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“True,” said Eugenia, regretfully ; “it
is best as you say. Go, then, Reginald;
I give you again to de Vere, he will take
care of you.”
“Even as for my own soul!” replied the
Count.
“The Earl of Surrey was urging them
to hasten, so Reginald received once more
his mother's embrace; onee again de Vere
clasped her in his arms, and they left the
house.
[to be continued.]
For the Banner of the South.
Out of the Fold.
BY S. K. FHILUPs.
Night draws her drapery
Os starry clouds around her quiet form.
All Is so still for her; for me a storm
Sweeps onward fearfully.
Yet from my casement high,
Amidst this solemn stillness of the night,
I lean and pray. Oh, Father of aU light,
In tenderness draw nigh.
I am one of Thy fold,
A wand’ring one, almost beyond recall:
But faint and far I hear the echoes fall:
‘•Come back into the wold.”
How gladly would I come;
But who shall bridge the gulf that lies before,
Or help me leave this gloomy, Stygean shore,
And guide me safely home ?
When now and then I see
Thy rod and staff thrown out so like a shield,
And one by one the flocks come in and yield
Their gratefulness to Thee,
I feel my exiled state,
And late and early mourn my hapless lot;
Oh, Shepherd of the flocks, hast thou forgot
And closed the pasture gate ?
'Midst plenty they lay down,
And sleep so sweetly 'neath thy watchful care;
No fearß disturb—they know that everywhere
Thou keepest safe Thine own.
I cannot look unmov’d,
And see Thy hands make pleasant paths for them,
While I must walk alone, or singly storm
The torrents, all unlov’d.
AU shelterless and cold,
And pinched with hunger, lb, I stand and wait.
Oh ! Shepherd of my soul, uubar the gate,
Aud take me in the fold .
Selma, Ala.
[From the Freeman’s Journal.]
PERDITION THE FRUIT OF GOOLESS
SCHOOLS.
It is becoming one of the common
places for periodicals, daily, weekly, or
of rarer issue, to deplore the dying out
of the native American races. Three
causes are pointed out by these writers,
aud generally agreed on* Ist. Extrava
gant * ideas of life. Large classes of
young women scorn the idea of marrying,
except they get husbands who can sup
port them in idleness, visiting, gossiping,
playing Offenbach’s music, or reading
silly novels. They expect to have hired
women to cook, and do the work of their
houses, which they have not learnt how
to do, and rarely know how to direct
others to do with economy. Young
men, on the other hand, to a deplorable
extent, in place of marrying betimes,
and marrying some of the class that
know how to do the wo v k of a house,
and have done it, fool their time witli
the butterfly class of girls, and waste
the freshness ot their youth unmarried,
in hopes of the day when they can
marry a girl that don’t know how to
work.
But there is another cause, not only
vicious but criminal. It belongs to those
who live married, or as if married, and
yet seek to prevent the natural results.
The childless condition that honest
people accept as an affliction imposed by
their Creator, as He imposes other hard
burdens on others, these unnatural
people oourt, and outrage Nature and
the laws of God. The daily papers tell
of this, though, sometimes, they seem not
to know the depth of the infamy attach
ing to the practice.
The natural result of the first and
second causes we have stated is the
production of the third. Here wc choose
to let some of the daily papers speak.
The New York Express, of last Satur
day, says:
“We ask attention to the offence of
child murder as one of the chief crimes
of the age. How many of these murders
contribute to the decrease of the Ameri
can born population in States like Maine
and Massachusetts—where the fact of
the immense decrease in living children
compared with twenty-five years ago is
known—we cannot tell. This fact of
itself is sufficiently alarming*, whether
the cause be the unwillingness of
mothers to bring children into the world
—as their mothers did before them—the
extravagance of society, which is an
excuse for small families, or some new
zeal on behalf of the disciples of
Malthus. * *
“Recent investigations of the crimes
perpetrated in our midst prove that
generally unknown iniquities—unknown,
because not exposed—arc hardly less in
kind than those which from day to day
meet the public gaze. Physicians,
experienced and qualified, occupying an
official position, aud whose hearts we
are glad to say are engaged in the work
of reform, assure us that there arc not
less than sixty ghouls in the city of New
York who, it is believed, make their
daily living—and a very prosperous
living it is, in a worldly sense, by taking
the lives of infants. We have heard the
number stated at six times sixty. The
victims of these ghouls are not all, by
any means, of the low and debased sort.
