The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-10

meat Of the provinces, and in the presidency Of the su-
press, and in superinteadencs Of classical and slemeota-
~ education. What advantage TO the State results from
s shov nS .ms ID q ,h sss numerous rsas Pnss ~ crowd may %
on them in the cloisters; the insane prescription OF the
immortal works Of great minds, which Rome publishes
now and tsen in hsr Index. You will be told II BY the
i~mpudent protest which not long since the Jesuits made
against the King OF Naples, OF being the fearless cham.
dark ignorance in which every where the inquiring mind
Of the peasant ID kept, abandoned there in his village TO
you win see It in the lives that these e~mpurpled my
lords lead in Rome and elsewhere. 1t is evident that,
with but few exceptions, blinded y the love o. power,
have become deaf to the evangelical voics that counsels
humility, poverty and charity. You see them, In effect,
inhsbitinG palaces and apartments rich in furniture and
costly adornments; you see them drawn IN carriages BY
two, four and ak horses, surrounded by lv.ries and
invited to splendid tables and cheerful evening circles.
This Is a scandal which disgusts the most iervent Of the
If the financial interests Of the States did not suffer In
jury from il, since the people alone-the poor people
bear the enormous burden Of SO much Asiatic pomp and
profane luxury. But go Oh, work and labor day and
night, innocent agricuiturists, honest merchants, Ia
best to lay aside something; but remember that, In the
end, you must give account OF IL to the priesly m~iaister
Of the public treasury. Expect the lions partition, for It
tor tie sevetty-two cardinals and hundred mylords,
your masters, and leave the smaller share to your en-.
shaved families. Yes, oh my brothers of the Ponttdcal
sol! the priest Is greedy, avaricious, inexorAble He
loads you with all the heavy taxes that weigh down
France aud Germany. without thinking Of promoting
among You the internal prosperity Of those two nsttoni,
either BY opening new Railways, Or by steam navigation,
by vast mechanical shops, or establishments OF iedus-
vantage. The priests give you all the evil ofthese two
foreign governments and none of the good. They give
the municipahties-the arbitrary ban OF suspected pa
triots, Jealous and vexatious, police. "a 81 stem Of es-
you. with these, liberty Of conscience, a code OF
civil aad criminal laFs enacted in the spirit
apS e sisaS% p s1lnsa e Dy sspspig mot ,un rs.l sys,G as fsas.
tains of solid, useful and unIrejudiced doctrines, an rot
eunich universities such as yours, -here the students
become, or could only become: vain pedants or semi.
foxes, or semi-jesuits, (which Ia the same hing), deai
to conscience, to dignity, to the civil virtue of the trne
citizen. In addition you have the immortality Of tae pub
lie lottery, the voracious sub-lettees, unnatural harpies
OF the revenues of the states, the insolent foreign gnrri-
fiction Of expenses altogether belonging to the spirit and
interests of the theocracy; as. for example, the daily
squandering Of the public money for that numerous
priestly assemolage convokcd at Rome, to decide on the
Immaculate Conception. In short, the papal Govern
ment Is 60 monstrously constituted-so monstrously d.
Austria herself-eyen Austria mark it well becoming
echo to France and England, has many times advised
reform based on the wants of their subjects, on the
spirit Of the age, and on the experience OF the past. The
advice was yain-,IheocracJ e by its nature, stationery;
i weighs and will weigh, like a Go IDLY incubus upon
the peop!e, until the people, in the .xesss of des.
%peration will rnn-to arms-as they did in 1si9,
and the people have the right to do it, and mono
will dispute it,. Man, when tormented by evil, is
irresistfbly constrained to DO all in his DO yer to
and necessary c%cndfion of lis existence; he IS either
unhappy or dead IL lie does not use It. 1t is thus with
a ratien which has and feels inevitably the wants AMI
rights of the individual. Now lat theologians and NOR
ahsts tell me that 1t is. the duty Of christians to
bear with resignation quarrelsome and wicked su-
ard silly resignation ? / 6ni none IN history.
