well. Close up tho ranks,
friends of faith and fatherland, and
stand together in a grand determined
effort for that which i ours in tho
nature of things and ought to bo ours
without question, at thi day of our
civilization."
Tho plan of action will undoubtedly
bo a demand for appropriations for
Catholic schools, whether the other
sect get any or not, and the co-operation
of the laymen will bo to vote as
they are ordered. TVufi tinier,
Advertisements inserted In The
American are sure to bring a profitable
return to the advertiser. Americans,
wateh the columns of thl iipcr 1
i i HOMl AND I DUCAT ION
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Our f mf Putitic Si lieol Sjtr-fit
j i-'ine UK H t . In I1 In Hit It' t ttiliu'
I Mi,- ln nci'i.l What I tht hconl
; ,n u UiU tUt h iiihiiiii- mo Am, 1 1-
I call politic Hfliitnl MI, to le
! ati, ttiliil. !, IllitSt li- the cilnenli.tn ot )
I In r i hihhvn, nml claim to hate 1
m in r win r tt nni inm m in r my i
e hmc wen, Now lmt ii lit fri-Jt''
Wlnil fiiiH't ltir cnll(.'ht-iiiiii-iil him he
Imparted to the null. him that hate Jong
Itcvii under her dominion? What piiv
giv In morality, piety and the arts
and science? 1'Vr answer let us turn
to those countries where she has long
I eld iiy, tt In-re fur centuries she has
had everything pretty much her own
way, ami tve will take a survey of these
lands at a time when she ruled over
them without let or hindrance. In
Austria, the papal states, Rome, Spain,
Portugal, Roinaii Catholic Ireland,
Mexico, Cuba, Central America, and
tho South American states, crime,
pauperism, and Illiteracy prevail to a
far greater extent than In ru n-papal
countries, These facts are as clearly
seen as the rivers, lakes, mountain
and cities of those lands.
Facts are stubborn things. Take the
following from a report published in
IS. 4, from judicial returns, of person
prosecuted for murder:
In Protestant Kngland there were
prosecuted for murder in each million
of the population, four.
In Ireland, Is if ore the great emigra
tion, there were forty-five.
In France, where murder was classi
fied rather scientifically, thirty-one.
In Austria, thirty-six.
Jn Sardinia, whero one part of tho
kingdom was under Protestant Influ
ence, twenty.
In Tuscany, eighty-four,
In the Holy States, where the holy
church had most manifestly everything
its own way, one hundred.
In Sicily, not qultj so intensely de
moralized by Romanism, It conies
down to ninety.
But in Protestant England, let it lie
borne In mind, tho proportion is four.
Take Mexico, with an endless list of
p'tVsts, rich adornment for tho clergy,
every facility for tho church to carry
out her own plan, and with no Prot
estants to impede the progress of the
priesthood in any direction, and here
1 a fair intellectual specimen of tho
ed neat inn and culture which Romanism
aim to give. That land ha dense
clouds of ignorance brooding over her
IMsople, like tho volumes of darkness
enveloping tho earth lieforo tho ma
jestic word of tho Everlasting were
heard, "Let there bo light." For
more than .TOO year the Romish church
ha had control of Mexico, and what
aro tho results? Rev. Dr. Green, visit
ing at Paohtica, say: "Potatoes sell
for a penny apiece, and you buy them
one at a time, for tho seller cannot
count." Think of it! In .TOO years, tho
parochial schools In Mexico have not
taught tho people to count potatoo,
and not much else than the catechism.
In tho same letter Dr. Green says:
"Yesterday was Sunday, and tho lord
archbishop attended tho bull fight after
mass, in his clerical robes, and ap
plauded tho fun, and graciously re
marked that It was one of the most
skillful ho had ever seen." As with
Mexico, so with the South American
stales, whore the Roman hierarchy
has controlled education for ages, and
the result is pauperism, Ignorance, dis
order, crlmo, lawlessness. Go to the
continent of Kurope and begin wll,h
France. In 188!) one-hal,f the Inhab
itants of that country could neither
read nor write, yet Rome had U-.vn t he
teacher. From tho illiterate half come
lt.r per cent, of tho )eron arrested for
crime, From the other half came only
f cr cent. Listen to tho testimony of
Victor Hugo a to Rome's teaching In
Franco:
Ah! Wo know you. Wo know tho
clerical party is an old party, Thi it
is which ha found for truth those two
marvelous support ignorance and
error. Thl it Is which forbids to
science and genius tho going Ix-yoml
tho missal, and which wishes to cloister
thought In dogma. Every step which
the intelligence of Europe ha taken
has been in spite of It. Its history is
written in tho history of human pro
gress, but It Is written on the back of
tho leaf, etc.
