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The feeling that this want should be sup- plied induced a few French Canadian students to meet in that year and lay the foundation of Vlnatitut Canadien, a literary society having for its object the mutual improvement and educa- tion of its members, through books, newspapers, and discussions or debates. For several years prosperity attended the under- taking, and the society obtained a special act of incorporation in 18^3, (see Statutes of Canada, 16 vie, c. 261.) By this act of incorporation minors of 17 years of age were accorded all the rights pertaining to the exercise of membership. Such was the rapid progress of this Institution that every city, town and village wanted to have its Jnstitut Canadien ; that being a synonimous term for the library, reading room and debating society. The result of this was that the various faculties of the mind were aroused and light began to dawn on dark places. Protes- tants who enjoy from their very birth the exercise of the brain's functions can scarcely realize the astonishing effect thus produced on a class of men who had been trained to think that it was not within their province to see anything that was not exhibited to » • them by a " patented" divine in robes. The ** why*' and the " wherefore" began to be heard, and they threatened Roman Gatholii'ism as the Guy Pawkes powder plot did the Parliament of England. About 1857 the Roman Catbolio authorities re- alizing their position, decided upon the destruction of this danger- ous focus, and began the attack under cover, and by raising side issues. The first gun fired nt it was in the shape of a motion to exclude all religious p:ipcrs, whether Roman Catholic or Pro- testant. The object of this motion was to exclude the Witness and Le Semeur Canadien for there was not then any Roman Catholic religious paper properly speaking, if we except the True Witness, which was at that date of no more account than it is at the present. A fierce struggle ensued, discussion run high, an amendment was made, und^out of a meeting of 300 was thrown out early in th<) morning by a small majority. A second meeting was held, and an amendment was again put, and and out of 300 votes there was a tie, when the casting vote was given in favor of the amend'uent. The enemies of free thought acknowledged their defeat ; the biiUot was then adopted when the advocates of education carried everything before them, and the Institut was triumphant. Jesuitical merchants were unable to induce their clerks to vote with them ; and open warfare for the nonce was at an end. Up to this time the instigator of the oppressive oppo- sition was unknown, but two days after the decisive vote referred to, bishop Hi urget published a long and elaborate pastoral letter commanding every one to withdraw from the Institut, under yai ' said to have beon decreed by the Council of Trent — Upwards of IfjO members in tonlormity with this order, executed a solemn act of secession in writing. — fhis was in 1858. Then indeed did the promoters of the scheme of infallibility, spread fanaticism amongst Roman Catholics, and the Institut Canadien was t^oou visited by this foul pestilence, for whenever a member found himself deprived of protection or of that strength of mind which animated the arch-angel, he would encounter the sweet face of a pi iust with the gratifying assurance that he could neither partake of the communion, nor be married by his chuich until he had withdrawn from V Institut Canadien. y As long as u member was known to act uncompromisingly >-• Jr A 'K — 5 — A« • A either by himself or by his immediate rehitivca or friends, every thin; connected with his church affairs'was smooth and [comfort' able ! and this brings us to the case of Quibord. Guibord was a printer, a fellow apprentice with ex-mayor Work- man and John Lovell, and although he did not ascend the ladder of wealth with them, he nevertheless possessed that strong will neces- sary to I he acquisition of wealth, had ambition been associated with his unconquerable faculties of mind. Guibord was a printer! he lived a printer, — he died a printer, not a wealthy one indeed, for had wealth been his, the Roman Catholic Church never would have selected him as the victim of its unrelenting persecution. Guibord died in November 1869, at a time when the bl-jsphemous thermometer of papal infallibility was indicating a temperature of clerical fever heat, — at a time in fact when every priest of Rome imagined that he was not without bin share ol' in/aUibility. In selecting Guibord as its victim, the Church of Rome singled out one whom it knew to be poor, one who it knew, had no children, no brother not even a sister. It singled out as its victim a poor journeyman printer, believing that as he was poor his friends were also poor. Dut still io all his poverty Heaven had blessed him with a wife, one who had not forgotten her marriage vows — but loved her husband though he was only a poor journeyman printer. She, alas, had no brother, no friends but those of her poor husband, and it required very little power of ratio-cination on the part of the Honiish priests to consider his case as one most admirably