New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-10-06
BY GREELEY & McELRATH.

lew days aitcr they nzd iss1eu lo' iHeT H~'iS'
compelling all men % take the Republican money
ar par II must be remembered that the ssung
Of paper money was not a new thing c0ntrige1 Or
devised BY the Republicans. Inc Pspal Govern
nent has for a long time used paper currency
The Republicans therefore, only continued Ia oP-
Grafton the financial policy OF tie Papal O,Vern-
ment. Who, then, are the extortiOnefs they
VINO prudently continue the policy Of . cir prcdo-
cessOrs s. as not ~ disturb aud unsetle business
| or they " hO frat compel the farmer, BY Law, 10
take paper money Tor his produce aud then, villa
oUr previous notice. cut that psPer down thirty
| i've cents on the dollarl The m1ltitadss OF poor
| peasants, latOrers AMI small iradesman and me
chsnics whom | saw in the marketpsce on the
morning when this decree suddenly appeared IN
pecards on the xalls cursing eccleslattical gov
eminent showed that they had iormod very dill
ierent opinion from the learned Bishop Hugh-s as
to who 10 reality had "extorted money from the
| people
III. The next change notice is that the
| Roman Republicans "haye almost ega'ized az
fascination" II is difficult 10 understand what
j Bishop Hughes means by almost legalizng as
sassination. In all the laws passed by the Re
public. @ copy OF which have before me, there is
nothing approaching the legaiizing OF assassina-
ton or countenGncing it. the statistics Of crime
| show that under ths Republic crime decreased,
! ba, as soO1 as the Repubi, was overthrown, and
the Papa power r. established, twelve assassins-
toDs 10 the streets Of Rome Immediately followed !;
and in the city OF BolOgns the city next in size
/ % Rome in the Papal States, and cOntainin z
] ~ 900 inhabitants the number Of murders under
the Papal Government averaged 90 per annDm.
and attempts 10 assassnste with the stiletto 300
| per annum number unOaralleed In modern
times. Unfortunately for b shop Hughes the sta
ti,tcs Of crime do not sustain the charges in lis
letter but reiute them-and, for his own sake, II
| is 10 be regretted that he did not make an sxam-
nation Of them before writing
". The next thing | notice Is the charge that
d" they the Roman Republicans WELD the
stile,tO and sacrifice by assassination the hu1 AZ
victims who to propitiate the young goddess
! OF Liberty In Italy" This is all entirely mis-
| take. The stelto was not in use in the Rspub-
| lie. Indeed, that instrument IL 80 much used
| under despOtic governments, that Ia the pubic
mind in Europe II has become one OF the badges
OF Despotism, and when they fall, 1t disappears
with them. ] have talked wlth at least a dozen
| Catholics here, one Of them priest, another a
merchant OF the highest Standing Catholic, an
| svowod monsrchst, q personal and political TREND
OF the Pope, and stanch supporter OF the Eccle-
| sias,ical cause, although he is almost the only
merchan' here Of that descriptionl-and he, as
Tell IS all the others unite in assuring me that
10 human victim has been sacrificed in Rome by
assassination, with "a view 10 propitlata the
Young goddess of Liberty IN Italy, as Bishop
Hughes very enormously seems TO suppose
V. The next charge notice is, " there is 10 eg-
idence that it the revolution 10 tho work Of the
NOfnan people. here YOU DbHOp hushes -
wholly in error. After a careful examination,
declare it as my deliberate opinion, no revolution
in modern times can furnish so many evidences OF
ITS being the work Of the people and no revolu-
| ton can furnish so much evidence OF uDanimlty
among the people ss the Roman One volume OF
these evidences, quarto OF 600 pages, 10 already
published | cannot of course, give IN letter Its
| contents bat | invite ell Americans who may
chance to be Ia Rome during the next Winter
when those proceedings Will be more fully printed
| to examine these evidences. and see whether the
| truth IS 10 be found in the statement which have
made, or in the marked and stribngly direct ss-
seriion of Bishop Hughes 10 the contrary chGl
! lenge investigation. Let any fair man, care not
OF what party Papal, Protestant or neutral exam
| inc the published proceedings OF the people IN or
| ganizing the Roman Republic and then say, II
| amorg modem revolutions, the Roman does not
stand prominently distinguished by the unsn'ni
| " of the people. And as the Roman people were
united in the revolution, also were they united
| ia the sentiment of the invielablty OF property
| and hence all the church property was sale, aud
| here il remains new The gorgeous drapery, The
| golden candlestcks the gems aud vases the Tres
| Goes aud mosacs the cOlumnsand structures that
have been ages IN building, and have cost SO many
millions upon millions of money, are all sale ex-
| cept Whist the French cannon destroyed, and here
they all remained safe for SIX months among thOse
revolutionary Republicans whom Bishop Hughes
| accuses of plunder. Yet many OF those poor ne
|
| mercy, went TO bed hungry aud rose hungry 10
the morning, and went TO work for few baocchl
| per day and they knew that eceleslastcal gov
| eminent had made them poor Now upon tois
| view of facts does 1t not become those who IN
dertake TO accuse people thus oppressed and
thus forbearing, to be careful that their statements
| are tr0e :
VI The next statement notice is this They
THE Hevolutionists have established, according to
what regard MS the trucst accounts, Reign OF
| Terror over the Roman People, which they call
| Government This is, like the foregoing matters
already noticed, the reverse OF the truth. Instead
| of a Reign OF Terror, there was mud and hu
name administration OF law aud ready ac1aies,
cense OF the citizens, who were nearly a OF
one mind and left the Pope almost without any
party except the priests and part OF the mobiles.
At the time of the bombardment the population
numbered 10000. OF these 1000 to s,OOO were
lighting and there corps de Teseire OF 10000
who were not called into action. The remainder
of the citizens, say 10000, pursued their usual
occupations, except as they were interrupted by
cannon balls or occasionally when bombs Tell and
burst in crowds, or in houses, and /, became ne
cessary 10 call In eighbors TO carry out the dead
aud bury them, and remove the wouaded to the
hospitals But aside from this terror there was no
Reign of Terror whatever in the city. No man
was executed, nor were any arrested and hurled
toto the dungeons of the lnquisition merely for
opinions sake, as they are now by the rein
stated InQuisiuon of the Cardinals. All men were
free 20 worship God as they saw tit-the Press
was free and the people were AT liberty to pursue
their own happiness In their own way so lar IS
any people can pursue or ever dream OF happi-
ness, at whose devoted heads are flying bomb
shells and balls from a hundred cannon. have
examined all those parts OF the city where the
French cannon made ravsges during tne lombard
ment although Gen. 0udinot denies that there
was any bombardment. OF the many Instances
which came under my observation ! Will mention
one a house where a bomb-shell fell at the COM
mencement OF the siege. Ii broke through the
roof and the upper floors and the kitchen where
the family were at the moment engaged IN prepaf-
ing their dinner. There II burst killing the mother
of the family and woGndng several others. The
body Of the mother was horribly mutilsted, both
the lees being torn of and the trunk literally cot
in two.
VII The next statement which notice is this
L" II is certain that, TO great extsnt. those who
have taken part in it (,he Rsvolutionl are stran,
gers to Rome, who found other parts OF Italy snd
Of Continental Europe unwilling to receive or 10
retain them Exactly the reverse OF the bisn
op's statement is true, that "a, to sma" extent