The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-03-08
The Occupation of Rome.

4no Ocoupal0n OF home.
We print to day brief but pun.
, gent address to the people and Gov
ernment of Italy, which is being circu
lated and rapidly signed. It has
been in contemplation since the grea,
meeting in New York to hold one
here, but after consultation the Bo:
ton mode of presenting the question
by means of a short document in wri.
ting, was thought preferable To
this all those who wish to encourage
the Italian Goyernpept 10. its efforts
to cultivate the people of Italy, to
| give them free education, the Bible,
and free religion, can put their
names.
None of these inestimable rights of
men can be secured to that suffering
people uuder the Roman Pontiffs,
who are now decided 10 be not only
infallible. but claim to be always the
same, yesterday, to-day, and forever.
There could, therefore, be no hope of
amelioration hereafter, under their
] Government. The bodies, the prop
erty and the souls of their subjects
were doomed to only use and purpose
the pleasure of the Church.
This address is an antidote to the
protest of the American Bishops the
other Romish clergy, and some of the
laity, made last December, against
the occupation of the papal States by
the King OF Italy. We published at
the time this violent and unparalleled
paper in the land every month during
the present year. We are told not
only in New York, a city over which
the Romish Archbishop is said to hold
political control, but in other cities,
and even here, there are politicians
who are in lergue with the bishops.
and sustain some of the monstrous
doctrines they have put forth.
of what avail say they. are our
penitentiaries, criminal statutes, and
courts of law, if brute force is made
the arbiter- of right; if tho robber,
the murderer, the incendiary, the vio-
lators of our homes, can justify their
atroctious crimes be an appeal to the
example of King and q nation of
robbe.s'
Thou shalt not steal thou shalt
not covet what is not thine own; these
violations of the law of God do not
constitute all the guilt of the Sardin.
ian robbers. Their crime is like that
of the Jews-a Decide being directed
against Christ himself, in the person
of his vicar on earth
The caption of the protest presents
it's substances In the bitt.rest and most
condensed form; in which the polit
cal elements is more clearly separated
from the spiritual than in the body
of that remarkable paper. The en-
ergy and the Catholic people of the
province Of Cincinnati protest against
the unjust and sacrilegious usurpation
and spoliation of the city of Rome.
the patrimony of st. Peter, and the
temporal possessions of our Holy aud
beloved Father Plus the Ninth, by
the wicked Piedmontese Government.
This wicked Pieamontese Govern
ment has in no manner interte red
with the c'spiritual or temporal power
of Plus the Ninth over the part of the
city wherein he resides, west Of the
Tiber, amounting to about one third
of Rome. 1t Includes st. Peters the
Vatican, and the castle or for. of st.
Angelo. Here he is offered full free
dom and that protection of his person
which for fifteen years he has not
been able to provide for himself. He
is exempt from taxes, and is paid by
this wicked Government three and
one quarter millions of francs annu,
ally. Napoleon the third had during
his power in France, protected the
same Plus Ninth against his own
people hya brigade of French troops
and when he was Obliged to withdraw
them, he stipulated with Victor Eman
uel, 10 give the same personal protec,
zion. OF Napolean the Bisnop says:
'We adore the act of God in, the
present position of Napoleon the
Third .--
The Government these Americen |
Bishops wish to have restored is thus
spoken of by one who resided thore
four out of the past ten years: 1T is
the most atrocious one in existence,
except that of Louis Bonaparte,
"A friend of mine was
arrested for attending on his wife to
a place Of Protestant worship, and
carried at night to the prison of the
Office X Il dared
not enter the house ofa Roman friend
for fear OF bringing on him domi-
ciliary visit X Two
Masonic brethren were hanged, for
no other offense than being Masons.'
\ Il can conceive no
torture worse than this terrible espion-
age, under which every patriotic Ro-
man lay.' x X The
Roman Government of my time is
the embodiment of the Papacy in the
middle ages, and had its rod over its
subjects as it always had
In the opinion of those who origin
ate this protest, it is sacrilege in the
Italians to throw off this heartless
despotism of the past ages continued {
into our own. 1t is sacrilege and rob-
berry to give these people either sym
pathy or assistance. the inference is I
unavoidable, that they believe the
civil government Of the Pope a good
,ne, or they are regardless of the in
,erests of his people. If it is a good
,ne there'it would be good here
Victor Emanuel and the reyolutionists
nave within the past ten years releas
ID nearly twenty-five millions OF Ital-
ans from church domination. Are
he wishes and the rights of these peo
,Ie to be thrown aside to oblige those I
.dvocates of religious tyranny p
Within that period the march of