A RELAPSE TO BARBARISM.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 48, 26 March 1886, Page 18

A RELAPSE TO BARBARISM.

_ , . (Catholic Review.) TSLmT^L ° f fK the «, negr .° murderer at the stake at Gainesville, iSS\» L« JhT •#' 2 ai ? *° (IiBCOOM K« th ose who have beeu inclined tosee that civilisation has made some progress in the old. intensely Protestant, slave States. The punishment of death by «H™ifJ^^ °- !t h * di»ppeared long ago from the statute books 527 £f£ # B §"° *? d if 6W E , DBlandD B land & a ™ it up nearly at the same ?C n^n^?^ 111 h i eld °°? Uttle lou * er fc ban New England, but 2^J .* P -i? c T" 1 P an ; Bhment was inflicted forarealTy indicted crime, a tangible offence, after a regular trial and conviction, while £J*?Z « n B la ad »t was sometimes, as in the case of the witches, S. Jor * wholly imaginary offence. Scotland, perhaps, is iJa llSv eC^L Of l bei ?? tl l e 1&8t Coantr y in which witchcraft Sprit? P 00 "^ °y the burning to death of the supposed *ttJ\hl w that niany were burnt to death in New York city long Bakm rS«.?* » Wltc ]! eß . had ended her misery in flames at v £ f Wenty ° r tb , lrty negro<33 WQO were roaßt ed to death „»? v I ' alm ° 8t e L xactly °PP oßit * present site of Harper's &S&y& bOaße ' Were -, the Victims of an anti-Catholic excitement. Whether they were guilty or not of a conspiracy to rise against the whies,t was believed by many of the whites that "Jesuits" had "S^k 10 Wn> *■ , Y hat 8tu P idi^> »°t to tay brutally/can oe S^.^ Peo.PleP eo .P le labouring under the fear of the « Jesuits "is fe a omVworip 8 B?n. the blg ° tS ° f *™ YOTk - -gard to the Bnt the two hundred Alabamians who the other day burnt the SEE 5"p"7 to ft*' J?" 1 aot the excaße either of the old! S Rn^ if Ji v ?l d NeW York bigot8 ' whl) thou g h t that the Pope of Borne had hired the negroes to kill them in their beds, so that be SLnWhi - g ?, of X . CardlQals »W* come over here to rule. And despicable as is the bigotry of those modern New York anti- Catholics I. LT?* ccd ° m ° f «Worßhip« WorBhip in P ublic institutions, there j£ nevertheless the excuse of good intention, even though originating in arrant self-conceit aud wooden-headed stupidity s g The Alabamians who burnt the negro murderer had not the 2SSV* f hg ,V° U8 raDCOUr> v Nor could ifc have been «*« honor of murder. For there is do other country in the world where murder is s , frequent as lt the United g and part of the United States where life is taken with less provocation than in that region extending along the Atlantic and the Gulf, from Maryland to Lomsjana, and reaching back almost to the Ohio and EsSpi nvers-a region where the Catholic religion has always made £» Kfrhli h , ani V Dy ° th ? r Part Of th « ReP^lic. Ca^hoHcit? has V° m ? »mpression on a few points, but the great SS?f? tK the shome of negro Slavery in the olden ten £ m the . oden , "breeding-ground" in Virginia to the lowS«T?£S an f T *° d °' ?° utllern Georgia acd Alabama, hL iT^V la ? d to Ibe spread of Catholicity Of SKST 1 " 1 d f'berate murders committed annually in nnm^ X ' I OI1 e c - third *™ committed in that region ; a g f * er ?u fc of relation to its Proportion to the whole £fi£!W f^ ther Crime ***** mar^ cr ' whi^ the negro: 2£E5F^ i ■° f the CrOwd « conf esßed that he had intended to SS! W VMy con)mon ' il iB«d to say, in all parts of the hund^ °Amo,rin h *K b ? rnt t , he De|?ro ' ifc 6 " 8 ' umbered two JjJJ;. 4 mon « all th »t number, no protest, it seems, was made I2L SLS^ g * PU * tlng . t0 death of tne ne « ro ' who » a *ter all, may QflWessed. Alabama rt said to be a growing State. It exDects to with So'S 0 ' af T TS ?« t0 ™c™* settle there fad identify ££st£ with the State. Alabama undoubtedly has good resources ia coal fZSSuZ^, 0 * career , of ««"»»«» prosperity it must endeavor 5r Ilw . lt8 « lf °/ »ts People. Gainesville, Alabama, is an important r »s;%'au^^ ass-