The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-04-27

dispose Of Thorn - they see right. As you have
gagged TO cause this people to submit TO the religious
and political laws Of the Roman church, and TO con-
each house. we authorize you to subjugsts Thorn, by
all possible means" 1t is worthy Of observation.
here, that Adrian, in this bull, claims all islands
which have received the faith of Christ; and Aex-
aDder, in his great conveyance to the crowns OF
SPAN and Portugal, claimed oil the countries then
inhabited by infdels
"what we want" said Pope Clement the Seventh.
| in conference with the Emperor Charles ", about
the reformation, is passive obedience. What We
ought to desire is, that people should DO forever
submissive to tho yoke Of priests and kings; and to
flashes of liberty, which overthrow our thrones--wc
must use brute force--mako executiOners Of your
soldiers. We must light the funeral pyres-we
must kill, burn--we must exterminate the learned
we must annhate the press" And, in ondeavor-
| ing to accomplish this, what rivers Of blood have
not flowed What hosts of accusing spirits have
not assembled to heaven in flaming fires
An anecdote occurs, illustrative of tho extrava-
gait claims of the Pope to power. In the time of
Sixtus ", death was tho penalty for carrying
aims in the city of Romo: A youth Of sixteen
policeman. His advocate appealed to tho Pope for
his discharge, on the ground that tho law ,prohi-
bited tho application of the penalty Of death to
person so young 'Woll by virtue of my own ON.
| impotence, give him ten of my years, exclaimed
the Pope, " and let him be led to punishment"
/ The following extracts from the bull of this samo
| Sextus V, depOsing and communicating Queen
| Elizabeth of England, will show their pretensions,
though impotent, to authority even over Protestant
governments 1--WE, Sixtus tho Fifth, tho univer
sal Shepherd of tho flock of Christ, the Supreme
Chief, to whom the government of tho whole world
appertains,' &C. regarding that Henry VIII, for
merly. for motives of debauchery, commenced all
those disorders by revolving against the submission
which ne owed to the Pope, the sole and true soyo-
the Holy Spirit for the general good of the church,
we renounce, by virtue OF our apostolic power, the
sentence pronounced by our predecessors, Plus the
Fifth, and Gregory, the Thirteenth, against this
| modern Jezebel; we proclaim her deprived of royal
authority, OF tho rights. titles, pretensions to
which she may lay claa over the Kingdoms of Ire
land and England, affirming that she possesses them
! unlawiully and by usurpnton. We relieve all her
subjects from the oaths they may have taken to her.
and we prohibit them from rendering any kind Ofser-
vice to this execsable woman it is will that sho
be driven FROM foor 10 door, like possessed Of
devil and that al human aid should be refused her.
We declare, moreover, that foreigners or English
| men are permitted. a meritor0us work, to scze
the person Of Elizabeth and surrender her. living or
dead, TO the tribunals OF tho lnquisition. We pro-
mise to those who shall accomplish this glorious
| mission, infinite recompenses, not only in the life
eternal, but even in this world. Finally, We grant
plenary indugonces to the faithful, who shall will
lingly unite with the Catholic army which is going
| to combat the impious Elizabeth, under tho orders
of our dear son. Philip the Second, to whom we give
the British Isles in full sovereignty, recompense
| for the zeal he has always shown towards our see
and for the particular affection he has shown for the
Catholics OF the Low Countries" In view of this
| terrible BULL do not Professionals sometimes Judge
Elizabeth too harshly for her severity to those per-
sons convicted OF attempting to carry its dreadful
and dabolical denunciations into effect If there
| might be miracle in such case, the preservation
| of her life under such circumstances was one
On certain occasion the Pope said to the ambas-
sador Of the Emperor Of Germany :-''The church
orders to render to God that which belongs to God,
and to Caesar that which belongs to Caesar. Now,
as the whole world belongs to God and his vicar,
M OH m hutt hat ,:al,
pleases the popes to give him.
In absolving Horny w, of France, the Pope de-
clared his own authority to be "abovs all the powers
| of the earth" Did time and your patience permit,
could fill many columns with like quotations; but
these may suffice.
The Archbishop says Of the Roman Catholic
church, that ''she has the consciousness that she
lives by inherent Wit atty within herself of more
| than human origin" 1t is strange, them that she
is SO tenacious Of those external and physical mani
festations of the the want Of such inherent vitality
&c., SC. Let the Church Of Rome give liberty, as it
| is allowed in this country, and we will then see
and not till then-whether or not its inherent vita
| lily is sufficient to sustain it.
Archbishop Hughes speaks of the help that was
received by our country IN the Of Independence
from the King of France not as French help. but
Catholic help and he dwels on it with great ear
| nestnoss, to show how much we are indebted there
| for to catholicism. | differ with him totally, and
deny that catholicism the church had anything
to do with the business, unless it served to stimu
Mte tne king as u ucv0uL CQt0Ouc TO seize the glO
rous opportunity to infict lasting injury on the
most formidable enemy Of the Catholic church, while
he strovc to cripple the hereditary and political
enemy, and most dreaded rival of France If these
| were the motives of Louis XvI.-and l do not say
they were motive certainly under obligation
Of gratitude-at least for the motive. / never did
| think that we owed any gratitude to the French
troops or the French people. They had no more to
do with the agreement between the king and our
| ministers, than you or | had. Louis was very
despotic and nothing was more foreign from his
disposition than to consult the Peope, on such
| fed him of the advantages his kingdom must
reap from SO great a disaster to England
as the loss of all these colonies, he ready
the expedition at the word of command, like
| the cogs of a wheel when the motive pow
or is applied to the machine. But, says the
Archbishop, Surprising the motive to be what
you say, the colonies actuated by the de-
! sire. They, too, wished to damage and cripple
England, so as to prevent her from being able to
despo them of their constitutional rights free
! born men," This deny, and, as a descendant OF
of the revolutionary patriots, repe the charge
| of so unworthy motive. Their motive for taking
| up arms the maintenance Of their rights-not
to njure cripple England, but to prevent her from
robbing them Of their rights If the mother country
had granted what they claimed, instead of taking
up arms to damage her they would have gloried in
defending and strengthening her and if, in the
strife, England was damaged and crippled it q
consequence which, though it demanded not their
sympathy, was by no means the object Of the
contest.
He speaks of the fact that the struggling colonies
received active aid but from Catholics, ex-
traordinary thing. The truth is, there Pro-
testant power which able to render them aid;
but several manifested as much sympathy as it was
prudent perhaps, to express. 1t was certainly more
natural and less hazardous for Catholic States-for
France especiay-to go to with Great Britain
at that period, than for any Protestant power.
j. +. Polk
Defence OF the Amiable Jesuits.
New YORK, April "a, 1852.