Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-08-12
THE INTELLIGENCR,R.


Ahe London Times oa the PopaI Circular.
LFrom the London Times, July 2Gl
A'ie sovereign Pontitt has appealed to Europe
!" o'Pl9qnlauc note. The manifesto is not
ful'e III the Hlldebrand vein. 1t no longer
tnunderS, and threatens, and hurts excommn.-
n!cat'ons, and awakens sleeping claims. Bnt
u It's tone is less naughty, its Durport is NOT
less that OF the unchanging and unchanpcahle
policy OF the Holy See. 1t claims all thjnms
ana 1t trecedes from nothing. 1t accepts no re.
SponSlbliitF, and it renounces no atom ofpower,
1t IS like the cry of weak and wounded l,esst
of prey. H:complains of the interference oF
stronger powers with the qualification Of its
li'SnhctS; ont 1t bears no remorse for the mast
and no promise for the furturc In such doc
ument we might have expected some broad
view OF the Pope's position as the head of the.
Salnohc church. The circumstances of the
moment are such as to invite serious COM
ul"ht. me honorary presidency of the new
Italian Consideration has just been offered to
the acceptance of Pho Mono. Dcsolation reirrs
at Pcruga, and the hal-herc(ical Switzers of
the Papal Guard are yet red-handed from the
slaughter OF the orthodox subjects Of the great
fatheF OF Chrlstcndom. Austria and France
may be supposed to bc mcditatinr retreat from,
the abnormal position which they have so long
held IN the states of the church. An opDortu-
nifty has offered for exchanging small material
sovereignty tor great moral empire, and under
the guidance Of a bold and enlightened man the
Popedonl, which now for the tenth time appears
to be IN the crisis Of its fate, might have come
forth revivilfed, and stronger than ever it has
been IN these modern days. This manifesto
however, tells us that no such dreams as once
passed over the mind OF Plus TX. in the dayS of
ms manhood ever now rccur to him in his OBJ
stlnate and Implying old age He makes no
apology Tor the maSSacres committed by his
troops; he gives out no hope to his ilI-rnIcd
people. He satisfies himself by "a solemn pro-
test against all interference with the cOntinu.
ance OF his weary and wasting system OF tvran-
ny, and he lnvokeS the assistance and protection
"t ali the great European Powers to enable him
TO do what he likes with his own
The Pope apEcars at this moment to be very
Sick-morc sick than the Turk was ever when
Nicholas thought it time to take ont admins
t'aton on his effects. lie has no strength what
ever i'll his own body. Weak aud t0ttering he
sometimes leans upon one strong man and
sometimes upon another. Austria has held
him up in the Legations, France has kept him
upright at Rome, the Swiss have spread the
terror Of his name in the unwarlike towns To
all human foresight he seems OH the brink of
dissolution, and we should expect to see the
crazy old bark go down in deep water if we did
not remember how often before the same crisis
has appeared at hand, and how wonderfully
the water-loggcd and dismanted hull has got
into port agnin. 1t is wonderful, and at tho
same time pitiabc, to mark the senllc and i'm
potent tenacity with which this old man clingS
TO has right to do wrong at a moment when the
whole system seems ready toperish. IfFrancc
and Austria were to retire there would be an
end at once and forever TO the States of the
Church. Unless the Pope receives very differ
cnt assurances from those which Europe has
received, France and Austria must appear to
him very little disposed 10 be at the expense
and odium of supporting q great European
scandal which can only be upheld by their as
slstancc. II there be any reality in the project
Info ifrli., a. "a
federation of Italian sovercjgDs, advised by
Italian statesmen, and protected by Italian
soldiers. In that case the accomplishment of
the treaty of Nillatranca must clear Italy of all
foreign soldiers, and must leave Pin Mono face
to lace with the Italian nation. Yet it is this
momcnt.that the Pope chooses TO claim for him
sell all the rights o! neutral power and to
protest against Sardinia is that She has
distributed firearms TO the insurgents and
volunteers, and has introduced cannon into
the, reVolted provinces "to encourage the
audacity of the dsturbcrS Of order 50 If
Sardinia has done aught to enable the
citizens Of the roman States to dcf3nd them
selves against tic Papal mcrcenaries, it may
afford good reason for the diSplcasure of the
Pope against her. butit can be no reason for
the. document which we publish to-day So
long as the Roman government exists only by
permission of France anG Austria that govern
Inent has no right to be considered rs Il SOW
creign State. The same powers which protect
have a right to dictate, and, if they should
choose, FOR reasons of their own, to delegate
the exercise of that ,jght to any other power,
they are quite at liberty to do so. The dis
manting of FerNa' a, of which the Pope COM
plains, is the best, if not the only course open
to the inhabitants of that city, under existing
circumstances. There, as at Piacenza, the
Austrians extended the Qualifications in deianee
of the stipulations OF the treaties; they have
now retreaed, and the Qualifications being of no
use, unless to harbor The mercenarics of the
Pope the inhabitants are wisely destroying
them. Why should this have the astonishing
effect of filling the soul of the Holy Father
with bitterness, and provoking in him a lively
and just indgnation?" Surely, he does not now
once again pretend to amuse Europe with the
foolish fable that he and his mcrccharcs are
able to hold either Ferrnra or any other city Of
the Roman States in the absence of General
GPyan and his garrison? Ii was absurd enough
a momentto Imagine that, in war which was
avowe'ily nndertakento to change the destiny of
Italy, the Roman States could remain nenter:
butsit is still mere ridiculous to talk OF ncutral:-
ty while the whole country is more or less occu-
ued by foreign troops.
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