THE PERSECUTION IN PRUSSIA.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 18, 30 August 1873, Page 12

THE PERSECUTION IN PRUSSIA.

GERMAN- AMERICAN PROTESTS. Our Catholic German brothers in the true faith in New Orleans, in Cincinnati and in Philadelphia, have held meetings protesting againßt the impious and tyrannical measures of the Imperial Government of Germany in regard to the clergy and the Church, and sympathising with the persecuted Catholics of Germany. ° The ' London Tablet' says that perhaps the moat striking pro* test which the persecution in Germany has hitherto elicited is recorded by the American correspondent of the ' Times,' writing from Philadelphia on the 26th March. On the night of the 25th, the German Catliolics of the State of Pennsylvania held a meeting in tbe Academy of Philadelphia, "which is the largest public hall in tl>e United States." Three Bishops and a multitude of the clergy took part in the proceedings, which wore " conducted mainly in the German language," and the chairman, a German layman, was *• assisted by nearly one hundred Vice- Presidents and Secretaries." The hall will seat more than three thousand persons, and " was filled to repletion.** Nothing could exceed the vigor of the resolutions nor the enthusiasm with which they were adopted by these German-American Republican. One of the resolutions declares that " the Imperial Government of Germany has mo3t injuriously encroached upon the rights of the Catholic Church by arbitrarily banishing the members of the Society of Jesus. Another resolution applauds " tbe bearing of the German episcopacy towards a persecuting Government." Finally, "tbe meeting declares that the German Catholics of Philadelphia, as free men and zealous Catholics, sympathise with Germany's truest sons and most faithful citizens, now suffering under an injustice unworthy of a civilised State." Such is the message which America sends to Prince Bismarck and his royal confederate, and we are not surprised to learn, from the correspondent of the ' Times,' that " the meeting has made a profound impression."