The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-04
From the Boston Pilot

What wil-become of the Pope ?-say all the
Protestant journals of Europe, putting the ques-
ton with a tone of malice to the intrepid Catholic
organs of France, Italy and Ireland What will
become of the Pope ? demand the initiative press
of America, in voice of hateful, shallow bigotry
not surpassed by that which distinguishes transat
lantic journalism, and from both the number of
letters we get, every dag, on the subject and the
piles of papers with marked articles in them that
are constantly reaching US. must infer that the
insoent question is mainly intended for the enter
taiument and solution of the editor of the Pilot
The Bishop of Poictiers has called Louis Napoleon
the Pontius PLATE of the nineteenth century That
name has been richly deserved; and if So what
title is proper for the crowd of American editors
who clap hands, and vociferate that Prince on
with the sanguinary cry-"Crucify Him cruelty
Him I! cruelty Him!" They are Jewish rabbe,
and the awful fate of their inhuman exemplars
may yet befal them. The cruel splitting of the
Divine Blood inaamed eternal anger; what may
not be apprehended from the projected dethrone-
ment, and absolute, extensive violation in all his
rights the visible representative of the victim of
Calvary? Nations go to war for insult to their
Ambassadors. Heaven may follow the precept.
What will become of the Pope? We put the
question, not to the French Emperor; for he, like
his uncle, would, if he dared, declare his child
King of the Romans, exile the Holy Father to
France-perhaps to Algeria, transport the trea-
sures of the Vatican to the Louvre, declare himself
Pontifx Maximus, and hypocriticaIly wash his
hands of the Popes blood-we put the question.
not to Prince Napoleon, whose late speech in the
Imperial Senate advocated that the Eternal CITY
should be, at once, made Victor EmmanuePs Capt.
to for he is tool to the Emperor, the next heir,
but one, to the Gacan throne, and son-in-law to
the King of Sardinia put it not to Garibaldi,.
nor to such infamous men; for they have not the
power to settle the issue, and their answer would
be one of infamous rbaldry; we put it not to Pro-
testant Europe; for their response would be stu
pid attempt to prove the Pope to be Antichrist and
it would be pregnant with wishes to have the Pa
pacY extirpated-aud we put it not to the Protest
ant press and people of the United States for they
would give English solution, deliberately
stolen, and clumsily patched up with absurd spec
ulatons foreign diplomacy, international law,
the facts of history, the heathensm of the Catholic
Church, its certain overthrow, and the immediate
triumphant reign of blessed Professionalism. To
none of these witnesses do put the question
What will become of the Pope? For though thew
trouble the venerable, ilustrious Ponff, and have
malice enough for any outrage, they have not
the power to permanently decide his destiny?
The Catholic Church itself Yields the pow
er. What is that power? 1t is the pow
which all the Roman Emperors from
Tiberius Caesar to Constantine the Great could
not strangle, even in its infancy; it is the power
that subdued all the nations OF the barbarous Cloths:
that conquered the Huns; that convinced the Greeks
and Italians of Europe, Asia, and Africa, that ex-
tended widely from the hills and cryps of Armenia
and Egypt over the plains of Persia; that has pre-
served the literature and art and wisdom and virtue
of ancient times; that gave to the first ages pbiloso
pliers and theologans whose genius is still the ad-
mratiOn OF the highest understandings and through
these influential guides in the opinions the world;
that peacefully and successfully incrusted the
mind of all Europe with its own truth, and spread
in its train, over the same extended surface the
lights of civilization, seducing rude, bloody barba-
rism to divest itself of its broad. thick vulgarism
wickedness and crime; that has decorated the earth
with the most noble specimens of architecture:-
that inspired the crusades, holy undertakings in
which millions of men left their homes to fight for
the tomb of the Saviour, and recovered it, too:-
that gave the Apostles various tongues that is the
real spring from which has arisen the grandest
paintings of the age; that broke the manacles of
early Roman slavery; against which Christ has
said the gates of hell shall not prevail: that has
made the Irish the truest religious race in the
world; that has made France Catholic-Snain
CathoGc-italy Catholic-Germany Catholic. that
Is converting fast, England, the United States and
schismatic Russia. 1t is the power that has the
Jesults,th Dominicans, the Augustinians the BEN
edictines, the Paulsts the Christian Brothers the
Cistercians, the Nuns and the Sisters of Charity.
II is the power that is to the earth precisely what
the Deity Is in heaven, and the propagation and
the only support of human virtue; it is the shirt
which God has promised never to abandon: and
which is now raising its voice from the mouths of
the bishops and priests and people of glorious
Cathollc France, faithful Ireland, of PORTUGAL of
Spain, of Australia, of Canada, of Austria, of
mexico and Southern America-of the whole Cath
oic world In defence ofthe Pope. This is some of
the power of the Church, and the Church never
s'o"s 1iu! out Is as young and vigorous now as
ever. Is 1t not to such a power, the question.
what Will become of the Pope, should be put? Has
not such power the power of deciding it? If the
Church has done what is here enumerated. and if
the enumeration is not 1.-THE of its power will II
not be successful at last in regard to its own visi
BILE head? 1t will, and BY necessity, too Such a
power cannot be defeated bv the hate of heresv
and the ambition CT few ambitious princes. What
will become of the Pope? was asked when Napoleon
imprisoned Plus VII, and took possession Of his
territory.
We now ask, What has become of that despot
himself? He thought to destroy the Rock of Rome:
but contemplate rock became the rlace of his
own degraded exile and dissolution The pope NAV
be driven from, and bis territory taken and himself
Killed; what then? these crimes have been often
committed, but the Papacy has triumphed over
them. The Church has no physical power: if il
had, Victor Emmanuel would not be the robber ne
I put rs R0 So oh hes 9bs Veto
ries enumerated, and by the same means it will set
tie the question: What will become of the Pope
And the answer is, that the Pope's troubles will
never pass away, while all things must ultimately
succumb to it, The enemies of the Church sha /
wither like grass, and the cowardlv Jewish rabble
that urge on the cruciiiers, may be vet DISPERSED
like sheep. With the Church at his back. what
need the Pope fear The London Times, the New
York Heratd, and Times, and Tribune three of the
Philadelphia daies, and some of our Boston
friends? Bah at them all Such ephemera
Wasps cannot lessen the power of the Everlasting
Church.