Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-02-24
s.apslv DENYING some infalIible dosma..

stantly denying some infallible dogmas OF
course the people of states thus governed are
constantly likely to undervalue their high
spiritual privilege in their discomfort at those
numerous temporal disabilities which place
them in the rear of all other states, and con-
slant disturbances follow. These disturban-
ces can only kept down by the employment
of military force in a manner inconsistent
with the spiritual character of the represent
alive Of Christ on earth The smaller the
Pope's temporal territory, therefore, the bet
ter for him and for his spiritual influence
over all Christians Well, then, there exist.
on the face of the earth one great central ex-
of antiquity, fame, art, religion, that it can
afford to dispense with mere coarse material
improvement and progress,
In fact" he saws, "there should be one
people in Europe who have as their head
father and not king and whose rights shall
be guarantee by fathers heart-not by
avs and institutions. This people shall not
have national representatives, nor army, nor
free press. nor maglstracy. All its public
life shall be in its municipal organization
enough for them shall be the calm exercises
of contemplation, the culture of the arts, the
care of their ruins, and the Offices Of devo-
ton Not to them that less elevated part Of
.tivitv. of ex pansion of faculties, of earthly
patriotism, which forms the stimulus of less
favored countries Under the rule of the
/ Sovereign Pontif, military glory, oratoricai
| display, statesmanlike acuteness, would be
/ but vain shows 1t shall be a government Of
peace and quietness, an oasis in the great
/ desert of life, where the disturbing passions
] &, hill Trhp
here shall reign instead calm and tranquil
visions of spiritual world. "
The author still further develops his ideas
Let the Pope have an income suitable to
the Head Of the Church supplied by all those
nations over whom his spiritual sway ez-
/ tnds. Let him have an army merely as a
/ sign Of public order and let him thus reign
/ contentedly in the hearts Of all good Chris
/ tians. As to Romagna-ot course 1t belongs
/ = him-of course be has a right TO lt-hut
then they won't have him to reign over them,
/ and it would do him no good to have dis
/ c)ntcnted people whom he can hold only by
/ displays Of force inconsistent with that divine
sweetness which it becomes the earthly rep
resentatIve of Christ TO maintain. To shed
the blood Of his children would shock all good
| Catholics, and weaken what is infinitely
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| premacy.
Neither can the Romagna be restored by
/ foreign Intervention. Not by Austria, since
France cannot thus concede herself vanquish-
cd in the late war Not by France, since
| the Government Of France i based on the
/ right OF the people to choose their own rulers
and or the whole the Pope IS far better Of
without the Romagna than with with 1t !;
and the minister Of Christ should not be set
on his worldly rights
Thisis the sum OF 1.-The Pope and the
Congress. We fancy Antonelh reading the
seducing description OF that celestial state Of
pious contemT lation TO which he and the
Pope are 10 resign themselves
Meanwhile Italy Is not idle IN this inter
val Of freedom in improving her liberty Of
the press. 1t rains. halls, and SHOWS
pamphlets, songs, handbil.s. which are In
the hands Of all the people. Old archives
are ransacked, and charming little bio
graphical morse s in the lives Of the Ga
authorities are distributed - the people.
Thus DO all signs gather round this new
year; and when we hear from home We find
that in America the same demons Of slavery
are trembling and quailing before some ad-
yancing power. Brown Is witness slain IL
the great cause which Is shaking Hun gary,
Austria, Italy. France. and bis death viii
be mightier for that cause than even his
success The cross Is the way q the throne
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