These illegitimate mothers, as the rule,
are not made up of the abandoned class
of women. Most of them are of the
educated and aspiring classes—some of
them most sensitive and emotional, but
in their woe the most despairing of
mortals. The great question with such
persons is how and where to conceal
their shame and sorrow, and the greatest
of all fears is exposure to friends and the
world. Many of these mothers, shocking
to say, are under the age of fifteen, when
giving birth to their illegitimate children,
and such are usually the victims of
villainous seduction or combinations
which make the fathers of these un
fortunate offspring far more guilty than
the young mothers whom they betray
or entrap ”
The New York Daily Times, of
last Sunday, seems !not less horrified.
It says:
“We are dying out, we native Ameri
cans. The combined testimony of City,
State, and National census reports, testi
fies to the alarming tact, and the ques
tion is, what is to be done about it?
The number of marriages has largely
decreased in the past few years. At the
same time infanticide is largely increas
ing; the crime is becoming one of pain
ful frequency; and a certain species of it
is practiced in the first families, and the
drugs and implements for committing
such murders are publicly sold every
where. How to preserve her looks, and
how not to have children, seem really to
be the chief thoughts of women nowadays.
The domestic economists have suggest
ed the expensiveness of the married
state as another cause of the decrease of
marriages and births; and the physiolo
gists have mentioned the neglect of
physical exercise and wrong fashions as
another.JMaternity has also been becoming
most unlashionable of late years, and this
idea, trivial as it may appear, is the cause
of the murder of many innocents.
“The causes are many, and easily
enumerated, but who will suggest a
remedy ?”
The simpering Daily Times asks,
“What is to be done about it?” and “who
will suggest a remedy?'’ The same Daily
Times squirted its small volume of
dirty water as our Holy Father, when
the latter, some months ago, denounced
as anti-Christian the herding of girls
with boys, as proposed in some lyccums
in France. The Times pointed to the
elegant results of Academies where boys
and girls from ten to twenty years of age
were thrown together, as a progress on
the old-fashioned notions of the Rope.
We refer the Times to the notice in
another column, of the verdict of a Centre
county jury, in Pennsylvania, about the
Dickinson Seminary. We refer him to
the declarations of the Chicago papers,
that the public schools, there, were
assignation houses , for all boys aud
girls above a certain age. We tell him,
if he will make inquiries, he may find
the same state of things prevailing much
nearer home. “What’s to be done?”
What’s the remedy?”
We can tell him the beginning of it.
Shut up, or burn down, or sell for
lager-beer saloons, or for gambling shops,
if you must do something objectionable,
all the buildings used as schools paid for
by the State, and run without religion.
Let children be left to the families
they belong to, to be educated; or to
voluntary societies. Then it will not be
the rule to have children of professing
Christians brought up without religion.
In the accursed State School system
—from which the dogmatic inculcation
of religious faith and morals has been
excluded, you sowed the wind , twenty
years ago. You arc, now, reaping the
whirlwind. This statement will be passed
over, as if not worthy of reply. It
cannot be answered. The public school
system is making prostitutes of young
girls, and forgers and thieves of boys.
A Canadian Tragedy. —A communi
cation from Bowmanville, on tho 6th inst.
says :—Mr. James Williams, residing
vicar the village of Hampton, having oc
casion to go to his house yesterday about
4 p. m., found the door locked; on tore
ing it open, a dreadful sight met his
view : his two little children, a girl
aged throe years, and a boy six months,
both lifeless, stripped and laid out on
the bed, covered by a sheet. His unfor
tunate wife was surprised in the act ot
taking her own life. She evidently made
the attempt. She drowned the children
in a barrel of water that was in the house.
