The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-11-12
mn uTSIlDP ENGLAND.


1iticaE paper in the United States. wish
to know whether am to understand this as
disclaimer on your part of all responsibility for
the editorial management Of the Catholic Mis-
cellaRy. The relation which it is understood
you bear to that paper, warrants me in holding
you responsible for whatever may be said in Its
columns; and, until it shall be manifest that
do you injustice in that respect, you shall be
held so responsible.
The Presidential election being disposed of,
propose to treat of the subject matter directly at
issue between US. In your article in the Mis-
cellany of October 24th, you say
owe charge General Green with having, in
his article Of September 18th, deliberately aim
ed at the whole Catholic body of the United
States, the worst and most poisoned arrow that
has ever been cast against them IN this Union
He involves his own g eminent clergy " of Balti-
more, and his own GO enlightened Catholics" OF
the monumental city, as deeply in the charge, as
he does Bishop England
"He undertakes to examine I" the power OF
the Pope " &c to see what it is" and how it
may be made to act fit be brought to bear upon
the politics Of The country"
&C In treating of this, the General does not
give, as the surmises of others, nor as charges
tions, the direct propositions which he writes;
but General Duff Green puts forward upon his
own responsibility, as known facts, the follow
ing allegations. |. "That the Pope a tenn
poral as well a spiritual MONARCH" 2
" That the Pope looks upon the members of the
Catholic Church every where as subject to his
dominion" Now, the truth or falsehood Of those
assertions is in no wise affected by the question
as to whether Martin Van Barren or General
Harrison is to be preferred for the Presidency
Of the United States, nor has Bishop England's
expression of opinion, or being silent, any infu-
ence upon their truth falsehood. And we
pronounce both the one and the other, as they
stand in the Generals context, to be VIGOROUSLY
untrue; we add, that if the General knew their
untru b, in the sense which they obviously and
unqucstionably have in his article, he has been
guilty of what we need not describe: and if he
believed them to be trae, he is most miserably
uniformed. We leave it to his g eminent"
friends and his g intelligent friends 10 indicate
the category which BELTS him.
'The whole drift of the article is TO create
in the minds of our fellow citizens, or indeed
rather to confirm and extend the false impress
sions already in many places existing. /. That
Catholics owe civil or political allegiance to the
Pope 2. That the Pope claims such allegiance
8. Then he insinuates, in application, that Mr.
Van Buren,, anxious to get the Catholic vote,
fattercd the Pope, that he may profit by his in
uutfcb over MS American SUBJECTS. 4. He
charges Mr.. Van Buren, with having interfered
in a misunderstanding between two priests of
Philadelphia, thus blending Church and State
e get political capital, by enlistng the good
feelings Of the Catholics of this country. s. He
then declares that Bishop England's conduct
should awaken the fears of the Protestants,
when they shall have taken this view,-thereby
lntimating that, in this case, the " Inauisitor
General" is but the instrument Of the Pope, di-
rectng his American subjects how to vote.
Now what should be thought of Gen Green
by kis :" eminent friends and his " intelligent .
friends, when they all ought to know, and some of
them do actually know, that each and every one
OF the above five assertions is an unqualified
falsehood2
/. The Pope is the spiritual and visible head
oil the Catholic Church throughout the whole
world, but he is the temporal luler of only a
small portion of Italy. 1t is therefore untrue
that he IS a temporal monarch in the sense in
simulated by the article, viz: that his tempera
jurisdiction is tcrritoriaIlv co-extensive with hi
spiritual jurisdiction.
2. The Pope does not look upon the member
OF the Catholic Church every where as subiec
to his temporal dominion, though he does lool
upon them subject to his spiritual jurisdiction
He regards those in the Papal States, in Italy
as his temporal subjects, and is by them acknow
lodged to be th2ir temporal Sovereign; but b.
makes no such claim outside that territory, ant
If he did it would not be recognised. Was Gen
Green ignorant of this' We think not. Tn,
General is not so little Yersed in history, il
geography, in the common topics Of the day
What then was his object? Was 1t to increase
groundless Jealousy, to excit worse prejudice,
to commence his war of extermnati On against
Catholics, including his own "eminent cleri-
cal :" friends, and his own g intelligent Catho-
lies because Bishop England wrote that, in hi.
opinion, the present administration did not beggar
the country? No! If Gen. Green did not hold
the Pope and all the Catholics, schoslmasters
ana schooimistresses included, in great detes-
tation as he does the adopted citizens he would
never have cast this poisoned though p )werless
weapon at the Catholic religion. Ii Bishop
England was a criminal because, being an i'm
ported Catholic pauper coter, he dared to ex-
press his opinion, he, and noe he Catholic BODY,
should suffer-
1t will be seen that the propositions which
you controvert are, first, that the Pope is tenn
poral as well as spiritual monarch; and second,
that the Pope looks upon the members of the
Catholic Churoh everywhere as subject to his
dominion; and you charge, that, in making this
declaration, have deliberately aimed at the
whole Catholic body of the United States, the
worst and most poisoned arrow that ever has
been cast against then, in this Union"
~ " AA uS Scch lh1b 9ou pronounce Dotn the
enc and the other, as they stand in our article,
to be VIGOROUSLY untrue. Yet you say, "the
Pope is the spiritual and visible head of the
Catholic Church throughout the sohOIe ,oorid;
but he S the temporal ruler of only small por-
ton OF Italy 1t is, therefore, untrue that he is
temporal monarch in the sense insinuatcd BY
the article, to wit: that his temporal Jurisdiction
Is territorially eo-extsnsivc with his spiritual
jurisdiction" Secondly, you say, "the Pope
does not look upon the members of the Catholic
Church, everywhere, as subject to his temporal
dominion, though he does look upon them as
susJsct to his spiritual iu,isdietion.1 so
s,veyou the benefit of your own distinctions;
ana nave quoted at length all that you have said
upon TINS immediate subject, because am sensi-