Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-10-06
The Spanish Government and the Pope.
The Spanish Ministry has lately published an

The Spanish Ministry has lately published an
exposition addressed to the Queen, OF the re-
latlons subsisting between Spain and the Romlsh
Government, together with the correspondence
which has been crrried on between the two
Governments since December last The ex-
position begins with the remark that the alo-
cution of the Pope, in the secret consistory of
the 26th of July, with respect to the ecclesasti
cal affairs of Spain, obliges the Government to
manifest to the nation on whose side have been
prudence and moderation and on whose side
aggression:
"When it has been sought say the Minis
try in their exposition, g to drag religion to
the field Of politics; when the enemies of your
Msjestys throne and of the institutions have
sought to convert into religious one the ques-
ton which, till now, was one of dynasty and of
principles; when, also, under the shade Of rell
gous principles, socialism and absolutism, in
sacrilegious concert, have raised for the first
tine their heads in one of the first cities of the
monarchy; when in every corner Of the PENN
sula the eternal enemies of the public repose
dare to promote disturbances the sole object of
which is to destroy without view of building up,
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more opportuneness than it did in tranquil
times, in which the throne, the dynasty, and
the institutions of the country were not COM
bated In the pacific field of discussion nor in
the unfortunate one of arms
But the reason which is on its side is so
clear, and it has contormed its acts in such a
manner to the convenience of the Church and
of the State, that it is ready to confde its de-
fence to publicity, the most complete publicity.
''In order to attain this object there is
nothing more opportune than to give to light all
the documents relative to the late negotiations,
all the protests of the Cardinal Secretary of
State and the Charge d'Affares of the Holy
See, and all the dispatches and notes in which
your Majesty's Government and its Minister
Plenipotentiary at Rome have repealed the
charges and reclamatons brought against its
conduct.
"Your Majesty's Government desires that
even the confidential charges and instructions
documents which it is not customary to pub
lish) should see the public light on this solemn
occasion.
''Its impartaity will thus be notorious. and
the admonition of his Holiness, unjust in its
substance and violent in it's form, will receive
the most complete reply in every thing relative
to ecclesiastical matters.
" with respect to the other subjects which
the admoniton embraces, your Majesty's Gov
eminent, for its own dignity and from respect
to the dignity of the Church, must limit itself
to make solemn protest
"The Government does not not recognize, as
no independent Government has ever recog-
nized, the right which the Holy See seeks to
arrogate to itself of declaring null the laws
made by your Majesty with the concurrence of
the Cortes; of approaching falsely the state of
our country, establishing sort of divorce be-
tween your Majesty and the nation and the.
Government; or of placing in doubt the legti
macy of the acquisitions of the estates which
were ecclesiastical, aienated in virtue Of civil
laws to which the Holy See itself had already
given its assent and appreciation.
Accompanying this exposition, which is
signed by Gen. Espartero, as President of the
Council Of Ministers, and by O'DonneIl Zahala,
Address, Santa Cruz, Hereleves, and Marines,
the other Ministers, decree was submitted to
the Queen for her signature directing the pub
LEGATION of the exposition, with the entire
in the Madrid Gazette. The
decree, signed by the royal hand, with the other
documents, accordingly appeared in the Gazette
of August Is.