The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1855-01-19

u despatch ha been feceo0 s.
ancinn The rese IS Tia dta
Bishops assembled kome N snslo le
maculate Conception. The number q votes
was 516 including proxies, and about TO bisn-
ops actually present. OF these, 640 pronounce
ed 81 acclamation for the new dogma; 81 voices
questioned Che appropriateness Of such discuss
sion just now while only four votes pEotas both
against tie dogma and against The Holy See to-
decline question Of that importance without 9
regular council Ell these votes 2. It l. ru-
mored are contributed BIZ French prelates
namely. I 0lVioF, Biehop Of EVreux, aud the
other the Archbishop Of Paris himself Globe.
Our readers WIN remember that this great Pa
pal Convention assembled at Rome, the sEter-
nal City, 81 order Of the Pope. 81 the 9TH Of
last month, to settle tie great question which.
has been discussed for centuries, as towhether
the Virgin Mary, the Holy Mother Of Jesus, was
Immaculate, 81 free from the faint Of original
sin, resting upon all the descenaants Of Adam.
This was an event 81 gersal interest 10 Rones
for from al lands and / people had gone forth
her dignsaries Is meet common under tie
shade Of ST. Peters. and to Be pre- aed over By
no less an authority than that Of the Holy Father
himself. America sent her Achbishops, Bish-
ops and Priests across the Atlantic, to aid ii the
council and deliberations Of the august assem-
blythe FIRST time, that the New World has
ever been 50 largely represented q represent
ed at all lin the Councils Of Rome. AS Amer
lea, however, is now "a power in the earth, /"
politically, SO Che Pope, no doubt, deeming that
she ought to be power, spiritually was anxious
that the Churches Of the United States should
Be as fully and ably represented as possible, and
there is 10 reason to believe he was disappointed.
What theme g mozalize upon, and to think.
oi ne old Rome the lone mother
81 he poets call her, rising up from
her al tomb and summoning her children
from BE corners Of the earth, with an au-A
thoFiig ts lind, hardly less despotic than that
which temporarily welded By her Caesars
two thousand years ago.
Only the fossil remains Of the Roma Of other
days are lefl--the dry bones Of imperial power
and greatness long since faded away but the
characteE and purpose of the extraordinary Con
vocation gathered there, al this advanced stage
Of The worlds existence, demonstrates 70 the
rejecting mind that there is a Power sl
ing her ancient rains, which many IN Isl
blighting and its inaasnce upon lie minds Of
men, and upon the world at large, as the tenn
poral despotisms Of which they were once
traditional scene and centre. It is estimated
that there are scattered throughout the world
one hundred and sixty millions Of Catholics-tlat
is to say, the Pope Of Rome has as many ''suh-
iects'' as these recognizing his spiritual asl-
thority. Many Of the mightiest monarchs that
figure IN ancient or modern history, could not
boast half as many subject nor asubiee
over which an authority is welded half 50 SUI
pTeme. Your Peter the Crates, yout Charles
the Twelfth, your Caesars, your Bonapartes only
held mems bodies in subsection. The Pope.we
an know goes step further He asserts, or
has endeavored to assert, an ownership Of the
soul; the mind is his; the immortal part Of man,
to III intents and purposes; he claims -and when
he claims, and gets possession Of that, as we too
often see he does, what IS left is not often worth
having.
We did not set out to discuss theology, how
ever--for we are not theologian-- nor to deal III
polemics. We have to deal with the Convoca-
ton and the solemn---though we must be per-
mitted, without intentional iTeVerence, to sug-
gest--soIemnlY absurd problem the learned
fathers, have grayely set about to solve, 1.-THE
Christian world has lived On eighteen hundred
years, without satisfying itself as to whether the
Virgin Mary was Immaculate Or not. we would
like to be informed what new light Pic Nino has
received, to enable him to arrive at conclusions
which the early Fathers were never permitted
to penetrated We are heretics, however, and.
perhaps. ought not to ask the question. But We
pray to Be forgiven the observation, that the
spectacle these Priests and Bishops present to
the astonished gaze Of q civilized, and preten1,
ing to be Christian world, is one, Whichsto our
sense, has an odor Of impiety and blasphemy
about It, which not many parallels can be found
in the annals Of priestcraft. Think Of Man
sitting III judgment upon his Maker as it were!
Think Of Archbishop Hughes, fresh from biz
politico-relgious agitations IN New York. assume
ing to decide upon tie divinity Of the Holy
Mother Of Godl Think--ohl think Of Bishop
Timon. just come from the heart-burnings and
strifes his arrogant assump over Tie laity &c
Buffalo had caused e say whether g not the
Conception was Immaculate d not Above al
think of the sanity Monseignor Bedini- the
Butcher Of Bologna. the Herod d Italy
being. called upon 70 Judge whether the Mother
Of the meek and lovely Jesus was as pure as bel
With such incompTehensible and ine0ngtuous
realities before Us. il this our Day. may We
askwheEe gre mans pride, PRE- araption. iapiety.
to end Where win they stop The Holy