New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-11-20
Mr.. (sladstOne's Pamphlet.

The New York Herald Of the fourteenth
contains the following special dispatch
from London. which explains the purpors
of Mr.. Gladstone's recent publication.
which has suddenly become the talk Of all
christendom:
The controversy between Mr.. Gladstone
and Archbishop Manning respecting civil
allegiance has created a profound impres.
sion among all classes.
Mr.. Gla.lstone's pamphlet is entitled 1.-The
Vatican DEGREES" 1t is political expos.
tuation. formally challenging English Ro.
how the obedience now required by the
Pope can be reconciled with the integrity
of their civil allegiance.
1t refers 70 his previous question. pro.
pounded in his article on Ritual III and
Ritual" in the Contemporary Rericc, wheth.
er handful of the clergy are or are not
engaged in an utterly hopeless and vision.
ary effort to Romanize the church and peo.
Pile Of England. In his magazine article
Mr.. Gladstone doubted whether such 4
scheme had been possible ct any time since
the bloody reign Of Mary. addin 9 that if it
had been possible IN the seventeenth or
eighteenth centuries il would still have be.
come impossible in the nineteenth. when
Rome has substituted for the proud boast
of sen,per eadan. q policy of violence and
change of faith vixen she has sefurbished
and paraded anew every rusty tool she
was fOndly thought 20 have disused: when
no one can become her convert without re.
nouncng his moral and mental freedom
and placing his civil loyalty and duty at
the mercy Of another. and when she has
equally repudiated modern though; and
ancient history
MP. Gladstone feiterates these views in
his pamphlet, and. whlle withdrawing uoth.
ing from the man attack, says that un.
dOubtedly these allegations are of great
breadth. The pamphlet centecs upon the
proposition that no one can become con-
vert to Rome without renouncing his moral
and mental freedom and placing his civil
loyalty and duty at the mercy OF another.
Mr.. Gladstone then proceeds TO expose the
subterfuges by which Catholics endeavor to
lessen the stringency Of the claim which, he
further insists, Rome has set up by the
Vatican DEGREES to direct and control civil
obedience. Upon this point he is very ex-
plicit, declaring that the Vatican Council
established even a wider claim than infalli-
bility, namely, a claim of absolute and en-
tire obedience
Thus, Mr.. Gladstone says. the papai net
sweeps multitude of &acts, including
whole systems OF government in all parts
OF the whole world. including even the
United States, where the severance Of
church and state was supposed TO be COM
plete. "A long catalogue might be drawn of
subjects showing the competence OF State
domain undeniably affecting the church,
while in Europe the circle is still wider.
He therefore calls upon Catholic citizens
either to demonstrate that the powers
claimed by the Pope and adherence to the
catholic communion can not impair civil
allegiance, or else, when such claim is made,
to repel and reject it, like the late Bishop
Doyle, of Kildare and Leighlin, who an
swered this question by the declaration that
he would use all the means in his power to
oppose intermeddling. In his argument to
the people the ex-Premier says that the Cath
ollcs, when emancipated gave their alle-
glance 60 the Pope and not to the sovereign
OF England, and that they now do so. Ire
land, he adds, will in tho future be gov.
erned without reference to Catholicism.
MT. Gladstone expresses the decided
opinion that the real object of the Vatican
policy Is to renew the struggle for the tenn
poral power. He ridicules such q project,
but adds that it is difficult to overestimate
the effects Of the strife. 1t would probably
JeOpardlze the peace Of Europe. He ex-
presses fears on this subject, and by way of
confirmation quotes Archbishop Manning's
pamphlet on Cgsarism.
The pamphlet closes with an appeal to
cltlzens OF the nineteenth century to follow
the example OF their forefathers OF the six
teenth, when marshaled to resist the Ar
mads; MIR. Gladstone declaring that Eng
iands sound hearted race are not to be
hindered Dy foreign influence of caste from
accomplishing her mission in the world.