The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-23

Won Beust's Dispatch IN Reply to the Pspal
ALLEGATION.

AUOcuuon.
The following is the corrected TRANSLATION OF tne
dispatch recently sent by Baron Won Beust 10 ba-
ron MeyseLbug. at Rome, relating to the papal
allocution: go
"VIENEA. July 81 hare recently received with
your reports Of the 22d and 23d Of jane the text
Of the sllocuton of the holy father In the conss-
tory Of the 22d.
by telegraph with the unfortunate impression
which that manifesto has produced here.
1.-THE explanations given in your dispatches OF
the 23d nit. have not been sufficient to mitigate
the effect of the words OF the holy father.
ave certainly appreciate the frindly FEELINGS
expressed for the person of the emperor, and his
msjesty is certainly not insensible TO that mark Of
respect. We would believe that, as your excel
lepcy sfhrms, the pontitcal allocutlon, compar AIRED
with other documents OF the same nature which
have emanated from the holy see, does snow GER
tain tendency 10 moderate expressions so far as
the point Of view held by the church viii permit
Nevertheless, il is q fact that the language which
his holiness in reference TO the imperial gov
eminent and the new institutions Of Austria is 50
severe that we have a right TO complain OF it: l
do not on the present occasion desire to enter into
q controversy little in accordance with my sentl-
ments of respect for the holy see, and with my
desire for concilistion; still cannot refrain from
a few observations on the subject, which request
your exceency to bring to the notice OF the court
OF Rome.
certain precedents and of employing towards Aus
tril the same procedure as towards those other
counties Of whose conduct the ponti6cal govern
ment has had TO complain.
"Csn indeed, q comparison be made? Have
we laid hands upon the territory, on the posses
sions, of the church? Have We opposed the Cath
ole religion OF its ministers?
Apart from such instances as do not bear on
the case we may, I believe, boldly affirm that
there is no country in Europe where the Catholic
religion has so privileged position as in Austria,
despite the laws of the 25thMay. This fact should
have been taken into account and the imperial
government should not have been reprobated in
the same manner as those governments which are
in opposition to the church and the Caho ic reli-
gioD. We can easily understand that the holy
father has thought IL Indispensable for him to pro-
test against the laws which modify the situation
created by the cOuc0rdat OF 1855. Indeed, we
fully expected some such step, and we should
have accepted il in silence even had its form been
less conciliatory than we hoped; but we cannot
allow the condemnation Of the fundamental laws
on which the new institutions OF the empire re-
pose 10 pass without objection. Those laws are
not in question. In thus attacking them the holy
see deeply wounds th g feelings of the nation, and
imparts to the real difference meaning much to
be regretted even in the interests of the church.
Instead of simply disagreeing with such and such
an application of the principles which serve as
the foundations of the actual government of Aus
tria, and which are the results of happy agree
ment between the people and the empire, 1t Is the
principles which have been condemned.
The holy see thus extends its representations
to those objects which we IN no way can admit to
be under lis authority. IL envenoms question
already too calculated to excite peoples minds
by placing Il a footing where political are
mixed up with religious passions. By the condem.
nation of those laws which limit the principle OF
the liberty Of the church, while at the same time
they offer compensation for the privileges lost,
it makes the assumption of a conciliatOry attitude
by the government more difficult. 1t may not be
out of place 10 remark that these laws expressly
guaranty TO the church the possession OF her
property in Austria. This stipulation proves that
the laws in question are not unfriendly to the
church, since she is thereby maintained in those
rights OF which in so many other countries she
has been deprived. II is not for me TO judge how
far this last consideration may serve to soften the
feelings of the court of Rome on this point. That
which 10 my eyes does not offer shadow of doubt
is that the people of Austria will find consoa
ton in remembering that more than one Catholic
country obeys laws analogous to ours while a.
peace with the church, and above all, that there
exists in Europe grand and powerful empire
whose tendencies toward liberty and progress
have always been allied with q most decided at
tacbment to the Catholic faith, and which, though
governed by laws equally abominabie, yet hs
been fortunate enough, even up to the Presen
time, to meet with the indugent sympathies o.
the holy see. My dispatch of the 9TH of June las
foresaw the unfortunate results which would b,
produced by the allOcuton, If II were not coucheC
in moderate terms. | regret extremely that tht
court Of Rome did not take my anticipations into
account. They have been entirely realized.
do rot believe that the Catholic population OF thu
empire show a greater zeal to-day for the inter
ests of their religion than In times past. On tn
contrary, we see the attacks directed against tn
church, the clergy and the pope redOubed il
their ardor. That hostility would have been re
strained within its narrow limits and been mos
easily sppessed if only the special question
affected by the laws of the 25th May had Dee
touched upon in the pOntifcsl allocution.
Before concluding, must here express tn
painful surprise we have felt at the appeal ad
dressed TO the Hungarian bishops in the last sen
fences If the ALLEGATION.
III appeared TO he that the court of Rom
ought TO have congrs uated herself at the perfec
tact and reserve with which these matters haV
mp TO the present time, been treated in Hungary
Ii did not appear desirable from any point OF Vie'
TO arouse fresh differences and TO increase IN
difficulties which already exist. But above all
is in the interest OF the court Of Rome, that az
pears to us inopportune to exotic the nationa
susceptibility of the Hungsrians. The mere az
pearance of foreign pressure Will produce IN tina
nation a result altogether at variance with tn
wishes of the holy see, and we shall behold
storm gather against the legitimate Influence o
the court of Rome as strong as that which ha
broken out on this side of the Leitha.
"Such, NJ. lie Baron, are the observations vhie
have been suggested to US by reading the pontit
cal allocution. You will be pleased not to kee
his eminence, the cardinal secretary of state,
ignorance of them. We shall nevertheless, pc
severe in the way we have traced out first an
foremost. While continuing to maintain ints'
the rights of the state, and to make the laws II
spected, we shall allow the church TO enjoy
peace the liberties which these laws guaranty
her, and we shall strive to introduce into the mi
tual relations of state and church spirit of col
citation and equity which will, hope, be reciI
rocal.
"Your excelIency will be the faithful interprett
of these sentiments, and in so doing you will als
be acting in conformity with the views Of the en-
peror, our august master. BEUsr."
A GIRL Cur OEE WITH AN AZ" Do You s.