The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-04-18

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The menaciuf eonditionNof affairs required
!. that the Pepe. should now pnt his ariayIon
Z footing to preserve his States rom aggression.
q ts 5ns eneh
General de Lamoriciere, who saw how incom-
8 fpetSilt he would bewith the force at his eom-
s inasisf<S about nineteen thousand men of oil ma
,lf tions aiIarfns, andno ddiscipline-to meet the
:, war-fraiped lsgions of the Gayoyard, whose
white cross. doomed SO balefully for. italian
pas We win not give the details of the noble
struggle of Lamoriciere. He imnortalized
80 himself in the cause of God and humanity.
Suffice it to say that he surrendered on the
both of September. The papaI army was gone;
the Pope, stripped BY violence OF the Marches
and umbria, was at the mercy of the new
o scourge of Gathelieity. But France atelast
spoke, and declared that the patrimony of st.
Peter should not be invaded. The Sandman
had more important matters in band. Naples
was to be reduced and annexed to his kingdom.
Following up the success of GariBaldi, whom
success induced him to avow, Victor Emmanuel
finally drove Francis IL, King of Naples, from
his territories; and thencefurward every true
hearted Neapoiitan. who preferred to see his
country free and independent, became, In the
jargon of liberalism, q bandit. : Il 80
For q time then the Roman States were tran
quill, and Pins Continued. his labors as pontif.
On the 25th of March, 1862, he proceeded to
the Minerva to pronounce the decree for the
srnciSed at Nangasakai II 1897. He then spoke
fully and distinctly as to his temporal power,
and announced the, approaching canoniza-
On the 9Th of June, Whitsunday, that. ihipo-
sing ceremony took place; nearly three hun
- bred cardinals, patrarcbs, primates, archbish-
ops and bishops gathered around the successor
of st. PeteEto uphold him by their unanimous
voice. From east and west, from north and
south, these pastors OF souls, these successors
of the apostles, came one in heart, in faith, in
= devotion to the See of Peter. The world might
rage againssshs anointed Of the Lord, but Of
pastors there could be no question.
,fsI For time after this great catholic demon
I stration, only mutterings were heard, no new
step marking the progress Of the enemies of
!. the Church. I'm 1856, however, q war was &C.
casioned in Germany by the wrestling of the
Suehies Of sHolstein and sehleswig from the
self, Prussia made war on Austria and in o
campaign of brief but terrible duration, hum
bled that power by series. OF victories Gnlini--
mating in the triumph of Sadowa.- When
Prussia declared war, Italy also attacked Aus
>tria, but though terribly defeated at Custozza,
she attained her object, the Venetian territory,
which Austria ceded to France, and which Ma
poleoh III. at once transferred to Italy. n
~ Prussia awaited herself of the success to an
mex to her dominions the KIM dom of Hanover,
with Hesse and SEVERN smaller states avoid,
ing apperentiy anythin gfo increase her Catho-
italy is now ruled from the Alps to the OK
trefnity of Sicily by O single monarch, except
the patrimony of st. Peter and, the little repub-
lie Of San Marine. The expulsion of the Pope
from Rome is now the only unanswered wish
of the Italian, infidel party. tsy
What the future has in reserve for the papa
cy it were worse than useless to conjecture.
God may design Plus TX. to be once more an
exila--to form, perhaps; tho first in a new line
. of Popes like those at Ayignon and, now that
= Italy can no longer-on reasons of State policy
arising from this temporal sovereignty-claim
that the Pope shall always be an italian, lbe
succeeded by o series of, rpontiffs chosen from
tho various Christian lands which cling more
ea6evotet1y to the Successor of St. Peter Bnt
p in sotMe Sayona, dying in exile like Plus vi.
and Gregory VIII the supreme pontif will feel
Soassured of the devoted allegiance not of kings
7eand Cgeears perhaps, but of the millions of
faithful Catholics throughout the world, and
saof their united and zcaious pastors of every