New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-02
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EXCOmmGk1CAT1ON
The Papal See or rather the poor and almost
inbece Plus TX, serving, with the Cardinals as
the mouth. piece of the retrogadism of Rome and OF
Europe. is prepared to hur the inoensive thunder
bolt Of accommodation on the head OF Victor
Emanuel of Sardinia. The preliminary sdmonitions
have been already put FORTH and now the last act of
the drama only remains to be performed.
Roman accommodation in its various stages, is
poor imitati of the Mosaic Law, from which IT is
borrowed. In its application to matters Of this
world merely, ard in its political authority, 80 to
say. it is cseyal with the nroad of the popes or
bishops Of Rome into the temporal affairs of the
world. Pepn the Short first gave to it the civil
sanction in one Of his capitularies. 1t was subse-
quenty employed from time to time by the pores;
but Henry ". of Germany, who appeared in sack
cloth in Canossa before Gregory VII, the Thun-
derer, was tie oDly monarch who ever bowed to
its terrors All other soyeregns bore 1t very pbo-
sopbically, and their historical importance has been
rather ncrs aaed than otherwise by the distinction it
gave them. Thus Frederic IL the Hohenstauffen,
Philip the Handsome Of France, aud the excom-
municated Tudors, Henry VIII. aud Elizabeth
father and daughter saw their power aggrandizcd
BY this sign of papal wrath. The prosperity of the
cIopp, and still more that of the nation, was in all
these cases continually enlarged by having excom-
municated pilots at the helm.
1t might be supposed that at the present day,
Rome would feel the rdicule and the danger of re-
sorting to weapon SO rusty and decayed. Iii
like putting on the armor Of Don Quixotc against
The firearms Of modern civilization, It's q1ix.
otical iLeiiiciency and po@erlessness Will render
more conspicuous TIE remarkable deterioration Of
Rome, the absence Of common sense, and the pre-
dominance of an arrogant contempt for reason IN
the existing policy of the Holy Ste
Rome and Victor Emanuel have both an exam
pie before their eyes in the history of Italy. In
1883 Sixtus ". communicated and interdicted
the Venetian Republic. No bell was to be rung,
70 extreme JUNCTION and no sacrament of marriage
administered: only christening was permitted. But
the Sisnora were not in the least frightened or dis.
turbed by the papal bull. The Venetian rulers re-
called their minister from Rome the Council OF
Ten prevented the introduction of the bull into the
Republic; prohibited the curates under the most
severe responsibility from putting any bills on their
churches; ordered the patriarch and the entire
Venetian clergy to deliver unsealed to the govern
ment whatever dispatches they might receive; and
commanded the priests to administer all the
sacraments and to ring tho bells as uaual.
These orders of the civil rulers were punctually
and religiously obeyed; and it was Sixtus ", and
not the Republic that burst with rage, and his su,-
cessor, Innocent Will. qusshed the interdict All
this happened before the time whep the Reforma-
ton and the diffusion of the inductive philosophy
and general culture of the intellect that had taken
pos.ession of the civilized world. Now all these
channels and conductors of mental electricity are
n full action all over Northern and Central Italy.
Even the lower clergy, the curates of parishes
in that country are now freed from the predominant
ing influence Of Rome. The curates all over Gen.
trail Italy headed the people at the polls in their
recent exercise of the elective franchise This fact
is turniDgpoint in current history, and indicates,
beyond doubt, the political regeneration of the
Italians. The clergy have thus revolted against the
usurped power of the Popes and restored ecclesias
teal discipline to its genuine, Christian, catholic,
primitive limits. They have also at the same time
emancpated themselves from the oppression exer-
cised over the priesthood by the Jesuits, those
Roman sbirri, who have only in view the strength
eDiDg of the absolute Papal power, of which they
are the managers. The Jesuits, even in Italy, are
strangers-sraDeers by feeling, and even strangers
by nationality. In effectively putting them aside,
the Italian clergy have cemented anew the alliance
Of the Church with the nation and with the feeling
which inspires the people They have proved that
in order to be Catholics it is not necessary to cease
to be Italians and that there is no essential antag
onism between the duies of priest and tie i'm
pulses of patriot.