AGAIN THE WHITE NUNS OF PARIS

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue XXVI, 29 July 1871, Page 2

AGAIN THE WHITE NUNS OF PARIS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE INDEPENDENT.

Sir, — I am sure you wish with me that such montrosiiies as are attributed to some nuns of Paris should prove utterly false. At so great a distance from that capital, and difficult as were communications with it, wo must wait for decisive proofs, if indeed people are earnest about the matter. Meanwhile, to keep certain persons from rashly believing the scandal, permit mo to present them eooie remarks through your impartial columns : —

First — It is against all sense to admit a continuance of cruelties having taken place for nine years in a convent, unknown to au inquisitive police, unknown to the parents and friends of the inmates, unknown to the visiting clergy and doctors, at the handa of persons of the gentle sex, refined by education, enjoying public confidence, and, by their profession, devoted to constant deeds of charity. Mind, those cruelties lusted nine years ; the unfortunute victims had to breathe in a deadly atmosphere for nine years, and they are still alive and can walk and pick up fragments of food ! Second — It must be borne in mind that those frightful discoveries were made under and by a government — Heaven, who will call it a government? — a government formed of official wholesale plunderers, murderers, and incendiaries, in a large and unknown seale — a government served by ruffians of almost all European nations, for almost every country brought into it its contingent of wickedness. For instance, what must we think of a minister of justice who must have signed the warrant of execution of what was most elevated, most sacred in Church and State — the eminent Archbishop of Paris and Ml* Bonjean, the illustrious head of the French Magistracy, I have read that the villains made tho same awful discoveries against the little sisters of tho poor ; they the poorest, the most loving of all ; they who never eat except after having fed their friends — the old, sick, and of what is left by them ! Let the world cry against convents ; that will not prevent the wounded soldior, the sick, the docripit old man from calling after the dear nuns, as a child after his mother. If slandered, so much the better for them — for they will have added to their crown the lustre of calumny. — I am, &c, Fair Play.