New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-07-23
THE DUTIES or THE ROMAN
CIEGRCII IN AMERICA.

necessarily regards as in part schlsmntic aud
in part beretical. are such as the wisdom OF
Loyo,a would at once have recognized and
the skill Of that great man have improved.
1t is to be regretted that the practical sagacity
which the Society Of Jesus, BY its wonderful
system Of education, imparts to its neophytc',
cannot be extended to the hierarchy to which
they do not aspire, for a good Jesuit could
hardly make bad Bishop, and would certainly
make wise one. The chance OF the Roman
Church ut this day to revive upon the West
cru Continent the fading glorlrs of Its legitl-
mate authority, is such as would have kndled
brighter flame IN the bosom Of St. Ignatiu.,
and void have inspired his devoted followers
with fresh zeal and more uDques,ionlna
courage. Under n Constitution which secures
by fundamental law the positive equality Of
al forms of religions profession before the
Government, the Roman Church would gain
more by the free field accorded to its exer
tlons, than 1t could possibly gain BY the closest
alliance with the temporal power, If il rcso-
lurel, adhered to that coalition Of It's success
which would couius Il to purely spiritual in
s.ructions aud discipline. 1t is not in
th, power Of any President or of any
Congress TO abridgc Tia liberties, to silence
rs instructions or 10 Danish lis ministers. II
il. not IN the power OF any antagonstic re-
lsiou. body to persecu,e ito members or to re-
strain the celebration oi its rites. Ii Is not,
Us IN the British Empire forced to support a
pri.sttood in,mical 10 Ito creed. III Is not. a.
IN Spain and Italy. obliged to share the terri
bic responsibility which attaches 10 corrupt
and d..potic dy nasties, which USE II when II IN
useful ard discard II when It is otherwise.
No Nnpolconc President can here uipuson ITS
Spiritual Head, or compel from bis unwilling
hands the Dissertation Of sacred offices. But
above the advantage OF equality before the
Law the Roman Church In America encounters
a busy aud speculative popular mind, free to
~ c,trnt nowhere else 10 be- found from re-
ngou. prrJudicc., but full OF religious emotion
"a virgin ,ol, fertile beyond precedent, IL
which i, may Plant and which it may water
with hope OF such increase as 1t has not .cen
for five long centuries. Ii finds i,ryld ImasI.
nation. easily Influenced by the splcudors of
IL, rltual-it meets with historic tastes which
are easily impressed ty the brilliancy Of IL.
annas--it is ASSISTED by an uncommon love OF
those plasuc arts winch 1t has always delighted
10 encourage, aud ii that other mt OF harmo
nous aud mclodc expression 10 which IT owes
M much OF ,hr tenderness ADD grandeur Of its
ser,ic.s-it discovers before 1t wide eXpnnses
/ Il 49, nat t.f in
which il may repeat the epic Suomity OF ST.
Peter and the weird magnlhceucc OF Cologne.
| But 10 Church eau hope for even temporal
rewards, II II tail III b stem aud answering
fidelity 10 its duties aud It's principles. All
who know anything Of its history, know that
the Church OF Rome. now planted IN America,
# true ~ ito traditions and to the naked slu-
plicity of ITS doctrine, would be the most un
compr, misiog Ant.Slavery Courch in America.
We are not writing in paradoxe', nor are We
making experiments upon the creduiity OF our
readers. Why should tho Roman Church lend
even a negative support In America to social
WRONGS which it was her earliest mission 10
Western Europe to redress Why should tho
repre,entatlye Of that Church which elevated
the nations from meIe seridOm to the nober
institutions of feudality, us 1t had before amel-
Grated Slavery into serldom, be silent WINE
wicked and powerful mon seek to plunge us
INTO the darkness aud misery of tho primal
agesl Tho Stakeholder fnds his social
ideal in the AbrahamIc periodicals
the Roman Church no memory OF tho social
order which shc established during the Middle
J Ayes, in which, under her sanction, precedent
was given to merit, and the sole test OF I'D
vaocemrnt WAS capacity Doe. she forget that,
AZ the result of this, Slavery is even now more
tolerabIe IN Catholic than IN Protestant coun.
tires in Cuba, than in South Carolina
Does she forget that the unity OF all races has
always been u part of her creed. aud that
upon this belief she has often acted in spirit
OF dslnleresied humanity. modifying the
brutallties OF the civil power, rests aiming the
cruelties of the Shareholder, and, to the best
OF Der ability, dscourngng servile concublnago
Does sbo forget the mystic significance of her
very name We have called her Roman for
the .ake Of cons enlence-does she forget tina
she calls herself Catholic THAT She Ut all
Others, has been most strenuous IN her asser-
ton that "God has made OF ono blood all
men To dwell upon the face of the earth y
Father Everett sad lat Sunday. at the
Church OF the Nativity, that % tho Catholic
Chsch hao always been tho teacher of order,
stability and peace" Sho has been mors
than that. Sho has been. when free