Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-26
ERiaEcipated Italy.
From the Clevsllni Herald.

rom tue NlSNst-tnl herald
The meeting in New York. on the
evening of the 18th, II express sym
pa,hy with united Ita'y; was one of
the finest, in point OF numbers and
character, that has ever c0ngreated
in this country. The meeting was
called for all such as sympathize with
the right of people to self govern
ment, but it was entirely stunned by
Democratic politicians who dared
not incur the wrath of their Roman
Catholic adherents, by appearing to
be opposed to the temporal sover-
eighty o.: the Pope.
This exhibition of Democracy is
one OF the most degraded admissions
that party has ever made. The very
name of their organization signify
ing the government by the people,
and yet they dare not raise a voice
in favor of the people of Rome who,
with overwhelming emphasis, have
declared against temporal one man
power.-Democrats ignoring the
very name of Democracy, aud giving
their support to an absolute Mon
archy
Will the example of New York be
followed! Wherever there is .
Roman Priest has there been a meet
ing and a remonstrance against the
dethronement of the Pope. Will
the American peoble be content that
but single voice he heard in rebuke
of the universal Roman Catholic sen
tjment? We are fully aware that the
mighty fell Of European strife has
engrossed public attention, and that
amid the din of arms aud the carnage
of war the quite dethronement of the
Pope has excited but little attention.
And yet under other circumstances
it would have interested the whole
world. The quite manner in which
the throne slipped out from beneath
the Pope, only showed how slippery
was his seat. So slippery that he had
to be held upon it The moment he
was let alone, his temporal power
departed.
There are more reasons than one
why meetings OF symprthy for united
Italy shot uld be held all over the land
Not the least reason is tha. such
meetings may teach the Roman Cath
olIc laity, who have blindly followed
Priestly dictations, how great an
offense they have comm itted against
their adopted land. The great mass
of those who marched through our
city the other day, sought this coun-
try because here every man has a
voice in the government of affairs,
and because the will of The majority
governs And yet with the flag OF
the free waving over their heads they
denounce the people of the Papal
States as usupers: Did those men
reflect that they deny To the Italians
that which they claim for themselves
here-the right OF government
W hat an exhibition was that when
full-gro wn men, counted by hundreds
marched thron9h our streets to testi-
ty that they are in faypr of a govern
ment held in place by the bayonet
Ask any one of those men if he be-
ileves in the right of the people to
govern, and unless he resentS the
question as an insult, will give an en-
phatic yes" And yet every man
who marched in that procession pa
raded himself as an enemy of Repub
jicanisn and religious liberation.
OF course that was not intended.
But that was the fact, nevertheless,
and they should be shown, by count
er effort, that iii thus yielding to the
Priests they committed preat po-
Iitical sin.
We war not against mons relig- |
ion, but We do war against Friestly |
dictation. The saddest sight ever
presented in our streets was that pa
raded in favor of the Pope's temporal
authority. Ii should sLir public sen
tement to the bottom, for il the right |
of the Pope, rs successor of st. Peter,
to govern any portion OF Italy is
conceded, his right 20 govern the |
world must also be acknowledged |
Taxing that demonstration in our
streets the other day as an honest
advocscy of principle, and every
man engaged in it, believes the Pope
bas the same devine right to govern
the United States that he has to gov
ern Rome.