The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-04-01

ed last October, and rumor says he Is 10 take
the editorial charge of political paper IN TINS
city. Of this maneuyrlng we shall endeaVor
to keep our readers advised, while we meet the
parties engaged in il as becomes the spirit Oh
press, free and American"
This does not surprise us. Kossuth is re-
garded by the Irish Catholics here, as he was
in Ireland. Richard D. Webb, the able Dub
lin correspondent of the National Anti Slavery
Standard says:
ain Ireland, the enthusiasm on his behalf
has been but feebly manifested, chiefly because
he as the Sworn enemy Of despot'c AuStrIa, ana
d,spotic Austria as the main stay of the Pdpdcy.
The Subjugation of Hungary has been tolfolced
by the persecution of the ProtestdntS and me as
cendencu of the Jesuits in that country and as
KoSsuth has mentioned this fact IN ms speeches.,
he as denounced as a bigot by the Rom1Sh priests,
trho dbhOr freedom of conscience so much mdt
then hate a man tvho ddreS 10 complain Of beng
denied uS exercise. The character OF the reign
ing American statesmen, and the sympathy
with despotsm inseparable from the principles
and interests of the Romsh priesthood, lin
America as we'll as everywhere else fully ac-
count for any calumnies that may have been
circulaLPu against hOSSuJll uc buphh POI
pers in their interest lone in particular the
Freeman's Journal have done all they could to
depreciate him, calling him bigot and a rebel,
and declaring that the condition Of Hungary
under AUSTRIA GrdS superior 10 that Of Ireland
under England"
The political movement against Intervention
originated by the Catholic priests solely on re-
ligious grounds is we fear, but the beginning
of troubles 1t is the first essay of Spiritual
Despotism in the field of American politics.
! The power it has been able to WELD in uniting
the Catholics as body against Kossuth and
| his mission, and in the defence of Austria will
embolden it to further manifestations With
SO large a body of voters obeying implicit
ly its bidding, it will be able, by adroit man.
agement should the political world continue
to be engrossed with the questions and schemes
which now agitate it to acquire fearful as
tendency Certainly with its enormous pre-
tensions, it cannot remain willingly subord-
nate to the Civil Power, without treason to
itself Claiming absolute supremacy in all the
relations of men, it is bound by the law of its
being to assert the claim, whenever it can make
it good, or pave the way for its recognition
Some of its supporters consider it premature
now to urge its pretensions in all their length
and breadth but others are more audacious
Listen to BrownsOn, man whose anti-republi-
can lectures in st. Louis and Cincinnati have
lately been heartily endorsed by the Catholic
journals of the West:
THE only true policy, the only true wisdom
in our times, is in exaltng the chair of Peter,
and energetically asserting the pontifcal au-
thority and the universal supremacy of the
spiritual order. The salvation of the world in
more senses than one, depends on the Holy See,
and ON loyal submission and flial obedience
IN all things to the successor Of st. Peter We
confess, then, that IRE are grieued TO see distt,l-
guiShed Catholic statesmen searching history to
find examples Of resistance to the Papai authority
blythe temporal power and concluding from them
that man may be a Catholic and also loyal to
has temporal sovereign. Let us, in Gods name,
hare no more Of thiS. Let us dare to assert the
truth, in the face of the lying world and, in
stead of pleading for our church at the bar of
the State, summon the State itself TO plead at
the bar Of the church. ITS diUinely constituted Judge.
The State may become enraged may contscate
our goods prohibit our worship and shut up
our churches and religious houses, imprison,
exile, or massacre us but what then Such
things have been, but they have never been able
so long as Catholics retained their fervor to in
jure the church or retard her progress These
things are powerful! against us only where our
faith is weak, and our love wakes cold Who
has Ged on his side has no occasion to fear men
or devlsn
That is the true doctrine of the Papacy-
"he universal supremacy Of the spiritual order,"'
ga loyal submission and flial obedience an ALL
THINGS to the successor of ST. Peter!n The
Church, supreme over the State The Pope,
the master of the People! This doctrine is
openly inculcated in the United States, by
leading Catholics, sustained by Catholic jour-
mails, assented to, so far as we can see by our
Catholic citizens What is there in a Spiritual
Order holding such doctrine, animated by such
spirit, to restrain it from the attempt to OBJ
tain supremacy in politics. These political
organizations against European Freedom are
but lnclplent steps to more comprehensive and
formidable combinations. What may be ex-
pected, should its universal supremacy in this
country become realized, may be inferred from
the following declaration of an out-spoken
Catholic, in the Rambler, list July, 1851 one
of the leading Catholic organs of England:
AS the most ultra-tolerant of takers have
no true belief in their own professions, 80 thew
never give Catholics credit for sincerity when
they fall in with the fashionable phraseolgy of
the day, and protest that they would tolerate
every mans creed to the fullest extent Ger.
tainly they are maryellously astonished to hear
these novel views proceeding from the mouths
of the children of those who slew the Calyinists
in Holland and the Albigenses in France. and
filled Smthfeld with fagots and flames.n II
"Never do we fall into a more grieyous
error than when we think to conciliate Prot
estants by DOMINIC pseudo Protestant mask
A more suicidal policy was never devised than
that which is adopted by that strange l,asus
nature liberal Catholic The acuteness of
the Protestant mind comes instantly into full
| play and detects the SHAM
Counting then the concealment of our true
| opinions as the most unwise of policies, we have
| ever avowed our conviction that in certain cir
cumstances what is called persecution is
both lawful and expedientn n "To
perseute Catholicism as to san against Almighty
God, to prosecute Professionalism, or Judaism, o.
infdeiity as perfectly right prorided only 1t be
SO jud'eiousiy planned and ereeuted as mol TO de-
| feat us Ocn ends"
This might be deemed the rant of crazy
bigot, were it not for the fact that the doctrine
thus boldly announced, is at this very time
practically carried out by the Pope, in Spain
Tuscany, and his own dominions
What say our Catholic countrymen To these
things Do they concur in the dogmas o.
Spiritual Dcspotism inculcated by Brownson
Do they hold that the Spiritual Order ought t.