The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-11 00:00:00

AUSTRLIN LIBSRA LISH.

We have no desire or intention of fasten-
ing on Mr. Gladstone, if we can help it, the
Icharge to which he has exposed himself, of
identity in principle with e irreligious Libe-
ralism of the Continent. In his speech last week
on the disestablishment of the Irish Church,
he ostentatiously claims "to be in sponta-
neous concurrence with that party all over
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avaoynbrie called
ng, for
the sake of social justice, to break down the
system of religious ascendancy:" In prier
that there shoud be no mistake as to what he
means by religions ascendancy, Mr. Gladstone
actually refers to what is now going on in
the Austrian Chamber as a battle against reli-
gious ascendancy. Does Mr. Gladstone in
reality know what he is talking about when
he avows his spontaneous concurrence with
Austrian Liberalism ? We hope not, for the
sake of his character as a Christian, and we
think he does not from the very terms in which
he describes the struggle in Austria. " There,"
he says, " the Protestants in a minority are
struggling for liberty, while here the Roman
Catholics' in a minority are struggling for
equality."
Now such a description of the fierce war
carried on by Austrian Liberalism against" the
Church is a complete misrepresentation of the
real contest. It is not true to say, as Mr. Glad-
stone says, that Protestants in Austria are
struggling for liberty. They, though a small
minority, enjoy not only perfect liberty, but
complete equality with the vast Catholic ma-
jority of the Empire. This unintentional per-
version of the truth on the part of Mr. Glad-
stone scarcely surprises us, for our Protestant
fellow-countrymen are apt to be misled not
only by the English papers, but by the organs
of Liberalism, which alone, of Continental
journals, come into their hands, and in which
lying, to use the only fitting expression, is car-
ried to perfection. This is not the first occa-
sion that Mr. Gladstone has lent the force of
his character to the propagation in England
of a false version of contemporary history. It
is much to be regretted that a statesman of
his genius and character should so easily fall a
prey to the Liberal conspiracy,, which is noto-
rious for its activity in poisoning the sources
of information. Mr. Gladstone's assertion that
the Protestants of Austria are now struggling
for liberty against a religious ascendancy as
oppressive to them as the Protestant ascend-
ancy of the Irish Establishment is to the Catho-
lic people of Ireland, will be received through-
out the country as gospel truth, and will add
to the great Protestant tradition, which, as
Dr. Newman has so graphically described, is
being continually built up in England against
the Catholic Church. They who have heard
and believed Mr. Gladstone's words will never
hear their contradiction, never learn that the
Protestant minoritiin Austria, not under, 4w.,.
na t force, rce,
which
new regime, but under the old, in which the
much-abused Concordat waaEtison
in
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been
eteh
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a Catholicsliherty oafn dlre
alancdonasnid o consideration
strangers. It is a truth, to which ,we chal-
lenge denial, that the Protestant • • minority in
Austria in its relations to the State d an to the
Catholic Church, and to the vast Catholic ma-
jority of the nation, has been freer and more
justly treated, has in every respect been infi-
nitely better off, than the Catholics of Eno-
land and Ireland.

