Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1849-05-25
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ROME ONCE MORE FALLEN!
The New-York Tribune in speaking of the
recent foreign news, says:--'The French
ministry have determined to send an army for
the purpose of restoring the Pope to the tenn
poral throne of the Roman States. The Ma
tional Assembly consulted on this project. and
voted for it, notwithstanding the efforts of the
faithful and consistent Republicans France
is ruled now by legitimists and intriguers,
who ceaselessly make ready the day of fear
full reckoning. The Government is mad and
doomed.
So Rome falls once again-falls, but not
forever. The kingly authority carries it's own
death-warrant within its pomP and pretence,
whether exercised by priest or layma1. When
the time comes for it to disappear, armies can
as little preserve it as can paper decrees-
And the Legitimate Office of prince is to pre-
pare for the day when there shall be no prin-
ces; to train, educate, fortify, elevate the peo-
pie committed to their charge, in order that
they may be fully ready to govern themselves
when time calls them to undertake it. But
what prince has ever ruled with purpose SO
large and nobe1
Plus TX is now restored, or soon will be,
by the aid of foreign armies, if indeed the
work shall not have been otherwise accom-
plished before the armies arrive. He who
could not allow his own subjects to engage in
war against Austria for Italian independence
because war did not consist with his charac.
ter as head Of the Catholic Church and Vicar
of the Crucifed Nazarene, has not scrupled
to resort to war upon his own subjects, and
for his own restoration to an earthly throne
Liberty, that but few months ago made his
name her word of encouragement to her toll
ing, bafied, but never despairing children, re-
peats that name no longer. The Prince of
Rome has gone over to the Princes.
This is no religious question, however zeal
Gus the efforts to make it such. The Church
of Christ depends not for her power upon the
sway of earthly authority, and requires no
royal splendors to enhance her glory. And,
let the preiudices of the world say what they
will, the Catholic Pontiff would occupy a
far grander and freer position as simply the
successor of St. Peter than as monarch OF the
Roman States-from time immemorial the
worst administered country in Italy if not in
Europe.
But facts are always most wisely regarded
in the spirit of hope, and of all the oanished
and fugitive sovereigns Of Europe there is
none whose restoration could more easily give
occasion to the suggestions of that spirit
Not that we expect Plus * will follow the
path we have spoken of as best for prince,
namely: the education of the People to do
without princes; his past course and the ex-
amples of history generally forbid such
expectation. But there is reason to hope that
he may do much for the improvement of the
Roman Administration by making it more
honest and less costly, that he may favor ed
ucation and give some play to the latent en-
ergies and capacities of the country, and that
under the more or less free working of the
constitutional system. yielded by him when
farther refusal was impracticable, but now to
be definitely established, the foundations OF a
future and more permanent Roman Republic
may be laid as surely as the seed terminates
in the soil warmed by the sunshne-laid to
endure as long as the dome of St Peters
points TO the kindred sky.''