The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-02 00:00:00

TILE POPE'S ALLOtU2ION.

There is a noted case on record of a Presbyterian
parson having prayed for "the puir Deil ;" perhaps
we may even come at last to hear prayers from
zealous Protestants for " the poor Pope." The " Al-
locution of Pope Pius IX." delivered recently in
Secret Consistory, and now published to the world,
would almost melt the heart of Martin Luther, and
throw into grim derision the wrath of John Knox.
When other people are shaking hands and congra-
tulating each other upon a prosperous year past
and a hopeful year come, when nations are happier
and strifes have ceased, when rational liberty plays
joyfully over many lands, and there is general pro-
, mise of peace and goodwill on earth, there are three
greatexceptions to the general joy. The Hapsburg,
the Bourbon, and the Pope lie mournio,7 in sack-
cloth and ashes. The Pope is the saddest,' of the
three. He goes to his Cardinals in a state of osiLms
tatious helplessness, and, instead of wishing them
" merry Christmases" and " Happy New Years,"
or treating them to new hats all round, he does
nothing but unfold his griefs to them. This sac,
conclave looks out upon the merry world as discon-
tentedly as a colony of rats might peep from behind
a skirting-board upon cats and kittens frolicking
in the fire warmth. While all the rest of the world
is full of joy the hearts of the Pope and his vene-
rable brothers are " full of anguish." Cruel events
have come to pass, and no bounds have yet been
placed to the-great
calamities that are overwhelm-
ing them. It is not that the temporal sovereignty
of the Prince-Priest of Rome has passed away, and
that he is compelled to surround himself by French
bayonets in order to moderate the too affectionate
caresses of his Italian sons. This is a grief which
must be numbered among those recollections of th a
past which fill him with a chronic anguish. Each
day brings with it new sorrows. The case is now
getting so bad that his spiritual dominion threatens
to follow his temporal sovereignty, and he tells his
Cardinals—and with a freedom which passes the
bounds of ingenuousness, and seems to border upon
fatuousness he tells the world—that " the principles
of the disastrous Reformation have acquired almost
the force of public law."
This is almost hauling down the flag. The Pope
is, of Masse, astounded at the phenomenon. Poor,
terrified old Alan, he does not, perhaps, quite be-
lieve what he says. He thinks that he is startling
the world by revealing in an exaggerated form a
very startling profanity when he is simply stating
a very common fact. He recapitulates the
threatening facts which from day to day come
before him and denounces them as symptoms of
deep depravity in the world, and as " contrary to
the liberty of the Church," and " the result of the
false doctrine of Protestants." He sees the Church
of St. Peter filled by Roman citizens making de-
monstrations in favour of annexation to Piedmont,
and lie thinks what wicked men the Roman citizens
must have become. He sees the Baden Concordat
swept away, and he bewails the lapsed faith of the
men of Baden. He looks forth once again. to
France and there he sees another pamphlet as in-
famous and atrocious as that which not long ago
stirred his holy bile, and drew forth irreverend
words from those most reverend lips :—" A most
infamous pamphlet lately published in Paris has
come to add to our sadness. In that publication
there are so many things so completely opposed to
truth, so many absurdities and contradictions com-
bined by the author, that it is more fitting to throw
aside and despise it than to refute it. What is,
however, intolerable is the audacity and impiety of
this writer, who, not having feared to attack the
Civil and Ecclesiastical Principality of the Roman
Church, has endeavoured to contrive a particular
' species of Church, to be founded in the French Em-
pire, and organized so that it should be removed from
the authority of the Sovereign Pontiffand completely
separated from it." This dreadful Protestant sugges-
tion goes to the root of all things. The poor Pope's
head seems to go round as he listens to such unheard-
of absurdities. ,They are actually saying now that
" the Church is a sort of corporation existing in civil
society, enjoying no rights, excepting those which
are granted it by the civil power." We are much
afraid that that is becoming the current notion upon
the subject. But how can this absurdity gain ground
when the Pope is convinced of it as he is of his own
existence that the Church has free power over all
men, without reference to States or civil powers P
He can quote a text for it, and he does quote it in
this Allocution :—" All power has been given to me
in heaven and on earth." Yet hero is the Pope
possessed of all power in heaven and on earth—for
if it was given him by the awful sanction he
blasphemously cites he surely would have it—yet
he is not able to burst a heretic, or lay a kingdom
under interdict. Pamphleteers are
,gibing at him
and provoking him so much that he cannot help
replying. Every assembly which has the least
popular element in its constitution is protesting
against his Concordats and withstanding their
operation ; persons, as he bitterly says, who call
themselves " sons of the Church" act more like
" sons of darkness ;" his influence in every land
depends Only upon female influence, or, in the
absence of that, strengthens or diminishes in exact
proportion as the rulers are nearer or further ye-
moved from dotage, or as civil liberty is flourishing
or depressed. There is an evil awakening of the
nation and—most wonderful of all the signs of the ,
times—the historic precedent of Henry,VllL is com-
ing into fashion, and several of the Sovereigns of