After placing them as found on the bed,
she tried to end her own life by getting
into the barrel head first. There seems
to be no doubt as to the woman’s insanity.
■MIHI® ©I Ell B©TO.>
“In-felix_Felix.”
BY T. D. M’GEE.
[Sir Phelim O’Neil was executed by Cromwell 8 or
der, at Dublin, in 1652, as a punishment for the al
leged “great Popish Massacre” of 1641. He was of
fered his life, on the scaffold, if he would consent to
inculpate King Charles. He “stoutly refused,” and
was instantly executed.]
Why is his name unsung, O, minstrel host ?
WTiy do you pass his memory like a ghost ?
W’hy is no rose, no laurel, on his grave?
Was he not constant, vigilant, and brave?
Why, when that hero-age you defy,
Why do you pass “lu-felix Felix” by V
He rose the first—ho looms the morning star
Os the long, glorious, unsuccessful war.
England abhors him 1 Has she not abhorr’d
All who, for Ireland, venture! life or word ?
What memory would she not have cast away,
That Ireland hugs in her heart’s heart to-day ?
He roso in wrath to free his fettered land,
“There’s blood—there’s Saxon blood ujxm hi.-> hand.”
ay, so they say ! three thousand less or more,
He sent untimely to the Stygian shore—
They were the keepers of the prison gate -
He slew them, his whole race to liberate.
O! clear-eyed poets, ye who can descry,
Through vulgar heaps of dead, where heroes lie;
Ye to whose glance Hie primal mist is clear,
Behold there lies a trampled noble here
Shall we not leave a mark ? Shall we not do
Justice to one so hated and so true ?
If e’en his hand and hilt were so distrained.
If he was guilty, as he has been blamed,
His death redeemed his life—he chose to die,
Rather than get his freedom with a lie;
Plant o’er his gallant heart a laurel tree,
So may his head within the shadow be.
I mourn for thee, O, hero of the North—
God judge thee gentler than we do on earth!
I mourn for thee, aud for our land, because
She dare not own the martyrs in her cause.
But they, our poets, they who justify,
They will not let thy memory rot or die.
Knowing and participating in the enjoyment of the
Banner’s readers, whenever they are gratified with a
poetic contribution of the Reverend Editor, the above
lines have been selected because of their fancied ap
proach to his style, and are respectfully tendered by
the gleaner. ” Percy Verk.
For the Banner of the South.
THE INQUISITION.
Taken from the French, by Rev. David Moves.
NUMBER THREE.
This short explanation which we have
given will, doubtless, enable us to put
down, at their just value, tho accusations
which have been brought against the Ro
man Inquisition. It only remains for us
now to add a few words relative to the
Spanish Inquisition, with which it has fre
quently been confounded. We will treat
first of its origin.
Some time previous to the Christian era,
a great number of Jews had established
themselves in Spain. Through the course
of time they acquired a considerable por
tion of the wealth and influence of the
country, and, under the reigu of the
Visigoths and Moorish Kings, as well as
under that of the Christian Princes, they
came to be regarded as a most important
class of society. They had lent tlioin
selves to the work ot proselytism, and this
restive spirit had more than once gravely
compromised the safety of the Kingdom.
During the reign of Egica, they had made
themselves obnoxious to the State, and
were, in consequence, visited with the
penalties of a rigorous legislation. But
this rude trial towhich they became subject
ed, only served to bring into play the re
sources of their versatile genius; and before
many more years had passed, they had so
blended with the people at large, that many
of them were raised even to the dignity of
Catholic Bishops. Nor did they neglect to
profit by the advantages which their riches
and influence acquired for them. The
highest offices iu the State were filled by
them, and the most noble families of the
realm were tainted with Jewish blood.
