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Show PIUS HOPEFUL. The cli-p:it:lits in fur in us that the ' Roman Pontiff hopes soon attain to be i able to boar the cross through the j street of Iiitmc witliout moles la don. It spt-uka badly fur tho Uouiann that; guest. h going to the Valican, on the anniversary of the Pontificate, were publicly in.-iultcd on tlic streets. It tiny eaunut better manifest their liberal liber-al fuf!infs tiian by insulting btrangers and foreigners, going to pay their respects re-spects to an old man, honored and revered re-vered by nearly two hundred millions of human beings, they should bo stripped of all claim tj to be considered a liberal party. Prubably like some self ntyltd "iibc-raLs" in this region, they are sati-tird with the namo without with-out having any under.-! and big of the j principle involved. Meantime the bend of the Roman ' Catholic Church, though virtually a1 prisoner in the Vatican, looks forward! to lii.s re-e.itubli.iluiieiit to his temporal j power. And there arc good reasons ( tor his so believing. While there are undoubtedly suhi.-iiiis in his church, tho very manner in which bo has been stripped of the Roman provinces has created a stronger feeling in hia favor among tho more fervent members of his faith. His spoliation to them has tho appearance of persecution; sympathy sym-pathy with bis cause gains ground. State policy anil diplomacy may, for a time, uphold the doctrino of a united Italy with Homo for its capital; but Rome hat. a broader signification to the members of tho Roman Catholic Church. To them it means the capital of their faith; tho point to which, no matter where destiny or the "mutations "muta-tions of life may cany them, they ever look with eyes of affection, veneration ven-eration and sympathy; the place from which they expect to hear sounds deemed by them sacred as tho voice of the Eternal, And when this feeling feel-ing is nursed and gains giant strength among the nations which cling to the faith of Rome, stato policy and diplomacy di-plomacy will pass from before its power like a rottcD garment rent by a strong band. True, some of tho advocates of the Pope's return to temporal power will make many silly propositions, as witness wit-ness that of a French archbishop and bishop, demanding a renewal of the protectorate of Rome when France j has her hands fall in protecting herself j from internecine slaughter, after being crippled and humiliated by a foreign' foo. But tho strong fee dim which per-1 stiowti in ttie propositiuu. Aud the i warm expressions of sympathy audj moral support, forwarded to the Pontiff Pon-tiff from all parts of the world, are encouragement en-couragement to him, which he natur-idly natur-idly construes into evidences of coming physical support, to replace bim in his position as master of the Eternal city, and sovereign of the Roman provinces, i |
