New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-08-03
Rome. Spiritual and Temporal.

ence OF the Catholic Church. Ihat Germany
IS topic Of vas, importance. DO. is discus
sion is not within our sphere. Religion an
Liberty s-e essentially harmonious they an
both understandable for God wills sad Man need
their preservation yet they may be temporary
srrsyed in seeming hostility through human in
perfection sud error whereof tie fruits must b'
csismitous Bot et none thence rsshIy conclude
thst Christian Fait Or H1rnsn Liberty . cheat
or that the one conf cts with the other
The following letter by he celebrated Fatt e.
vs>rUR,. an eminent Catholic Pies: Of Rome
the eulogist q O'C.nnel and the tried friend O.
Liberty. was translated by Rev. H. Hastings
for the last New-York Evangelist. /. Is deeply
interesting as exhibiting the Influences Of recent
events at Rome on the views and feelings Of the
Catholics Of Italy. Read and ponder.
EFTECI oF TEE BONBARDyFST % ROVE rP0S RONAS
CATHOLICISM
Il il with fearful and bleeding heart that now al,
dress you. Even ss Write the French are lombard
ing Rome, destroying is monuments, and rsking is
people with grapeshOt blood a0"s freely on every
side ruins are hesped upon ruins, and God only know
the issue a the lsmentable conflict some fear that u
the French enter Rome by assault the people will be
led in their rage - murder the priests and recluses
In such case what glorious victory would the French
obtain Whist fine restoration Of PapAl Sovereignty
restOraCns Effected by force not durable and that
thrones raised upon dead bodies and blood sied %
be overthrow by yet violent commissions. OF all
the oxpedients for the restoration of the Pope de
cussed At Gaeta they have chosen the most deporabe
But what most distTesses the heart Of every Catholic
H. this restoration, supp0sng II t. BE- elected without
firmly establishing TIE power Of the Frnce. VIII
wound and perhaps destroy the power 81 the fonir.
The cannon now working destruction In the walls OF
Rome is steadily destroying the Catholic faith in
the hearts Of the Romans. ! have already told you
What fearful impression the C0nferi d Pic Mono
p1audot syoi feI" have produced upon the Roman
people-what hatred they have excited against the
priests But ell this Is nothing 20 the which the
sight Of French bombs has awakened against the
church. even against the Catholic religion. As most Of
the bombs have fallen in the suburbs running the
houses and woundng the families Of the poor people
il ia particularly those Of the suburbs, that portion Of
he Roman people formerly the most devotedy Catho
lie. who curse the Pope and the clergy, in whose
name they see these horrors committed
am far from believing that Plus IL. wishes these
things, that he even knows OF them. know That H.
kept in such state Of isolation, that the Truth IN
hese matters cannot resch him everything IL per
verted before ne receives It know that the poor Pope
surrounded By wicked or imbecie men, sentenced, a.
were 70 the depths OF acitsde a well nigh aprsoner
and very little master OF himself know that they take
advantage Of the eebeness Of his character OF the ten
derness Of his conscience Of his state Of nervous eX
element which subjects him 10 whatever influence or
impressions bis courters please.
But what know and believe, the Roman people Do
not know nor believe. The people know only what
hey aud suffer They see that the Austrans, with
preate Of the Pope Monsignor Beniri in the midst
~ them, ravage the Legations lombard cities, levy
enormous contributions upon the most peaceable Gin
zcns exile and shoot the most ardent patriots and re-
establish everywhere clerical tyranny They see that
the Pope has launched against the Roman state, a,
rgainst some wild beast four great powers armed
with al means OF destruction and they Will listen 20
moth they rice against the Pope and the Church IN
that very name and in defense OF those very interests
by which the Pope declares IL hls duty 10 re-conquer
iorciby his temporal power. Mr. Harcourt IN letter
dated GAeia, writes Reason and charity are Danish
I'd alike from Rome and Ga-tA" In those few words
we have the history Of the last seven months. The
rXcesses OF Rome, which one pretends % Justify 81
hough 10 certain degree necessary m times of revou
non have been surpassed by the excuses Of Gses Not
aword OF peace. OF reason, Of pardon. Not promst
maintain public liberty, such had night % ex
pent from Pope. and especially from the mouth OF
Plus IN has come from that rampant OF absoiutsm
that rendezvous OF folly and wickedness combined to
smother the sentiment Of charity and love ia the
anisbe heart OF Plus IN.
