MORE ABOUT BISMARCK.

Western Star, Issue 51, 31 October 1874, Page 5

MORE ABOUT BISMARCK.

... > to mb boitou. ~ Sr a, —Permit through fch» columns of -vour paper,“to-offiertvvo or. thfee. remarks which I believe would naturally, ©.Gpur to the; mind of a candid reader, after reading the account of an attempt to assassinate Prince Bismarck, giren in in the STAJtof October ii>, an! also the set-off in the following week’s issue, cm nuacato I by Mr D. M. Cameron.„■ . . - _ - I Now., the first, thing that suggasted iiself to n*y mini was the fact—that tlia .author of article produced by Mr Cameron, ain comm >n .with those ;who are seeking to give it publicity, are seeking to hiie certain important truths r The -whole affair look* ' to be .a clumsilycontrived blind —a. mere apron of fig-leaves. According to this.concocted version no plot, was laid to take the life of the Prince. The matter was a sham got up by Bismarck’s party' to damage-the Church. ' Furtlntr on we it ad-mitted-by the Ultramontane papers of Germany that the buck shot that Kuhnan fired struck deep into their-own cause. Again,,.we have it stated that the man dvvlitvan never orinced any religious fcefiiigs, a statement denied-by the of -his king admission as a member of | toe Association, in another this remarkable sot . off 'the man is t ransformed into.-* Protestant, attempting to shoot his. ‘Prates am- minister, while Kullmau a parents; are; aeon- rating bhe:Oatholio priest for usitg severity towards the., lad in his religuua training; Those . and similar contradictions show the article, puerile and worthless.. What we the facta £hat >■ Mr Cameron is trying to bide front the ; readers of the WfiaißiUif Sii». by ti«fl 1 •>• .. i,

set off. It it the awful truth bo paten to all observing people, that Roma has all but* consummate A her dark career, that Bismarck i * the man who has been energized by the Deity t* destroy the Papacy, as a power. Or is ifc the time-attested tru th that the Catholic Church is always ready to lay the hau l of the assassin on all her opponents that she cannot get rid of by easier means. How natural it is for a wasting church to invent such little stories as those told by Air Cameron’s correspondent, with a view to hi lo what is not fit for the light. Those who have but a limited knowledge of the wheels and the springs of that piece of Roman machinery that has ground into pew ler the liberties of our fathers and their ancestors back, even to 36 generations can fully understand the ease with which a Catholic can be metamorphosizai into a Protestant or a bullet into a wad by the magic : wand of the Jesuit. Is there anything unreason I able in believing that among the numerous I priests and fanatics who infest the continent of Europe there are to be found men sufficiently j vindictive to attempt to take the life of the man j who is working the ruin of their Church. I Can any one who has lifted the dark veil that shrouds the minds of the European worshippers hesitate to believe in the power of the clergy bemg sufficient over the minds of their votaries i to incite them to commit such horrible deeds as ■ the one attempted ? The conclusion to my j mind is Irresistible that such plots are more I frequently laid than discovered. How fortunate i for tnose who delight i« their delusion that there arc two versions of the matter —a church ; version and a public version ; and . how lucky for both parties that both versions arrived in the colonies about the same time, that one has not been able to steal a march of a

month on the other. Bat how solemn is the truth that neither party cau discern that the drift %'f events as now transpiring on the Continent of Europe are guided by an unseen and unerring hand for the speedy accomplishment of his own purposes and his people’s good. And that mm like Bismarck are not allowed to run riot in the earth independent of a divine commission. That Bismarck is a destroyer we doubt, and so wore Alahomet, Alayic, and Iwapoleon. That the Protestant papers of Germany, the natural rivals of the Catholics arc beginning to sympathise with the spoiled, it is not to be wondered at in the lijrht of thoir common origin and destiny. The Protestants of Germany cannot afford to see the mother church altogether exterminated, noither Jo they wish it, lest the baud that destroys the one should grasp the main piilars of the other also. The utmost he can wish i, to ace the Catholic Church brought to a level a little below their own. This desire has its origin rather in the hearts of the people than in the religion they profess. The same spirit we see manifested in every phase and form of human society.- The Woman Catholic Church like the groat Temple of liagon, and migious superstitions in general eloo-i un two main pillars, the powers of Austria and France, or the first and second snas-of the church. When the winding up of the prophetic period 1260 it row near. The time allots 1 for the dowatreading of the truth by the man having “eyes and a mouth” speaking, great things, and blasphemies,” Ban. A power unforeseen by politicians, was .rapidly developed into the’ consolidated German Empire, which in a series of successful engagements effectually brokathe power of Am tru. And at a laterdate by the •vents of the Franco-Prussian War, the military power of France lay also bleeding at her feet,' Had not those pillars been broken the Papacy could not, have been easily overturned. The superiority of the Heretical Prussians opened the eyes of. the intelligence of the Austrians who, had trusted for their defence, in the intercessions of the Virgin and the Saints. He saw, or thought they saw in the superior education of. needle guns of the Prussians a more effectual means of , defence than in all their oft repeated catechisms, confessions and prayers, this awakened in the Empire of Austria, a spirit of enquiring that his 5 since caused a great reaction in. the religious; opinions of the people calculated only to destroy the power o f the Pope. —1 am, &c., | . . Wit* Roberts.