Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-02-02


vitude, except for crime shall be prohibited"
Reool'ect--the Omnibus Bill had been de-
feated--the Utah Bill alone had passed--the
New Mexican Bill had not been acted upon
the only Bill before tho Senate was that to set
tie the Texas Boundary; the object Of Mr..
Mason therefore was, not only to provide
against the reduction Of the number Of States
to be formed out Of Texas, but to reaffirm the
bargain by which those States might enter the
Union with Siavery
What was there left OF the Missouri Com
promise to act upon exclaims MIR. Douglas.
All, we answer, that Slavery had gained by
the Annexation Bargain--seUerai States, NTH
PROVISION that they might become slapehoiding,--
aye, and ut that time, all of the Territory
north of SO deg. 80 min, with provision that
it should DO non slaveholding.
That this free territory was subsequently in
corporated with New Mexico, and subjected to
provision, which Mr.. Douglas assumes laid it
open to Slavery, could not and did not annul
the third article of the second section of the
resolutions Of annexation, in application to the
rest of Texas. So that even admitting for the
sake Of the argument his groundless assump-
ton to be true, it does not disprove our state
ment that tho Missouri Compromise was REQ
ognised and affirmed in the Texas Boundary
Bill one Of the Compromise Acts Of 1850.
Tomorrow, we shall pass to another view Of
the subject.
THE AGGRESSIONs OF THE PAPAL POWER.
A Dublin correspondent Of the Philadelphia
North american, after reviewing the regal
tyrannies Of Europe, and the prospects of the
rise of republicanism from the ruin that the
ambition and cupidity Of Emperors and Kings
will probably soon produce, presents to view
another despotism, as follows:
/" never in my communications, touch upon
religious controversies, nor am about to do so
now. But the course of procedure pursued by
the Pope and Propaganda for some time past,
so different from what it was few years ago.
and meeting as it does, q cordial response
from the hierarchy throughout these old conn
tries-leading, already, to serious conflicts with
civil governments, which must issue, If perse-
vered in, and free governments be established
in Europe in polemic Of another kind, and
by other arms, as fierce and universal as that
which the earthly ambition of the Russian Au-
tocrat threatens to creates such that to give
to Americans anything like correct view Of
European affairs without noticing it, would be
On imp0ssibility.
at is well known that there have been two
parties in the Church of Rome, which, agree
ing in regard to religion, differed widely in re-
gard to ecclesiastical polity. The one, Italian,
or Ultramontane, centred all ecclesiastical con-
troll in Rome, held the Pope's individual infal-
libility, his supremacy over princes, and the
right of the hierarchy, directed by him, un.
controlled by Governmental to deal at their
pleasure with everything-education marriage,
and the like, into which the religious element
was supposed to enter and as they could
make it enter nearly everything, this was pretty
much the same as claiming for them right Of
independent action in everything, an emporium
in imperio,, and wherever their alleged rights
conficted with the authority of Governments,
the latter must yield.
The other, agreed with this one on all rel-
gious dogmas and equally holding the Pope's
supremacy and vicariate, differed, nevertheless
in regard to the extent of his power, both in
regard to matters ecclesiastical and civil; held
the infalliblity of councils and their supreme
ton of national churches in all national con-
Germs, and were for combining the action Of the
church to matters unQuestionably spiritual
Such were the asserters of the Gailican liber.
ties in the church Of France of old; and the
men who would have conceded the peto to the
British Crown on the appointment of bishops
in the church in Ireland
"The latter of these parties is extinct There
may be individual priests who will continue to
hold their old opinions in secret; but voice in
favor of them is heard no more The Roman
Catholic press, universally, is in favor Of the
system that makes everything referred for de-
cision to Rome; that decides all matters, how
ever local, in the Propaganda that links the
hierarchy Of one country with those Of every
country, and all to Rome; no that, in a dispute
between the clergy and Government in one
country, when Rome has spoken, the clergy of
every country shall testify their approval, what
ever violence it may do TO their relations with
their own Government. Ii is supposed that the
combined influence Of tho hierarchy and clergy
Of all countries must throw such weight into
the Pope's decisions in regard to any country,
that no Government will dare to resist them.
"This has been illustrated in the case Of the
dispute between the Duke Of Baden and the
Archbishop Of Freiburg. Not only John Of
Iuam, but the whole Irish hierarchy, have
written their approval Of the resistance Of their
brother Archbishop 10 the decisions of tho civil
Government, declaring, that whenever one Of
the episcopate, under sanction of the Pope re-
sists the edict Of his ruler, every Bishop must
approve, and would be ready TO do the same in
similar circumstances This happens to be the
case with the Pope and q Protestant Govern
ment; but il viii soon be the case with all
Governments And should not wonder If re.
sistance to this despotism should come to be as
extensive and attended with as serious results,
as tho armed resistance to the Russian Ger
tain IL is, that this universal change in Roman
Catholic clerical polity has even already worked
q visible change upon the spirit and manner Of
the Irish priesthood. Not curate or a can
didatc but assumes tho look and step Of a st.
Thomas in embryo"
THE EFFIGY- BURNING Ar BosToS The de.
monstration ut Boston, on Tuesday night, by