The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-09-28
THE POPE,s RECOGNITION or THE
SOUTHERN CONFEDER4CT.

THE POPE'S hECOGaAI1ON OF The
SOUTHERN CONFEDERATE.
There was captured among the dOcu-
mentary records of the confederate gov.
eminent at Richmond, after the fall of that
city in 1868, letter addressed and writ
ten in Latin to Jefferson Davis, "presi-
dent of the confederate states of Amer
ica," by Pope Plus TX, of which the
following is translation:
"IlIustrious and Honorable Sir:
Health! We have received with all
fitting kindness the gentleman sent by
your excellency to deliver US your let
tiers bearing date the 23d of September
last. We certainly experienced no small
pleasure when we learned from the same
gentleman and the letters of your ex-
celIency with what emotions of joy and
gratitude towards US you were affected,
illustrious and honorable sir, when you
were first made acquainted with our
letters to those reverend brethren, John,
archbishop of New York, and John,
archbishop of New Orleans, written on
the 18th of October of last year, in which
we again and again urged and exhorted
the same reverend brethren that, as be-
hooved their distinguished piety and
their Episcopal charge, they should most
zealously use every effort, in our name
also, to bring to an end the fatal civil
war that had arisen in those regions, and
that those peoples Of America might at
length attain mutual peace and concord,
and be united in mutual charity. And
very grateful was it to US, illustrious and
honorable sir, to perceive that you and
those people were animated with the
same feelings of peace and tranquility
which we so earnestly inculcated in the
letters mentioned as having been ad-
dressed to the aforesaid reverend breth-
rem. And would that other people,
also, of those regions, and their rulers,
seriously considering how grievOus and
mournful thing is intestine war, would
be pleased with tranquil minds to en-
brace and enter upon COunsels of peace.
We indeed shall not cease with most
fervent prayers to beseech and pray God,
the omnipotent and all good, to pour out
the spirit of christian charity and peace
upon all those people of America and
deliver them from the evils so great with
which they are afflicted.
And of the most mercitul Lord of
compassion himself, we likewise pray
that He may illumine your exceIlency
with the light of His grace, and may
conjOin you in perfect love with ourself.
"Given at St. Peters, Dec. Sd, in the
year 1868, and of our pOntifcate the
eighteenth. PIUs P. P. IN"
The letter was accompanied by the
following note of Mr.. A. Dudley Mann,
who was formerly an assistant secretary
of state of the United States, and who
was sent abroad by Davis as diplomatic
agent or commissioner:
brussels, May 8, 1S64.-Mr. presi-
dent: Herewith have the honor to
transmit the letter which his holiness
Pope Plus TX. addressed to your excel
lency on the third of December last.
Mr.. w. Jefferson Buchanan has oblig-
ingly undertaken its conveyance, and
will deliver it in person.
This letter will grace the archives OF
the executive office in all coming time.
1t will live, too, forever in story as the
production of the first potentate who
formally recognized your official posi-
ton, and accorded to one of the diplo-
matte representatives of the confederate
states an audience in an established
court palace, like that of st. James or
TullerieS.
a have the honor to be, with most
distinguished consideration, your ex-
cellency's obedient servant.
A. DUDLEY MANN"
The London Sunday-schoOi union