What of Spain! That country of
illustrious memories, with successions
of mighty kings, proud armies, vast
fleet, invincible heroes; with her fertile
land and tho wealth of the Indie
added to the vast resources of her own
people. Spain, where tho church wa
mightier than tho kings; whero tho
Inquisition seized the loftiest and low
liest, and measured out stint without
timidity; where for centuries tho church
sat an Imperious queen, mistress of
everv Spaniard and all that he had.
'ought to show the exact marks and
lU.Ml'llli. M (i,j , i lint '! 'l"
') , ,) :nin W si I ho I " 'I"
clmtn It ji;ill,-,l, !( , "". .-- t4
tj,'iiii-sii'f t on,-, tho list t.i tv
Ni.tnt' i',,il turn jsiple. I.', i" i' em
illn i- rs n. hot ttiite. Mij,lt !"' '',
Am. iti-sn )-.plc, using Victor II'h;.'
IttltCtiiU'e. MY to R"llie: "V t Ml n
tottte you the youth to Instruct; ti l t
m il U l now jmir ioipi!. I.j I us
e those ton liste pnsliie.il. Whst
linte yon dime for Spain? Swlt, mag'
liitl.viiily endowed Spain, ttlileh ti
Celted fl-oiil the Homali In r first, and
from the Ai slw her wvond, clt tll.at ion;
from providence, in spile of ,
word --America. Spain, thanks to you.
n ut under a joke of stiiMir, degrada
tion and decay. Spain lias lost the
secret of the potter it obtained from
the Roman, the genius of ni t it ob
tained from the Arab, the new world
It had from God, Audit has received
from you, In exchange for all yon have
made l!. lose, the inquisition, which you
would like to establish here, which has
burned on the funeral pyre millions of
men, which disinterred Hie dead to
burn them ns heretic. This Is what
you have done for Spain and this Is
what you want to do for America. Take
care; America Is a lion, and Is alive.
On getting nearer to Rome, what of
Italy? Despite the beauty of its climate,
the fertility of its soli, the fine genius
of It people, and tho heritage of re
nown which, the past lias bequeathed
to It, what was Italy when Imtnaiiiml
entered Rome? A land of ruins and In
that land where, for long centuries,
legions of priests and nuns had labored,
and hundreds of popes had reigned,
many of them with a temporal as well
as spiritual scepter, out of 21,000,1)1111 of
people, 17,000,000 could neither read
nor write, and an American official
stationed there .said that the humblest
district school In the backwoods of
America was Infinitely superior to the
parochial' school of Rome. On tho
authority of Metamler, In Romo In 18,j,
out of 1,54.1 births, .'1,100 were found
lings, three-fourth oj whom die in the
Romish asylums, where misery, rags,
beggary, Indolence, and every species
of vice and immorality abound. And
till Is the consecrated city of tho popo
with Its 10.000 nanal nrlesls, monks,
nuns, and In a population of only1 i';s,to(J.v
But why continue? Look at Ireland
The parliament commission of 1870
reported as a result of Homo's ystem
under clerical management that there
wore in Ireland "untrained teachers,
untaught scholars, and an ignorant
population." The British census of the
following year, 1871, showed that the
meager Instruction which liUomlnoneo,
Cardinal Cullon, thought sufficient for
the Irish youth wa given only to a
part, and that in Connauglit where the
Roman Catholic population was tho
largest, fil per cent, wero returned as
illiterate, while of the Protestants only
II per cent, were so returned, and tho
roMrt of the Inspector general of
prisons showed that whllo tho Roman
Catholic population of Ireland was
about to 1, the criminals were at the
rate of six Romanists to one Protestant.
Crossing tho Cannel wo find the same
state of thing in England. The Roman
Catholic TimiM of April 17, 188,1, notes
l.T,(i7"i Romanist committed at Liver
pool against 2,1.10 Protestant In a
population nearly five Protestant to
one Romanist, Thl state of things,
the paper say, Roman Catholic public
"cannot contemplate without feeling
of sadness and humiliation," Again,
Father Nugent, who played an Import
ant part at the Roman Catholic con
gress recently held In Baltimore, and
who Is tho chaplain of tho prison at
Liverpool, alluding to the Immorality
prevailing In that city, said, as reported
In tho Catholic Thmn, November 12,
188(1:
"Nino out of ten of tho girls to 1m
soon at night along the London road
and Lime street wWo Catholics; there
was no use hiding It. Tho sisters of
Notre Dame had 1,500 girls,
"Under their charge what Is'canie of
them after they left Mchool? They went
Into place where they got work, and
lnsteod of going home at night went
out with their companions,"
Tho Tablet, a Roman Catholic paper
of high authority, o recently a No
vemlHT, 1888, published an article In
loaded type, in which tho writer says:
"I was astonished to find, when en
gaged In another matter, that the jior
centage of jiivenllo criminals of Catho
lic parentage was out of all proportion
In England to tho relative Catholic
population. Upcn looking into the
matter I found that we Catholic con
tribute mure young criminal than any
other religious denomination."
