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June number Of Putnams Monthly Magazine 10 saying.
ave would especially commend 10 our Accommodating
friends the vigorous article which bears the above title
II y evidently from no unpracsed pen and the know
nothngs author tells US mad the doa OF the
scarlet woman turkey the sight Of red rag this
weiFeonsidered essay may act as a errmiaai'pep
After the historical inquiry into facts respecting the
Papacy, and rapid but impartial analysis Of The Roman
Isl problem the article IN Putnam thus concludes.
What the Papacy could be- then Il Ia could Is question
q no practical moment What would any OF party
be il unretraned by adverse parties secis sydney
Smith well says H0ne does not know the order de-
scrphon Of in whom he would like To cOnhde If they
could do as they could security consisting in the fact
that the rest Of the world won't let EN- Now, the
rest OF the world win not allow the Pope, anybody
else TO do as he peases let him want 10 badly
and until the Pope particularly has reconyerted the world
TO Catholicism which win be considerable undertaking
he may have as much win TO thunder as he likes but be
will thunder in vain
Consider the history Of the Papal attempts 10 exert even
limited temporal authority during the last three oentu-
riesi The Pope ratified away like good fellow against
Louis XIV bat Louis hardly civil to him kissing his
feet Noitase says, bat tying up his hands lie was
dreadfay angry, again with Phillip Of Spain; but he
could not hinder Phillip from going his gait pro-
vent the Cortes subsequently, from destroying the
tic institutions and oonhscatug the church property He
tried his power on Portugal and was repused nom Portu
gal just il il had been Proestant Venice and the
Senate disdained his legate Austria whittier he went
personally, but complaeenty bowed home again and
on Napoleon, who laughed at him and used him after
wards
AT the very moment indeed in which pen this para
graph the morning papers fresh with foreign news in
form us that SpanCahoe Spain, she Is called by way
of emnence she has been called these thousand years
where the Roman Church the only church that has
been recognised BY the Sate-where numerous and in
tuentia clergy paid from the treasury OF tho State
where they enjoy the highest rank and consideration
where the entire people in fact proud to hail their
monarchs Most Catholic Maesties Spain, say, has
just passed law releasing property in mortmain or, in
other words turning into money the conseerated lands
and dwellings Of the clergy and the religious orders in
the very teeth too OF the Pope and all his wirewokers
and adherents
Indeed since the Restoration when the allies compli
mented him with devout IGetences and apparent obsequi
BUSINESS but betrayed him 10 the State AZ the time,
not government earth, Catholic Protestant has
treated his temporal Holiness with whit more decorum
than is due 10 iusroas prince among the powers
Europe They respect his important ecclesiastical posi-
ton and the venerable associations by which his
rounded and, far their subjects Catholic more
less tender OF giving offence but they do not suecumb
title to any right claim of his to NEEDLE with their
civil interests On the contrary they resent with n-
slant porcupne irrabity. One OF the most Ill
tramonane writer's lamentng the desuetude into which
the temporal has falen says that the worst ene-
mics which the Church has had to contend with the
last two hundred years have not been either Protest.
ants Turks but the profcssedly Catholic govern
OF Europe These nominal Catholic soveregnsn
he says lugubriousy, protesting themselves to be
sons OF the Church. contributing II may be- to the main
tenance Of the clergy and to the pomp and spendor OF
worshpperhaps, like Louis NV. going far TO toll
crate worship but the Catholic aud using their military
force TO suppress hostile secs yet constantly encroachng
ecclesiastical authority demanding concession after
concession, and threatening universal spoliaon and
schsm If the Church does not accede their perempory
demands backed by the whole physical force of the king
dom, really injurious to the cause of religion,
hostile to the influences OF the Church. than open and
avowed prosecutors the most cruel We cannot name
single professedy Catholic State that has afforded for
these three hundred years, than momenary conso-
ation to the Holy Father whose bitterest enemies have
been of his own household while the only soveregns in
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that treated him
with respect soyereigns separated from his commu-
nionn
This Is ue yet not the whole truth for it eoneeala the
lafin hat fhn
ling instrument and yassal Of the kings II 1t had been sub
ected simply by the superior force pseudo friends there
would have been for IL to complains but IL cheer
fully accepts TIE slavery 1t is at this moment linked in
with every desposm Of the continent lending itself to their
most neariQus schemes; blessing the riumphs OF their
popular hopes and proierng servie submits
sion TO them in order to divide the igotten gains wrurg
from the weakness the ignorance and the mseries of the
people. Yes the power which OF old sat in Judgment
upon the rulers of the earth and in its fierce contests with
them became symbol Of the aspirations and faith OF the
multitude is Invested of its ideal and representative
character and fallen from its own high schemes OF supe-
riory and Jurisdictions the passive partner Of the secular
princes protesting when it does protest not against the
political absolusm of the oppressor but against the cries
and struggles of the oppressed Ii prefers the friendship
of the Gar with his foreign religion the political
emancipation and religious regeneration of the nations
and is greatly TO be feared for the doctrines Of abec
political submission which il teaches than for its imputed
ambition.
But, if this be The condition Of things in nations
eddy Catholic how prepostcrous the alarm which is sound
ed rs to the temporal aggfessons OF Poery IN countre
which wholly emancipated Let suppose, for in
absurd in iiselthat Pho Mono should take
il into his head to hurl bull Queen Victoria Gen.
Pierce for insult to Cardinal Wiseman or the legae
Bedni what would be the effect few of the de-
won't Catholics would be thrown into Ruter, Others
would mildly hint that the good Father had mistaken his
business while the world in general would explode in dts
of dorison Historians might perhaps recall the time
when such mssyes closed the churches exnguished the
sacrifice the altar suspended ehrsenups aud mar
riages, covered the images OF Tie saints in mourning ST.
fenced the bells in the towers left the dead unbured and
dressed whole nations in sackcloh and ashes but they
would recall striking homily on the mutabiiy of
human affairs while the great body Of the people would 50
about their pursuits eating and drinking, and marrying
aud giving marriage as utterly unconscious that any
thing had occurred deaf is of the swapping o
pistol behind his back
OF all the nations Of the earth is the last in which
the temporal professions Of the Ponf snpposng them
be still cherished will make any Roadway. The demo
cratic principle of The right Of the people manage their
affairs il thoroughly ngraned in whole poii,-
zeal life that ire will not burn water drown il out Of
We should great deal rather attempt take Sebas-
topol with pop-guns than 10 convert this nation ne
quiescene in the old monarehica and religious tyrannis
individuals Of communious will OF course now
and then take shelter under the wings Of the Pope Catho
cisn, as religion will gain converts hom time To tune
but as political power it viii nd the current
ting strongly the other way. Rome is far more likely
become American under the influence work here
than America Roman Not single trait Of American
character il has been thus far developed harmuuizcs
with the genius OF that court; habit Of thought
or mode OF action peculiar TO people IL cast In
It's mould and there Is point feature in our
civil procedure eoineident with the structure Of its rov
eminent or the aims OF its poiy. We drifting fur
ther and further away with the OF the years not
aulk frnnR Init