ortal.
For the Itoralii
A VALENTINE.
FOR LITTLE MABOARET
I.IT EIAY %RD NTILY.9 F.o¢
A bind good girl is Margaret—
I If all het...kindred •• charming pet"—
What e'er friends bid her do-1 is done,
From early morn till set of sum
And, when her nightly prayer is said,
Sll ; eet dreams come lutv'rlitg round her bed—
For angels spealc, in accents mild,
To every good and g,on lb) child.
Fair little one, from day to clay,
Your friends and kindrrld o'er obey;
So, when the hours of youth have flown,
The past will come with pleasant tone;
And Conscience, (Virtue's sentinel,)
:hall my, "sweet one thou halt done
Repaying those with love anti truth
Who guarded well thy tender youth."
From earth to heaven a ladder stands,
And duties sic its rungs and bawds:
Its frame is made of Charity-
Cross-pieces Luse aud'Hindness I*.
By virtuous deeds all must lute d
W'ho vise to reach the heavenLy end,
Where angels stash, IL ith loving eyes,
To eye the gates of Paradise.
Deur child, remember this, with care,'
The Mud mid good are ever fair;,
And those who tread tho path of truth
Have guardian angels round their youth
LOVC . S iiiilll% along life's pathway stand
To guide them to Ms better land:"
And Faith at last shall point the shore
Where eheri,hed friends hate gone before
Valentlue Day, 1535
Originnt er,b'uti
For tho II erald
HUMILITY.
BY W. T. B
There . is a peculiar power in a silent
spirit.- It acts secretly., but unceasingly ;
and every one feels its influence. Its lin
pr.ssions, like those of the stars, burst open
the fountains or morality 'andoh! how tbeLy
gush forth into the great Spirit of the Uni
verse !—And then, Poesy, in her fairy-bark
of Love and Virtue, spreads.her sails to the
peaceful breeze, and floats down with the
smooth current.
lomou said, that ".The, fool is known by
the muniplicity of his wools:'—how many
fools there are then Another ancient phi
losopher said, "If you wish to be wise you
must listen much and speak little"—there
be few who thus pursue the proper path•of
wisdom.
The power and beauty of a' silent spirit is
its' Humility. To the student of Human
Nature, it conveys the most beautiful con
ceptions; while it subdues the envy and
jealousy, which are always hovering upon
the surface of the heart, and.whose fire
gleaming eyes are ever darting their rays of
hatred upon the successful. An humble in
dividual can form but a small estimate of
the power he exerts in a community. That
moral atmosphere in which he moves, repels
the vicious and vain-glorious; while the in
-nocent'of heart, the true christian and the
philosopher are attracted by it, and love to
feast on its heavenly sweetness. It matters
not in what sphere ho moves,—for all spheres
are alike to hint;—he is quickly remarked
and appreciated. 't'hi's power acts upon. the
heart—excites those solemnly sweet em
otions, which melt the soul to tenderness'
and wraps it in reflection.
But the beauty of Humility! Who can de
pict itl—lt is not the harmonious blending
of colors:;—it is not regularity and symmetry
of proportions ;—it is not that fantastic
splendor, with which art is dressing every
thing 'to strike the eye and pervert the
heart! Oh, not—Like the dyinestrains of
the lute, it fills the soul with the most beauti
ful associations, arouses those noble princi•
pies of love, and pemie, and charity sunk
deep in the heart by the weight of those
more selfish ones, which are always in a
state of feverish excitement;—it carries ns
back to the sunny days of youth when Inno-
mice with'her beautiful white mantle eprehd
over us, stamped everything with the gloW
of lifo.—All these beautiful associations and
emotions we naturallyiransfer to the object
that excited them.
Every ono shoUld be humble; the Lawyer ;
because he subsists by the errors and misdo•
ings of men; the Physician, becauso he is
the servant el all; the Divine, because he is
the follower of the race% and'l6 , Ay Saviour
—all should be humble, because all arc
depeadeat I
• MEN . AND BRUTEN.-" Now, gentlemen."
said a nobleman, to his guests, as the ladies
left Ike room, "let us understand each other;
'Oro we to drink like men, or like brutes?"
The guests,,,Somewbat indignant, exclaimed,
"Like men, of course:" "Then," replied he,
"we are going to get jolly drunk, for brutes
rover drink more than they want."
`. ~ ~ ~~~.~~1'II~IIIPIIIi!~.
