The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-07-25

The French Emperor said in a late proclama-
ton, that if there were men who did not under
stand the epoch in which they lived, he was not
one of them; and the decision with which he has
met the political questions of the day, and the sue
that has thus far attended him, would seem to
confirm the truth of his somewhat egotistica
avowal. The contrast is striking one between
NAPOLEON and PIUs the Ninth, who, in an address
to the Cardinals has shown, we think conclusive
ly that, as a temporal ruler he is unable to COM
prehend or cope with the spirit of the age.
In the commissions, which now threaten to dis
Joint the framework of the Governments of Italy,
he apparently sees nothing but the lawless insur-
rection Of blind mob. In the lofty idea of re-
forming and regenerating the national life, which
animates the Italian patriots, he recognizes only
factious disposition, on the part of wicked agta-
tors, to rebel against established authority. While
men are crowding to the battlefield, and the SYM
pathy and applause of the civilized world cheer
them onward, PIUs the Ninth talks of excommuni-
cations as though his was the Pontifcate of HIDE
BRANDT
'By virtue Of our supreme authority he says, 1--WE
dsapprove reject and abolish each and all of the
mted by Bologna Ravenna, Peruga, and other places
against legitimate and sacred authority and against
the OF the Holy See phdtereT name fhey
called and ,cateper oay they are performed declare
these acts be pdin, egitDiate and sacrgios. More
than his for the benefit of ALL we recall to memory the
uncaions and the other ecclesiastical pains and
penalties inflicted at various times by the sacred canons
and the DEGREES of council especially by that OF Trent
against all those who have dared In way to rebel
against the temporal power of the Roman Ponf and
further declare that those who, in Bologna, Ravenna Pc
rugia any other city haze dared to rtodte or ono
the paternaI jurisdiction of ST. Peter, By deed cons
Tdcy any other way, have already wretchedy fallen
under their action
Misgoverned and abused as the Italian people
have been, from the Alps to Vesuvius, from
generation to generation, it is too late to tell them
not ''to trouble the paternal jurisdiction of st
PETER" Familiar, rs are many OF the
noblest citizens of that oppressed land with
the loathsome dungeons which have been ever
1oil to repletion with political prisoners, they
are not 10 be alarmed by the memory of "ecce-
"slastical pains and penalties" They see what
the rest OF the world has for some time admitted,
that out of the unnatural connexiop of Cbprcb
and State no good government can permanentlv
come. Mans spiritual welfare is the primary object
of the one system-his taxes and other TEMPORAL
obligations are the main care of the other The
act of the citizen is, in the one case to be udoed
by the laws of an uncompromisng, immutable
and unerrng truth and in the other, it is deter
mined in accordance with legislative provisions
which are necessarily artificial, and subject to
freouent alterations. To the confusion produced
bv such combination of dssimilar and ire
concilable functions in one government, may be
ascribed the cause why that of the Roman States is
the worst in all Europe. Nine-tenths of the edu-
Gated people of Italy see the remedy for the
evils which surround them as clearly as LOUIS
NAPOLEON himself and yet PIUs the Ninth can only
cling with blind zeal to old traditions and obso-
lete forms, and hurl anathemas against the innova-
tors. But let US hope that the day has gone by
when recommendations can arrest the progress of