The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-01-13

their acquiescence. It is only true that they
give up some rights for The good Of the
world at large just az the citizens of the
District OF Columbia are debarred Of cer-
tain privileges that other people Of the
/. United States enjoy, In order that the seat
OF government may be free from the infll-
| ence Of State governments.
no FEARS FOR THE CHURCH.
1t may be asked, "Have you any fears
for the church," We answer, NO"
: Is no new thing. Since the 4th century this
| thing has been going on, with brief inter-
missions. Popes have been imprisoned,
| strancled, poisoned, or driven into retire
ment, but the Church has always been tri-
umphant, and the kings and emperors who
have sought its overthrow have always met
| dastard's fate.
WOLF IN SLEEPS CLOTHING.
| Victor Emanuel, wolf in sleeps clio.
| thing, protesting to kiss the cross and slip
per, takes advantage of the fact that the
defender Of the faith is overthroWn and
Catholic France, under the iron heel of the
upstart Of Prussia, goes to Rome, like
coward, to take possession OF the Eternal
City and make prisoner of the Sovereign
| Pontitr-all under the pretence Of making
Italy united kingdom. Is there man
| whose breast does not burn with indigna:.
| lion at such an outrage? United kingdom
| 1t is but dream. As soon as this puppet
Of king disappears from the stage the
| Red Republicans will come forth like the
| locusts of Egypt, and devour the substance
of the land. 1t will then appear that TINS
is movement instigated by infidels for the
establishment of
| REPUBLIC WITHOUT GOD
| But, the speaker repeated. there is no fear
for the Church. AS Catholic he had
! Catholics faith in the word of the Pope,
and believed him when he said that his tenn
| poral sovereignty was indispensably neces-
sary for his spiritual independence. Victor
Emanuel will be foiled, the iufdels and So
cialists will be scattered as chatf before the
wind, and the great head of the Church
will again be vinIcated before the world:
Meantime let us-all good Catholics anu all
who love justice-on bended knees beslege
the throne Of the Almighty, and remember
that the prayer Of faith cannot fail OF an
answer.
Speech of Mr. DOoley.
Mr.. James II. Dooley then came forward
lutons in remarks of which we present an
abstract:
Rising to second the adoption Of the
resolutions offered by the chairman of your
committee, the question not unnaturally
presents itself to my mind: Why is it
that this multitude of people are collected
in this holy House Of God? Why is it
that lavmen assume in this sacred place
the grave and unaccustomed responsibility
of raising their voices in the presence OF
the Most High, where erst We're heard but
the solemn tones of the Lords anointed
| singing His holy praises, or the voices OF
His consecrated Priests, eXpounding the
doctrines of Christ to his people? Why is
it, that each electric wave that flashes
across the great Atlantic brings to us fresh
tidings of mighty and unWonted gatherings
Of our Catholic brethren, in their places OF
worship I'LL over the known world, where
ever the Church OF Christ has sent forth the
teachers Of the nations wherever she has
advanced His banner. to gather under its
Iall-saving and protecting folds the leglons
of the soldiers of the Cross? We, the
Catholics of Richmond, are assembled in
with no vain or worldly purpose. We
are gathered here as our resolu-
tons indicate, to lift up our voices in
common with our Catholic brethren
throughout the universe, in earnest and
solemn protest against the most glaring
wrong, the most atrociouS outrage, OF mod
crn tlmeS-the robbers march on Rome
the invasion of the Holy City-the sacrile-
gious seizure of the capital city of Christs
kingdom upon earth by the ruffian bands OF
Victor Emmanuel, the perjured Piedmont
ese King, who had sworn to respect the
Majesty OF Rome, who had bound himself
by solemn oath and treaty never to assall
the Pope.
This same royal perjurer, who had for
lmerlv seized upon the countries of the
| soyereigns of Tuscany and Parma, Modena
and Naples, has now, without the lightest
| provocation, without any cause Of war,
| without even the ordinary form of de-
| claration OF war, asSailed the oldest mon
archv in the world; dethroned the most
venerable king on the face of the earth-a
kim who, holding his dominions by the
voice of his people and the prescriptive right
of Il thousand years, had never gained one
| foot OF territory at the cost Of one drop OF
! the peoples blood; sovereign OF whom
AL history tells us what wars he averted,
what bloodShed he stayed, what wrongs he
redressed, what principles he enforced OF
Justice, right, and mercy. How shocked
the European mind is, or pretendS to be, at
| the lax morality of Prussian monarch
who might be supposed to dream OF annex
ing to his dominions the neutral States OF
| Holland, Belgium, or Luxembourg. How
grand is the virtuous indignation Of Eng
| Iishmen at the lawlesSness and pertidy Of a
Russian Car who would invade the unbe-
lievlng Turks, seize Constantnople, and
make it the capital OF his mighty Eastern
Empire.
And yet now, if we listen, we shall hear
these alrant hypocrites applaud this inva-
sion and seizure of Rome, the most unpro-
voked, the most ubiquitous, perpetrated in
| Europe since the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Po-
land. So far, ut least Europe looks on
with eQuanimity at this most fragrant
outrage upon public right and international
law. If l may be permitted to say it, so
much the worse for Europe. Isnot Europe
paying the penalty to-day for its plaudits
of clever dishonesty, successful rapacity,
invasion, and annexation, committed ten
wears ago in Italy under the name OF Ca
| vourism? We all remember the appearance
| of Count CavOur in Italy some fifteen years
ago-a man whose name has been since
used in history to characterize Il system OF
bare and subtle cunning, treacherous plot
| tings, adroit and plausible accomplishment
| of pertidious invasion. Count Cavour was
successful, and Europe lauded his cunning.
| If any denounced the scandalous immoral
| ity of his schemes Of plumber, men shouted
| down the absurd consideration, and Eu-
rope gloritied Cavourism.
say that Europe is now atoning in fire
and blood for that gloritication Of the de-
| structon of the standards of justice and
morality. For if Cavourism had given a
Kingdom of Italy to Victor Emmanuel,
why should not Bismarck give u German
Empire to Frederick William of Prussia
There was needed but the same system
the same tactics: secret preparation. sud
den war, violent and Overwhelming inva.