Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-03-17

but he occupies lofty plane of dispu.
tstion, and riddles the armor of his op.
poncuts with the most gentlemanly
and keenest Of logic fortified ON every
point by proof. In retiring from &C.
tive political life Gladstone has dis.
cardcd wholly tho sinuous ways which
to greater or loss extent attends up.
on tho conduct Of almost every states.
man who 10 constantly seeking for, and
looking forward to political prefer
ment. As the leader of the Liberal
party of England, tho interest of the
party frequently demanded that he
should refrain from taking boldly a
step which might for the time being
sgitate and disturb public opinion, be-
cause 1t would be fatal to the present
prospects at least OF his party. He
has seen how incompatible it 10 for him
to strike the blow which he thought
ought to be givcn to tho encroach-
ments Of the Papacy upon the civil
power, and at tho same time DO the
leader of his party, Therefore he has
cut loose, and stands alone speaking
only for himself, and in 60 speaking
tho great Premier has not only spoken
to Engliahmen but to the whole Chris
tian world, and his own people are not
more Interested than are hundreds OF
Thousands Of tho people Of many ma.
lions. Political honors he has laid
down forever. that he might speak I'M.
trammoled for himself and for human.
ity everywhere. tits our opinion that
In 30 doing Gladstone is performing q
greater service for his country than be
has ever performed during all his bril-
liant career, and also In so doing the
good he is effecting reaches far and
wide into other lands. He takes up
sssiatim tho structures Of his opponentl
upon his former paper, and we hay'
only space to give his reply in part t
one, Is follows:
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vhether ther. !. az a. NJ, po,,,,
doctrine, sacr.n,.,t snd h.r. 10, ~ tha so,,,s
time s.ote,, tha, Ene,;sh 1narriaces orc Mold hr
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pone bimse,f has not ,;,.o,, 'N'- N'S
q And which arc slso thouxnt unucccssaty nv
authorized expounders of the syllabus for the
faithful.
4 have before mo tho rxnos;t;or With thetcxt
of tbe En.vc,;ca and svI,.bn, ,ub,;ahaa ~
Cologne in 1874 with the annrova, of authority
Unit obe-s;rchIcher A,nrobat;oa Tn N a5;t a.
;s,;nc,,v t.u.h, ,,o, ;.t n,rr.,,o ,,,e c.a., noe
nothing IN fo. that A NAV safe,v re,v rno, ,hs
C,burch. th., c;v;I ,,or-;ore ~ tho ore. 80 t,a
Church. Is only concubinsre. and that the state
by the use of worldly comnuls;on. nrcven,s the
two coucubiuary parties from renentine and
abandoning their guilty relation to one another.
Exactly the same is the doctrine Of the Pone him.
self in his speeches published At Rome. where
civil marriage Ia declared to be, for Christians.
nothing more than q mere concubinaee. and a
filthy coneuhnaoe fsoxxo eo,c,,n,ro,o, Thase ex.
traorlinatv declar.tions are NOT ue IN .hc sona.
ness of the Pontin for speakine inoromo,u. In his
letter of September 10 ls5e. to king victor Eman.
uel he declares that mstrirnony CARRYING the sac.
ramcnt is alone lawful for Christians. and that a
law Of civil marriage, which goes to divide them
Tor practical purposes. constitutes a concubinapc
in the guisc OF leritirnate marriaee. So that In
truth, in all countries within the scone Of these
denvrci..;or. ~. ,,.rt;os 80 ,;-;, $500, -
eelunc,auons tne parties 10 . civh marriage are
declared TO be living in elicit connection which
they are called ,lpon tn renounce. This call is nd
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oIeeseo % mem separately a. well as jointly, the
vie being summoned to leave her husband, and
pretended renentsnce fom stats ~ sin ,n,ss. .hs
t .1o1a . osa'1 VI s'AA' unies0 Inc
law OF the land and fear of Consequences prevail,
. new connection, under the name of a marriage,
.1'ey oo Ao.aoA VAN .ue s"ucuon o. tnc Cnurcn OF