New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-16

Statee and the legitimate and sacred sovereignty "hh
belongs to TO THE Holy See; and responding our
wishes end cares, you hastened without lois o.
! time, and with zeal which nothing couid arrest
to order public prayers In your dioceses. You dd
not content yourselves with the letters, 40 full OF
devotion and love, which you addressed to Us, but
TO the glory of your name and order, raising
the episcopal voice, you published writings full
Of science and of pety, defending theoretically the
cause of our most holy religion, and stigmatiz-
ing the sacrilegious attempts directed against the
civil sovereignty Of the Roman Church. Constantly
defending that sovereignty, you m ide IL glory to
avow and to teach that by particular design of Divine
been given to the Roman Pontif in order that, not
being subject to any Civil Power, he may exercise in
complete liberty and without hindrance throughout
| the universe. the supreme charge of the Apostolic
Ministry which hiss been divnely ntrusted to him by
Christ Lord Instructed by your teaching, and in.
cited by your example, the wenbeloved children OF
the Catholic Church have taken, and are still adopt
ing, every means to testify to the same sentiments
| From every part of the Catholic world we have re-
ceived letter., the number of which can scarcely be
cOulted signed by ecclesascs, and by aics OF every
condition, of every rank, OF every ORDER sometimes
reaching to hundreds of thousands, which, while
pressing the most ardent sentiments Of veneration and
love for and for this chair of St. Peter and the In
dgnaton felt by them at the audacious acts accom-.
plshed in certain Of provinces, declare that the
patrmony Of the blessed St. Peter shall be preserved
nvioate in all its integrity and protected from all at
tack Many of those who signed these letters have,
| moreover established with much force and knowledge
festatons of your sentiments and of the sentiments OF
the faithful worthy of all honor and of all praise, and
which will remain Inscribed in letters Of gold in the
annals of the Catholic Church, have caused such
emotion that we could not, in joy refrain from
crying out, Blessed be God the Father of Lord
Jesus Christ, tie Father of Mercy and God of all
Consolation, who consoles us in our tribulation."
The Pope then alludes to the Imperial letter:
"Recently, as many of you already know, the Paris
Journal entitled the Moniteur published letter OF the
Emperor of the French, replying to letter from us, In
which we earnestly prayed his Imperial Majesty to
protect with his powerful patronage, in the Congress
dominion of the Holy See and to free from criminal
rebellion. Repeating in bis letter certain advice which
short time before he offered relative to the rebel
lou. provinces of Pontical dominons, the very
exalted Emperor counsels TO renoUnce the posses
sion of these provinces, finding in such renuncia
ten the only remedy for the present disorder of AZ
fairs."
After remarkng that ii was impossible for him to
main silent after such advice his Holiness continues:
owe FASTENED to reply to the same Emperor, and in
the apostolic liberty OF our soui we clearly and openly
declared to him that could in no manner adhere to
that sell because, considering dignity and that
of the Holy See it attended with insurmounable
difficulties and considering sacred character, and
the rights Of this same See which do not belong TO the
dynasty of any Royal family, but to all Catholics.
And at the same time we declared that we could not
surrender what does not belong to us; and that we
perfectly understood that the victory which might be
accorded to the revoed of the Emilia would be
stimuant to commit the same attempts to the native
and foreign dsubers of the other provinces when they
should witness the of the rebels. And, among
other things caused to be made known to the same
that We cannot abdcate the aforesaid provinces OF our
Pontcal domnions without violating the solemn oaths
which bind u.s. without exciting complaints and insur.
rection in the rest of our States, without doing an in
jury to all Catholics, and, finally, without weakening
the rights not only of the Princes of Italy who have
been uDjusty despoe ed of their domains but also OF all
the Princes of tho Christian universe, who could not
tha tpfpo nf
pernicous principles. We ddnot omit TO observe that
his Majesty was not ignorant by what men, with what
money and what succor the recent attempts at re-
belioD have been excited and accomplished at bologna
Rayenna and other towns, while the great majority OF
the people remained stupeed at those risngs, whlcn
they in no wise expected and which they were by no
means disposed to follow.
thought that thoee provinces to be abdicated by
us, by of the sedtous movements which were
excited there from time to time, we opportunity re-
pied to him that this argument had no value because
il proved toe much, as similar movements took place
frequently both in the States OF Europe aud elsewhere
and could it legitimate argument to re-
duce the possessions of a civil government. Neither
have we omitted to remind the Emperor that he
addressed TO a letter of very different kind from
his las before the in Iaya letter which brought
us consolation, and not affiction. Aud, from some
words in the Imperial letter published in the journal
aforesaid the Monitsur), we prayed his Majesty, IN
the name of the Church. that, in consideration OF MS
ow n good and his benefit, he should completely
charity, with which are bound to watch over the
eternal safety Of ALL recalled TO his mind that we
all should day have TO render strict account be-
fore the tribunal of Christ and undergo most severe
Judgment and that therefore each Of ought to do
energehcally what depended on him, to merit mercy
rather than justice.
Such are the things which, among others, we
answered to the very great Emperor Of the French
and considered it duty to communicate them to
you and to the whole Catholic universe in order that
YOU might know more aud more that, with the aid OF
God and fulfilling the duty OF our most imp ortant
ministry, Try all without fear, and spare no effort
to defend courageously the cause OF religion aud OF
ustce; 10 maintain entire and nyioate the civil power
Of the Roman Church, with its temporal POSSESSIONS
and its rights which appe rtain to the whole Catholic
universe and, finally to guarantee the Inst cause oil
the ether Princes"
His Holiness then goes to declare his readiness to
suffer the severest tals expresses his anguish at the
danger of the souls in his troubled provinces where
presidential writings menace each day deplora
"bly the piety the religion, the faith, and the purity
of morals" exhorts those whom he addresses to de-
fend zealousy snd necessarily the Catholic Church and
the Holy See Gas web the maintenance of heciyil
"power of the same See and of the patrimvny of St.
"Peter;" and concludes by exhorting them to offer
their prayers to Heaven for the attainment Of these
objects.
The MoAieur of Jan. 20 cont aimed decree Of the
Emperor suppressing the CHirers.
The following report of the Minister Of the Interior
preeedestbe decree:
SIRE: The Unirers was the organ of religious
party whose pretensions every day becoming in
more direct opposition TO the privileges of the State
The ncessan efforts Of this party tend to dominate the
French clergy, TO coDfound the religious opinions, to
a2itae the country and TO undermine the fundamental
bases on which the relations between the Church and
DIV, do ~