The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-07-08

bring about the peacoable restoration OF hi
,nusPe1denee. In all this they are strictl
within the limits of their constitution right
. as citis'ns OF the French Republio.
, q 1os US pring the matter home to ourselves
suppose Ihat petition should be drawn al
praying President Hayes to instruct our mir
ister az Rome to represent to the Government
o. itaiy that pine millions of American Roman
Ga s felt themselves deeply aggrieved
eminent towards the Pope, aud that they con.
sidered those acts all the more urjusti6 ABLE
because they were one and all in open aud mn.
t th,seIn,sea violation of the promises made by
| Tue itallan government to the whole Catholic
world suppose that this petition should be
signed by every Catholic man and woman in
tne United States and sent to the President =;
would 1t be said, then, that we were exceed.
ing our rights as citizens, and that we should
be punished for our temerityf The President
might do as he pleased with the petition; he
be for him to decide; but cou'd We as citi-
zsns, be blamed and punished for exercising
the right of petition in order to make kno wn
so closelyi Yet this is all that the Frepoh
Catholics have done; aud it is because of the
solidarity of interests and of purpose, of hone
ana OF fear, which exists between the revolu-
tionists and socialists Of Italy and of the other
Continental nations that the Gam bettists in
france were spurred up to make this perfect.
" legitimate action of the French Catholics
upon the liberties of the church in France-an
assault under cover of which, and aided by
what seems to us very much like treschery on
the part Of M. Jules Simon, they hoped to COM
pei Marshal MsoMshon to oapitulate to them.
The allooution of the Pope issued on the
18th of last March had moved to the very
depths the hearts of the Catholics in France
as it had moved the hearts of the Catholics Of
every other land. They felt that it was i'm pos
sible for them to remain silent after hearing
that most pathetic and powerful appeal they
as possible, and that it should consist Of acts
as well as of words. They resolved to draw
up addresses to the Holy Father; to organize
pilPrimages to convey these addresses with
their gifts, to Rome; and to devise means
whereby they could express to their own gov
eminent their anxious wish that it would use
it's influence with the government of Italy in
behalf ct the restoration of the Independence |
and free !om Of the Pope. Each of these pro. |
jocts was entered into With commendabl zeal. |
and early in April the Bishop of Nevers ad- |
d dressed q letter to Marshal MaoMahon asking |
him, in the name of his flock, to use the in, |
hnence of France at the oourt of King Victor
= emanuel and at other courts for the protection |
of the Pope and for the restoration of his
rghts. The Marshal's cabinet at this moment
were greatly under the influence of NJ Jules
Simon, the President of the Council thew
be safe for them to exssperAte the Gam BETA
faction and they persuaded the Marshal to
approve letter addr ,ed by the Minister of
Public Worship to the bishop, in which entire
,sapproval Of his appeal was expressed, with
the remark that "ths Marshal, as o sincere
friend of religion, saw with pain the clergy
I in internal and still more in for
Outraged by this mark of weakness on the part
If the government, aad p. Q pared to DIT "a the r |
advantage Bot the Catholics did not choose
If q Council whereof N. SIMON was the chief
Ind they continued to organize their pilgri.
nages aud to draw up and circulate their ad.
lresses to the Pope. On the 18th of April the
3ishop of Nevers, not at all disconnected by
,he rebuke which he had received from the
Cabinet, addressed letter to the Mayor of
he Nievre, in which he explained to that Off.
'ial what, in his opinion, was the duty of all
rood Catholics oecu plying Influential positions.
The Pope being NO longer free in Rome"
Trote the bishop to the mayor, the result is :
onsciences, and we consequently should use
II our influence to obtain q change in such an
bnormal state of things, and the restoration /
o the sovereign of our souls of the indepen-
encs which he absolutely reg uires in orde to
uide US. We must first instil these views in
be minds of the population whose interests r
re eontided to u.s. We must then concert to- =
ether to cause similar convictions to prevail =
, the various councils Of the country"
On the Goth, at o cabinet council, the gen.
raj petitions of the Catholics addressed to =
nd it was proposed that, in order to silence
he complaints of the Gsmbettists who were
violently that the circulation and
resent ation of snch memorials would embroil | 1!
rance in q difficulty with Italy the bisb-
ps shonld be ordered 10 forbid tie further tx IL
osure of these petitions in their churches for OF
SuabuIes ouG the mSr6n6l on this occasion -
splayed q little more firmness and the mat
r was passed over without action. =,
A few days before this an event had occurred "a
Italy that served to increase the distrust
it'll which Marshal MacMahon already regard :
the secret intentions of the leaders of the I
oft. In BeneVento, near Letino, and again
'ar Rome, the Government had arrested a
lmbsr of Socialists who, it appears, were
gagged in a conspiracy for the establishment W
Red Republic. The papers found on the
rsons of the arrested men were of the usual
q anlmatory character, and set forth, among
her things, that IMAM ought not TO be SUBJ :.
'ted to any tyranny, human or divine; that a
e principle of private property is the climax ~
infamy, because 1T creates inequality be- -
een men that the union between men aud
men ought to be free, and that the State .
the denial of the most sacred principles" 49,
o chief leader of the band, who was arrest FL
with about fifty of his adherentb, was a
1ng Milanese named Cafaero, a man of
alth and positionS and an examination of
papers disclosed the fact that his associa- Va
n was only one of a large number Of others ~,
cad throughout Europe, an that the names "
some of the leading radical republicans of N
ance appeared upon o list which was believed p n
the advisers and real leaders of W oO
, I'm fha 0f Ill