The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-08-20
Results of the War.

Fl The end of the war in Europe is attend
: ed with unexpected additions to the Papal
Power. The seantiness of the information
concerning the treaty at Villa Franco does
] not allow us to say what new dominion is
conferred upon the Pope; but we have al
ready enough to warrant the belief that
tabove all others-he, the boasted represen-
tative of the Prince of Peace--has derived
the most solid advantages from the recent
! destruction of an hundred thousand men.
I To him alone the promises of Napoleon are
made good. His government, so far from
being secularized by modern ideas en-
forced by che allied arms, takes new and
more alarming proportions in the eyes of
the world; and what before was contempt
bic, assumes at once the guidance and con-
1trol of 1twenty-three millions of men. The
Church throughout Europe, relieved Of the
progress of revolutionary ideas and liberal
governments, to-day is warranted in assu-
ming an attitude more defiant and despotic
than ever before. This is conclusion to
which the world had not looked; but it
ought not, we now see, to have been. unex-
pected. Napoleon had his choice to en-
brace Liberalism, which, while topping
over the throne of Austria and regenerating
| italy, would have called his own right to
rule in question:; or to strike hands with the
Despotism, which favoring legitimacy and
"order" in Austria, and opposing all health
full change in italy, would make him the
acknowledged favorite of the Catholic Pow
er. Without as is now evident, scruple
Of conscience, he has ieagued his fortunes
with the latter; and the result is that the
hopes of all good government On the Cont
nent must be indefinitely postponed. By
| Eafl he
ed the obedience of the army: by his new
concessions to Rome he has brought the
entire Catholic Higherarchy to his support
and by the establishment of the entende COR
dale with Austria--co- guarantor of the
new form of despotism that Italy is about
to receive-he has secured immunity from
attack. What can Liberalism now do to
undo what he has done?
We shall see in the altered tone of the
Catholic press evidence of the new turn
that affairs have taken. The Journals in
the interest of Rome have, except in France,
made him the subject of un relenting attack.
| While all the Liberal world have tried to
believe in his false promises and unasked
| pledges, the organs of the Church were
busily raising doubts. They knew their
man. But the proof that he is that which
they endeavored to show him, will not les
sen the warmth with which they will en-
brace him now that he has proved himself
obedient to the wishes of power that they
obey. He will become, in their columns,
the rival of Francis Joseph in the affections
of the Church; and in the management of
the affairs of that politico-ecclesiastica
body, for the suppression of just govern
ment and enlightened forms of faith, his RI
val indeed. Within half year he will be
| transformed from an ''infdel'' and dis
| turber of social order" into one of the
brightest of saints in the Popish calendar
Who does not see in all this serious
blow 10 the progress of liberal ideas, and
perhaps imminent danger to the constitu-
tional and Protestant powers that are still
suffered to exist. Between the crushing
despotism of France and Austria, and the
ecclesiastical tyranny of the Pope, what is
left for the patriotic Frenchman, German
or Italian to hope With the armed force
of the Continent in their hands, backed up
by the spiritual power that Rome yields,
the rulers, no matter now in possession of
their power or how abusing their trusts,
ny may go on unchecked. Liberty of
speech and of the press. of person, and, if
possible, of thought, in the imperial domin-
ions, whether of France or Austria, may be
trampled down. The policy of Rome in re-
pressing education and intelligence, and in
blocking the material improvements of the
age, may be carried out; and there will be
none to resist. And these possibilities are
the only visible fruits of the war that has
just closed. Beyond the slaughter of a few
tens of thousands Of men, the expenditure
of few hundreds of millions of treasure,
and the Strengthening of the hands of the
twin despotisms under which the Cont
nent groans, nothing has been done.-Chi-
cago Press and Tribune. .a ..,.t