Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-12-18
CHURCH AND STATE.
Letter Of tho Emperor of GermaBy to the
Archbishop Of eaIOgHs-Ths Catholic
Bishops of Prussia RebRked-Equsl Re-
llgiOus Rights Promised to all.

Venerable ATcRbisbOp-In the petit
ton signed and addressed to me on
the 7th instant, by your eminence
and other bishops, measures with re-
gard to education which my govern
conformity with existing laws are de-
signated as an attack upon the most
cherished convictions OF the faith of
the church, as restraint openly i'm
posed upon conseienees, and your
eminence, in consequence, believes
yourself bound to make solemn pro-
test against the possible enproach-
ments on the domain Of the faith and
the rights Of the Catholic church.
After tke fact that it has hitherto
and at all times been recognized by
the bishops of the Catholic church,
and chiefly by his holiness, the pope,
that the church has almost in no
other country enjoyed so favorable a
position a5 in Prussia, l was sur
prised to find in the petition of the
Prussian bishops merely an echo of
the language by which it has been at
tempted, by means of the press, to
shake the just confidence hitherto
awarded by my Catholic subjects to
my government.
Your eminence is aware that 10
change has been made in the legisla-
ton which has hitherto met with the
appreciation of the Catholic episco-
pate, and the petition does not cite
any law in particular which has not
been observed by my government. II,
on the contrary, events have taken
place in the interior of the Catholic
church, IN consequence OF which the
present satisfactory relations OF the
Church with the State seem threaten
ed with some change, am far from
believing myself authorized to pro-
nounce Judgement on questions OF
dogmatic order and relative to these
same events. The missi. n of my gov
eminent will rather consist in finding,
by means OF the legislature, legal
solution OF the conflicts recently arisen
between the civil and ecclesiastic au-
thOrities In case these conflicts could
not be avoided. Until that takes
place In the constitutional way, it is
for me to maintain the existing laws
and protect, in case OF necessity, every
Prussian in the enjoyment OF his
rights. l leave 1t to my government
to reply TO the reproaches addressed to
1t by your eminence and the bishops.
had hoped that the powerful ele-
ment5 of the Catholic church, which
in former times opposed the national
moYementled by Prussia, would now,
after the legal organization Of the Ger
man empire and in the interest OF the
State, lend it their voluntary support,
The benevolent terns in which his
holiness the pope welcomed by a
writing in his own hand the recon-
strgctien of the empire made me hope
so. But even II that hope should not
be realized, no disappointment on
that ground would ever prevens rae
froIn watching that full and entire
liberty should be secured in the pres
ent aud future to every religious be-
lief in my States, in conformity with
the rights aud the equality Of all b.
fore the lay,
Certain OF fulfilling conscientiously
my royal duties, and OF being just to
all, shall not allow the confidence /
have put in my Catholic subjects to be
shaken, and ana convinced that this
coincidence ID reciprocal and durable.
Requesting your eminence to COM
municate my answer to the other
signers Of the petition, I remain, etc.
WILLIAM.
BERLIN, e.tOber 1S. 1s7l.
Evidently there is some mistake In
the poetical and pathetic statement
about the man who was
a-found
Half buried by faithful hound"
If the hound only alf-buried his mas
ter, he was hardly 'faithful" to the
business. He would have done more
by bone.
A Wisconsin man was taken danger.
ously sick. He sent for his wife to
come at once and care for him. Now
the wife's mother was sick too, and
she sent this dispatch to her langIish-
ing husband: "Dear Tim, mother Is
sick; / can't leave her. Do the best
you can. If you die, send your body
hOpne.u