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Intervention.

terests will be so extended, that we shall be
no longer passive spectators of the extended
domination of despots, though the scene Of
their expressions be laid on the banks Of
the Danube or the Tiber.
Nor shall we be permitted so to be. Be
sure, that if England is to be proscribsd for
harboring political fugitives, it viii He our.
turn next. Those sanguine visionaries who
believe that nations are too wise to rush intp
another general war, may, some of them,l
live to see their mistake exposed.
1t may not be out of place to revive the
readers recollection of the following incl
cident:-
A few years after the battle of Waterloo,
at fashionable dinner party, the subject of
conversation was the prospect of continued
peace, and it seemed agreed, that the last
great battle of nations had been fought. A
single guest, who had hitherto been sihnt
now took up the argument, and maintained
that there would be one more general var
war that he knew not how to designlte
otherwise than as lthe "war of opinion"
This guest was George Canning
Though we hear no mote of preparation" "
no "clink of hammers closing riyets lp,"
vet the signs of the times are portenttus;
Despotism and the Papacy are combining to
put down liberty in every form. To be
sure of this alliance, 90 not to the Jesuitcal
priesthood, but to the more outspoken lay
men of the Catholic Ohurch-read Walsh,
read Brownson, and read this extract from
the Rambler, leading Romish paper, pub
lished in London:
&c For religious liberty, in the sense Of a
liberty possessed by every man to choose
his own religion, is one of the most wicked
delusions ever foisted upon this generation
by the father of all deceit No man has
ripht TO choose his ownreligion. None but
an Atheist can uphold the principle OF rell-
gious liberty. Shall foster that damnable
doctrine that Socialism, and Calvanism, and
Anglicanism, and Judaism, are not every
one of them mortal sins, like murder and
adultery? Shall hold out hopes to Pro-
testant that | will not NEEDLE with his creed
if he will not meddle with mineY Shall !
lead him to think that religion is a matter
for private opinion, and tempt him to fol-
get that he has no more right to his religious
views than he has to my purse, or my hOus7,
or ma life-blood ?" Catholicism is the most
intoleraut Of all crseds it is intolerance
itself!
If the above views are false, let Il 0e de-
nounced as such by Catholic authority, in
no ambiguous or mincing terms. Let Bishop
Hughes, if he dare, pronounce it aslapder-
GUS lie.
That Catholicism prepared to be the ally
of despotism, we find evidence in the bI-
lowing extract from the Univers, the rec'g-
nized organ of the French Priesthood, and
the strenuous supporterofLouis Bonapart's
usurpation.
"For my own part l avow, frankly, ny
regret is not, that they burned John HuS,
but that they did not equally burn Luthe'
and regret further, that there was not 1t
the time some prince sufficiently plols
and polite to have made crusades against
the Protestants A hereto examined and
convicted by the Church, used to be deli',
cred over to the secuarpower, and punished
with death. Nothing has ever appeared to
us more natural and necessary. The prompt
repression Of the disciples Of Luther, ana a
crusade against Professionalism would have
saved Europe"
And dare they, on the first CLEAN OF sue
cess, thus to threaten US with stake and
faggot? Have they the insolence already to
rattle the chain in our faces? eff such
things be done in the green tree, what shall
be done in the dry?'
When the alliance between prerogitive
and infallibility shall have been fully CON
summated, and arrangements completed
according to the programme, no one wll be
permitted to think for himself in religion or
politics Not only will Protestant Theolo-
gians be obliged to resign their right of de-
nunciation, renounce their heresies and
make submission to the successor Of st.
Peter and Alexander VI, but our men 6f
science will be constrained to check their
investigations, lest they discover too mu6h,
or like Galileo, be brought to confess the
truth to- be a lie. Perhaps, byway ofpenanSe,
it might be enjoined to examine the vial of
st. Januarius, or the holy coat of Treves.
Think of Lyell, the Geologist, taking the
road to Loretto with peas in his boots. He
would have an opportunity for very deliber-
ate observation.
But these results will never be accomplish
ed. The world will never fall into such
idiotic dotage At any rate, Canning's war
of opinion will come first, and we think we
know of one nation that will require a. very
sound thrashing, before she consents to this
kind of tutelage a nation that, when the
freedom Of the world is committed to her
guardianship, will be found wanting neither
to humanity nor herself
As forthe conclusion Of this war, we think
we find it hinted at in the Apocalypse,
where mention is made of the Kings Of the
earth and the false Prophet marshaling
their hosts on the field of Armadgeddon; and
we are told that the Beast and the false Pro-
phet were struck down together.
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