Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-08

ant votes and they feel they depend on the good |
win of Pedestrians They are, consequently, in
constant fear that their religion may be thought 10
have some influence on their official conduct, and
are specially on thr guard against suffering it TO
do so. They have heard il said that their religion
is hostile to popular institutions and in their anx-
iety TO refute this silly charge and prove that they
can be as good Democrats AS Protestants, they
prove satisfactorily that they can be great deal
worse. Poor menl they have yet TO learn that
Professionalism Is incompatible with popular liberty,
&c. The sorriest sight to US, is Catholic in this
country throwing up his cap and shouting, all
hail Democracy" Again; |" We are at present
feeble minority; but. nevertheless, not wholly
without influence. The unanimous voice OF three
millions of our population cannot speak without
bringing an echol Our numbers are daily increas-
ing and the time is not far distant when our IN,
fuence will be incomparably greater. " IS wen
for all parties TO understand this, &C.
Mr. Brownson, it will be seen, does not enter
tain very exalted opinion of Roman Catholic pol
iticians. Whether the speech of Mr.. Chandler is
destined to place him among the Loves and Shields
es, may be learned from the sequel,
In his April number, 1853, (page l6l,) he says:
ave deplore us much as any one can, the mo-
raj and social degradation of the people Of Europe
during the eighteenth century, but we cannot for
get that the generations 30 immoral and so degra-
the prevalence of Gallicansm, the doctrine that
separates entirely the two orders, denies the Church
all authority over temporals, and proclaims the
emancipation of civil rulers in their public capaci-
ty, from the law of God, as interpreted by the
Church and we find no cause to blame her, but
only most powerful reasons for asserting the neces
sty and utility of maintaining her supremacy in oil
things and Of condemning in the strongest terms
Of which language is capable, the folly and impety
otut
and demagogues, who seek to restrict her freedom,
to restrain her discipline, and to deprive her OF her
right to pronounce udcialy on the morality OF the
nets of the secular power"
Here, then, we find Mr.. Brownson attributing
the immortality and degradation prevailing in Eu-
rope during the 18th century, to the influence Of
the very doctrine for which Mr.. Chandler con-
tends; and he holds that the folly and impiety OF
statesmen, lawyers, and demagogues gave rise TO
that doctrine which tended to strip the Church OF
her freedom and her supremacy in all things"
Don't Mr.. Chandler feel himself !" insulted" by
such "imputations" from his distinguished brother,
endorsed by twenty five bishops--American Bish-
obs, too--and that Pope of Popes, Plus the Ninth?
What has he to say in reply to- these stale ru-
morsn-these "uncredited tales"--these "hypo-
thetical charges Of concealed treason which issue
from the Vatican for, mind ye, volume OF that
very book from which quote, graces the library
ofthe Pope, and is no doubt regarded by him as
emitting its author to that "apostolical benedic
ton" which have quotedl
But, ask Mr.. Chandler's candid attention to a
few more " stale rumors," and uncredited
tiles from this same author In an article (July,
1853, entitled The Spiritual Order Supreme" he
denounces the Gallican doctrines, and attributes
To tha;- infiuence, especially the article denying
the temporal power of the Pope all the horrors Of
the French Revolution of 1889. / prefer to let
Mr.. 3rownson speak for himself hope Mr. Chand-
Ter win bear, with Christian fortitude and humility
" the using up" which his brother in the
Church gives him Commenting on the conduct
OF those who framed and endorsed the four articles
of 1882, he says:
:" They no doubt held that the State was bound
to be just in the management of temporal affairs,
but by denying all authority of the Church as a
government over princes in the temporal order,
they left the prince free to judge for himself in that
order, of the justice well as of the wisdom or
prudence of his acts and, therefore, emancipated
him in temporals from all obligation to obey the
law Of God, as interpreted and applied by the
Catholic Church. which was in effect to emancipate
the whole temporal order from its subsection to the
spiritual order; for the Church. the Pope as visible
head of the Church, is the sole representative Of
the spiritual order on EARTH
These doctrines, thus declared by the Gallicans
in 1882 are condemned in the most unqualified
terms, and he ntimates pretty strongly the stale
rumor that they did more than even the writings
of the Infdels Rousseau and Voltaire, to unsettle
and disorganze European governments Are not
hos ha h,, Mr
How, then, In his conscience, can he charge with
Islander, Protestsnts who say that power over tenn
porals well spirituals Is claimed for the Pope
of Rome2 Does not the Islander, IL il be one,
emanate from his own ecclesiastical household
But have few more "stale rumors from this
same source-endorsed by twenty-five American
bishops, and redolent with the benediction Of his
Holiness
In his january number, 1854, (pagc s7,) Brown
son, in an article headed "You 20 too far" re-
views, as before stated, the work of NJ. Gosseln,
who seems to have been adopted as father con-
lessor in theology by Mr.. Chandler. He says:
Eve should not like to assert that the doctrine
OF ST. Thomas, of Ballarmine, Suarez, Du Perron,
and the great majority of Catholic thcologians
which attributes TO the Pope as the visible head
of the Church, temporal Jurisdiction over soveregns
at least indirect, by divine right, is a simple theo
logical opinion, which may as NJ. Gosseln repre-
SCENTS, be held or rejected the individual Catholic
thinks proper There have been some recent de-
csions and COMBINATIONS of Gallican works at
Rome, which may be thought TO put new face on
the question: and to raise that doctrine TO the rank
Of senten.ia ecciesio rather than Of a scnfentia
ia ccciesiae! We have been forced to believe,
after the fullest investigation we have been able
10 make of the subject, the direct temporal au-
thority Of the Pope, as Vicar of Jesus Christ on
earth! We do not put this forth as Catholic dog
ma but we do believe Catholic dogma requires us
to assert at least the indirect power contended for
by Ballarmine and Suarcz, unless we would forego
our logic. Without going thus far, at least, all
Catholic history is TO US a chaos Of unintelgible
facts and Catholcity itself sinks very nearly TO the
level Of the Greek schism, and is not much better
than hgh-charch Anglicanism.n
Now, is not Mr.. Chandler afraid that his speech
may be numbered among those " condemned Gal
lcan works at Romer" Or does he fatter him
self with the belief that it win change the already
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