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

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N. Theirs, In his speech before the Re |
publican Assembly in l649, spoke as fol-
lows: Catholic unity, which requires Ger
tain religious submission on the part OF
Christrihn nations, would be unacceptable
If the P0ntifR, who is.the depositary OF 1T,
were not completely independent; II; IN
assigned to him, and in which all nations
have maintained him, another sovereign,
prince or people, were to arise and dictate
laws to him. There can be no independence
for the P0atifcate ercept II, souersignty stsey
There !. 2 primary interest aon'ch oughs TO
as IN TIE State public interest should altcays
take precedsaes Of private. 1t would au-
thorizo Catholic Powers to re- establish Plus
TX. on his Ponfafcal throne
know it has been said that, were the Pope
dethroned, he would still DO independent.
According TO my ideas, the Pope without
throne scoasJd beso longer free. No nation
would accept the authority Of Rome be-
come dependent, or even suspected of being
so. Unity Of government would be broken;
the remnantssof that authority would be
transported for Spain to Toledo; for France
to Paris /; for Austria to Prague, or Gran,
q It would Indeed, be strange solution
Of the Roman question for tho friends of
liberty to see religious authority trans
ported to Paris. For my owr part have
had the honor Of knowing almost all the
Prelates who have filed the Archiepiscopal
See of Paris in our own time. l had even
the honor Of nominating the one who
died on the barbados in ls48. profess
for each of them, on account of their eieva-
ton Of character, their virtues, their
talents, the profoundest respect, and yet 1
never should have wished to sec any one
Of them the Headgofthe Catholic Church in
France, and tell you why. Because the
Tuileriey;M0Aldbe too close to Notre Dame.
Now for the question, Will the pope, If do
throned, cease to be indepshdentf Allow
me to recall TO you some Words. OF, history,
and to make as rapid q, sketch as l may OF
the Latin and Oriental Churches.
~You 1kro~-and history is always to
me this most powerful of all teachers-you
all know how ancient Rome became Chris
tian fifteen centuries ago. 1t happened one
day that, after having conquered the world;
that is to say, in the time of Lucretius,
Cicero and Cesar, Rome found all the gods
of the Empire united at the Capitol. When
they were all thus assembled, merely be-
cause they were thus brought into presence
of each other, they disappeared! Then, in
the vastness of the Roman Empire, emptied
Ct the false gods appe aps ,hs ops
arrangement of Divine Proridence, the
smallest of the nations whose >spoils had
been brought to the Capitol, the nation OF
Christ, was recompensed for having thought
more wisely than all the others on the great
subject of the unity Of God was recon
throne of the world, by the side of Con
stantine the Great. Upon tho rights Of the
Romans, NJ. Theirs spoke as follows: his
words have but q partial application fol-
the plebiscite has been but deceit and a
mockery, and the immense mass OF the no.
, mana are faithful to tho Holy See. M
Theirs says:
"The rights of the Romans! 1t is, If no
the greatest, at least one of the most i'm
portant aides of this question. or course
know that that part of the Aonan popula
ton most active in i'll Manifestations 10 no
= at this moment favorable 20 sne rope. put
+ one must never take people ~ their wore
:; who are in the midst of y Revolution. Thu
i state of Revolution 10 fevsrish state, ant
8 certainly shall not offend Italy, particu
larly the Romans, if 1 compare Italy tx
). our beloved France. We'll, then, il sine
: had been taken at her word, she wonl
= eften have been in sore embarrassment
u When in 1872 she proclaimed the republi
to be one, indivisible and imperlshaole
could we have taken her as her word
. When wearied out by the agisassens OF tn
@ Republic, she threw herself ~ tAs fses
the young General Bonaparte, Prenlein
him allegiance for ever, should she the
VI have been taken at her words And wheI
l. in 1914, she returned to the family OF he
: ancient kings, attributing all her misfol
n tunes to her having separated from them
Q and when, year later, she said that the
It return was but the result of violence use
l. against her by Europe, and that she onl
l. wished in fine for Napoleonj and whe
d one hundred days after that she again II
l. turned to the House Of Bourbon; ar
1t again in 1880, not having succeeded IN g
X tablinhinq constitutional monarchy upt
r. the elder branch, she tried to found 1T up,
z the Younger; and when again in lS4o, 81
ID proclaimed a second time and for ever,
l. Renublic. on which of all these days lou
il. she have been taken at her w@ro "A
ne nuredly in urging this / do not wish
ce accuse my own country alone of lnstaoil'
ty if look at the history of wiser England
m find exactly the same contradictions, a
g. can therefore draw but one conclusion, u
ed the declarations of people in revoiutl
IA can never be trusted. While then the /
ter mans cry out, Our rights! our rights
he do not wish for the Pope My reply
~, them is, 1 appeal from Philip drunk
lts Philip sober! At all events would
ta- this to them What is your rightf An )
there is one grant you, that OF being
governed it is the right OF all natlo
ora Undoubtedly when you ask for reform
at are right, and regret that the Pope, in
in difficult position in which he is, sho
the have been unable to accomplish all
M Won demand. Yes, you assuredly nave
hit right to be we'll governed: but modify
life a government is a widely different I'll
in from giving oneself over to neIghool
State. Therefore, gentlemen, the 'r1gh