The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-03-01
Tor ,he GATs CiTr.
Keokuk. Feb. Q7..

pass on the kindness yos have manifsste
/ in Publishing my ARTICLES, BY sending 70
communication - lengthy ~ the artic
you published on Monday morning, ]
though fair discussion woald require q
equal number of columns to each writer
and as "brevity is the soul Of vii" / vi
be as brief as possible in my explanations
| LIST. 1t would be unfair and unjust /
stretch the denunciations Of the s. Por
tif aimed at the radicals and infideIs q
Europe, SO as to make them include GU
own noble and free Government, whic
never could be the intention Of Plus th
TX. the friend of social progress, as man
ifested BY the 6rst years of bis Pontifi
cate. 1t was wise Thought of the ben
efactors Of the Holy See. Constantine
Pepin, Charlemagne and Louis, to hav,
donated sufficient extent Of territory t,
prevent the Popes being hampered auc
thwsrted in. the exercise Of their spir.
itual jurisdiction. A similar idea actu
ated the fathers Of our Government wheu
they wisely ordained that the National
Government should be located in . terri.
tory Independent of any State jurisdiction,
viz: the District of Columbia. Il is
against the dislurbers of that necessary
state of things in Italy that the Pope con-
demns the last propositions in your arti-
Gle, and outside of the Roman territory
they have no possible application.
Your assertion that Pro.estants have
not religious liberty in Italy, Spain
and other Catholic countries, simply
deny. from my personal knowledge Of The
contrary.
You prepared for me the moose of di.
lemma, by stating that no man can be a
Catholic and disapprove of tie reprehsn n
sible acts of the Pope, but, unfortunately.
you manifested Singular ignorance Of
Catholic doctrine the infallibiIity of the
Pope does not in any manner include
their private acts, and no Catholic ever
claimed that they were impeccable, /,
only extends to their public acts as heads
of the Church. and sauctioSed hy that
same Church hence the various claims
OF temporal supremacy made by some
Popes, and sustained by Bsllarmine, new.
er were part Of Catholic dogma they
were based upon different grounj, viz :
certain organic civil Laws, which ia G dr.
many declared "lhat if a prince remaintd
under accommodation for one year, be
his crown" See the Protestant
voigt. who moreover says Of
Gregory the VII: I" His vas the ONLY I'll.
bunal which could set any limits TO In
perlal despotism, as second defender OF
Does not, at the presen,
time. an act of the EDglish Parliament
forbid the head of the Government from
lining the Catholic faith. under penalty
Of forfeiting the Crown?
1t i'll becomes you, Mr. E liior, in your
defenses of civil liberty. to take part With
two monsters of modern history, Henry
VIII. of England. aud Henry lV. II Ger.
many, against the efforts Il the Gregories
10 defending their prescribed subjects. l.
Hear Otto. of Nardheim, the leader ol
the Saxons against Henry w "Perhaps
you hesitate to break the oath you have
taken to support the King, because you
are Christians. So. long as he was King
to me, | observed serupulously the oath
| had taken; siuce he has ceased to act
as X ny. | owe him fealty no longer -
No, We do not march against the Kine
but against the enemy OF our country and
OF our liberties -
After quoting some distorted facts and
opinions Of theologians, which the Church
is no more Obliged 10 defend than my own
acts or opinions, you say that I presume
on the Ignorance of the public. Now l
eatfirm that The Church does not REQUIRE
any OF its members to believe that the
Pope has any temporal power over Kings
and Princes. Show me decrelal. brief
or bull to the contrary.
l come Dow to last and most delicate
question, a contrast between nv adopted
and my native country, with regard 10
civilization-between American and Cath.
olic progress. IEwas not fair TO place me
in such position, and feel on the sub
j ct very much like a child who. being
asked: (Which do you love best. your
father or your mother 2, answered =" |
love them both" To detract from the
one would scarcely enhance the other, for
if my religion is my mother, my adopted
land has been father Of my own choosing.
| will, therefore, never consent to drag
our own country into comparison with
d-fogy European countries she stands
too far ahead not to be disgraced even By
comparisons, bat il you wish it ! will
compare England or Prussia with any
Catholic country, after yeu have demon
strated that turrowing the lahd with rail.
roads, shsckling the electric firc By tele.
graph, and building mammoth steamboats,
is sign If religious Improvement, and q
test OF evangelical perfection.
Respectfully, L. D.
D~ Captain Stanton Shales, probably
the last survivor Of the battie Of Lax,
Erie, 10 1873. died 10 Columbus, Ohio
last week. lie was an officer under Com
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