Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1874, Page 9

—— or” of “the buildings of the Temple.” e im that s in Judes flee to tha moun- taips.” Way to the mountains, if thoe end of {lio world has arrived? **The stars shall fall from Heaven, and the powers of the hesv- ens ehall be shaken.”—Verse 29. “Then flall sppear the sign of the 8on of Manin Hesven, . . . aud they shall sce the Son of Han coming in *he clonda of heaven, with power snd great glors."—Verse 30. Wueo? *Thts generation shali not pass_till sll theso things be fulfilled."— Verse 3. ** Then soall the Kingdom of Heaven be likened,” ete. — 2T, L When? Whon the sign of the Son of Man ¢hall appear, ete., i.¢., in * this generation.’ When eball these go away into kolasin aionion? When the Sun of Man shall como in His glory. And wheu is that? ‘“Defore this generation shall pass,” In other words: this is & hughly wrought description of the remarkable evants that 1ook placo when tho Jewish diepeosation ended and the Chrishian ers wad inaugurated. Whether so or not, the seotence pronounced is . NOT AN ENDLESS DOO,— first, because the ndjective qunh{yu:g the noun does not mean ‘“endless" and, second, Le- cousa the coodition to Which thoy are consigned (kolasin—* pruning,” *dieciplive ") ig not » finakty, but a8 procees of improvement. can be 24d op this questinn; but T lore, far mere o e tement of {no deriation of oo 1nd gionics. The derivution of aion is involved o some doubt, It comes cither from the verb ae, WEih mesns “ever,” % always,” and on, the present e of tlie Greek verD etn, which signifies ' to {:fl" “io exist,"—e0 that tho word aion thus derived signifies *ever-being,” * alwass-existing”; or it fa Serivod from the verbs go, dewi, whica mean “to Blow," “to breatho,” Scholurs are divided on this question. In this connection, I remind Mxr. Reod thet the CbristianFathers—Origon, for example—who wero Universalists,—uscd the phrase Kolasin aionion, to_exprees their ideas of punishment. They cartainly uow Greok, g Tt’is of emall impoit whether aion is derived from aer, alwayw, and on, to exist, or'ao aemt, to breache. The vital question is, HOW TILE HIBLE USES THE WORDS gion s0d aionios. Tho auswer is, It spesks of the Lezinning, the eud, and of more than ono.. gion ; which demonstrates tuat the word cannot mean “ eternity,” which bas no beginning, no ending, sud of which there can be but ove, ~The sdjective iu used similarly. Canann wos o be an aionios posscssion of the Jews, but it Las long gince passed from their hands. So Jonah sayas: * OUT OF THE BELLY OF HELL CRIED L, -* Earth with ber bars was about me furever.” If this hell of Jonah's only-lasted three days, what right bas Mr. Reed to claim that any.other hell to which the same word is applied shall endure endlesely? So, too, none wer to pass through theland of Taumoa forover; and vet, in 183G, Jobn L. Steveus traversed that country from end to end aion aionios. aud every form of tho word i8 used ju tho Bille continusily iu a limited gense. Lbo luw was to bo an overiasting cove- nant. Mr. Reed must becomo & Jew, or abandon his position that the word in dispute has the mosa- mg bogivesit. Will he discard Christisnity be- cause tho Jewish aion was to bo aionios or Lis interpretation of tue word ? THE LOGICAL KON-SEQUITUR, with which be closes, deserves notica - Inasmuch us the noun aon i some connections sig- nifiea “forever,” “eternity™ (s above shown), it sorzns clear and reasonabie that tho sdjective aionios was used by the New Testament writers to denote “ eternal,” “ everlasting,” in their statements concern- ing s fatire life, Because “ great ™ means “infinite” when ap- lied to God, therefore s great fy is -infinite. by not exy, rather. as the nour does not mean #eternity,” the adjective cannot? The two or three assumptions inthe paragraph concerning ** ruin,” ¢ perdition,” **destruction,” etc., only need to be referred to. The word olethros denotes the ruinoua consquences of wrong-doing, regardless of duration. Mr. Reed hasa ‘. DIFFICULT JOB OX HRAND. His self-imposed task is, to get out of a branch (without grattiog) what the Toot doos not con- tain; tofindins philological effect what tho cause does not possess. This he caunos do. 1 submit, then, Mr. Editor, that, afterso feeble s defense {rom one who is 80 able when he has a good caso, Mr. Reed's client, an endless hell, Suonld be ¥ dismissed, with coats.” Cmicaco, March 9, 1574, . W. Haxs0R. Letter from NMr. J. B, Jordan, . To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune Sm: Last Sundey’s Trinuse (March 8) con- tained s learned and somowhat critical article on theology, or ratbor on the meaning of certain Greek words 1n the New Testement, a8 applied to punishment, etc.. by our versatile and enter- prising State's Attornoy, Charles ‘H. Reed, Eaq: That article, in- my opinion, calls for areply; 2nd, a8 it author is, as I suppose, only a layman in the work of the Gospel-vineyard, I have thought it but proper that a layman shoxld taks some aotice of it. I therefors zracesd to do 80: And firsts ‘MR. REID ADMITS, at the outset, that the Greok noun aiom, in its logitimate aid’ proper meaning, signifies &n in- definite, and, therefore, limifed, period of time, —as *“the life of man,” “‘ane’s life-time," * lifo,” “anage” or “gencration ;" which fact Ialso admit, Tt is not nocessary, therefore, to tako up room in quoting from lexicons and learned com- mentators io proof of this definition. It ia the commonly-accepted one by all the best authori- ties, - The most common ides of the word aion, and I think most correet (if 1 may be allowed the exprossion), is “age,” *age-lagting,” or ** during s %% never, I thik, nsed to denvio “enaless duration,” and can, of itself, naver havo such -mesning., Lot that be mnderstood. . After giving the trhe mesniog of this word, 88 above stated, Mr. ieed adds: * The foregoing are unquestionably the coriect Gelinitions . of aion ; thereloie, it may bo admitted that theorig- ipal mesving of aion was ‘life,’ as siated by Dr. Beecher, But this by no msaus disproves the doctrine of future eternal puuishment, for there is another word—nu adjecuve—nsed in the New: Testument, whick bes only the meaning, “lasting,' *coustant,’ *perpetusl,’ *everlastiug, ‘gternal’ This word is aionios.” Tught hero is the poist stissue. In the first ‘place, aionws is B NoT “ ANOTHER WORD," ‘but s the same word elougalcd and chaoged into a0 adjective. Will Mr. Reed be good euough to tell us how sn edjective can mean more, or bo 1wade to moan more, than the nvun from which it is derived 7 Such a thing, I underiake to eay, 18 impossible, as well ay contrary to all rules of langusge. ' If aion meads ‘“*age,” or fo,” or an indefinito period of time, then aionios csn calv mean * age-1asting,” or ‘* daring the age or life,” or, at most, & long, but indefinite and lim~ ited, pertod of Limo. That is the mest that can be eaid of 1t ; and that, I am plersed to say, in exact accordance with the weight of suthority throngnout the iearned Canstian world. 'Itis the general teetimony of learned commeutators and fexicographors ‘o world over. ‘T am pro- pared to say, sud do say, that aionios—translat~ ed “eternal " aod “ever:asting” in the New Tessament—never does mean. and cannot mean, “ endless.” unloss the subject to which 1t 13 &) plied is, in and of 1tself, uf endlesa duration. - “puuishment,” (or, 88 the - original - means; & chugtisement ) 10 and of itself and by ite na~ tare, *endless’’? Is “lifo” ““endless™? If not, then the application of ainios or aionion CANNOT MAKE THRM ENDLESS, nor signify eudless in duration. 5 Al lexicographers,” says Alr. Roed, ‘“agres that gionios always maans_‘coustaut,’ * lasting,’ fperpetual,’ ‘everlusting,’ *of long duratin,’ lu{{i:ln:m they a t one of the ;) suppose they do; not one of them says femeade » Godless,” o * pever-codiog.” As T Lave end, the testimony of the ablestand best Biblical veholars—the woight of authority among the learued—1s, that it means simply 2 long bat indefinite time,—most nearly expressod b; the terms * ago-lasting,” or *during tho sge;" and that is, in my opinion, correct. But, says 3lr. Keed, " Whenever, in the New Testament, the doctrine of a futuro eterusl life i8 taugbt, this adjeciive qionids.is used, con- joined with the Greek word zoe-* Life,’—or some Toim of ion” And sgsin: * The doctrize of future eternal lifa L founded solely upon these Words in the New Testament. - If “they do not prove the doctrine of eterul life, then it cannot be proved in the New Tertament.” 