Europe are trying on the separated Crowns of the
Pope's tiara. Pius IX. is amazed. He cannot under-
stand it. It is contrary to common sense that people
should doubt that all power has been given to him
in heaven and on earth. If this &lusion should
spread, he bids fair to be left with his ecclesiastical
kingdom shorn as close as his temporal principality.
That " son of darkness" who calls himself " the
" Eldest Son of the Church" has just conquered
an enormous ecclesiastical dominion, and has con-
secrated his cathedral to the tune of " God save the
Emperor," just as the prayer for the head of the
Anglican Church might be read at Melbourne.
Austria is about to creep out of her Concordat.
The Pope does not mention this fact, but his special
lamentations over Baden have as an object, no
doubt, to curb the expected backslidings of his long
faithful Austria. "This state of things, as we know,
is the result of the false doctrine of Protes-
tantism." The Pope'. communicated this know-
ledge to the Grand Duke of Baden, and ILas scolded
him in letters, and has set his Cardinal Secre-
tary to remonstrate. " But, as all our endeavours
ond all our anxiety have come to no result, we have
deplored in your midst, as is our duty, that that
Convention has been abolished, contrary to all the
laws of justice, and without the consent of the other
F;rty, and we have protested, within the limits of
our power, against the rights of the Catholic Cht2rch
and cf the Apostolic See being violated—outrag'e-
ously olnihilated." It is very hard upon the Pope
that the Baden people refuse to be fleeced, and tor-
mented, and plagued with priests, and have the
education of their children and the management of
their homes, .and the expenditure of their money,
taken out of the.ir hands, and should persist in their
resistance, even against the positive desire of " the
other party" to fleece and manage them. Nothing
can be clearer than that justice is all on the side of
the Pope. It is very wrong of the people not to
submit themselves at once to the Pope, that he may
screw down the heretics and screw up the luke-
warm, and empty the purses of the avaricious. But
they will not do it, and here he stands with his
fists in his eyes " deploring in the midst," weeping
bitter tears, even as a wolf might howl when a
lamb had skipped away and robbed him of his
dinner.

It's very sad. But, if it be really true that " the
principles of the disastrous Reformation" are at
the bottom of all this, we are afraid it is a bad busi-
ness. Those principles are very awkward things
for Popes to talk lightly about, and they are very
unwholesome things to get into Papal Allocutions.
They are, moreover, most insinuating things. They
creep or percolate into old institutions like ivy or
frost into old brickwork—the Pope might see the
operation in many of the old abbeys—and then
suddenly the strong walls will split, and the old
mass come crumbling dowti.. If the Pope has
really discovered these " false doctrines of Pro-
testants" to be so rife all around him as he says,
we are afraid we cannot, honestly and with hope,
wish him " a Happy New • Year." It is a very
bad symptom indeed; but, if it should indeed be
true that these " principles of the disastrous Re-
formation have acquired almost the force of public
law," it is much to be feared that it is time
for him to put his house in order. We must admit
that he cites some very strong facts,—" translations
of the sacred books everywhere scattered to corrupt
the faith, !the removal from the authority of the
Bishops of the education of youth, and the erection
of Protestant temples in many cities of Italy." Cam
it be true that these signs are marching throul,,h
Italy—toleration—education—the Bible ? Fol'd
your robe, old man ; your enemies are around you. !

