New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-11-22

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with the sovereign power Of the country
wherein these priests exercised their sacer'
dotal functions. It was said by the SOW
ereigns that the priests claimed the para.
mount authority Of the papal govern.
ment. Ofthis. not being at all polemical,
We know nothing except that the imperial
government Of Germany made some
stringent assertions Of its own exclusive
tempora! authority over every subject
Of its own dominions. and claimed
the further right to determine what
that authority and obedience were.
!. zealot shot at Prince Bismarck
on account Of this doctrine. but
it appeared that he had no: been there
at the instigation Of the notification
priests. 1t seemed only the zealot's own
wsons.headed application Of ecclesiastical
doctrines.
Thus stands the question in Germany.
the empire choosing to believe that his
Holiness claims some sort Of obedience
from German subjects not compatible
with imperial rule. and his Holiness and
clerical appointees in foreign lands hold
ing another opinion. These countrymen
Of Luther are hard-headed people. not
a. all troubled in res. or appetite by any
meteoric ebullition Of bulls. anathemas.
accommodations and that sor: Of old
fashioned pyrotechnics. So having
read at least ecclesiastical history to
know that we do not understand
the Thirty Years war and the Palatinate
ruin. we leave the German empire and
his Holiness with the remark that we do
not think the temporal fight an equal one.
whatsoever may be subject in spiritual
conflict.
But then comes something even more
significant. John Ball. very phlesmat;c
and extremely practical person. seems to
have some suspicious that his Holiness.
the Pope. aspires to secure an influence
which will bring to bear the power of the
sovereign powers to reinstate him on his
tempora! spiritual throne. with the same
extent OF territorial jurisdiction as it had
in the hands Of his holy predecessors. say
Leo X. or NJ, the Medici. Borgheses. or
such supreme potentates. So Mr.. Glad
stone. ex-Premier Of England. has deemed
this question Of paramount authority
again in issue between the courts Of Rome
and of other nations. Minister D Israeli has
said that If this question should recur
that the English government vii! act with
decision in regard to it. and so rests the
question there. And then comes notion
from some zeaiots in the United States that
if the holy father be so cruelty entreated in
his own country and continent, he had
better seek refuge here. and the holy
father has been published as saying that
after ali, his sescripts were received with
more respect in this land Of universal
liberation than among the powers Of Eu.
rope. We have sent the most honored
advocates Of the papa! faith from America.
and some Of them have actually spoken Of
our own State Of Louisiana as (so;rituaN
province 0: Rome.
We pay little attention to these clerica!
squabb!es. Tie republican house was
built with view tosuch wransles. They
disturb no one. If his Holiness. like the
Plus .Ene.,s after the downfall Of Troy,
shall choose to take his household gods
and em:grate to plant new kingdom Oh
a new continent, as .Eneas j; is said
planted Rome. it is all right. lie can
enter and purchase as many sections OF
land, public or private. as he may wish.
and found a government whose inhabit-
ants may adopt any form or phase OF
faith they may wish. subject to the con-
stitution and laws of the fedora! govern
ment.
As 4 sort Of consequence Of this COM
plinentary estimate which his Holiness
has been pleased to place on our country.
we were struck with an Grafton pronounced
some days ago by a clergyman Of the
Romish persuasion on the thesis that the
white people were the native rulers Of the
earth. and that those who were at all off
color would enjoy rights graded and con-
ceded according to the shade OF their CON-
plexion. There was a further doctrine
advanced:
Now, according to American principles.
this i. no government at ali, and when l
make nv argument, come to the cOnclu.
sion that the government is no government:
at ali: and that in any State there exists the
grand RICH: OF revolution.
Notwithstanding to my idea Of right-the
frs. thing to do is to petition, next to argue.
mex, to demand. There 10 nothing like that.
IAppiause; These rights are ours. Give
those rights tc Us back. CT - III not finish
the sentence. lLong continued applause
We were rather surprised that the mem.
be. Of a sacred profession which taught
tia. all men were equally the concern o: a
Father in heaven should assign to one
class Of mankind the exclusive govern.
ment over another. It was our idea that
the Christian churches all deemed it a
duty to instruct. elevate and prepare all
humanity for service here and hereafter.
We should have supposed clergyman
to have taught peace, and not to have
placed in the hands Of one class sword to
smite those Of another. So it would have
been that this missionary came as a
Christian ciergymen. But he came as a
politician. and he came with the effect
to d;sfrauch;se more than two hundred