The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-09-18
Triumphant Logic.

Tpolitics fixed and certain, hut the subsiding of
eoe infallible Pope. He will probably be PEN
stoned by the Government, and will form one
OF the APPENDICES of the court and capital OF
It is q terrible sarcasm on the blessedness of
Romsh government, that tho Italians, deter
mined to take Rome, should Nevertheless an
nounce that if the Romans are willing to vote
in favor of having the Pope as civil ruler,
they will accept tho result. When the Roman
people repudiate tho Pope, it would seem that
the cup of the Papacy is filed to the brim.
Thus farthe New Orleans Presbyterian.
AS we do not recognize the gift of
prophecy in our neighbor and the stale
prediction which it ventilates again is as
old as Professionalism, we shall not pause to
dwell upon it's pretensions. The Pope may
possibly lose his temporal power some of
these days, but we see no special proba-
bility of it now more chan on many other
occasions when the powers of darkness
ragged against him. God frequently evokes
protectors and protection in most unlocked
for quarters. "a,
The impregnable logic of the above effu-
sion, however, is really worthy of comment.
The plain English of it is this. The
Italians are about to take Rome. They
announce their willingness to yield it to
the Holy Father if the Romans themselves
should vote to that effect, and this willing
ness on their part is s'terrible sarcasm"
This means, of course, that the Italians
are certain of carrying the majority at the
ballot box and therefore make the offer.
But what an attitude is this in which to
place the dear Italian Gov eminent. A de-
liberate swindle, betting on a certainty; a
mere sham and pretence of magnanimity !!
Suppose, however, that it is a sarcasm
and the Pope would be outvoted, that the
Roman people should repudiate him."
how would that fill his cup or prove ahght
against the excellence of his government ?
We all know the fickleness of mob. We
know that the whole Jewish people set up
Il golden calf and worshiped it just after
the most stupendous interposition of the
true God in their favor. Why should not
Roman populace, or the majority of it,
Italian Capital2 We know that-the jew
isl people got tired of their Judges, rulers
chosen by the Almighty himself, and pre-
ferrcd kings, much to the displeasu re of
God. Why might not another chosen peo-
pie grow tired of justice and simplicity,
preferring the tinseled splendor and the
corruption of Il royal court +? For thirty
three years the people of Judea witnessed
the virtue and beneficence of Christ, yet
they voted for desperate criminal in
preference to him and condemned him to
death
The Roman people may be blinded, like
the prodigal son, to their rea! welfare
and prosperity. They may be tired of the
tranquility andpeacefulnesso ftheir present
paternal government and long to take part
in the tumultuous excitement of national
wars and politics. They may sigh after
the husks of royal splendor and worldly
glory. Ambition is not always depressed
in the human heart by paternal kindn ess,
nor it's flattery rejected for substantial
advantages. If Rome should prefer being
the capital of Italy to that of the Papal
States, it will not be the first time that a
people have been deluded by splendid ap-
pearances and led to sacrifice "a solid
reality. 1t will not take them long to re-
pent.
! But we are not at all satisfied that the
real Roman people, untrammeled in their
choice, will vote for Italy. Certainly the
more intelligent and better conditioned
portion of the population cannot be ex-
pected to do so. What result may be OBJ
tanned by violence and fraud, by intimi-
dating some, and bribing others, i'll fact by
all the appliances of demagogues and ty-
rants to control elections, of course, we
cannot say.
Certain Professionals are always ready to
triumph at every misfortune of the Pope
and recognize in it the reprobation by Pro-
violence of the Papacy. But what if the
| Pope is driven out of Rome and loses for
the time his temporal dominion Does
that show logically that he is not the law
full and infallible head of the Christian
Church7 We fail to see the connection.
Some of our Presby terian friends were, we
say it to their credit, strenuous Con-
federates, did the result of the war convict
them of wrong7 Is not history full of
successful usurpations and prosperous in
EQUITY Has not heroism often met over
throw and death, in the defence of inno-
cenceP How n man protesting Christianity
cnn see the Reproduction of a cause in its
defeat at one point, or read the verdict of
eternal Justice in the result of a popular
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