They had foresworn the Faith of their
fathers before the world, but, in the inmost
recesses of their hearts, they worshipped
the God of Jacob, and cursed the Naxa
rene. They supported the Government by
the regular payment of taxes, and mani
fested toward it the most loyal affection;
but inwardly they sought its ruin, for, with
it they knew would fall the Christian
Faith. Towards the end of the fifteenth
century, it became necessary to use the
most stringent measures against them, and
Ferdinand and Isabella issued an edict,
commanding all the Jews who desired to
remain as such to leave the Kingdom. A
hundred thousand Jews quitted Spain, hut
a considerable number remained, and con
sented to be baptized. They were called
Maranos, and notwithstanding this out
ward conformity to the spirit of the
Spanish Nation, they formed a class most
hostile to the interests of Religion and the
welfare of the State.
About the same period, Ferdinand and
Isabella completed the conquest of Gre
nada, the last among the many possessions
which the Moors held in Spain. It was not
the intention of the King or Queen to
oblige them to quit the soil. On the con
trary, they guaranteed to them free and
unrestricted freedom of worship, which
many of them accepted; but, having
abused this privilege by rising en masse
against the Catholic Missionaries, the
Government gave out another edict, which
left them no other alternative but to leave
the country, or submit to Baptism. The
greater part of them accepted the latter,
but with concealed feelings of repugnance.
They went by the name of Moriscos, and
formed in the State a second class, hostile
likewise to its interests, and embittered
against its Faith.
To guard against this two-fold danger,
Ferdinand and Isabella organized an In
quisitorial Tribunal for the purpose of
exercising surveillance over the conduct of
both the Maranos and the Moriscos—that
is, the Christian Jews and Moors. This
Tribunal passed through several phases,
but, finally passed into the complete and
definite form of the Spanish Inquisition.
Its organization wms now complete.
Thomas, of Torquemada, the Prior of the
Order of Dominicans of the Iloly Cross of
Segovia was appointed Grand Inquisitor
for both Castile and Aragon. Four Tri
bunals were erected by him—at Seville,
Cordova, Jaen, and Toledo—and a com
plete code of laws, applicable to cases in
detail, was framed under his immediate
superintendence. The institution now
began to operate and pursue, with rigorous
and unceasing severity, those unprincipled
renegades who concealed their crimes
under the mask of Catholicity.
Bnt this was not its only object. Fer
dinand and Isabella had proposed, from the
commencement, that the Inquisitors should
be appointed by the King; and the Pope,
wTio did not precisely see their drift, con
sented and approved the project. This was
to place the Inquisition under the complete
control of the civil authority, so that it
might be able to transform it into an
army, political or religious, according as
the case demanded. The predecessors of
Ferdinand and Isabella had allowed the
majesty of the Royal Court to fall, and
this to the advantage of the higher orders
of the Clergy and nobility. This was to
be remedied. The Tribunal was brought
into requisition, and, before a long period
of time had elapsed, proud Cavaliers and
dignified Prelates, whose sentiments were
opposed to royalty, w r ere ignominiously
dragged before the Inquisitors, to answer
to the charge of heresy.
The Popes were not slow to observe that
the Inquisition served more the purposes
of Imperialism than the interests of the
Faith, the object for which it was first
established. They immediately raised the
complaint that the projects of the King
had been laid before them in a light which
concealed his real designs, and that, in
consequence, their letters of approbation
had been extorted from them under false
pretences. They condemned the rigors of
the Spanish Inquisition in the strongest
terms, established a Court of Appeal in
Rome, whither the aggrieved might find
redress, and directed all their efforts to
wards weakening its powers in order to
pave the way for its final abolition.
Ferdinand and Isabella paid no heed to
the protestations of the Sovereign Pontiffs.
The institution was popular in Spain, and
the lower orders were, especially, in favor
of the use which was made of it by the
Government. To visit upon a Jew or a
Moor the severest penalties that refined
cruelty could invent, was, in their eyes, a
praiseworthy act, for it tended to preserve
intact the Castillian race, and present that
admixture of impure blood which their
souls abhorred. To enact laws, the policy
of which was to crush the power of the
Clergy and nobility, could not but gain
their assent, for they saw in it a semblance
of satisfaction, given them for the oppres
sion which they had endured for a long
time previous. What did it matter to
them, that the Inquisition served to con
solidate the absolutism of Princes? It was,
as far as they were concerned, a National
institution, the principle and practice of
which were in perfect harmony with this
jealousy and hatred. Thus, the Inquisition
reposed upon a solid footing, arid daily ex
tended the limits of its range, notwith
standing the rigorous opposition which it
encountered from the Sovereign Pontiff’s.
