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All goods in this line, of Superior Make and Extra Finish, are kept constantly in stock, and supplied at FAR Lowen RATES than can be purchased for In any other Market. ba” OnveEns souiciren. Prompt Attention and Satisfaction guaran : Sept. 21,1870. 2m ROME. tt tt tala atta ath net fa at tint, THE ARCHBISHOP OF WESTMINSTER ON THE INVASION OF ROME, Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather tumult was made, taking water washed his hands before the people, suying, ‘I am innocent.” (S. Matth. xxvil, 24.) T do not intend to draw any historical parallels of persons, nor to afliix any names; but to make a parallel of certain motives and actions, with their inevitable results. It is evident that Pilate was not wil- ling to condemn our Divine Lord to death. Again and again he sought to let Him go. But the clamorous multitude would not. The more he sought to save Him, the more they clamored. And when ‘* Pilate saw that he prevailed nothing, | but that rather tumult was made,’’ to cleanse himself he took water and wash- ed his hands before the people and said, ‘*Taminnocent.’? But neither God nor man holds him guiltless. The other day we read aletter of a Catholic King to the Vicar of Jesus Christ. It stated, not that he was im- pelled by duty or by justice, but that he was unable to resist the aspirations of the people; and that he had, therefore, no choice but to enter Rome, and to seize its sovereignty, ‘The state of feeling,’’ he says, ‘among the popula- tions governed by your Iloliness,’’ con- stitutes ‘evident dangers to all,” T do not doubt that this King is a brave man in battle, generous to the poor, and | that he has still the faith of his ancestors, whatsoever be his acts, But the multi-| tude clamors, and their aspirations he cannot resist. ILow far his filial protest- ations will clear his innocence is for the judgment of God. Such were the motives; what were the acts? An army of oivty thaneond men and a hundred and fifty guns en- compassed the city of Rome, On this the Sovereign Pontiff issued to the Commander of his small but heroic army @ letter in these words ;— At this moment when a great sacrilege and the most enormous injustice are about to be consummated, and the troops of a Catholic King, without provocation, nay, without even the least appearance of any motive, surround anc bésiege the capital of the Catholic world, I feel in the first place the necessity of thank- ing you and our entire army for your generous condies: to the present time, for the affec- tion which you lavegehown to tlhe Holy See, and for erent , yong your- selves entirely to LO- polis. May these words be a ple oh ment to certify the discipline, the loyalty, and the valor of the army in the service of the [oly As far as regards the duration of the defence, I feel it my duty to command that this shall only consist in rotest as shall testify to the violence t ne to us, and nothing Such are the facts which refute them, known to me not only through public but private channels. ! am glad also to know that it was by no buglish band that these things were written: but I am ashamed to know that Englishmen lend themselves to spread them wheresocver the English tongue is read. Rome then has been seized by viol- ence 3 and the Healof Christendom, and Christendom itself, has been robbed. |The capital of the Christian world is re- ; duced to the capil of a nation; and to- day, the Festival of the Tloly Rosary is fixed for the Plebiscite. This day, hither- to sacred in memory of the deliverance of Christendom inthe battle of Lepanto, by the Christian powers, animated and sustained by the spirit and energy of a PontitY, will herea'ter be memorable for the mockery of a Plebiscite, taken with all the freedom of a siege. and helped by the presence ofan invading army, Sach are the events, now for the results; of which some are immediate, some future, but all inevitable, Let us estimate the moral character of the deed which has been dune— [, First it is a sir. In an old book there stillis read a law, now obsolete. which rons: ‘*Thouw shalt not steal,’ and, in the same statute, another forgot- ten precept may be read: ‘‘Thou shalt not covet.’’ Now, he that ‘aspires by force”? after his neighvour’s house, or his neighbours goods, both covets and steals. Again, in the same book is re- corded the sin and the judgment of one who ‘shed the blood of war in peace.’’ This deed then has these three stains upon it. Once more, this deed is a mani- fold injustice, even against the laws of nature, It is a war of offence; and all offensive wars are murders: it is also contrary to the laws of warfare, for it was perpetrated, as the doer professed, by a “Son” againsta ‘ Father,’’ in time of peace, and withonteven a declaration of war, As such, it was also contrary to the laws or natural justice which bind nations towother, . Moreaver. it was 9 violation of sovereign rights, the oldest and most. sacred inthe world, For more than a thousand years the Vicars of Jesus Christ have reigned as sovereigns over Rome. They are the most ancient of Christian kings. Compared with them all European sovereignties are but of yesterday. The crown rights of all existing dynasties are