New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-17

keep and which, as recent experience has shown,
may be held by hostile power without any imme-
diately fatal results to Pekn or the Imperial rule.
The dissensions which agitate the religious world
whether they confront two sects or simply schs-
matize one always receive due consideration from
The TRIBUNE. The state of the great Puseyite
controversy in England has, from time to time, been
elabOrately annazed in these columns, and what
ever changes the ecclesiastical courts may have
directed to be made in the upholstery of st. Bar
nabas have been announced. Strict equity there
fore, seems to demand mention of slight differ
ence of opinion which has arisen within the pale of
the Roman Catholic Church in the United States
The question in dispute is, of course, the trouble
some one of Slavery. The Church enjoys, it ap-
pears, no immunity from the intellectual activity or
from the importantly of conscience which, awak-
ened by the great wrong of the century have mani
tested themselves in the Conferences, Synods Con-
yentOns and cOnyOcatiOns of other sects. Two
leading Catholic journals are engaged in a war OF
words. The Quarterly Rsrie,o of DIR. Orestes A.
BrownsOn, and The Freeman's Journal of DR.. Nc
Master are at oggerheads. The former publcist
is not precisely a man OF Antl-Slavery
opinions; indeed, to do the learned Doc
tor justice we must state that he perpetually
denies that he is either an AbOtiOnist or :" Mig.
ger Worshiper." He asserts the right of every
State in the Union to maintain or establish Slavery
and volunteers in the most self-sacrfcing manner
to defend to the death that right. But the de-
cision of his brother in the faith, Mr.. Justice
Taney, has been too much for him. The gluttony
of concession manifested by the South has stag
gered him. Just as it has many doctors before him.
In the April number of his Rersw, he denies the
right Of the stakeholder to take his bipedal personal
property into the Territories, and while denying it
he incidentally states some very pregnant and far
reaching principles. A few extracts from his arti-
Gle will acquant the reader with his views:
"Under the law of Nature there slaves, for
all men are created equal and one man has no Jus
domina over another
1--WE are told again, that slaves are property, and
the Union is bound TO recognize and protect slave
property a. much IA any other species of property
Very true where slave property exists but not where
it does not exist. In the States where slaves are prop
erty the Federal Courts are bound to treat them as
property, and cannot discriminate between them and
other species Of property but not therefore, does 1t
follow that il must treat them As property In the Ter
ritores where no local law makes them property"
God as Pope Gregory VII. has declared never
gave TO man dominion man, nor to one man the
rpbt TO lord it over another. He has never created
some men to be kings and others to be subjects some
to be masters and others to be slaves; but he mas
created all men equal, and therefore Alexander ~.
asserts that by nature all are free This is the
teaching of Catholic doctors, and of all Christian ex
Founders of the law of nature.
And very good teaching it is, Dr. BrownSon, and
most heartily do We wish that all Doctors, whether
b.d nro6ta1 hy ~ The
following passages, in one of which We have iali-
cized dry dig at our Catholic Chief Justice will
conclude our extracts:
The negro being man. human soul, endowed
by the law Of nature with all the rights of white man,
he must in all things be held the equal OF white men,
except where the municipal law makes distinction to
his prejudice" d!, .r.,u.. 30 - 30 rroo.od ON
the assumption that negroes politically and legally
degraded race in the Union but such IL not the fact
They NAV be so in some of the States, but they are not
80 in the Union. indeed in all the States we re-
gret that an giring the opinion Of the Court the harned
Judge did not rec0lec uhat he rs taught 6yhlS TIgt0n
namely the unity of the race that all men by the nat
ural law are equal, and that negroes are men, and
therefore TO their rights must be regarded as stand
ing ON the same footing with white men, where there
is no positive or municipal law that degrades them
Such writing as this in Catholic Review has ex-
cited the nquistoria procliyites OF that comcally
misnomered paper, The Freeman'S journal, and II
is evident that the conductors Of that sheet will not
sleep sweetly until they have put poor DR.. Brown
son into the Inde1 EIpurgatorius This weekly
expounder Of the faith argues in christanly way
that negroes are, "by the law Of God, just as
much merchandise as cotton bales or sugar boxes;
and in reply TO the statement of DR.. Brownson,
" that the equal rights of shareholders and Of non
shareholders are sufficiently regarded if the cit
zen Of the South is free to carry with him into
&" the Territories every species of property that
- the North can carry" The Journal perpetrates
the following preposterous paragraph:
The priest and the parson alike free to carry
INTO their respective churches Bibles, prayer-books
aud semons. But the priest says, Without altar,
q crucifix. ohasuble, candles, &C., cannot celc-
brate the mysteries Of my religion. Would it be IN
eaualfaw Of religious liberty that would forbid him
these because il also forbds their to the Protest
ant clergyman, who does not use them!'
This is what Mr.. Richard Swiveller (if we
may mention that profane person in such sacred
company would call "a staggerer. We are afraid
that The Freeman's Journal, however, in its zeal.
las rashly rushed into irreverence. Is thore not
danger that it may have exposed itself to discipline
or perhaps to exccmwgnication, BY thus comparing