Scarcely anything intervened to correct its
progress in Castile, and, in a short space
of time, it cast its roots deep into the soil.
Not so in Aragon. Here it was unpopular,
and, though it came afterwards to be
tolerated, still it met with vigorous resist
ance for many years. The sentiment of
this people was opposed to absolutism iu
a Monarchy, and, carrying out their con
sistency, they resisted, as far as in them
lay, the introduction of the Royal Inquisi
tion.
These remarks which we have made
touching the political character of the In
quisition, repose not upon private views,
but upon tire undeniable evidence of facts.
And here it may be well to make a few
quotations from works which have a bear
ing on the subject iu question. We quote
from authors who are Protestant, in order
that their testimony may have more weight
with those of the same persuasion.
Ranke says. “If I do not mistake, it is
evident that the Inquisition was a Royal
Tribunal, provided with Spiritual arms.
At first, the Inquisitors were Royal func
tionaries. The Kings had the right to
make them and unmake them. The Tri
bunals of tho Inquisitors were, after the
manner of other authorities, subjected to
Royal visits; and, very often, the Officers
of these Tribunals were members of the
Supreme Tribunal of Castile. Cardinal
Ximines hesitated to admit into the
Council of the Inquisition a Laic nominated
by Ferdinand, the Catholic. ‘Do you not
know,’ said the Prince, ‘that if this Coun
cil has jurisdiction, it holds it from the
King V In the second place, the revenues
proceeding from confiscation pronounced
by this Tribunal, were returned to the
Royal treasury. In the third place, the
Inquisition was a kind of supplement to the
power of the State, for it placed in the
hands of the King ajurisdiction from which
no one, Noble or Bishop, could escape.
* * Thus, judging from its spirit and
scope, it was, before all, a political institu
tion.' 1 ' 1
Henry Leo, in his Universal History,
says; “Isabella managed to bend to her
yoke the Nobility and Clergy of Castile
by the authority of the Inquisition, a Re
ligious Institution completely dependent
upon the Crown , and sometimes directed
both against Laymen and Clergy.”
Guizot says, in Mis “Course of Modern
History” ; “The Inquisition was, at first,
more Political than Religious, and destined
to maintain the public order ratW
defend the Faith.” n th^
These conclusions accord with •
recherches of the Spanish authors. InVio'
the Cortes assembled in the Isle of [1 ”
and appointed a Committee to examine?'
subject of the Inquisition. Shortly a f?
an expose of the origin and development* f
this Tribunal was drawn out, and it
proposed that it should be abolished in ?
Kingdom of Spain. The following are T
words of the document: “The first In ?
sitors opposed heresy by prayer, patien ‘
and instruction. Philip 11, the most al’
surd of Princes, was the real founder of th
Inquisition. It was his refined polk*
which brought it to such a high degree '!■
development. * * * The Kings hav
absolute power in nominating, suspendh '
or dismissing the Inquisitors.”*
But why multiply quotations? Tho-'
which we have already adduced are sntii?
cient to prove that our position is Eo .
founded upon pre-conceived kleas, but
upon the testimony of authorities w] u , s> !
veracity on this point is not likely to }...
called in question.
We affirm, then, that the Spanish Inqni
sition was essentially political, and that it'
excesses cannot, therefore, be imputed t„
the Church. This is the verdict of ffi s
tory, properly so called, and the inevitable
conclusion of an inquiry, conducted in th.
spirit of impartiality and truth.
♦Rapport sur le Tribunal de [’lnquisition (Vi ,
1812. '
Translated tor the Banner of the South, from a Free '
Almanac published in 1840.
