New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-01-09


.a's,qI'eaay R1oyfea oy The Ty'suae By r C. Ie'1'd
Ia the name Of tie Father, the son, and the
| Boy Ghost, Amen am about TO read a. the sub.
| ,the remarks which intend 10 offer the entire
| IN Chapter Of the Acts Of the Apostles.
Bishop Hughes then read The chapter sIecaed' and
I ben continued his discourse as follows
There are times my beloved brethren, ia the
| history Of the Christian Church, when men are 50
| s-tsted and disturbed by the developments Of hu.
nan passions and Of human projects no the earth.
uatit is necessary, cXpedent al east for those
sho believe 10 return % the recollection Of
sst principles The utility Of tins viii be found
10 the fact that principles are eternal and immu.
table, whereas all that is not principle, is neces-
,.nly subject 70 the vcissitudes Of times and Of
circumstances Bot recently, VIC Catholics exuJ-
3D. perhaps with presumptuOus JOY at the ap-
,arent favor with which this world seemed 10
rgard our religion aqd our doctrine, aud with the
Correction OF us own judgment. with which it be.
san 10 review our history. At the same time
every breeze from the East brought tia it tidings
d ao,essions 70 the fold OF Christ-and sccessions
sot from the class that are least esteemed, in this
world, but sccessions from the ranks OF the ele-
yeied oithe educated Of the powerful Of the noble.
Fgen now we can enumeTate, y thin a period
Of bat few years, about one hundred, former
ly Protestant clergymen OF the most distinguished
character even before their change, who have re-
hnquisbed the fortunes Of this world and have at
,aehed themselves 70 the poverty Of the Catholic
cross.
We perhaps took cOmplacency m these events,
and we supposed that God was about to open TO
bis Church a certain glorious career Of prosperity,
and that from this time forward, she and her doc
times would be tho rallyiug points Of perpexed
minds around which the Heterogeneous systems
should ultimately coDgregste, and from her
should derive a new and necessary principle
# lie for the world that is and thcworld that
h. ~ come. We do not say that these things
are about 10 cease but IN the midst of this
feeling. tidines have reached ms that the supreme
pastor Of the Church of God on earth, the POutih,
whose accession TO the papal throne has been hail
td not merely by Catholics, butby Protestants, BY
all the civilized nations OF the earth, 50 10 speak
the Pontin who, for the first time, II IL saldsaid
falsely, however undertook 10 coucilate the
trgtbs of religion with the best interests Of human
hberty-the POntif who was supposed to seize
the favorable moment the turning tide, as Il were,
IA the history Of human civilization, and who
placed himself In the front OF the movement the
heodom of his people, aud opening the prison
doors Of political captivity, who struck the letters
fsm the innocent, because II was ms duty, and
from the guilty, because II was his Inclination
that this same Pontlh IS himself now fugitive
that tins same people, and, be 1t known, one OF
those whom he released from the dungeons OF a
political captivity among the foremost of them,
have driven him from the scpulchre Of st. Peter,
aud have there established their own sacrieglous
watch.
There is nothing very new IN this for It IS not
the frsttime the POpcs have been expelled from
the capital of the Christian world. For the Chris
man, there is nothing extraordinary for 1t Is quite
probable that the same persons that proiessed al
terence TO Christ when he was ON earth, ana
received benefits from Him; were iOund swelling
the chorus OF the mob that crled out cruelty hlm'
cruelty him. And again, the chapter oithe ACTS
Of the Apostles which have read, teaches, not
by the phraseology simply but by the fact which
Is recorded there, that although God may permit a
,aorilegious world to lay It's hands upon the SUI
preme OF his anointed order, he reserves TO him-
self the pow er of setting at nought both their pur
poses and their means Tor accomplishing them.
No. Christian, Catholic brethren, there IS no
reason why we should be dismayed at these
events On the contrary, | might say, II there
has been a moment in modern times. when the
Catholic might feel certain species of PRIDE, Il
should be at the moment which presents the
supreme pastor of the Church IN an attitude SO
glorious that now occupied by POPE flgs
IN. For. be II observed that the ctlmc htulo
u,ed TO his predecessors by the wicked was
certain species of enmity 10 the progress OF lib
ertv They were looked upon as obstacles, I'M
peciments in the way OF progression. lie, on
the contrary, was hailed with acclamatons by
tbs same " orld, as one who reversed the pohcy
Of the Holy See, and adopted the principles OF
freedom He made his people tree-comparative-
H. at least he threw open the doors OF the prisons
Of his State and, by way Of showing the recon-
pense which good man may expect irom WICK
"a world the letters which he struck from the
bands OF others they themselves were the hist 10
as,en upon his own.
The result is no fault Of the Pope, therefore Let
hat world which is so c.amorous for freedom, &C
cunt tor ii. The opinion of all sober minded sndr re
sectng men W III be opposed tn this wicked perse-
ca,.on. That their cause has been injured, thst
even the ardent friends OF Liberty VIII shrink
bach arighted at the excuses that have beenper-
petrated i'm its name, is sure. And II tyrants sha
tgain combine 10 crush this young monster-as II
seems to develop itself MS a monster-ihere need
ss no surprise; tor according to the laws OF hu-
nan nature It's conduct on TINS occasion IS cale"'
a.ed u lead TO no other possible result
But Tor US beloved brethren, 1t is consolation
aknow that this people shall not succeed against
tie Lord anointed And the reason OF tins Is,
tat Whenever God appoints to any situation OF
Ne. he always gives the grace and the ineaus 10
| ne appointed 10 accomplish the duties OF that SIT
aaticn that what God has instituted, what he has
| commanded, what he has established, and estab-
shed tor an eternal duration, he viii never aban-
ton. Aud since We know that SAINT Peter him.
j ssA aud his successors as heirs OF the Office to
shich he was appoin,ed-that Sain, Peter, IN the
ist Instance is pronounced by the Saviour Of men
A. he r,ck on which he should build his Church,
igsinst which the gates OF he'll should not pre-
uil-we have there. to counterbslsuce the wick
s,ness Of the world fhs eternal rcrdc'g q ne ar
W God and now the question will be between
he strength Of the sacrlegious usurpers snd me
| 6od Of Heaven. Il all other means isii, " nave
a,h to believe that TO day, IA the day oil Peter
sod viii send an angel, and that anSel w" oe
hand in two olHces. one securing liberty 20 the
,ead Of the Church, aud the other stflAinS WIN
ne Judgment Of vengeance those who have at
smpted 10 deprive him OF Il. There are those
Thong you. perhaps who are old enough TO remem
,ef IN the first French Revolution, under Whas
Vas called the Republic. the captivity OF Figs l,
low be WAS seized and carried away, and die"
captivity how his successor. Plus VII was
siectcd, not on the sol 81 the Roman states IN
exile and Punishment. and how he, in his turn,
sas carried away. Like Peter in the prisons oil
htrOi, SO ives he In the apartments OF IOntain-