Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-04-15
RICHMOND MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 49, 1851

any. professed openly the opinioOs which l am up
holding here and in conjunction with NJ. Mnghetd who
took an important part in these negotiations declared
that the only means of governing those countries with
out military occupation was the absolute separation Of
the spii,ual from the temporal power All these efforts
will be defeated by hc radical mpOssbitie which result
from the confusion Of the two powers Europe has long
been aboring TO invent reforms for Turkey there is not
effort which has not been made for this purpose 1t has
beer eopbt TO reconcile there the rights of civil life with
the Government such as it there constituted The A.
t.p5 bla not succeeded and never will succeed the
uioo of the two movers renders It's failure inevitable
Thus the temuora power does not make the Pope in
dependent Can il be said that in losing it he viii only
change the form Of his subjecton? No We can give him
the indeppudcnce of which he stands so much in uecd
/ is nr,ci,ey the separation of the powers which viii
civ, il 10 him, When the Church il orce omaucDated
from all cerncxou with temporal au,hority and separa,-
cd from the ate by distinctly marked limits the liberty
Of the Holy See viii longer have 70 suffer from the
shackles imposed upon by corcordats aud the prerog
atiye7 of the civil power which the temporal power OF
the Court Of Rome has alone rendered necessary up the
present time believe that every sincere Catholic de-
rc above all things such au enlrarChisC The only
difficulty is to discover by what guarantees this liberty OF
the Church will be assured We will civci ample guar
artees We viii inscibe The prime pie of the reciprocal
irGercndence Of the Church and Of The StarC in the fun
dsmcuta statute of = @ kingdom, and We viii by
all possible s complete realization. But the suret
elrautee the thoroughly Catholic character OF the IG
iA
reform of ecclesiastical discpne but she has never
raised her haad againstt the religion with which is con-
nected The country Of Arnold, OF BTcscia OF Dante OF
Savaaaroh OF S3rpi OF Genuouue has ever, Ike them,
sought only th, reform Of the Church that ardent de-
sire has always been accompanied by the firm deerri-
nation that the Church purified, should subsis; aud be-
come more free. Their freedom will be better ensured
by the love OF twenty-sI millions Of citizens than by
few merceuaries
Il said these hopes are alacous; all your proposals.
and nego,lors are rcpulsed. shall enter into any
detil upon tLs delicate point. admit that up 10 this
tine none Of our efforts have succeeded but also de-
clare that heretofore we have explained nten
tons openly and fully, as explain them now We
NAV therefore still cherish some hope. History shows
u5 that Rome invaded by the Sparilrds of Charles ".
saw the Pope some time afterwards crown Charles V
and ally himself with him. Why nav we not see the
same change wrought in Plus lG. at the present day?
But If the Pope shculd rapulse US as he has hitherto
done We shall not 20 remain faithful TO the same
principles Arrived at Rome shall procllim the sepa-
ration of the urch from the State and the liberty Of
the Church When this has been DONE and consecrated
bv the representatives, Of the nation aud when the vCr
table tendencies OF Italians and their sympathy for the
religion of their fathers have been made evident in the
face Of Europe the great jority Of Catholics will ap-
prove will cause 70 fall on the right head the respon
sbiity of the struggle into which the Court Of Rome
would have sought enter With the nation At the rick
Of being deemed uopian, avow my belief that when
these principles have been proclaimed and cousecrted
" yCu the soul cf Plus IN opening itself 10 the
generous sentiments which earned for him such hearty
approval some years ago will stimulate him to seek 10
acquire the immortal glory OF having recouc.led the Ita
IAN nation with the Church and religion with liberty.