In the first place the Protestant minority
in Austria has not -to maintain an alien esta-
blishment. Secondly, the heads of the Pro-
testant Church, equally with the bishops of
the Catholic Church—the Church of the State
—have seats in the House of Peers. Thirdly,
the Protestant Church enjoys a legal status.
Fourthly, Protestant schools supported by the
State are under the exclusive management
of Protestants. Fifthly, no Protestant in Aus-
tria is, on account of his religion, excluded
from the highest offices in the State ; the pre-
sent Prime Minister is a Protestant. Sixthly,
in Austrian prisons and workhouses no Pro-
testant is debarred from the exercise of his
religion or from the services of his minister.
In a word, Protestants in Austria enjoy a state
of absolute equality before the law, as well as
of religious freedom. The above few facts are
sufficient to refute Mr. Gladstone's strange
assertion that the Protestant minority in Aus-
tria is now struggling for religious liberty.
It follows, therefore, that the " spontaneous
concurrence " which Mr. Gladstone professes
with the Austrian Liberals is not concurrence
in a struggle to obtain religious liberty, for it
already exists ; but in a struggle to subvert
the religious principle in Government—the
union of Church, and State. It is important
to note this fact, for it tends to throw light
upon Mr. Gladstone's principles, already some-
what jeopardized in public estimation by his
political associates. We shall shortly, in " The
Sketches of the state of Catholicism on the
Continent," have occasion to treat more at
large of the irreligious movement which is now
going on in Austria, and in which Mr. Glad-
stone, we believe, in ignorance of its true
character, has avowed his spontaneous con-
currence ; we must, therefore, content our-
selves now with indicating, in a few words,
the objects which Austrian Liberalism is in
reality struggling for. The first object of the
struggle in the Austrian Chambers is the repeal
of the Concordat as a preliminary measure to
the destruction of theunion between the Church
and the State, or, as the Austrian Liberals
phrase it, the emancipation of the State, of the
school, and of society from the control of reli-
gion. In the first place, what is the Concordat ?
It is simply the restoration to the Church, first,
of its innate rights, and, secondly, of its acci-
dental rights, as the State Church in Austria,
which it had been violently deprived of by the
tyranny of Joseph 11. That the abrogation of
the Concordat would not only be a violation
of a solemn treaty, but an attack on the inde-
pendent rights and liberty of the Church, we
cannot on the present occasion stop to demon-
strate, since we have now to do with the strug-
gle against religious ascendancy which Mr.
Gladstone alluded to as taking place simulta-
neously in the Austrian Chambers and in the
English Parliament. And this struggle, as far
as it has as yet gone, is comprised in these
two points : the substitution of civil marriage
at pleasure for Christian marriage, which Aus-
tria as a Christian State hitherto alone had
sanctioned, and the establishment of secular
in the place of religious education in the na-
tional schools of a Christian country.

Throughout the whole of the deliates—even
in the speech of Herr Kuranda, which Mr.
Gladstone quoted from as an illustration of the
identity'of the struggle on the part of the Pro-
testant minority in Austria and of the Catholic,
not minority, but majority, in Ireland—is
there a particle of evidence to prove this alleged
identity? Mr. Gladstone has been simply mis-
led, and has rashly made his own the false
charge of an stust;ian Liberal against the

' Catholic Church, that by means of the Con-
cordat it forced the State to treat Protestants
in Austria with the same measure of injustice
and cruelty as England still inflicts on the
Catholics of Ireland, and on Catholic prisoners
Intl- Catholic children in the gaols and work-
•ises of England.
Ice only grievances ever alleged by the
fre3thilikers, Jews, and infidels, who mainly
compose the ranks of Austrian Liberalism,
both in the press and in the Chambers, were
that after Jeati.r. their bodies were not allowed
to be placed in the consecrated graveyards
belonging to the Catholic Church, and that
during life they were forbidden to marry
Catholics, unless on t.'e condition that the
children of such mixed. marriages should be
brought up as Catholics.
The motives and the aims of the Austrian
Liberals, unlike those of the Catholics of Eng-
land and Ireland struggling against an 0
un-
just Protestant ascendancy, are profoundly,
irreligious. The struggle in Austria is un-
doubtedly against the ascendancy of religion,
but it is in favour of the ascendancy of infi-
delity. What better proof is wanting than that
by one fell swoop of the law, manufactured
anew by the hands of the majority in the Cham-
bers, Christian education is swept out of the
nehools-of—blte-country

We cannot believe, in spite of his own asser-
tion, that Mr. Gladstone has any identity with
this party of irreligious Liberalism, or that he
can concur, spontaneously or otherwise, in the
portentous evil of godless education which the
Liberals of the Reichsrath are preparing for
the rising generation in unhappy Austria.-
IVes /minder Gazette.

AMERICAN LAWS ON NATURALIZATION.

