The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-11

and public spirit known was furnished by the
late war. Conspicuous service in the Oonfe-
derate army supplies the means of judging of
mans honesty, fidelity to associates, zeal in
public cause, talents, and force of character;
and surely the Tribune cannot think that
these are qualities to be disregarded
in the choice Of Congressman. The
whole Southern people supported the
Rebellion, and soldiers who exposed their
lives for IL are more respectable than sneaks
who stayed at home. If praying Stonewall
jackson were living, he would make a filter
member of Congress than praying White
more and his like, who have been foisted into
seats which they have disgrsced. If every
Southern member were Confederate ex-
general, there is no man of intelligence who
would not think it great improvement on
the present Southern delegation in Congress,
made up as it is of adventurers without char
acter, antecedents, social connections with
the Southern people, or even common hon
esty or decency. Why not Mr.. Greeley,
sweep away all proscriptive barriers and allow
the South to be represented by its strongest
and most experienced men
THE POPE AND THE WAR.
From the Providence Journal "
The European war has brought unexpected
trouble to the Pope at the very moment of his
triumph as the Head of the Church. The
Emperor of France is withdrawing his troops
from Rome for service on the Rhine. They
are already beginning to embark at Civita
Vecchia, and soon not soldier of France will
be left in the States of the Church. This has
been repeatedly threatened before, but the
Pope felt confident that nothing but some
emergency of the future would lead to the
fulfillment of the threat. 1t is nearly twenty
years since Louis Napoleon sent his regi-
ments to Rome to bring back the Pope,
who had been driven away by the republicans.
1t was soon evident, however, that to bring
| back the Pope would be of little avail unless
he could be kept in the seat to which he
| had been restored-a result which was then
| deemed in Europe almost essential, not only
| to the Papal supremacy, but even to the pre-
| servation OF Christendom. For this pious
purpose the Emperor of France has con-
| tinued his soldiers in the Roman territory
| from that day to the present. To them has
his Holiness been indebted not only for the
little quiet he has enjoyed, but also for the
ability to live in Rome at all and to sit in the
ancient seat of st. Peter. Without their
bayonets bristling at every stronghold in his
territory, his temporal power would long ago
have been wrested from him, either by his
own subjects or by the King of Italy, whom
he excommunicated for his unyielding hos
tility to the Papal supremacy. .l ..
| But now the long dreaded hour has come
| The Pope is to be left alonein his dominions
andthese dominions have been reduced by the
disaffection of their population to dimensions
far narrower than they were twenty years ago.
| His guardian has had way, in nearly every
time of trouble, of submitting to the people
of the rebellious districts whether they would
continue subjects of the Pope or not. They
have if we recollect Alright, in every instance
voted in the negative. Thus has he been
compelled to surrender all his provinces on
the Adriatic, and, indeed, in every part of
Italy, except in the city of Rome, and the
district between it and the Mediterranean.
All this he has been obliged to submit to
even while the Emperor of France was
guaranteeing his temporal sovereignty and
protecting his person with the Imperial
troops. This protection he is now no longer
to have. Even if the Emperor desired it,
he could not continue to occupy Rome with
his soldiers. But there are many reasons for
believing that he no longer cares much for
the Pope. He has been offended that the
Holy Father has so often refused his advice,
and especially that the dogma of linfallibility
was insisted on after France and Austria had
declared againstit. He appears to be weary of
this endless task of keeping the Head of
Christendom from the loss of his temporal
power. Indeed, if Louis Napoleon were not
a man of such conspicuous and unquestioned
piety, it might be suspected that he had
ceased to care anything whatever either for
|
longer use them in the work of aggrandizing
France and strengthening the dynasty of
the Bonapartes t'''~A' -" 'A
To the Pope, however, the withdrawal of
the French regiments is serious affair. 1t
makes his future dubious and insecure. His
position as the infallible head of the Church
will doubtless remain unaltered, but the
question is, how is he to retain his capital
city or to exercise his functions as supreme
Pontiff in any place that is not his own? Now
that France has withdrawn her protection, he
must look to some other Roman Catholic
power for assistance. But Spain is unable to
help him, and Austria has declared against
him on account of the infallibility dogma.
He can look to Italy alone to that Italy
which regards Rome as her true historical
capital and means to possess it herself; to
that Italy whose king has been excommuni-
Gated for despeiling the Papacy of its terri
tories, and whose people, though Roman
Catholics, care not how soon the Pope is
stripped of his temporal power and compelled
to become merely spiritual potentate.
The Pope evidently comprehends the stu
alton, and however keenly he may feel about
it, he is disposed to make the best of it. He
has already made overtures for the friendship
of the Italian King, who, it is said, is ready to
guarantee his personal safety in Rome. II
may be doubted whether he can guarantee
more than this. 1t may be that this is all
that the present Pope ia his extreme old age
will care to ask. When he passes away, as
he soon must, the future of the Papacy, as a
temporal power, must depend on the party
which may prevail in the election of a sue
cessor. Should Louis Napoleon succeed in
placing his Cardinal cousin in the Pontifcal
chair, he will doubtless send back his soldiers
to Rome, and again become responsible fol-