adapted for disphtying their authority. The Roman Catholic Cemetery of Montreal is on the slope of Mount Royal, is approached from the road leading to the pic, turesque village of C6te des Neiges, and consists of two parts- the one known as consecrated ground — the other as " the potter's field" — the latter mentioned being the final depository of drunk- ards whose corpses have been dragged from the gutter, and tha spot where murderers waA friendless suicides are throwu with dis- gust, in eternal oblivion — here the pious church of Rome was willing to bury Guibord the poor printer — here and here alone, and this, not, because he was a murderer, not because he was a drunkard, not because he was a criminal, not because he was a »iS%:m0 l k.i'iimi« a '«iwj mm0'i>''''''''^*^ mm f •aicide, but hkoaubk Ouiborp, tiir poor, FRirNDi.KHS, jora- NErMAN PRINTER, WAS A MEMBER OF l'InsTITUT CaNADIEN. Yes ! ohristian burial w is ret'uHod him by liin cburch and liin poor bones the remnants of his mortality were obliged to be taken where ? to a protestant cemetery whose doors were as wide opon for their reception, as those of the Roman Catholic were closely barred. In that protestant cemetery those poor bones still remain ft livini^, terrible protest against Rome's intoleranno. How striking the contrast between the poor friendless Printer, Guibord, and the rich suicide, Joseph .lodoio. The one was a criminal in the eyes of his church, — the potter's field was nil thnt was open to him, — his crime was p »Terty ! The othwr, who took that which none but God has a rijjht to take, — his life, — wiis buried with all the pomp and show which wealth can procure in the romish church, — the wealthy suicide was buried midst the tolling of bells, the burning of tapers and incense. — was buried in consecrated ground, — while Guibord, who died a natural drath, was oonsiderrd a fit subject for the potter's field ; but Quibord was a Printer, a poor but honest journeyman Printer, while Jodoin was a wealthy self murderer, whose blood-stained " gold« en fleece" was of more value to the Roman wolves than the honest unstained "home-spun" of the poor, friendless, but now, enver to be forgotten Printer, Guibord. It was in consequence of this refusal to bury her husband that the widow Guibord was forced to apply to our Courts of law in order to compel the cur^ and church wardens of the parish church of Notre Dume of Montreal to give her husband's remains burial in the Roman Catholic Cemetery. The proceedings for this purpose adopted, were an application for a writ of mandamus ordering the burial of Guibord's remains. A prolonged argument of seventeen days took place before the Honorable Mr. Justice Mondelet, senior Judge of the Superior Court for Lower Canada, sitting in Montreal, resulting in the granting of the widow's prayer, by ordering a peremptory writ of mandamus to issue, commanding the cur4 and church wardens to bury the deceased within six days, and to report the execution of the writ. The arguments of counsel and the remarks of the learned and f ' ■» JOtfB« [ill poor taken le open closely I remain 'rintor, )e was a all thot ■ho took V,— wn8 ocure in idnt tho 8 buried al death, Ouibord 3r, while d ♦' gold- than the but now, band that ;s of law he parish 9 remaina pplicntion ) remains, before the Superior ng in the ptory writ i church •eport the nmed and f ' -7- independent jud^e, and the judji^'ocnt itiielf deserve speciid notice but unfortunately they are so voluminous, that were we to repeat them our rendurs might think that wo were testing the extent of their pativnoc. The Church of Rome was not di< i>' 1 ♦ ?» 4 k — 9 — •re it inii a In im- ujwm Ionian jndceptibIe of Appeal, the Appellant conftidereJ it would be a waste of time and of legid research, to show that the rcfusiil to burirUihiibord was unfound- ed. Should f>uch a doctrine prevail it would follow that the Roman Catholics of this part of Canada are eminently privil- edged inasmuch as they would not recognize any authority as higher than the Church. The Anglican Bishop in Q ebuc was impleaded for refusing to bury a child, and though the case was dismissed it was on the ground that the Anglican Church had not acknowledged as its cemetery the piece of land, wherein the father wished to compel the Bishop to bury the child. No one ever dreamt of denying the jurisdiction of the Court. In the Guibord matter, however, it is different. The preten- sions of the Romish Church are (exposed ai* follows, by the De- fendants pleadings: — By the treaty of Cession of Canada of ]7t)3, it is declared that the Roman Catholics shall have the free exercise uf their religion ainsording to the rites of the Church of Rome. Fro.ii this it follows that the Roman Catholic bishop is amenable to no authority in the country when he decides that a man has no right to Se buried in a Catholic cemetery. Fur- thermore, the Church of Rome has deemed that it exerciser its authority independently of all civil governments, and other doc- trines which will be mentioned presently. Can Protestants look with indifference to the settlement of such pretensions, set up as they are against the Guibnrd action ? If it be truel were such a pret"'V1*'