The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-12-11
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inc people OF the u. Ctdtes- Hls stdhu IN idNor
Of the establishment Of free institutions in Italy,
excites lively interest in his behalf The sym
patty Of the friends Of freedom In Europe and
America are enlisted in his favor
A large meeting has been held in New York
on this subject. The Broadway Tabernacle. ca
pacious as it is, was full. The officers were Sc
lected from those of various political and reli-
gious creeds.
Speeches were made by Messrs b. F. Butler,
]. S. Bosworth, J. w. Gerard, Dudley Selden,
Sam'l. Jones, Jr., R. Kelley, d. d. Field, and
Signer FOresti, who spoke in Italian. An adj
dress to the Pope, from the Committee, was read
by Mr.. GREELEY, with a series Of resolutions,
which were adopted by reclamation. The meet
ing was closed by the Band with the Hymn to
Plus TX. We subjoin the address:
To his Holiness Pope Plus IA:
Venerable FafheT.-The People Of these Uni
ted States have observed with profound interest
the circumstances which attend, and the events
which have followed your elevation to the Pom
tifcate-an interest which has ripened into
sympathy and unmeasured admiration. On be-
half of a portion Of this People. we tender
you an expression of those sentiments Of regard
and emphatic appreciation which are cherished
by all.
We address you not as Sovereign Pontif but
as the wise and humane Ruler Of a once oppres-
sed and disconnected, now well governed and
gratefully happy People. We unite in this tri-
butte, not as Catholics, which some of us are
while the great number are not, but as Repub.
licans and lovers of Constitutional Freedom.
Recent as is our national origin, wide as IL the
ocean which separates our beloved land from
your sunny cline, we know we'll what Italy was
In the proud days Of her unity, freedom and gIo-
ry-what she has since been while degraded by
foreign rule and internal dissention--and we
have faith that lofty and bengnant destiny
awaits her when her people shall again be uni
ted, Independent and free. In the great work
Of her regeneration, we hail you a Heaven
appointed instrument, and we ardently pray
that your days may be prolonged until You shall
witness the consummation of the wise and bene-
ficient policy which is destined to render your
name immortal.
But, Venerable Father, we know well that the
path you have chosen is one Of extreme difficulty
snd peril. Our own immediate ancestors strug-
gled through an age Of dangers and privations 10
achieve and consolidate the blessings now so
eminently enjoy, though avOred with a leader
such has rarely been vouchsafed TO people stTi-
wing to be free. In the world We now inhabit, ii
is divinely appointed that virtue shall be tried by
adversely, and that enduring glory, like freedom
shall be accorded only to such as by mistaken
f0rttude no less than courageous effort prove
themselves worthy of the precious boon. We
therefore, the countrymen Of Washington and
Franklin, ofAdams and Jefferson, are well aware
that you did not enter upon the course you have
chosen without deliberate remuneration Of ease
of security and Of arstocratc favor. We know
that you must have already resigned yourself to
encounter the Vaccinations of the crafty, the
hatred of the powerful, and-most painful
OF all-the misconceptions Of the we'll meaning
but deluded. We know that you must have
calmly resolved TO encounter the untiring hos
tility aud dread of all the unjust or tvrannical
rulers who assume TO lord il over any portion of
/ the fair Italian Peninsula-all who fancy that
social order consists in the maintenance for
themselves of those conditions Of luxury and
soth in which they have hitherto uselessly exist
ei-all who fear, or selfshly affect to.fear, that
religion must perish il not upheld by the fleeing
breath Of EmPerors and Kings. And, more for
midabe than all these, you must have girded
/ yourself to encounter, ana by Gods help to
| overcome, that hckieness and ingratitude ofmul-
titudes Just released from benumbing bondage
which could clamor in the wilderness to be led
back to the fesh-Pots Of Egypt which among the
contemporaries and even the followers of our Saw
our could leave him TO bear in solitude the agony
of His Cross and which in your case we apprehend
will yet manifest itself in unreasonable expecta-
meats, and ia murmurngs that nothing has
been earnestly intended, because everything has
not already been accomplished. That you will
be- guided and shielded from on High in dis
charging the transcendent responsibilities of your
position, we will unwaveringly trust.
And Venerable Father, dark as the clouds
which envelope the Present may be, we do
know that the sunshine of the Future wiIroyer.
power aad dispel them. To say nothing here
Of the clear assurance fast anchored by the
Eternal Throne, that no generous deed or en-
deavor can ever be really defeated or fail Of its
ultimate reward, we assure you, from ioyfue xpe-
rience, that the blessings of Constitutional Free
dom far outweigh all the perils and sufferings
through which Nations advance to their achieve
ment. Short as our National life has yet been,
il has already demonstrated TO every thoughtful
observer the immense superiority Of Liberty TO
DespOtism, as an element of National growth
and Social well-being; it has shown that the
rights of persons aud property may be better
cured under a Government which guarantees
rights and powers to all, than under any other;
that the agitations and acts of violence which
are incident to human frailty or injustice under
| any form Of government are far less frequent
under ours than any other; and that whatever
| dangers may assail or threaten US have their
origin not in an excess Of Liberty but the con-
trary. So much, at least, we feel that we. are
amply justified in saying, in view of your posi-
ton, the perls il braves and the anticipations
it justiies.
In defiance Of superficial appearances, we do
not apprehend that the mailed cohorts Of DespO-
tism are about TO be set In motion against you.
The age in which we live is one Of moral rather
than physical waIfare-in which the artillery of
the Press commands and silences that Of the
Camp-in which Opinion is more potent than
1 Va hat uafn
direct and open resort to force and bloodshed,
you are shielded by the panoply Of good mems
APPROPRIATIONS and sympathies throughout the
length and breadth ofChristendom.
But should these expectations be disappointed,
let the rash aggressor beware! The first shot
fired in such a contest, will reverberate from
every mountain, summoning the brave and no.
bic from every cline to stand forth against in
justice and Oppression--to battle for Freedom
and Mankind In such contest, no one fami-
lar with the history or character of the Amsri-
can People, can doubt that their sympathiss will
be sctive and not wholly fruitless. That Italy
will be spared the devastation, and ChristendOm
the guilt and scandal, Of such a contest, we will
not harbor a doubt; bat in any case we will hope
that this testimonial of the interest and admira-
ton with which YOU are regarded by Twenty
Millions Of People, will not have been wholly in
i vain.
We are, Venerable Father, yours most truly
| RESOLUTIONS.
L. That we regard with the highest interest
the progress Of free institutions in all coun-
tries, and especially in one to which we are so
much indebted as to Italy, whose laws and whose
military and civil polity have pc netrated the in
situations Of half the modern world.
?. That the past history and the present con-
dition Of the Italians have made them the OBJ
iecta of peculiar interest with all Christendom.