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Show N3(.R. DUPASLOl'P AND HONS. (IAMCETTA. Catl.ollclKiu vtnm Sorlallim, Editors JUmhl: These two I'renuli jicrs-jiiagea are now placed, as it wen at the aDtipodes of the moral world. The former is the Uoman Catholic bishop of Orleans a most excellent writer, an influential member of the French academy, and a deputy of Loiret in (lie national assembly. as-sembly. Every reader of the Herald i1: more or less acquainted will) Mons. Gambetla, qh the leading niCHilier of the provisional government, or rather the bold dictator who, after llie iro-mendous iro-mendous fall of Louis Napoleon, assumed as-sumed tho responsibility of defending France against the Herman invasion. He is now the representative of the Commune, one of the nioL radical members of the national assembly; and Msgr. Ihipanioup is a conservative conserva-tive one. Henco the personal animosity animos-ity which exists between these two political po-litical opponents. In a speech to the electors of Saint Quentin, Mons. Gambetla laving portrayed por-trayed his own views on I he a flairs of , France, llie learned bishop has sent lo : the ex-dictator an answer which is oivalins a great sensation in Kurope. This letter i.s a master-piece of classic literature. After having recalled that Mons. Uambetta speaks as though the ex -dictator will be to-morrow tbe master, mas-ter, Msgr. l iupanloup adds that he will pass his opponent's policy over in silence, si-lence, but that, as a bishop, he has the right to call him to account for (he war he has declared against religion. Ou the famous passage of Mons. Gambeita's discourse : "What I have done in ihi pa.-t is the true criterion of what I will do in tin; future," the prelate asks: "What, then have you douein the past?" He then masterly relates how this young lawyer ha3 been speedily transformed by the course of political events into the supreme arbitrator arbi-trator of France; and how he made a bad use of his power in appointing all his friends, a set of demagogues, to the highest offices. "Then," he says, "when your fellow mini.stcrs had, to extriealc themselves, the signal weakness weak-ness of hurling you upon France, when the chance of events had suddenly committed to you tins magniflcent part which could be unparalleled in the hands of a hero aud true patriot, what have you done? You have more attempted at-tempted to impose the republican form of government your own republic than I o save Franco. Why do you invoke in-voke universal suffrage ? It has been of no value for you. By a first decree de-cree you dissolved the general councils coun-cils without nomiuating a substitute substi-tute for ihem. liy a second decree you adjourned Ihe elections. liy a third decree you have mutilated the rights of election, Everywhere obeyed, sole master of a people who has lavished upon you its money, its children-, its blood, what have you done with this? Is it not a republican himself who "has called your disastrous power tho dictatorship of incapacity?" "After three months you were almost al-most as heavy upon us as the empire; j and when you assert that the National ; Assembly lias now fulfilled its task which consisted in ending the war, you forget that this assembly 1ms received from France three mandates, and not a single one. It was intrusted with the power of of rescuing the country from the Prussians, from the demagogues dema-gogues and from you." The above and a few other quotations quota-tions will give to yoni' readers an idea : of the lively style of the Catholic champion, iiut it is impossible to reproduce re-produce in a mere translation the transcendent beauties of the original, and, above all things, the unconquerable unconquera-ble strength of his arguments against the revolutionary theories of Mons. Gambetta. In a general programme on naiional education lo be given In the children in the primary and secondary second-ary schools, the ex-dictator asserted that this instruction must be gratuitous gratuit-ous and obligatory. In a few words, here is this programme: "It is a prolix and variegated programme, pro-gramme, in such a manuor that instead in-stead of a mutilated science, the whole truth will be taught to the man, and that any thing which can enter into the human mind shall never be concealed from him." " Jh omnire su'ldli! (Any tiling that can be taught.) It is marvellous. You have apparently the power of creating spirits fit for such an encyclopedia. You can perform such wonders!" Msgr. i)ujianloup adds: "So, it is a gratuitous, obligatory and secular education, ed-ucation, and besides integral for all minds and perfect till imposibility. This is the formula of Socialism, and it ia also tho formula of nonsense. Then you must not only miss Cod and Providence from your schools, hut you must oppose and extirpate from every mind the very idea of Providence, and finally you must impose on the French youth a national education without religion, re-ligion, and a morality without Cod." "Very well, but 1 will tell the result of such an education. Instead of producing pro-ducing men it will create monsters, a learned barbarism armed with every means of destruction, the barbarism of the heart and of morals; in a word, what we have seen during the reign of the Commune, young men and young girls from eighteen to twenty-two years old, ruling and burning Paris." Every man acquainted with llie lus-toryof lus-toryof France knows that during twelve centuries it was pre-eminently a Roman Ro-man Catholic nation. The kings of France were called "the eldest sona of the church." The holy inquisition and athou.sand other institutions, or historical histor-ical facts, have been the natural fruit of the Catholic faith during the iron age of its power. The French revolution of 1 TS9, caused by the works of Voltaire, Diderot, d' Alembcrl, dean Jacques liousscau, and other philosophical writers, was a violent protestation against Catholicism. It was, in a word , the bloody pi otcstat ion of atheism against twelve centuries of tyrannical tyr-annical priestly and kingly oppression. The guillotine and iis concomitant horrors were the natural fruit of the volcanic revolutionary explosion. I The moral foundations of the old French monarchy were so completely destroyed by this lirst revolution, that every other attempt of permanent royal or imperial restoration has been futiie. Since V.i, sixteen different forms of government and fourteen political constitutions con-stitutions h:ivc successively-perished in France. ThU simple tact is a fair demonstration that, henceforth, no form whatever of government can take root in that country. The recent iiuiQii'e.-t of Msgr. P'J-panloup P'J-panloup against Mons. Cambetta's programme is merely an episode of the la;i battle between socialism and Catholicism. Cath-olicism. What will be the final result? The Commune contitutes in the past the ultimate term of the French revc anion. "ow, judging the future by the past, 1 humbly say, that Paris will 1 be burnt and that the l.v-t vestiges of It oman Catholicism wiil be dejUiiyed . in Franr1-1 by the next Commune. JiOl'IS A. BfJlTRANT. |