The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-16

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The New Order OF Things In Europe
Approaching End of the Papal Tempo
ralities.
European news which we give elsewhere to-
day, that the great struggle which is to con-
vulse the Old World and agitate the New has
begun, and that Louis Napoleon and Pho Mono,
as representatives of antagonistic systems are
fairly set against each other, and each is gath
ering his supports around him.
But the struggle, great as it will be, pro-
misses to be moral. and not physical one.
There seems to be no cloud in the political
horizon that threatens to belle the fair promise
of peace which the French Emperor gave on
the opening of the new year. In the momen-
tous 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, thrown into either scale,
would at once decide the question. The con-
hict is conflict of theories and ideas, and the
arms which are to be used are those of truth
and reason. In the result the Emperor must
suppress the temperatures of the Pope, or the
Pope must overthrow the dynasty of the En-
peror. The present epoch is like that of
Charlemagne, when the worn out ideas that for
thousand years labored through the decline
and fall of the Roman empire required re-
modelling in accordance with the fitness of ex-
listing things.
I'll I'M hod taI
in the earlier centuries of the faith, had been
powerful instrument for the destruction of the
nations upon whom it seized. It displaced
the active feeling of national heroism and glo.
ry, and exalted in its stead the passive senti-
ment of thirst for martyrdom and canoniza.
ton in the calendar of the Church. The cowl
and the cassock succeeded the helmet and the
cuirass; armies of monks displaced those of
soldiers, and the way was opened for the null
titudes of Cloths, Huns and Visigoths who trod
out so large portion of the ancient civiliza-
ton. The passive idea of the Church con-
quered 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 years, growing more intense with
every waning century, until it has nearly
crushed out the true Italian life, and extended
its blighting influence to Spain on one side,
and Austria on the other. The northern ma.
tons of Western Europe threw off its yoke
three hundred years ago, and even France
since the times Of Richelieu and Louis the Four
teentb, has been more under the influence of
the tramontane than of the ultramontane
or purely Rcmish school in the Church. Freed
from the chains of the Papal theories, these ma
tons have developed until to-day the living
and the decaying Powers Of Europe are classed
respectively as they reject or accept the tempo
raj theories Of Rome.
The new order of things everywhere now re-
jects these theories. For long years they have
been maintained in Italy only by foreign bayo-
nets, and the very Pope who to day defies Louis
Napoleon and courts noisy martyrdom is
preserved from the hatred of his misruled sub
jects by garrison of ten thousand French
troops in the Papsl city. If left to themselves
the people of Italy would to day hurl Pho Mono
from the peninsula. In clinging to the worn
out ideas that were established eight centuries
ago, the Pope is the worst enemy ofthe Papacy.
The world has outgrown the rule of ecclesias-
tics and the union Of Church and State and the
time has come for another remodelling Of the
Papal power. 1t must give up its temporali-
ties, purify itself from the filth which these
have brought around it, and assume its true
position as the spiritual head, only. of one hun
bred and fifty millions of Christians. A deter
mined resistance to this necessity can only pro-
duce events which are Swallowed forth in the
authoritative articlein the Paris Constitutional.
The contest is there stated to be one Of tempo
ralities, and not of dogmas; but in the argument
the theory of the infallibility of the Pope re-
ceives terrible shock.
In the present condition of Europe, and of
the world, we cannot doubt the ultimate result
of this great conflict. Unless the assassin hand
Of some fanatic priest, or the natural course of
events, should shorten the life of Louis Napo.
leon, he will bring it to peaceful termination,
and the arms Of truth and reason will triumph.
Should he be taken away, the bonds of society
will be loosened in Europe, revolution will
hold its bloody festival in Italy, and worse
fate will attend the papacy and the retrograde
dynasties. Under the rule Of a new order Of