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been for so many ages the blood-stained bulwark of Europe,
the indefatigable ally of France. Nothing has been of any
use. Nothing has been able to overcome the inattention,
the shameful unconcern, the sluggish indifference, and ob-
stinate improvidence of contemporary Europe. She does
nos even wish to hear more of the worn-out, interdicted
subject, she wished to forget it, to drive it from her thoughts,
to avert from it her eyes, which are weary in the pursuit of
gain and pleasure. The question is cut short, the Times
has recalled its correspondents ; the curtain has dropped-
Let us change the subject.

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r?eunatennatu
The most compassionate, the most generous do as Agar
did, who withdrew weeping that she might not witness the
agony of her son dying with thirst in the desert. "Et abfit
seixtq
illeprruetntes.,t, arcus je.cere ;
But lo I from the midst of this frigid silence, of this uni-
ddiiteuneim e :
regionsNonolePbrociemu ol
uni-
versal indifference, one voice, and one alone, is lifted up in
answer to the cry of Poland in her agony. It is the voice
of religion, a voice plaintive, indignant, immortal. He has
spoken, who is in the eyes of all, whether friends or foes,
whether believers or unbelievers, the highest personification
of religion in the world. The Vicar of Jesus Christ, the
Son, who died for men upon the Cross, has spoken in behalf
of the sacrified nation. An appeal which is eloquence itself
has burst in waves hurrying and breaking one upon another,
from the depth of that noble heart, the heart of Pius IX.,
the man and the Pontiff, whose indignation and piety have
overflowed together. His is no bed of roses who makes it
his business to plead for the Catholic cause at the present
day. He must be resigned to sadness of every kind, he must
expect not only outrages and contempt from without, but
wretchedness and darkness from within, " foris pugnto intus
timores." We are all called upon, both great and small, to
endure the disappointments, the failures, the defections, the
depression, the melancholy discomfitures which are equally
the lot of the most humble soldier and of the most august
representative of truth. But on the other hand, when ever
and anon truth and justice blaze forth, as lightning does
in the darkness of night, borrowing the supernatural
strength and authority of religion, what joy beyond com-
pare is kindled in the soul of the true believer, into what
transports of gratitude do Christians break forth I New
Italy, or, to speak more correctly, Piedmont, aggrandised
by proceedings which bear too close an
analogy to those of
the spoilers of Poland, barely tries to feign or to affect a
cold and wordy sympathy for the great victim of that spirit
of usurpation of conquest of which the Piedmontese king-
dom has become the most guilty personification in Europe.
At heart, and in truth, all its sympathies are on the side of
Russia. who quickly recognised in the Italy of Victor
Emmanuel the ally and imitator of her wicked and plunder-
ing policy, and they who are best informed upon the sub-
ject see in the Roman question the point of unity between
St. Petersburg and Turin, The self eityled Liberal Govern-
ment which has stolen the secular patrimony of the Pope,
which day by day is throwing bishops and cardinals into
prison, which is suppressing religious order in order to con-
fiscate their patrimonies and to profane their sanctuaries,
cannot possibly assist or love, or even understand Poland :
Garibaldi, who has just displayed at London a certain sym-
pathy with the Polish cause, was acting much more in cha-
racter and according to his nature, when he wrote in his
address to the Poles on the 28th December, 1863—" Cease
to give to your heroic struggle a religious character ; it is
depriving you of sympathy, and provoking a fierce reac-
tion against you." It is the weakest, the worst armed of
European Sovereigns who alone has done his duty, who
alone has fulfilled the expectations of generous hearts, and
listened to the voice of justice and of pity. This most feeble
among Sovereigns is the head of our religion, the father of
our souls I It is he who is affordi▪
ng us at this moment the
sublime and comforting sight of a protest by the weak
against the mighty, by justice against iniquity, by truth
against falsehood. By thus pleadi▪
ng for Poland Pius IX.
has, without perhaps intending or thi▪
nking of it, laid before
the world the strongest argument in favour of the temporal
power of the Papacy. Never has it been more clearly proved
that sovereignty is necessary for its perfect independence.
In what other way I should like to know can his authority
be rendered free and supreme as it must be before us, as it
must be in the interest of that justice and truth of which he
is our impersonification ? Can you imagine a Pope a subject
or a paid vassal of the King of Italy; can you imagine him
making use of this spirited and generous language in pre-
sence of a master who is the ally or the accomplice of the
oppressor who is to be denounced, of the traitor who is to Le
unveilled. * I believe 1 may fairly say, sincerely and
calmly, that on the 24th of last April Pope Pius IX, wrote
one of the most beautiful pages in the glorious history of the
Vicar of Jesus Christ. As a Catholic and as a man I humbly
thank him for having paid this honour to our faith and to
his own divine authority. I thank him for having shown a
heart full of courage and of pity—of what, in other words,
the kings, and to speak plainly the men of our time, are
most wanting in. They are not malicious, or at least not so
bad as they are sometimes represented to be ; but they have
neither courage]sgainst the odious triumphs of evil, nor pity
for their victims. Pius IX. follows the glorious footsteps of
that great man, Pope Clement XIII., who in the 18th cen-
tury was the only potentate in Europe who protested against
the despoilers of Poland, while Voltaire, we cannot too often
repeat it, encouraged and flattered them with all the refine.'
