New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-07-02

will allow us a brief examination Of those
parts of his letter which seem to require 1t.
|. We cannot accord to clergymen
that exemption from criticism which our
correspondent claims We do indeed not
habitually comment upon their sermons, but
the present was an occasion of unusual i'm
portance. Nor even on such an occasion,
should We make the teachings of the pulpit
the subject of remark were they confined
to religion and theology. But when
clergyman is led by circumstances, as IN
the case Of the Archbishop. or by his own
motion, as often happens in other cases, TO
discuss political questions in the pulpit, and
above all to assai there men we respect
and principles we hold sacred. we must not
only feel ourselves at liberty to repel the
assault, but shall certainly do so according
to our best judgment. When that challenge
is sounded we shall ever be found prompt
in the lists no matter who the champion.
or in what garb he is arrayed. Clergymen
have in our view perfect right to pro-
nounce on political parties and TO utter
every honest anathema against political or
social doctrines which they regard as bale
full. but they have no exclusive privilege to
stop the mouths of others from reply.
They speak with the prestige of their Of
fee and peculiar weight attaches to their
words. This is 4 great advantage and be-
yond It they should ask nothing but gentle
manly courtesy and fair treatment. so
much in controversy it will always be our
aim to use.
II. The charges our correspondent
makes against the European Democrats
are two: first It they lnaugurated their
movement in three countries with assaSsl-
nation and still practice assassination; and
second, that they aim at social revolution
in respect to property. \ word on both
these heads. and first on
ASSASSINATION. The three eases referred
to are of course the killing of Latour at Vi
enna. of Lemberg at PeSth, and of RoSSi at
Rome. The first two we have already dis
cussed at length in treating the hungarian
question and NAV omit further consideration
of them here. There remains the death of
Count Rossi.
With respect to this it might be denied
that it naugurated the purpose OF the radl-
cal party in Rome or in Italy, but we have
no need to dispute about details. 1t Is
enough thai our correspondent can find
nothing more palpabc to bring up against
the Roman Republicans. Here is an as
sassination committed under the govern
ment of Plus N. whose authors and act
ors no judicial process has ever declared,
and which that fact alone proves to have
been done without the priyity of any num-
Der of persons And this is after all the
worst thing that can be charged upon peo-
ple and a government which had free play !
for SIX consecutive months. If that were a
bloody and bad government, where were
The executions the fortunes, the outrages
that took place under it Where were It's
inquisftions crowded with prisoners -
Where were Is furious disorders in town or
country Where the people grooming be-
meath It's expressions and longing for It's
downfall! Let us hear of these If you wish
to hold up to universal execratlon the gov
eminent or the party who framed 1t. But
in the name Of sense and consistency do not
seek to baeken the Roman Republic with
the act of an unknown murderer. performed
before it came into existence. To do thiS
is but a pitiable confession OF the weakness
of your cause.
But, SAYS our correspondent, the prpcigle
leaders of The liberal party IN Europe as one
oft means OF retrieving humanity and ex-
tending freedom. To this we rejoln with hat
Indignant denial which revolving caluIany,
supported BY no shadow of evidence, aAone
merits
No doub. transformations take place at
Rome they have always been csnpara-
lively frequent there in modern times, Us
not the regime which has educated ard con-
troled the Romans and made them what they
are, responsible for this y except inthe brief
period of republican government It Is nat
ural that they should happen now even
more than usual, since many persons are
driven to despair and in want OF The means
of subsistence. But shat these murders are
in anv sense the work of MAXIM and his
coadiutors. we DEFY our CORE sp0ndent and