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THE
TEMPORAL
POWER
OF
THE
POPE.
liable
to
the
charge,
and
especially
the
Church,
the
Roman
Catholic
Church
itself.
But
the
Roman
Catholic
Church
is
represented
by
her
bishops,
and
therefore
I
turn
to
the
state-
ments
of
those
having
the
means
of
knowing,
and
the
right
to
make
known,
the
doctrines
of
that
Church,
and
ask
the
attention
of
the
com-
mittee
to
the
following
remarks
of
the
Right
Rev.
Dr.
England:
—
“
God
never
gave
to
St.
Peter
any
temporal
power,
any
authority
to
depose
kings,
any
authority
to
interfere
with
political
concerns.
And
any
right
which
his
successors
might
claim,
for
any
of
those
purposes,
must
be
derived
from
some
other
source.
A
Roman
Catholic
has
no
further
con-
nexion
with
the
pope
than
that
he
succeeds
St.
Peter.
Peter
had
none
of
these
rights—as
a
Roman
Catholic
I
know
nothing
of
them
in
the
pope.
He
is
equally
a
pope
with
or
without
them.”
In
the
early
part
of
my
remarks,
I
took
occa-
sion
to
say
what
would
be
my
course,
if,
by
any
remarkable
(but
really
impossible)
concurrence
of
circumstances,
the
army
and
navy
of
the
pope
should
invade
the
country.
Hear
now
how
the
bishop
of
Charleston
sustains
my
declaration
:—
“
The
American
Constitution
leaves
its
citizens
in
perfect
freedom
to
have
whom
they
please
to
regulate
their
spiritual
concerns.
But
if
the
pope
were
to
declare
war
against
America,
and
any
Roman
Catholic,
under
the
pretext
of
spiritual
obedience,
was
to
refuse
to
oppose
this
temporal
aggressor,
he
would
deserve
to
be
punished
for
his
refusal,
because
he
owes
to
this
country
to
maintain
its
rights;
and
ME.
CHANDLER'S
SPEECH.
:
39
spiritual
power
does
not,
and
cannot,
destroy.
the
claim
which
the
government
hasupon
him.
Suppose
a
clergyman
of
England
were
convicted
for
some
crime—for
instance,
Dr.
Dodd—and
he
was
ordered
for
execution
:
must
the
law
be
inoperative
because
the
criminal
is
a
clergyman
?
Think
you
that
no
one
could
be
found
in
a
Roman
Catholic
coun-
try
to
sentence,
or
to
execute
a
sentence,
upon
a
clergyman
who
was
a
criminal
?
All
history
testifies
to
the
contrary.
So,
too,
does
all
history
show
that,
upon
the
same
principle,
Catholic
kings,
and
princes,
and
peers,
and
people,
have
disobeyed
improper
mandates
of
the
see
of
Rome,
and
have
levied
and
carried
on
war
against
popes,
and
still
con-
tinued
members
of
the
Church.”"
Mr.
Chairman,
I
have
thus
shown
that
the
Church,
in
the
middle
ages,
did
not
claim
for
the
popes
the
authority
to
exercise
temporal
power
over
other
sovereigns,
by
divine
right,
even
when
the
exercise
of
that
authority
seemed
to
be
so
great
a
blessing
to
the
people
that
it
would
scarcely
seem
wonderful
if
the
people
should
have
hailed
it
as
of
divine
origin.
And
I
have
shown
that
the
best
writers
of
the
Catho-
lic
Church,
of
later
days,
and
of
the
present
cen-
tury,
have,
in
like
manner,
denied
that
it
was
part
of
a
Catholic’s
belief
that
the
pope
possesses
any
power
to
depose
kings,
or
release
subjects,
or
to
violate
faith
with
those
who
are
or
are
not
of
the
Catholic
Church.
I
now
offer
other
proof
that
the
Church
sets
up
no
claim
to
such
power.
And,
before
I
do
it,
I
may
be
permitted
to
say
that,
in
the
pursuit
of
information
with