less sacred by an- tiquity, prescription, and possession than the rights of Pius the Ninth, And this sin, and injustice, as it would be against any sovereign, is aiso sacrilege against the Vicar of Jesus Christ, It is a viol- ence against a pergon who is sacred, and a violation of sac The sover- eignty of Rome is a sacred trust Wrbe- half of the whole Christian world. The freedom of the Church and the liberty of the truth are contatned. nit. Pius the more: in other words, that negoti for surrender shall be opened so soon as ach shall have been made. Ata moment in which the whole of Europe is mourning over the numerous victims of the war now in progress between two great na- tious, never let it be said that the Vicar of to give his consent to a great shedding of blood. Our cause is the cause of God, and we put our whole defence into His hands, From my heart [ bless you nd your whole army. Porn Pies run Nintit. From the Vatican, Sept. 19th. The rest is soon told. September the fire of five hours made a breach in the old crumbling walls. The Italian army entered in, followed by thousands of exiles and fugitives who, for offences of many kinds, had fled or been banished from Rome; with them troopsof women. The legitimate Sover- eign was deposed, and a provisional Go- vernment was then named by the invad- er. Such are the facts. Now for the fictions with which the unsuspecting English people are misled. It has been sedulously propagated that the Sovereign Pontiff was not free ; that he was under the dominion of a ‘foreign soldiery,’”’ ‘ruthless _hire- lings,’’ ‘‘ mercenary cut-throats,’’ * fan- atics,”’ and “ legitimists.’? So are des- erihed same of the noblest and purest blood of Europe—men who for the Vicar of Jesus Christ offered their wealth and their lives ; and others who, if poor, and therefore like our brave British soldiers, receiving their food from the Sovereign whom they volunteered to serve, were not behind the nobles who led them in chivalry and devotion, The letter 1 have read proves this base accusation to be a falsehood. & Again, it was said that the Roman people received the invaders as deliver- ers, and hailed their entrance with accla- mations of joy. The rejoicing and ap- plause entered ready-made through the breach with the invader, duly prepared beforehand, Lastly, it was said that the Pope was compelled to call for the protection of the Italian army against his own sub- jects :—That is, the invading hosts had overthrown all order, The mob gather- ed from all parts which had burst into Rome, and crowded the Piazza of 8. Peter’s under the eyes of the Holy Fath- er. Every form of tumult followed, and insult with violence. Murder was com- mitted in open day. The invaders had driven all police away, and taken cap- tive the ariny of the Sovereign Pontiff. They had brought a flood of turbulence into Rome, “a they alone had power to control it, Such are the lies with which the pub- lic mind of England has been poisoned, Jesus Christ, however unjustly assailed, had | On the 20th of | Ninth received it from his prede«vasars as a trust, and is bound before God to hand it on in those who shall come after, Ifis"tWone is not that of earthly right alone, but.of the Vigwe of Christ ; a power not won by conquest, nor sought by ambition, nor bought by | gold, nor filched by intrigue, but forced upon the Pontiffs by a motl and politi- cal necessity. When the people of Rome and of Italy had ne dther protect- ors they made the Pontif\to be their King. Christian Rome berame alter- | wards the germ of Christiay civilization and of the political order of the Christian world, But the Christian @der of the world is a creature of Divine Providence, and has a sacred character € which the Sovereign Pontiff is the Cente and ITead. The attempt to depose himis therefore a sacrilege against the Chistian order of the whole world. Such,then, is the moral character of the dejd that has been accomplished. And now, to show what/are the re- sults, I would ask two quesions— First, what will be the coasequence of this act upon the Church ? | S. Hilary says that the wounds of the Passion pierced the Manhaod of Jesus, but the Godhead they could not reach. Like as the keenest weapiw cutting a flame of fire passes harmless, and the flame is impassible, so with the Charch, this outrage and sacrilege cannct reach the life and powers of the Church. It remains intact and inviolable ; its faith, its divine authority, its indefectile life, its indissoluble unity, its infallible ead and Voice, all alike undiminished in purity, energy, and freedom, It was not temporal power that sustained the (Ecumencial Council the other day, when all the influences and menaces of the world were concentrated against it. It was by the supernatural power of its own Divine authority that it held on its majestic course without swerving a hair’s breadth from its duty. Temporal power is of use to the Church only for the peaceful exercise of its prerogatives, Its spiritual power cannot be wrested ry it-or suspended by any hand below God, If the Church be spoiled, even the spoiling will in one way work for good, When the world persecutes, persecution purifies, While the Church is in peace morbid humors gather, One thing is certain, we