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AUGUSTA, GA„ AUGUST 27, 1870.
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THt WAR IN EUROPE-
It has been asserted by some of the
enemies of the Catholic Church that the
war between France and Prussia is vir
tually ;t „ar between Catholicism and
Protestantism. Nothing can be farther
from the truth than such an assertion.
The French people, it is true, are prin
cipally Catholics and the Prussians are
principally Protestants ; but, as has been
said by the New York Freeman s Jour
nal, there is no doubt fully as many
practical Iloman Catholics in the Ger
man army as there is in the French army.
If it were a war of Religion, it would be
a very anamolous war, in which Church
men were fighting against themselves.—
Surely this is the most ridiculous logic
that could be advaneed—too ridulpus to
find a place in the mind of any school
boy, who understands even the first prin
ciples of logic.
No, it is not a war of Religions, but a
war of Empires. Louis Napoleon finds
war a necessity to preserve his Imperial
power in France, while Prussia desires
to unite all of Germany under one grand
consolidated Despotism of which her
King shall be the head and centre. Such
a Despotism would be fatal to the peace
of Europe or the stability of European
Governments. Hence Louis Napoleon,
solicitous for the integrity of his Empire,
and desirous of affecting a more sym
metrical bouudary line than that which
Fiance at present occupies, cams a blow
at cnc adversary and seeks by war to
overthrow that adversary’s power and
prevent the accomplishment of his am
bitious designs. This is what we con
ceive to be the correct cause of the con
flict now desolating the lair fields of
France and perhaps soon of Germany.
In such a contest as this the sympathy
of the South is necessarily with France.
She is really struggling to prevent the
establishment of a powerful despotism,
and in a measure to protect the people of
Europe from the spread of its baleful
influences. All people who love Liberty
and hate Tyranny will sympathize with
France in such a struggle ; but not as
Roman Catholics or as zealous Protestants.
On this, as on all other temporal ques
tions, both sides arc divided. We be
lieve, however, that the majority of the
former in the whole country and of the
latter in the South, are with France iu
the war simply because they look upon it
in the light which we do, justice on the
side of France, despotism on the side of
Prussia.
WAS IT FAiR ?
Was it fair for the South Carolina pa
pers to publish General Kershaw’s letter
to the Banner of the South, without
publishing' cur comments on the same.
It has placed us before the people of that
State as making a personal attack on
their leading men, while nothing' was
farther from our intentions. We con
demned the Union Reform League as a
sacrifice to principle and ill-timed and
unwise ; but we have accorded to its
Democractic leaders the best and most
patriotic of motives; and we are unwil
ling to be misrepresented as the enemies
of such men as Kershaw, Butler, and
Hampton. We are proud of them as
Southern men, and would rejoice if they
could be placed at the head of South
Carolina affairs.
THE POPE AND THE FRENCH TROOPS
AT ROME-
The Interior , the organ of the Presby
terians, published at Chicago, Illinois, ——
and, by the way, one of the best and
most courteous of our Protestant ex
changes—seems somewhat solicitous for
the Pope, now that the French troops
have withdrawn from Rome and left
His Holiness to the mercy of the so-called
“Italian patriots.”
The Interior says :
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“We may hope however, and indeed
have some ground for the hope, that the
time is not far distant when Popery will
be stript of all temporal dominion, and
be left to take its place in the earth as a
spiritual power, to rise or fall in the
esteem of men as it shall represent, or fail
to represent, the doctrine and spirit of
early Christianity. It has always leaned
to secular power.
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“Indeed, while we are writing, news
comes to us of still greater disaster to
the army of Napoleon, and the same tele
gram contains a most piteous prayer to
the Em mess for one ship of war, at least,
to be at the behest of Rome. If the tide
of battle is not turned speedily, the
lemporal dominion of the Holy Father
will most surely be at the mercy of Italian
patriots. Iu that event, it matters
little whether the Pope be at Rome or
Malta, or New York; he is henceforth —
and that ought to be enough for him—
only the great Archbishop in a Church,
whose people and Bishops are found in
every land.”
• Our cotemporary need feel no alarm
for the Pope. So far as the Catholic
Church is concerned, it matters but little
whether its beloved Head be at “Rome,
or at Malta, or New Yorkit will “still
represent the doctrine and spirit of early
Christianity, still move on in its glorious
conquest of sin and salvation of souls.
But, aside from its spiritual power, the
territory of Rome is the property of the
Catholic Church, and “Italian Patriots”
or any other banditti have no more right
to deprive our Church of it, than the
same desperadoes would have to come to
America and deprive the Presbyterians
of their lawful property. Hence, not
withstanding the withdrawal of French
troops from Rome, Catholic Powers and
Catholic people of the world will protect
the Pope in the patrimony of Peter, and
reinstate him in his Temporal possessions
should the robbers for a while drive him
from his home.