We see entirely the reverse even in the history Of the
the Guelph party, which was adverse, like themselves, to
the suabtan Emperors-the Popes on ieveral occasions
freed the subjects discontented with their SOVEREIGN,
fortunate adventures who tool pos. essicn of thrones
by rebel arms. BY the aid of the clergy Portugal shook
of the yoke Of Spain; the Pays Bias that OF Philip IL;
England that Of the stuarts; America that Of Enllaad
and Spain; france that Of the ~Bourboes; and, again, we
city, Bishop Hushus and his clergy, promoted By
speeches, ard contributed money to aid an armed re-
the Romans initiated them, because they had tine tight,
and pressing calamitOus cause for doing So. No! "rhe
Rcmars had 10 cause TO rebel against the Pope y is this
answer to US of the irritated priests, of this d~evotees Of
Rome, AID some editors OF this city, oh, shame to them!
They say that Plus TX, after hts elevation to the see Of
Rome, did at once MAKE liberal reforms In bis govern
mept, and Iemedied many evils and abuses OF the proceed
ing reiens. We do not deny It; but you who are so ten.
who is only sovereign BY the will Of the Cardinals, why
DO you then refuse justice and sympathy add respect to
the rig hts of three millions of people, who received, d.
rectly from God himself, the power Of governing the n
selves, If they deemed IL most advantageous Do you
know to what amounted finally the concessions and PR
vieges cf Plus ky They amounted to this: to constitute
a government, VIII CHI was not even of the Importance
and cahbre OF that which the French actually now have,
ernmentI The reforms Of Plus TX although Sign. and
inadequate to the wants Of the people, were welcomed
with enthusiastic gratitude by the Romans AM by 9th
ers, as signalling q new AMI unexpected epoch in the
annals of the Papal government, obstinately stationary
in its nature--and because they were regarded as re-
forms, precursors OF more important ones But when
Plus IX WAS asked for the only guarantee that could
ensure the duration of his reforms, he refused it aoso.
the ~despotism OF the princes of Italy, is Austeia, which
always keeps q numerous army in that beautiful PENN
sula.: As iocg as Austria has don,nion there, It Is i'm
rity, liberal privileges. IL is from this conviction that
in Italy, in 1913, arose the unanimous cry, Away with
the Ausiransl-war to the Austrianslo To the cry
succeeded the deed. Piedmont, Naples, Tuscany, sent
troops to the SO. called national crusade. The Pope even
feisned to co operate In it; he blessed the Roman army,
commanded by General Durando. But, behold all at
once this same Pope r~eorobates the war, and dissuaies
from II, because q war against a Christian Power: Fine
pretextl As If the Popes had nevei taken part In wars
against Christian potentates las II he himself, Plus
TX, had not ~iDstieated the war OF 1Si9 against his own
The condemnation which the Pope gave to the war was
one of the causes that occasioned the failure OF tue
1 ns.9s the ssv ,;n ! : Of sr, ls,s ;, IT,, the s s,issss, 0 Ssyaps.s sgs e.
energy OF many volunteer combatantsa and OF others dis
Io.ed to take up arms. There arose mistrust aud sus
picion betsefn the people and the Pope. The for mer
dsmanded absolutely LIBERAL AMI pros rsssive ministers of
state, and more enicient reforms and guarantees than
the first ones. The latter vacilated In order TO gain
Tins to receive from Vienna the response TO s,ms private
letters in cipher, which afterwards fell into tbs hands OF
the republican government The flight to Gaeta was a
.perGd. Gus cons piracy, executed With the CO operation Of
foreign Diplomacy. The Pope arrived at Gaeta, and let fall
the mask which had TIL then covered his assembling.
He IN Gated the liberals, declared null ard void
the conditions entered into at Rome with the people,
because, as be said, extorted by fear and violence, be re
fused to receive the deputies, despatched with the express
order TO conclude q reconciliation, and sealed his own
enduring ignominy, by summonipg into Italy TO the sup.
port Of his ambitious secular power, the legions Of
france, Austria, Spain and Naples, which Ia many bloody
contests mastered so many brave Roman soldiers whom
the Pore, with atrocious irony, entitled his beloved but
erring sons. Is there here the least particle OF religion,
Of wisdom. or OF charity II was amidst such agita'ed
copjuncturts that the Roman people must decide to
give themselves o government. For this reason
was convoked . constituent assembly from oil
the provinces and cities of the States. Tho election OF
the members was calm, solemn aud legal: no ~intrigues,
no tumuits, DO armed force, but citizen p~ropriety, men
toned in all the new, papers OF the day, and admired by
all the foreigners in Italy. The Assembly Of LA mem.
bers asss nted 10 the deposition OF the Pope, with the ex-
.a.lixn I'll crn .ntaa then Golln2aA n discnasion an