The New York herald., 1874-11-22

Editor are not prepared to say that the laws it
may issue must have the unconditional and unre-
served scquiescence OF your Judgment and your
Will.
But if the august notion OF .tne State" shock
your reverential or religious sense when embodied
In such men as l have named, then let us look
across the seas and consider the model govern
ments or England and Germany. We shall set
aside both Queen Nctori6 and the Emperor Will
helm as being mere figure heads, and consider
England as governed constiIutionally by Disraeh
and Germany as II Is ruled most arbitrarily by Won
Bismarck.
Each in his own measure these men represent
rhe State In Great Britain and Germany respect
lively. ! make an enormous difference between
them. Ben Disraeli, now that he is In power, viii
not carry out against Catholics the measures
which some prophetic minds beheld i0reshadOwed
in "Lothair." Poor Benz he has enough to do at
the helm to steer the dear and brave old vessel OF
State clear OF the rocks and we shall not say one
word to him while his eye and ear and hand are
strained to the utmost pitch Of tension In order to
avoid the inevitable crash.
But II Gladstone, tomorrow or next day, should
again be the State OF Great Britain see you not
the measures he would introduce against the
Catholic Churchs Do not be misled by the dis
tinction which he makes between ''Cath0licsn and
'Ultrsmontanes." Since the definition OF July,
1870, there Is no such distinction. Gallcanlsm or
characterization has disappeared or var~c n
aDostacy OF that motley crew u go ssts and
suspended priests who try to hide their shame
under the title OF "Old Cathoics.u 1t Is manifest
that Gladstone means or threatens to repeal
wholly or In part the act OF Emancipation. Would
that repeal be righteous one ? Has 1t been mer-
tied by the conduct OF Catholics since 1928 any
field where England's honor or greatness has been
imperied Who will dare say yesa
And Germany9 Why, my God, we are all blinded
py the glare OF Sadowa and Sedan to the proper
ttons OF that colossal figure OF despotIsm and
awless force which tramples down all righteous
opposition In the German Empire. That imperson-
alton OF ruthless ambition and constituencies
rule ia Bismarck, who moves onward ike q loco
motive on stormy night. crushing beneath his
iron wheels every claim OF reason, justice, truth
and mercy.
Who Will dare maintain that the laws enacted
by servile legislature at the ding OF such q
man, sanctioned by his superannuated master,
praised by his "reprile press" and executed by
the plant tools created In such abundance in
Prussia since Frederick the Great, are binding on
the Judgment or the conscience OF Christian, or
reasonable. or Tree menf
Furthermore, you believe as do-that we're we
both living tomorrow beneath the re-estabished
sovereignty Of Ptus IX., neither hts right as
prince nor his quality OF Pontin could bind US a
Drtor1 to acknowledge every law emanating from
his government as absolutely just, or every adj
ministrative act as unerringly wise and equitable
There is not, there never has been, and there
! never will be, one single huma government, no
matter what its name or form, whose acts are not
or may not be liable to this inevitable ''reserva-
ton" implied in the imperfecuons, frailrles and
passions of those from whom they proceed.
Grant and Tweed governed you and me yester.
day-Grant and Tweed's men are to govern us to-
morrow. Les them govern justly and according to
the constitution, and we shall obey them. But in
our very obedience there Is a fear and q reserve
ton concerning their possible prevarication.
There is, however, distinction which you and
make, that Is IN what regards our allegiance TO
the people or the United States Let their ma
tional life, their independence, their honor be
threatened by any foe foreign or domestic, and
then we shall think no longer OF this man or that
who has misg0verned or disgraced us. but OF the
nation in whose cause we are bound before God
unquestioningly and unhesitatingly TO peril life
itself.
Here, In the matter Of allegiance and the duties
1T involves, there Is and can be no ''reservation'
| l do acknowledge a reservation" then, in my
| acceptance OF unrghteous and oppressive laws
Snall tell you now from whom that .reservl .ion'
ls most dangerOus2
1t is from those who can, in their doubts invoke
/ the aid OF no authority superior to their own pri
| vate judgment. We know what that leads tl
when party passions are ripe, and local interests
| and prejudlces are enlisted for party purposes
No 'infaIiDility" ever dreamed OF by ignorance OF
btgotry could be more tyranncal than the des
| potism OF mOo whose motives, IN the hour O.
political commotiOn, are thought to be sanctioned
| M ic a fr,,1c m olp 7 ~
George Gordon was master OF London. But since
| tnat black date the English people have ADMIRED
on more than one occasion the forbearance O
their Catholic fellow citizens under intoerablt
! wrong, because the voice of the Common
Father eXhorted them to wait patiently foI
the dawn OF reason ana justice. During the anti
slavery agitation we, tOo abstained. The Holy
Father prayed that peace might soon come to The
Union and exhorted his children here to pray
When the struggle for the national life came We
here in the North were not the last to go forti
and repel the enemy from the seat OF the nationa
! authority.
| 1t IS not true that the Holy Father sympathizet
/ with the rebellion. Because he is the father O
| Christendom his sympathies are evermore fol
peace and the solid welfare Of each country. M
one deplored more bitterly than he the origin O.
| our civil war and its probable consequences. If or
| one occasion hts excessive anxiety to see peace
restored, and with peace the Union, led him
under partisan counsels to lend his name to an
effort at conciliation, let not forget that those
who persuaded him were Americans pleading fol
| America
| Nor Mr.. Lincoln nor Secretary SewaGd evei
cast blame on Pho Nono's heart or motives fol
this one act Of very justiHaple humanity. The
same may be said OF his conduct toward Mexico
He, like many others nearer home, was made tc
believe thai Macmillan was called to that coun
try by the united voice Of the long suffering popu
latfon. The blessing ne bestowed on the iu.fated
Prince was soon recalled when he learned or
what principles Napoleon Ill. intended to estab
nsh the Mexican Empire, and how little the arch
traitor Bazatne could be trusted to carry
out any civizlng mission. After all, PIC
! Mono only performed toward a catholic prince