The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-12-04
To BISHOP ENGLAND,
INoUISfTOR GENERAL OF THE UNI
TED STATES.

| am not surprised mat tne real question: III
issue between us, is not rightly understood by
the public. federation, civil and religious is an
essential principle in the Protestant faith, and
hence there is a disposition every where to extend
to Roman Catholics the benefit of the prin-
cipIes for which Protestants contend. You,
availing yourself of this, claim the benefit Of
our free institutions, and of our established re-
gard for liberation, to propagate your principles
and creed; or, in other words, being yet in a
minority, you claim the privilege Of liberation,
until by the means which you have adopted, you
shall acquire power to extinguish toleration-
This, then, presents question not of religious
faith, but of civil liberty; and it belongs as APP
propriately to the political press as to the pulpit
to discuss it. 1t is not religious controversy
1t is strictly political, the merits of which are
to be decided by the principles of the Romish
Church and the history of its political action
What the present principles of the Church are,
is demonstrated by the extracts which have
already made from the present Pope's encyclical
letter. He denounces the liberty of conscience,
of opinioa, and of the press; and you are in
structsd to use all your influence to prosecute
and exterminate them. | confess, with NORTH
cation, that the people of the United States are
culpably ignorant upon this subject, and that
very few of them have the remotest idea of the
character or purposes of the Church of Rome.
Since your bold attempt to unite the Church and
State, by rallying the foreign Catholic voters IN
support of MIR. Van Buren,, have given to the
subject my most serious consideration, and must
again tender you my thanks for having called
my attention, and that of the American people,
to it. As yet tho press is free. Your inquisito-
rial power does not extend beyond the pale of
your own Church. As yet we have liberty of
conscience and opinion, and it will not be my
fault if we are ever deprived of them through
your means.
1t is true that you laboring with great
zeal TO withdraw from the Church of Rome ''the
political animoSitieS to ,rhich ii has green rise,
but you cannot or ialsify all the records OF
history, and they furnish your condemnation.
Fortunately, the task before me is rendered
comparatively easy. The subject has arous.
cd ADLER pens, and have but to reprint what 9th.
ers have written. At this moment, as if in
tended for this peculiar crisis, we are furnished
with Professor Ranke's History of the Popes
translated by Sarah austin. 1t is work of III
questioned authority, and enables us to trace tn
rise, progress, and purposes of the power q
Rome, from the commencement to the presen
day, with distinctness. This propose to repub
lish in this paper, and that the public may form
some idea of what it contains, submit below
table of the contents. In addition to this, WI
are furnished with Gan Historical sketch OF thu
rise, progress, and decline of the Reformation
in Poland, and Of the influence which the Scrip
tural doctrines have exercised in that country
in literary, moral, and Political respects: By
Count Valerian KrasInski, published in London
in 1885" The author is Polish refugee, wAC
attributes the downfall Of Poland to the influ
ence Of the same principles which you arc endea
voring to propagate in this country. As if t
warn the people of the United States Of theI
fatal tendency, he dedicates his book, IN part, t
the Protestapts of this country. This work, toe
propose to publish entire in the Pilot; and it
thus, by the power OF free press, would arous
the people OF the United States to a knowledg
of the danger which threatens them. 1t will NJ
do for you, sir, to remain silent. 1ou adm
yourself to be the agent, III this country, OF til
Propaganda. 1t rs your duty to demonstrate,
you can, that the principles of your Church ar
compatible with our free institutions. If, whe
challenged to do SO, you silent, you ADM
that your principles can not be defended.
The following is table of contents:
Ranke's History OF the Popes. London, lS4(
Introeuetion-vol. l. Book /.
Chap. l. Epochs OF the Papacy. Sec. Chri.
tianity in the Roman Empire
The Papacy in connection with the Frank
ISL Empire. 3. Relation of the Popes t. til
German Empcrors. Internal growth and pre-
gress Of the hierarchy. A. Contrasts betwee
che fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Chapter Ii. The Church and the ecclesiastic,
states in the beginning of the sixteenth centur,
Sec. l. Extension of the states of the Churcl
2. Intrusion of a secular spirit into the Churcl
3. Intellectual tendency of the age 4. Opp
sition to the Papacy in Germany.
Chapter III. Political state of Eurone
connection with the reformation
Sec l. Under Leo X. 2. Under Adrian v
3. Under Clement VII.
Book II. Chapter l. Beginning of the regen
ration of Catholicism.
Sec. 1. Opinions current in Italy analogo
with Protestantism. 2. Attempts at intern
reforms, and at reconciliation with the Pl
testants. 3. New religious orders 4. lgnat
Loyola. 5. First sitting oft the Council Of Ire
6. The inquisition. T. Progress of the inst
ton OF Jesuitism. Conclusion.
Book Ill. The Popes about the middle OF
sixteenth century.
Sec. l. Paul III. 2. Julius Ill. 3. Marc
lus II. 4. Paul ". 5. Remarks on the p
gress of Professionalism during this reign.
Plus ~. I. Latter sittings of the Council
Trent. 8. Plus V.
Book ~ State and Court: the times OF G