Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-08-24
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country en- roste, and look after the condition
of the Holy Catholic Church in this great he
public. The Nuncio brought from his Holl
ness letters congrstulatory to President Pierce
which the latter acknowledged by placing a
the disposal of the Pope's Minister a Govern
ment Steamer on the Northwestern Lakes
Monsieur Bedini accompanied by Arch BISHOP
Hughes, has taken charge of the vessel. and
is moving IN state nil along the Lake country
visiting the various churches which aeknoul-
edge obedience To Rome THIS in the eyes oil
, the Northwestern protestants Is regarded As
great outrage, and something " ichont prece
den, in our annals. Although this is a Pro-
testant country, no such privilege was ever
extended by the Government to any member
ola Protestant Church. Persons Of that pur.
suasion have to grope their way as best they
can from one locality To another at their own
EXPENSE but here we behold the miulons OF
the Pope honored with a national vessel and
transferred from city to city at The expense OF
the Protestant people OF the UGed States -
They are immensely indignant at such n pro
ceeding-and intimate that President Pie ce Is
little better than creature of the Pope oil
Rome. They hint that he tllshonors his posi-
and the Protestant religion by extending 10
Papsts this signal mark of Government favor.
They also assail the character of Monsieur
Bedini, whom they charge with being Jesuit
and a tyrant--ard one of them alirms, TINT IN
Italy, be condemned one "Ugo Bas to be ily
ed alive aud then shot"
The matter seems likely TO give rise to n
great deal of excitement in the Northwestern
States Wig.
We published last week remarkable state.
mont from the Detroit Tribune, to the effect
that u. S. vessel had been put at the service
Of Archbishop Hughes of New York, distin
guished prelate of the Roman Catholic church.
for the purpose Of conveying him a, pleasure
to different points on the Northern Lakes. Il
WINS published without comment, because oil
the seeming improbabilIty Of the statement ii
contained. We were unwilling to believe that
an officer in command OF L. S vessel had on
limits of his duties or that The department al
Washington could have authorized an act so
utterly perversivc Of lis Legitimate powers. Ii
struck us as ore probable that there was a
msapprehension about the affair, and that the
President Of the United States could not have
licensed proceeding, thus directing the gov.
eminent service in dong special honor to a
representative of The Roman Catholic or any
other church. But II the acl, as would appear
from the paragraph quoted above, as done
and, II be true that the President has placed a
government steamship at the disposal of n
Nuncio and an Archbishop of the Roman Cath
ole Church, it will arouse. and should arouse
feeling of the deepest indignation in the ho.
som of The American people. We would lend
no .emblanco Of approval TO religious intolcra-
ton here or elsewhere 1t is the most produc
tive soil in which religious error can be trans
planted. But when the highest funcionary
of our government overeaps the barriers oil
precedent and of law, and confcrs the specia
honors OF the government on representative.
of the papa Hierarchy: a church whose iunda
mental maxims are at war with every prnci
pie of our lnstituions-it is time that the pres
and the people should speak out in languag,
ofthe most emphatic condemnation. We know
nothing Of M. Belni. But is not Archbishop
Hughes the same daring Preate who last win
ter assumed to justify and vindicate the tyran
of Tuscany for his prosecutions Of the defence
less Madia for the crime OF reading the Ri
BILE And who al the same had tho un
blushng ehrontery to insult the intelligence
frhe American people, by asserting that tn
free use of the Bible was tolerated in the Ital
ian States
But we forbear to say more, trusting tina
there is yet misapprehension in the under
standing Of this affair General Pierce, by tn
adroit use of federal honors may experiment i
the conversion'oi W. Browns into honest 60.
ernmental officials; he may experiment in tn
use of that all powerful cement to compoun
consistent amalgam of the fire and water elt
ments of his party-and that party may ten
porariy support him. They love the spoils
but should he attempt to bring into play ais
the new and dangerous element OF sectaria
power, we can calculate upon nothing but
wreck of existing party organizations. if nc
of the consttu tiunal chart by which IL ia no