Weekly conservative. (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1854-1860, 1855-06-09

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We have already alIual4 tJa ldiation by
the Dublin Tablet, the Romish organ of Ireland
of these Gallican views as they are termed
The same reputation is, We learn, also made in
the London Tablet, the Romish organ of Cardinal
Wiseman, the able primate of the Roman Church
in England. We will not stop again to refer to
these papers; but shall proceed to quote at
some length from "Brownson'S Quarterly Retiew''
published in Boston, and well known as the able
and powerful defender of the Roman Church.
AS if, irinteipation of these feeble attempts to
,quench 'the light Of history" and TO deaden
the influence of "high Church authority,n Pro
feesor Brownson year since bore testimony to
wlxt was tho teaching Of tht Church, in a bold,
henest, -uequivocol manner. The proofs of the
standing of the Review, in the eyes of bishops,
arcbbishops and the Pope, himself, we will af-
terwards submit.
We desire to preface that Mfr. Chandler in his
eloquent denial that the Church claimed tempo
iui pohIiI uuiHittVu ulitt opSo llau ollti Ut
thrqned kings, and thus released their subjects,
and added that ''!f [this was done] bydiUmetvh;
right Inherent in The spiritual office Of the Bishop
Of Rome, as the successor Of 81. Peter; then SIR
confess il may neger, IL necer can lapse"
In the January number of Brownson's Quar-
terly Review for the year 1858, on page "a, the
editor thus speaks:
"For every Catholic, ut least, the Church is
the supreme judge of the limits and extent of
her own powers She can be judged by no one,
and this Of itselfimplies her absolute supremacy
and that the temporal order must receive its
law. at least its Interpretation from her. So she
herself has dlrdys asserted, by the mouth of all her
holy Doctors, her Councils and her sovereign Pontfs
Through all the long years Of what is termed
the Martyr Age, during her long and bloody
struggle with Pagan and idolatrous Rome, she
asserted ii and wrote it out in the blood nj t-her
dearest children, whom she commanded ,sllb-
nit to all manner Of tortures, and to death in
its most lrighttul and eXcruciating fornk seen
er than obey CGsar against Christ She hasho
sooner emerged from the Catacombs and gans
ed status in this world than she reasserts il
and proclailns in the faeo- Of -Arier emperors
and inGdel kings the eternal supremacy of the
law of the Law of Christ. and her right as its
guardian and judge to judge all men, oleyery
state, rank or dignity, and to subject them to
her discipline WHENEVER THE OCCASION oC-
CURED, SHE ASSERTED HER POWER, NOT IN EMPTY
WORDS ONLY BUT IN DEEDS, TO JUDGE soyEE-
EIGNs. KINGS AND C.EsARs TO BEsTow OR TO
TAKE AWAY CRowNs.To DEPosE UNGoDIY RULERS,
AND TO ABsoLvE THEIR SUBJECTS FROM THIR oATHS
/ on Artl NJ Nrr Shall xyn fpnr tn lo hnn,r tc
ournoble Catholic ancestors, or to assert the
doctrine towhich under God was due their great
ness, lest we offend the fastidious ears of unbe-
leving sovereigns, or disturb the tranquility Of
graceless courtiers and demagogues, who tc
gain political advancement, would not hesitate
to sell Jesus Christ to be crucilied? Out upor
such servilityl
Page 5S he says: "The Church any day i
as sovereign as Caesar, and as safe depository
OF power and the ineolence end encroachment
of Churchmen, suppose them to be as great a.
the most shameless courtier or politician evel
pretended, are less intolerable than the inso
lence and encroachments Of Caesar and his state
lities. Any day the mitre is above the crown
and the priest above the demagogue.
"P. 61. Again, the first interest Of mankint
in every age and country, is the maintenance o
freedom and independence of Catholic Churcl
for il is only through her and in her tha
mankind are redeemed and able to form am
maintain real society. The sovereign tina
makes war on the Church, that denies her fret
dom and authority, by that act alone forfeit
his rights. and deserves TO be deposed alike i
The name of God and in the name of mankint
for the true good of man is inseparablo frol
the honor and glory of God in his Churc
When then we find sovereign pontiif iudgin!
condemning and deposug a secular prince. r.
leasing his subjects from Their obligations
S obey him, and authorizing them to choose the
another king, we may regret the necessity f,
such extreme measures on the part Of the 70