THE POPE'S TEMPORAL POWER
Letter from Protestor ItteCfintock to
Hon. Joseph ii.. Chandler
. ,
MAI?. SIR beg leave to offer a few re
marks upon yuor speech nmee in Congress
o n the II th ., ,instant. It has been widely
circulated among "the people," and is there.
fore open to criticism from the humblest, cit
izen. Permit toe to say, in the beginning,
that I can sympathize with no efforts, made
or to be made, either by a "secret combina
tion" or an open political party, to deprive
Roman Catholic citizens, R 8 such, from any
political rights which other American 9,i
-7.C119 do or can enjoy. I belong to no secret
political organization, whether called "Know
Nothings" or otherwise; I shall belong to
none, for I have es'profound a sense of
timir dangerous tendenCies as you can pos.
gibly have. Ido not write to you in the
interests of any party, but solely to vindicate
the truth of history, which you have (I trust
unwittingly) violated. .
You deny the Bishop of Rome any " right
resulting from his divine office, to interfere
in' the relations between subjects, and their
sovereigns, between citizens and, their goy
orntnents." Had you confined yourself to
this denial, expressing it merely as your own
private and personal opinion, or even as
that of many jurists, theologians and doctors .
of your church, you would have .41town only
that you and they were bad Papists,* noth
ing more. But the very aim and essence,
so to speak, of your speech, is that your
clew is Thai of the' I?oinan Catholic Church;
that it is maintained by all her authorities
from layman to priest, from priest to bishop,
rrom bishop to archbishop, and from arch
bishop to Pope; and that the contrary•
if held in the Church at all, is held only
by " certain weak persons"—" individuals
of less discretion than zeal," and is taught
only "in the cureless writings of some Cath•
olie scholars.
In maintaining such a thesis as this before
the, American people,-you have shown your°
self either exceedingly disengenuous, or else
thoroughly ignorant of the histcry of the
.question, and of the state of opinion in your
own church. For many years I have been
accustomed to rely 'upon your integrity. . I
am still willing to give credit for candor,
and therefore nothing remains for ine except
to conclude you ignorant, and to offer you
some information.. Certainly, had you been
well informed on the subject, your own self . -
respeet,(not to speak of the risk of detection
and exposure) would have required you to
tell your auditors that there are two parties
in your Church on this question ; one (the
Ultramontane party) affirming, and the
other (the Galilean or Liberal party) deny.
ing that the Pope, " by reason of the virit
. ual power, has also a supreme power,' at
least indirectly, even in temporal matters."
(Some of the Ultramontane writers even go
further, and assert a temporal power, as well
as an -indirect, but you and the Gallicans
deny both.) You would have told your hear
'ers, also, that the Ultramontane party is a
vast majority; including the Pope, all the
Cardinals, all the Jesuits, and a large part
of all the Bishops ; while the Galilean
mi
y is considered and declared by strong
Papists to . be, " the half-way house to
Protestantism," to be "stingy, narrow-mind
'ed, and frozed-hearted, always studying to
split the difference' between Peter and the
sar, God and the Devil." had you made
this statement clearly and distinctly, and had
you then avowed yourself one of this despis
ed Galilean Minority, your position would
have been an intelligible and manly one,
'consistent at once with the truth of history
tnd with your own high reputation as a man
rf culture and of integrity. Instead of' this,
your speech seeks to substitute Gallicanism
or Romanism ; the doctrine of a small and
constantly diniinishing faction for the doe
trine of the church. It is as if a Baptist
should deny that hiet church holds to the
Practice of "close communion" because
Robert Hall and other cninent men have
Oritten against. iL
The rhetoric of your speech is quite e6c
,.iye.. One piece of it seems to have touched
the sensibilities of your audience so strongly
:bat I cannot forbear to quote it, and to fur.
'dull you with a criticism "on it, from a Ito
man dritholic hand, written months Before
your speech was delivered, with prophcti
forelmowledge of what "was to be."
you say,
"If; by any providence,;the Bishop of
Rome, should become possessed of armies
and a fleet, and, in a. spirit of conquest or
any other spirit; should invade the territory
•9f the United States, or assail the right of
our country, he would ind no more earnest
* I use the word ' , Papists" as It le employed by con
• troverialists within the Chun% of llomn. to doslgoato
tips() Wile are not inclined to' restrict the Papal powor.
ennisle derail.
antagonists than the Roman Catholics.' And
for myself, if not here in this Hall to vote
supplies for ri defending army, or if too old
to take part in the active defence, I should,
if alive, be at least in my chamber or at the
foot of ,the altar, imploring Gpd for the
safety of my country and the deleid, of the
invaders."
