The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-03-13
VOL. ~.

the pIOtectiOn 0t CIeOcn oayoOete II ABOUT
to resume IN safety the temporal domin
ion. well nigh wrested from him through
the influence of revolutionary and liberal
ideas; and the despots Of Europe sre seek
ing to produce reaction against Liberty
BY holding mp "America a. an example" |"
in her present calimatous condition, Of the
fearful horrors of Free Government.
Hence il seems fitting time for the Pope
to lend his spiritual power to the author
itativc dcnunciation and exirpation o.
the principles of civil and religious lib
city, and BY the aid OF the Jesuits to re-.
establish his supremacy over the earth.
It was in defence, then. Of the principles
which underlie our free institutions that
We felt it our daty 10 publish and de.
nounce the deepotic principles enunciated
by the Pope's encyclical letter.
That this is no simply religious contro.
versy, is clear from the fact that Catholic
Governments, Catholic newspaper, and
even the Catholic Clergy, to certain exE
tent, in Europe, resist the claims of the
Pope and repudialc his principles, while
on the other hand the leading Protestant
High Church Tory journals Of England aud
Prussia sutain and advocate the positions
Of the Pope's encycIical in relation 10
the main points on which We have ami
madverled. And it may be set down that
the friends of liberty on the continent OF
Europe are to mau against tho Pope's
Encyclical, and that large proportion of
the Catholics of France and Germany are
with their Governments opposed to its
preteusions.
L. D. appeals to US to admire the an
tiqui:y, the majesty and the power of the
papacy. To what end ? Liberty did
not take its rise in Europe till after the
power Of the Papacy had bean de6ed
our own cree institutions are not her off
spring, bat exist 10 spite of her principles.
The CORY and the benefits bequea,hed BY
our fathers and Inherited BY us, the pos
SCISSORS of the frcest land and the best
Government 10 tho world, do not trace
their paternity to the Pspacy, nor would
they suffer the slightest deirinent were
the Papacy blolied out and its memory as
dim 10 the minds of men as lhs glories of
Baalbec. Palmyra or Old Babylon "lhe
glory OF the whole earth" And our lib.
erty and free institutions will continue to
live in spite of the devotion of the Pspacy
TO the principles and interests of despo-
lism and the Papacy itself, if i. contin-
ues to oppose. barrier to freedom will
eventually be overwhelmed aud swept
away by the ever rising and onaoaing
tide of liberty in Europe, as the ancient
and powerful Democrats party Of our
country has been overthrown by the en-
thusiasm Of our people in behalf of liberty.
Father DeCailly challenges US to a
discussion Of European civilization. which
we most respectfully decline. We do not
sci ourself up as a philosopher or even q
eontrosersialist, aud the defence which
wo have been forced iuto Of the editorial
paragraphs which we close to indite, does
not Pledge US 10 the discussion in the
columns of a daily paper of subject
which the learning and the talents of
Cardinal Wiseman, Guizot, AMI Buckle
have failed to esxhaust 10 ponderous
volumes.
Modern civilization took its rise in the
efTulgent sllendors which beamed from
the freedom of thought and discussion
achieved by the age which burst the
shackles in which the Papacy had chain
ed the human mind. And the outgrowth
and development of that civilization has
been in exact proportion with the decline
Of the power and influence Of the Papacy
over the ideas and energies Of mankind.
Hence it is that the free minds of Eug-
land and the United States have achieved
ia bette. civllix s.ion than thc Pope
sbackled and priestriddsn people Of Spain
aud Mexico have been abl, to attain
The preponderancs of the facs are Sc
much 10 Qua favor that We should hardly
receive any credit for victory in such .
discussion.
H% Des Moines cast one hundred and
forty more votes than Nuscatine in the
| late municipal elections.
i I@The Dss Moines Register rubli.h
es an e1trac. Of letter from citizen o
Missouri, wherein it it 10 said that Iowl
viii receive large accession to its pcpu
! lation 10 the spring from the outliws ans
bandit rebe.s Ut that Safe. We don'