The applicant must have been a resident in the
con ntry for the term of five years preceding his
admission, and one year within the particular State
where the application is made, and must also have
made a declaration of his intention to become a
citizen two years previous to his application. These
facts must be proved by at least one witness. If an
alien who has declared his intention die before he
is naturalized, his widow and children may become
citizens by simply taking the oath required of all
naturalized citizens to support the Constitution of
the United States. In suah case the period of re-
sidence of the widow and children is immaterial,
nor is any distinction made between minor chil-
dren and adults. No alien can be admitted while
his country is at war with the United States, nor
can one be admitted who was prescribed by
any State previous to the year 1802. Be-
sides these general provisions, each State pos-
sesses a code of laws, determining the quali-
fications of citizenship and suffrage within its
limits. Thus, in Maine, every male citizen ; in
New Hampshire, every male inhabitant; in Ver-
mont, every man ; in Massachusetts, every male
citizen ; in Rhode Island, every male citizen ; in
Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, lowa, New
Jersey, Ohio, California, Oregon, Nevada, West
Virginia, and Colorado, every white male citizen ;
New York, every male citizen, but coloured men
required to own $l5O taxable property ; Pennsyl-
vania, every white freeman ; Wisconsin, every male
person ; Minnesota, every male person ; Kansas,
every white n-tale adult ; Delaware, every free white
male citizen ; Maryland, every free white male citi-
zen ; Tennessee, every free white man formerly, but
now negroes vote. In the States which were en-
gaged in the rebellion, and which are governed by
the Reconstruction Acts, negroes are allowed to
vote and to hold office. The following is the bill
pass"d in the House of Representatives, which

"A BILL CONCEILNINU TILE MGM. OF AMI:ItICAN CITIZENS
IN FOREIGN STATIES.

"Whereas,—The right of expatriation is a natural and
inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoy-
ment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap-
piness, for the protection of which the Government of the
United States was established; and, whe•-eas, in the re-
cognition of this principle this Government has freely
recived emigrants from all nations, and invested them
wilt the rights of citizenship ; and whereas, it is claimed
that such American citizens, with their descendants, are
subjects of foreign States owing allegiance to the Govern-
ments thereof ; and whereas, it is necessary to the main-
tenance of public peace that this claim of foreign allegiance
should be promptly and finally disavowed ; therefore,
"Be it enacted, &c., that any declaration, construction,
opinion, order, or decision of any officer of this Govern-
ment whieli denies, restricts, impairs, or questions the
right of expatriation is hereby declared iuc insistent with
the fundamental principles of this Government.
" Section 2. Aud be it further enacted that all natu-
ralized citizens of the United States, while in foreign
States, shall be entitled to, and shall receive, protection of
persons and property that is accorded to native born citi-
zens in like situations and circumstances.
"Section 3. And be it further enacted that whenever it
shall be duly made known to the President that any citizen
of the United States has been arrested. and is detained by
any foreign Government in contravention of the intent and
purposes of this Act, upon the allegation that naturaliza-
tion in the United States does not operate to dissolve his
allegiance to his native Sovereign ; or if any citizen
shall have been arrested and detained, whose release
up in demand shall have been unreasonably delayed or re-
fused, the President shall be and hereby is empowered to
suspend in part, or wholly, commercial relations with the
said Government; or, in case no other remedy is available,
order the arrest, and to detain in custody, any subject or
citizen of said foreign Government who may be found
within the jurisdiction of the United States, except Ambas-
sadors and other public Ministers and their domestics and
domestic servants, and who has not declared his intention
to become a citizen of the United States; and the Presi-
dent shall, without delay, give information to Congress of
any such proceedings under this Ac ."

A WEDDING IN WASHINGTON HIGH
General John Bidwell, of California, an ex-member of the
thirty-ninth Congress, and the largest landholder in the
United States, was married on Thursday, April 23, to Miss
Annie E. Kennedy; daughter of Dr. Joseph C.G. Kennedy,
ex-superintendent of the census. The marriage was
lemnized at the residence of the bride's father, an I the ser-
vice was performed by Rev. Dr. Gurley of the Presbyterian
Church. The bridesmaids were Miss Sallie Kennedy, the
bride's sister, two Misses Gerolt, daughters of the Prussian
minister, two Misses Henry, daughters of Professor Henry
of the Smithsonian Institution, Miss Reynolds of Pennsyl-
vania, and Miss Dixon, daughter of Senator Dixon of Con-
necticut. The groomsmen were General Wistar and W.
G. Sargent of Pennsylvania. President Johnson, General
Grant, Major-General Hancock, and other distinguished
officers and citizens, witnessed the ceremony. The bridal
Party were to t Ace the first steamer for California, accompa-
nied by the Rev. Dr. Gurley, who has obtained leave of
absence from his congregation.
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