The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-09-14

TdON OENTI4E KING
ANDMINIsRI<K OF 9
san DINA, &c.
It might have beon thought that tn -InfalIi-.
bic Father Of be xafallible Church, who had
proclaimed to oil 06flstendomshis egregous ex-
utation in having decreed new Article of /,
Faith in this nineteenth century, must have laid
in stock ofghosty solace and CIRCULATION sufli-'
'cent to last his time, and night have sung his
g Nuac me dim,tt,s, in sublime independence of
all sublunary contingencies.
Much toour concern, however, Pope Pius's
soul, he tells, US, is "desolated with incredible
anguish WHAT'S still more lamentabls is,
that the Holy Father tnds himself compelled
! TODD violence to s.that mapsuelude andmildless,
which" The acquaints us--he derives from ma
ture itself, and TO am himself with that severi-
~ which. he farther acquaints us, his paternal
heart holds in h. rror!
Spain, Switzerland, Piedmont, have con.
seventy" lis Sandman Majesty and his Mn
listers are formally declared to have ncursed
"lhe greater Accommodation, and the other
ecclesiastical censures and penalties iniiicted
by the sacred Canons the Aposo lic Constitu-
tons, tAs General Councils, and above all, the
Holy C0uasil Trent.
/ The Pope is TOO gal ant man to go qnite SO
far against Queen Isabella at present, and
therefore contents himself with reprobating aud
abrogatng the recent constitutional laws of thar
country; and declaring tn m null, of no effect,
far they pretend to reg llate. ecclesiasticai
property, or derive the Church of its ''power or
liberty to engage in active persecution Of rnem-
bers of any. other communion who exist In
Spain.
AS regards Switzerland, his Holiness is too
much distressed at all that is going on there, to
unburthen himself in detail oil his grieis against
that country; but he means TO hold another al
locution to the Secret Consistory on that sub
jet. Spa n and Piedmont supply the, lamenta-
BILE subject matter Tor the two al.ocations now
; given to the world.
The reader will ask, what are they all about!
Why, about The Jaw suppressiag the great r
7 number of monastic orders in Piedmont. anu
tnat recently passed in Spain, ab Fishing tn.
TENURE of property in mortmain aud substituting
e the public FUNDS r land as the source OF ecc :
5 siastical revenues.
{ Il. short, as General Zavala, the Spani b
: Minister fer Foreign Affairs, tells his H Dimes,
very plainly in answer to Ills present. remon-
} strances, the main dispute is abouta matter 9.
| ~ -
the Minister, "csnnot forbear from eNpre ssina
J the profound CONCERN with which, an mated as i
! is by merely Catholic dsp psitions, it So the
Ho y See engaged in struggle in which ver
: gran ing all lis allegations -notnng is in ques
8 ton but material and mundane interests
We shal not. of course, enter into the argu
X ment between the Pope and the General, as t
II the CHIT sense Of the Corc6rdat of 1851. Tn,
: Litter, indeed, cuts that question short, in
yle which might suggest matter for reflection
to his Holiness, by saying that. at the poin
= things have now reached--at the hight which
- the question must now be treated--it matt r
; littlesh Their the terms of the article of the CO..
eoidat in questio should be understood in on
way or an thr."
= That is slight intimation to Plus TX. tina
!, he is not living in the age Of Gregry VII. Hi
:. Holiness, however,is in his attitudes alsa an
: insists that the Concprdat de inifely establi>he
: that the Catholic Religion ''should continue t
!. be the ony religion of the Spanish nation t
= the exclusion of every other worship, ard iha
the Church should always retain the as s of
: primitive right acquire new property, held b
property in the Church, should be inviolablt
not only for what it then possessed, but COR wha
i, it might acquire thereafter .
! Asregards the matter Of money, which is til
really substantial part of the grievance, Genel
s, al Zavala reples that the Church is only met
Ided in the general rule now establ shed agains
the tenure of property d. nioftaa,a, and has D
right to complain that it is included III that ger
: eral rule, which admits no exception, ecclesia
tea or secular.
= With regard to the alleged infringement
the rights of the Catholic religion as the sole r
ligionof Spain, the Minister points out that n
: other form of public worship is permitted. tt
i. liberty of the Church then, one would think, r
mained intact --eveato the extent that otl
er Church but herself enjoys vestige Of itss
II This is not enough However for a Churc
: which has had an Inquisition at its order
- Throughout these ALLEGATIONS the liberty ar
8, posoers Of the Church are always coupled. Q
ss sou call the Church free, remonstrates his HI
illness, where she may not pefsscpte herstics