Weekly conservative. (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1854-1860, 1855-06-09
From the Matches Courier
u NE u A PAE CLAIM
TO
temporal Power.
No. III.

| we snail cite an authoritative decision of the
present Pope, Plus TX, to show that the claim
to temporal power is neither renounced nor
dlsayowed at the present day. For the exam.
| pie, we are indebted to letter by DR.. R. Baird
addressed to the Hon. Mr.. Chandler of Phila.
delphia, and in reply to his speech in Congress
DR.. Baird says:
"ln the year 1851 Plus IX. condemned. bv n
bull, The Institutions of Ecclesiastical Larn and
Ihe 1reat'es on Onireysal Ecclesiastical Lasc-two
important works written by John Nepomucenc
Nuytz professor in the University of Turin.
| have before me at this moment this remarko-
ble bull. both in English Gas it was published in
tne weii-known Roman Catholic Journal the
Iabtet)and in Latin. Among the many things
IN those works which His Holiness Strikes with
the sword OF apostolic censure' are the following
propositions:
i. That the Church hasn no co-actiye power.
nor any temporal power wletllsr dirssi- e-stsStii
rect;' w Whicl we sGppost that the Professor
denies that any temporal power is given to the
rope by his spiritual office.
4 Inat besides the power inherent in the
episcopate, (of Rome,) it has another--o tenn
Polal poWer-n virtue of the concession, ex-
p,ees " 'acit oi she State, and consequently
%ocaple at the will of the latter and
o. lnat lhe compatibility of the TEMPORAL
power ana SPIRITUAL power is a question contra
vcrted among the Children of the Catbolic ana
Christian Church, "'1u
81 ought to say also that the editors of tbo
newspapers and other periodicals in Itnlv which
are considered to be organs of the Central An
thorlty, and among them. if remember rebt-
", LIZ Cieltta Cdttolica the great Jesuit iournal
at Rome.--in commenting on this bull asserted
tnat 1t went the length OF still claiming for the
Church all that has ever been claimed for her
ana that if the Church does not see fit to exert
all her power she only holds il in allowance, be-
cause OF the evil of the timesn In other words,
II she does not eXcommunicate and depose mon
archs, lay Kingdoms under ban, etc il is only
because such is the unhappy state of things in
TIE World that her edicts would be of no avail,n
How do those who shrink from believing or
at least from avowing that the Roman Church,
by its Pontifls and its Councils, and by its con-
stant and preserving practice. has exercised
and continues to endeavor to exercise power
and authority in States and countries over which
1t is not soyereign-how,w we say do such writer's
- "''' N'NiiNei SSth W pEcupp IrOln THIS mass
OF testimony? lst, by alledging that Gallcan
writer's and colleges, and occasionally ANGLO
Roman writer's, bishops and colleges have de-
MED this power. We yield all this in effect in
the very first article wewrote on the subject and
which the Natchez Free Trader was SO carer to
discredlt, and so foolish as to CHALLENGE A
portion of the Roman Church has denied these
claims; but the Church itself-the Popes and
Counclls--haye as steadily affirmed them and
practlced on them. This we have proved and
this was our first position. 2ndly and in addi-
ton, they say, as Mr.. Chandler vainly contends
that the exercise by Roman PontiIs of temporal
power was because Kings and States had vieId- |
ed them the power they did it not by divine
2t INT N~ agreement with Princes and Mon |
eaa W. saol6 otA 50 l4'g cited the
n...epf tine 3ar- aso eaa3eig b It to meet
atQ chow