The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-02-05
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dominant party at the North that this
mighty and irresistible nation ought to pre-
pare and lay out the ground for authori'a-
tive interposition in European affairs al no
distant date. We have outgrown, they
think. tina. cautious policy which WASH
rSoroS recommended to . young nation In
its .waddling clothes-to avoid entanglins
alliances. Indeed, We have outgrown 50
many things that the Father Of his Country
would not know that country IL ne sa" "'
We have got great moral ideas now any
mission |" and are in face so "So ."N
~yirtuous, as well as so puissA''''
th,,ch, "a have no longer any rlght TO
h;1e or- candle under a bushel, letting the
beniphted old world wag in the dark, as 1t
ha, wagged up to the present date. Why
"a a country endowed with such gifts and
graces, such monitors and hot-shot, if not
to extend these great moralideas, of which
the rest Of mankind stand so much in
need? 4..
The fact Of . strong American squadron
cruising about in the Mediterranean, ma
king demonstrations on the coast Of Can
dia, carrying away non-combatant Cretans
to Greece, and probably also carrying conf
Blatant Greeks to Gambia, is a circumstance
already noted with interest by the Eu-
ropean press as a matter which may add
new complication to the Eastern Cues
ton, now shortly about to receive a bloody
solution. Then a Greek diplomatist Of
distinction is coming to Washington to find
ont whether all the magnificent talk of the
New York Philhelenes may possibly mean
anything. The wonderful friendship and
mutual esteem which at present bind to-
gsther Russia and the United States is an
other fact which indicates that, at least In
the opinion of the Russian Government,
that great empire may hope for the support
of this great empire in the approaching
struggle. How far Baron SToEcKL may be
justified in the notion that our Radical
Congress, disembarrassing itself altogether
Of a President, will be shortly in a condi-
tion to declare wal and make alliances
by itself, and that it would proceed to in
volve the country in a European struggle,
it would be hard to say just now.
But that Congress is clearly disposed to
take a part, to show its hand, to give a sig
nifcant hint now and then to those " de-
~crepit" old nations of Europe; and the
last manifestation is the vote Of the House
striking out the word Rome from the ap-
preparation for ministers at foreign courts.
This is not merely an act of small malig-
nifty, as it might at first seem, provoked by
the Pope having replied to a letter from
Mr.. DAVIS when Confederate President !;
it is further meant as ar intimation that
in the present crisis of the Pope's tempo
raj sovereignty, when it is daily appre-
hended that his Holiness may be dethroned
by a successful rebellion, the United
States, for their part, are on the side of the
rebels. 1t is their protest against the tenn
porsl power, and q pronouncement that
they consider the Pope no longer a sove-
reign prince. Besides, it is well known
that they favor all rebels and rebellions in
foreign parts.
There is another feature in the affair
which has not been much commented N
the Americans in Rome have a Protestant
church, and the Scottish Presbyterians
have another. The latter have been inter-
dicted from continuing public worship in
their church because a too jealous clergy
man could preach against, not the spiritual
power flor that he was welcome to do as
long as he pleased), but against the tempo
raj power of the Sovereign. In other
words, when both Rome and all Europe
were in high ferment, Just after the French
troops withdrew from Rome, and in hourly
expectation of an insurrection which might
conyulSe a continent, this inflammatory
Scotch priest preached that the lawful
sovereign of the country under whose pro-
lection he and his flock lived ought to be
deposed from his throne. So the "Scar-
"let Beast, with the Seven Heads, the Ten
"Horns," really found it necessary to 81
lence the ~foul-mouthed evangelist, as a
mere measure of police, to preserve the
peace of the city; just as Mayor MAYO
would nave to do here in a similar case. 1t
was further announced from Rome that
the American pastor had also received a
warming that if he preached too much about
the Beast, and compared VICTOR EMMA
NuEL or GARABALDI to the Lamb which is
to sinh said Raast tn the bOttomlaSs nit
the authorities would be obliged to close
his church also. This news greatly added
to the spite in Congress against the poor
Pope for shall not a free-born Yankee
parson denOunce the Beast and the Scarlet
Woman at all times and places, in season
and out of season, crying aloud and
sparing not?
So the great American Congress has
chosen the moment Of the Pope's weakness
and peril to insult him first, but with a
menace behind. For the question Of Italy
and the Pope will necessarily form one of
the most serious complications in the ap-
preaching war and % oil Europe knows
that this nation is against the Pope.
A few months ago our imperial friend
the Gear of Russia broke off his diploma
tic relations because the Pope troubled
him by circumstances about his usage
of the Catholic Poles. The Poles are the
Cars "rebels," just as the Southern peo-
pie here are CONGRESSES " rebels" and that
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