Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-06

greet the necessity iOf such extreme measures On Wy
part Of the Ponuf but see In them only the bold
and decided exercise Of the Legitimate aathcry Of
the sFtFttual power over the temporal and instead
Of biushing for the chief Of our religion, or joining
our voice 70 swell the clamor against him. we Ihank
him, with our whole heart for his fidelity 70 Christ
and We give him the highest honor that we can give
70 a true servant Of God, AID beneiaflor " NAH
kind"
AT page so, Of the saIpe humber, is the follow
ing; -
30, Sovereign Pontia, successor Of the Prince Of
the Apostles Vicar of God earth, il ever through
love Of the world, or through fear of the secular
power whether royal or popular IN It's constitution,
forget TO assert thy rights Ms supreme chief under
Christ my Saviour, of the whole spiritual order and
as such, supreme alike "a spritnaLs and IN teaporal,
let my right hand forget her cunning and my tongue
cleaye 10 the roof Of my mouth
Language cannot assert more emphatically the
supremacy Of the King Of Rome, in all matters
temporal and spiritual
The Roman Hierarchy has generally endeayored
to fortify and establish Its power by obtaining
great landed possessions. The history OF English
Law is filled for centuries with the details Of con-
slant strife between the Roman clergy, and the
King and Parliament-the latter endeavoring, by
innumerable statutes, to restrain the extent and
value Of such possessions. Italy, Spain, Mexico
and the Sc nth American States, have all suffered
from this cause. Spain, at one time the most
powerful kingdom of Europe, owes no little portion
OF her present enfeebled and degraded condition
to the fact, that the Romsh Hierarchy has con-
troled an immense amount of the lands of that
rich, beautiful and mighty country Her people have
awakened to consciousness Of the full weight of
this gigantic evil and, recently, the constituent
Cortcs OF the nation have enacted law, which has
received the reluctant assent Of the Sovereign,
devoting TO public sale, for the benefit of the State
all this property, amounting, it is said, to the
enormous sum of 400, 600 900 of dollars.
The Legislature of Piedmont in the kingdom Of
Sardinia, have also recently enacted law to the
same effect II was respecting this that Plus TX,
on the 22nd day of January Of this year. delivered
the " Allocution," to which have already advert.
ed. This remarkable document contains passages
which remind US Of the Bulls and Decretals of
Gregory VII, and Of Innocent III. Among other
things, it Bays,--
And last of all, as you are aware there has been
proposed in that country bill directly contrary TO
Natural and divine right, opposed, in the highest
degree, to the well-being of human society, and
favoring, in every possible manner, the Pernicons
errors Of socialism and communism. BY that bill it
is proposed to destroy, almost totally, all the monas
tic and religious associations OF both sexes, the col
legiate churches and simple benefces even those
dependent on private patronage, and to deliver over
their property and revenues to the administration Of
the ciyil power ~ y Words fail
us to express our grief at such criminal and almost
incredible acts against the Church, and AGAINST THE
Kingdom where there so many fervent Catholics,
and where, formerly, and in particular, among the
Sovereigns, such examples were to be found OF piety
religion and respect for the chair of ST. Peter But
the evil having arrived at that point that it Is not
sufficient to merely deplore the injury done to the
Church. and that we are bound to do everything in
our power 70 put IN end to this state Of things,
again raise our voice with apostolic liberty in this
only all the DEGREES already issued by that Govern.
ment to the rights and authority of religion of the
Church and ofhe Holy See but likewise the bill lately
proposed and declare all these acts to be entirely
worthless and invalid.
1--WE warn them, we say, to consider, in time
what penalties and censures the apostocal consttu
tons and the Canons of the Holy Councils, and, in
particular, the Canops of the Holy Council Of Trent
have established against the profaners
of holy things"
Notwithstanding this Allocution, the BILL with
the sanction Of the King of Sardinia, has become
a law.
In the year 1s4g, the Seventh Provincial Coun-
ell of Bishops in the United States held In the
city of Baltimore. The Council adopted and
ordained the following Canon -
ARTICLE TX.
"The fathers ordain that all churches and ull
other ecclesiastical property, which have been ac-
quired by donations or the offerings of the faithful
for religious charitable use, belong to The Bishop Of
the diocese unless IL shall be made to appear and be
confirmed by writings, that it was granted to some
religious order of monks, to congregation Of
priests for their use"
This canon was re- affirmed at the National Coun-
Gill; held at Baltimore, in 1852.
All the Romish bishops in the United States are
appointed by the Pope, and removable at his
pleasure. In the oath of allegiance which they
take at their conservation, is the following clause
"Possessiones vero nd mcnsam mean pertinentes
non vendam nee donabo, neque, impignorabo, nee
de novo infeudabo, vel aliquo modo alienabo, ethan
cum consensu captuli ecclesi@ meR, iiconsulta
Romano Pontifee. Et 81 ad slquam alienationem
devenero, poenas in quadam super hoe edita con.
sttutione contentus, go ipso incurrere volo" "The
possessions belonging to my table will neither
sell nor give away, nor mortgage, nor grant anew
in foe anywlse ALLEVIATE, no, not even with the
consent of the chapter of my church, Without con.
suiting the Roman PontiT. And IL | shall make
any alienation, viii thereby incur the penalties
contained in a certain constitution put forth about
this natter
One of the highest acts OF sovereignty is the
exercise of the power Of defining the tenure by
which people shall hold their lands. 1t is strict
ly POLITICAL temporal power. Here then We
have, in the United States, hierarchy first de-
clsring that all the ecclesiastical property, except.
ing two classes appertaining to the church, stu
ated all over these United States belongs in each
diocese, to the bishop; and then, that bishop
swears allegiance TO foreign king, and declares
that he holds these estates subject 10 the will, APP
proval, and control Of that king. Is not this a
creation, to that extent, Of monarchy in these
United States' Further, when the trustees Of St.
Louis church, at Buffalo, In the State Of New York
refused to violate the trust laws of that State and
TO convey their property TO their bishop, In ODE
dence to the article which have recited, Bishop
Timon accommodated them, reciting that he il
authorized 10 do so by virtue Of the DEGREES Of
"The Holy Council of Trent'-the same council
cited by Plus TX, in his Aiiocutior respecting
Piedmont
The Holy Council Of Trent was general Coun-
Gil Of the Romish Church, held in the city of Trent,
In the Tyrol, on the borders Of Austria and Italy,
and was in session at various times from the year
l545 to the year 1868. do not know how il may
be in Sardinia but do know, that there is no arti
Gle section, clause, sentence in the Constitution
Of the United States or in the constitution of any
one Of the States Of this Union, which gives au.
thority to Romsh prelates, owing allegiance to a
foreign king, 10 punish American citizens because
they viii not violate the laws OF State, by virtue
Of the DEGREES and csnons Of a council held in
Austria in the 10th century. In consequence Of
these proceedings, the State Of New York enacted
law al It's last session, further defining ecclesias-
teal tenures In his letter respecting IT, addressed