Litchfield enquirer., 1859-08-04


 tiical infallibility.
 sometimes severe God, simultaneously abuse both mercy and justice :; that, full of indul gence for the indifferent, for their friends, and for themselves, they treat with extreme rigol whoever has had the misfortune to become ob- noxious to power; that they more readily pardon the wretch who cuts mans throat than the imprudent citizen who blanes an abuse
 That the Pope and the Priests who assist him, not having been taught accounts, grossly mismanage the public finances that whereas 1 maladministration or malversion of the public finances might have been tolerated hundred years ago, when the expenses of public wor- ship and of the papal court were defrayed by one hundred and thirty-nine millions of Catho- lies, it is widely different affair now, when l they have to be supported by 3,l24,6 indi- viduals
 That they do not complain of paying taxes, because it is universally established practice, but that they wish to see their money spent upon terrestrial objects that the sight of ba- scas, churches, and convents built or man- tained at their expense, rejoces them as Cath elics, but grieves them as citizens, because, af ter all, these edifces are but imperfect subst:- tutes for railways and roads, for the clearing of rivers, and the erection of dykes against inundations that faith, hope and charity re ceive more encouragement than agriculture, commerce and manufactures that public sim plicty is developed to the detriment of public education
 That the law and the police are too much occupied with the salvation of souls, and too little with the preservation of bodies that they prevent honest people from damning themselves by swearing, reading bad books, or associating with Liberals, but that they don't prevent rascals from murderipg honest people; that property is as badly protected as persons; and that it is very hard to be made to reckon upon nothing for certain but stall in Paradise.
 That they are made to pay heavily for keeping up an army without knowledge or dis cipline, an army of problematical courage and doubtful honors, and destined never to fight except against the citizens themselves that it is adding insult to injury to make man pay for the stick he is beaten with. That they are moreover obliged to lodge foreign ar- mics, and especially Austrians, who, as Ger mans, are notoriously heavy-fsted.
 To conclude, they say all this is not what the Pope promised them in his motu proprio Iof tie 18th of September and is sad to find infallihle people breaking their most sacred engagements.
 have no doubt these grievances are exag- gerated. It is impossible to believe that an entire nation can be so terribly in the right against it's masters. We will examine the facts of the case in detail before we decide We have not yet arrived at that point.
 You have just heard the language, if not of the whole SPA, 66S people, at least of the most intelligent, the most energetic, and the most interesting part of the nation. Take away the conservative party-that is to say, those who have an interest in the government, and the unfortunate creatures whom it has utterly brutalized-and there will remain none but malcontents.
 The malcontents are not all of the same complexion. Some politely and vainly ask the Holy Father to reform abuses this is the moderate party. Others propose to thetnselves a moderate reform of the govern ment: they are called radicals, revolutionists or Mazznists-rather an injurious term. This latter category is not precisely nice as to the measures to be resorted to-. It holds, with the Society of Jesus, that the end justfes the II II GuiOpC tCdNCS it GGCcu-tCtC with the Pope, it will begin by cutting his throat ard if foreign potentates oppose such criminal violence, it will fling bombs under l their carriages.
 The moderate party expresses itself plain ly, the M.zzinists nosily. Europe must be very stupid not to understand the one very deaf not to hear the other.
 What then happens
 All the States which desire peace, public order, and civilization, entreat the Pope to | correct some abuse CT other "Have pity" they say, :" if not upon your subjects, at least upon your EeighbOrs, aud save as from the confagration l"
 ] As often as this intervention is renewed, the Pope sends for his Secretary of State. The said Secretary of State is Cardinal who 1 reigns over the Holy Father in temporal mat ters, even as the Holy Father reigns over a hundred and thirty-niue millions of Catholics in spiritual matters. The Pope confides to the Cardinal Minister the source of his em- bareassment, aud asks him what is to be done
 1 The Cardinal who is the minister of every thing in the State, replies, without mo ment's hesitation, to the old sovereign :-" In the hrst place, there are no abuses: in the next place, if there were any, we must not touch them. To reform anything is to make q concession to the malcontents To give way, IS to prove that we are afraid. To admit fear, is to double the strength of the enemy, to open the gates to revolution, and to take the road to Gaeta, where the accommodation is I none of the best. Don't let us leave home. know the house we live in it is not new, but it will last longer than your Holiness-prov ded no attempt is made to repair it. After us the delnge we've got no children r l All very true," replies the Pope. Bu the sovereign who is entreating me to do some thing, is an eldest son of the Church. H, has rendered us great services. He still pro tects us constantly. What would become Q