The Arkansas banner., 1849-08-28
The Inaai.itien ., Rams.

among sDc dlscoVeFies lateiy made In Inc Pfaf- fraha of the Acquisition at Rome, not the leas, startling vas living evidence of the nnmitigaaed cruelty of that tribunal. maa was dag up ou, of its caverns, who had been immured there twenty years. During all that lime the world knew not of his existence: hts friends and eounuymen Fsmain- ed In ignorance of his fate; he had abandoned all hope in this world and expected to cad his day .. as thousands had done before uDpitied, forgotten, and alone. within the iron grasp of hs Domlnician gaoIers But that wisdom which Is inscrusable in all its ways, yet and unerring in It's purposes, employed the lord of the Inquisition himself to evoke spirit of enquiry, which has dragged this ''myaery ofnqaity- into the fight. POpe Plus Overdowed the earth.
 sHe epen'p: but to shut
 EKceli'd his power;"
 and the scoorge which he let loose 10 chastise the temporal soveregns round about his throne has re- turned to lay bare the secret crueIies and oppres- sOns that have been practieed under his own robe of assumed charity and religion The rs'ribution Is most just and holy. "Ihe sovereign of the Roman States" could not have been ignorant, white he was
 
 stern code of Austria, that such prisoner this kasner lay victim of remorseIess perfdy within few yards Of the Basffica, where, on solemn ocea- sons his Holiness wont to assatne the preroga- tive of the Deity, and absove mankind from their offences The history of this delinquent is curious. He was an imposter, who possessed himself of documents intended to designate some other person, and succeeded by their evidence in dsceiviag In- faiibiiiy. The papers he bore enabled him to pawn himself as the true elect of conVocatioa, and the individual chosen by the Spirit of God to be Bishop in Paestine and Infalibili,y believed him. No wonder that lnfaIibty was vexed at having been thus taken in; for perfect was the trick that Monsignor Kasaer was actually conseerated to the episcopal office, and dismissed with ;he Papal blessing, to enter upou it's functions. But the real Simon Pure having turned up before the changing had time 10 get beyond the claws of St. Domiuck, our suppositious bishop was brought back, and laid up in the cells of the Inqaisition, to be "bured in obIivion," To unbishop him would have been to proclaim the Sacred Consistency dupe. and it's sacraments of none effect; while to let him walk off with mitre on his head would have been mneh wOrse for then the Pope and his pretentions to un- erring inspiration, sure to be laughed at and, as the peasant author of Beppo says
 Ne one ih those parts may quiz the clargye. 1 therefore take heed, ye freethiukers charge ye They'll haul yoa OCT the coals, aud stir the fire: Of PhIegethon with every mothers son,
 Nor say to cool the cauldron 2 bubble hat beil'd your boues, unless you paid them dou-
 ble"
 Poor Kssner, not having anything to pay. was locked up for the final day of reckoning; would his have been cleared off had not the last of his persecu utors overslot his mark by bring ing home revolution to the gates of St. Peter The discovery of this living victim of the unchangeable tyrany of the Romish Church will make grsver impression upon tho minds of thinking men than all the relics of its cruelty in bygone times. The calcined bones, the female hair, the trsp-door, dnctiDg by brief passage from the hall of Judg- ment 10 the place of torture and death, are, no doubt, highly calculated to excite tho imAg naton and create feelings of horror and of pity But there Is ready aswer to any warnings or n,isEivings which such disclosures might suggest They mere y indicate the ferOcity of barberous age, against which the humanity of all civilized commu n:tes without distinction of religious profession, now re- volts To taunt the Roman Church of the present day with the atrocities of Torquemada would be hberal and bigoted. Federation is now unbIush- ngly claimed a Catholic virtue and persec cution for eouscience' sake Is disowned. Dablia Mdit.
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