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Ayer's Sarsaparilla Strengthens the System. In Reply to the Address of Mr. Powell' Concluded from third page. wholly undisputed and indisputable. And yet no author of American' history, no writer of any repute or standing on the American continent has ever dared - to risk liia reputation by putting hi8 im primatur on any of them. Some of .them aredonbtlese the creatures of Mr. Powell's imagination. At least that accusing the Catholic church of the rebellion and that relating to the Jeeuit priest's in fluence over the Catholic hero of Gettys burg are new. The others thoee, I mean, referring to the assassination of "Tjincoln, the papal recognition of the confederacy and the wholesale desertion of Catholics from the Union army have been exposed again and again by some of the ablest Protestant writers in the United States. To pp.rticularizi.". What echool boy .-does not know that the great leading . -cause that brought on the great rebellion waa the queatbn of African slavery. Questions relating to tariff and free trade and the doctrine of states rights there undoubtedly were; but these and . all others were secondary, grew out of or bore an inferior relation to , the great issue. Religion cut no figure whatever. The Catholics of the South were prob ablynot 5 per cent, of the population. Jefferson Davi9, the arch-conspirator, Deiongea to jar. r oweii b own church as did, I believe, several members of bis cabinet, many of hie fellow-conspirators and not a few of the commissioned offl- - cers ot l tie reoei army, it it would be a monstrous calumny to accuse Mr Powell's church of bringing about the rebellion, and it surely would, what shall we call it when that gentleman manes a similar accusation, with not a scintilla of fact or history to back it, against the Catholic church. ' The alleged papal recognition of the Confederacy is equally false. The his tory of the efforts of Jefferson Davis to . obtain the pope's recognition is fully treated in the October ' number of the North American Review by Hon. John . Blgelow, a Protestant, who was United States consul at Paris, during the war, I cannot go into the history here. Suf fice it that the only recognition eyer giv en by the pope to the Confederacy was contained in the address of a letter writ- v ten by the pope to Jefferson Davis in December, 1863, which read, "Hon. Mr Jefferson Davis, President of the Con- federate States." - The rebel commis Bioner, A. Dudley Mann, forwarded this letter exultingly to the rebel secretary of state, Judah P. Benjamin, who replied '. "The address is a formula of politeness v and not a political recognition of the fact." The pope had simply addressed Mr. Davis in the title Mr. Davis had as sumed in bis letter. This is all there is or ever was to this A. P. A. invention. Even Roland D. Grant who never asks more .than a hair to make a tether of when Catholics are to be strangled, was pblig ' ed to abandon the fabrication to the more ignorant and less scrupulous A. P. A. lecturers. Tbe. New York Indepen dent fully exposed the fraud ulency of the charge in the March, 1893, number of that Protestant Journal. This dis poses of the charges of Catholic deser tion, for if the pope never recognized the Confederacy (and he never did) so CathoHcdeserted- because of this recog nition. I now repeat the offer I made some time ago, and it is open to anyone in the uni verso: - One hundred dollars in gold coin will be paid to any charity 6r educational institution named by tbe winner for such proof as will satisfy three Protestant lawyers of this city that the pope ever recognized tbe Southern Confederacy, or that 104,000 or any oth er number of Catholics deserted the Union army in consequence. . I will go farther than . I did then. I will allow the A. P. A. s to name the lawyers, only stipulating that those chosen are not suspected of membership in tbe A. P. A. This offer is made in the name of a wealthy Catholic resident of The Dalles. Will the anti-Catholic zealots take it up? Never. They cannot, because they dare not. ' But they will continue to ap plaud the hosts of churchless parsons and professional patriots who repeat it. Oh Liberty, what crimes are done in thy name! : ' The charge against the Catholic hero of Gettysburg may - be dismissed with a word. ' It is a base lying slander. No other words will fittingly character ize it. ' When night closed on the second day of ' that great battle both armies were badly whipped ; both had been lit erally cut to pieces. At the close of the following day when, by the help of Han cock's reinforcements, a bloody but de cisive victory had been won by the fed eral troops, these troops found them selves in possession of more rebel pris oners than they, in their shattered con dition, could safely hold and yet follow up the retreat. A. council of war was held, the advice of Gen. Hancock among the rest, given, and the following n p of the retreating rebels was abandoned be cause it was found, under existing condi tions, to be impracticable. If this de cision was the result of a Catholic con spiracy then tbe Protestant- tiancock and the other members of the council were partners in the crime. But the Catholic church accom plished the assassination of Abraham Lincoln," says this reverend prevari cater. Now what are the facts 7 In no standard work, in no official document, ever published on this continent is this charge or any insinuation of is made or even hinted at; The official acts bear ing on the assassination and trial of tbe conspirators, compiled by the - recorder of the commission, Benjamin Pitman, have been published and in all the records of the trial there is no allusion to any Catholic conspiracy. The great biog raphy of Lincoln, hy Nicolay and Hay, in ten volumes, has not even an insinua tion about the charge. In a letter, a copy of which I have before me, Mr. Nicolay, speaking for himself and his colleague, in answer to an inquiry, says: We have read the charge, in a long newspaper article, but it seemed eo en tirely eroundiess as not to'merit any atr tention on our part. John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Lincoln, was of English descent, and an Episcopalian in religion as was bis brother , Edwin, to my own personal knowledge, and ail the rest of his family. Harold's family were members of Christ's Episcopal church,' East Wash ington, and the pastor of that church, Rev. Dr. Olds, attended this conspirator from tbe time of his incarceration to his execution. Payne, who made tbe des perate attack on Secretary Seward, was the son of a Protestant clergyman. Atzerod was an avowed atheist. Mrs. Sarrat was tbe only Catholic 'identified with the conspiracy and she, in the judgment of thousands, was innocent of any criminal intent. However this may be, I repeat, Mrs. Surrat was tbe only Catholic identified with the con spiracy, for her son, John Surrat, was able to convince eight of the twelve jurors before whom he was tried, that he was not in Wash- ineton at the time of the assassination. and took no part in the plot. The gov- eminent, on the disagreement of the jury, turned the prisoner loose. ' The full ' history of the plot that took away the life of Mr. Lincoln may never- be known till the judgment day reveals it, bat nothing' eave the mad phrenry of anti-Catholic monomania has' ever at tempted to identify that history with the Catholic church. Other attempts bad been made on the life of Lincoln, and patriotic writers of the period made no bones of tracing these attempts np through the rebel leaders of tbe South and their copperhead allies in the North to the arch-conspirator . himself. - Loss ing characterized Jefferson Davis as the "crafty and malignant chief conspirator, who seems to have been ready at all times to entertain propositions to assas sinate, by the hand of secret murder, the officers of the government at Wash ington ;" and, what is still "more to the point, cites the case of a Georgian rebel, named Burnham, whose proposition to organize a corps of five hundred assas- sins was "respectfully referred, ' py Jefferson Da vis, to bis secretary of war. But no writer of that time, and.no writer of respectability of any time, has ever dared to put it on record that the church of Sheridan, Shields, Meagher, Corcoran, Ord, Rosecrans and Meade, the church of thousands and tens of thousands of brave boys, whose . blood reddened every battle Jtield from Bull Run to Appomatox, was all -the while in secret conspiracy to ruin - the cause for which her sons were pouring out their lives. So far as the Booth conspiracy is concerned, a" writer in.- the present April nu -Tiber of the Century magazine says; "There is little evidence to prove that Booth actually determined supon mur der until th day of the assassination, and non in i-h-w that he confided his intention to any one till that day." But I. t:'m9t ciine, leaving much un said. Mr." Pow 11 is io great dread of the old nursery bugaboo of Catholic drilling and Catholic armament, and in stanced the case of the head of tbe Clan-na-gael who offered 100,000 men to Pres ident Cleveland at the time of Venezue lan excitement. But Mr. Powell forgot to mention how many A. P. A. "patri ots" had offered their services at this juncture. So far . as the record shows, The largest piece of ever sold BLAKELEY & HOUGHTON DRUGGISTS, . 175 Second Street, The Dalles, Oregon CffCountrv and Mail Orders will receive prompt attention-' 33 . "S7$7". -DEALER IN PAINTS, OILS AND GLASS. - - And the Most Comnlete and Latest Patterns and Designs in WALL PAPER. WALL PAPER. PRACTICAL PAINTER and PAPER HANGER. None but the best brands of J. W. MASURY'S PAINTS used in all our worV, and - none but the moBt skilled workmen employed. . Agents for Masury Liquid Paints. - No chem ical combination or soap mixture. A first-class article in all colors. All orders promptly attended to. v ; '; ; ,- : . ' '. Store and Faint Shon corner Third and Washington Sts., The Dalles. Ore-oi RUPERT & gabel; ' : . Wholesale and retail manufacturers and dealers in '. Harnss? SaLddles, Bridles, Collars, TENTS and WAGON COVERS. : : . REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE. ' Adjoining E. J. Collins & Co.'s store. the head of the A. ' P. A. occupied tbe iiiterr.il a of ' forging Jesuit baths and papal encyclicals in denouncing the president for his temerity in precipitat ing a war "between . the two greatest Protestant nations on ,- the . globe," while the ran"k and file were .busied with such inolnentiious issues as; How ehall we deprive some poor Catholic girl of the opportunity to teach in the public schools, br 'snatch from some Catholic citizen the right to hold ! office or even make a liviug nmler the starry ipltfa of the flag of liberty. Gospel of heaven, are these thy heralds? -' God of Jiberty, are these thy messengers? " , ' ' " IICGH GOTJBXAY. 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