Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-02-24

LETTER rBoH MRS. STOWE.

F1osE>cE Jan. J. 1850.
The New Iy-r here ia Italy opens upon
Us full Of solemn ury-age. Everything is in
that attitude 1i mute attention and quiet ex-
pecatiyn which can he compared only to the
dead stiffness which rrecedes a thunder
storm
Thrones. ID these days. are ns quiet seats ,
and while couIt-baIl, and operas and ballots
are going on. the uneasy heads that wear the
crowns are full cs auxietles.
The rev9.ted Duchies and the Romarna
are Ike the ceaii in The Arabian \ gh,s.-
Inadvertently the seal Las been broken that
kept them in the vase. AID now the smoke
of the expanding power darkens sea and
land, and the Head Fisherman at 81. Peters
sits rueiuIly considering how the great fell
low NAV be c5axed or caioled back into the
old copper vase.
Il You would please TO 20 back, says
the Pope. Its dreadful TO SEE you spread
ing cat SO A nice quiet time you were
having 60 Con Ia YOU possibly get n
again, il We'd promise t. pUt the cover on
The ether SIDE up suggests the agent Of
the Emperor Of the French d" You don t
know but that might be an improvement,
and If YOU viii get back again and try 1t
SO tlr another thousand years.
But it Is to be hoped that the young gianl
has not read the Arabian Nights y nothing,
and that be viii kick the copper vase into
the sea TO begin with The Emperor Of the
French has lis charms Of situation also
OF course We do not attribute 10 him any
weaknesses Of tn noble sort, such as d brave
Ges IN to wipe out the blood of the coup
d 'etat by restoring Italy 10 liberty He has,
however himself T. look after. If he does
not do something for Italy. there are the
Carbonari, and more Orsini may arise but
If lie does, the priests viii SGT France IN
blaze, and make il too hot % hold him So
he puts ont now and then anten 8, like a
provldeuJ insect, To feel whittier things az
going. One such feeler has Just set all the
world IN c0mmotiJn. L Ggerronieres
pamphlet. The Pope and the Congress. Is in
everybody's mouth and hands The Pope
and the King Of Naples and Emperor of
Austria, all s.nd to the Tuileres to know
what 1t means and II means briefly this.
that the Emperor has put out ieeler If it
axes. well, very well but. if too much of
storm rises. the Emperor can look out of
his window" Gentlemen. what is the
matter This is no affair Of nine simply
the thoughts OF g. private individual on his
own responsibility.
This pamphlet is in manner the smoothest
and calmest and most respectful ever put
out BY mortal, but either from the fatal ne
cessity Of the subject, OF SOM undercurrent
OF pr0fane feeling in the profoundly reveren-
tial and pious writer. il has. in places, the
effect of the most terrible irony Its drift
may be summed up in f,w words
Let US fait ful Catholics lay aside passion,
and look calmly and religiously into this
disturbance. The Pope must have some
where on the fac Of the earth an indepen-
dent temporal status He must belong to
no nation. and be under no nation, because
bis spiritual authority over all would in that
way be swerved fir its balance But there
is no reason that his temporal kingdom
should be "a very large one and good many
why ii should not. The doctrine that he is
obliged 70 maintain directly interf re with
the TEN yorai progress of any state, so that he
cannot keep up its temporal rank equal with
the general progress of society without con-