The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-04-12

getting all national interests Ia the qualification OF
theologlcal animositIes we may ioreteil that some
Emperors presiding at councils and framing doc
trinal edicts while the barbarans were wrestling
Nanoeon lI in iSss and $50 more nus,sd S with nHs
worrying the Pope than In watching Prussla's for
midable preparations or looking at home into the
utter ineificiency VI his own military establish
ments?
The Bavaria, which, since the days OF Charlie
magne, had been an independent and not IN
glorious member vi the great German lamiy Of
States, II now but a satellite unsteady glimmer-
Ing around the Prusslan central lumiuary. She mas
been for the last ty years one OF the most nsidious
and cowardly enemies Of the Papacy favOrlng in
an especial manner every writer who chose to
Ana she mas lorlesed forever the secular
OF France. God help herl We have, then, IN the
wen SHOWN policy OF Bavaria and IN the roe
the present unnatural, Illogical and pregnant diff
Guilty; Tor pre- 1nant 1t Is with danger to The best
interests OF Germany. Is 1t likely to continue9 No.
Tie laws unwisey enacted, and now still more I'M
wisely enforced against the highest purest and
most enlightened members OF the Catholic Church
la Germany must be condemned, and are even now
condemned by all whose Judgment Is not mised
by the narrowest political or sectarlan Intolerance
OF by the blind bgotry begotten by prejudice.
OF course wherever the Church OF Rome is a
party In any quarrel, even where her children are
the victims OF the most crying Injustice, no sym.
paLhy Is to be expected nom the great majority OF
Protcstants, so inseparabv IN their minds is she
Identified with the worst KINDS OF spiritual and
political oppression! But alter all, IN our day,
and IN our own country especially, we do not want
to see even the oppressor loaded, In the name Of
freedom, with the chains just stricken from his
slave. What, moro than all the corruption at
trbuted or proved to belong to the republican
party among iIs, has weaned from them the loyalty
OF their truest friends and is now last preparing
great political revolution IL the Idea that, after
saving the Union and destroying slavery, the re-
publcans have transferred the yoke from the neck
, oil the black to that OF MS former master.
r. Granted that before the Reformation the old
Church had proved hers II tyranncal, 1t is pre-
tended that she has proved SO since within the
length and breadth OF the North German Confed-
GRAFTON. The pretence rather Is that she IL only
aiming at recovering her lost power, and the pres
ent outrageous measures, sweeping away, as they
do the most precious rights OF conscience and the
most essential elements OF civil freedom, are en-
acted only as {. preventive against the possible
predomnance oieCarh0licism
The definition o. the ropes onfcial infalltDiity
was the great bugbear with which H0hcnlohe at
tempted to brighten the European courts into a
coalition against the Pope, and the erection into
eoumas of all the utter8nces Vi The syllabus was
denounced as . proclamation OF war to all civil
governments.
10 the enlightened and rejecting mind this ap-
pears exceedingly puerIe or exceedingly wicked.
The pope OF to-day Is not o whit more inialllble
than the POPE whom NaDnleon held captive IN