But whether at Rome, at Malta, or at
New York, he will still be Pope and his
Church will still be the Church of Christ,
undimned in beauty, undiminished in
grandeur, or unshorn in power, for the
promise of her Divine Founder, cannot
fail; and He said : “the gates of Hell
should never prevail against her.”
Our Chicago cotemporary is mistaken.
She leans not on secular power. She
leans upon a higher power than that—
the Power of God, and trusts in His
sacred promise. She cannot fail. So
let the French leave—so let the “Italian
patriots” attack her. She fears them
not. *
THE “N Y- WORLD” ON PAPAL INFALLI*
BILITY-
So many false notions have been cn
entertained both within and without the
pale of the Roman Catholic Church, of
the precise scope and purport of the
promulgation of the dogma of Papal in
fallibility, that it was really incumbent
upon some person in high place to give
an authoritative exposition of it. This
duty has been very properly assumed, in
the absence of the Archbishop, his Vicar-
General, Father Starrs, whose explana
tion, being bolh li era’ly cx cathedra
and really coming from one having au
thority, and not from the ill informed
scribes of the Protestant press, deserves
to be attentively road by those persons
who have attacked the dogma as a tran
scendent absurdity on account of the
position they supposed it to include, but
which, according to the highest authority
attainable in this country, in the absence
of the chief pastors and masters of the
Church, it does not include at all. The
comparison which Father Starrs has
instituted between the infallibility of the
Pope and the ultimate jurisdiction of a
court ol last resort is strikingly appro
priate. The members of the tribunal
may be and must be fallible; but it is an
absolute necessity, to a nation goverened
by law that the power should be lodged
somewhere to declare what that law is,
finally and irreversibly.pl The analogy
between a nation governed by law and a
Church governed % traditional doctrine,
is perfect; and it is evident that it is as
necessary to prevent schism in the one
case as to guard against anarchy in the
other, by lodging, somewhere in the
hierarchy” a power to fix and determine
the traditions of the Church in case of a
disputed interpretation of them. This
power of the Council has seen fit to com
mit formally, as it has from immemorial
time been committed in practice to the
Supreme Pontiff. The bugbear of Papal
infallibility, so far as its
cerned, bath this extent and no more.
Although all reasonably well informed
persons were aware of it before, ignorant
or per -erse persons lur e seen fit to a
sume that it went much further, and for
their confusion, as well as for the edifica
tion of Ids especial charge, the Vicar-
General has done well to put an authori
tative interpretation upon the act of the
Cuuncil.—A 7 . Y. World August ls£.
“Y e give the World , credit for its
good intention, and the accuracy of seve
al of its statements; but in several par
ticulars it must have misapprehended the
Very Rev. Father Starrs. Father Starrs
very likely 7 explained that the infallib li
ty of the Pope is official, not personal,
and he may have drawn a paraded be
tween the Papacy and the temporal
Supreme Court; but he could not have
said that the Papacy is infallible only in
the sense that it is the Court of last re
sort, nor that the power of deciding dis
putes on final appeal has been conferred
on the Pope by the Council. Whatever
power the Pope holds in the Church he
holds as the successor of Peter and Vicar
of Christ, from Our Lord Himself; not
from the Church he is appointed to feed,
rule, and govern. The Council has
clothed him with no power which he bad
not befroe its action; it has only defined
more explicitly 7 than had been previously
done, the power and prerogatives with
which lie lias always been clothed, or
which he has always held by divine
right, jure divino. Nothing new has
been conferred; indeed, nothing at all;
the Council has simply defined, in terms
to meet the exigencies of the times, what
was originally conferred by Our Lord
Himself of Peter, and through him on
is successors. The Pope holds power
from God, not from the Church.
The decision of the temporal court of
last resort is infallible only in the sense
that it is final and admits no appeal; but
the Court is in reality fallible, and its
decision, though final, may be erroneous.
This is not the case with the Papal tribu
nal. The decision is not only final, but
absolutely, if it relates to faith, free from
error; for the Pope who makes it is pro
tected by the Holy Ghost from error,
and all liability to err, therefore absolute
ly infallible. Count de Maistre in his
Du Rope has not been carefully 7 to mark
this difference, and has in consequence
misled some of his readers as to the true
nature of the Papal infallibility, which
is absolute, not simply relative or pu
tative, as with the supreme temporal
Court.
