Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-06-27
THE ULTRAMoNTAN1sTs AND THE WAR.

THE ULTRAM0NTANIsTs AND THE WAR.
The Metropolitan Record, published in New
York under the immediate direction of Arch
bishop Hughes, defends Austria with great
zeal, and holds that Louis Napoleon, Victor
Emanuel, Count Cavour, and all connected
with the Sandman cause in Italy, are doomed
to destruction. We infer from the tone and
spirit of its articles, that in Ireland, it would
have supported tory 0rangemen against iber-
al Catholics, to aid the Austrian cause. A re-
cent article in the metropolitan Record, attrib.
uted to Archbishop Hughes himself shows
that the writer has given careful attention to
the career of Louis Napoleon, but not with
friendly motives 1t puts him far ahead of
Victor Emanuel as Cosmopolitan liberator,"
and states as follows one passage in his early
life -
Educated by Lebas, son of the associate of
Robespierre, Louis Napoleon was leading
member of the revolutionary secret junta of
his family, privately convened in Rome in the
year 1880, after the fall of Charles X. of France
When the existence of this conclave was made
known to the Pope, he was shocked, and or
dered the expulsion of the present French
poleon, instead of quietly obeying the order,
even then endeavored to raise the standard of
Italian revolt against the Holy Father, who in
his capacity of temporal sovereign, sheltered
all the exlled Bonapartes up to that moment.
The Record is mistaken in saying that the
Pope had sheltered the Bonapartes. Madame
Hortense, with her two sons, Louis and Napo-
leon, sought an asylum in Switzerland, and
resided at AK on the frontier; but she was
annoyed and prosecuted by Bourbon and Aus
trian spies, and this persecution finally became
so intolerabe, that in the year 1880 she went
to Naples. Here Louis, the present Emperor
of France, joined the Carbonari, being at that
time not much more than twenty-one years
old. He became active as a Republican pro-
pagandist. He went to Rome, and operated
very openly there. The Pope gave orders to
have him arrested, but he escaped from the
city, and joined the revolutionary army To
Louis Napoleon, fighting the Austrians is not
new business. He fought them after this es-
cape from Rome; and on the 25th of May,
1881, he led an attack on a body of Austrians
at Reinisic. His brother was with him in this
fight, and was struck down by an Austrian
hussar Of course, the unorganized republi-
can troops were beaten Louis Napoleon
finally escaped from Italy, disguised as his
mothers footman. There are those who be-
ieve that he is now at work in Italy more as
an old associate of the Carbonari, than as an
ambitious sovereign, or even as the ally of
Sardinia.
The conservatives" in Europe, that is to
say, all the votaries of civil and spiritual desti
ny, understand perfectly that the war in Italy
means much more than imperial ambition. AS
one of them says, 'it is no war for piece of
land" We allude to Cardinal Won Rams
cher, the "Prince Archbishop" of Vienna.
This prelate has issued pastoral letter
to his people which might well be termed-"A
Political Lesson for the Day" The purpose
of the letter is to vindicate the Austrian gov
eminent, rouse a religious enthusiasm in its
behalf, and kindle fiery indignation to con-
sumo all its enemies. Such document from
an Austrian prelate would have no special
claim to attention. lift represented nothing but
himself and his immediate associates But it
means much more. He speaks for the ultra
montana section ofthe Roman Catholic church;
that section which cherishes the Jesuits and
looks to the Paris UaicerS as its newspaper Co.
rypheus and oracle in word, that section of
the church which longs to extermnate all mod
ern progress of thought, and restore the old
times when thunderbolts were harmless things
In comparison with papal bulls.
Cardinal Won Rauscher gives lesson in
political philosophy. He condescends to show
his people reason for that "divine right of
despotism which recognizes no imprescriptible
right Of humanity Human society, he says,
is based on the right of possessions and upon
contracts, and due regard for them must be
enforced by the sovereign; and the under
standing is that he must not be interfered with
by any question of his right to rule, nor by
any reasonable appeal to natural and inaliena.
bic rights In his subjects. He goes on to say
that the same law applies to States in their
relation to each other; and therefore
it is incendiary to imagine that there can
be any higher law than that of trea-
ties and hereditary claims. In his view
the climax of wickedness, that which gives de-
pravity its highest finish, is to encourage rev.
olution and be "leagued with instruction" 1t
is said that most of the clamor in Germany has
been raised by the ultramontanists The most
noteworthy circumstance connected with the
war is the fierce Austrianism of this particular
section of the Catholic church. 1t is not likely
to be denied that there is something unusual
and very remarkable in that state of things
which moves extreme Catholics to ioin with
Protestant Orangemen, to vote down Catho
lies, as was done recently in Ireland.
Sardinia herself is Catholic country. but
these ultramontane propagandists denounce
that country as "infdel" because it has de-
clared in favor of religious liberty and free in
stitutions; while Austria is full of faith and
holiness by means of the Concordat which
makes spiritual despotiom absolute and ire
sistible And yet there are some men. even in
this country, who cannot see in this STRUGGLE
the old conflict between Light and Dark
ness!
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