, 1859-07-28

There is hope for Mexico. The Juarez OF
Liberal Government with great courage and
with m unsparing hand has seized upon the
cause Of the unceas;ug disoord in that uuhap-
pr land, and will il it las the power, dcstruyits
influence for evil The Catholic Church is
that fruitful cause; and in dealing with it
Jua.ex strikes at tho root Of the wars,
revolutions insur1ections and anarchies into
which his country las, fDr the last quarter
Of a century, been plunged. The New York
papers Of Monday bring us the Decree which
he has promulgated. It is thorough and
comprehensive; and il its authority is
once firmly established aud acknowledged,
re may hope that the troubles Of Mexico arc
concluded, and tlat shc will enter upon new
and healthful national career. With extra
ordinary advantages in the way Of climate,
soil aud position, she llas, from the influence
Of that Hierarchy which Is never more deadly
in its influences than when linked to Repnbli-
canism, rapidly deteriorated in all the Gle
ments Of greatness, until her 1ual dismember-
ment and death is seriously threatened
But the bold surgery Of Juaroz Will afford a
cure for the evils that she has endured, if there
be in the body polite enough vitality and pa
triotism to put his necessary measures into
execution.
The Decree to which we. refer, after setting
| forth that the principal motive Of the actu al
wnr, prompted aud sustained by the Clergy, is
to complete the emancipation of that body from
/ the control Of the civil authority:
Tint when the civil authority has sought, by
favoring the Clergy, to enhance its income, the
clergy, in order TO disclaim the sovereign au.
| thority, has resisted even its own benefit:
That when the sovereign power, by lending
in respect to parochial dues, has sought to rr.
more the popular odium which curtailed the
| proper emolumenta OF the Church, the clergy
appeared to prefer the loss of al rather thar
submit 10 any law:
That "a the determination upon this point cx'
pressed by the Afropolitdn proves that ths
clergy can support itself in Mexico, as it does
elsewhere, without the cish law regulating it:
pacts md agreements with the detout:
That, ifat previous times there Was room fol
any one to doubt that the clergy has been 1
stedfast obstacle in the way Of the establishment
| Ut QuQlE GEACEr 1u-AAF Hi luGE 1FEQKUlZG 1uAt !
il In state Of overt rebellion against the sore
reign authority
That in mlsapplying the 1egacics and gift
which the pious have entrusted to them for sa
cred objects, the clergy turns them TO the puh
lie destruction. BY sustaining and rendering
daily more sanguinar}y: tue fratricidal 9uarre
authority, and den, ing that tie republic coul,
constitute itself into any form the minority SC
fcctcd.
That means Of eycry sort barring thus far bee
Intellectual to put mn end to war which mus
ruin the State, to leave longer in The hands Q
its sworn enemies. the means they hare 5
grossly abused, would amount 10 nbetting shei
guilt,
] Ordains, that all the property Of til
Church is vested in the State; that the con
nection between Church md State is dissolved
that all the religious orders shall be sur
pressed; that new converts, monastarics Gc
are forbidden; that all sales Of Church prt
pcrty without the express assent Of the Cover
ment shall be held illegal; that tic suppo,
Of the clergy shall bs voluntary; TINT all II
ligions shall be tolerat d, and that all TURNS
worship will be guaranteed Juarez had don
that which the highest interests Of Ills cos1ntr
demanded-that which he could not have le
| undone without the certain recurrence Of TIN
: despotism Of tho priesthood that has mad
Mexico what she is. We shall gee how Ii
| people, who have long endured the evils Of
wrctched misgovcrnmcnt and the dominatio
Of an army Of fat lazy and vicious ecclesia
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