The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-06-09

Condition Of the Papal States.
1t would be difficult TO imagine position
apparently more hopeless than that Of the
Roman people at this moment The evils
under which they gr0an are almost as great
~ those which afiict Lombardy or Naples.
The administration OF the states Of the Church
is, 10 almost every department, corrupt and
inefficient. Lille and property are insecure,
the taxation Is heavy, liberty Of speech and
liberty Of worship are alike unknown. The
code Of law is the canon lava code no
more adapted TO the iexigences Of modern
society than those Of Scion and Lycurgus
code to which 10 pation in Europe has
submitted for nearly thousand years
which was manufactured by priests for the
use OF priests, and which deals with nations
as ii they were moGasteries a code, 10 short,
under which the abduction and conversion
Of the Mortara child was legal act. The
public functionaries are all priests, with
priestly habits, priestly training and preja-
dIces, and the usual isolation IRON human
sympathies which caste and celibacy entail.
Trade, commerce, and railways and newspa-
pers aud all other modern Innovations are
viewed with as much suspicion as il they
we're tricks Of witchcrait. In short, there is
probably no quarter OF Europe in which
medieval organization OF society aud gov
eminent has been 50 faithfully preserved.
Count Cay0ur made the condition OF the
Papal States one Of the principal points in
the eloquent appeal which he made in the
Congress of Paris on the condition Of Italy.
He declared that 1t was useless to talk OF
reform there until the root Of the evll-lhe
ecclesiastical character OF the government
was removed. Until lay element was
infused into the administration, radical
change was out Of the question. But even
he dad not venture TO touch the Popes SOW
ereignty III Rome Itself lie proposed to
erect new state on the Adrlatlc, including in
II the Romagua, Urbino and Ancona, and
leaving only the district round the capital
in immediate dependence on it, the former to
be administered by lay council, with the
Pope US sort OF Suzerain. Everybody
k,ows what kind Of reception his sugges.
tions met with. The Congress gave them u
sort OF mciiticd attention, deplored the con
iition OF Italy, but refused to take any im-
mediate steps for Ter relief
The crisis which C.GOur then sought to
bring about has at last cone. The " com.
piications which Count Buol then refused
to discuss, are nos forced upon the atten.
ton OF Austria and Of TIE whole world at
the swords point Piedmont is reap'ng the
fruit of the Tchernaya. France has taken
up the cause OF Italy, and taken it On the
precise grounds urged by the Sandman
envoy at Paris in 1856. But here comes
the strange part OF this strange story. LOUIS
Napoleon has formally declared, in his mes-
sage to the French Legislative Assembly
snuouu,ius IA. declaration o! war, that
! liberation aud reform OF Italy he LAS
no intention whatever Of disturbing
.hc status q',o in the States Of the Church.
! lie receives into his ranks the revolted
troops OF the Grand Duke OF tuscany, com
mends their expulsion Of their sovereign,
would doubtless gladly hear OF revolt in
Naples TO morrow, and yet the evils which
oppressed tuscany and l.ombardy aud Ma
ples--bad administration III home, support
I'd III It's baduess by foreign Intervention
/ are precisely those Of which the unhappy
l.Oulan5 COuPiaIU. ne TTeuCu nave Dttn
received everywhere in Italy by frantic dem
onstratioos oi welcome have been over
! wleuioi by boquets and hospItailIies by
! the fledmoutese aud by the Lombard reiu
! gees. Inc French General in command at
ROME has sternly FORBIDDEN the Romans
offering any Indication Of participation in
the geneisl rejoicing. in other words, they
who dared and suffered Inost for Italy in
lol9 are, IN 1889, prevented by ltaly's sell
appointed deiverers from sharing in her
good fortune. Now. however, Napoleon
use. q TRADITION o, Ro.aau greatness ~ rouse
French ardor III the COMING light. lie tells
his soldier that along the VIA Sacra the
ANCESTORS OF those who ten years ago de-
tendc! their liberty with the energy OF
despair, placed monuments u recall the
great deeds that Romans had done tor
Rome but ID almost the same breath he
assures the Romans OF today that he who
carries hope in his scabbard Tor all othes
Italian hearts Can bring no hope TO them.
There Is. however. In the very grossness oi
the INCONSISTENCY, every reason Tor believing
that it will not long be persisted IN. LOU.
Napoleon, II he has nothing else, has toJ
much good sease TO come back TO Franc,
leaving Rome IN the precise Condition from
which he had delivered all the resi- OF lay
-Ner iorS Ere. Pot.