Arkansas intelligencer., 1849-03-31
Protest OF Pope Plus TX.

The following Is the protest of the Pope, made
at Gaeta on the 18th ut., against the creation of
Junta at Rome:
Raised by divine dspensation, in manner
almost miraculous in spite of our unworihness,
10 the Sovereign Pontfcate, one of our first cares
was to endeavor TO estabsh union between the
subjects Of the temporal state Of the Church, to
make peace between families. 10 do them good in
all ways, and, far depending upon us, to
render the stale peaceable and fourishing. But
the benefits which did all in our power TO heap
upon subjects, the wide founded institutions
which we have granted to their DESIRES far, as we
must in all candor declare, from inspiring that
acknowledg gment and gratitude which we had
every right to expect have occasioned 10 our heart
only reiterated pain and bitterness, caused by those
ungrateful men whom our palernal eve wished 10
SEE daily diminishing in number.
IAN the world can now tell how our benefits
have been answered, what abuse has been made
Of our concessions now, by denaturalizng them
and pervertlng the meaning of our words, they
have sought 10 mIsead the multitudes SO that
these very benefits and institutions have been
turned by certain men into arms, with which they
have committed the most violent outrages upon
our sovereign authority, and against the temporal
rights of our Holy See. Our heart refuses 10 re-
peat IN detail the events which have taken place
since Nov. Is. the day on which a minister who
had our confidence was barbarously murdered by
the hand of an assassin. applauded with a still
gre1ter barbarity by troop of infuriated enemies
to God, to man, and to every lust political nstitu-
ton.
. IS The first crime opened The way TO a series of
crimes committed the following day with sacrile-
gious andacity. They have already incurred the
execration Of every upright mind in our State, in
Italy and IN Europe; they have incurred execra-
ton in all parts of the earth. This is the reason
why we can spare our heart the intense pain of
recapltulating them here. We are constrained
to withdraw from the place in which they we're
committed, from that place where violence pre-.
vented US from applying any remedy, reduced to
weep over and deplore with good men those sad
events, and the still more lamentable want of
power in Justice to act against the perpetrators
OF these abominabe crimes. Providence has
conducted us 10 this town of Gaeta, where, find.
ing ourselves at full liberty, we have against the
authors of the aforesaid attempts and acts of VIC.
ence, solemny renewed the protests, which we
issued at Rome at the first moment in the pre-.
sence OF the representatives accredited TO US of the
Courts of Europe, and of other distant nations
." By the same act, without in any manner de-
parting from the institutions had created, we
took care to give temporarily to States le.
gtImate governmental representation, in order
that in the capital and throughout the State pro-
vision should be made for the regular and ordinary
course of public affairs, well for the prctec-
ton of the persons and property Of our subjects.
BY us, moreover, has been prorogued the sessions
Of the High Council and Council of Deputies, who
had recently been called to resume their interrupt
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'But these determinations of our authority,
instead of causing the perturbators and the authors
OF the acts Of sacrilegious violence of WHICH we
have spoken TO return into the path of duty, have
urged them to make still greater attempts.
Arrogating to themselves the rights Of sove-
relgnty, which belonged to US, they have. by
of two Councils, instituted in the capital an lille
gltlmate governmental representation, under the
utle of Provisional Supreme Junta of the State
which they have published by act, dated the
18th of the present month. The duties of our
sovereignty, in which we cannot fail, the solemn
oaths by which we have in the presence Of God,
promised to preserve the patrimony of the Holy
See, and to transmit in all its integrity to our
successors, obIige us to raise our voice soemnly
and protest, before God and in the face. Of the
whole universe, against this grand and sacrilegous
atfemnt