New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-13
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thcn full OF TIE old PantheIsn Of Greece, and one
o! the toasts was framed IN this wise George
! w ashineton-The modern ] JASON, Who has brought
beck to the people the golden fleece Of liberty
say that the spirit of ,beity Is Identified with
the spirit II Catholic Chris tiAi45ly. Why should
The ,Iesuts be accused Of being Che cnemes Of
Liberty in tlie book gi the Duties OF Kings,
the king is taught TINT lie cannot IL tyTent. la
itugla4d Who opposed tie divine ight ot kings
Tic Jesuils were tie lner they showed That al
power came from God TO tltg People. ana through
tie People to the King. BsAemah and 7aares
were the chief opposers OF tbis divine r5ht, IN
King james s tine But agaiu The Jcsu1ta have
been chnrged with immortality Macanlay. makes
this charge. on the authority Of Pascal [ know
Chat Pascal Letters have been read with aTldlty
il tins country, and from. them many OF tie
people get the idea that the Jesuit IS mon.
sler. But there is not page OF truth ia eli
of these lectures they have not even the merit
Of originality Dumolan had previously made the
same charges upon the Catholic Church at large
But Dumolon's work was also false patchwork
and forgery Upon this ground Pasca! based
LIS charges against the Society Of Jesus. This
state upon my character This is the work from
which many IN this country take their ideas OF
Jesuits, The Jansenists (of which Pascal was an
ornament) are as violent enemies rs the Catholic
Church has ever Lad. DR.. r. reviewed some OF
the CalyauisticJ ansenist doctrines, and showed
their utter disagreement with the doctrines OF the
Roman Church. Yet Macaulay makes Pascal
saint, and Loyoa a fanatic but Macaulay q
Scotch Presbyterian, and by his faith could not
see such differences in favor OF the Calvanstlc
school ! say that the Jesuit does not seek his
own ease; he will go among sovages or among
Kings for the sole work Of his God. Even the
Indians who burned the jesuit at the stake were
forced to acknowledge his iron endurance, lie
possesses character which IN earlier ages
would have been honorcd with monuments,
and their names would have been handed
down as benefactors OF man and preservers
a. latte ~ hnI
arc represented as being corruptcrs OF youth,
seekers after personal and political power, &c
Bot this is not their character. They live accord,
ing to their rules and these are attalnable and
Gun be examined by the whole world, 1t Is true
that the Iesuis Were disbanded and suppressed
by Clement NV but that very destruction was
their final glory. Why were thcy dissolved =
That was the time to make the charges against
them which Pascal had preferred. Were any
charges made None whatever; there were none
to nake-none could be made. The Society was
suppressed solely for Peace sake. SPAIN aGi
Portugal and France were under the terrible rule
Of the French philosophers; and in France these
philosophers were upheaviDg the very foundations
of morality w c see how their spirit was carried
out in therdeificationo OF an abandoned woman The
Jesuits were sacrificed as peace offering and as
no unceGn or mutilated thing could be lad upon
the peace altar, as oil peace offerings were pure so
the Icsuts were pure. But the Jesuits were re-
stored by the same authority which suppressed
them When religion had been desecrated, and
morality had become by-word, and society was
almost dsorganzed, Plus VII then a prisoner in
the power of Napoleon) declared that if ever he
should be restored to the Chair of St. Peter, his
first duty should be the reGstablishment of the So
ciety Of Jesus. This promise he fulfilled, and the
bull by which their rights restored was the
most splendid defense that the disciples of Igna
thus could desire In it they are called the guar
dams of Society, the Oarsmen of st. Peter, and
other equally honorable names. This eulogy was
all that the Jesuit could need i'll his hour of trial
all that the American people can wish, to know
that Jesuits are not the men that they are repre-
sented to be but that they are the friends oflber
ty the friends of society the friends Of learning.
and the friends of religion and morality. And
long may they live to enjoy the character which
they have so noby earned.