New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-02-02

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fss X 10 lhis days TSit-As might have ssso
SOD by many Do you pro'ess sgsIns. voc sy,.iS
- o]~rexfg he Roaan priests from attending on iis sies
n The hour Of their egooy-thos ioIcl.x ~. -! ~
$1,000 you rglIy you question ue tr1th Of bio
ssserng The pT-silood 'e,s driven from e1erelsns
b. funcions OF ts sacred iDsnyb the iberyprsoet'ng
ssansesDs Were hey The liberty party nghl IN her
Iduct toward he elerg{ on 'hs occasion II not tDen
.e sneh saere Ous Interference and include The same
"a Xour protect Do you Judge rightly by only heS'ing
~ Evidence On one SIDE
a iateseh the yerscy OF the usthOus exile Plus TX
itsys tssa reader u The Iybant for some lime past
"a haze even read Miss fullefs celebrated letters from
- Ftsrps CITY BAT could never learn, with persps ohe
,osp,on nat the sympaes Of the first ladies Of Rome
- sssmsD eilef were favorable to ths hen Republican
~ yovernmen Al al. TO some least, Of "ihe ladies 81
tose5 the epitlet 10 applied bui who In New
80. car fsvorably compare with the respectable
ier, and deu ghers Of New Ork" in point Of morality
Vl vou say yonr dsa VIII enable you 20 arrive at the
rad in nsller more accurately Than the Clergy Of
gone and Plus TX But suppOsDg that really NE hrsl
aides o. Rome"-ttose 10 vhom ne vile epiinei woud
nI Win as much inius the respectable
vo,hers and daughters Of Newly Ork"-supposing say
asl nsy TO send on Tue sick even her eHenie
geiy hat Pins TX. would brand them as prosituies'
80 eir rsrformiug those benevOeuce which he
(Lnfc d which be- 10 the severe gn. pastor have never
,ssed 10 encourage and whose glOnOus charitable insIi
ION. the pride Of every cline. living Tefuanons OF
ehsrge al once " ungeneross and 80 un)ott ls Pehu
nhon thew believed 10 honest editor fastening PEI
sys uBcOnsciOusy, The calumna.ed brow Oi ar ekFd
bgivenersble POnn, another unworthy mpuiatlon whch
% very face beers the impress 81 its own eternal con
5emnatiOn. , ~, ,
Rome and gentlemen Of Rome and other oiies OF Italy
s,o syupatbsef with Tie sOcaleG Republicans but they
ere those no loved instead Of ltc' hcenoun>s
anudng Of course class referred 10 IN The encycca
instead of tue liberty; with bead enough to conirYe
crime but not heart enough To eel iof ne consequences
whose presence would coniannae the purest atmosphere
aeslns wherever they go, and poisoning wherever ey
rspose With these facts before bis Holiness arm not sur
prseo his admirable letter should oe couched In such
Awsrdins 70 YOU DE enjoyment OF your opinions Is
TOO much ASK place Ia your columns for ths beng The
feelings aud views Of many Of your readers ana you WI
ysrlenlariy oblge JUSTICE.
We did not attempt anything like thorough criti-
cism Of the encycical letter not caring to revive
sabiect Gu which the judgment Of all impartial
fresmen has already been passed, without some
diner occasion than the mere assertion Of party
~ profoundly interested in the quarrel as is the
pontiff OF course, lac can only view the matter
one way while we view it the other, and many
things which lie sincerely regards as facts, we are
convinced on what appears TO us conclusive evi
deuce are no facts at all. Possibly he is right and
the Republicans Of Rome and all our own cores
pondence private and public, and that of other
journals at London ami Paris, ON which We are ac
cu,iomed to rely entirely wrong as to that History
will decsively pronounce. In remarking upon the
encvchcs we did not intend to sall up the question
tat only to protest energetically and suceinctly
against the application OF an infamous epithet 10
women whose conduct during the siege OF Rome
especially commands our entire applause.
1t seems, however that correspondent has
cot understood us He seems 10 think, because We
L. /. Al, 10, ~ Latte M
meant TO admit their truth and wishes to know II
we think the Republican leaders al Rome were
night in preventing priests from attending on the
SCH IN the time OF their agony That there may
h. no more misunderstanding on this point, We now
deny most snrphaucally thot any such prevention
took place and conclusive proof OF our position Is
the fact that after the Pontihcal Government was
reestsbhshed fifty priests cast into prison 10y
the Cardinals who held the supreme authority, be
cause they had administered the consultations OF
religion to the wounded who were in he state Of
ercommun,c0f.oa that having been inflicted ON the
Republican rebels by the Pope This does not at
Gil look as II the priesthood were prevented from
exercising their Office. Moreover every hospital OF
the Republic had its regularly attached priests,
whose particular duty was 10 render TO the suffer
i0s and dying the rites OF the Catholic religion
sni after death funerals were duly celebrated
With regard to the term prostitutes applied to
those ladies OF Rome who organized themselves ms
corps Of attendants At the hospitals Of san Spinto.
tue Quirlnal and others We viii allow our cor
respondent argument to pass ior what It is worth
lie Ia much more ready Ia support the encyccsl Ia
this respect than was the Paris tatreyS Journal
whose authority Catholic organ he Will prob
ably not question That paper, being challenged to
explain the injurious epithet, replied by saying that
Il did not refer 10 those ladies' but to isolated per
soas and 10 isolated acts committed out OF the hos
pilas by certain unnamed demsgogues If thai,
were the case the republican authorities Mazzii,
Garbaldi \ Co" could no, be charged with the out
rage any more Justly than the cardinals now ruling
At Rome could be charged with the personal COM
mission OF every one OF the assassinations which
their government does not prevent. But we do not
credit the assertion at all il such thing had been
We should not now hear OF il for the first time IL
Is one OF those exaggerations generated and spread
sbrOsd by excited party spirit, ike the story that
ssseay priests were slaughtered by the republi
eans IN cavern at Rome and we can only regret
that the writers OF the encyclcsl should have put
into il what would be no credit to the most violent
aad INSCRIPTIONS organ OF party warfare.
We regret to hurt anybodys feelings. but our po-
ntion is not one which always permits too tender
srsgard ol The points where all cur readers may
BE- sensitive. There is oten necessity for saying
things which must hart the feelings OF many per.
sns quite badly, and We are somewhat used 10
bearing those thus affected express themselves
with less respect for our humble lsbors than when
they were directed to other quarters. Especially
has tbs been the case in connection with the con-
roversy between Plus IN. and his insurgent sub.
lecis. And yet we are persuaded that many who
condemn our course in this respect woald see 9th.
srwise were il not that the monarch driven out BY
As people snd by the growth OF the Democratic
spirit is at the same time the head OF that Church
VA which their highest hopes are conferred and
around which their most cherished associations
custer. Had Plus IN. been merely Prince. he
weald have elected no such upquestioning synpa'
thy Il is the revered Priest and not the Monarch
Who thus entirely enHsts the support Of many who
awerything else are ,horO0gh Republicans We
zee IA this fact another evidence OF the essential N
enpatbiliiy Of the two functions and we are com