The Hawaiian gazette., 1873-12-17
HAWAIIAN GAZETTE
The German Emperor and the Pope.

NEW oRK, october Zetn.-f ouoWlng
is the text of the letters recently passed
between the Emperor of Germany and
the Pope, brief synopsis of which was
cabled few days ago:
VATICAN, August 7th, 1873.
Your Majesty's measures, which have
been adopted by your Majesty's Govern
ment for some time past, all aim more and
more at the destruction of Catholicism
When 1 seriously ponder over causes
which may have led to these very hard
measures confess am unable to dis
cover any reasons for such course. On
the other hand, am informed that your
Majesty does not countenance the pre-
ceedings of your Government and do not
approve of the harshness of the measures
adopted against the Catholic religion. II,
then, it be true that your Majesty does
not approve thereof-and letters which
your august Majesty addressed to me for
merly might sufficiently demonstrate that
you cannot approve that which is now oc-
curring-if, l say, your Majesty does not
approve of your Government continuing
in the path it has chosen of further ex-
tending its very rigorous measures against
the religion of Jesus Christ, whereby the
latter is 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 l speak with frankness, for my
banner is truth. speak in order to full
fill 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, which to define more precisely
would be here out of place-belongs, I
say, to the Pope. l cherish the conviction
that your Majesty will receive my obser-
vations with your usual goodness, and will
adopt such measures as are necessary in
the present case. While offering to your
most gracious Majesty an expression of
my devotion and esteem, pray God that
he may enfold your Majesty and myself
in one and the same bond of mercy.
PIUs.
The Emperor replied as follows:
BERLIN, October 2sth.
| am glad that yolr Holiness has, as in
former times, done honor to me. Ireioice
more at this since an opportunity is there
by afforded me of correcting errors which,
as appears from the contents of the letter
of your Holiness of the 18th of August,
must have occurred OH the communication
you have received relative to German af-
fairs. If reports which are made to your
Holiness respecting German questions
only stated the truth it would not be pos
sible for your Holiness to entertain the
supposition that my Government enters
upon path which cannot approve. Ac-
cording to the Constitution of my States
such case cannot happen, since the laws
and Government measures in Prussia re-
quire my consent as sovereign. l have
deep sorrow that portion of my Catho- t
lie subjects have organized for the past I
two years political party which endeav- S
ors to disturb by intrigues hostile to the q
State the religious peace which has exist i
ed in Prussia for centuries. Leading t
Catholic priests have, unfortunately, not
only approved this movement, but joined :,
n it to the extent of open revolt against !,
existing laws. 1t will not have escaped :
he observation of your Holiness that sim a
lar indications manifest themselves at the :,
present time in several European and in N
ome transatlantic States 1t is not my =.
mission to investigate the causes by which u
he clergy and faithful of one of the
christian denominations can be induced
ctively to assist the enemies of all law u
tut it is certainly my mission to protect o
Internal peace and preserve the authority q
f laws in the States where the Govern Il
1ent has been entrusted to me by God u
am conscious that owe hereafter an ac- u
cunt of this my kingly duty. shall D.
maintain order and law in my States u
gainst all attacks. As long as God gives o'
lie power | am in duty bound to do it as Is
Christian monarch, even when to my Oh
prov l have to fulfill this royal duty a
gainst servants of the church, which
oppose acknowledges no less than the CT
evangelical church that the command of ne
bedience to secular authority is an en- en-
nation of the revealed will of God. fir
Iany of the priests in Prussia, subject to tn
our Holiness, disown, to my regret, rit
hristian doctrine in this respect, and va
lace my Government under the necessi- to
:, supported by great majority of loyal tn
atholics and evangelical subjects, of ex- HI
'rting obedience to law by worldly pc
cans. willingly entertain the hope m,
lat your Holiness, upon being informed
the true position of affairs, will use 49,
our authority to put an end to the agita- ~
On carried on amid the deplorable dis -
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