The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-01-30


another By and by an effort will be made to
dispense altogether with legislative control.
VIII the Pope OF Rome visit the United
States :-A Refuge for His Holiness.
1t VIII be seen from our foreign advices this
morning that England has proposed to the Pope
to withdraw to Malta and that M. Drouyn de
Lhuys has expressed a hope that in the event
OF the Pope being compelled to leave Italy his
Holiness would retire to France in preference
to England. This is remarkably nice little
diplomatic imbrogio, and it is further compli-
Gated by the despatch of the Prince Latour de
Avergne OF the 9th December, stating that Mr.
Odo Russell had renewed his proposal to the
Pope to leave Rome. expressing regret that the
offer of England was not accepted, and adding,
menacingly that he had reason to believe his
Holiness would very shortly find himself ne
cessitatedto profit by it. There seems to be a
unanimous desire on the part of Italy, England
! and France that the Pope shall change his base
ofoperations and what these three Powers are
agreed upon may possibly come to pass. 1t
behooves his Holiness, therefore, to be looking
out for another eligible residence. Indeed,
where that residence shall be now appears the
only point in dispute.
| The Italians desire to rid Rome OF the Pope
so that they may extend their kingdom over all
Italy and make the Imperial City their national
capital. The Pope's obstinate reply of non pos
sinus is absurd; for if one Pope could remove
hipself to Paris and another fee to Cvta Vec-
CHA before revolution, there is no reason
-. nc
the Almighty should rot be able to settle
down wherever he pleases. Christcndom
is beginning to take very common
sense view of the case Of the sick man al Rome,
and if the Pope persists in his non poss;mas his
infallibility will be generally discredited. So
that the Pope leaves Rome the Italians do not
care where under the sun he goes, and England
and France both offer him an asylum. The
English want the Pope at Malta. not because Of
any religious sympathy for him-as the English
Church is Protestant--but solely from political
and prudential motives. England is tired Of
this perpetual disturbance about Italy, and is
DESTROYS Of arranging the matter at once, so
that it will be impossible to involve her in any
continental quarrel through the feeling of her
people in regard to the Italian cause There
fore, as a sort Of compromise, England offers
the Pope residence on the isle Of Malta, and
urges him to accept it before he is forced to
beg An asylum somewhere else. Napoleon,
finding the Italian question taking this turn,
reyives the scheme OF his illustrious uncle, and
invites the Pope to Paris The first Napoleon
wished to make Paris the centre Of civilization
and the veritabe hub Of the universe, and was
therefore anxious to induce the Pope to remove
to that city, and dictate laws to the religious
while he himself attended to the political and
military worlds. The present Napoleon has
the same idea, and is apparently much nearer
its accomplishment Napoleon and the Pope
| together would be an extremely strong team,
and very hard to beat.
The Pope cannot 60 to Malta, because Eng
land is Protestant country, and it would be
| impossible for the Pope to honor heretics here
by allowing them to protect him while he
damned them hereafter because they could not
agree with him upon certain doctrinal points.
Neither can the Pope go to Paris: for
to accept Nap6leon's hospitality after
being kicked ont OF Rome by Napoleon s
permission would be like doing favor
to the man who had robbed yon. The
Christian principle Of returning good for evil,
| exposing your left cheek to a man who had
slapped the right, and giving your cloak to a
wretch who had previously stolen your coat is
all very we'll in theory: but when it comes to
| be put in practice we imagine that the Pope
will be found to have as much human nature
about him a. any other man. Consequently, in
view Of the conduct Of Napoleon in regard to
| Rome, we believe that his Holiness, if obliged
to leave Italy, would prefer Greenland to Paris.
! BIT Why should not the Pope end the trouble at
vonce by emgrating to this country! There are
| plenty Of good Roman Catholics here; there is
no national Protestant church, and we are tole
rant OF all sorts of religions and all sorts of
people With true Yankee shrewdness we do
not pretend to decide which sect has the exclu-
| sive monopoly of Paradise. but take advantage
of all the chances and give every Christian
company fair trial. The Pope will, therefore
| be as welcome as the flowers OF May. We will
| give him the college at Georgetown to begin
with and the faithful will soon build him
brown stone front. on the site Of Archbishop
Hughes cathedral, which will surpass the vati :
can. Here his Holiness may illuminate as much
as he likes. out-bull the operators in Wall
street, and have good time generally. Carl
baldi and all other sIcb agitators shall be kept
at a safe distance. Who knows but that the
Pope may find his proper mission here. He i
the apostle OF peace, and there could be no bet
ter opportunity for the display Of his apostolic
| functions than in the reconciliation Of
the hostile sections Of this distracted country
Greeley and Jewett are trying to get Napoleon
to intervene; but we will match the Pope
against Napoleon rs a peacemaker any day.
We cordially invite his Holiness to this new
country, therefore, and have no doubt that he
and our own people will be mutu ally pleased
! with and benefited by each other.