There is another difference to be noted
the Court takes cognizance only of dis
puted questions, a question in litigation;
the Tope takes cognizance of all mat
ters of faith, of those not litigated as w 7 ell
as those that are, and is equally infallible
in the one case as in the other; that is, he
is infallible alike as teacher and as
judge. This should not be forgotten or
overlooked.
When Cathobcs say”, if they ever do
say so, that the Pope is personally in
fallible, they mean simply that he is in
fallible by himself alone, without the
Council; not that lie is infallible bv vir
tue of his own personality. The Pope
is not infallible as a man, for as a man
he has the common liability of all men
to err. He is infallible only” as Pope,
and then only by virtue of the superna
tural assistance of the Holy Ghost; in
like manner as the apostles were in
fallible only by virtue of divine inspira
tion; only they v. T ere inspired to reveal
truth, and lie is simply 7 assisted to teach
aid define infallibly the truth they
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revealed and deposited with the Church.
Nor is the infallibility universal
The IPope is infallible only in teach
ing, defining and declaring the faith as
divinely revealed, and condemning er
rors opposed or injurious to it. Nobody
pretends as Protestants suppose, that he
is infallible as a man, or that he is in
cable of erring in matters not of faith or per
taining to it. He may err in his administra
tion of eclesiacticals affairs, as to per
sons and to facts, through misinforma
tion, or defect of judgment, and indeed
in all matters that depend solely on hu
man wisdom or prudence, though never
as to the principle which underlies his
management of affairs.’’ •
is iTanadTrssionT
One of the iUlauta (Ga.) papers re
ports Hon. Joshua Hill as saying at a
public meeting in that city that “he
came forward, not as a Republican , but
as an honest man:'
Does the distinguished gentleman at
last recognize and admit the difference
between these two characters ?
IRELAND AND FRANCE
SINGULAR DEMONSTRATION IN DUBLIN.
[From the Irishman.]
Ireland’s sympathy with France is not
the mere growth of a day”, nor has it
sprung from any” more political emergen
cy. The two people belong to tne same
grand old stock, and their feelings and
aspirations are akin. In the dark and dis
mal days of the penal laws, the Irishman
found a borne amongst his French kins
men, and a career was open to him in that
sunny land which cruel and bitter perse
cution denied him at home. The kins
manship has not bee Done o r mere senti
ment, In return for the hospitality
shown towards us, we, in former days,
fought the battles of France. Which
amongst us do not feel proud of the Irish
Brigade ? Is there an Irishman whose
heart U not thrilled with joy when he
hears mention of Fontenoy? And did
not France return our services in a ma
terial way in the days of Wolfe Tone ?
But for the elements then, Ireland was
to-day a free nation, and she would have
owed her liberty to France. Again, du
ring the aw’ful period of the famine, the
French were the first tc come forward
and save, ws had almost said the whole
Irish people, from death by starvation.
It would be strange if our every sympa
thy were not with the French nation and
whatever form of Government they may
choose to select.
The declaration of hostilities between
France and Prussia has thrilled the Trish
heart. It was one of those things which
should inevitably come 10 pass, but long
since the Irish people had made up their
minds as to which side wuuld share their
sympathies, and on last Tuesday night
they gave a practical demonstration of
their feelings. Since the first whisper of
war was heard, the English press, true to
its brutal instincts, commenced abusing
France and the French people in choicest
Billingsgate. This, of course, went before
Europe as the expressed opinion of the
entiie “United Kingdom;” but there was
one portion of that “United Kingdom”
which was determined to give expression
to its own opinion. The London press
could not speak for the people of Ireland,
and last Tuesday night proved the fact.
Curious whispers were about town early
in the evening, but nothing was made
public. The originators of the demon
stration had no need to resort to public
placards or announcements to bring the
people together, nor did they do so. Trust
ed messengers were sent out to give the
world round that the citizens of Dublin
should assemble in their thousands before
the residence of the French Consul in
Lower Gardiner street, and there exhibit
which way their sympathies went, and
this they did in a most unmistakable
manner. The secret was well kept, as
up to the late hour it was quite evident
the authorities knew nothing at all about
the matter. Shortly after 8 o'clock a few
stragglers might be seen in the neighbor
hood of Bcresford Place, but to a casual
observer there was nothing extraordinary
in this. Every minute, however, added
to the numbers, till, as it approached 9
o'clock, Gardiuer street, Talbot street.
