Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-01-26
NUMBER 62.

reign; and the King and Kingdom of England are
paced under interdict, the effect of which may be
seen by the following historical account off i:
"The nation was Of sudden, deprived of all ex-
terror exercise Of its relgion the affairs despoil
cd Of their ornaments; the crosses, the reqnes the
images, the statues OF the saints were laid on tho
ground, and, il the air itself were profaned, and
might pollute them BY ts contact the priests care
fully covered them up, from their own approach
and yeneraton. The use of BELLS entirely ceased ip all
tho churches; tie bells themselves geys yemoped from
he steeples and laid on tho ground, with the other
sacred utensils mass was celebrated with shut DOORS
and none but the priests we're admitted to that holy
institution The laity partook of religious ritz
except baptism to newly born infants, and the com
munion to the dying. Te dead sc,e not Inferred is
consecrued ground Hey scere Mro0n into ditcAes or
buried in common fields; and their obsequics were
Marriages soe,e celebrated isa Me church yard and,
hnt every action Of life might bear the marks Of this
dreadful situation the pesple were prohibited the use
Of meat as in lent or times Of the highest penance
were debared from oil pleasures and entertainments
and eeea TO salute each other, or so much to shave
their boards and give any decent attention to their
person and apparel Every circumstance carried symp-
toms of the deepest Distress and of the most inmc-
diate apprehensions e dioine peageance and hidgd-
Such is the force and power of an interdict; it
can be better imagined than described
Let us here add, for the information Of our
friends, the form Of personal accommodation:
In the name Of the Father, and Of the Son, and
Of the Holy Ghost and in our blessed and most holy
Lady Mary also, by the power Of the angels, arch
angels, &C., we separate Nj. and N. from the bosom
Of the Holy Mother Church. and condemn thom with
the asantAema e q perpetual naaediction. And nay
Mey BE- cursed ia tie eitg, cursed in Mee, cursed 5s
Ms.r earn, a,a cursed % Mely ssoye-cUasED DE THE
cursed be their coming In and their going out. Let
them be cursed IN tho house, and fugifiyes in the
field; and lot all the curses come upon them which
the Lord by Moses threatened TO bring the people
who forsook the divine law and let them be anafl,-
cIa marunathathat is let thon perish at s,le sec
ond coming OF the Lord. Let no Christian say an
mas With he 20 q 1sss ssn . sHs1
Let them be buried with the burial Of an ass and be
dung apon As face Of ass c0ysyt. VA .sg
This is the simple excummunication Of an indi-
vidual But much more terrible, indeed, is the ex-
communication of King or Queen, as we may
ton Of Queen Elizabeth, by Pins. It opens thus:
"7ne ddm,i1tion and esconsasunication Of Eliza
BETH the pretended Queen Of England and her adhcr
ents." 5ass
JOHN RHsIGNING HIS CROWN TO THE POPE.
In the communication of King, all his ad-
herents Is included. John was accommodated
and the sentence proceeded TO d6solvs all .JoJta's
subjects from their oaths Of fidelity and allegiance
and to declare every one accommodated who had
amy NTH him, either IN public or in pri
vatei In vain did King John attempt to hold out
against the Pope and he finally driven to sub
scribe to all the conditions which the Pope was
pleased to impose upon him i: iG
"That he would submit himself entirely to the
Judgment of the Popc that he would restore all the
exiled clergy and aity who had been banjshed that
he would make them full restitution of their goods
and compensation for. all damages; and that every
outawed or imprisoned for his adherence TO the
Pope, should Immediately be received into grace and
favor. oE7l7T
-four 1a,ons more, along sosa Tie King, to the og-
sv-nance Of this gnom nious treaty" "But the ig-
t1tpVf, f,f ktnwx
height Pandof the lcgate required him. as the first
triI Of obedience, to yssign his Kingdom 10 he
Uurch.' John, lying under the agonies Of present
He passed charter in which he said, that not con
strained By fear but Of his oscn free sciA he had for
The remission e his rims aud Iosc Of hs JatiiIy
resigned England and Ireland 10 God, g. Psfer, a,I
tFa,a and 70 Pope Innocent, and his SUCCESSORS ia
Ne Apostohc Chair. He agreed to hold these domin-
ions as erpiatcry Of Me Church Of Rome and he sdp
ulated tbat IL e or h suecessos should epe presume
forfeit all right to their domirions ma In consequence
Of this agreement John did hopia1s 10 Pasdo as he
Popes sgate scih all The subDissice rites which the
euda law required Of vsssals before their Iege lord
He came dsarmed into the legates presence who was
seated on throne. ne fg hioasef on his Knees be-
fore him he lifted up bis Joined hands, and put them
within those Of Pando he swore featy to the Pope"
Not only did the papal power presume to hurl
its thunders ofexcommunication against individuals
and Kings-but against dsscm6tages Of people, for
WhhsSocNSt Putpooco mtt toStthtr. Nv B mttTthL
ing to note, in the same reign Of john that after
the disgrace Of the King, the Barons met and
| adopted " MAGsA CHARrA" But the Pope Qnno-
cent? g considering himself as fc.dai lord Of the
kingdom" issued bull In which, from the plenti-
tudc Of bis Apostolic power, and from the "dr-
norify phich God had committed TO him, 10 build
and destroy kingdonas to plant and overthrow he
annulled and abrogated the mtole charter, and pro-
nounced a general accommodation against epery
one ,olo should perseverc in maintaining such trea
sondbtc and i,iiguHtous pretensionsi
lSTERDIcT AGAINST LIBERTY.
Here, sir, in this picture, you see King Of Eng
land on his knees before the legate Of the Pope,
elated by the triumph Of sacerdotal power exult-
ing over a crushed Kingl Here you see the sue
cessors OF st. Peter acknowledged TO be supreme
in temporal peH as spirituaf affairs land that,
too, in a country the most enlightened Of the age
and by King In whose veins was the blood Ct
William the Conqueror. In fact sir, from the pc
Rod Of the death Of Thomas Beckett in England,
to the triumph Of the Reformers, the Archbishop
Of Canterbury was greater in England than the
These historical facts show, not only the grasp
ing and aspiring gincnations OF the Pope, but prove
the absolute supremacy OF his temporal power as
IL existed in the thirteenth century Similar scenes
aud similar struggles to those already described in
England, were Of continual occurrence In all the
countries In which, at that day, the Roman Church
had footboldl Itnseded but litdc--a slight offence
was sufficient to cause this arrogant Pon to turn
loose his anathematic bull and the furious animal
blinded with a thousand curses, rushed madly
amid the indiscriminate masses OF mankind
II seems strange TO US Of this age-nay, sir, VIC
are astounded-when we look through the tele-
scope of centuries, and behold afar of, in a dim
chamber, a feeble old man, alone as II were, hold
ing his court amid the deserted ruins Of an ancient
city, without army, without feet, without
sword, weighing in the hollow Of his hand the
mighty empires Of the world: conqucring mankind
with no weapon but arrogance, with no power but
the all-nvincible superstitions which surrounded
bis throne
And, to uphold this arrogance, he had bis faces
Of brass, and his arms Of iron, in every nation
and 10 spread this superstition he had his cowled
cmmissares prowlng all over the face of the earth
And these cowIcd emmissaries who we're theyg
History, with its burning scroll, declares them to
have been the most degraded and degrading of
mankind, given TO all the sins and iniquities that
human flesh, in its weakness Il given TO.