The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-11

clio clergy.
Cabinet Arguments OF the Chancellor.
Prince Bismarck outlined the main points Of his
speech the Prussian people by the publication OF
remarkable article on the subject OF the Pontifca
position Of Rome in his press organ, the Ndttona!
zsSsun0 OF Berlin. This production goes on to
say
II curse and ban possessed an immediate magi-
cal ageEcy-i the cOnjuror of the Vatican could let
ay the little stone that would smash the Colossus
the oppressed Church would change itself into
triumphal one, and that In the proximate future.
Never have more objurgations fallen from the lips
no State with which he has not fallen out. He has
solemniy cursed the fundamental laws OF
81 war With vi ta ns
c0nspires against the constitution at pres
snt obtaining in France; his anathema has
fallen upon Spanish arrangements; several years
have elapsed since he expelled the Russian Envoy
with violence from his Court; such matters, even
at least during the last three centuries. me I'M
Outstanding must accommodate itself to many in
UIu4ce nsed has sep 0I to it's Men pon
through the vagaries of Pope, help has always
been hard at hand. The SAVER Death has appeared
and has bundled OF the old c0njurOr and, inspired
by the Holy Ghost, the Conclave has raised 10 the
seat Of the Apostle Prince man OF dametrcally
exactly ft the present condition of the world Not
the temporarily, but the Church itself Is fallen,
through syllabus anu dogma OF inlallollty
fien than under the Pontidcate Of the fhir.
lteenth Clement. 1t was, considering the
most fatal OF all the Roman stupidites to insist
npon the proclamation OF these theories. 1t was
thought about them; We who do not belong to
her. were insulted by the impertinence with which
nn od aad % our ms
graphs OF his syllabus, to curse that which he es
teemed holy. and to assume to himself, in the para
graphs of his ianrasttcal dogma, lordship over
Us. WOrdiness culture, the State itself, were cha
tenged with an intrepidity only equalled by the
calamity calamity ~w when the opponent Of infallibility
those eighty-lO men who had in all preliminary
meetings declared themselves against the procla.
nation Of the dogma quilted Rome before the
decisive vote OF the Council, abandoning their flag
In the most cowardly manner, the bark or
plainly manifest that those who sat in it were no
martyrs, but hrelings then society, half ipcredu-
General Council Of Catholic Christendom there was
not one conscientious man to stand up and say,
Here stand; can DO no other; God help me
lic hierarchy. The infalble Pope Plus TX. was, in
lS49, the ideal of the Italian liberals whom to-day
he curses. The transformation which the world
then hoped for at the hands Of the Roman Catholic
Church already cast widely before 1t its majestic
nadow wherefore seoeas from ,t Church which n
S ana a Syllabus ns the non
necessary to prove that between modern
society and RENE nothing real or durable can exist
driven to take up that position which, l,5oo years
egs, perishing heathendom occupied with regard
e 80 Il Is the relo cn0a
dispose OF the secular arm in her SERVICE and the
night OF ignorance best'rouded the world, her
TO burn dssdents The conflict in which we are
now engaging IN Germany derives the desperation
pr its character only from the fact that the State
has too long favored and furthered the aggressions
pr the Church. The liberals over-estimate
ss strength OF their In the END hs
npOn that territory the Jesuits, ghosty as well as
worldly with all their dogmas and the miracles OF
grief
the Roman Catholic Bishops to the
German Crown.
Ashort time ago the Archbishops Of Cologne and
Posen, in their own name as well as on behalf OF
the other Roman Catholic Bishops Of Prussia, pre-
sented a memorandum on the impending eccle-
Biastical legislation to the German imperial gov
ernment, in which they said
His Majesty's government have just submitted to
the Landtag OF the monarchy several bills trespass
Ing upon sphere legitimately belonging to the
Church, and deeply Affecting the internal life OF
Catholicism. Even had not, in accordance with
with our lnalienable rights and the actual egisa-
and Church from time immemorial been
ordered by mutual agreement, the Prussan
Bishops might have expected that they would
opinion upon BILLS affecting the Catholic
Church prior to their submission to Parlia-
would then have been in position to endorse
clauses OF the bills question, while others
might have been referred to The Holy see and per-
,haps amended and sanctioned by 1t. But mas
much as these bills, albiet severely wounding the
!ife Of the Catholic Church, have been framed by
arrangement or negotiation with the legitimate
ecclesiastical authorities, all that remains for is
to formally and solemny protest against any OF
their clauses violating the natural acquired
rights OF tie Catholic Church or preJudicia to the
liberty Of conscience and the right Of freely pro,
Kingdom. We likewise formally and solemnly pro-
test against any laws to be issued in future based
upon the above bills. We now beg to offer
some detailed remarks, which as we are
pressed for tune and cannot now ex-
the right OF supplementing by future argument
and reasonings. we then declare that, in accord
ance with the Catholic creed, which being based
ally accept and believe in. and are entitled so 10
accept and believe in, because our liberty OF con-
again, with our natural rights and the laws or
reason in accordance, moreover, with the histOri-
na a te Sc Of e S IN
dom, which when incorporated with Prussia were
by different Kings solemnly guaranteed the luli
Church, In accordance with former agreements
concluded between the Apostolic See and the
Prussian Crown, or the Apostolic See and the
belonging to this monarchy; In accordance,
TOO. with the Papal DEGREES issued in consequence
OF these agreements; in accordance, lastly, with
the clauses OF the Prussian charter, guaranteeing
the rights OF the Catholic Church, well AS OF the
other more important Christian denominations,
the Catholic Church in Prussia possesses the in
al1enable and invisate right to manage It's own
affairs by is own legitimate organs in all matters
OF faith AMI morals. as well Of organization, ad.
minlstration and discipline. The primary and
most essential right OF every Catholic diocese and
individual niember OF the Church Is the right to
belong to that Church whose head il the Pope, and
20 maintain an identity Of faith and Keep up
-stant and eiiectual connection with His Holiness,
who, under the Catholic religion, is by virtue OF
hls diviney appointed "a, once, the supreme pastor
and all its several parts. The second and
no less essenta! right Of every Catholic do
cese and individual Is the right to be governed
In religious and ecclesiastical things by no one ex-
cept by their legitimate ecclesiastical superiors-
that Is. the bishops lawfully subject to the Pope;
those superiors, according to our Catholic faith,