^> ^^^a> IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I •i^lliM 112.5 2.2 ;' IIIU " *- IIIIM ill 1.8 1.25 1.4 1^ -* 6" ► w ^, ^ ^%/. 'f •c'l "% ■> <$• e» .y >/ ^ "^ /A Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. MSBO (716) 872-4503 4\ Apostles went forth to teach all nations was to the Roman pagan aggressive : it meant encroachrient upon the false divinities and the corrupted morals of the Em- pire. It meant more. It meant the crumblmg of tlie Empire itself and the substitution of the Papacy in its stead. " The chair of the Fisherman stood in the very palace of the Ca'sars." It was aggression when St. Clement, who was related to Domitian, celebrated Mass in the Gatacomba, and preached so eloquently, and fervently, and made so many converts that the Emperor Trajan — by no means the worst of his class - ordered him to ofifer incense to Jupiter or ba exiled. He chose tlie latter ; was pent to the Crimea, then the Roman Tasmania. Here he con- tinued his work of aggression until Trajan ordered him to be drowned as a sacrifice to Neptune. There is no need of tracing that line of Supreme Pontiffs down to Lea XIII., now happily reigning — the 2()0th Pope from St. Peter. To the Catholic the cardinal fact of the world's history is the birth and death of Christ — the Founder of a 8piri;,ual kingdom, an abiding Insti tute, as palpable and organic fact. The Church of Rome is not a sect, or even a church t mong churches. It u the Church Catholic — Universal — the pillar and ground of truth. It teaciies as did its Master, " with authority." Without advancing any of the abundant proof tliere is for this stand which the Church takes, and rightly, let me discuss a portion of English history. From the time of Elizabeth down to 177H, a period of two hundred years, millions of Catholics sufiorc-d persecution, cruel, bloody and con- tinual. A brief respite occurred daring James the Second's reign, who sus- pended the penal laws and granted liberty of conscience to all his subjects. This toleration cost James his crown, and placed the Dutch Stadtholder, William, upon the throne. Cardinal Manning says England did not apos- tatize : she was robbed of her faith. Cardinal Newmin thin describes the proces.s. " Protestantism was estab- lished by law in the widest sense of the word, it was forced upon all per- sons in station or office under sanction of an oath. Catholics were put under crushing laws. Priests for saying Mass were imprisoned for life : if a foreign priest the penalty was death, and to all who harbored or assisted them the same, torture and death. No Catholic could inherit property or purchase land or keep school, or even send their children abroad to be edu- cated under penalty of loss of hfe or liberty and property. Catholics could not vote at elections. If a son said he was a Prot-^stant he could take all the property from the family. Elizab.ith and her great men and her preaciiers killed and drove away all the Catli jlics they could ; knocked down the re- mainder ; and then at their leisure pioved unanswerably and triumphant- ly the absurdity of Popery, and the heavenly beauty and perfection of Protestantism. Pr^^'stantism being taught everywhere, Protestant prin- ciples were taught with it, wliioh are necessarily the very reverse of (,'atho- lic principles." These are the two special daughters of the Protestant Trailition, Theory or Assumption on the one hand, and Prejudice on the other — Theory which scorns, and Prejudice which bates us. Theory lives on its own thought, but Prejudice is ever craving for food which is served up conatantly, Titus Dates. Maria Monk and Jeffreys being the purveyors, and platform and pulpit speakers being the cooks. Such 18 p'^pular Protestantism consid- ered in lis opposition to Catholics. Its truth is establishment by law ; its faith is Prejudice ; its facts are fictions, its reasonings fallacies, and its security is ignorance about those whom it is opposing. The law says that white is black ; ignorance says, why not ? Thoory says it ought to be ; Fallacy 8ftv« it must be ; Fiction says it is, and prejudice says it shall be." I do not make this long quotation in any spirit of aggression, to expose their tyranny and injuatice, but to prove that England was not converted, but was robbed of her Catholicity by violence. It is but just to state that Catholics at the present time enjoy freedom of worship in England. That clever cynical Jew, Isaac D'laraeii, gives a peculiar view of the great cause of religious persecutions. He says; "The subject of political religionism is as nise as it is curious. Politics have been so cunningly work- ed into the cause of religion that the parties themselves will never be able to separate them. An impenetrable mystery sunoundt, tiie conduct of men who profess to be guided by the gentle code of Jesus, but try them by a human standard, treat them as poli- ticians and, the motives once discov- ered, the actions are understood." If wo apply this test to the course taken by Queen Elizabeth wlio had no reli- gious convictions, the desire to reign at any cost being her ruling passion, we should discover the secret motive which actuated her and the powerful and eminent men who supported her, was really a political one. In further support of D'Israeli's theory the fact that in 1778 when the Americans unfurled the Standard .of Independence thereby setting an example of courage to all oppressed people, there took place a great relaxation of the penal code. Within fifty years Catholics could breathe their native air in free- dom and safety Thus fear quickly obtained what was denied for two hundred years to the pleading of jus- tice and humanity. The Catholic Church is accused of aggression. Be it not forgotten that Protestantism of the iJith century was an innovation, an encroachment, an aggression upon a constituted order of ! things which hud existed for agoa, and which was vitally connected with every fibre of the social system. Ranke aaya, " The questions which Protestantism affected were not merely ecclesiastical but on account of the connection between Church and Htate upon which the whole system rested in the highest degree political also." Judging from these premises politi- cal religionism is the main spring of the P.P..