46
THE
TEMPORAL
POWER
OF
THE
POPE.
different
concessions
made
to
Roman
Catholics
by
that
body
are
mainly
due
to
such
testimony.
And
let
it
be
remembered,
that
this
was
in
Great
Britain,
in"
a
British
Parliament,
where
the
members
were
of
the
Established
Church,
and
also
that,
without
special
permission,
no
man
in
that
empire
had
a
right
to
worship
God
according
to
the
dictates
of
his
own
conscience,
and
none,
not
acknowledging
in
the
monarch
of
England
(man
or
woman,
king
or
queen)
both
temporal
and
spiritual
sovereignty,
could
hold
an
office
under
government,
or
sit
in
the
Parlia-
ment
of
the
nation.
We,
Mr.
Chairman,
are
legislating
for
a
coun-
try
where
even
toleration
may
be
deemed
in-
tolerant,
where
perfect
equality
of
rights
exists
in
the
theory
of
the
government,
and
where,
until
now,
no
one
has
ventured
to
manifest
a
hostility
to
another’s
creed,
by
denying
to
him
the
right
of
national
office,
and
of
enjoying
all
the
rights
which
full
and
perfect
citizenship
confers.
But
the
honorable
gentleman
from
Massachu-
setts
seems
to
have
provided
himself
against
such
proofs
as
I
have
adduced.
He
admits
my
fealty
to
the
country,
but
denies
my
adherence
to
the
Roman
Catholic
Church.
He
admits
MB.
CHANDLER'S
SPEECH.
47
that
France
and
Spain
have
disclaimed
the
doc-
trine
against
which
he
speaks,
and
which
he
im-
putes
to
the
Roman
Catholic
Church—France
and
Spain,
the
titles
of
whose
monarchs
are
most
Christian
and
most
Catholic!
The
hon-
ourable
gentleman
surely
cannot
be
ignorant
that
such
universities—great
theological
col-
leges
as
those—are
repositories
of
records
of
faith,
and
of
the
arguments
and
decisions
con-
cerning
them.
But
let
us
hear
the
honourable
gentleman
:—
«
MR.
Banks.
I
plant
myself
upon
the
ground
that
the
pontiff
of
Rome
has
never,
in
any
authoritative
form,
so
disavowed
the
right
to
control
the
members
of
the
Roman
Catholic
Church
in
secular
matters.
I
know
the
universi-
ties
of
France
and
Spain
have
disclaimed
that
power.
The
gentleman
says
that
his
Catholic
friends
have
disclaimed
it
to
him.
So
my
Catholic
friends
have
disclaimed
it
to
me.
Bub
they
have
not
the
right
to
private
opinion,
much
less
the
right
to
determine
the
faith
of
their
Church,
The
Ro-
man
Church
has
never
disclaimed
it.”
I
pass
over
the
slur
about
private
judgment;
it
is
undeserved,
and
might
be
retaliated.
The
honourable
gentleman,
then,
suspecting
that
laymen,
priests
and
bishops
would
declare
that
~
the
Church
had
no
such
articles
of
faith
as
he
imputes,
and
being
informed
of
the
existence
of
these
responses
of
the
French
and
Spanish
universities,
throws
himself
upon
the
pope.
4]
plant
myself,”
says
he,
“on
the
ground
that