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menacing the Church is superior to all other
dangers. And this is the point 1t requires
no Talleyrand nor Richelieu to foresee that in
the event Of continental revolution, the tenn
poral and even the ecclesiastical government Of
the Pope are in immediate danger Of extinc-
tion-not of mere removal to Gaeta, for a few
months, but of extinction and extirpation from
the face Of Europe.
France, though nominaly Catholic, is infidel
in fact. The seed sown by Voltaire has taken
deep root in the soil. At his day religion had
again degenerated into ceremonials and super
stition, and from superstition to infdeity the
gradations are natural aud easy. Through
out Germany, the doctrines of the schools
Of philosophy have almost entirely eradi-
Gated the true principles Of the Catholic
church; and even in the Protestant societies
there is more Of empty formality than of honest
devotion. We might fill this paper with evil
dence to this point--thnt the prime movers of
revolution, and the masses of their adherents
throughout Germany, as in France, are free
thinkers, often to the EXTREMIST absurdities Of
atheism. The late revolutionary struggle in
Rome and the guard which the French army
has been compelled to maintain over the Pope
from that day TO the present hour, betray the
extent of the mutiny in the camp Of Pic Mono,
even under the shadows of the basilica of ST.
Peter. In truth, as in 1848, so in 1852, the
first blow Of the general revolt will probably be
struck in ltaly--in Rome-and at the Pope and
the Popedom. Hence we find the French army
in Paris, in anticipation Of the necessity, ha-
rangued upon its duty of defending the Pope.
The programme of the projected revolution,
then, may be safely set down as comprebending
the deposition of the Pope, temporal and spirit
ual, and the extirpation of the College of Car
dinals, the schools of the priesthood, monks
and friars, monasteries and converts, from the
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ary movement, it then becomes probaL It
the Pope and the church will be driven to -er-
lea for safety and protection.
Here, then, as the chief Of the revolutionary
consprat ators--as the great apostle of liberty
to whom all parties in Europe bow with defer
ence and respect--here, in this danger to the
Pope and the church, may Kossuth trace the
deep foundation of the hostility of Archbishop
Hughes. 1t is no new hostility; it existed as
fervently in 1913 as in 1851. The mission of
Kossuth is identified with all the revolutionary
elements of Europe; their plans and principles
menace the Pope and his church with the most
imminent peril. Archbishop Hughes has not
been to Europe FOOLS errand: he appre-
ciates the danger; he knows it to exist; he has
seen it in Rome; he feels it here; and he hates
the agitator whose mission is fraught with such
disastrous contingencies.
The destruction of the Pope, and of the for
midable organization Of his church, would be
subject of great rejoicing to the Protestants,
from the hierarchy Of England to the seventy
Elders Of the Latter Day Saints at the Great
Salt Lake. 1t was the building of st. Peters
that work ed out the reformation of Luther: but
its destruction will be followed with far more
radical changes, and operating over far wider
range of revolution. We shall feel the effects,
on this side the Atlantic, in the due progress of
events
Quite as manifest as the reactionary spirit
against the Church Of Rome, is the popular
sentiment of Europe against the American in
stitution Of slavery. In England and on the
continent, the equality Of all races is admitted.
This was illustrated at the Crystal Palace,
in the flirtatons between the rosy daughters
of the island, and the darkey and woolley-
headed descendants Of Congo or the Gold
Coast Of Africa We see it illustrated in
the French Assembly. The two delegates from
the island of Martinique, sitting in that body,
are black as the King of Dahomey, but are, in
caste, on a footing Of perfect equality and fra
ternity with Nj. Berryer, Victor Hugo, and the
whole Assembly, and the whole nation. The
same principle is universal on the continent.
The Hungarians, from their isolated position,
are practically ignorant of the nature of our in
ternal controversy on this question. But the
| rest Of Europe understands it, and the socialist
Germans are, especially, identified in sentiment
with our Abolitionists, next to the English
agitators. At this time, socialist agents Of the
continental reyolutionists are busy amongus pro-
mitigating the doctrine Of negro emancipation.
DR.. Kinkel is blending his German national loan
collections with abolition meetings in the West
At Cleveland, Ohio, ut a late Kinkel meeting, it
was distinctly declared that after the people of
Europe are delivered from despotism, the slaves
of our Southern States shall be liberated. We
might also produce proofs from certain journals
in this city, and from certain meetings as far
south as Richmond, Virginia, disclosing n revo-
lutionary programme in behalf Of the people of
the United States, even more radically demo-
cratic than the crudest democracies of ancient
Greece. After the liberation of Europe, it is
thus disclosed that the work of reformation is
to be undertaken here, and that the slaves of
the South are to be liberated, whatever the
hazards of an exterminating conflict in that
section, like that of bloody ST. Domingo.
Unfortunately, Kossuth has fallen into the
hands Of the philanthropc Aboitionists of New
York. To some extent they have betrayed him
and his cause, in thrusting their abolition and
negro deputations upon him, as If resolved in
defiance of all good feeling and respect for the
man or the South, to make him the victim of
their black designs. We find the same oflicious
intermeddlers foremost in the management of
the proposed Hungarian loan. And thus it is
that we may account for the delay of the Sen
ate in passing the resolution Of welcome, and
the distrust which has been awakened among
Southern men, in and out of Congress.
In conclusion, while we know that an i'm
pending revolution menaces Europe with a gem
eral war between dcspotism and democracy
while the issues involved arc beyond all human
comprehension---it is equally evident that the
Pope and the Church of Rome are in the most
imminent danger. Hence the hostility of Arch
bishop Hughes to kossuth and his mission.
But at last the Abolitonists, having impru-
dently forced the great Magyar under their
protection, while DR.. Kinkel is cooperating
with Abohtionism in the West, we may well
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