shall have among us fewer bad Catholics, worldly Catholica, lax Catholics, and liberal Catholics, When the world turns upon the Church such men are either reclaimed or fall off. When trial comes, it does not pay to be a Catholic; to be firm costs something. Only those who hold faith dearer than life stand the test. We are not afraid of this sifting. Nominal Catholics are our weakness and vexation, our scandal and our shame: sometimes they are our greatest danger. When thereis nothing left for the ambitious, or the covetous, the Church will huve more healil and effect. temporal power, or the friendship of the world, but even in persecution and per- petual conflict, the Church rooted itself, and rose and ripened to its perfection. We have no fears then for the Chureh if of isolation, world but in endless war with it. Church in ireland has subsisted as by miracle, not only without temporal pow- face of it and in spite of it. The faith of pastors and people has been and is inex- tinguishable, the alms of the faithful in- exhaustible. No Royal Supremacy could ever establish itself over the faith of Ire- the sun the Church wields its authority and spreads daily. So,come what may, the Catholic and Roman Church will the Church is indeed immutable because itis ordained of God, cause God has not ordained any particu- lar form of civil power. Inthe principles and order of the Church we can yield neither a jot nor a tittle, and the world therefore counts us as fanatical and ob- stinate: but in the political order we are bound to no theories of govern- ment, no special kind of constitution, What is it, then, to the Church if dynasties Camis wutvldy t new its velations with every form of civil order. . And it would seem to ve in the future that the gavernment of the world will descend into the hands of the people; and with the people the Church is always at home, ‘The people hear it gladly, as they heard its Divine Master, themselves, by thinking that the Pon- tiffs need Emperors or Kings. They are never stronger than when they are the guides of the people, walking to and fro m the midst of them. because a King has invaded Rome and spoiled the Pontiff of his rights. There is a future also for Italy, and the people of Italy have few dynastic reminiscenc- es, but the memory of their Catholic I see many changes ill never ce an 7 Rome yet, but there is change, the See of Peter of the Vives of The other question T this: What will be the this Act upon the world it will reduce it to the o from which it w vate by Christian- tw BE mission, the one to convert indivlul ne by one to faith, and to bind them into a spiritual society, The other to civilize and to elevate the political order of man- kind. It was this latter office of the Church which, when nations were con- verted to the faith, united them under public Christian laws, and boand them together by intesnational compacts un- der one Supreme Judge of all. Of the former part of its mission, nothing un- der God can deprive the Church, Of the second it may easily be discharged. If the political order of the world separ- ates itself from the unity of faith and from the authority of the Church, then the Church can no longer fulfil its mis- sion as the guide of the civil society of men, For 300 years the separation has been accomplishing itself, In every country of Europe the Church and the civil powers have ceased to act in unison or to be united by common laws. In Rome alone, the civil order remained Christian, And this deed has dissolved this last union of public law and Chris- tianity. ‘The King who did it may not have intended it, but the Revolution did, and he has done its work. The effect of this is inevitable. Throughout the whole of Europe the political order is now parted from the authority of Christ. Christian faith and Christian laws are left to individuals one by one. States and nations are Chris tian no longer, when their public life and law and epnduct are withdrawn from Christianity. If they legislate in con- formity with Christianity, it is not be- cause they recognize Christianity as a rule, but because the popular will may happen to fallin with it. If it happen to fall out with Christianity it will legis- late against it. Christendom then, that is, the family of Christian peoples united in one body, one spirit, one Lord, one faith, one bap- tism, under one common law, and one common Father, the representative of Jesus Christ among men, is dissolved The deed has dethroned him, and the na- tions of the world look on without mov- ing a finger to restore him to his right. The international law of justice and mu- tual respect is gone. Diplomacy isa name without authority; talk without force to do; and, by this act of disin- tegration, Christendom returns into the order of natural morality and nataral sanctions. What it retains of Christian- ity. The Church Wt®a it Can re-| Let nobody, then, deceive! ity it retains, not as such, but as expe- dient, or politic, or of mere custom. In its public order it has no custom, and is therefore without God in the world. In j its morality it has no higher sanction ) than the awards of penal retribution. In service of this world. Therefore this } civil State throughout the world, by one they are