American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-11-09
cARlBALDI AsD THE CHURCH,

IN driving PluS 4 from Rome, it "
> he no new thing IN the history of t
Papal power f''rt Pope to b. in CT,
tivity or exile. fhe Catholic dOgi
OF the iDfaIlihiHy OF the Pope
spiritual mattel, has never prac
cally included tE inviolability of h
pen son. The met orthodox of Cat
Ollie sovereigns have made war G
Popes, deposeti 4d imprisoned then
and in the fTdent feuds betwee
rival claimants the chair of Saii
Peter, they havftrrated each Othe
with the seyerf OF coIIquerols i
secular strifes. a.a-a
The CathOlicsbelieye that in a
these variationHf for itune, and ami,
all the human tiailties with whicI
the administratiesS temporal pewe
has frequently bed corrupted ant
abused, the spiriMl head of til,
church preserves te doctrines of tn,
faith in immacute purity. Bu
history gives lOndist of Popes thai
have been unfortunate sovereigns--
who have lost battles, been driven
into their capital, seized, and cast
into prison--sbme of them ending
their lives as C, tvs. One of them,
John XIV, w$ starved to death in
a dungeon, thtCaSle of st. Angelo,
in which PiuslX is now said to be
besieged. Seeral of them have been
kept out OF tlIr possession by insur.
gents and enaies, and never entered
Rome. m
A cursory once over the list of
POpes shows bat at least thirty of
them have bee subject to great tenn
poral disasterahave been conquered
by temper u ekmies, expelled by in
surgents, or derwise constrained
to establish thtcentral authority of
the Papacy elswhere than in the
Eternal City. But the world has
hitherto invarialy seen power return
to its ancient SGT and the Popes re-
instated in Ron as sovereigns and
pontiffs. Ii t1 insurgents who are
now beleaguerik Rome should sue.
,eed in forciri Pope Plus to fly.
-hese analogiesfom history will en-.
the fatfnl to believe h It
restoration vii inevitably follow.
If the invash fails by external
an the Pope maintains
himself by Fr1ch help or Italian
ufferance, the kpectation seems to
'e that the cri$ will have passed,
nd the future &urity of the Papacy
7ill be provide for by some Euro.
can guarantee ltat will be sufficient
D.. disatm~ar lSsfss its enemies /
II religious faith Ttner than on an
stimate of the eleents of the pra. I
cal problem as iey present them.
elves to the resoning observer. I
olitical results, tit now seem to be .
may worked out by I
nknown means, anost in the nature a
miracles, if it 'e the divine will q
lat the Church ot,ome shall expand g
self and be gov'ned through the q
rm of temporaluthority, welded
Y it's spiritual chi. But the means J.
re not visible to he human under, !
anding. e
On the contrarythe condition of !
le European min and the political |
cations towards ach other, of the I
Dwertul sovereisties which make Il
le possession OF ONE and the abOl. il
hing of the poliral authority of the r
ope an object ofiational desire and e
the .verish temper OF 2
eat populations and above all the L
'ident division the Catholic body n
sci, OH the subject, whether g
mpOral sovereignty III Rome, or "
deed Rome itslt is indispensable g
the unity, puitl and speed of the q
lthoIic faith, Svp Il very different tl
pect to the tuue from that which u
ght be draw finn the analOgies Il
other and veN different times. 81
or this the epditiOn of Garibaldi tC
only u symptsm 1t is difficult to ni
it, nplinciplr, from a Il
cd many inSurtctiOnary projects III
lich have gone lnder the ignoble d
me of filibusteHg. 1t is the i'm a. o'
N from withdt of territory II
Iich is at peace.n invasion which st
lily has no knon flag with which u
distinguish itsf; it progresses to re
sign the recover of Rome tor Italy, Il
t the GoyernInet OF Italy repudl- III
IS it, and to mae Rome the capi IN
of the kingdOl, the monarch of to
Iich is in arms defeat it: to be al
the liberatiu of the Romans, Ga
len the Romas have not asked &c
: intervention, nd in great num- II
RS are protestim against it. There a
no public Law which this wild III
terprise rests for Justification. le
q best that can De said of it is, III
1t it represents spOwerful popular CO
ssion which is :lamorous TO he V
stified, and thatt is the necessary At
ans for forcing eneficial changes se
societies and gcernments, which W
, not attainable lnder the subsis 10
. order of thing and can only be 81
Iched by violene, revolution aud So
'odshed. 1t lisa desperate and at
ngerous game ttbe plaid, and il en-
v fail in this demonstration. The OF
r that it excitrsaH! the perils il IN
will ver probably lead to a.
ID combined effCts at suppression III
to avert the eat strnphe il woula al
,cipitate hut tie passions which
levrlops, and tlr immrnse senSa-
b " j. b crea's thrmghout d Q is
hatIolIS. diSrlos' the existence ot wI
itical pItmenfx Ehich no r,prS- eN