The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-04-24
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

The Whig has an article on the difficulties o,
the Junto," which, it says, has lost it's Influence,
since the removal from it of Father Richie and
DR.. Brockenborough. No longer do its DEGREES
command the implicit obedience Of the 'honest
yeon1anry of the country and no longer does
that "honest yeomanry" hearken to the war cry
of the Richmond Enquirer The spell is broken.
Day by day does the dreadful intelligence come up
from all parts of the State, that those who were
wont to be the foremost in joyous obedience to it's
commands, have obstinately repudated its au-
thority set at defiance Its decrees and resolved TO
think and act for themselves. Its fate s at hand.
The venerable SON of Escuiapius who presides
over it's deliberations though well acquainted with
the diseases of the human body, has no healing
balm for the ravages of that disease which has
placed the Junto IN articulo mortis He has over
hauled his political pharmecopia, busted his old
political lexcons and ransacked his pill boxes
and galpots, but alas finds nothing to relieve bis
patient. The Junto like spawned article of fur
niture under the auctioneers hammer, is going
going-and will soon be gone. Sic transit gloria
Juntonis. ~
The Enquirer proceeds to refute the Know
Nothing theory about the temporal power of the
Pope, and commences by publishing the declara
tion of the English Catholics In 1889, protesting
against the unfavorable sentiments held by the
people towards them because of the supposition
that they acknowledged the temporal power o
| the Pope, and elnphatically denying that they did
acknowledge such temporal power. 1t then cites
the case in which the Irish Bishops, In 1925, were
summoned before the British House of Commons
and answered certain questions put to them in re-
Il &c
answers they denied that the Pope could absolve
the allegiance of Catholic subject to his King. nc
matter what government he lived under; and they
also asserted that the claims to temporal power
set up by some of the Dpes was opposed to bott
| scripture and tradition. Then follows a letter
| from Rev. Bishop McGill, of ST. Peters Cathedral
| in this city, in reply to one from James Lyons
| Esq, In which he denies the temporal power o
| the Pope, and says:
"To me, the hypothesis of an invasion of oul
| country by the Pope, seems an sbsurdty; bu
should be come wi h armies to establish tempora
dominion here, or should any other Catholic pow.
er make such an attempt, it is my conviction that
| all Catholic Citizens no matter where borp, who
enjoy the benefits and franchises of the Constitu.
tion would be conscieuciOusly bound, like native
born citizens, to defend the flag, rights and liber-
| ties of the republic, and repel such invasion"
| The Penny Post cells attention to communica-
ton 1t publishes, charging mismanagement and
corruption on some of those having the control o.
the Blue Ridge Tunnel, and says that the Board ol
Public Works has shown itself utterly incompe.
tent for the duties it has to perform. 1t speaks
highly OF Mr. Rd G. Morris, the X N. candidate
for member of the Board of Public Works, and
says that the Board as it exists, totally without
practical knowledge, and dependent entirely on
set OF men who proverbially very loose In iha,
stsple is altogether at the mercy of any man, or
set of men, who may desire to cheat them The
Sta ,e ought TO be protected from such swiDdline
oreratons and the only way to effect the object Ia
to put competent and practical men In the Board
regardless of party sffinities