The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-11-20

lawlessness which strives for ascendancy in
every revolution. 1t will effect this, that
republication will no longer be an outlaw,
but may hold parley with its older brothers.
In that way compromises may grow out Of
consultation where, otherwise, it would be
war without quarter.
Suppose, for instance, that the spirit of
Repu blicanism had grown SO strong and
confident in England that it could NO longer
be repressed, but rendered collision with
the established order of things imminent.
Its leaders could negotiate with their Gov
eminent through that of France, and per-
haps arrange peaceful solution of the
problem. Thus the aristocracy might be re-
tanned but the law Of entailment abolished.
This would leave that Institution to stand
on its own merits, and maintain itself by
good conduct or dwindle into contempt
through extravaganza and worthlessness.
In the same way the very. institution of
Royalty itself could be shorn of it's worst
feature by declaring that it should no
longer be hereditary. Both sides might
accede to such an arrangement rather than
have recourse to the doubtful arbitration of
arms, and plunge the country into all the
horrors of civil war.
1t is not impossible that the present and
convulsions of Europe may ter
inmate in a general assertion of the princi-
Piles of self-gOvernment to a greater or less
extent. The King of Italy stands excom-
municated, and is therefore unworthy the
loyalty of his sobjects. His impiety and
sacrilege have absOlved them from all obi
throw off q control which is nothing but
degradation. In this spontaneous and JUS
tifable self-assertion of people, why
should they not make q radical change and
suit themselves in their choice of a consti-
tuton7
The Spanish people, too, have had
foreigner foisted upon them, whose eleva-
ton to the throne, if without their genuine
assent, certainly taints the contract with
the nullity arising from force or fraud. The
of the English populace
at the horrors of poverty under which they
have been SO long suffering, and the evil
dent sympathy of their poorer class with
forth at the first unexpected opportunity.
Let us hope that any such changes, if made,
may be as peaceful and devoid of violence
as was the decIeance in France.
"When we would brand an enemy ,"says
Luitprandu, with the most disgracefu
and coutumelious appellation, we call him
a 'Roman; for this name of Roman by it.
self cumprehends cowardice, luxury, false
hoed, and avarice." The citizens to- day
of the Eternal City are in every way worthy
of the ignominy cast by the historian upon
their infamous forefathers. Rome at the
home and the hiding place of all that il
foul and detestable in the Italian PENN
sula. Naturally, therefore, the eyes of the
faithful are anxiOusly turned to the Vati-
can, which at present is tho palace prison
of the Sovereign Pontiff. Feeling that he
no longer possesses either the liberty of q
prince or Christian bishop, Plus TX. has
Gil for the present Every day, however,
witnesses the reception of the different
members of the Diplomatic Body, who are
all of them earnest with the Holy Father
to remain in Rome. We have it from the
lips of Signor Sella himself that it is GER
tain that Italy will choose Rome for it's
capital, but that to effect this "the action
of Parliament must be waited for" Italy
and Italians may find in few days other
work cut out for them than the choice of O
seat of Governments; what if it were an en-
with the Schneider rife and Krupp
gun of King William Would the rum
Always from Montana stand fire from the
Catholic soldiers of United Germanys In
the meanwhile, the Pontiff is the object of
the greatest insults. The vilest carrica-
lures are posted about the streets in Rome
by the proprietors of that press, of the
Holywell Street stamp, which came into
the Eternal City quite naturally with the
of Victor Emmanuel. We can
judge of the rapid advance that impiety
and sacriege have made by the daring ma
ture of the suggestions ventured upon by
the worst of the present Roman journals.
The Tribune, urging the appropriation of
ecclesiastical property, says, "churches
and sacristies are dens of robbers" The
Liberia advises that the images of the
Blessed Virgin and the saints should be
destroyed, because their very exsstence is
"a revolving abuse and shame to civiliza-~
ton" 1t calls also upon the Government
to order the demolition of the monument
in the cemetery of st. Lawrence, raised to
the memory of the gallant men who fell at
Montana, in defence of social order and re-
ligion. But in reality these miscreants,
whilst speaking out SO braggartly arc filed
with terror at sight of the great Catholic
agitation that is rising up the world over,
and in which they truly read their sem
tence and their doom. France and Belgium
have already demanded the restoration of
the money, rifles, and other effects of which
the Pontifical Zouaves were scandalously
and Messrs. Cadorna and Mast
have thoughtit most prudent to admit the
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