The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-12-07


son for the appearance Of the rejoinder
Of the Holy Father to the insolent letter Of
Kaiser William, that it related to personal
matters, and in no way bearing upon the
relations of the Empire to the Church.
The contents of the letter, In spite of Bis
marck's vigilance, have leaked out, and |
the tone of the whitening reply to tho lame !
defence of Prussian Persecution, confirms |
the rumor that its contents were personal. !
It was the personality of this letter that
suggested secrecy. The recent publication !
of Marmora's book in which it was proved |
by diplomatic correspondence that Prussia |
intrigued with Victor Emmanuel against
the Pope, and urged most pertinaciously the
destruction of the temporal power az early
a. 1866, compelled the Emperor to withhold
this second letter Of Plus TX from the know
ledge of the world, In order to cover his
unscrupulous duplicity. The revelations
of Plus TX brand the Emperor of Germany
before the world as an infamous liar. The
imprisoned Pontif in few sentences lays
bare the tortuous course and hypocritical
need more than the astuteness of his advi-
ser Bismarck, to wriggle out of this charge
! of duplicity towards the Head Of the
Church. The precious documents which
Marmora has given to the world, and the
protests to which the Holy Father refers
very violence and seizure Of the Papal
States, which he was encouraging, have
unexpectedly risen like two evil spirits to
torment and humiliate him in the days of
his success. There is no loophole of es-
cape from his uncomfortable and disgrace
and we may add has rushed to its own
punishment. No one certainly ever had
more reason than the Emperor of Germany,
to regret the care with which Rome pre-
serves official papers-for they are wit
essagainst his masters which Bismarck can
49, fri rnfo cSla
They live and speak forever. We find in
the European journals this resume of the
second letter of the Pope to the Emperor
"What 1 feel in perusing your reply to
my letter is not surprise, but grief. You,
Sovereign, who formerly proclaimed your
ped to attack vanquished man, and a
prisoner.
? When reperuse all the documents which
have passed between the Court of Rome
and Berlin during the last ten years, my
, sadness increases tenfold. find the trans.
which you wrote at the time of the con.
, quest Of Rome you declared that nothing
could shake your confidence in the triumph
of the Church, and you pray to God tia
: he may take pity on my enemies who blind.
, ed by moment of pride, forget that al
, the thrones of earthly kings may crumble
except that which is founded by Christ"
We are inclined to think that hangbty
William, even the stolid. stoical Bismarck
must have WINGED at this aiiusion to tn,
) friendly message, which they sent to tn
prisoner of the Vatican, whose dethrone
3 ment they had planned and whose chain
, that had helped to rivet. The hand of tn
Holy Father has reproduced the ''piou
? William" of the battle field, performing
I religious antics, that the world might for
, get or fail to see his brutality. "If nothin
' can shake his confidence in the Church" a
9 he wrote three years ago, his method c
: exhibiting that confidence is of all thing
9 the most nnintelligible. since he has turne
all the power of his Empire against tha
a Church. According to his own confessio
t he has involved himself in a profitless con
4 test. He writes himself down q fool q
v we'll as hypocrite. No one need be toll
Il the sincerity and honesty of the good VIII
O liam, who gave the possession of Rome t.
q Victor Emmanuel, while he was prayin
= that God might take pity on the blinded
e robber and show mercy to him. Pecksnlt
J. perfect as was thy role of Hypocrisy, tho
If hast been outdone by thy royal pupil. I'll
"a Manichean doctrine has been revived
l. Germauy-in it's Emperor is centred az
l. equally balanced the worship of God ar
v the devil.-C Cincinnati Telegraph.
10 The London correspondent Of the Dubl