The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-11-27
MARCH OF DEsP0TIsM.

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MARCH OF pEsPoTIsM
The Pope has lately effected an arrangement
with the Spanish Government, by which all re-
lo;ons but the Catholic are to be excluded from
Snain, under severe penalties. He has already
nrohibted the Bible in Rome, and the Ameri-
,an chapel allowed as a matter of special grace
TO Mr.. Cass on account of some pious deed Of
his acceptable to the Supreme Pontif, has been
closed The Neapolitan Government his ally,
crowds its prisons to suHocation with political
offenders In the month of June, eighty-two
German works were prohibited by the Russian
Government some of them the same as those
recently excluded from the Papal States
Within month, five different works published
BY the firm of Otto Wigaud & Co, Leipzig, have
been seized, and the sale forbidden. The Con-
stitutionslle Zeitung, of Dresden, It'll ult, says
the New York Euening Post, (which publishes
report of a meeting in honor of M Kossuth,
held at Westminster, in England, was seized
and suppressed by the police, by order of the
Minister of the Interior The journal states
that it gave only an abstract of the proceedings
and expressed no opinion of its own on the sub
ject of the debate, and denies that the matter
seized comes under the provision of the law on
the authority of which the minister issued
the order"
The official Dresden Journal condenses all the
reports of the proceedings in England, at
Southampton and elsa~he7e. into half a line
sS.,s.s si...t "a. noss.... ..fs ..nuvU q liEe
aboFe-named port.
The Pope, in his allocution concerning Spain,
says:
And, therefore, you will perceive that the
Catholic religion with all its rights which it
enjoys by its divine institution and the sanction
of the sacred canons is 50 singly as heretofore
to flourish and be dominant in that kingdom,
that every other worship is altogether removed
and interdicted."
Again
at has also been decreed that all the magis-
trates of the kingdom shall use their endeavors
to insure that due honor, observance and obe-
dience, shall be shown to the ecclesiastical au-
thority and dignity To this it is added, that
the most illustrious Queen and her Government
promise to give all assistance by their powerful
patronage and protection to the aforesaid
bishops. when. in the exercise of their pastoral
Office, they shall have occasion to restrain the
wickedness and audacity of those men princi-
pally who impiously seek to pervert the minds
of the faithful and corrupt their morals, and
when they shall have to scatter and drrre array
from the flock the detestable and dire plague
and ruinous evil of pernicious books"
A similar arrangement has been concluded
with Tuscany, and the Pope announces
E" 1t is decreed that the bishops shall have all
liberty in fulfilling all those things which per.
tain to the sacred ministry, and may exercise
censorship over writings and works which treat
of things relating to religion; that they may
freely apply their episcopal authority to keep
away the faithful from any bad reading what
sOever mschievous whether to faith or morals
The Bishop of Buffalo, who lately delivered 9
lecture in this city, went into an argument t.
show that the Catholic church was the decided
friend of civil and religious liberty. Archbishop
Hughes of New York, disdaining concealment
boldly avows appreciation of the Pope's policy
In letter to the editor of the New York Tn
bune, just published, he says:
81 am not aware that Protestant State
such as Sweden is bound, by way of granting
religious liberty to place Atheism on the same
footing as Lutherism Neither am of opinion
that the Sovereign Pontih, whose subjects arc
entirely Catholic and united in belielf is bound
to throw his States open for the preaching Of
every form of Professionalism and Infidelity As
spiritual head of the Catholic church on earth,
he is bound to preserve the revelation which
bas hrs 10 o,,tbn
stiOn to that religion would be to take sides
with the father of lies; and am sure, sir, that
you would hardly expect the Pope to 20 so far.
Besides, as temporal prince, he knows the
horrors OF civil war which have desoated other
countries, springng out of the ambitions of re-
hgous sects each struggling for political as
tendency in the State. But besides all this, he
Knows that it is a fundamental article of the
Protestant religion to believe that he is anti
Christ Liberty of conscience, therefore, in
your sense would require that the Pope should
become directly party to the introduction of
every species of error and impcty, and the over
throw of his own authority, both as temporal
prince and sovereign pontif.
That Jesuitism in America, while it dares to
defend the war of the Pope on religious frss-
dom, should become the open apologst Of the
war Of European tyrants against the rights OF
the People, will excite surprise in no one who
has studied its history The same high func.
tionary sneers at the late revolutions in Eu
rope because they turned up no great man
He had some hope of Kossuth, but the incense
he offered to Ango-Saxonism, and his fling al
the Jesuits, in his speeches in England, hav,
shown him to be rather the humbug than here
of the 10Th century" Such is his language il
the letter addressed to Horace Greeley Her,
are the sentiments Of Kossuth which hav,
drawn down upon him the anathemas of tn,
Archbishop:
Even Jesuitism, which in latter times ba
again begun to raise its head, is employed i,
support of Russia. We are in the neigh
borhood OF great country, which unfortu
natcly does not enjoy the fruits of sorrowfu
times and great sufferings The Jesuit part,
IN France threaten that country with the Cos
sacks, Even here in this glorious country
question connected with this not long ago wa
agitated as well in public opinion as in Parlia
ment. know what is convenient TO mysel
and due to you. | will not enter into tina
question. will only state one curious conci
dent am Protestant Applause. ! an
Protestant not only by birth, but by connec
ton. | am an humble member Of a nation
the majority Of which is composed of Cath
olics, and it is not the least glory of my natio
that in all times we have fought and bed 70
religious lberty-Cotholics as devotedly q
Protestants. The rights and freedom OF tn
rrotestants were always strongly opposed b.
The house of Hapsburg
That house had always in history bee
closely united with the spirit of Jesuitsm, bu
the freedom of Professionalism had been estat