PROPHECY
On the Succession of Popes, until, the
end of the World. Number of p
to come before this Epoch .
I have had in my possession for more
than thirty years, an old volume printed
in 1727, which contains a prophecy in
reference to all the Popes to come; it is
attributed to St Malachy,. Archbishop of
Armagh, in Ireland, who lived in 1121,
and died in 1148, at the Abbey of Clair
vaux, in the arms of St. Bernard, his in
timate friend. The prophecy commenced
with Pope Celestin 11, elected Pope on
the 25th of Sept., 1143, and ends with
the last, who will be named Peter 11.
Several writers have contested tbeau
then tic iy of this piece, which they pretend
is imaginary. I will not enter into any
details on this subject, but translate this
article exactly as 1 possess it, because it
seems to me curious and interesting.
Each of the numerous Pontiis of
whom it makes mention is designated by
a prophetic symbol written in Latin, which
am cuuces what . e will be. We will
commence this series at Pius VI, of whoa
the symbol is 11 Peregrinus Apostoiicus,"
(the Apostolic Pilgrim,) a prophecy veri
fied by the event, since the Pope made a
voyage to Germany expressly for the and
-of the Church and the Apostolic
Chair, and he died, exiled, at Vienna, in
Dauphiny, 1799. Pius \ 7 1, "Aquila
Rapay ,” (rapacious eagle. This pro
phecy is again verified to the letter, in
whatever manner we interpret it On
one side, Napoleon, the eagle, with out
spread wings, victorious over the whole of
Europe, carried off the Holy rather a:.!
conducted him prisoner to Savone and
Fontainbleau, after having deprived him
of his States and declaring himself King
of Italy. On the other side, the sami
Pius YII, sanctioned in his Concordat
passed with Bonapate in 1801, tt
spoliation of the French Church, whose
property had been sc Id in the Revolu
tion of 1789. Each one may interpret
his own way the following symbols:
Pius VI. “JFeregrinus Apostolicns' ’ —ApofltoJc Pi*
grim. _ ,
Pius VII. “Aquila Rapay”— Rapa,uoru>
jAiO XII. “Canis ei Serpana” —Dog a-d
symbols of FideUty and Prudjnc*'.
Pius VIII. “ Fir Religious”— Religions ,
Gregory XVI. “do Hainan EU-una —From
of Tuscany.
THESE ARE FOR THE DOZEN WHO ARi STILL TO
I. "Crux de Cruce”—^ Cross of the Cross.
11. “Lumen in cwlo” —Light in Heaven.
111. “Ignis Ardens”— Ardent Firo ,
IV. “Keligio Depopulata”— Rtligi'Ui Dtp c T'-.-r.. •
Y. “Rules Jntrej/ida” —lntrepid Faith.
VI. “Fastor Ang'llicus” —Angelic Pastor.
VII. “Fastor tt yanta”— Sheperd and •
VIII. “Flosfiorum” —Flower of Fkxwere.
IX. “De Medietate lunm”— Half or aiiadk
Moon. v. v -snap of tke
X. “De labore Solis”— The Work or übp*
SU xi. “De Gloria Olivia”—Glory of the o*ve
This prophecy, written in Latin,
lowing the usage of the times isce -
these terms:
“In persecutione extrema roman* 4
clesia, sedebit Petrus Roinanu«, q u! U
cet oves in multus tribu!ationh ) ’ I ‘\y _
bus transactis, civitas septicoidi '- 1 -
tur, et judex tremendus/udicaA 1 •
lu in.
TRANSLATION OK THK -AT |
“Id the last persecution oi t:
lioman Church there will be a
Roman, who will be named ' * .
no other Pope ever
name through respect for ot.
of the Church. He will 1 - f f t . !
the Sovereign Pontificate; !lt ‘. ~,j
his flocks amidst great tnbu.anot.- .
when these trying times have pa
City of Seven Hills, (koine > - ( ,
seven hills,) will be > t!
terrible Judge will come tojx =•
world." j