The anticipatory - criticism on tlis"eloquent
passage" you will finOi a review edited by
the ablest Roman Catholic writer in Ameri
ca, and endorsed on its cover by nearly eve
ry Bishop of your church in the country :
"It has been customary here (L c. among
the Catholics in Great Britain and America)
to deny in the most positive terms all author
ity of the Pope in tempera's ex jure tlivino,
and to indulge in - no little 4se of the Sov
ereign Pontitrhypothetically. We have read
in Catholic journals, and heard from the
rostrum, and even from the pulpit, expres
sions with regard to buckling on ones knap
sack . and shouldering one's musket, and
and marching against the Pope, in case
he should do so or so, that have made our
blood run 'cold—expressions whkh we should
hardly have ventured on ourselves even when
a Protestant. The writers or speakers knew
very well that the ease they surpose could
never occur,and that therefore they were safe;
but they little considered, we must believe,
the impression they. conveyed, or the effect
they were producing on the minds of the sitn-
Ple catholic public, or that they were teach
ing, or at least favoring, that very doctrine
of courtiers. and demagogues which crate
so many difficulties for the Holy See. and
Which apparently justifies the non-Catholic
world in its war against the Papacy."—Bron
son's Review', April 1854, p. 214.
So much for your, rhetoric ;- now for what
logic and history can be found in your speech-
You admit that the Pope kas "proceeded to
dethrone kings and thus to rt. c se stkjects;"
but at the same time you deny th t was
"ever done under claim of devine right."—
You adduce as a crucial instance, the case
Uregciry VII., (not Ganganelli, as_ you ult.
,fortunately- styled him, but Hildebrand,) that
great and in many respects good man, whose
life was Spent in efforts to corect abuses in
the Church, and at the same time to consoli
date the Papal power. Your startling asset ,
tiers about Hildebrand are enouglr-to- dis
turb his mighty . bones in their pave. He
"deposed Henry 1V.," you admit; but" he did
not claim that his action in deposing the EM
peror iras - V divine right." This is sufficient
ly explicit. You shall be held to this decla
ration. True, you qualify the assertion a
little in other parts of your speech, by such
words as "merely" "solely" in •connection
with "Divine right;", but I have too much
confidence in your native American honesty
to think that you mean to use evasion in this
wtter. Jt.might do for a Jesuit; but not
for Joseph R. Chandler. Indeed you have
bound yourself still more strongly by asser
ting that "if it was Divine right, a right in
herent in the spiritual office of the Bishop of
Rome, as successor of St. Peter, then it can
never and may never lapse." Now, sir, I
mean to show that not only Gregory, but
many of his successors, did claim this pow
er jure divino ; that the Popes have condem
ned the contrary doctrine ; that this condem
nation has never been retracted ; that
consequently "the power has never been
lapsed ;" and that you, Joseph R. Chandler,
and all other Roman Catholics, are bound to
admit it,or else be stigmatized by your more
orthodox brethren, as "halfway Protestants."
Let us begin, then, with Gregory VII. The'
whole aim of lfis pontificate, as stated by the
Roman Catholic (Gallican) historian Dupin,
"was to bring all his crowned heads under
his subjection, and to oblige them to hold
their kingdoms as fiefs of the Holy See, and
to govern them at his discretioa."—(Dupin
ix. 48.) I might fill up this whole letter with
pas Sages from Gregory's bulls and epistles,
Vindicating this 'very "Divine right," which
you so boldly assert he never claimed. Did
you think your speech was to blot out all his
tory? Or am I, with the same charity than
I have extdrided to you heretofore, to infer
that you have never-even read so much of
the life of Gregory es to learn that his name
was not Ganganelli, that you 'have never so
much as seen his act excommunicating Heia.
ry IV., from which I extract the following:
"It has pleased thee, 0 Peter, Chief of
the Apostles, and does please thee, that the
people of Christendom ( Christianus mu/us)
committed specially to Thee, should render
obedience to me. In this confidence, for-the
dignity and defence of Thy holy Church, in
the name of Almighty God, the Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost, I depose from imperial and
royal administration King Henry, son of
Henry, sometime emperor, who too boldly
and rashly lath laid hands on thy Church.
I absolve all Christian subjects to the empire
Ant thud oath whereby they were, wont to
plight their faith unto true kings; for it is
right thdt he should be deprived of dignity
who (loth endeavor to diminish the majesty .
of the Church."—Cone. Rom. iii. up. Bini
um, vii. 484.