AN ENGLISIDIAY LYNCILED IN 11EISSISSIPT1

(From the Missouri Democrat.)
ST. LOUIS, DEC. 8, 1860.

A respectable-looking man named Wm. Smithy-
ma2, a native of England, and for several years a
resident of Juneau county, Wisconsin, arrived in
this city on Tuesday, from Memphis, by the
steamboat .T.• D. Perry. Mr. Smithyman was
driven from Mississippi last week, after suffering
severe injuries for crimes alleged against him, but
of which he declares ,''is entire innocence. He was
formerly employed in tiListy for a few weeks as
a miller in the Planters' Mills,Nb on Franklin-avenue,
and went to Mississippi for employment in June
last. He bore letters of recomn;endation and cha-
racter, and obtained work in Pano2a and De Soto
counties, near the Tennessee line. bl:e worked for
several persons, dressing millstones, ant met with
no opposition from any person whatevef, until a
week ago yesterday, when he started from Looxa-
homie, De Soto county, for Senatobia station, °a
the Tennessee and Mississippi Railroad, seven miles
distant, employing a negro to carry himself arid
trunk in a waggon to the railroad. He was them
on his way to Memphis. Arriving at Senatobia
after dark, he proceeded to look up some freight
for the negro's owner, and in doing so went into
the freight depot. While there three or four persons
approached him, and asked him where he was go-
ing and what he was doing. He was then looking
for some freight for Looxahomie, but they charged
him with being an Abolitionist an a suspicious
person, and seized and threw him into a freight
car, which they locked, and then went up into the
village to tell the story. The negro was also at-
restcd, and, as afterwards appeared, was threatened
with in!-ant death if he didn't confess that the
man in the freight car had endeavoured to per-
suade him to rVu off. The negro, thinking probably
to save himself fro.'n torture, said that such was the
case, but, notwithstanjing the confession, he was
severely flogged. About; 10 o'clock a crowd of 30
or 40 returned to the railroat station, tsok Smithy-
man out and marched him into the woods. There
they stripped him naked, notwithstanding the
weather was intensely cold, and gave him a large
number of stripes, the victim thinks 200, with a
thick leather belt, sometimes flat, and sometimes
with the edge. A man, who appeared to he a
doctor, then advised them to desist, saying thAt
they would finish the job the next day. They
then put him back in the freight-car, with nothing
but his clothes and an old rug to protect him during
the night. In the morning he was released and per-
mitted to pay 506. for a cup of coffee. An armed
force, styling themselves " Minute Men," then
took him into custody afresh, went into the
woods again, made him strip, tied his hands
around a tree, and then shaved his head as
close as they could. Tice crowd urged him to tell
all about his doings in the interior, said that they
knew he was guilty of exciting slaves to insurrec-
tion, had tampered with them, and all that. Three
or four said that if he would confess his life should
be spared, but that fl he did not he would be strung
up. By this time Smithyman was half dead from
exhaustion and fright, ant 2 believing that it was his
only chance of safety from hanging, he boldly
avowed that he had, tampered with slaves. With
a shout the eager listeners seized him, and some
were for hanging him right off. Az; attempt was
made to get a rope around his neck, but others
were so anxious for another operation that the
would-be executioners failed. Smithyma.`r was
stripped, and liquid tar, almost hot enough
to scald, was poured over his head, and, half blinded
as he was, the victim was not allowed to put his
hands to his eyes to keep the tar from blinding him
altogether. They then stuck him all over with
loose cotton. After this was through they told him
that he must start for Memphis immediately-40
miles off—and not stop till he reached that city.
They gave him five minutes to put on his clothes,
and while ho was trying to pull off some of the
cotton several of the mob stcld by kicking his
limbs with their thick boots black and blue, the
marks of which kicking he still bears, They then
allowed him to start. Smithyman walked all the
way to Memphis, and took the boat to this city.
We give the above statement for what it is worth.
The man Smithyman is an honest, sober man, and
bears evidence on his person of the infliction ,of
very severe injuries.

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