New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-10
A LETTER FROM GE, ERAL I'LL.
MANN.

| Sectarian ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ana.
State-EUrOpcan War.
General Daniel Ullmann, now living in
the elegant retirement Of his home at Pier.
mont, on the Hudson. has not ceased to be
keen observer of events as they occur in
this and other lands. Quite recently several
gentlemen of New York-old comrades in
politics and war, OF the veteran leader
addressed to him q letter Of congratulations
and solicited his views on topics which are
exciting thought in both hemispheres. They
evoked the following reply:
PIERMoNT, N. Y, January I, 1875.
GENTLEMEN-I thank You for your kind
congratulations, and will, with pleasure,
the several topics suggested by you in your
respective communications.
You are right. Undoubtedly your inter
probation of the amendments you specify is
correct. They were intended to mean
precisely what they do. The new sections
ten and eleven-0f article eight Of the con-
stitution embody prohibition of all Sec
tartan or deDt tm'national appropriations.
Together, they contain an obsolute prohibi.
tion OF any grant Of State or local funds or
property in aid of private or corporate
undertakings. There can be- no more
such State, county, city, town or village
grants or appropriations. The Common
Council of the city of New York can
make, hereafter, no such leases of city
lots as those to which you refer. The
people cast their ballots, with keen dis.
elimination, tor the several amendments.
The majorities by which these two passed
| are very satisfactory. Section ten received
343, ,}32 votes and section eleven 1888 929.
Thus has been, at last, consummated in the
| cT
| years standing. 1t is now twenty one
| years since II set this ball in motion" The
| controversy has been severe and sometimes
bitter; but, in spite Of obloquy and false
| hood, we persevered until now the amend
| ments have become a part of the organic
| law of the State 1t will require time to
| develop the far-reaching importance of this
! change. 1t will emphasize and make
practical the historic and Fundamental
| maxim of Onr institutons-that there
| shail he ever q separation OF Church and
| State. In the advocacy of this principle,
have, during this long campaign. besides
writing umberless articles for the press,
addressed more than one hundred anu fifty
assemblies. All honor is due to those noble
friends who gallantly stood firm, under all
trials and vicissitudes. Their loyalty has
met its reward in success. But let them
not suppose that cur work is fnished-their
efforts in all the States must not be relaxed.
This is a great victory. Vet it was only an
affair of Outpcsts. These amendments
tonch small section merely of an organ
lied political system, whose object is to
control human society. No prophet has yet
foretOid the end Ot this great debate; but il
is quite manifest that diplomatic skill can
long avert its crisis.
The two acknowledged representatives OF
the British people have each spoken de- |
cidedly on this subject. Mr.. Disrael the |
priyr .sca 1f
again and again, expressed his opinion, that |
Europe is tho threshold Of the religious |
war of the age; and Mr.. Gladstone has |
suddenly reused himself to 3 consciousness !
of the deep significance of truths, which we |
have been prcclalming from the hOusetops |
for the last quarter Of a century. and |
have, by much iteration made, com
monplace in the Uuited States. In
telligent Americans have, for many |
years, recognized the supreme gravity
Of the fact, that hierarchy, more or less |
controlling two hundred millions of the
population of the earth have, during csn.
turies, claimed for themselves, or for their
head, the superior aliegiance-civil, politi-
cal and spiritual-0f the whole human
race. The objective points of Gregory VII,
Innocent Ill, Archbishop Hughes, and OF
the Curla RammaDA Uf 1870, were identical, |
namely: To WELD spiritual au
thority for civil and political ad-
vancement. The so-called Vatican DEGREES
have defined ~ clearly the imperial de-
mands OF infallibiliry, that hereafter no
government having physical power suit
oient to protect its dignity, Can permit, con-
fist.nIly with its self respect. any consider
able number OF IFS citizens TO practically |
accept their binding force. Mr.. Gladstcne's
''Exp0st ulatiOn" will, however, although
tardy, work ont immense good. The high
pedestal on which he stands gives to his
,,<,o ,,trht bat ,ry,n T.. l
arrest rhe attention Of thousands Of the
Liberal party of England, who would other
wise remain different and inert but will |
also cause his words to be well considered |
by the world of mankind.
Archbishop Manning, one Of the leaders |
OF the Vatican Council, in an address de-
livered last year in London, to ''The Aca- |
demia," declared, repeatedly, that mankind
had no other aitrrnstive-they will be
forced TO cnoOse betwe n "CBsarism or |
UitramOntansm." Last November he said |
that ''there was undoubtedly approaching
one Of the mightrst contests the religious |
world had ever seen."
Germany has long dreaded this impend-
ing struggle; recalling, with horror, that,
during thirty years uf the seventeenth cen. ,
tury, from n Cause exactly the same, but
now intensified. all her borders were raw
aged and desOlat-d with fire and sword.
Prince HohenlObn, now filling the delicate ! {
snd difficult post uf s,p bassadOr of the en-
pire to France, and who, as Prime Munster |
Of Bavaria, had frequent occasions to meas
nre bis strength with the Jesuits in Munich.
stated in his recent speech at Kuimbach,
hat Prince B sm,rtk often discussed with
him. in 1867, with earnest and ever incr-ss-
Ing anxiety, the iippattance of the conflict | l
now lowering over Europe" As Il warrior | ,
statesman, leading rhe advance of the army !
battling tor free thOnght opposed to snper ! I
stitiou, he Prince Ven Bismarck occupies q t
DOS ton, involving the mig hest resp n -ihii- i
fy to himself, his country and mankind. i
The siina ion demands the exercise of all | {
1is transcendent ahlliri.s, requiring mere y
than Sadowa Sedan. HIS c
nes. the Jesuits, ART ths most subtle and {
antagonists the world ever | 4
Produced Kno wing that his is the most
life In Chrisfendom, usual they
re king TO destroy it. With some one or
III of their familiar weapons-calumny or t
,.istol or the dagger. p
DIR. Won Dpiling-r. Of Munich. the most Y
earned Of ecclesiastical historians, pre-. Il
icted, in March, 1871, that. as the thirty 4
ears war was waged chiefly within the II
units of the old German empire, SD the t,
heatre Of this will ut first BE- confined TO ri
he boundaries OF the new. We may be c
ure, however, that, il this war be once Il
indled, its hames will not only envelop all RI
Europe, but will cast their lurid glare p
rrOss the Atlantic. a
The solidarity of nations increases every b
ay. Such is now their inte.dependence, fl
bat whs1ev,r great question agitates one, "
itiuencee all. We, who v atch the pro- d
rees OF shis struggle, have not failed to n
Ote that sh. materials Tor irs continuance Of
the Critesi States are accommodating, z, not III
owlv !.sni's ave- terrifying the1nse'vee Al
, every st.-1atY.a Ia Anercs. Tcis Il, it