ments of a base adulation, and all the paroxysms of impla-
cable rage against the Catholic nation, which it was their
object to blot out from the land of the living. Pope Pius
IX. renews. besides, and confirms the noble attitude of
Gregory XVI., the first among the sovereigns of the
19th century who knew how to make head against the
Emperor Nicholas, and the only one who reminded him,
by his Allocution in 1842, and in a memorable interview of
his duty towards the Poles—Pin •
s Ix, is, in fact, only per-
severing in the course on which he entered long ago, the
glorious stages of which he has already marked out in his
Allocution of the 6th of March,
.1863, relating to the pre-
conisation of Poliah Bishops ;in his letter of the 22d of
April, 1863, to Alexander the 2d; and, lastly, in his pre-
cepts relating to the procession of the' 31st of August, in
behalf of unhappy Poland. History will, to the latest ge-
nerations, recur with emotion to these noble efforts of the
greatest moral power under the sun. No sophistry, no
falsehood, no ingratitude will succeed in obliterating from
the memory of man this striking contrast between (the in-
trepid and, enduring sympathy of he Popes for an op-
pressed nation, and the desertion, the shameful or the hos-
tile indifference which she has met with at the hands of the
philosophers of the 18th century, and the politicians of
the 19th. * * * * Poland has never subverted a le-
gitimate [or national Power, or invaded a neighbouring
country. She stands, perhaps, alone in the history of the
world as a people that has never made an attempt against
the person of a king. At the very time when France was
allowing the great revolution of 1789 to end in the Reign
of Terror, Poland by virtue of its constiution of the 3d of
May, 1791, was anticipating, or was actually attaining by
the establishment of a hereditary and (parliamentary mo-
narchy, the results which had been arrived at by the pain-
ful experience of the most enlightened nations. It is not
the creation or recognition of a new
nationality in Poland,
but it is one of the oldest and most indelible nationalities
of Europe that is in question, one that has never ceased to
j
exist de facto or de ure, and that demands the restoration
of her confiscated independence with invincible deter-
mination. As for religion I On this subject the Pope,
who is the head and the supreme judge of the religious
interests of Catholic Christendom, is at once the most
competent and irrefutable witness. It is known that he has
received from the most authentic sources a mass of particu.
lars which are of most grave and serious import, showing
that a plan for decatholicisiog Poland has been followed for
a length of time. Hence this cry from the inmost depths of
his soul, which has moved and astounded Europe. But,
apart from these details, which he is doubtless reserving for
publication,
the whole world is informed, and no one can
any longer pretend ignorance of the daily
assaults made
upon the national religion of the
Poles; of how their
churches are closed or profaned ; their monasteries violated
or confiscated ; their priests carried off or hung ; their
bishops imprisoned, exiled, and even deprived of their
spiritual functions by the Autocrat; of
how millions of
Lithuanian peasants h 0,3 been driven by violence into
schism, as was the case with millions of Rythianian peasants
under Catherine II.; in a word, of all the sacrileges and all
the persecutions which have been announced on unexcep-
tionable evidence of the highest character as coming hence-
forward upon Europe and upon history. While reading the
generous words which flowed spontaneously from Pius IX.,
one is naturally led to call to mi▪
nd the famous harangue of
his predecessor, Urban 11, at the. Council of Clermont,
i
when, by the bare recital of the injuries inflicted upon the
Christians in the Holy Land, he ki▪
ndled in the hearts of
the French who heard him a flame which was destined to
spread over the whole of the West, and to be the origin of
the first crusade. The soul of the Papacy remains even
then the same! But what a contrast between the Europe
of that time and the Europe of thi▪ s I What a fall, what a
disgrace for the civilization of the present day, for Europe
in general, and
for each country in particular. I am in.
deed more anxious than I can express not to be confounded
with the systematic detractors of modern society, which I
believe to p
possess many virtues as well as many wretched
faults, and to be essentially capable of improvement and
transfcrmation. But it is impossible. to overlook the fact
that its moral sense has greatly decloied, that the human
heart has become greatly chilled, and that there is Much
less of that nice feeling of honour, and of that solidarity
among nations which in former times went to make up
Christendom.
A whole generation, perhaps two o will go down into the
grave beneath the blows of the piti▪ less victor, without hay-
limpse of the day of deliverance. Already
ing caught a g
another is springing up which again will be succeeded by
others who will consummate the same sacrifices, undergo
the same penalties, and astonish the world by the same pro-
digies of valour and endurance, The inspired promise of
the Prophet-King kindles in them a solemn hope ; God will
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