The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-11-13

ne osner hand they directed matters to treat their
avts KINDLY and TO render them whatsoev
and lair aid also to forego any thres well kno wing h
1e LORD OF these as well as OF themselves the
vens and that there IL with him respect OF persons
Since however love towards ell was most strong ly
recommended every where by the of the gospel and
since Christ our Lord had declared tina, he would consi
DER as oone or refused unto himself Whatever of kind
ness and should have been extended
10 tae lowy and the needy. M easily resuite thsreou
thr:sn' not only regarded their slaves especially
also more ready to bestow freedom on those who
might deserve it, which Gregory Of Nyssa shows was
cusem to he done the celebration particular OF hs
| Paschsl Rites. N) Nor we Q there wanting tbos,
who, animated by still for species
e0m"snsa msmsssss 70 oonsase IN order 70 free Other
Predecessor Of Ours, OF most holy memory, Clement
testhes that he was acquainted with 10y In process
time therefore, now thar the darkness Of heather
stition has been fully dissipateA and when the
manners of less civilized Communities aas have beer
through Love things have come at length TO such pass
that for many eyes back persons have been held in
slavery among very many nations of Christians There
were 1t is true, from time to time, say very
great some Of the very number Of the Faithful
who blinded by the desire of filthy lucre did
not hesitate to reduce to ssvery in widely separated
and Lends Indians Blacks or other wretched in
divduas or else BY establishing and gradually eparging
rac IN those who had been made csps,ves by others
to countensnce the shameful conduc. Of these last
Many Roman Ponths, isuue. of glorious memory Pre-
iecesscrs Of Ours did not fail accordance with their
injurious to their spiritual safety end
to the Christian Names and from which also they clearly
saw hss TINS result would follow that unbeevpg ma,
towards our true Religion. The Apostolic Letter Of
Paul III given May 49, 1887 under the Fisherman Seal
(st Peters TO the Cardinal Arch Bishop Of Toledo has
this same object n view; we'll others succession
still fuller than this snme one given by Urbsn WILL
the Apostolic Churches in Portugal; in which
Letters those individuals are very severely GEN.
sured by name vho dared presumed reduce sa.
dams of the East West TO separate them from their
wives and children. TO despoiI H. IF their property TO
.aa and send sm avay 10 Other places or in any vay to
also TO afford 10 those pursuing the aforesaid line of
dtriee, aid, fdror, and assistance, under any prert
color whasosuer orfo preach teach that this iafi
or 10 aid any other Vaecer the practices above al
iudd TO- Those DEGREES Of tho Pontifs just mention
by Apostolic Letter 10 the clergy Brazil and of
certain other regions given the goth day oDecember
l74 in which he strove to the feelings
OF the Priests themselves tow ards this end az Be-
fore this also another Predecessor OF still earlier
than these Plus u on the Empire OF the Portuguese
blacks gave on the 7h Oct la62 letter addres ed to
the Bishop Of Rubi who about for those
parts in which he not only bestowed upon that Preate
full powers for exercising his sacred functions therein,
with greater advantage but availing himself of this
same opportunity, anmadverted severely upon those
int slavery. Qs) And in our own times Plus VII
influenced by the spirit Of religion and love- his
Predecessors zealously interpesed his official influence
with those in power that the traffic in blacks might at
length entirely cease among Christians These DEGREES
and anxious the part of Predecessors have
tectng the Iadans and others above mentioned from the
cruelty Of invaders, and from the cupidy Of Chris'isn
traders Not to such extent however that this Holy
See congratulate itself the full of its zeal
GUS efforts for the accomplishment of this end seeing
that the trade in blacks. though somewhat lessnea
We THEREFORE, desiring to remove go srest
disgrace as this from all the borders of Chrstendom and
,hs whole subject being msurely weighed ome Of Our
Church being also admitted TO counsel do hereby
tresdng in the footsteps OF Our Predecessors by
Ayfr Anth
in the Lord all faithful Christians every condition that
no one OF them for the time to come to harrass
despoi them proper or to reduce them to
slavery to lend aid favor others wbile doing surh
things towards them or to exercise that nhuman trsc,
oy means OF which the Blacks ifthey not human
beings but the merest animals in whatever wny reduced
to slavery are without distinction in violation of
laws OF justice and humanity ght sold and sometimes
condemned the endurance of the most painful abours
and by which, moreover through the hope Of gain that
originally offered itself to the owners of slaves By means
OF this same trafc, ds. nsoDs also and perpetual bost
ties are as were continually nurtured in the countries
ofthose mn fortunate men,
censure all the aforesaid practices utterly unworthy
OF the Christian name and by that same authority we
from presumpg uphold under any pretex OF color
whatsoever, that same traffic in Blacks it were law
ini in its nature or otherwise to preach Ipradicare]
[aocere in opposition to those things which we have
made the subject Of admonon in this our Apostolic
Letter.
In order that this Letter r4ul OF Ours
may the more easily become known all, snd that
one may alese ignorance of it, we decree and com.
mand it to be promulgated according to custom by Of
our messengers at the gates the Church OF FIRST Of
the Apostles st Psters] and Of e Apostolic Charcel
larry as also at those Of the Palace the Catoro
and in the Campo D Flores copies Of the same to be
left affixed in those same places
Given OF Rome, at the Church of g. Maria Mag Qiore,
under the Seal on the Sd day OF Dec 1889 in
the 9th year Of our Pontifcate.
ALoIsE LAMBRUcHINI
CARDINAL.
~ Epist to Ephesians VI 5, seqq Epis. to Collos.
slams ILL., % seda. WI
(2) Matt. XIV. IS, @qq.
(s Lactsn,ius Div Instit Lib. V. c. 49, Tom. (vol1Iv
Of the Bib Vet Pat edited by aaland and published at
"a De Res Dom. orat ILL., vol. III, page 400, Works
10y In the Collection of Roman Bulls printed by May.
nerd, vol VI part 2, Con.t- eo4. page lsa:
az In Collection OF Bulls Of Benedict XIV. vol Const.
(S Raynalds Ecces. Annals 1862, n. A.
This is one Of the most extraordinary documents
ever promulgated by the authority of that sovereign
Pontlh-the Pope. And when we come to examine
the history of past events in this county, in relation
to the movements of the Bishops and clergy Of the
Catholic Church, in connection with our elections.
we at once discover that these ecclesiastical move.
ments have had an origin, Of which nobody at this
day would have dreamed Very nearly contempora.
there commenced in this country a simultaneous
effort on the part Of the Catholic Preates, to break
down the rights and privileges conferred on the
trustees of church property by the laws of the Uni.
ted States. In New York. ffslo, st. Louis, New
Orleans, and other places, as all newspaper readers
know, vigorous efforts Of this kind were made with
partial success and in Bishop Hughes pastoral let
ter, the ground in favor of the new ecclesiastical
in ~ - oh Is al.
secured by the laws, was openly and boldly assumed
by that very sagacious and jealous prelate Much
about the same time, also, it is important to remark
Bishop Hughes entered the political arena, for the
purpose, namely, of procuring repeal of the School
Law, by means Of bringing ecclesiastical TO bear
upon political influence, and control it iu the re-
quired direction.
1t IS impossible not to be impressed by this re-