have just read the last address Of the Pope to the
Cardinals. hat impotence what folly 10 have put
INTO the mouth OF the Holy Father pompous euogies OF
Austria and the King Of Naplesthe greatest enemies
If the independence OF Italy, whose very name hOrri
ies every Italian What impotence 10 have made the
Pope say that he himself appealed 10 the powers 20 re
instate him the which he himself abandoned
Il was to say intend wage against my own peo-
pie that Whch the year before ] declared would
not wage against Crosts and Ausrians the oppressors
of Italy Even the women raise this reproach against
hm and now in witnessing the effects oil this age
of four powers against little state IN seeing
their husbands and children killed and wounded you
cannot conceive the OF the women, the violent sen
tments which they give way the cries OF fury they
vent upon the Pope Cardinals and Priests massf-
From this YOU may well conclude that the people have
injured the churches They will neither confess nor
assist at the mass nor hear the word
Of God. one cannot now preach al Rome Tor want o.
hearers No wishes anything at the hands OF a
priest or anything prestly.
To me Plus lX is sui and ever the Vicar OF Jesus
Chrst the head of the visible church the master, the
teacher iniable Interpreter of the rule oi faith and
practice TIE weakness, the faults even OF the man
cannot make me forget IN him the high prerosatves Of
the PCntf Rut can the people comprehend ms Can
the people rise To- snd abide by these theological dis
nncuons Alas To the minds OF the people the
crimes and crueres OF the the crimes and
crueites OF the priest the iauis OF the Alnd ar me
faults Of the Poye the nismes Of politics the effects
OF the doctrines OF religion.
Ny friends endeavor to conceal from what is said
and done in this deplorsble scene al Rome. They
spare the grief which such things must necessarily
Bat IN spite "a their care learn that the
whole youth OF Rome and all men OF int sence reason
thus The Pope means 10 reign over US ~ force u"
claims the Church that IL for tne priests the sever
eighty which belongs only - the people, and De be-
heves he says indeed that 10 Is hs duty 70 act thus De-
Catholics, and beca-se Rome Is the center
Of Catholicism. Very well what is 10 hinder Us then
from becoming Protestant II Necessary and then what
political righl be have over us' FOR Il u not
horrible think Of that because are Catholics and
Church, Abure our rights receive from the hoeraliy
Of the priests as concession, what Is due IN justice,
and be condemned the lot OF the most miserable OF
people
md these sentiments have become more common
than generally supposed they have penetrated even
INTO the hearts OF the women. Thus twenty years OF
apostolic labor which have endured 10 attach the ho
man people 10 the Church sacrificed In few days
Behold what have foreseen and predicted IN a. my
letters come 70 pass And even beyond my hrst fore
bodngs Protestsntism IT, in fact, planted among
portion of this good and religious Roman people
and horrible tell this has been brought soouf by the
priests themselves by the miserable politics into which
they have led the Pope Al my dear friend the Idea
oi bishop who rains grape shoi upon bis docese-oia
shepherd who cuts the throat Of MS sheepOi father
. no deyotes MS childreE u desth-Oi Pope who
means 10 reign. 70 impose himself upon 3,OOOuo oi
Christians BY iorce-who means 70 establish his throne
upon ruins corpses and blood This ideA, say, . 90
strange contrary the letter and spirit OF the gos
pei that there conscience which does not revolt Al
tho faith which bear up against tho heart
which does not grosn a. tho tongue which Is not
moved by IL 70 cursing Az even % basphsmy An
better thousand times better, have Lost the temporal
power, the whole world necessary than % have gwen
such scandal 70 bis people
Oh II Plus X bad been left 20 huself-had he only
been able according 70 the dictates OF MS o~n
heart IL the arsi place, he would never have leii
Rome; or II driven 70 that be would never have quit
ted the Roman States He would hsve gone 70 Bologns
OF 20 Areona Civita Necchs. where he would have
been received IS the messenger OF heaven There ne
would have rejected the dsputAou cent BY toe
CRY OF Rome thence be would have auncrs1 t1e