The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-03-27
THE EUROPEAN WORLD.

WorId-Tbc radical defect In his Characterize mas
achieved for the Tiara the hatred OF the Of
the Italians Lonis NvI and Charles I achieved
the hatred of she French and English masses for
the throne by double dealing - The "Papai az
erosion was connected at Gaeta for n political
end-Ensand must retalinte philadelphia ref
ormntion still progressing on the Continent-Eng-
land must and will aid IL in seif.defence-the frog
still the SON Of a tadpole-Cobden on the pot call
Ing the kettle black "-The quod erat demOnstran-
dunn Of the Papal aggression hubbubbOo.
New YoRK, March 90, 1851.
To the Editor of the National Era:
For forty eight hours past all here have been on
tiptoe of expectation, awaiting advices from
abroad by the Arctic, now that time "past due"
Already her non-sppearance gives rise to sur
misses of accidents to her machinery. The At
lantic, it will be remembered, was much longer
g" outD before alarm was felt for her safety. The
misfortune occurring to her being the third mis-
hap TO the Collins line, so lately established, was
we'll calculated to shake public confidence here,
as well as abroad, in the efficiency of its manage
ment This delay caps the climax with its dis
interested friends, who are now inveighing loudly
against all in the city in any manner responsible
for the safety of those on board the Arctic, But
as am thus without news from the centres of
European interest, Germany and France, pro-
pose to have your readers turn their attention
with me for q brief period to Rome and England,
on the face Of whose affairs one can always find
food for earnest investigation and profitable re-
Election.
You will remember how liberalists clapped
their hands, the world over, on the accession Of
Pic Nino, whose personal name, by the by, is
Mastai 1t was everywhere then said that the
Pontifcate was to be better filled than ever be-
fore in short, by "a gentleman with heart in
his bosom J" and all who long for the happiness
and intellectual progress Of their race, without
distinction of creed nation, rejoiced that Cath
olicity was about to have trial of its capabilities
in the way of benefting man, such as had never
before fallen to its lot. In fact, his advent to
power was hailed by liberal Europe as the
programme of hierarchy, linked with our
common humanity, after, | may write, Gen.
turtles of observance, which had been brought
about by the mal-adminisration of the Vatican
under its many imbeciles, like Leo XII, of we'll
remembered vacillating policy, and its stolid
and drunken tyrants like the 1sth Gregory
When he, Pic Nino, seized the refns with his
trembling hands, carried like those of man al
most in ertyemis by way of electioneering for the
Popedom,) it was proclaimed that the world was
about to see the novelty of a churchmsn who
could cheerfuly forgive, and would grant amnes-
ties with charming grace, and who would also
wisely use his power Of the keys to unbar the
gates of the numerous prisons of his dominions,
think speak write, and worship according to the
dictates each of his own conscience. Even Amer
lea, proverbially slow in her appreciation of the
affairs of other countries, waited over the broad
Atlantic the exulting plaudits of her freemen at
the prospect of the Christian world with right
down hearty American republican-in-principle at
the head of the Roman church, Of SO vast respon-
sibilities. The Jews, too, joined in the general
CALCULATIONS over the wonderful prodigy of phi
lanthropic Popedom. Its effect among the masses
in Italy was past the power Of my pen for de-
scription. All true-hearted and single-minded
men there gave thanks TO God for thus, by an un.
expected miracle as it were, Graduating the So
cial mischief Of ages, abolishing hypocrisy, and
redeemiug religion from the baseness of trade,
to make it a sentiment.
Have all these bright anticipations been re-
alized7 No! if we may draw fair conclusions
from the utter odum of every ecclesiastical ordi-
nance, and the loathing Of church ministrations
now 80 painfully visible over the Peninsula
where all classes appear to hope for change for
the better only in the mercy of God, to be mani
tested in calling to account for his terrible abuse
of power and privileges, this man, MAsTAI He
has one radical defect evidently in his character
to which much of his disastrous failure is justly
attributable This is utter meapaety for plain
dealing, which is as appreciabe in his original
hypocritic professions of liberalism as in the man
ner in which he sought to obtain votes for his
duration, the ground that his occupation of the
Papsl chair must necessarily be only Of sufficient
duration to allow the aspirants of really formula
BILE pretensions the chance each to-complete his
schemes for grasping the prize. In fact the fatal
iacapdcay for plain dealing, which was manifested
by the Stuart and the Rourbon, 10y Louis XVI
and Charles ~ so as to create in the hearts Of
all England and France, save in those Of court
an undying hostility to the throne,
has generated precisely such feeling through
out Italy for the TIARA. have yet to find his
first state paper purely ecclesiastical or otherwise
intended written either in the height of his pop
ularity, while in ignominious disgrace at Gaeta,
or since his reinstatement by French bayonets on
his tottering throne, in which he has looked
plain question directly in the face, ceasing to at
tempt to mystify and deude. So far as can
perceive this man is without capacity to tell the
truth His adoption of Ross as his instrument
with which to cheat his people, was the acme Of
treachery, while his childishly.silly pretension
Of having discovered a canon In the council Of
Trent accommodating the Republic" and
thereby compelling him, as God fearing ruler,
to give stones TO the Italians in place Of the bread
be had promised them sprang from this unfortu.
nate obliquity Of soul. He who could attempt
the application Of this church canon, aimed only
against those Incorporating the church funds,
for revenge on nation which, being abandoned
by it's Chief Magistrate, had committed the crime
of aiming to avert anarchy by self-cons'ituting
Government, must be 80 untruthful In all his as
pirstions as very naturally to bring upon him in
this age all the rapid shifts Of fortune which have
already been his lot and, on his church, the con-
tempt of the thinking, with force ten times as
effective as that resulting from the labors Of all
the strong minded sccfers and sneerers living in
the century to the fame Of which Voltare and
Sweden's skeptical Charles XII 50 greatly added.
AT Gaeta, this mandenounced the Roman Re-
public for having impeded the administration Of
sacerdotal ministry, and instantly, on returning,
he himself incarcerated no less than forty priests
Tor daring to minister to the dying necessities Of
the victims Of his bombarding auxiliaries! He
not only imbrued his consecrated hands in the
blood Of his people, and crushed the manhood Of
his own capital under an avalanche Of foreign
brutality-soldiery-but he did the act which
the double-dealing priest alone can do without
fcelinG the full danih ~ La al