The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-11-27
THE NATIONAL ERA WASHINGTON D. C, NOVEMBER o. 1851

tensions of the Pope to interference in her tenn
poral concerns; meantime. giving full credit
to his Catholic countrymen for their equal de-
votion to Religious Liberty
But this tribute to Catholics cannot appease
the wrath Of the Prelate, aroused by the con-
domination of Jesuits, and the approval of re-
sistance to Papal pretensions to interference
in the temporal concerns of nations Is the
Archbishop prepared to vindicate the attempt
of the Pope to interfere with the civil concerns
of Hungary? Then, he must be an advocate
OF such interference with the temporal con-
Germs of this Republic Ifnot, why his indig-
nation at Kossuth because he rehearses with
pride the noble answer Of King Corvinus to
the Supreme Pontiff! That the Jesuits have
interfered to aid Tyrants against the People,
is fact and even Catholic countries have
sometimes sought to exclude them from their
bounds. But, the exposure of this fact by
Kossuth transforms him in the judgment of an
American Prelate from hero into q humbug
We see now the secret of the hostility man
Tested by the Catholic Press Of this country to
Kossuth and European reyolutionists
We have already quoted from the Catholic
Freeman's Journal of New York. pronounced
by Bishop Hughes, in his letter to Horace Gree
ley, to be very good Catholic paper and
from the Catholic Telegraph of Cincinnati.
The Pittsburg Catholic paper joins in with
their denunciations and now we have the Bos-
ton Pilot, the Catholic paper of Boston, using
snch language as the following concerning
Kossuth
"Just now, he is very important accession
to the Red Republicans in Europe. They are
ready for another fight; they have been held
| in by main force now for year past, restrained
| by police and soldiers on one hand, and by
| their own leaders on the other for these, and
| only these, know precisely ,chen the fight viii
begin Every country in Europe is undermined
| by that terrible volcano, the secret societies
whose Supreme Committee sits at London. Al
vet nothing has been done, excepting to muir
der forty or fifty persons French soldiers, Off
cials and the like at Rome but the genera
feeling is, that the outbreak may happen al
any moment, and that it cannot be postponed
| longer +bat-t 10 next May. hese rifeumstan,
cas ,s,s ., he o,iy .3yl,bSsS. aryS. ,s
vigilance Of Fl the European authorities Tor the
last few months. They do not know that the
storm is ready to burst, but they know from
what quarter Under these circumstances, II
is clear that Kossuth cannot be spared by the
Reds. Mazzini is the chief to be sure but
Kossuth, though not one of the Supreme Com
mttee. is their best card His movements will
probably be decided after meeting with them
at London
We very much mistake the character o.
American Catholics, if the undisguised hatred
manifested by their Prelates and Press to the
cause of Popular freedom in Europe, and it
most devoted champions, do not produce deel
dissatisfaction among them, and lead many o
them to inquire whether the Pope and his hier
archy be not the most formidable foes that Re
publicanism has to encounter.