Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-01-26

His mathematical bull was only turned out to
grass:
AZ who was once as great a. Cesar,
Am now reduced TO Nebuchadncxzar;
And from as famed a conqusror
As ever took degree In war,
Or did his exercise In battle,
Have been turned out " Craze 0ith cattle"
True it is, sir, that the "thnnders of the Vati-
can no longer shook the corners of the earth.
The Pope sat in his quiet court, seemingly feeble
in every respect as If waiting for gentle and inn
mortalixing martyrdom. He who yesterday had
been the builder of Kingdoms, the maker OF mon
archs, and the destroyer of constitutions, was now
the weakest of mankind. But we find him shaking
his puny arm over Henry the Eighth, and grinding
his teeth at Queen Elizabeth.
Impotent old man He could find but one per-
son in England who had the temerity to circulate
his accommodation OF Elizabeth
TEMPORAL SUPREMACY FULLY PROVED.
At the risk Of being tedious, have collected
these historical facts; and win add an ustrious
Roman Catholic authority, from whom shall quote
few observations upon the claims and power Of
The Pope to interfere Nth aud depose nlonarchs,
and TO absolpe their subjects. The iliustyions Dc
Naistrs, las he Is called by the Roman Catholcs,)
in his truly elaborate and able performance, in
legal treatise upon the various powers Of the Pope
thus argues la reference to the above question
"As they had at their command, moreover, all the
science Of those times, the very force Of things
gave them an undisputed title TO that superiority
which at the time Indispensable The true prin-
ciple that soDoreQnty from God, strengthened
besides those ancient ideas, and there came to BE-
formed an opinion almost universal which attributed
to the Popes certain Jurisdiction over questions In
which soyereigns were concerned This opinion was
quite sound, and certainly far better than all our
sophistry The Popes did not at all interfere 30 as
TO embarrass wise Princes in the exercise OF their
functions still less did they disturb the order OF the
succession Of Soveregns 80 long as things were con-
81 dinr m the ordinary and known rules
it only when there was great abuse great er,ml
nality, much doubt that the Sovereign Pontif in
tcrposed.n u ~ IT,, ~.
prinacy BIZ Divine or human right, provided 1t be
clear that during several ages he exercised through
out the West, with universal consent and approba-
ton 1ass mSs wavd ].
bio. But WhGt 10 said against facts, scAtch are
everything in questions Of politics and goreynn,sat'
None doubted Sovereigns themselves did not
doubt this power of the Popes; and Leibnitz OBJ
serves with much truth and delicacy, as il his GUS
TOM that the Emperor Frederick, IN saying TO Pope
Alexander Ill. not 10 you ont TO Peter, confessed
This observation may be generalized. Princes,
struck by the anathema Of the Pope, disputed only
its Ju-tice, 30 that they were constantly ready to
make u Al i against her saGn
legitimacy Of the power.
s'voltare after having related in his own fashion,
the accommodation of Robert Of France, remarks,
council in ap6ich the sentence Of accommodation
pronounced. The Emperor, therefore, acknowledged
the authority of the Pope; and 1t 10 very singular
thing that modern critics VIII not see ins manifest
they all do with admirable unanimity that what
was most deplorablc in those great Judgments, was
the blindness Of the princes who disputed not their
legitimacy, and who themselves often begged TO have
recourse to them
But if the princes were agreed, the rest Of man.
kind were so likewise, and there is Longer Qusstion
but az to abuses. which exist everywhere"
This great writer concludes:
THUS the authority Of the Pope contested only
BY those against whom ! Wa svs,,ea ans Oss
was power 80 little contested Fri De Maistres Pope
1887 E
But the honorable gentleman from Pennsylvania
disclaims for himself and for certain colleges and
councils that the Pope claims any power to depose
or interfere with monarchs or to absolve their sub
iccts His personal disclaimer can amount to
nothing so far as the gentleman himself Is con-
cerned. The disclaiming Of the colleges and coun-
ellis amount to nothing except 80 Tar as the individ-
uals are concerned who compose the colleges and
councils Besides being in the face OF the histor-
cal acts of the Romish Church for six or eight CEN
turtles, they are positively contradicted by the
legal Catholic book of De Maistre, which have
above quoted.
The English editor Of De Maistre's profound
work claim "The temporal throne as the pdtrimo-
nv of the Gaiilean fisherman" (St. Peter.)
The bull which accommodated Henry ",
claims the power expressly er parte oninipoten-
tis DEL"
The bull of accommodation against King John,
theinterdict laid upon England and Magma. Chartd,
expressly claim, by words, the poper az given By
God to st. Peter, "to build and pull down king
doms." Hume, 299.)
If the power is given by God, what right has
the Pope to surrender IL He would be faithless
to surrender it. ale il nfallibe" says the Church.
Therefore he cannot err. Therefore he cannot
surrender a divine right. Therefore he has not
surrendered it. Therefore the proposition Of the
honorable gentleman from Massachusetts,, Mr.
BANKS "that the Roman Pontif has never, In
any authoritative form, dsclaimed the right" re-
mains still TO be answered, notwithstanding the
complacency OF the gentleman from Pennsylvania.
The colleges may be allowed to publish what
they please, so long as they stick to the interest
Of the Church, for The time being, and so long as
they promote the interest of the Church in the par
ttenlar place where questions may be discussed.
The Pope viii not call them 10 account until the
interest Of the Church should make 1t necessary TO
denounce their hereses When that becomes
necessary, the Pope riH act and denounce their
colleges, and accommodates aud damn all uho pre-
suns to utter such doctrines This would be IN &C
cordance with the history Of the Romish Church.
The councils Of tho Romish Church are in the
the preceding councils. What can be considered
as stable in that Church, sir which does not
scruple to condemn its own Pope As hereto long
after he ia deadf A general council, which Bishop
England, In a letter read by the gentleman from
Pennsylvania, declares to "be infllibe in doc
trinal DEGREES" CONDEMNED PORK Honoriols as q
uERErIcl-and some Of his doctrines as hereticall
If they can condemn dead Pope as hereto,
what may they not do with persons, colleges, and
bshopsf Honorious as Pope, being inhllible,
must have gone to heaven upon his death. The
Romish Church inculcates the idea that the Pope
is bound to 20 to heaven But sir, in the case Of
Honorious the council pronounced him hereto,
while he was in hcaven,) and as hereto cannot
70 to heaven, the council, Of course, put him in
purgatory, by their decree Of condemnation and
this church, by their decree, virtually denies the
PIONEERS Of Jesus Chris to keep this hsrcticsl Pope
in heaven Sir, how long win Il be before st. Peter
shall be condemned for his old sin Of denying his
Mastert How lofg Is st. Peter safe In the bosom
Of his LoRps He win never be safe, sir, 80 long