'hin is a most surprising siatoment, to come from one who makes sny pretension to 8 knowl- €d3e of the New Testament, to say nothiog of ke original test of thac book, It i simply an . APPEAL, TO IGNORANT PREJUDICE. And, ssa fitting response to the sbove =aser- ticas, I state thé following, which I hold myself Tesdy and ablo to prove, viz: that the adjective gionios,Cor dionion, is probably nover used in the ew Tes:ament, by Christ or any of His Apos- tles, to prove or describe tho doctrine of the fature eteroal life, or life beyond the grave, nor in Conection with that Uife. Thia may be, and loubtlees will be by many, consideied a3 start~ g -and ‘presumpiuous a statement ss that by Mr. Reed. I mantain, however, that it therefore, who bis ea -his hopes of a fuiuré and happv existence upon the word aion,’ or any of “ita derivatives or “‘adjectives,” haa but - A POOR FOUNDATION ' b (m-B fl:clh hopelu.d o 3 . P at Lo conclude the crushing argument, a doustloss Togards.it, M. Keod vafors to that familiar snd oft-quozed passsge, in Matt., xxv., 16: “ And they shall go awav into everlasting {aionion] ?uum_hm_enl. but the righteous into life eternal™ ‘[aionion zoen] ; and argues that, as the same word, aionion, 18 usad Lera to qualify “life" 28 well as “punishment," or kolasin in tho Greck, gud ‘as ¥ cternal life” means the future and enfless life hereaftor, or in the fu- turo world, therefore the “ pinishment™ must algo be ** endless,” and in the fature world, etc. . Iadmit, of course, that the same Greek word is here translated * eternal ™ and ** everlasting ;" and that, if one is without end, the other prob- sbly is also; that they are the same in duration, andrefer to the sama eveut, time, and nge, o dispensation. -Bat T deny1bat; in either cuno,— tho “eternallifo” or the * everlasting puuish- meat,"—anything is meent -or ‘intended boyond this world of sin and suffering. In other words, I deny that the aionion zoen--‘‘eternal ifeé"— bere spoken of ~ refers to or means the lifo bevond the' death of the body. The scenes _and.' events spoken of . by our Bavior, in Matt.,xxv., 46, and the whole sub~ ject thera referred to, took place, and at least commenced to be fulfitied, ONVER EIGHTEEN HUNDRED YEARS AGO. If this bo true,—and I feel myself sble to prove it by Just rules of interpretation and ar- gument,—then Dr. Edward Beocher aud other Otthiodox divines aud_commontators are corroct in saving that the torm *everlasting punish~ ment " does not rofer to the futuro state of ex-~ istence, snd does Dot mean & punishment with- out end,—all of which I believe to be trae. For fear of making this article too loug, I stop here for the preseat. J. H. Jonpax. e T TIMES’ NASTINESS. To the Editor of The Chicado Tribune: Smm: I aw a letter ia Sunday’s TRIBUNE about the low, slangywayin which tho Timies is gotten up. Iforonoam glad some one has.ventured to say something about it. Ido oot sea it very often, for polite husbands &re very quiet abont the Times,—scarcely or mever letting it getin the house. Msny resd itst their offices, and lenve it there for kindling; while Tur TrInuxs is delivered at the door of the house every morn- ing. When I do sco the Times, I am thorougbly disgusted ; it seems so light and trashy 10 compo- sition. I have to rend 8o mnch to get a little, And it is always running down the othier deily papers, until even people who aro not interestod get really mad, for the Times ie the most valgar paper thiat ever camo within'myperusal. Mean- whileit is particularly uncouth in its remarks sbout women. If weall had the perseveranco that Lid.is Thompson had, horse-whips would be ingood demand ; but we, collectively, have had to grin snd bear it, aud Lave insults thrown in our faces one after another. But Imusteaya word at leagt in sel{-defense. BEFINEMENT. . Cr1caGo, March 11, 1874 v 4 CURRENT COMMENT. “rrr POR TAL” " From the Augusta (Ga.) Constituttonal. Trr For TaT.—Several religious vewspapers ‘nhaving attacked THE CircAGo TRIBUNE for pub- lishing an advertisement of s doubtful charac- ter, thit paper retorts by selécting from the col- umns of the relgions press a considersble string of ndvertisements of whose immorality there is little or no doubt at all. THE RELIGIOUS PRESS AND SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS. From the Tuscola (11L.) Journal, Mimsters of the Gospel seem to be making a special effort at this time to prevent their flocks from reading secnlar papers on the Sabbath. We make no objection to this, but insist that they include at least & portion of what ara designated relicions papers. » Many of these shoets, such as the Interior, Advance, Christicn at Work, Norihwestern Christian Advocate, sod Indepe%dent, sro to-dsy publishing lnring swind- ling advertisoments and puffing quack nostrama. They are no mora entitled to be read on Suuday thsu auy other papers. SWING-PATTON. . From the Quincy (/L) Whig. 3 The Inlerior aunounced last week that the ;neutiona raised in its colamns with reference to rof. Swing's orthodoxy are to be brought before 8 Presbvterian tribunal for adjustment, and that the discussions in the Interior mmcumln§ them would consoquently be discontioned. In this connection it may not bs amiss to present the pictuzes of the principal parties to this doctrinal controversy, aadrawn by the Catholic Vindicalor. Hero is Prof. Swing : Prof. Swing {5 one of the modern claes of Presby- terian divines, who possess o long-legzed intellect, tust scorns the flimsy obstrnctions of sectarian dog- matiem, and nimbly glides over the bobnailed Orthodox fencea o browse in the pasture of any sect eontaining fodder congenial to his eplcurcan tastes. 2 And this is Dr. Patton: . A straight-laced, perpandicularfaced brother, who Das planted himseif inside of the Presbyterian inrlos nre, and insist that the walls are porfectly air-tight, in the faco of 2 breach Jarge enough to permit the pas- sago of » tourist-clephunt’ with bagasge: and who furthermoro ks, by reason of his position as chicf porformer on the grest Presbyterian organ, nppolnted Rfmeclf to perform the oneroia dutyof spaniing into Orthiodox submission any - curious nrehin whom he notices astride of the bars and longingly gazingat forbidden clover. 3 The result of Brother Pntion’s attemnt to spani: Prof. Swing back into the ancient, bloak, sod barren pzstmes of Orthodoxy will be looked for with a rood deal of intereet by evory- body. The probability is, nowever, tbat. the Profassor will contlnua o browss around. wher- ever he can' find the juiciest clover, derpite the Doctor's endeavors to make him feed on the eapless husks of primitive - theolory that are & wmatter of two or three centuries old. ** A’ THEOLOGICAL DELVGE.” From the New Haven (Conn.) Pwladium. Chicago is at present aflicted with & theolog- jcal defuge. Tme TnizUNE of that ‘city appears to Liave engaged several D, D.’s as assistant edi= tors, and dovotes several colnmns every day to controversial discussion. One imporiant ques- tion, a8 yet undecided. is whether !hgl Rev. Dr. Tatton, who is & Professor in 8 Theolegical Seminary, aud who, in his leisure hours, edits s religious paper, was or was not imported to Chi- cago by McCormick of reapwg-machine fame. ‘Tug TRIECNE insists that he was, whiie others as strenuously contend thathe was not. But, whether imported by Mr. sleCormick or not, there can be no doubt of the fact that Dr. Patton has n poor opinion of Dr. Swing's_orthodoxy, and regards bim s sitoge'lier ome of the tnrezemerate. Both sre Presbytorians, and we are promised the edifying spectacle of an ecclesiastical trial, since Pation Swing ia s sort of Chicago Bzecher, who Taws Jargo audiencos, and ehocks bis more siraight-laced brothren. The laity are ming'ing in the fray,—a Mr. Recd, who is Sta:e’s Attor- ney, rushing into prin 'toquestion the state- meats mado concerning the eternity of ‘future unishment by the Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher. ‘s discagsion involyes soveral nice’philological questions, and ‘Mr. Reed appears ‘to en- terinin a8 little respect for Dr. Boecher’s Greck scholarship a8 be ' does for his theology. The layman, it is, perhaps, Tneces- sary iosay, ia soverely Orthodox. The most livoly theological row in tho theological city is that in which the Rev. Florence dcCorthy beers the mon? prominent part. Mr. McCarthv is of Hibernian origin, and inherits the national pro- clivity for s fight. He is, if wesre not mis- taken, what soms one hes cailed & weed from the Pape’s garden, but at present belongs to tho Baplist perzunsion. Having some -little diffi- culty with his congrogation, Jir. McCarthy took to writing lettera to his refractory parishioners, in which ho informed them that, they did nobt _behave themselves.: they would be struck bliud before the end of the month which he gave them forrepentance. Thia he told them not becanse he’ hated them, but ont of the groat love ho bore them, and all his threatening lettors are signed ** Yours affection- ately.” Mr. McCarthy's opponents locked him out of the church, whereupon he took to drs- coursinig in billiard-rooms. For theso and ki~ dred offenses Mr. McCarthy 18 now on trial, and his doings 0‘““1; & great dealof epace in the Tocal journala. -Weary with secnlar amusements, Chicago ‘appears to be indalging in s graod ‘theological debsuch, by the side vof which the minor, controversies of Whitelouse and Cheney seem almost void of interest. ~ ° £ B -7+ THE NEXT CONGRESS. - - From the Dubugue ([u.) Telearaph, - Tax Cr10460 TRIBUNE 18 looking ahead, and directs attention to the next Cougrossin such a wway thaj we Jook in the samo direction,: and agroe with Taz TRIBUNE a3 to what the next Congress oughbt to do. “ But the important thing ia to get 8 Congrosa to'do it. The first stepis for the people to do their duty ; that is, to efock & Congress that will ‘ba represontativea of the -popular will and servants of . the: popular in- terest. -That is not tho charactor of the prosent **' REPUBLICAN IDEA OF REFORM. i is susceptible of the cleatest proof. Yo may take way, blot out from the New Iestamental Tecord, the word aionios or giomon wheiever it occurs, and you will not affect or iujure the doo- Lrine or truth of A future-life, 9r the .condition ©f that life,~the immorial lifeLeyond the grave, . by (s Waight of & festher, The Christian, *.! From the Burlington (Ia.) Gazelte. 3 * The Mount Pleasant Journal spesks of Txk Om10aco TRIBUNE a8 the hay-sesd papor, in de- vision of its defending’ the Reform-move of the Grangers. ' It is timo the people of the State understood-how 'the -iadioal pspars'atasil in re- gard Lo the Baform-move. ss presented Swing for teaching bere- | Address by Col, E. Jussen to the Philo- sophical Societys The Teabhings and Policy of the Jesuits, The Course of the Ultramon- ' i tanes in the Franco- i _'Prussian War. Necessity for Restrictive Measures ‘. by the German Govern= ment. the Jesuits---State Control Expulsion of - of Education. Action of Other. Countries. Yesterdny evaning, at the regular meeting of the Philosophical Scciety, Col. Edmond Jussen delivered the following address on *‘ Ultramon- tanism in Germany.” The other procecdings of the Society will be found in another column: .:We live in au age of progresa. . The power of uneuswerablo logic, thodissecting and searching sagacity of man’s reasoning faculties, are batter- ing dow the strongholds of igoorance and super- stition wherever civilization has obtained a faot- hold. Allsround us wo Lear the Apostles of darkness clamoring for assistanco., To the right sud o the loft of us the nltars of & dogmatical and parrow-minded creed are trembling before irresistibla argument. Science, inspired by the sacredness of its cause, has entered the srena with impetuous bravery, and ‘though we may not live, nor may oar children live, to greot "tho final victory, yof. we confidently. hope that at last the day will come when the genius of men will gatber the fruita of is siruggles, and when, upon the scientificachicvement of 6o~ lightened ages, our descendants will eroct a sya- tem of religious and political liberty so grand and beautiful that all the glories of the pnst, all the boast and pride of ancient or .modern civili- zation, will pale befcre the light, the grandeur and the virtuo of this future. * : PROGRESS MADE. . Look at the . progross. we have made since scieuce aud empirical phbilosophy began to puncture buman prejudice sod supersti- tion. - The first geographical discov- eries. banished all the fairies, nymphs, and demi-gods from the face of the earth. At first the Olrmpus ana Elysium of the ancients, 28 well a8 the garden ot Eden, were removed bo- yond the seas to uuknown cossts, then pious imagination was forced to ascond to the clouds to find 2 resting place and s location for tho heavenof ita creation ; and, driven from this posi- tion, buman faith waa at last compelled to resoit to tho stars. DBut even here scienco instituted its action of ejoctment, and, a5 the Indisn ro- troats further and further before the rostless ad- vance of civilization, so must this last supersti- tion yiold to_coustantly increasinz knowledge. Astronomy destroyed the fanciful buildings among the setars, and tho etherial land of_promisa was. obliterated without mercy and witliout compunction of couscience. ** Wharever the telescope,” says 2 modern Germau philoso- her, * carried tho gazo of man, that gaze was follosved by the immutable laws of mathematical ealculation, leaving no space for s hesvenly structare,” . And tbus the fairics and the angels, tho fiOdB of the murmuring water aud of the rustling -wood, the divine . creatures reposing upon the rosy edge of a eunlit cloud, or prome- nadipg smoug the glittering orbs, revolviug in infinife spaco, were ruthlessly oxpelled from tho world of reality aud consignod to tho realms of mghim legend aud poecical fiction, ut, bright as the present muy secm,compared with the past, we can us yot not bosst of & great- er achievement than that we have barely emerg- ed from the dismal swamps of igporsnce, aud that, through the dense wood shesd, we can faintly perceive & dim and struggling ray of light. 2 ENEMIES IN THE PATH. = We knoyw tho course and direction of onr pat we know that wo have turned car faces towar tho light, we know tha road that should lead tho human raco to a higher standard in politics, in morsle, aod in true religion, but alas ! we know 180 that' s mighty host is obstructing the way, and that the batteries of . stupidity aud darkness &re preparng to play upon us all “along our live of march. Luc we have faced this enemy too often to be frightened at his show of battle, and, believing in the ultimate success of tho right, e sro cver ready for the frayin bebalf of pro- greusive ideas. ' THE ULTRAMONTANISTS. Of all the enemics with which we have tocon- tend, none are 80 crafty, 80 well orgsmized, 5o ekilled in sttack, 8o sudtlo In defense, rone are #o dangerons to true civilization and progrees, 80 inimical to_tho development of truth, 23 the vastarmy of the Ultramontanes. As I have the honor to address an audience familiar with Eu- ropesn events. it would be_quite superfluous to narrate the history of the Uliramontane party at anv great length, nor will it be necessary for me to prove tho face that this: party is” the child of Jesuitiem, and that its prinerples, smbition, and fums are 1dentical with those of the disciples of Ignatius Loyola. To-day Jesuitism avd Ultra- | ontavism ro synonymous terms ; the latter js the logical consequence of the former, and, in order to éndgo of tho charzcter of the offspring, we need but cast a glance at the aotecedents of its for-famed progenitor. But we raust leave tho soil of this Republic, which, until within & very few years, was comparatively froe from the in- ! fluence of 'this politice-clerical organization, and repair o the States of the Old World in order to find the priacipal battle-fields and landmarka of Jesuitivm. . PRINCIPLES OF JESUITIGM. - Ever since tbis society -was called into life, it has, with su admirable and never-wevering | consistency, directed all 1ts eforts towards the sivgle sim of Papal supremacy, & suptemacy, | which was to be subject to'no power under tlie aun, to be controlled by no infinence upon eerth, but that of the “Society of Jesus.” In othor words, the great dream of Jesuitism bas always been identical with the dream of the Ultramou- tano party of to-dav; the establishment of & universal Ropublic, with the I’ope as sole Presi- dest, or ratber as solo Autocrat aud Judgs in worldly as woll 2sin religious matters, subject {onlyto the guidanco of tha subtla snd crafty | Jesuits, Thomas Campanclla, s well-known Cutholic writer, says the ides of a world-stste can only be realized through tho Church of Rome after the manaer of the middle couturies, with the Pope a8 the Chief Rulerand Judge ina universal ** Republica Cnimstiaaa.” ‘Taparelli, auother Catbolic writer, who issued ‘i proplecies trom outthe sacred walls of Rome, informs us with o'sublime confidence aud & fer- vent zeal worthy of ‘a botter cause,” *‘ National unity is anavoidablo. The futare wnivoreal Ite- ‘public will bave bat one Executive and one book of 1aws. Hardly mors than a contury will elapse % | beforo ap intornational tribune will beorganized, which will have the authority and power to rulo the world, and the Pope and bis Cardinals will naturally compose this tribunal and fill the chair oF This Bxeoativa." What a blessing, my friands, that we are doomed to die before Lhis century elgpses. What'a e lamentable, disconuolate rospect _for -our children or childrea’s chil- rom, if any of them_ should hive to so the day when this Yimu vision ghould become a wither- ing reality i THE POPE THE BOLE RULER. 1 have thus briefly touched upon the ‘funda- mental hopo of Jesuitism, because. without understanding perfectly tho sim and purpose which these men pursue, it would be utterly im- ossible to understand and judgoe anght the geedu which they have performed and the doc- trines which they teach. The well-known Jesu- itical maxim, *The “end ‘justifies the means,” | censes to bo paradoxical and illogical, when we ‘take into consideration that these zealous advo- ‘cates of Papal Bupremacy pretend to cherish the conviction that all existing forms of government are, in their moral, political, soclal, andreligions effect immeasurally inferior to the great bless- ings which would inevitably follow tie insugu- Tation of the Pope 2s the quasi-Emperor of the world, guided solely by the great mnds who impibed their wisdom from the doctrines of Jes- uitiem. To reach this selfish aim all means seem logitimate to these entbusiasts. For this ‘they have been the eremies, the rt a:tionary ele- ‘| ment.in -the path of national dovelopment of mankind on the tield of religion, of morals, of “politics, and of sowal lifa. s J-vre s %t- WHAT MAS RERN DOFR.... - acd | "o anhance ths induence ef thair Bocisty, that DAILY £y BUNE: . SUNDAY, MARCH 15 1878 at last npon this foun n they might erect the anbrialed power of Rome, they Lave been guilty of the most -incousistent d of the most illogical teachings and conduct. - Lake the devil- flsh of Victor Hugo, they bave stretchod forth their glutinous arms in every direction, and have taken & firm hold of all clueses of socioty, What have -these men nol dono to attain their final aim,—to create o univorspl bierarchy, with the Pope s abeolute religious and political rales, and this ruier 8 mere purpet o the hands of their Order. During the last 300 years tho Jesuits of the loug and of the short Tube have practiced overy crime and every virtue known to the laws, to courcience, and to human imagination. Coameleon-like they change their color with every motion. They have beeu Atho- ints and zealots, defenders of the oppressed and fawning fatterers of despols; at oue time en- thusiastic supporters of Lepubhcanism, at au- other the mou{ loyal subjects of Royalty, Full of indignant virtae when refusing absolution to the poor mirguided scrvant-maid, snd crouching witls servilo tiattery in the Iluxurious boudoir of gomo powerful 1oysl mistress. Jesuits bave traversed occans and deserts. to teach the Goapel to the beathen, perchance to suffer the agopios of maityrdom, at the same time snd for thie smno end that other mémbers of the brother- hood encouraged the mighty of the earth in all catscoivable crimes. Jesuits have beea forgerors, Tourdel ers, spics, and thieves, benefactors of the poor, spostles of peace, and éxamples of “charicy und pood will, all at the proper-time and place, as the interests of their Order demanded it, 2 HOW EXPLAINED ? But how is this consistent conduct to be ex- laiuéd? How 18 it that mewbers of the sama 1der can be paragons of virtue, while others are the very incarnatiou of all that is sinful and crimi- nat? Grauted, you will say, that the crimes as well as the virtues may be considered nccessary to meet tho end of Jsuitism, bow can this Order sLupe its members into such pliaut tools, that ono will commit a cnmo with tie same complacency of conscience with which auotber would perform o meritorious xction 7 Lliore 18 but ous spswer to thig question, aud that answer is final and con~ clusive. , ‘. PLIND OBEDIENCE. The first fandamental priuciple of the so-called Sacioty of vesus is bliud, impl it obedionce, the passive, silent obedience of a corpse. **Be obe- dient like & corpue” is ono of the most impera- tive provisious . of the Jesuitical statutes. It tbe commission of & wrong is demanded of a brotber, he must oboy. His first duty 14 to obey; he i8na: respongivlo for the con- saguences of bis acts. Tho Jesuit General in 2oma is the universal conscience ; the whole So- cioty is like pliablo wax in his hands. Whatever fie considers necessary for tha interests of the Order mast be done. ~ An individual member of tao Society dare not cobsider whother the act de- manded of him be right or wrong; bis con- science is not in his own keeping. A corpee can- Dot renson, it cannot resist, it can ouly eilently obey the power that moves 1t. - Gea. Beckz at Tomo is tho resson, the inteliect, the judgment, the contcience of every individuul member with- 1n tho Order which bhe rules. Ignatius Loyola praised Johiannes Abbas s the most holy of men, because, obedicnt to the command of his supe- Tiors, Le poured water upon dead wood for more than a year, 2nd daily undertook to move s rock, which a bundred men- could not have lifted ou of place. . - Bishop Reinkers, in a recent lecture to the Old Catholics of Cologme, gave the following illus- tration of the Jesuitical maxim of obedience: «1f the Superior saith to 2 brother: *Tako this flower and plant it ‘with the bloesoms in tho earth and the root ia the air,’ the biother must not_ouly willingly perform thoe allotted task, ‘but be must also believe that it s all fer the best.® If tho Superior teils him: *This has been thoiden of God, the Almighits, when he created this flower, it is wrong .that the flower lifts its blossoms upward,’ the brother must be- leveit. Inspite of all Lia experience, his early teaching, his powa:s of reasomng, ho daie nut for 8 moment doubt the proposition.” Indeed, it is neithor miraculous nor surprising that with such faith, such implicit ubedieace, such subor- dauation, compared with which the discipline of the best troops of thé world is riolous disorder, the Jesuits should bave achieved such immenso social, political, and relizious influence. The wondoris only tbat they have not sccompliahed more than they can boast of to-day, that the sound commoa eense of the nations of the earth that the spirit of progress have_ not sucoumbed ‘entiroly to this subtle -enemy.’ The victory of ho cause of civilization thus far is only another exemplification of the besutiful proverb, tho war-cry of science and of philosoply: *Truth is mighty and will provail.” : ‘With this general introduction T think I may safély E’mneed to the discussion of my subject : *The Ultramontanes of Germany.” f P THY LAST DECADE. Let us discard ad preconceived judgment based upon the history of the remote _past, and view Uliramontanism™ oply in the light of the events of tho lasc decade. If there was uota single blood-stained leaf to be found in the s~ tarical record of this perty, not a singlo deed to be condemned, not a doctriiio to bo exeerated,— if, I say, previous to tha.year IBM%Lho disciples of Loyols and their féllowers had been the very embodiment of - Christian virtue, honor, toler~ ance, aad’_love, still I maintain that sinco that time they have piled proof upon proof, fact apon fact, until auch a mountain of damnmy evidenco bas been formed against them, that the most uusophisticated and chuldlike soul! must be con- vincod that theso mou, their principles ond aims nre the wmost dangerous impediment that ever, since the world began, arvse in the path of human development. . TUE AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN WAR. When. in 1866, war was suddzaly derlared be- tween Prussia and Austrie, the wiole Uluramon- tano party of both countrics wasentbusiastically in favor of Austria,* Not that this - faction be- lioved Austris had rightand justice on its side,— no, there wos no great moral, prineiple which aroused (he sympathies aud emergies of these men,—but to themit was simply sud solely tho intereat of the Roman hicrarchy, the fata of their dream: the “* Republica Ohristiana universalis,” that was trembling in tho balaace, and they wept bitter toars of anger, grief, sod disappoiutment when the victory of Sadowa placed Prussia at the head of the German people. 1f Austria had been victorions,—if s Catbolic power had seized the reivs of . Germany,—there would bave been s prospect of retarding German progress and Ger- imen science, and, in the same measure in_which the darkuess would have incressed, tho. chances of Papal supremacy wonld Lave assumed a brighter glow of bopo. DBut Sadows_sent theso traitors mourning Lo their homes. It is o fact which, in the characterization of those advo- cates of a Roman regime,, became of the first importauce, that not ouly twe Ultramou- tanes residing 1 Austria, but every member of the party witin the bonndories of L'rusai prayed, nnd worked, and hoped for the downfal of tho Protestant power snd the victory of Austris.. Thongh born on the soil of Prussia, thongh-bred and reared to manhood withi its limuts, thero was not coe of these recresnt men who did not curse with all his hatred and spit yiih oll bis vonom mpon the bright Jowels of Sadown.. To them, patriohwm was a myth, an iliusion, & deadly sip pernaps ; they were im- bued with .a epirit of hat.ed sgainat all that opposed Koman supremacy, their love of couniry had been strangled ; they weie lost, utterly lost to one of the noblest emotions of the buman heart, tise love for tho laad of their fathers, and Sadows, which inaugurated o new era of progress in Emope, could not touch & single sympathetic chord in their natures. As tho reo- eis_of .the North mourned at tho sucrender. of Vicksbarg, the fall of Ssvannab, and tho vie- tory at Appomattox, 80 did the Ultramontanes nide their faces in ‘sorrow and in angwsh when Catnolic Austria Lauled down its flag and sue- eambed to the victorious arms of Prolestunt Yrosma. i TIE FRENCH WAB. . A few years of comparative peace followed, Tiie, fires ware smouldoriog bineath the plasid surface. Louis Napoleon and the French people became restless aftor the great battle, which 1 created Prussia one of the first powerain Earope and Bismurck the firat of Enropean statesmen. Meanvlula the Ulusmontaues of Paris diligent iy assisted in arounsing tlie exéitable and ambi- tious Frenchmen to a state of frenzy, scd all at onve tha _iveane cry of *“ Reveuxze, rovenge for Badowa” rung through the French capital. Louis Napoleon was forced against his will and agaiust 1us bolter judgment to vield to the entreaties of the Empress of - France, that trao and intensely < loyal child of Rome; he =as (orced to give way to the power of his people, and, upon a pretense 80 shallow that it is not worthv of even a bare menuon, he declared war sgainst Prussia. ._Ah, my friends, that was & glorions day for the Tltramontanes of Germany | That, the grast ‘French nation would specdily cross the Bhine ; that'from the baoks of this famona stream the brave snd impetuous Freochman would carry his banmers victorionsly to tbat pesthousa of Profestantim aud Liberalivm, to the City of Berlin, the home of - Bismarck and Moitke, -of Virchow and Handel ; that the defeat and rout of the German forcea would be complete, speedy. and irreparable ; that therenpon Germany would be torn asunder, the Saxop, bound hand aud foot, chained to- the triumphal car of the ‘vio- torious Latin race, -the temporal power of the Pope ro-eetablivhed, and ‘the star of Rome rise higher than ever before, no true Ultramontane bad apy maaner of doubt. But the gods decreed _otherwise. -The sturdy Teuton scaltered the Fronch legions like chaff ‘before the whirlwind, and the wae which bad for 4ts purpuso tue anuihilation of s Protestant Ger- map power, the diumambermant of Germsay, the “shoald not decide in perfect accordance with justice, .this encroschment upon civil rights would not justify The most intoleral ascendenoy the re-establishment of the temporal power of ihe Pope, enaed with & united, victorious, and pro- gressive German Empire. And bere permit me to say that as a German- American citizen, 1 freely and"gladly tender my undiviced allegiance and all the efforis and ener~ gies of my manhood to the country of my adop- tiou, but I would be unworthy of the blessings of our free institutions if I were destitute of all sympathy for my native land, if 1 could disown thie German blood, that npou the soul of Franca was 80 lavishly, =0 bravely poured. forth in de- fence of the progressive ideas of the nineteenth century. 1do not glory in the military renown of the German people. I will not bosst of its Eraat achievements upon the so~called field of onor, but that German nation has so gloriously won tha good tight agaiust tho powers of dark- ness, agninst the ensimiea of tolerance and true civilization,—the memory of this indisputable fact will'send the bloed tomy heart in tumul- tuous joy, and thrill my sonl with immeasurakle pride aod matisfiaction to the last moment of my exisience. i REOFENING WOSTILITIES. * But oven tho establishmeot of the michty German Empire bas not ditcouraged the friends of Roma. Hardly bas the blood -dried from the bactletields of France,~hardly have the victims of that tremendous struggle mouldered in their graves,—and tbe TUltramontabes are slreadv Iooking forward to a reopening of hostilities. 4 second war with France, they fain would believe, will change the present aspect of Luropean af- fairs, France is rapidly musiesing its strength, sod its mcst trusty athes—the Ultramontancs— arg unceasingly, and in part successfuliy, under- min.ng the peaco aud harmony of the vew-born Empite, in order to paralyze its strength in tha coming strugglo. e THE PROOF. Am I slandering the fricods of Rome?. Tet us search the records for the proof. It is full to overflowing with conclusive evidence upon the poiut in question. All over Germany ihero are abundaut sng unmistakable indications of thia treasonable purpose of Ultramontanism. Let it be my humble office to-night to gather these gcatterod proofs until their united weight cou- viyces the most skeptical understanding, A Ell_mce at that portion of the public press which is in tho pay of these zeelous friends of Rotme roveals the sspirations. of the Jesuitical party. The Davarian Folherland, s promiment organ of tha clerical party, is quits plain on tho subject and leaves no room for speculation. “The King of Prussia,” says the Fatheriand, *within 8 year after Sedan, is indisposed, se: ouely indisposed. It would Le a grest pity i deed if the King should not live to see the down {.é!,l:gdnfin of the so-called Germen Empire in The same paper thus defined the mission of the InterLationals, and called on all tho horrons of Communivm and enarchy to lend & hand in emiting the new-born German Empire: We do not love this German Empire of yours; we have never loved ft ; to us it ds oy a dark cloud fn the heavens, It ia well that you yourself will erolong doliver us from this evil. Think of the Uving justico of God, the Internationais, who will take vengesnce on you in the pame of God and humasity. The Correspondence -of Genera, industrinlly circulated by the Jesuits throughout the German Empire, thus pours its oit upon the tioubled waters : " Tho Pope hoped at first to be able to conclliate the Governments of Europs; But to-day he sees plaizily that the hour of cliarily his passed, and that sooner of later he must inaugurats an era of somplete and ime placablo justice. 1f the States ceaso to recognize the Church, tho Church csn no longer .recognize the States, and thus tho worid will witnesa the most terri- blo butcheries, and the Gorernments will be sadly Ais- sppolnted if in this struggle they expect to find the masses on their side. . As the cloven foot Xoepn ont from the loog cloak of Mephisto and Letrayr his satanic na- tare, so does 'the fieudish purposs af sowing strife, disunion, religions hatred and fanaticism throughout the Gorman Empire etand clearly forth ae the moving spirit which dictates ona and all of these newspeper attacks. I could quote extracts from tho Ultramontans press, Iiko those I have cited, ad infinitum, if my argu- ‘ment requited any sccumulative evidence upon the point 1 question, and each and every ono of {hese newspaper articles would prove conclustve- 1y that the German Mimister Plenipotentiary ac- Credited to the Court at Paris judged th@ politi- cal s:tuation quite correctly when he informed Bismarck in hus official dispatches: * That the Lope for revenge on the part of France was closely connected with the organization of re- Tigious dissenwions 1z Germany, and that Ger- mzo streugth and unicy were to be crippled by means of rehigions strife inaugurated and trans- ferved to the soil of Germany by the clesgy of Brussels, Paris, and Rome, THE PULPIT. . But ot only the public press, but also the puipit and the rostrum, are pressed iuto the service of these infuriated advocates of tho Roman hierarchy. At a public meeting in the City of Cologme, wheze over 6,000 Catbalics wero assembled, and which was_called by tbe Ultra- montano leaders of the Rhenish Proviuce, the principal speakor closed s addiess with tho following peroraticn: The Catholics o’ Germany are charged with the sscred duty to crown that natlon with 3 wreath of laurcl which shall restore our Holy Father tohis righta, thotgh 1n the strife Germania herself shonld fall ‘weoping to the ground. Thundering applanse followed this speech, an unmistakable indication that religious frenzy bad taken possession of tho boarers, and that tho Jove of country had succumbed fos wildand ter- Tiblo fapaticism. There is po class of men upon eartl: that more perfectly understand the art to play upon the passions and prejudices of the Inasses aud to guide religions fervor into the dark channols of their own selfigh purposes than these same friends of Romo . Listen to this extwact of a sermon defivered from an Ultramontane palpit at Laibach, and then dispute my assertion if you can: The Popo 1s 80 ragged and poor that words fail to | Qcactibe his miseraiio condition, Too Christian people of Rome ruads a collection to enable im to buy anew coat, Immediately after the receipt of tha ‘money His_ Holiuess sent for a tailor, who took his measure, Waen the cost was done, the Pope paid tho bill and requested the tailor to distribute tho surplus money among the poor. The ragged coat wis ex- Lilited a8 @ proof of tho Pope’s poversy, and the faith- fal peoplo tare it Into sbreds to keep 28 boly relica. And the truthful priest wept bitter tears of compassion whilo he recited this touching story. ho can doubt that the ignorant masses, fully believing these ridiculous and absurd 1alschoods, become “highly incensed at all the elemonts of prozress and civilization, at every leading repre- wentative of liberalism in Germaany, becauso, as they are daily and hourly informed, liberalism and progress alone are the direct cause of the poverty of the Pope. THE SY).LABUS OF PIUS IX. % By their eforts to feed this Samo of relig- ions intolerauce and fanaticism, in order to di- vido the German people, thio Ultramontancs give practical atfect to tho spirit and_thoory of the famous syllabus issued by Prus IX. in 1854, ‘Lhis syliabus condemus io unmeasured terms liberty of conscionce aud of education, and od- vances the principle that, 1n all tuo States where different religions sects exist, none but tho Ko- man Catholic denomination. should of right be toletated. It further maintains that tho Apos- tolic authority extends over the laws of the whol» world, sud over all mankiod, and that overy true Catholic must recoguize this authori- ty unconditionally ; that civil government cau- ot execate its suthority without the avproval of the Church ; aud that every opinion contrary to this Papal decree sball bo everlastingly damuoed. ‘WAR ON BCIENCE. T assert, without the 1ear of successful contra~ diction, that . this Papal declaration is nothing more nor less than a declaration of war against the progress of, scicnce and civibzation, end sgainst all development in tho interost of truth upon the field of politics, religion, morals, and social'life, & voice from the dark tomks of the midale ages, when the Pope of Rome cceupied the highest throne on- earth, when the wrntiogs of eminent aod enlightaned men wero barned at the command of tho Vstican, when chbantiog priests sct fire to the stakes, to which the sen- tence of the Inquisition bad crmelly condomned the heretics, and when Galilie was put to the torcure because he was boldenongh to insist that in spite of Joshua snd the Bible, in spito of all orthodox creed and faith, the earth moved around its axis. ‘The Jeswmt fathers furnished elaborate com- mentarics to thia manifesto of tue Pope. If there could ever have been the slightest doubt about the true teoor and purpose of ~ this instru- ment, there can be nono now after the disciples of Loyols have commeated upon the text. At the very time when the Germzn Bishops indorsed the doctrines, purposes, and policy of the Jesuits, and thus made the cause of the Jesuits the cause of the Church, st the time when the fate of these same Jesuits was discussed in the German Diet, these bold enemies of German peace and ‘unity supplemented the Pope’s manifesto by an elzborate declaration of principles. I -do ‘pot wish to weary this sudienoe with s recital of all the planks of thig Jeswtical plat- form ; the reading of one, two, or threa of the maxims advanced will, I believe, be quite suffi- cient to judge of the' character of tha whols instrument. Say the Jesuit Fathars : In all discussions. between Church. and Stats the Pope alone can give the final decision, Even ux’xfl he an attack an the Church. hlo yoke impored by the holy (attee s, a8 Chartes, e Grest to be borns us lon. B e al candition wave Bote s foresd . 1y Recmalty to socard 18 qoal sighis with % i ‘race ‘over the Saxon, lgmagu. i i cirou permanency of the Napoleonic dynasty, the m:;fi o miry Liberty of conscience must be reject mstances may- srisa whea nr.ndun% Peaco and national unity are cnly a blassing to that nation, which is in possession of the trug religion. If the Intteris not the case, then civil war i+ sn iacomp- arably smaller evil than remaining in raligious error. These principles were first published_in the Cimlta Caltolica, s lesdirg orfim of the Jesuits, and. afterwards, when the7 bad been vehemeutly attacked atd cnticised by all the leading news- papers in Europe, they were emphatically reiter- ated and approved in ‘** Liberatori's " book, is- saed under the direct control and supervision of the Bociety of Jesus. i : TIE CONSEQUESCES. * What were the practical conseauences of these doctrites? We can look back upon the lasi two yesrs and. find thal the froiis sers as rotien as tho Beeds which produced them. Religious in- tolerance, which had been overawed and almost anuvililasted by the glorious victories nchieved sguinst the common encwy, azain raised its blood-¢.ained banner, and where, a fow short monthis a0, there had been one common feclin; of national prido and brotherly love, hatred mg religions fauaticism again divided the peoplo. "fo azgrevate thws distressing aud danmerons conditions of things the dogma of infallibility was practically carried out to its logical conse- quencos. Now I desire to admit right bere, that. ay hieretics, wo have nothing whatever to do with the religious side of thisdoctrino. If eny neigh- - bor choosey to- nelieve, thas the first 1opresenta- tive of his Chiurch is in purely religious matters a8 )n!nllible 83 the God of Christendom, he is entitled 1o his conviction, and I would be the last man to dispnte wilh bim. Thers are 3o many inconceivable thiugs taken for truth in thia world, that it makes litle practical difference whas addition i mads to the som of Orthodox faith. But it is the political tendency and effect of this llnhzmx ngpxnni which every friend of progress has au inpate mght and is i 1) bound to tako the field. e heny The Church claims that the doctrine of infalli- bitity means nothiog moro than that the Fopo is infalliblein all matters witiun his jurisdiction, which hio may decide ez cathedra, and that, as nis jurisdiction extonds only to religion and morals, the dogma can not posaibly epcrosch upnn o rights of tho Statc. Phe question arises, What is iuclnded in the term * morals * as defined by tho Charch of Rome? ' Gury's compendinm of moral theulogy, & text-book which has been in- troduced by the Josuits inzo all the Catholic schools and universities.of Germauy, -lta'y, F:ance, and Austria, detines this domiuion of the Church over the field of morals in tho following explicit manncr: ft embraces, says Gury, 1. All the acts of men. 2. Conscience. 3. The iaws, justice and its administration, property, the acquiring of proper:y, use of the same, gifts, loans, pledges aad interest, bills and exchange, rurchase and &ale, leases, contracs, etc., etc., in short thero is nob » mngle human act, duty, tratsaction, coniract, agreement, promise, o obligation known to the cinl or common law, or auy otber human law, which, sccording to Gury's moral theology, doea not fall dircctly within the Pope's jurisdiction, and which is not subject to his infallible and fnal jodgment and deereo, If thie State Las. jurisdistion at all, it is ooly con- carrent. and its decisions are only of force pro~ wided they accord with the infallible decrees of the Pope. : 4 PLEASANT SYLLOGISM. To intensify this principle aad give it practical effect, the Ultramontanes on every occasion, when they come in conflict with thelaws of the Btate, rwe the war-try of their party, ““Tlou shouldst obey the law of God before tho law of men;” and thus the authority of ' the Govern- ment Is virtually declared a¢ an ena. Upon this point the sopbistry of the Ultramontaes is in- tensely interesting. It is without exception tho most glaring_ exhibition of that threadbare fal- Jacy ia logic knova sa ressoning in a circlo, aod noargument equally absurd, I'venture to say, bas over offended the common sense of m: land or perverted the laws of logic. Hereitis: The Pope s tha representative of God on earth. God 18 infallible,—taerefure the Pope, a3 His represents- tise, is also Infallible, Being the infallible representa~ tive of God, his decrecs are the decrees of God, and if thoy condict with human law, buman law must go down, becauss thon shouldst obey the law of God bo~ fora the law of men. Some men may call this blasphemy, I content myself with recognizing 1t as a dangorows politi- cal abeurdity. Now, Iask in all candor, can 2ny Government upon earth tolerate the practical effoct of such reasoning, especially & Govern- ment that has as yet pot inaugurated the groat bleusing of a separation of Church and State, & Government under which the temporal and cler- ical affairs are so closelv iaterwoven and con- nocted as they are in Germany, where the pricata not only control the education of the children in the schools, and the hoart and conscience of the parents in fhe confessional, but_are also smong the most prominant representatives of the pao- Eze in the halls of the Logislature? It cannot depied that in view of - the inoumerablo in- trigues, in view of the teaching nod practice of the Ultramontanes, of which I'have givea but a meagro and not by any means exhanstive recital this ovening, in view of the undeniable fact, that the unity aud harmony of the people was not only endangered bat actually destroved, and the very existence of tho nation jeopardized, some ‘measures had to be taken by the statesmen and patriots of Germany to avert the threatening ruin, to connteract tho impendiag revolution. TUE CONFLICT BETWEEN CHURCH ASD 8TATE had become irrepressible. It was a strucgle for gupremacy. Either the Government must bow to the Vatican, or the Cburch must bo coufined to its proper limits. Dismarck was quite read; ready to grapple with the daugorous enemy, an Lis iron grasp has taken such firm hold of the throat of Ultramontanism that there is no fear ihat themouster will enjoya verylong life within the limuts of the empire. I certainly did nob not coms hers $o-night to protnnsea pacieg yrio on the “ Princo of Blood and fron,” ashois called by friend and foe, thongh I am profound- Iy grateful to_him for his_great deeds in bebalf of German unity aud Buropesn civilization, and, 8s 8 Gorman-American, I fully appre- ciate the fact that Biemarck, more than any other man, living or dead, contribuied to the curcumatauce, that German valor reaped its moral victories and German character ot last met with a just appieciution in every civilized country on the globa. My admiradon for ths genins of the man, however, does not provent me from romembering the fact that he stands upon & monarchical basis, and that, thouglh we may possibly sgree Wit hira 23 to the ends and urposes of the State, we cav, a8 citizens af 3 Republic, not approveof the form of government Which to him seems the. only embodiment of & ‘wise statesmanship, the only possibla solution of the great riddlo of politics. BISMARCE'S FOLIT: 1 freely admit that, from a purely Republicsn standpoint, we capnot fuily indorse all the means which the Prince haa employed to cou- uer the bydra-headed fiend of Ultramoutanism. ut it is unfair and aben:d to judge the man, or to form an opinion of the stravgle now raging in Germany. without taking the form of Govern- ‘ment, the existiug unity of Charch and State, and all surronnding circumstances, into con- gideration. Practical nod usefal politicians sl- ways reckon with things as.tiey actually exist. Jdeal politics consist of a wild clase after ab- stract theories, and ignore .all actnal surround- ings. The former have accomplished grand re- forms, and gaived invaluable victories on behalf of truth and awilization. The latter are as barren of results as tho fancifgl dreams of visionary youth. Bismarck fonnd that the clergy were controlling the pabiic schocis iu the intec- est of ome, aud undermining the patriotism of the vouth of the country : that, onder their teaching, & young army of Ultramontznes was rapidiy #rowing up, which might soon assist in endangering the pesce, unity, and eafety of the Jmpire: and, rememteriug the Jesaitical mazim that, ** Whoever controls the education of youth, coptrols the fature of tha country,” he placed a:l schools under the direct superintendence of tho State, and thus rendered invalaable sorvice, not only fo the Empire, _but to the canse of caviliza- tion aud truth, EXPULSION OF THE JESUTTS. The expul-ion of the Jesuits from the soil of Germany was the pext mesns of sell-defense adopted by the Prince and his suprorters. Six mouths' notice was givea them. and the pative- born Jesuits pormitted (o remain in Germaoy, the Government to select their place of resi- denco. Thin certainly seems Jiko s despotic en- actment, and I do not protend to deny that it is unrepublican in pature and epirit, aud could novor bo adopted under our form of Goseru~ ment. And yet did not Abraham Lincoln bauish Vallandigham beyond the lines, though ho was not by aus means as dangerous to the welfaro of our Union as the * Soctoty of Jesus ” to the peace and prosperity of the German Empijre ? ‘| And- did not Gambetta, tae Repuvlicaa Dic- tator of Frauce, send sll = the ~ Ger- man inbsbitonts | of Paris scross the Rhbine withont suy notice or tima for preparation whatever! But you will say this expulelon was decreed by Lincoln aod Gambetts while the country was i 8 stale of war, sod_Germany i3 atpeaco. At pesce, do you say? If you could Witiess the iutenso -excitement of the peopie, their fierce fanaticism sod intalerance; if you occasion to resd the stormy debales in the Gar- man Dies, the threats of Windihonst snd Von Morlingks odt,—tho. leaders of the Centro,~you wonld admit that .Germany, 1f not in the mdst, i5 8t lesst on the eve, of civil wer, and that it is, nat thoe fault of thoe Ultramontanes that as yst the smouldering fire- has not been fanned into a devouring fisme.. The expulsion of the Jesnits from..the soil ‘of Germsny under the ‘present form of Governmont sscms, -therefore, a4 justifizbie 8 mosxare ef maif-dafense as s’ forcible ejection Yookrag villain who, in tue garb of relizion, a3 1u tuy vame of vire tue, meekly cro ses vour threshhold to under- mine tug peace and honor of your home. - - And what, fot me ack. would France, even ins ~ state of peace, have dous. with the Jesuit Fa hors, if they bad been so bitta17 and opaaly opposed {0 1ts cause a8 they were to that o1 Ger- muay ? Iadmit, Frauce would nob Lave sent them into exile, but for .the resson only thai, long before ther conld have reached the bordcrs of tbe country, ths wfaristed populace would have been upon their -track and wonld hase torn them into shreds without mercy and without hesitaiion, ; OTHER ENACTSENTS, But vou mav say that all the other laws passed aga'nst the Ultramontaney, . the criminal code agaivst domugug.cal preachers, the Staze su- perintendence of the clerical institutions of Iearuing, the coutrol exercized by the Govern- ment uver.ths sppointment of priests, are e usur- pation .of ‘power by the Stats, a tyraunical: in- terfereaca wich the affairs of the hurch. - Thia woula be troe if Germany were not cursed wish suny ot Church sad State, and if clergymea wore not oficers in the pay of the State. ~ Why, then, You may arrue, if the German Liborals ars really advosates of truo progress, do they not & ouca pass o law declaring the separation of Church and State ? That truly is & coneumma- tion devoutly to be wished. Dut, lot mo ask you, Doyou remember the institution of Slavery, ana have you as yet not forgotten the ilissouri Compremise ? Why did you compromise a: =1l 2 Why did_yon not at once wips the curso of buman bondage from the Constitation .and statue books of the Republic? For the same reason, I presume, that the German Empire besitates to suddenly dissotve the uufioly mar- riage botween Churcaand State. Slavery was so interwoven with the intorests, projudicos. aad passions of the poople, that blood aud iron AlOGd could accomglish 1ts ‘sbelition, sud blood acd iron aloue, I feur, Wil ever realize the hopo of a speedy separation of Charch aud State in ths German Empire. 2 - Tt the advocates of Roman supremacy can do- rivo tho least comfort from the ‘admission, [ am quite willing to concede that the bost sud most Pprogressivo mon of the German Die: voted for sovoral of the measures agsingt Ultramontau- ism with cousiderable reluciance. They ara eageriy looking forward to the time shen onch exceptional laws will become nunecessscy in con- sequenco of the fioal separation of religious and secalar affairs, but until tbis goal is reached, they ere forced in self-protection to cast thair vote and inflaonce iu favor of every luw which will rid Germany of the wors{ enemies of its onity and peace. GERNAY LIBERALS. There is time enough, say theso German pa= triots, to turn our facea agminst the acbitrary epirit hidden in tacse measures, when it atracks tho progrossive elements and sapiraions of the nation, but while it clings to the heels of tha powers of darkness and ewil and saeks a romove from onr soil the greatest impediment to the onward march of our peoplo, we will bid it God spoed in the glorious chase. ‘And while the Liberals of Germany, as the true knights of the Holy Ghost, are riruggling againut thia rezctionary eloment, which wil not accord liberty of conscience, nor conceds the right of man'a political emancipatios, thoy do- serve the sympathy of every true friond of fres dom, Do matter where fato hea cast his lot, or gnllenhnmnbe removed from the ficld of attle. ception of France, whos tua Ultramontanes, aad France is blinded br ita thirst for revenge, o its representative men could not fail towee that the Boman hierarchy will in the cud be as daogerous to their country w1 it hos slways beon to every people wiom it ‘honored with its especial fiiendsnip and protee~ tion. * TItaly is making common cause with Germany in the struggle against the sspirations of Rome- Austria has “roceatly entered the arean with an unwavenng determination to confine tha clerics} powets within thewr proper limits throughout ics wide domsin. Switzerland felt' compelled, 1y defonse of the safety of its Repubficsa 1pstily~ tions, to transport an Ultramontsno Bishop gently acroes the lines. Eogland has scot greeting scross the channcy to the Liberal 'statesmen of Germany, who aro #0_gallantly bastling agaivst an arpressive priesteraft.” And Spain—the Republic of Spain —finds ita most bloodthirsty snemies in thesa very Ultramontsoes who have inapired and ja- sugurated the rebellion ; who, with tho crucifix in ono hand and the torch or blood-stsined sword 1n the dther, sre movinz' upon the Capital to in~ stall ono of the most loyal sons of the Chiurchas. the King of a priest-ndden people, to crown Don Carlos 28 the successor of the renowned [us- bella, whom alone, of all the womea o tais wide world, His Holiness thought worthy of tha sig~ nificant gift of a spotless rose, composed of di~ monds and pearls ; a brilliant emblem of paril and womanly virtue bestowed upou the mosl questionable virgin that ever diigrated & throne. . AMERICAX FEELING. Aud is it bere, in this Bepublic, whare thest enemies of all that is dear tothe friends of human development are to find a people in sym- pathy with _their aspirations and principle? 1 do not believe it. Are the men who are shunned saod dotested by the present patriots of all ‘mations on the European Continent to fook ta tho Now World, 10 a people which boasta of _ita rzpid march upon the Ligh rosd of " cisilization, for encoursgemont and sapport? I am happy in tho conyiction that the very propositioa 18 3a insult to the intelligence and enlizhtenmont of overy true _fricnd of bis conntry's prosperity. The American Republic is based upon the greai Enncm\eu of civil and religious freedom, upon iberty of conscience and liberty of sction, The Ultramontanes recognize no liberty of cone science} except that® within the paleof theit Churcb, no liberty of sction except that spprov- edof sod permitted by the infalliblo decrae of the Po Public schools, from whizh all relizions in- struction 18 carefully excluded, every trua publican regards 2 a necessary requisito for tha plomets nd liberty of the country, while Rowe 28 again and agaia hurled its anatboma agsinst our whole syatem of popular education. Religious tolerance, fhough Temperance and Sunday law advocates may from timo to timo make fruitless efforts to undsrmine it by illog cal argnments, absurd propositions, and phari saical public exhibitions, is utill oue of ihy main guarantees of the stadility of our_institations; religious intolorance and fierce nnbridled fanati- cism have ever been the unaveidable issueof the reiga of Ultramontanism. i} Kud Iast but not leest, wo peaclaim as citizens of this Republic, wi ¢ pride and satisfaction, that of all theesperiments of eelf-zovernment ours has been the most succeysfal, and thet, 1 spite of tha corinption in higl piaces, in 8pits of the lamen:ablo ignorance of some of oar lending politicians, thesound sense, the {onate boaesty of purnose which porvades the American peo- ple, will yet provo to the world that popular gov=- creignty is thobest form of government. On the other hand, the aims and prrpuses of Ultra- montamsm are constantly at war with il dav opments i the interest of freedom, and tue maxim of Gregory the Scventh acd Innocenz the ‘Tirird, **that the sovereignty of the paople is an encroachment upou the riguts of the Charch ” ix utili ooe of the fundamental dectrinod of the best frionas of Rome. 3 THE YUTURE- i Wo cannot foresee coming avents. It i3 barely possible that, in the remote future, the licn ant the lamb will lie down together, but, wib all the bright hope, all the sangusneanticipations, wuich 1 cherish as to thio future prosperity aud devalop: ment of this Republic, upon tho field of politics, religion, morals, and social life. I cauuot for 1 momeut conceive tho possibility that the dark ang anfortunate hour should cver come when tho spirit of frecdom will succumb to the azpira- tions of the spint of religious and political slavery ; when 8 fres &w?u will meekly bend its proud neck before the decrees of the Vatican, and when she bsuner of our countrv, the emblem of liberey, toleration, and progrees, will trail in the dust before the apustolic throue, from which tne Cresars of Ultramontanism wonid faia wiald the sceptre of the world. B Quecr Freak of a Woman, The Knoxville (Toun.) Chronicle saya: “A -iady living 10 the upper end of this caanty be- 7ap, not long since, for the first time iu about 3hirty years, to speak to her relatives and strn- gers. Her fustory is s sirange ope. When sha was s little girl, kome 5 or G years of sge, she was a regular Little rattie-trap, za m noa cricket, and bad somathing to A3y to efery one, strangers a8 well a8 acquaiotance, with whom she came in eontack. Hor father considered her £00 forward, and on one occasion, when sha Wi8 about 7 years otd, punished her severely far Epsaking 0o maciL The child took it 5o to beark that e pever apoke ugaiu to ber father or scy one else for about thirty year, with the excop- t10n, occamonally, to hor mother, a3 long £5 Bhe Lived, and her sisters and their children. ko had oot & word for her brosher-i-lay or anyone else. To goestionber slways pruved neslesy, for Do repiy conld be elicited.. Yhus sbe demgzied along & weary, lonely life, until few wecka ngo, wheu, attending a ravival, ahie became converied, aud began to talk to evesybody in & rapid, vone- ment mzaner, until 1t was found that Lo réason to some extent. was impsired. . She wes faken home aud received prompt sttanuon, sod a5 last naflt: _bac mental oondition Wes. fateh, ime pray .