Gregory used even still stronger language
n his letter to' the Bishops, necompanfing
he above act, and especially in one , written
rem Tivoli, Aug. '25, 1076, to Bishop Her
nann„ of Dietz, who had informed hint that
*authority in the premises was questioned.
In that letter he 'grounds his right upon the
Scriptures; upon the power of the 'keys
given by Christ to Peter, and from him de
scending to the Popes; and upon the usages
of his predecessors. He calls the opposite
doctrine " madness" and " folly" (insania ct
..lith4j. Triint of space Ilinders me froM
giving more ample citations; though they
are needless, except for such. persons as
have never looked into the controversy.
The doctrine-established by Gregory, (and
maintained by his successprs with greater or
less strictures froM that day to this,) is, that
the Popo is Christ's vicegerent and represen
tative in the administration of human affairs;
and that "the deposing power is inherent in
him as head of the spiritual authority, as the
guardian and judge of the law under which
Kings and Emperors hold their crowns, and
have the right to reign," (this last is the
language of a Romanist writer, not mine.)
By this authority Paschal 11. in 1009 deposd
Henry IV.; Innocent 111., in 1210, deposed
Otho IV.; Gregory IX., in 1239, exeommu-
Pleated Frederick IL, and absolved his sub
jects from their allegiance ; Innocent IV., in
12.15, pronounced sentence of , deprivation
against the same Frederick II.; Boniface
VIII.. in 1302, thundered forth against
Philippe - le Bel of France, the' famous bill
Unant Sanctum, containing the most extra
vagant assertions of the poWer of the Holy
See ; Paul 111., in 1536 and, 1538, deposed
and damned Henry VIII. of England and
absolved his subjects from all oaths of alle
glance; Pius V., in 1570, uttered a bull
against Queen Elizabeth, in which "out of
,the fulness of Apostolic power" ho deprived
the said Queen of "her pretended title to the
Kingdom," and released her subjects from
"all manner. of duty, dominion, allegiance
and obedience." The list need not end here;
but I am tired of citing facts known to all
mankind—except yourself.
The remainder of Prof. McClintock's letter,
which our limited space precludes our copy
ing entire, is male up of quotations from
Roman Catholic authors clearly establishing
his pos:ition and demolishing the argument
of Mr. Chandler.
ALL OF A Sizii.—The American Courier,
reporting n case of disputed title iu pigs
which had been suffered to run wild, gives
the following examination of a dealwituess:
Lawyer—Do you know plaintiff's pigs?
Witness—Eh? (very loud.) Lawyer, (rais•
ins his voice)—Do—you—know—plaintiffs
pigs? Witness—Yes. Lawyer—How long
have you known them? Witness—Eh?
Lawyer, (louder still)—Ilow long have you
known them? Witness—Fed 'em all last
spring. Lawyer—Were they all about a size?
Witness—Eh? Lawyer, (rises on his feet
petulantly, and shakes his forefinger at the
conclusion' of each word, at the witness)—
Were—they—all--of--a—size ? Witness—
Some ov nv) war and some ov. tvorn't.
PUBLIC EXECUTION IN ILLINOIB.—The G a
'elm (Ill.) Jeffersonian relates the following
occurrences at the .execution of Tayldr:—
"One man was, drowned in crossing the Mis•
sissippi opposite Dubuge, another was killed
by a blow upon the head received near the
place of execution, by a team running away.
A mother fell from tie fence near the scaffold
with a child in her arms and broke its arm;
another woman's foot was crushed in going
td the execution, and she poor creature, in
different to the pain:, wept bitterly because
"lee couldn't see the man hanged!"
A WELcu PATICIARCIL—There has jus t
been interred at B]aina Church, South Wales
the body of William Rees, aged 104 years.
The, deceased was a hard-working man at
pis profession as a " bailer," which is the
eaviest department in an iron nutaufactory,
le is also remarkable for his -moderate by-,
ig. He could see to" read his bible j iit,lis
undredth year, and dress himself and take
his food up to his death. He lived with
his daughter, who is the mother of 16 chil
dren, and whose age is 66 years. Her hus
band is 72 years'old. •
"SArtvim Him Illour."—A. few days .ago
a young ;lady, of Cincinnati, Ohio who had
received an offensive valentine, suspecting a
neighboring bachelor of having a hand in
the matter, took a convenient,opportunityln
the•afternoon, while he way passing an alley
entrance overlooked by the window, of empty
ing the contihtts of a aid") bucket over his
devoted head. -
BE
SITISFACTOP.Y EXPLANATION.-A few years
ago a schoolmaster was.wantod for the vil
lage of Litnekins, Scotland. A pompous
little fellow, ono of the applicants, being
asked to give, in writing, a
.philosophical
reason 'why cream was put _amongst tea re
plied, "Because the globular particles of the
vream render the acute angle of the tea more
obtuse
THE WINKING MADONNA. COMING.
