-- sllllttes polrinsviLLE, PA. X4I,4II7:BIOAVEREMatrAiIaIK. 0.; 3565. THE POPE'S ENCYCLICAL. The Roman Pontiff has succeefied in. crest.: ing quite - an excitement in the Catholic world, and in plac)ng the Catholics of this country, in a very aWkWard position.. Els Encyclical at also . attracting general attention among thOsenot members of that chuich, for. as its direct bearing is that ILamanism is indom patible with Republican_ institutions, if this doctrine should be accepted by American Ctholics, we will have an eminently hostile element 'Within the nation. .It remains to be seen wliat2 reception this fulmination against hinnan prOgress of the expiring Papal power, will experience at the hands of the Catholic pres.l and people of America. We hope that %lady. ,will repudiate doctrines fraught ,with infinite mischief to them and our institutions.. If they do not, another •qrrepressible conflict" music:me, quite as fornaidable as.that which exists.between, ?Tee and Slave labor. .* The follo;iving review of the Pope's letter, is trom_The Independeilt of Februery 2:. Packing a Bone with the Pope.' Already foil s fortnight Mut the Pope's Encyclical been before the American peoples; and. &s . an encyc.i.cal pre- 1 supposes a great circle, we presume it inus by this time completed the circuit of the globe--leaving a streak of darkness round the earth.• Of all the public , papers of ••• the present age, this manifesto is the' most astounding and ritiml—eihibiting the successor of . St. Peter in the act suspending the rights of mankind, and dictating the stoppag- of the world. By the common order or life mitt death: men's bodies die and their souls yet live; but here is a patriarch whose body. is alive in the nine teenth century, yet whose spirit is dead and Sepulchered in the twelfth:. • • ~. The Encyclicl, though Eeropean in Origin, ia'Ameri. can in application, inasmuch as, in addressing C'atholies throughout the world, it addresses a considerable class •uf .the American people. • What, therefore,: does it - say to all such? . "We have condemned," • .says the spiritual :father: " the principal errors of our sad age." • And what in the Pope's opinion, are th e se errors? Is Slavery mentioned. Amon , ' them ? No. Treason 1. No. .immkenness ? No. • Lust NO.. Lying? - Theft? No. Pride? No.,Seed , dal ? The Common selfishness of the humat heart?' No-' None of there !-• What, then.. - .are they the guilty. tbingi They.are"•Progrcss, •Ltuiairasi. and. MOD 'ERN CIVILIZATION !" These are the' blots on the centnr,v,, which His holiness, with encyclical vinegar and sand, :seeks to scour and cleanre ! Never .. theless, we fancy that the aged Pontiff, rubbing against "progress., liberalism. and modern, civilization, will himself soonest be, rubbed out I - •.. •• • Why has tie written this letter ? tie• answers : "To . destroy new opinions." 'What- are 'these opinions, sO_ offending as to deserve death ?, one of them so erronee • oitana to te• " huitftli to the safety of the Catholic . Church and of souls," is—What ? Nothing lees than the long-fungi/floe and hard-won doctrine that "Liberty of cokscience and of worship is. the right of every man " Thin the - Pope' repudiates. ',This." he says. "was termed de/haute ty our predecessor 'Gregory XV.I., of excellent• memory.".. Now• If the Pope regards this , doctrine as a delirium, 'how are l'ope-fearing Catholics in this. country to regard it ? They are in duty bound to hold the Same. opinion. .What follows? . -Liberty . of cuusetence. and of worship . " is a fundaniental law of, this Republic. The law-giver of the Catholic Church, denounces this as madness. American Cath oilers .there, fore, are enjoined to withhold their assent: and to re . .pudiate their doctrine, Whittle the .practiCal result ? Per instance, St_Louts is a Catholic' City. Within its • liorderie a convention, engaged informing' a new con : atitairei, a few days ago decreed that, this very doctrine - of liberty of conscience should forester form a vital part of the Organic la* of - Missoari:• But in view of the • . warnings - of this Encyclical. no Iletnanist of , that city 'or state can now swear allegiance , to that constitution • without heresy irgainst s the Church Of .The En ter clical summons the Catholims of that state - to' arm. themselves .againt the new constitution as against a plague. .The Roman Pontiff, if obeyed, 'will make American Catholics traitors - to their/country—enemies plorting the Overthrow of the' laws. And this Eucycli: cal is: therefore. a covert declaration of war against the - Ainerican Republic. . .• • ' . • . • Is this pressing our point too far?" Not at all. • Let us quote other irords from the letter: -- Its apostolie :writer denounces the heresy that "Protestantism is another form of the same true religion in which it is possible to be equally pleasing to God as in the Catho lic Church." 'Now we have no quarrel with the Pope fer denying this doctrine ;' we expect every .other Ito-. manist to deny it.. • Our quarrel . with the Pope; -and • with the followers of the Encyclical, is fur denying that • • every man is cure to embrace and profess the religi e on he shall believe to be true," -Now the Pope's argu-• menris not, • The Catholic religion is the true oue ; . therefore let 4nen be persuaded to adopt it et