Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-12-05

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forest upon them. We are not blam-
| iDg Mr.. Johnson for these things
He had to be for the bill, to fund his
coupons and bonds, and draw inter
est at six per cent. OF them, but those
who sustained him should not blame
others for doing the same thing. If
Mr.. johnson thought the bill such an
iniquitous measure, why did lie not
make a speech or write a letter a
gainstit? He says he wrote letter
against the adoption Of our present
Constitution which eufrauchiscd u=
and caused its defeat in Green couu-
~. Why did he not act as publicly
against the Funding Bill, which he
andIsome of his friends now pronounce
an iniquity? We will give Mr.. John
son the benefit OF our columns to
show that he was opposed to the
Funding Bill. We wish to do him no
injustice, but we do not wish him TO
do injustice 10 others.
The religious world is now greatly
excited by a controversy between
Mr.. Gladston, the celebrated eSPre-
mier of Great Britain, and leading
dignitaries of the Roman Catholic
Church. Mr.. Gladstone has recently
written and published pamphlet ell
titled "The Vatican DEGREES i'll their
bearing on Civil Allegiance, " i'll which
he charges that the subsection requiI-
ed by the Pope cannot be reconciled
with allegiance to the civil authority
This is an old question, the discus
sion of which has excited the rcli0'-
0ious world ac,nss 4hs Atlantic on
many occasions, resulting at one time
in what Is known as the Lord Gordon
riots in England. DR.. Manning,
Archbishop Of Westminster, and pri-
mate Of tile English branch OF the Ro-
man Catholic church, has published n
reply to Mr.. Gladstouc's pamphlet,
in which he says:
~. That the Vatican DEGREES have
in no jot or title changed, either in
the obligations or the conditions of
civil allegiance.
2. That the civil allegiance of Gath
olics is as undivided as that of all
Christians and of all men who recog-
nize n divine or natural moral law.
3. That the civil allegiance OF no
man is unlimited, and therefore the
civil allegiance of all men who believe
in God, or are governed by consci-
ence, is in that sense divided.
In this sense, aud in no other, can
it be said with truth that the civil al
legiance CT Catholics is divided. The
civil allegiance Of every Christian
man in England is limited by consci-
ence and the law of God, and the civ
il allegiance of Catholics is limited
neither less nor more.
The public peace of the British En-
pire has been consolidated in the last
half century by the elimination of re-
ligious conflicts and inequalities of
our laws. The Empire of Germany
might have been equally peaceful aud
stable ii its statesmen had not been
tempted, in an evil hour, to rake up
the old fires of religious disunion.
The hand of one man, more than any
other, threw this torch of discOrd into
the German Empire. The history of
Germany will record the name of DIR.
Ignatius Won Doellinger as the author
of this National evil. 1 lament not
only to read the name, but to trace
the arguments of DIR. Won Doellinger
in the pamphlet before me. May God
preserve these kingdoms from the
public and private calamities which
are visibly impending over Germany!
Tue author of the pamphlet, i'll his
first line, assures us that his ''pur-
pose is not polemieal, but pacific. -
1 am sorry that so good an intention
should have so widely erred i'll tie
selection of the means.
But my purpose is neither to criti-
else nor to controyert. My desire and
my duty as an Englishman, as a Gath
Ollie, and as pastor, is to claim for
my flock and for myself a civil allegi-
ance as pure, as true and as loyal as
is rendered by the distinguished au-
thor of the pamphlet, or by any sub
iect of the British Empire"
Following this, Archbishop Bayley
of Baltimore, has written letter from
which we make the following ex-
tracts:
"To tell you the truth, | have no
leisure to enter upon any formal dis
cussion of the matter, and, in fact, no
disposition to do so. The accusation
itself reminds one unpleasantly of
similar accusations (humani generis
iHimicD brought against the print
tive-Christians, as we find them in
the pages OF Tacitus and other Pagan
enemies of Christianity; and when a
person tells me that my religion re-
quires me to be disloyal 10 my coun-
try, the old Adam comes up in me,
and l feel more disposed to pull his
nose than to answer him politely
This accusation, it is true, is very
old one. 1t was, as you will remcm-
Der, urged against our divine Lord
himself that he was no friend of Ce-
sar, and the same charge has often
been repeated against his followers.
"rhe only thing | have to say, at
this time, against Mr.. Gladstone's
declaration is, that it is false-a
shameful ca.umny-and 1 would ap-
peal, with perfect confidence as to the
truth of my assertion, to the cousci-
euce of every Catholic over the face
of the earth. 1t has no foundation.
either III the words of the decree nor
in any possible logical deduction
from those words. The thought G.
ven that it would have any such bear
ing l am certain never entered into
the mind of any member Of the Conn
Gil. The Vatican cannon did not
change in one iota the relations of
Catholics to the civil power, any moro
than it changed those of Protestants.
1t left that important matter, as con-
nected with the order of civil society,
where the New Testament leaves it
where our blessed Lord loft it when
he told US to Render unto Caesar the
things that are Caesars, ald to God
the things that art. God's'-where the
Apostles left it, when they comman.
ded Us to be obedient to our civil ru-
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