The New York Express is informed, by
what it considers good authority, that his
:Holiness the Pope, in token of his, gratitude
to Archbishop Hughes, and the other digni
taries of, the Roman Catholic Church in the
United StMes, from the zeal and earnestness
exhibited in the Immaculate Conception, has
consented that the famousWiriking Madonna,
of Rimini, shall come to this country. Ar
rangements were making at last dates for its
transportation hither, and the distinguished
stranger may be looked for on or about the
lst of April. The most of our readers, pro
bably, are well acquainted with fhe super
natural powers attributed to this wonderful
picture: 'The winking of its eyes, superin
duced by no apparent human agency, is con
sidered an especial manifestation of the favor
of the august original above, and the priest
hood 'who have it in keeping, as might natu
rally be supposed, were disinclined to have .
so good a card taken from them. The good
Pio Norio, however, insisted that the Madonna
should come to America, and comeit. will, if
wind and tide favor. The Winking Madoritia
must not be confounded with the medals
having her likeness, which the Holy Lather
had previouSly presented the American Bi
shoptr were deserving of—it was thought at
first—but, in view of the trrhlous state of
the times; as affect the church, on this side
of the Atlantic, on second thought, it was
resolved that the original picture should be
transmitted, in order to make all due impres
sion Upon the laity.
The Express is also informed that the
Weeping Modonna is also coming to the
United States. Probably they will Loth come
in one and the same vessel. Their appea
rance here—time and circumstances con
sidered—will he an event in the Roman Ca
tholic world of no ordinary.interest and im
portance.—Ncwark Advertiser.
ONE PROP AT A Tins.--" Life," says the
late John Foster, "is expenditure; we have
it, but are as continually losing it;- we have
the use of it, but are as constantly wasting
it. Suppose a 'manonfmed in a fortress;
under the doom to slay there till death ; and
suppose there is there for his use a dark re
servoir of water, to which it is certain none
can ever be added. He may suppoie the
quantity is.very great; he cannot penetrate
to ascertain how•much, but it may be very
little. He has' drawn from it, by means of
a fountain .a good while already, and draws
from it every day. But how would he. feel
each time 'of drawing, and each time of
thinking of it? Not as if he had a perren-
Mal spring to'go . to. Not, "I have a reser
voir, I may be at ease."—No! but "I had
water Yesterday—l have water to day ; but
having had it, and my having it to-dny is the
very cause that I shall not have it on some
day that is approaching. And at the same
time I em compelled to this fatal expend',
ture I So of our mortal, transient life 1 And
yet men are tr.cry indisposed to admit the
plain truth, that life is a thing which they
are in no other way possessing than as ne
cessarily consuming and that even in this
imperfect sense of possession, it becomes
every day a less possession'.'
AN INTELLIGENT BAsr,En.—At a hearing
before the Supreme Court of New York, lust
week, on the question of appointing a re
ceiver to take charge of the anirs of the
defunct Empire City Bank, Mr. Bininger,
the President, was examined, but could not
tell what the assets were,, or what they
amounted to. The close of his examination
was as follows :
Judge—Were you not selected as Presi•
dent because you had the same mine as
your well known namesake, the grocer.
Answer—No
Judge—What was the reason then?
Answer—l do 'not ,know, but suppose it
was because I tired in the neighborhood of
MEE
Judge—Have any experience in
banking?
Answer—No.
Judge—Do you know anything aboni
banking?
Answer— No
Judge—Was that the reason you were ap
pointed?
Answer—Yes.
• A USEFUL HINL—Tho difference betweet
rising evory morning at six, and at eight, ii
the course of fourty years amounts to 29,201
hours, or three years, one hundred and twer
tpone days and sixteen hours, which at
eight. huurs a day for exactly ten years, e
that rising at six, will be the same as if to
years of life were added, wherein we nu
command eight hours every day for the eu
tivation of our minds, and for • the -dispatc
of business
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