Crossing the Atlantic and coming
nearer home we find the same state of
things in Canada. Take the province
of Quebec, when 10 jr cent, of th
population aro Roman Catholics, 20.1
ler cent, of tho criminals are Roman
Catholics. No wonder that the Balti
more plenary council of lS8rt, should
i. it ! .1 1 i. ; idi.v ! '
ttit.l hiii-.tti.g ! f-t
i. ikt,- u.i a tut U-re .-.imion
.1 is. . J.,),- t 1 1. ..- I- y .th t i- .1
piii,. j 1 c!H. mv tin vlithh' H of
t ! ho! n )!- Hi "
llr tl l Jli- Uivtin !e"ihl ti
"The .vt gntclti.it liti'S ill the
union niii )ir.iilj t?ns; in which
t ftlSinilcs fuc tin ttnvt ttitlui tilinl ill
elect ton nii hut. the lu.ft to U Hh
tiitiiticipnl slntis. We funilh more
limn our Mittl-,' tif the rowdies, the
ilnuiUsi'ds, mul the xleham imputation
In our Urge t'iti. s. The majority of
the grog -seller- In the city of New
York are Cntholies, mid the portion of
the city where gi-ng-wllltig, drunken
new mul tilth most alsaitul are those
chiefly Inhabited by Catholics; and we
scarcely see the slightest effort made
for a reformat Ion,'
In a word, no one cnti examine the
carefully-prepared statist les of prisons,
reformatories mid Industrial sclusils
abroad, where Rome has tint ram moled
sway, without coming to I he conclusion
that Roman Catholic sclusils, as com
pared with American public sclusils,
are propaganda of Ignorance, supersti
tion, vagrancy, pauperism and crime,
and yet this Is the system which Romo
propose to substitute for our public
school. The advice which Dr. Me
Glynn gave to his congregation at
Cooper Union, New York, may well
be repeated here as we close this series
of paper. Dr. McGlynn said: "Cherish
your public schools; listen not to their
enemies, no matter whence they coino,
Make these as complete and perfect as
you can. Show no favor to any rival
system. If you will not exercise the
right, if you will not assume the tight
to forbid rival systems together, at
least do not be guilty of tho incredible
folly of nursing and fostering and
actually, by appropriations and tax
exemption, encouraging rival system.
Never bo guilty of the folly of dividing
your school fund among the various
churche and sects. You, in such a
case, would he guilty of destroying ono
of the greatest and most potent Instru
ment for building up and maintaining
one great, free, common nationality.'
Jtimton TraMkr.
A Priest's "les!nft'f ;
Extract from a speech of the R"v,
John Nash GrlfUn, minister of Herolil's
Cross church, Dublin, at tho uuriual
meeting of tho Irish church mission,'
held in London, on the 30th of April,
18,12:
"I pray to God to pour down all ven
geance on those who sent their children
to tin Kllrelly school on last week
(particularly). May the devil bo their
guide on the right and on the left, ly
ing and rising, in bed and out of bed,
siting and (.landing, within and with
out. May all misfortunes attend their
families and labor.
"And any person or persons sending
their children to this school hence
forth, may bo struck blind and deaf, so
as never to see any of their children
again, and may the children sent to
the school go wild. May they never
leave the world until they become such
examples a that the marrow may come
through their shin bone. May they
be pained Ixit.h standing and sitting,
and may they never leave this world
until they are In such a state that the
dogs would not bear coming near their
carcasses when dead.
"I pray to God that every child who
goes to this school, that for every day
he spends In it, his life may lie cur
tailed a twelve month, and that they
may enjoy a year of maturity, and that
those people who sent their children
to the school, that their crop and their
goods may bo taken away by the devil,
and may all these misfortunes attend
any person taking their posterity In
marriage thirty years hence,
I pray tho Almighty to hear this
prayer (!!) a tho inhibitor of Cod, and I
now strictly command this congrega
tion to kneel down and pray to God to
grant mo my prayer." (!!)
This curse was pronounced by a
Maynooth man, tho Rev, Michael
Mediae, Roman Catholic priest of
Carrogalxilt, near Kllrush,
. i
A convention of jesiiitsof the Missouri
province wa held In St. Louis last
week, for the purpose of selecting three
delegates to the international conven
tion of the society, which meets In Italy
in September. Tho latter convention
choose the general of the society, who
holds the poitlon for life. The last
general of the society wa Father
Anderledy, who died last winter.
, i i. I,
A new republican club wa organized
recently, electing Geo. Wilson presi
dent and D. S. Lowery secretary. It
meets every Saturday evening at tho
corner of Ames avo. and Thirty-second
street.
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