The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-15
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resumed The consideration Of the bill to provid,
for the establishment of railroad and teIegraphie
communication between the Atlantic Seas and the
Pacific Ocean.
Mr. CHANDLER said that he purposed to occupy
the hour assigned him in come replies 10 the re
marks OF the honorable gentleman from Massacb,-
| setts, tMr. Bauks,) who recently addressed the
House In Committee OF the Whole on some of the
preVaiiing topics OF The day, and who made spe.
ciai ahn lhcu'pate ailuson to the creed OF the Ro
man Catholic Church. involving a charge of laten,
treason against It's members or at least i,npu,ino
to them an article OF religious faith that oyerrode
al ieaiy 70 tne government of their country, and
which rendered them unworthy to be trusted ans.
pected cititizens, and dangerous officers
Believing religion to be personal matter he had
ever avoided public exhibition OF his professions
ana knowing the unpopularity of bis creed, he had
been careful not to leopard his means of usefulness
| IN their legitimate channels by any untimelv nra
sentstion OF unacceptable dogmaa. But now he
could not be deceived in supposing that well-tem-
pered reply would not only be favorable recev ad
by the committee, but that an ATTEMPT AZ such re
ply as the charge of the gentleman from Massacbu
sets would suggest TO Catholic was expected from
MN as the Oldest of the very few members
| here who had embraced the religion in whose 40
| tence he now desired to speak He knew of hnt
one gentleman beside himself in this House who
was obnoxious to any OF the censures unustly made
| upon professors of the Catholic religion
| The gentleman from Massachusetts in bis de-
| ience oil secret combination to put down the Ca
thoilc religion In this country and to depv tn its
the full right of citizenship did not bring
INTO discussion the general creed of the Catholic
Church, but only that portion of II which II was
serted made the professors Of that creed dependeo
upon the Bishop OF Rome not merely for wha of the
should no,d OF iaith toward Gsd, but for whatever
| they should maintain of fealty toward their Gov
| ernment. The charge against Roman Catholics
was that their avowa of the supremacy of the pone
rendered them unsafe citizens because it made them
liable to be Withdrawn from their alleniance tn their
| Government oFt
| superior The question raised by the gentleman
| was one OF political power, and this he imagined
was the leading objection to Catholicism with those
who had yentured on the dangerous movement of
dragging religion into the political arena. He de-
MED that the Bishop OF Rome had or claimed for
himself the right to interfere with the political rela-
tons oil any country other than that OF which he
| was himself the sovereign He (Mr. c. had no de.
| sire to conceal any point and repeated that he de
| MED that the Bishop OF Rome had or claimed the
right, as resulting from his divine office to interfere
between subjects and their soveregns between ci-
| uzens and their Government and, whilst he taade
this DENIAL he acknowledged all of his obligations
| to the church OF which be was an humble member
and recognized all the rights of its venerable head
| and distinctly did he deny that the power of the
rope extended one grain beyond his spiritual rea
iions with the members oi his church. or ilnpinged
Ia tne least degree upon the political allegiance
| which anv Roman Catholic of this countay might
| owe u i Government under which he resided
| That this disavoWal of mine (said Mr. G. NAV
| not be regarded as mere generality, desire to
give 1t eXpliciness by declaring that if bv anv pro-
whence. the Bishop OF Rome should become nosses.
sed OF an army and fleet aud, in a spirit of con.
quest or in any other spirit should invade the ter
rtory OF the United States and assail the rights Of
our country, he would find no more earnest antsgo.
nlsts than Roman Catholics And for myseif if
not here TO vote supplies for defence or if too old
| to take part iu the protection of my country |
should, II alive be found ia my chamber. at the
foot OF the altar implorhg God for the safety ofmy
country and the utter defeat OF its invaders Loud
applause.
The CHAIRMAN. Such demonstrations of an
plause are not becoming deliberative assemblies.
Mr. CHANDLER (continuine) Or if the spirit of
conquest should seize upon the wearer of the tia a.
and he should seek to subjugate Italy by improper
assumptions, or by provoking the armies OF other
nations against his own State, could look upon his
chances OF defeat coolly and compIacently as
upon those of any other ambitious monarch
But since it might be asserted that as a republi.
can and layman, he could net be supposed to un-
derstand all the relations and influences of the
dogma of the supremacy of the Pope he would
say that what he had asserted as his belief of The
entire political independence of every Roman
Catholic out OF Rome was fully held and openly
declared by every Bishop in the United States -
Andf TO prove this he quoted Bishop England of
Charleston, South Carolina Archbishop X en-
arick' OF baltimore; Archbishop Hughes, of New
York; and others
But it had been asked did not the Pope in former
times exercise the power to depose monarchs and
to interfere with the Temperatures of soyereignst
This he admitted declaring that, as an American
legislator he had nothing but the truth utter and
would scorn TO utter less than the whole truth -
The Pope in former days had depused kings but
TOR the exercise OF this power he did not rely upon
his spiritual authority the head of the Christian
Church but upon rights invested in him by con-
stiuion and compact
lie desired that he should not be considered in
any thing that he had said, as yielding single dog
ma OF the Catholic Church, or as manifesting a
desire to explain away, for the purpose of suting
| nf MIS-
hearers, any of the doctrines Of the Church of
Rome. He believed all that that Church believed
but was not bound by the imputatons of it's oppo
nents, or by the assertions of those who would
make capital out of the denuucia.on of the chill.
dren and the misrepresentation of her creed
In conc usion tsaid Mr.. CO. with my hand on my
heart and my eye on Heaven, / can appeal to God
(apd speak with reverence) to witness the truth of
all the assertions which have made from my own
dent of the credibility of all the testimony have
adduced from others.
Mr.. Cox followed, snd referred to the declaration
that the Wing party had disbanded He denied that
the Wing party was dead. and declared that it was
only the hopeful wish OF a party whose triomphs
Were about to result in a miserable and overwhelm.
ing ruin. He could see nothing Objectionable in the
secret organization of which SO much bad been said.
In holding meetings they but followed the great
cess OF that party in early days to be attributed
more than to any other cause to the fact that it
after the order adopted in Paris
Mr.. Stephens of Georgia, then obtained the floor
W hen the committee rose.
Conts appeared at the theatres in Washington
and Baltimore on the nights OF the performances of
Grisi and Mario. She dressed gaudily, with
great display of jewelery-her style is called 'vo
luptuous." The editor of the Baltimore Amer
can got glimpse of her and he declares that Gris
has no cause to be jealous.
The Know Nothingsin the Massachusetts Legis
lature, are beginning their movements. On We'd
nesday motions were introduced with the object OF
making Nunneries and Roman Catholic Institutions
as public as Protestant Institutions-and oil alter
ing the constitution so that none but "natve born"
shall vote.
The Wool Trade of the country continues ex-
ceedirely depressed, and the trade has seldom or
never been in worse condition than at the present
time.
The Trustees of the Catholic Church in Buffalo
who had the we'll known contest with their Bishop
about the Church property, have applied to the
Legislature for redress