The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-04-29
LOUIS TEULLLOT ON COUNT VON Ar
MN 8 DYING WORDS.
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the hospitality of France. His BODY
swollen; he has become blind bis phys
clans apprehend an early dissolution. ii
retreat is tranquil and profound. He OF
J1ys the tender care Of his daughter Il
Nicean people treat him with respect.
10 said that be bears his terrible suffering
with courage, and that he awaits deal
with great resignation.
Count Arnim was the Ambassador
Prussia at Rome before aud drring I'll
Council. He bad the reputation of being
man of bralns, ak illful politician, aud
respects, ably sustained the reputatio
given him by the Germans. He sustaine
| their reputation for inconsecutlveness sti
better. Proud of the power aud of tn
empire already exercised by his country
and foreseelng the greater triumph he SAL
approaching, he behaved as II the rest q
| the world was already conquered. Ii
| hated Catholics and despieed the Papacy
He did not disguise his feelings even befor
the Holy Father, who, Notwithstanding BIZ
characteristic gentieness, was sometimes
obliged to give him come rather sever,
lessons. Plus TX. knows that tie AFRO
gance of the mighty is natural conse
quence of their prosperity they thus re-
venge themselves because their greatness.
always feels itself poor before that power
humble, but sovereign, and which does
not depend upon them, even when they
have the power to Cypress 1T. The Pope is
always Pope, at Fontainebleau as well az
10 Rome. La Rome, as we'll as eisew here,
all other are no more than Phocas, Louis
XIV, Napoleon or Nogaret. This has
never changed. Events tor the last hun
dred years have brought forth base kiags,
and have seen kings debased, bat the Pope
never Herr Won Arnim UNDERSTOOD mod
ern history as we'll as any philosopher
could know it; he has seen kings,
Rome the functions OF Nogsret, he saw q
maj esty that his king could strike and de-
throne, bat which no one can debase, and
he Lad the good sense to understand it
We once saw Herr Won Arnim at r ,me,
on July 10, 1870. at the railway station. A
band of French Bishops were leaving Rome
with all haste. Among them was Mgr.
Darhoy, Archbishop of Paris, accompanied
by Mgr. de Merode. Mgr. Mermllod was
also there, and he said to me "What
departure ! and how gratifying it is now
TO have quiet conscience J" He called
my attention to Count Arnim, who was
directing the embark alton of the horses
aud of his son for the army, here believe
he died.
Amy ore who saw Connt Arnim that day
will never forget it. He seemed to kold
7ictory in his hands. The glances he cast
IN us, poor French Catholics, were most
lnkind. No one was ignorant Of the part
10 pi8yeu IN h0kn6. I1S appeared Already
naster of France and Rome.
A few months later he saw the downfall |
It France and the usurpation of Rome by /
he Piedmoneese, bat he was himself |
boat to enter upon new path he was far |
rom foreseeing and out of which he was
OF to come out conqueror. He was
bout to become the An bassador of Prussia /
D France, to fall into misfortune, from
lisfortune to exile, from exile to ruin, to
cath, vanquished, and protesting his in
ocence in vain. He may be Innocent be-
re meg, but the injustice of men often
axes the justice of God.
At the same time that the fury of the
vents he had desired fell upon him by a
gic as crushing az it was unexpected, an
her logic no less severe, breaking upon
"a mind, revealed to him certain future
ringing other crushings still more terri
g and reipatating by virtue of their ,
'inciple the Pontitf and the Altar whose !
i'm he had planned and imagined he al =
ady saw. E
We find in the pamphlet Pro nihilo,
ritten in defence of Herr Won Arnim, thIs :
Ige of politics which has been little read. ;
is far superior to everything known t
'out him, and to every thing that is s
lOwn of his prosecutor. 1t shows that a
err Won Arnim was worthy of being q
ought the rival of Herr Won Bismarck, g
d perhaps bis superior, if his hand had
a
smarck is here judged with a height and
pth truly philosophical, and it can be
ID that this will be the decision of his O
" when his day comes, aud this may, o
rhaps, be his own Judgment on himself o
The sages of this world have little of b
1t fismness, and few of those calm and 81
aoeful lights, save at the moment when n
b forsakes them and death stares them in n
3 face. That which the wisdom of the O
rid has but once, and too late, the D
urch always has. 81
Let us hear Count Won Arnim J.: D
This injustice could not have been, and Il
IS not, committed without the par patton q
the nation.
st is nations that spoil great men.
Nations that find everything TO admire in al
Dir f4vorites are responsible If these fsvO- 81
rs forget how to put a bride on their pas. =,
DIS. d
Every man, however great he may be, Il
lngcs one part of his existence into the mire q
the vulgar. 1t is to this part that the vul- Y
crowd whose natural element ia the mire, fc
aches itself. Every Alexander fluids oour- %
RS who applaud drunkenness because Alex n
der WAS fond of wine.
This is the danger of all heroes and partic-
.rly of those whom rapid success has sud 10
oly raised to the summit of human power. Gt