\. conspiracy. This conspir- acy is formed to curtail as much as possible the rights of liomati Catholics both civil and religious, to force upon them the system of Godless schools which are proving a curse wherever they are instituted to the poorer classes especially. They are seats of atheism and infidelity and also anarchism. It is of such that the old Duke of Wel- lington spoke wlion he said, " Educa- tion without religion makes men clever devils." Though we are only one- fifth of tt'e population of Ontario the P. I'. A. will not succeed for as the prophet Eliseus said, " There are more with us than with them." This P. P. A. is like the wolf in the fable, always accusing the poor lamb of dis- turbing the water, of slander or some- thing, and all for an excuse for drown- ing the lamb, I think what Pope wrote in '• Ethict.1 Epistles " on the monument of London, Eng., is moat applicable to the newspaper articles of the P. P. A. and the whole cabal of their aiders, abettors, etc. The in- scription on the Hillar accuses the " Popish Faction " of causing the great fire of London in liiiiCy which destroyed Itl.OOO houses. Pope saya of the Pillar, " Like a ta/l halhi it. lifts its lituil an I Ill's." The Bargains that trouble Col. O'Brien is tliat ' Qiiebec Act" which was passed by the British Parliament at the time of the revolu- tionary war when the descendants of the Pioneers of Nt>w France demanded the fulfilment of British pledges. I must ask Col. O'Brien to call to mind a period prior to that date, when another bargain was made by the Hritish Crown. As Festus said to Bt. Paul " Thou hast appealed to Cieaar ^v h fnamm •'i( and to Cn'sar thon shall go." From 1584 \vben Jacquea Cartier plant(>dl the oroBB at Gabpe in the name of France down to the time when Canada was ceded to Great Bri- tain by the Treaty of Pans, Canada belonged to France. In K'lOh Samuel de Champlain founded the city of (,>uebec. In ltil'2 Montreal was founded for the propagation of the Oathohc taitli in Canada. The Kigho Rev. Francois de T-aval was appointed Vicar Apostolic of New France. Hy the Treaty of Paris it was stipulated : let. That tht- French Canadians should be allowed the lull and free exerciseoft'ieir religion; 2nd. Should be {,'overned by their own laws ; Mrd. That they sliould not be dispossessed of any of their property. This 1 ri-aty solemnly signed and sealed was diw honorably broken by George 111., who issued a proclamation abohsliing French laws and substituting lliose of Great Briiani, Even the iniquitous Test Oatli ailjuring the principal dogmas of tlii' (.^atliolic religion was forced upon this country. Tiiis oath of 'C'lursc excluded CHfcholics from office and from a setit in the Assembly though tiiey were as lAO Catholics to one Protestant. Georgo III. in l)'eak- ing the Treaty of Paris followed the example of William ill. who in 1001 signed the Treaty of Jamerick after the surrender of Gen. Barsiiold. This treaty gviaranteed complete civil and religious liberty to Irish (. atholics, hut before the year was passed William basely permitted it to be broken by his government and the Penal Lawn cruelly enforced. Tiiis brt^aking of treaties with Catholics seems to be a pdt foible of the British Government. The French Canadians duffered for nearly 14 years under the arbitrary laws of (ireat Jkitain when in 177 i the political exigencies of the time induced the Crown to come to terms and make the bargain fearing that the oppressed Canadians would join in the rebellion of the American colonies. The British Government passed the Quebec Act, which con- firraed the rights and privileges guar- anteed the French Catholics by tho Treaty of Paris 1«G«, and which had been violated. The Quebec Act exempted them from the execrable Test Act, provided for the maintenance of the Catholic clergy, restored the old civil law allowing English law in criminal cases and established a Legis- lative Council. This Act conciliated the French Canadians, so that they rejected all overtures of the Americans and refused all appeals to join in the rebellion and bravely resisted the .American's attempt to conquer ( 'anada. Had not iiritain made the lUixiuin it is probable that (Canada would have become a part of the neighbouring llepublic. But other hcIs of robbery and tyranny on the part of British emissaries have been until recently without redress. In IHOO the whole property of the .lesuit Order in Quebec was confiscated to the Crown, thus infringing on tlic provisions of the (Quebec Act. In ]77(i the .Jesuit Colleges were converted into barracks. In iKdCi Solicitor-General .^^ewell at- tempted to uive the Catholic parishes to Protestants, but the Roman Catholic Bishop Plessis wari firm »■ d deter- mined and showed the Goverisnient tho impudence of making any further breaches in the Quebec Act. When he Af?c of E^islrttive I'nion was passed in 18 JO the French Canadians justly complained, that after paying off their own public debt they were forced to assist in paying off that of th^ Upper Province. These historical facts prove clearly that it is Protestant ascendancy which has been the agijies- sors in this country as well as in Great Britain and Ireland. The Ca- tholic Church is only aggressu'e in matters of Faith and conscience, through obedience to tho voice of God, " magna est Veritas el orevalebit." To the liberal-minded Protestant I addres? these words. Read the Catho- lic side of the question, " audi alteram partem." You have heard a little of it n'^w. Pt.TRONII.LA. ;T^|