The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-22 00:00:00

4d.
STAEIPED sd.

army. General Scott, who inaugurated the civil
war, was a Virginian. Commander Dahlgren, from
whom the gun is named, is a Southerner. Captain
Winslow, who fought and sunk the Alabama in the
British Channel, is a North Carolinian. Major
Anderson, who performed such distinguished ser-
vice at Fort Sumter, is a Kentuckian. General
Fremont, the first in the conflict to strike at slavery,
is a native of South Carolina. In 1856 be was
nominated by the Free Soil party for President.
Ile was well qualified for the office, and would have
prevented the slaveholders from causing so much ruin
had he then been elected. Admiral Farragut, who
has been so honoured by several of the Cabinets of
Europe, is a native of Louisiana, and the Martyr-
President, the great emancipator, Lincoln, was a
Kentuckian. Judge bolt, the Advocate-General,
is also a Kentuckian.

These facts show how hearty and thorough is the
co-operation of Northerners and Southerners when
prejudice is banished from the mind. Virginia is
said to be the mother of Presidents. It has also
been the mother of a large number of anti-slavery
reformers. I will just add that in the Western
States of America there are settlements distinguished
for their anti-slavery vigour and zeal. Sometimes
the entire county, as Putnam county, Illinois, is
pervaded with this spirit. It will be found that
these settlements were formed by self-expatriated
Southerners, who from their abhorrence of slavery
left the South ; and as they broke up the ground
and planted the first seed in their new possessions,
took care to create a public opinion which should
be the best defence against the aggressions of the
slaveholders. They are well represented by John
Van Trompe, of Ohio, in " Uncle Tom's Cabin,"
who, it will be remembered, was a Kentuckian.

THE BISHOP OF ORLEANS ON THE
INVASION OF ROME.

The Bishop of Orleans has just published, as a
postscript to his letter to Signor Rattazzi, a most
powerful statement as to the duty which compels
the Emperor not to violate his public engagements
to the Pope, to France, and to Europe. Mgr. Du-
panloup sets forth facts which prove the complicity
of the Italian Government in the Garibaldian in-
vasion of the Roman territory, and he contrasts
Italian treachery with the fidelity of the Roman
people. lie speaks of an organized treachery, such
as never yet has been seen, and which seems
incredible of revolutionary audacity and insolence
—of the weakness and complicity of the Italian
Government—of its forgetfulness of honour—of
the violation of its sworn faith—of the insult
offered to all that men hold sacred—of the contempt
finally shown towards France. Such, he says, is
the spectacle which Italy at this moment presents.
The fugitive bands, he continues, received on
the frontier by the soldiers of Victor Emmanuel,
are becoming more numerous. At Nerni, and at
Terni, they are armed, they are paid, and allowed
again to cross the frontier. Italian bersaglieri, dis-
guised in red shirts, are among them. They are
led by Piedmontese officers : and, in the meantime,
your journals renew their desperate efforts to
kindle insurrection in Italy, in the Papal provinces,
and especially in Rome. At Turin, the Garibaldian
correspondent of the DJbats writes that the Gazette
du Peuple has opened a subscription to give 100
francs to every man who will join the bands. And
then on the morrow you speak of the irresistible
national movement, and on the necessity of flying
to the succour of the Holy Father ; the impudent
falsehoods of Chamb6ry are renewed ; France has
already once been deceived ; and it is hoped to de-
ceive her again. What does M. Rattazzi care for
the honour of France and of its Government? The
invasion will take place, and we shall see if M. La
Marmora will be content to be the rival of the sin-
gular hero who boasted of having dispersed the
Papal hordes, and will slay, as at Castelficlardo, if
they resist., the 3,000 men who protect the Roman
provinces. It is of such a day as that the Diritto
speaks about this very morning, when it says : it
will be the day of our greatest glory.

And yet the Emperor has declared, has sworn
to France, to Italy, to the Holy Father, to Europe
—I recite the words of these declarations textually,
that : The Temporal Power cannot be destroyed :
The Pope must be his own master at home :
" The Prince who led back the Holy Father to the
Vatican wills that the supreme Head of the Church
should be respected in all his rights as temporal
sovereign." Never will France sacrifice him. The
maintenance of the Papal position is written on
our flag. It is an essential condition of his spiritual
independence. The Emperor has meditated on this
before God ; and his well-known wisdom, energy,
and loyalty will never be wanting either to religion
or to the country. " All our acts, all our declara-
tions agree in attesting our firm and constant will
to maintain the Pope in possession of that part of
his states which the presence of our flag has
secured to him. Abandon Rome ! Forget the
policy followed by France for centuries ! No, that
is not possible.
After quoting in such a pointed manner the
wc.rds of the Emperor, and the official declarations
of his Government, and pointing out what duty
and honour demands, the Bishop of Orleans says
that if Italy invades the Papal provinces under any
pretext whatsoever, a dispatch—but this time not
equivocal, as was that former one of the Due de
Gramont—must on the instant be despatched from
Paris. Of vain protests after accomplished there
have already been too many ; there must be no
more ; nobody is deceived by them. France may
rise up and say to its G overnment : You have de-
ceived me. The Legislative Body may say : You
have deceived me. The Pope and the Church and
the Catholic Powers in their turn may say : You
have deceived us. Yes, if the temporal power of
the Pope succumbs we are responsible ; it will be
Italy's crime, but ours also. Such will be the
sentence of inexorable history. One thing only
has to be done : M. Rattazzi must be told that he
cannot go to Rome unless he first passes over our
bodies. Otherwise we are dishonoured. The Pope
overthrown, Piedmont at Rome, the Papacy wan-
dering and fugitive, or, in spite of the falsehoods
which are to be practised on us, a subject and
prisoner of Victor Emmanuel ; our occupation of
eighteen years annihilated, the temporal policy of
France trodden under foot, and all our words, all
our declarations, all our promises, all that we have
said so often and so solemnly to France, to Italy,
to the Pope, to Europe, repudiated and cast to the
winds ; our greatest national, social, and religious
interests delivered up and betrayed ; and, finally,
the just maledictions of the Catholic world, and
the execration of the future upon such a work and
upon us. Were we to believe that we have here,
in the presence of such indignities, no other right,
no other duty, no other honour than to look on at
what is doing, and, finally, to say with Pilate, " I
wash my hands of it." Were Italy, alas, able to
inflict such an indignity on our country, I confess
that I would for a moment blush at being a French-
man ; and whoever thinks otherwise I declare lie
has no French blood in his veins. Do not be asto-
nished at the warmth of my words; for I am
speaking "of that which," the Emperor himself
has declared, " men have most at heart, of that
which is most sacred."
Let it besides be well known, the Catholic con-
science is here inexorable ; and from the day when
the Pope is overthrown, an unceasing reaction
will set in against the Italian Revolution through-
out the entire Christian world. Not long since
in noble language, the Emperor spoke of dark
spots on the horizon and of passing reverses. Here
the darkness is toolo, and the reverse would
not be passing. he misfortunes of the Pope
would cast too funereal a shadow over our star.
No, the fall of the Pope cannot become the pendant
to the fall of Maximilian !

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