dissolving by the same ‘law and force which has dissolved the | unity of Christendom at large. Where- soever the plague of revolntion enters | education. Where these things are, so- | ciety is smitten at its root, and the off- Jand therefore without God, people in which the young are rising to ‘manhood without Christianity. And jhow shall they be Christian if Jhristian- iity be expelled from education? and land; and what is trac of Ireland is true| what dissolves States, dissolves also’ of “s of America. In the freest people under homes, and in the end the canker eats] in politics and religion should set the | world on fire dt all corners. into men and their very nature, The in- |tellect developed without faith is the {prey of all crror and perversion. The ‘these may seem far-fetched, avoided, | You may ask: What has all this to do | With | ‘The temporal power of the Pope is the providential guardian of the public order of Christian law in Europe, from which jour ripe Christian civilization sprung and the dissolution of ¢hae cemporal pow- jer 1gads straightway to the dissolution ,of that public, domestic, and personal , commonwealth. Men will not believe that under tem- poral forms and accidents lie concealed and guarded the highest moral laws. They denounce S. Thomas of Canter- bury, because he resisted King Ilenry the Second, in matters of Church lands and manors, and tribunals, and appeals, They accnse him of pride, worldliness, and avarice. ButS. Thomas saw by an intuition, that under these things lay (at stake. ILe won his contest by the | Shedding of his blood, and he saved these jthings to the English people for 400 years. The usurpations of Henry J i triumphed in Ilenry VIII., whom 'Thom- ought to have withstood, ) ofS. Thomas are proved to be unerring in the spiritual and moral state of Eng- w. The poor have been disin- ty spiritual patrimony, and its laws, has de- P from hear from our | 6 spoken latel ry to be pe A parted, but fearless ave @ true respect. has deserih state of London as he sees it, and as we Know jt to be. Anu London of to-day is the legi fruit vf the Crna Ge WRT = Me an to6g invents without doclara: thin, ot the of war, and without cause. ren of civilization without Christianity, ana this is the work of the same anti-social, ing over what it believes to be the down- fall of the temporal power of the Vicar of Jesus Christ. But, to be brief, T will put in a proof above suspicion. A book has lately ap- peared which tells the truth, but yet not a thousandth part of the trath. It bears for its title, Zhe Seven Curses of London. If men will not hear our testimony, let them at least listen to their own. And now I have but two other words to add. The one is this: that the Roman ques- tion which men say is now ended, is only now beginning. Do not think mo fan- atical, or blind, or senseless, if [ affirm that the temporal power is not ended yet; but that the Roman question is only once more begun. We have had to re- peat, even to weariness, that some five- and-forty Popes before now have either never set foot in Rome, or have been driven out of it. Nine times they have been driven out by Roman factions. Times without number by invadors, Why not, then,.a forty-sixth time? Pius VI, Pins VII, were prisoners, wh¥ not Pius Ixf exile, ‘why not a second time? Nine times the City of Rome has been held by usurpers, why not a tenth? Seven times Rome has been besieged, why not an eighth? Twice it has been nearly des- troyed, and once so utterly desolate that for forty days, we are told, nothing hu- man breathed in it, and no ery was heard but of the foxés on the Aventine. War- fare, suffering, wandering, weakness, with imperishable vitality and invincible power, is the lot and the history of the Pontiffs ; and Rome shares their destiny. There has nothing happened now that has not happened, and that often, before; the end that has often been predicted, has not come, why should itnow? Men are always saying “Now at last is the end,’’ But the end is not yet. I say that the Roman question is only beginning, because tho statesmen, and tho diplomatists, and the Princes of Europe, have undertaken to solve a ques - anti-Christian spirit, which is now exult-’ -erned, Masses whom Pius 1X has been already once in | tion which has only one solution, and that solution they have rejected. For more than 1,000 years the Providence ot God has clothed the Head of the Chris- tian Church with a temporal sovereign- t : ‘ty, in order that he may exercise his sn- peace: and so long as this usurpation |its education nothing higher than the! preme spiritual power in peace, lasts it will atleast have this wholesome | Ilis su- or | preme spiritual power is not of man, or For 300 years, not only without | disintegration rep: odaces itself in every by man, but from God alone | One Ile has | exercised it in prosecution and in peace. ‘Iu the one state or the other, exercise it ‘he will until the end, In Pagan days he | exercised it in prosecution ; in Chriatiau jtimes in peace. Therefore, itis not for its destiny be to return into its first state | eflects are anti-christian and anti-social. | its exercise, bnt for its peaceful exercise We have secn it already | Two things surely follow in its train: | among Christian men, that the temporal in Ireland, not only seperate from the} the dissolution of Christian marriage by | power is needed. The | divorce, and the abolition of Christian! and peace there is no third state. When Between persecution the world became Christian its instincts proclaimed that the Vicar of Jesus Clirist er but against all temporal power, in the | spring of society grow up without faith,| could be the subject of uo mortal sov- Woe to the . | reign, ' there is no middle state, the ILcad of the Religion of all nations ercignty ; thercfure, he became Sove- Between subject and sovereign Men saw that could not be natural ; that is, the subject nation; lest national jealousies ‘But Hf not national or ‘tlie subject of any nation, ‘then he must be extra-natural or inde- thrive of its own intrinsic life and vigor, | will grown strong without Christian law pendant ofall nations ; and then he must And if its future relations be not with is the source of all rebeliion, And to! be sovereign, fur between independenco dynasties which seem to be passing | such a state of nature the public apostacy | and sovereignty there may be a differ- away, they will be withthe peoples who of natiuns from Christianity is re-con-! ence of sound, there can be no differenee cannot pass away. ‘The constitution of ducting society, homes, and man. Alllin reality. Such is the solution of Di- But so is} The constitution | the early calculation by which the shoals! of Christ and Ilead of the Universal of political socities may be changed be-|and_ reefs and sands are foreknown and) Church has reigned independent as sov- vine Providence. Therefore the Vicar ereign, for more than 1,000 years, Dus !now men will not aceept this solution of the temporal power of the Pope ? | the Providence of God. They must find | another. /and find a better, neither a better nor another, and while . | they are seeking to solve this riddle, ’ They must revise ILis sclution But they will find time will run, and the Roman question will not be ended. It will entangle it- self more and more, and be further from _its end the longer it is uusolved. Nay, | will be bold to say they will end it in one or two ways. They will either | find, after all, that Providence is wiser | than they, and they will pnt back the | lead of Christendon in the throne and | possession of his rights; or they will | keep him out of them, and the whole ot Christian Europe will be torn by politi- - cal and religious conflicts. The Roman | question will then last longer, and will . cost all nations something more stern I : ; Let no one im faith, morals, and the divine authority , and solid than the illuminations and y é vy rep “ari * . . . imagine that the temporal power is over | of the Church; and that in them all were | Vivas of the Italian Monarchy. The other word I have to say is this: | The principles of the Roman question are - applicable to all kingdoms in the world, The Jews had a proverb that ‘tithes and of their Pontifts, is vivid! as Cranmer served and flattered when he | are the fence of property.” God’s free- The instincts | Wold is the defence of man’s freehold. |The respect paid to sacred property is | the guardian of all human rights, If so, the violation of Divine rights is the vio- lation of all. Now, what is the first principle of this “A nos it has net broken down. buy in every cou does not reach. They arethe remy ma- terial for sedition and cofspiracy. Englishmen believe England to be well- governed; let them look to the classes i below those who have anything to lose. | Mor 20 years a Revolution the most sys- ‘tematic and the most stealthy has sur- ‘rounded and pervaded Rome. If coun- | tries not far from us were treated in like manner, if Belgium had been so treated by France, how long would contentment last? In all this long conspiracy there /has never been a charge of cruelty, of injustice, or of oppression, which would bear the touch of examination The Go- vernment of the Holy Father has been # government of clemency and of forbear- /ance to excess, No secular government in the world would have spared the lives of criminals whom Pius 1X has spared to lead the outrage and sacrilege of the 20th of September. What then is the canse of discontent ? “We will not have this man to reign ov- erus.’’ No crime of violated rights or j of unendurable oppression can be prov- ed. These things might lend a color te a popular judicial process, on a hard or unjust ruler, Nothing of this kind is so much as alleged by the hundred tongues and pens always going against the Lloly Father, Ibis “we willnot.’’ Ilis only crime is one which cannot be purged. The Government of the Vicar of Christ is the Government of a Priest. And this the world ha volution hates. It bas Ad e hatred against a Priest at the altar; what then against a Priest upon the throne? But there is a Priest upon a throne who in this enmity against Lis Vicar reads the true motive, which is en- mity against Ilimself. I know that shall be thought a babbler, to utter: things in the 19th century, and in E land, Butthey are traths which are not. affected by time or nation, and will out last both. ” eee: Well, then, another principle ul the re- ® Roman question is the depdsition €