The New York herald., 1851-07-13

Of he people have . clear right .. any time 10
make a change. The Catholics Of this country,
with very few exceptions utterly opposed to the
Pope being temporal ruler; and there is one fact
that speaks volumes-Catholicity in the United
States and in Great Britain and Ireland, where it
has no connexion with the State, 10 confessedy
purer than in France, and Spain, and Italy, and
those countries where it is the established rei igion
of the state.
IL is very evident that Archbishop Hughes has
become reactionary since he backed up the Irish
revolutionists in is4s when he contributed 5000
to establish young repablic in the Green Isle IL
is clear that he has refrigerated since he lauded
Pic Mono to the skies for making step In advance
of the age. The sovereign pontif became alarmed
M his own progress; he first hesitated, then re-
treated. and fpaiy lost himself forever public
man.
The sanguinsry character Of the French revolu-
ton has been urged by the apologist of the Arch
bishop in the Tribune, or the Archbishop him e' as
ground for the reactionary movement puf it was
not sanguinary, in the worst sense of Il term. 1t
is true, some blood shed; but it was rather an
accident than necessary result Of the revolution
The loss of life attending the dehronement Of Louis
Philippe, and the establishment of republic, was
political change; and it is not for moment to be
weighed in the balance against the advantages
flowing from system of self government, by which
the people make their own laws, and carry them
into execution 1t might we'll be turned as An
argument against republi icanism in this country,
that we have State pr sons, and convicts suffering
the penalty of their crimes, under a democratic
form of government Republicansm does not pro-
al Ill, nc 70 IL
cate all the vices of man, but it processes to be the
best system Of human government yet discovered;
and its practical working in the United States, has
abundanty established the soundness of its theory.
In France, too, republicanism would have realized
the expectations OF its rational friends, but for the
mad and headlong course of the socialists the anar-
chsts, and red republicans who attempted a second
revolution, and, failing in the attempt, produced
reaction among the timid, and the supporters of
existing Law and order, which almost brought the
republic back to monarchy. They did not under.
stand the spirit of the revolutionary movement,
and by their imprudent conduct they not only
retarded the chariot wheels Of progress but actu-
ally drove it in the opposite direction. 1t here
that human blood was shed like rain, aud shed to
no good purpose. The true republicans of France
more responsible for this than the republ-
cans of the United States are responsible for the
vagaries of Horace Greeley, socialism, Fourierism,
and all the isms whose followers prefer public
plunder to hard work, and utopian division of
the national wealth, to which they have contributed
little or nothing the nselves to the honest industry
and independence to be realized by the Seat of
their brow. The socialist reform party expected
hat q revolution would make them all rich, like
m agic; and being disappointed in vain and absurd
an expectation, they attempted the overthrow of a
constitutional republic, and all law and order, and
the substitution Of red republic, reign of ter
ror. in IS stead They were put down, as they de-
served to be; but unfortunately, liberty was re
pulsed by the blow, and has not yet recovered
from the shock. The Archbishop, therefore, ought
to make some distinction between monarchy an2
despotism the hand, and red republicansm
and anarchy on the other. Between these extremes
lie constitutional epublisanism and rational free
dom. This was all that The Roman pa triots sought,
and all that the great mass Of European republi.
cans desired. In opposing them, and making COM
mon cause with their tyrants and opprsssors, Arch
bishop Hughes appears to to be an inconsistent
citizen Of the United States; and it is not to be
wondered that plain unsophisticated republicans
should feel dissatisfied vita the promulgation of
such political doctrines from the pulpit, by the
highest digpitary of the Catholic church in thi;
country.