The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-12-06
NE ROLE To THE EMPERoR.

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his own comments
THE POPE To THE EMPEROR.
VATICAN, August 9TH, 1S73-Your Majesty-The
measures which have been adopted by your Majesty's
Government for some time past all aim more and
more at the destruction of Catholicism. When L seri-
ously ponder over the causes which may have led to
these very harsh measures, l confess that L am una
bic to discover any reason for such 4 course. On the
other hand, l am informed that your Majesty does
not countenancet the proceedings of your Government,
does not approve of the harshness of the measures
adopted against the Catholic religion. If, then, it be
true that your Majesty does not approve thereof (and
the letter which your gracious Majesty addressed to
me formerly might sufficiently demonstrate that you
cannot approve that which is now occurring if, 1
say, your Majesty does not approve of your Govern
ment continuing in the path it has chosen-of fur
Their extending its rigorous measures against the
religion of Jesus Christ-whereby the latter is most
injuriously affected, will your Majesty then not
become convinced that these measures have no other
effect than that of undermining your Majesty's own
throne? speak with frankness, for my banner is
truth. 1 speak in order to fulfill one of my doctrines.
which consists in telling the truth to all, even to
those who are not Catholics, for every one who has
been baptized belongs in some way or other to the
Pope, which to define more precisely would be here
out of place; belongs, l say, to the Pope.
| cherish the conviction that your Majesty will re-
ceive my observations with your usual goodness, and
will adopt the measures necessary in the present case.
While Offering your most gracious Majesty the ex-
preston of my devotion and esteem, L pray God that
w may tuIOllI YOUR N1hlGSly anu uySGlI III u anu
the same bond of mercy. PIUs.
THE ESPERoR's ANSWER.
BERLIN, Sept. 81 am glad your Holiness has, as
in former times, done me the honor to write to me. l
rejoice more at this since an opportunity is thereby
afforded me Of correcting errors which, as appears
from the contents Of the letter of your Holiness, of
the 9Th of August, must have occurred in the COM
munications you have received relative TO German
affairs. If the reports which are made to your Holt
ness respecting German questions only stated the
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entertain the supposition that my Government enters
upon a path which l do not approve. According to
the Constitution of my State, such a case could not
happen, since all laws and Government measures in
Prussia require my consent. A portion of my Cath
Ole subjects have organized, for the past two years, q
political party, which endeavored to disturb, by in
trigues, the State and religious peace which has ex-
listed in Prussia for centuries. Leading Catholic
priests, have unfortunately, not only approved this
movemen but have joined it to the extent of open
revolt against existing laws. 1t will not have escaped
the observation of your Holiness that similar indica-
tons manifest themselves at the present time in
several European and some transatlantic States. 1t
is not my mission to investigate the causes by which
the clergy and the faithful Of one of the Christian
denominations can be induced actively to assist the
enemies of all law; but it is certainly my mission to
protect the internal peace and preserve the authority
Of the laws IN States where government has been in
trusted TO me. To God l am conscious that l owe
hereafter an account of the accomplishment of this
my kingly duty. l shall maintain order and law in
my States against all attacks, so long as God gives
me power. | am in duty bound to do it, as a Chris
tan monarch, even when to my sorrow Ihave to full
fill this royal duty against the servants of q church,
which, L suppose, acknowledge no less than the
Evangelical Church, that the commandment of obe-
dience to secular authority is an emanation of the
revealed viii Of God. Many of the priests in Prussia,
subject to your Holiness, disoYn, 10 my regret, the
Christian doctrine in this respect, and place my Gov
eminent under the necessity, supported by 4 great
majority of loyal Catholics and Evangelical subjects,
Of compelling obedience to the law by worldly means.
l entertain the hope that your Holiness, upon being
informed Of the true position of affairs, will use your
authority to put an end TO the agitation carried on
amid the deplorable distortion of truth, and abuse of
priestly authority. The religion of Jesus Christ has,
i attest TO your Holiness, before God, nothing to DO
with these ~intrigues, any more than has the truth, to
whose banner, invoked by your Holiness, l unre-
servedly subscribe.
These is one more expression in the letter of your
Holiness which | cannot pass over without contradic-
ton, although ii Is not based upon previous informa-
ton, but upon the belief of your Holiness, namely
the expression that every one that has received bap-
belongs to the Pope. The Evangelical Greed,
which, rs must be known to your Holiness, l, like my
and the majority Of my subjects, profess,
does not permit us to accept in our relations TO God
any other mediator than our Lord Jesus Christ.
of belief does not prevent me from living
in peace with those who do not share mine, and
offering your Holiness the expression of my personal
devotion and esteem. WILLIAM.
MORE CONTROVERSY.
The London Times, of Oct. 18th, publishes a note
from Archbishop Manning, enclosing an extract from
3 German journal, in which it is stated that the
Pope has written a second letter to the German En-
peror, and that his letter had been given to the
public