New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-23
CHURCH AND STATE.

noupt in the minds Of our CONSERVATIVE ana wealthy
classes who would regard as gross hyperooie the aver
.h.t No are in more danger of civil from Reli-
ou. discussion than from Slavery agitation. Yet he
Tho thouphtfuy regards the radical antagonsm OF no
- C.,hoc 70 Protestant ideas and conyictions-the
r.nd growth of the Catholic element IN our COunsry
from immiQration-the facility with which any stronng
b.rsnouer on Catholicism may knde blaze of excite
rert in almost any part of our countrythe pendencyof
tb formidable School Question evidently destined to be-
eona wear by year more important and pervading-the
history of Native Amercanism and the outrages at
Charlestown and in Phiadelpha-must feel that the
danger of internal strife originating in differences oil
Greed or Church is one Of National perls which the
timely exertions and counses Of the discreet and mod
crate are needed to avert And every utterance calcu-
lated to duse and deepen the conviction that Religion
is matter entirely transeending the sphere Of Cra Coz
.rrmeut should Be reieOmsd and reiterated
The last issue Of BrOrnsoH's Rerisr opens with an
able Ultrsmontsne essay, entitled The Spiritual not
for the Temporal" whence we extract the following
truthful and most suggestive passages
aUe are not aware of a single Catholic Sovereign in
modern history that regarded religion IN any other light
than as branch Of the police although several oil them
have been personally pi"us. As princes ihey nave as
serted the total SEPARATION Of the Fo orders and IN Their
public and official conduct have looked upon the Church
ss
subordnaied to the interests Of State
From the lat half the Seventeenth Century Also
lutsm was established throughout nearly ali Europe 1t was
successfully after half century OF civil war only IN
II gland and even there only for the Protestant portion OF
the population As far Catholics were concernef,
whether EDgsh Ish the State even there was aoso-
lutte sovereignty spoc and oppressive In all the great
Continental States, the political order was based on the
dnrp = - la NJ Catholic State, even,
WAS the Church free She was every crcumscrbsd
by the secular power and could communicate with her
uemb Is they with their Head only by virtue OF royal
or mueal pqcf The assembly in council OF her bishops
was prohibited and the Bishop could not address pastoral
20 his flock without the license of the secular authority
The secular power went 50 far as even TO prono bishops
H. the same Kingdom from corresponding with each other
The State not satisfied with being independent
in tn porsls. it even assumed to be supreme IN spirit
uals maintaining hat religion was Tor the STATE,
aud bound to its interests, or rather the
pleasure Of the Sovereign the chief agent IN effect
ing the degradation of religion in the Catholic States
of Europe, the seventeenth century we except ana
p.rbaps # we do not except Cardinal Rcheleu, Louis
XIV the greatest revoluuont France has ever had for
the chief Of her revc uuons IN 1859 and 1873 only followed
bis example and sought 10 carry out his principles Ihey
only ATTEMPTED for the people what he ehocted Tor tue
prince The civil constitution OF the clergy condemned
by Illus VI only the necessary pendant OF the De-
corofOb hch be forced from the frencR clergy IN 1887
and viii h. though annuled by lnnoceLt ri continued,
and pehap st continues 10 be trded by the civil au
tborv Is In force Spain the most Catholic state IN
Fprose with the accession Philip v the grandson of
Louis ana the r Of her bourbon sovereign lost almost
he st relic her civil DOM and adopted tue desPoue
cowt and Pagan Rome Portugal followed IN the tram,
ard At the beginning of h present century had proceeded
20 tar 10 prohibit all communication on tue part Ot her
c,rey with the Holy SEE In Catholic '-rntny ana the
meet n empire of Austria the same ma1ms attained DO
serh aided by his Protestant minister kaunz brought
he Churh his empire - the very verge Of scnsu sup
pressed over thousand religious houses and expelled
son twenty thousand religious ASSUMED tue sovereign
control Of ecclesiastical afIs IN his d0min0Ds ana pro-
hbifed al communication with Rome save tnrouSh lne
Govern meu ard bis infamous laws against the freedom Of
the Church and subectng ecclesiastical ahafs 10 s con
iro Of the Imperial Chsncey, remained in force u the
accession in fs f the present pous and noble spirited
youi Emperor OF Austria such was The freedom oi the
Church u ruughoUt Catholic Europe rom me deaih VI
CARDINAL Mazsrin down TO the revolutions Of lsio
We have. Catholics, not \ low grievances 10 com
nlain Of In this country bur there Catholic country IN
The woro where Tie Church as free ana ~ ndsponden,
a. he here none where the Pope so truly Pope aud
finds far Cath Ocs concerned SO te resstahce
M m. m exercs of his authority visible Head It the
Church 1iereasOA nat tiaf ne government PER- Ja00TS
Or JrOkc Church bSt that ' mr. olo@' let We can
uo h.Ip thinking that we're Republic to establish ths
Csih lie religion by law and profess tseit Cathouc u
Eotd e. soon SEX 10 subject tie Church 10 Is authority
sbrdg her freedom ana labor To OBTAIN inc cono O
eccsiatca ssirs II would soon fancy tha IN return
the great y,r 20 the Church Of protesting the CAh0
lie hgon il ought to have voice in her governmental
least tue nomination of bishops or veto on their nonna
iion."
Now il is deploraby true that Mr. BrownsOn does not
himself give full force and logical effect TO the grave
truth he has here propounded, but complains, page
1927 that
Scarcely professedly Catholic Government from the
frt Chfstan Emperor down 20 the last of the German
KAsers or 10 the present Emperor OF the French mas eI
the Church per ecy free % enforce IN her own way ner
own dscitse andhas becr really IN oil rag 10 Tend hr,
rlen rcguisit he support or hatPaoe Of The SECULAR
ARM /"
but the truth must not suffer be obscured because
Of his perfect and inconsistent affirmation of il. Has
be Dot binselftOd that it is this very lending her tie
support 9th secular arr" TO enforce her discipline,
which has rendered the Church the dependent and tool
of Princes Who can fail to that her only chance
Of independence and Of the moral power thence result
ing is involved in her telling the State TO mind it's own
business and her absolutely alone HISS he not truly
AID impresiyey told that the protection accorded
- the Church by Catholic States has been TO her a
vurce Of dependence and SeakDess-that has always
had to be paid for and at ruinous rate, and that in
no nominsy Catholic country is she free and power
ful in this where she has received aid from and
owes no thanks 10 the State And yet this same
BrewnsOn, so lately as Jan lS52, affirmed that
The frs duty Of every civil Government is to protect
the Church and maintain the freedom Of religions the free
dom Of bgon we not OF heresy and lnndefy WHICH,
a. could ever hear hare not bad and Eerer
hare any isht being they undeEzby are contra
" the law OF God- And therefore we l. Sc
al the breath We spend deeaimng against bigoty and
intolerance and in favor Of religious liberty, the right
Of any 20 BE- OF any religion or no religion as best
pleases him viii b two three Of journalists
would fam persuade the world is Catholic doctrine
Now the moral right before God Of every man TO be
Of any religion or religion best peases him"
never asserted and s not matter az issue. What is
affirmed and what Mr. BrovnsOn here plainly denies, is
the citizens legal right obey his own convictions in
,s,,a-. AZ Faith uneon and hv any