The Winchester appeal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1856-1856, 1856-02-23
The Austrian Concordat.

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6 the nations of the earth. Her name
h has become byword for treachery
t tyranny, despotism and all that rem
4 ders man or State degraded. But
the finishing touch to her abasement
was given recently, in the shape of a
"Concordat" with the Papal See. In
order that our readers may properly
understand what this Concordat pro-
vides for, we publish an article on the
=, subject from the Paris correspondent
of the Presbyterian. The writer COM
mcnces by saying:
You will doubtless have received
the intelligence Of the Concordat be-
tween the Emperor of Austria and the
Pope before this reaches you. An
abject and disgraceful submission of q
crowned head to the despotism Of
Rome is not, all things considered, to
be found on the page Of history
Francis Joseph has sold himself to the
imbccile old man who wears the trip
pie crown.
The contracting parties exchanged
Publications in Vienna, on the 25th of
September last. They declare that
"thelr mutual aim is to preserve and
increase faith, piety and moral
strength" in Austria, and agree as
follows: Romanism, with sits rights
and privileges" according to the cam
on laws, is to be perpetual insAustria
and all its dependencies, including
Hungary, Pennsylvania and Gallicia.
Priests, monks, nuns and Jesuits are
to communicate with the people on the
one hand and the Court of Rome on
the other, without reference to the civ
il authority. Thus the power Of the
Pope in Austria is to be supreme, alb
solute and omnipresent. Archbishops,
bishops and their clergy are to govern
hepeople as they please; the laws by
them administered are not those Of the
Empire, but Of the Church. All
schools public and private, are put I'M
der the control Of the bishops, or in
other words, all education is confined
to the management OF the Society of
Jesus. The bishops will appoint all
teachers, and choose all books. In
spectors appointed by the same au-
thority, and armed with imperial pow
er to enforce obedience will visit all
schools. No book disagreeable to Jes-
ut or priest may circulate over the
Empire, not even Bibles, of course; or
ifthey creep in, the priests have now
received power to prevent their peo-
pie from reading them. Clerical pro-
cesSes, conducted in clerical courts,
before spiritual Judges, having rela-
ton to faith, sacrament, &c, are all
made legal. In other words, the in
QUESTION, with all its power and hor-
rors, OIL y without the name, is both le-
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