The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1855-10-18

may grow into . dangerous rival
with the authority Of our govsrnmen
But this is wholly unfoundsd; and n
man who will seriously look recorde
facts in the face. can for . momel
credit it. Afraid Of the tsmpor,
power Of Pope Plus TX! Afraid .
that imbseile power which only . fe'
years since was driven from his thron
by . handful ofhis own subjects, an
was restored by the power Of Austri
and France, and 10 now only kept i
. precarious authority BY foreign bay
onets! A power that has lately bee
insulted and set At defiance BY the lii
tie State Of Sardinia, and has beer
even BY Catholic Spain, in her old ag
and decrepitude, robbed other Churcl
property, and with perfect inpunity
1t 10 . fact which Is attested by tn
well authenticated history of the Cath
olic Church, that its power and inAu
encs have continued to decline eve
since the light ofthe reformation brok'
upon the Christian world, and that o
this day it is utterly powerless. Il
the whole Of the States Of this Unior
they have enc church out ,nf shout on
thousand, and their membership l. il
about the same proportion. In Mis-.
sisaippi they make scarcely q corpo
rails guard. It is certainly the mos
amusing thing in the world to heal
gentleman raising in this country the
cry Of Popery. But the Pope claim,
no temporal power out Of his own
narrow jurisdiction. He has said o.
himself-and bis bishops and cardi.
nails, in every country, have said thai
il he did he would not be obsysd.-
Long before this controversy arose,
was this annunciation distinctly made
The evidences have been spread be-
fore the country by speaker after
speaker, and journal after journal,
and have never been questioned. II
is well established that when the pro.
position was made in England, to
emancipate the Catholics from the
civil incapacities under which they Ia.
bored At that time, that Mr.. Pitt, then
Primo Minister, in order to satisfy the
public mind, caused ceftain questions
to be put to the five great Catholic
Universities of Europe, on this subject.
Their answers were distinct and u.
"that the Pope has no civil
authority or jurisdiction whatever in
the realm of England-rhat he cannot
absolve subjects from their oath Of ale
glance to the British crown, upon any
pretext whatever, and that there is no
principle in the tcnets Of the Catholic
faith by which Catholics are justified
in not keeping faith with heretics, or
other persons differing from them in
religious opinions, in any transactions
either Of q public or private nature. :"
In addition to this we are furnished
with q letter, a Pastoral letter, sent by
he Catholic Bishops in this country,
assembled in Couacil at Bal
.imore, to their flocks. In this letter
we find the same proof of tho utter
Of the charge made a.
,ainst the Pope and clergy. will
,opy the following extract from it,
Respect and obey the constituted au.
.horities. To the States and General
you oUs allegiance in all
hat regards the civil order, the au-
,horitics Of the Church challenge, in
he things of salvation. We have no
,ccd ofprcssing this distinction, which
you fully understand, and constantly
observe. You know that we have
taught you, both publicly
and privately, to perform all the du-
lies Of good citizens, and that we have
never exacted ofyou, a. we ourselves
nave never made even to the highest
ecclesiastical authority, any engage
ments inconsistent with the duties we
,we our country and it, laws" etc.
We are all aware that . similar de-
;laration was made by council Of
Catholic Bishops assembled at Balti-
more in ls43. What more proof can
We demand? Away then with the
bugbear, better suited, - the celebra-
ted Sidney Smith said, to frighten
in the nursery, than for grown
and educated men. ! might multiply
The proofs on this subject, but surely
The above are sufficient. The Catho-
lies Of this country have uniformly
been the friends Of good order, and
the purest patriots. All arc now &C.
quainted with the names Of Charles
of Carrollton, the surviving
signer Of the Declaration Of our inde-
pendence-ofMr. Taney, the present
Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court OF
the United States, and also Of the late
Judge CASTOR, of North Carolina. A
q body they arc the friends Of the
Constitution, and it IL singular fact,
that amongst the three thousand New
England clergymen who signed the
memorial to Congress against the re-
peal of the Missouri Compromise, in
1854, not . solitary Catholic was
found. might here ask Southern
men, why they should join their enc.
mics in the Nerth, in . crusade against
. religious society, whose members
have uniformly been tho friends Of the
South, and Of her institutions. New
York has the largest Cstholic popula'
ton, and the only member Of that 70
ciety who has sought or enjoyed an,
high Office, is Mr.. McKeon, who, as
member Of Congress, was the fas
friend Of the South. ! ask Southern
men to pause and consider well the
connections into which they ere throw
ing thsmselvcs-to pause and turn
back from the mad crusade they ar'
called on to wage against these Peo
l. G.Arxn tkA -