, 1866-09-21

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to quit the territory Of the Republic
within the shortest possible delay, and
this was duly specified in the act OF sub
delegation, as being the only cause OF lis
having been made. 4th, Ii consequence
Of this unqualiiable act Of the prOvlsorY
Government, one of the Secretaries OF
State, Minister Of the Interior and OF
Foreign Affairs, who was favourable 10
the publication of the Brief of His Holt
ness Plus k, tended his remuneration
which was accepted and published in the
above mentioned number of the Monitor.
5th, Another consequence also was that
all the Priests Of the capital and some Of
the country, were Immediately called
together by the ex-adminlstrator of the
Archdiocese, and signed a proteStation
contrary to the step adopted by the
Government, declaring that they had
from the first accepted and venerated as
head of their Church the Vicar Apostolic
nominated by the Holy See, and that they
would yield obedience to his sub-deIe-
gate, and abide whatever further orders
they might receive from the Holiness
Father Plus TX. On the eve of his de-
parture, viz: on the 9Th Of September,
feast of the nativity of the b. V. Mary,
the Very Reverend L. De Buggenoms
oficiated and preached in the Cathedral
before a numerous auditory, and was on
the following morning accompanied to
the Barcelona by all the Priests who were
at this time disengnged.
1t is evident by the leading article in
serted in the same number OF the Monitor
that the Government considered it expe-
dent to Justify itself for having refused
to accept the measure reSorted to by the
Holy See in favour Of the organization of
the Church Of Snnto Domingo; for, in
the said leading article great efforts are
taken to show that the Salvation and
future prosperity of the Republic is neces-
sarily connected with the total exclusion
of all foreign influence, and in not admit
ting but Dominican creOteS to rule over
the destinies of its inhabitants, to pro-
mote industry, agriculture, fine arts, in
struction, &C, &c. 1t is also worthy OF
notice tha! the cause Of the remuneration
Of the Minister of the Interior and Fo-
reign Affairs, has been concealed by the
official newspaper, as we'll as the fact of
the uniusti6able sentence Of exile pro-
nouuccd against a Priest whose only
crime was TO have been, though not a
Dominican creole, invested by the head
of the Catholic Chorch with a merely
spiritual power 10 help The Church in
Santo Domingo, unable at the acknow-
ledgment of all to find at present among
its own national Clergy elements OF or
ganization.
The conduct ofthose who have con'ri.
buted 10 this act of disobedience to the
spiritual authority of him whom the
great majority of the nation acknowledge
as their Legitimate Supreme Chief on
earth, cannot be. better aSsimilated than
to the mania Of the head of a family
whose members being together with him
self threatened with imminent starva-
ton, would refuse to accept bread from a
kind hNother in Christ for the sole reason
that this brother in Christ is not born in
the same land, or Of The same flesh and
blood as the other members of his family!
Such men have yet to learn the meaning OF
the word Christian, Whch no one ought
to assume unless he knows that it be-
longs only to such who are born "not OF
blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of
the will ofzghan, but of God" (St. John