Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1860-02-16
TIE NEW ORDER OF THINGS
Tu EUROPE. -


It will be seen, BY the copious details Of
the European news, says the. New York Her
aid OF to day, that the great struggle which
is to convulse the Old World and agitate the
New, has begun, and that Louis Napoleon and
Pic Mono, as representatives of antagonistic
systems, ere fairly set against each other, and
each is gatheringahis supports around him.
But the struggle, great as it will be, promi-
SEES to be q moral, and not physical one
There seems to be no cloud in the political
horizon that threatens to belle the fair prom
Use of peace which The French Emperor gave
on the opening Of the new year In the mo-
mentoas conflict which is rising, the parties
are SO evenly balanced, or so exhausted, that
should they break the bonds of peace, the
victorious sword Of France, tkrowa into eth
er scale, would at once decide the question
The conflict is a conflict of theories aud ideas,
and the arms which are TO be used are those
of truth and reason. In the result tho Empe
ror must suppress the temperatures of the
Pope, or the Pope must overthrow the dynas-
ty Of the Emperor. The present epoch is like
that Of Charemagne, when the worn out ideas
that for thousand years labored through the
decline and fall of the Roman empire required
a remodeling in accordance with the fitness of
existing things. TE H "A, gT
The old Church, as it had been constructed
in the earlier centuries of the faith, had been a
powerful instrument for the destruction OF the
nations upon when it seized 1t displaced
the active feeling of national heroism and glo-
ry, aud exalted in its stead the passive senti-
ment of thirst for martyrdom and canouiza
ton in the calendar OF the Church. The cowl
and the cassoek succeeded the helmet and the
.cuirass; armies of monks displaced those Of
soldiers. and the way was opened for the mul-
titudes of Gothss Huns and Visigoths who trod
out so large portion of the ancient civiliza-
ton The passive idea of the Church con-
queFed these in turn, and from their decay
sprang Charlemagne and the claim of the
Popes to temporal sway over the fertile pro-
vinces of Italy That sway has stood for q
thousand Yeass, growing more intense with
every waning century, until it has nearly
crushed out the true Italian life, and extended
its blightng influence to.Spain GA one side,
ond Austria on the other. The northern ma.
tions Of Western Europe threw off its yoke
three hundred years ago, and even France,
since times of Richeliea and Louis the Four
teenth, has been more under the Influence Of
the tramontane than of the nltramotane Or
purely Romish school in the Church. Freed
from the chains Of the Papal theories, these
nations have developed until today the living
and the decayipg Powers of Europe are class.
ed respectively as they reject or accept the
temporal theories of Rome.
The new order of things everywhere now re-
jects these theories. For long years they have
been maintained ia Italy nlygby foreign bay
onets, and the very Pope who today defes
Loais Napeleer, and courts : noisy naartyrdelm
is preserved from the hatred Of his misruled
subjects by a garrison of tenathousand French
troops in the Papal city. III left to themselves,
the people Of Italy would today hurl Pic
Mono from the peninsula. In clinging to the
worn out IDEAS chat were established eight
centuries ago, the Pope is the worst enemy Of
the Papacy The world has outgrown The
rule of ecclesiastics and the union Of Church
aud State, and the time has come for another
remodelling. Of the Papal power 1t must
give up its Temperatures, purify itself from
the filth which these have brought around it
and assume its true position as the spiritua
head. only, of Que hundred and fifty million:
of Christians A determined resistance tt
CHS necessity can only produce events wlliet
are Swallowed forth in the authoritative article
n.tKe Constitutional. The contest is there
stated to be onesof temperatures, and not o
dogmas; but in the argument the theory o
the infallibility Of the Pope receives a terrible
shock
In the present condition Of Europe, and G
the world, we cannot doubt the ultimate re
suit OF this coDaict Unless the assassin lanG
of some fanatic priest, or the natural course
Of events, should shorten the life of IIoui;
Napoleon, he will bring tito peaceful termi
nation. Should he.be taken away, the bond:
of society will be loosened'n Europe, reYolu-
ton viii hold its bloody festivalin Italy, and
a worse fate, win attend the papacy and. the
retrograde dynasties. Under the rule of q
new order of-lhings Italy and Spain will wake
to new life and q new career of greatness.
The Latin race once the conqueror Of the
world, the creator Of arts and sciences, the
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