The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-11-24
TO RTaETOP ENGLAND.

proposition that the Pope CLAIMS 10 exercise cVAi
power by virtue Of his ecclesiastical jurisdiction
have quoted from your own letter, IN when
YOU saw that he is the ''dvinely constituted" ex-
nonent Of the e'doe1ines and morality" OF the
'sunchanging church" I have also given sA-
tracts fom the cncyclical letter. dated on the 18th
Of August, 1882, in which he anathamatILes
tliberty OF conscienee," 'iberty Of opinion" and
ssIiberty of the press" We have seen that,
speaking OF the latter, he calls it "that tooTSt
and nepcr sufficiently he EXECRATED and
DETESTED LIBERTY OF THE PRESS"
Why docs he so speak, He explains this him
self He says:
.:Had not the ris hand of God supported US,
YOU must, ere now, have lamented our having
fallen a victim to the dark conspiracy OF imploas
men. But our mind shrinEs from the memory oil
trouble, whose sad recital would only be reopen
ing the sources Of sorrow and we rather bless
the God Of consolation, who, in subduiDg there
bells has shielded us from impending danger;
and who, in sitting the ternrcst, hath granted
pause 10 ouT apprehensi IONS. Hereupcn we re-
solved ia DELAY nv longer to communicate
our ad, zee TO You for curing the bruises o! israel
But again the fulilment Of our designs was I'M
pedcd, by the weight Of care imposed on US IN
the reinstatement Of public order. '.ned1i'shlie
another coltSc Of or siieflce roSs from he IN
soIenes IF fiction, ioiiich ldboTea TO RAISE me
,fouaoya gfREBELLION. Finding that long
endurance : l8 p,dness, instead of softening, APP
peaTaj ,etler 10 oment the spirit Of lIcentious-
mes. We were at last compelled to raise the
SCUURGE entrusted to Us by the Almighty for
oltbdtisig The o5stiaGey oi num-"
Nav, -ir, This seourge was detachment Of the
Austrian army, which took Possession Of the Spa
pal States, !" and put down the "ii6erty u coa-
science tho ifffty IF opinion and the ''ib-
erty of t.e aress" md having accomplished
this, His Hohpe proceeds:
SHUT having at length taken s:a4-ian OF our
see in the Latcran Basilic, accora 20 our Gus
toms, and institutions Of predecessors, we
return 10 you, without delay, eaerable breth-
REM
s:Ee speak, venerable brcth,ta, of what your
own ewes have witnessed. aad over which our
tears flow in common Vic ,pess is restless,
science groom tflSoieI&, 5eenti2 mess unrestrain
ed, the Holiness OF thines sacred is despised, and
the majesty of divine worship, at once 50 eifica-
cious and SO neces y, is called in question, is
villifcd, is Knocked, by all evil men,
EsOm Roman see Of st. Peter, er ,ohich Christ
Ioid the foundation Of his church is asSailed
on all sides; and the bonds 0f4Giity are erery
day lceakened and broken assu'tder The d.
rnie authority of the church rs opposed, rob
bed Of her rights She is laid PROSTATE, slave
to the hatred Of NATIONS. The obedience
due to Bishops Is infrnged, and their rights
trOdden under foot"
Then follows the anathemas of the ''liberty of
opinion ''liberty Of conscience and the xii
berty Of the press" and special instructions to
Ill R;ebay,s &C.,,
resies." Speaking of the 'Giberty of the press"
he says, ".No means must be here omitted, as
the extremity Of the case calls for all our erer-
tions to EXTERNINATE the fatal pest."-
It will be borne in mind that the Pope admits
that he would not venture to put forth this letter
esuntil he had put down the rebellion in the Papal
States" until he had called in the power of Aus
tria, and by the ''scourge of the despot silenced
the voice of conscience, suppressed the "llbcrty
of opinion" ard e1terminated The ''liberty of the
PRESS as far as it could be done by Austrian
troops He could not send his soldiers here, and
therefore the Leopoldine Institution was consti-
tuted, and deliberate plans arranged for the pro
pagation Of his spiritual influence, preparatory
to the exercise of his civil power. He tells rs
that he delayed to propa gate these anathemas on
the "liberty of opinion," the ''liberty of con-
scienceo and the 'liberty of the press, until the
people of Italy were subdued by the armies of
Austria ,-'sfor," says he, "meanwhile another
cause of our silence arose from the insolencc OF
FACTION, tcstch labored dgatI, to raise the
standard of REBELLION" And it follows
that the purpose was to extend the dominion Of
the Church every where by the overthrow Of
these invaluable rights. He, the "divinely consti
tuted7 exponent of your "unchanging Church"
tells us that CELEBRITY of opinion" ''liberty Of
conscience" and ''liberty OF the press" is weak
eping and breaking assander the bonds of the
Church, that she is thereby Said PROSTATE"
and that they infringe and tread under foot the
etobedience due to BISHOPS" and provoke
against her "the hatred Of the nattons;" and,
therefore, Won are instructed that .s'no means
must be omitted" to "ExTERMINATE' them.
We may Judge Of what means are in prepare
ton for us, by the means that were adopted in
unhappy Poland. We viii hereafter speak more
of her fate and Other sacrifices 1t was but the
other day that, in conversation with one of her
suffering sons, who is now exile from his ma
tive land, and who bled in her cause, told
me that the Pope's bull disarmed the Polish
army, and that the liberty Of Poland was the
price paid for the subsection Of Italy The
Pope's anathema was more fatal than the Rus
sian bayonet. We may judge of what he would
do from what he has done. You say that he
cannot alter what the Church has ordered. We
have seen that he has required you and your
associates every where, to extermnate the Ii
berry of conscience" "of opinion, +" and OF the
Press'' Let us see how that was done in Po-
land Unhappy Poland! Thy sons have min
gled their blood with that Of our ancestors, in
achieving our independence. Oh, may we profit
by thy disasters!
l have given the articles of association Of the
Leopoldne Institution, founded for the purpose