The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-10-23
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1t 10 amusing, at the same time that 1t il
really pitiable, to SEQ how the drowning
Professionalism Of this day catches st strawa
to sustain it's hopes for q little while longer.
The latest god-send to it in the way o
big straw is the capture Of Rome. and
especially the result of the plebiscitum.
This is treated as conclusive proof that
the people Of that city know the Pope too
well, and can't be hnmbugged like those at
distance. From that conclusion it is but
one step to another, namely, that France,
Spain, ETC., are finding him out too. That
our readers may see Of what stuff Protest
ant logic is made, and what kind Of intol-
cradle trash is permitted to I'LL their
columns, we insert the following, which is
found worthy to circulate through their
press:
sIasIE1cANr.-The people Of Rome have
with the kingdom of Italy in other words,
against being any longer left under the tenn
poral rule of the Pope. This shows the respect
In which his Holiness is held by oseAnearest
the throne, and who know best the character
of his government. They have about the same
respect for his infallibility, and his Jesuitical
NOuuCll u8y as we'll DlOC OUT It's record anu 0l6-
perse fnallv. It may do to set him up for the
veneration Of the people at distance, but it's
Of no use in Rome, where he is known.
are rapidly coming to right
to him longest and most obsequiously are fail
ing him. Spain, aud Austria, and France are
breaking away from the spell Of superstition
in which they have been heidi Providence is
90 disposed. The world is moving, and in no
other respect 30 manifestly as from all darkness
Of the middle ages.-Uaited Presbytersan.
In the first place the people of Rome
have not voted almost unanimously, as
stated. An immense number of them alb
stained from making children of them
selves by taking part in the farce of a
popular vote that was enacted. Secondly,
those who voted Tor Italy did so under cir
cumstances thst The people of New Orleans
understand very we'll and know how to
appreciate. A ballot-box surrounded with
bristliDg bayonets, and mob of drunken
soldiery and their sympathizers for voters,
are not for us very significant of any thing
but brute force and hypocritical pretense
This election, however, is assumed to be
the most conclusive condemnation of the
Pope as a temporal ruler, and that con-
demnation, by stroke of logical sagacity,
is extended to his spiritual supremacy.
The people object to his temporal rule, and
therefore "they have about the same re-
spect for his infallibility." Inasmuch as
the connection of these propositions is
somewhat obscure, it might have been as
we'll to clear it up little. The Jews of old
time voted against being ruled by the
Judges appointed by the Almighty himself,
therefore they rejected the spiritual author
ity which the Almighty had also placed
over them. This would be about a similar
train of argument.
Now, surprising that the people of Rome
hate the Pope and scoff at his spiritual
pretensions, what does that provef ga
prophet is not without honor save in
his own country" If the people of his
own country should have failed to re-
cognize the prerogatives of the Sovereign
Pontiff, and to discover the virtues of
his august Office, it would only be o re-
petition of what happened to our Divine
Saviour himself. We cannot imagine,
however, why the people of Rome or
of Italy should be esteemed more compe-
tent judges than others of these matters
is as vital in one part of the
world as another, and the Papal system is
the same in New Orleans that it is in Rome.
1t is merely the person of the Pope that is
better known there than elsewhere.
But this sweeping inference as to the
Roman people is kept in countenance by
extending it to the French, Spaniards and
Austrians. They are "coming to a right
appreciation of the Pope" too. They are
IS breaking away. from the spell of super
stition in which they have been held"
Now events have transpired within the
past few months which might give color
TO these conclusions for persons who don't
take the trouble to inquire for themselves
The ingenious journals of Professionalism
take advantage of these events to publish
as facts statements which really have not a
shadow of truth in them, but which serve
their purpose of keeping up little longer
the blindness Of their. dupes and the i'm
portapce of failing heresy in the estima-
ton of the over-credulous.
Spain, France and Austria, they say, are
at length finding out the Pope and desert
ing him, This is utterly false, yet 1t is
given color by the fact that revolutions
Of some kind have certainly taken place in
those countries. Spain has thrown off
Isabella, and therefore the Pope. Monarchy