Amiens street, Mecklenburgh street,
Cumberland street, and Lower Abbey
street were alive with the manhood of the
city. The point inquired for by all was
the residence of the French Consul, and
opposite this house, at 37 Lower Gardi
ner street, an immense concourse was
assembled and the wildest excitement pre
vailed. At about a quarter to 9 the
Fingall Band, Drumcondra, came down
through Gardiner street, and the excite
meat became intense. It stopped oppo
site the Consulate, playing the “Marseil
laise;” but the police time hid
procured reinforcements from the nek.-ip
boiing stations, and the peremptory V
der to “move on” was given. The band
did move, but it was immediately sue*
ceeded by the St. Mary’s Baud, Strand'
street, playing a French air also. This
too, had to move ou, but immediately
or seven bands entered the street plavin.?
the “Marseillaise,” “Partant pour h
Syrie,” “O’Donnell Aboo,” ‘Bid save
Ireland,” and other popular airs. The
Police were then powerless, and it xvac
quite evident that they were unprepared
for the contingency. The following bands
tookparLjn the proceedings: St. James'
Dr. Spralt’s, the Skinners’, Phibsboroucm’
Stone cutters’, the Catholic Young Men s
Society, the Bakers’, Harp of Erin, St.
Andrew’s, the Wolfe Tone Band, the Or
pheus Band, the Cuffe Street Baud,
Kingstown, Chimney Cleaners’, the Lim
erick Band, George Henry Moore Baud
St. Patrick’s, IQolphin’s Band, Garden
Lane, the O'Connell Band, the star of
Erin, Mountpleasant, Brien Boroihme,
St. Augustus’, Coopers’, Boys of Erin j
Watling Street, St. Andrew’s, .St. Thom
as’ Juvenile, etc.
A few minutes after 9 o'clock a tri-color
flag, orange, white and green, W3s seen
advancing from the direction of the Cus
tom House. When it was carried as tar
as the Con *a f e it was unfurled amidst
tremendous cheering, and cries of “Vive
la France!” “Vive la guerre!” “Down
with Prussia!” “Down with England!”
“God save Ireland!” “France and Ireland
United!” etc., etc., interspersed with
“Groans for the English press.” At this
time there could not have been less than
20,000 people in Gardiner street and the
neighborhood. The flag was waiving hut
for a few minutes when a circumstance
occured which is significant in more ways
than one. About twenty police were
drawn up in the centre of the street and
ordered to take the flag. A rush was
made by them up the steps, and foi; a mo
ment they succeeded in pulling down
from the steps those who held it, but
the success was only momentary,
for iu an instant the cry was heard,
“They*have taken the French flag.” The
excitement then became absolutely furi
ous. and the people rushed upon the
police, determined that their flog should
not be taken. A short struggle ensued,
and in less time than it takes us to
write, the flag was retaken, and again
hoisted from the top of the door steps.
Cheers, loud and long continued, could
then be heard, and the peop ! e seemed quite
determined that they wovll defend their
flog at the risk of their lives. But before
another collision ic/urred, Inspector
Burke, of the Sackville police station, ar
rived on the scene, and ordered the police
to fall into rank, and keep moving up and
down the street. The bands all played
be f ore the Consulate, and several of them
cou iter-marched and played a second
time. During the row with the police,
one of that body seized on Mr. P. J.
Smytb, but the people were determined
that no one would be arrested, and quick
ly rescued him.
Mr. Smyth, Mr. Carey, Mr. Ryan, Mr.
Cantwell, Mr. Kavanagh, and other gen
tleman used their influence to get the
people to disperse, which they did in a
most orderly manner. Some of the lead
ers of the movement then went to Beres
ford place, and Mr. Smyth addressed the
people irom the steps in rear of the Cus
tom House. He said that they had that
night nobly doiie their duty ; they had
shown they were an Irish people, not an
English people, and fittingly answered the
lying Times of London when truekulent
iy abusing the Emperor whom England
feared and hated. It was said there was
unanimity in condemning his action.
|Shouts of “No; we don’t,” and vehement
cheers for the Emperor.] They had that
night tendered their sympathy to Franco
and to her great ruler; and Europe
j should know that the heart of Ireland was
| with the banner of the Tri-color on the
Rhine. Those Germans were known in
Ireland—in '9B—and bitterly remem
bered. It was a saying then that each
true Irishman should “kill a Hessian tor
himself.” France should know whether
her former allies deserted or betrayed her
now, that Ireland, linked to her by his
tone associations, and proudly treasuring
the g erious memories of Sarsfieid’s
Brigade, had thousands of men c-ach ready
to “kill a Hessian for himself” if Franc
'required their aid upon the Rhine. —
[Enthusiastic cheers.] Again he entreat
ed them to separate in an orderly ami
peaceful manner, and thanked them lor
their manly spirit, their enthusiasm, good
order and temper throughout the evening.
Mr. Symth was vehemently cheered; ami
the assemblage soon afterwards dispers
ed, the several trade bands playing
through the city to their respective
rooms.
The following circular was exten
sively circulated in the course ol the
evening: