This pamphlet presents the idea of:  The fact can no longer be concealed from the American people that the  great war, by which they lost thousands of brave citizens and immense capital, was planned and promoted by Jesuits;  and that Pope Pius IX. did his very utmost to deal a death-blow to that Republic to establish which our Revolutionary fathers fought and bled.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/ecommonsatsdigitalresources/1203/thumbnail.jp

Lee, Rev John

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Any duplication, reproduction, or modification of this material without express written consent from Asbury Theological Seminary and/or the original publisher is prohibited. © Asbury Theological Seminary 2011 , , "" " < " ' ",,' ',---.:,,,~ 800.2ASBURYasburyseminary.edu 859.858.3581 204 North Lexington Avenue, Wilmore, Kentucky 40390 , ,'" . -, . " ," -< _____ • ___________ a ___ -. New Series.] [No. 214. -, . ."" '...... r .1 r ~ ,. ,1 1-1 -( • 100 ....... j .1 - ..,. 1"""'1' ~ ,. n ~ r- I- to-~,J .. \.,It _ J vi . . -~ l-i-.... ,~ ., j ........... ....., - .1J&J_ • _ THE HOLY SEE AN ENEMY TO THE INSTI-TUTIONS OF THIS COUNTRY. . ...-- .n. BY REV. JOHN LEE, A.M . • NE~V YORK: PHILLIPS &' HUlVT. CINCINNATI: CRANSTON ~ STOWE. 1888. • _ t .. • New Series.] [No. 214. -- . -____ •• • THE HOLY SEE AN ENEMY TO THE INSTITU-TIONS OF THIS COUNTllY • •• BY REV. JOHN LEE, A.M. • t RII .. LIANT rhetoric is one thing; uode .. uiable facts are quite another. ROJnan Catholic priests and bishops may profess love for the Republic, but the great question with intelligent Amel"icans should .ever be, "How beats the pulse of ll.ome?" • 4 ROME AND THE REPUllLIC. .. . Cardinal Newman, in a pamphlet published in 1875 by the N ew York Catholic Publica-tion Society, and entitled, .A. Letter to IIis Grace, the IJuke o.f Norfolk, on O(.·casion oj" lIIr. Gladstone's Recent .IiJxpostulation (pp. 21, 22, 15, 18), states that the assurances given to the British government by the Ro-man Uatholic bishops in 1825-26 have not been strictI y fulfilled; that the statement of the eminent Iri~h bishop, the Right Rev. Dr. Doy Ie, req uil'es "some pious interpreta-tion," and that "no pledge from Catholics ,,~as of any value to which Rome was not a party." }-lr. Gladstone, commenting on these words, in language of warning 8ays: "States-men of the future, recollect the words, and recollect from whom they came: from the man who by his genius, piety, and learning towers above all the eminences of the Anglo .. papal communion." * . Let us remember: A Vliest nlay endorse; a bishop commend; the pope condemn. * Vcl.ticanism. Byt]le Right Ron. W. E. Gllldstolle. M.P. Page 29. New York: Harper & B.rothers. 1875. No. 214. ROME AND THE REPUBLIC. 5 .. Cardinal Gibbons truthfully designates the United StateR as "the giant Republic of the West," * aud Bishop Ireland, in a sermon preached before the Plenary Council at HaIti-:plOl'e in November, ] 884, said: "Republic of America, receive from rue the tribute of my love and of my loyalty. I am pl"oud to do .. thee homage, and I pray from my heart that thy glory may never be dimmed· ··Esto per-petua I Believe me, no hearts love thee more ardently tllan Catholic hearts; no tongues speak more loudly thy praises than Catholic tongues, and no hands will be lifted. up stronger and more willing to defend thy laws and tlly institutions ill peace and in ,val' than Catholic hands. Again, Esto perpetua!" The Latin Church teaches that if the popo should demand it "the authority of the State nlust be braved, human affections must be disregarded, life must be sacrificed." t rrhat his holiness has made this demand, Lord * Baltimore Caiholic M~·rror, July 3, 1886 . . t '1:he Oatholic W"'orld, July, 1868, volume vii, page 438. No. ~14. 6 ROME AND TfIE REPUBLIC. , Acton's letters ill the I.Jon(lon Ti'lnes of N 0-vember 9 and November 24;. lR74, fully cor .. roborate. DUling our Civil \Var \ he bitterest ·enemy of "the giant Repuhlic of the 'Vest," the most determined foe of the "Republic of America," ,vas J eiferAon Davis's" angelic nlan," Pope Pius IX. In a letter written by the late pontiff on Decelnher a, 1863, and addl-essed as follows: "Itlustre et H01l·()1·ahile Viro Jpfferson .Davis, PI'a3Sidi Fa3dorata1'U1rt .Lirnericm llegion-um, Richmond," we find bis holiness most insultingly designating tl1o~e who ,vished to preserve "the giant Republic of the 'Vest" as " the other peoples of America and theilW r~lllers." ",r e also finfl llis holiness as~erting that "it is particularly ag·reeable to us to see that you. [ .. T efferson Davis], illustrious and honorable President, and your people, are animated" with" desires of peace and tranquillity;" and beseeching " the G'od of mercy and pity" to " attach you to us by a perfect friendship." * "The Court of Rome," says the N e,v York Olturch1J'lan of * A pp]~ton's Annual Oyclopedia for 1863! p. 820. No •. 214. ROME AND TilE REPUBLIC. 7 F(:lhruary 5, 1887, "has only the position of a deadly foe to all American institutions, and • its intriguing interference with politics is a thousand times more perilous than the ships and at-nluments of other enenlies to Ame)-ican Ii beleties." • • Last January, 'Vil1iam E. Curtis, Wasl1ing-ton correspondelltfor The O/dcagoDaily News, after observing that" for twenty-five years it has been charged and denied, and denied and cha.rged, that the Vatican was in sympathy with the South during the war," said: "At the Treasury Department the other day 1\'lr. Crites, of Nebraska, the chief of the division of captured and abandoned property, showed me a time-worn paper which was found among the records captured at the time of the evac- , llation of Richmond that will settle the con-tro~ersy forever." * Attached to the parch-ment on which the pope's letter is written is a communication of A~ Dudley 1\iann, ad .. dressed to MI". Davis, dated Br1l8sel~, May 9,. , * The Chicago Daily Newll, mortling issue, Janllary 17, 1887. No. 214. · 8 ROME AND THE REPUBLIC. l864, in which 1\Ir. Mann, when speaking of the pope's letter, says: "'-This letter will grace the archives of the executive office in all coming time. It will live, too, forever in story as the production of the first potentate who formally recognized your official position and accorded to one of the oiplomatic repre .. sentati ,yes ott tIle Confederate States an alldi· ence in an estabHshed conrt palace like that of St. J anles and the "!'uilel·ies." Pius IX. encouraged Jefferson Davis in his rebellion. Bishop Ireland iuculcates loyalty to the Republic. Says the prelate of St. Paul: "It is Catll()lic doctrine tl1at in Anlerica loyalty to the Republic is a divine virtue, and resistance to its laws a sin crying to heaven lor vengeance." * Perhaps Bishop Ireland believes that the penning of that letter by the late pontiff was "a sin crying to beaven for vengeance," and that the loss of the temporal power was brought about hy I-lim w"ho declares, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." Bishop Ireland's statement * CIJicago 'l'imes, Nov. 17, 1884, No. ~14. ROME AND THE REP"(JBLIC. 9 about" loyalty to the Republic" may doubt-less be placed in the same category with Bit;hop Doyle's statement about loyalty to the British governlnellt. M ... GiadlStone as-serts that Bishop Doy Ie's declarations before the House of I..Iords "po\verfully operated on the open and trustful temper of this people to induce them to grant, at the cost of so much popular feeling and national tradition, the g,·eat and just concession of 1829. ~"hat concession, without snch declarations, it would, to say the least, have been fa.r more difficll1t to .()btaill.,~,~J¢ Car~dinal NewIllan 6 as-serts that Bishop Doyle'~ declaratious require "some pious interpretation." By exercising "some pious interpretation," and Wllh light -from the lalnp that illurnined the page of that fatnons letter of Decemher 3, 1863, we l~light be able remembering that" no pledge fronl CatholicR was of any value to which Ro,ne was not a party" to estimate the true value * The 'Vatican'Decrees, p. 24. Read pp. 22, 23, 32, '48. 49. See also Mr. Gla<!stone's Vaticanism, pp. 28, 33, 54. No. 214. 10 . ROllE ANI) THE REPUBLIC. of Bishop Il'eh"ulll's declaration. A little re-flection on the part of American~, conc.erniug the love manifested by Pope Pills IX. l(H Cardinal Gibbons's "gia.nt }{epublic of the 'Vest," rna y not be amiss. Lord Robert ],Iontagu, to whotn 1\11'. Glad-stone, in his work entitled, S}Jeeches (!f' Plpe 1>iu8 IX. (p, 40), applies the language, "ehalupioll of the papal Church," returned to the .. A.nglican Church in 1882, assigning as his reason "the shock which I 'experienced at the dh;covery of the gross immoralities of the ItOlllisb priests, and then the knowledge that the .prelates of Ronle taught the doctrines of rebellion, excused dishonesty and murder, fOlnented agitations, disregarded the sacred and binding character of oaths, and ,,'ere a1 ways carrying on political intrigues." * ~""or eever;tl years Lord Robert ,vas on terms of very close intimacy "with nlany distinguished Jesuits, a highly ~steemed friend of Cardinal l\ianning, and also of the pope himsel f. * Re{J,8"n.'l fO·f Leaving the Churclt 0/ Bome .. Robel-t MOIltagu. Pp. 17, 18. , No. 214. By Lord • • l~oME AND THE I-tEPuBLIc. 11 'l~bis intimacy gives considerable significance and weight to statements found in a letter I received from him, dated London, July 7, 1887. In tllis communication L01·d R()bel-t says: "I know, from personal experience in '63, that your great war, by which you lost tllollsands of brave citizens and immense ca.pital, was planned and promoted by Jesuits. ROlne cannot endure a strong Protestant power. ~'herefore she tried to split your great and powerful . country in half, and if \ she had succeeded she would have been continually irritating the North against the South." " ~'he voice of thy brother's blood," said the Almighty to Oain, "cl·ieth unto Dle from the ground." The fact can no longer be concealed from the American people that the "great war, by which they lost thousands of brave citizens and immense capital, was planned and promoted by Jesuits;" and that Pope Pius IX. did his ,rery utmost to deal a death-blow to that Republic to estal)lish which our Rev-olutionary fathers fought and bled~ and to No. 214. "-.... 12 ROME AND TIlE REPUBLIC. preserve which tens of thousands left their homes, a quarter of a century ago, to die on South.ern battle-fields~ In the presence of these awful and startling facts concerning the Jesuits and the pope, when we remeInber, "The Lord reigneth," when we look at the ceme.teleies filled with the natiol1'S dead, what reply can be gi ven to the question, "\V ho slew all tllese?" No. 214. -

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