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United Sentes Cathotie tieetony
CONGRESS SHALL MAKE. NO LAW RESPECTING THE
REE EXERCISE THEREOF.—ART. I ~
VOL, IX. NO, a1)
INQUISITION. :
[Prox THE ne Jesvrr.
al aioe, viz. that the Inquisition never condemns |!
sto death, and that the. name of a catholic priest ts nev-
er to be foun nd in the document ofa capital convic-
n
Whi the Spanish law punishes certain crimes
wit an death, secular. justice cannot: contravene that
if the Inquisition, as is always the case,
the slightest degree, participate in ot
‘ollowing een iformly true ; viz. ‘¢ the
conde a does not take place until the secular
authority is ‘at so liberty to act according to its
ec.
the royal judges
punished innocence, they would be tho first who |!
were gui
us the expression, * bloody tribunal, &e.” has, {1
jn the present instance, no real meaning.
There is not, there cannot ve a tribunal upon]s:
‘earth, which must not feel uncomfortable and unhap:
i i reto death, yet
o be reproached for'so doing,
mo and necessary duty to
ost positive | and une
CHARLESTON,
e-| Charles
SATURDAY,
it-be ascertained that the business . of the supreme |
council can be transacted in absence of the Inquisi-
tor General, which inconvenience how overs i is easily’
3 much as: (and he concludes very cor-
?
0 ordinance of the Inquisition can be executed, nor
oven p published without the previous consent of the
ing.
Henze it ‘happens that the’ ‘kings have always te-
Oaaely adhered to this civil institution, and that
among others, having been solicited by
the states of Arragon, and Castile to mitigate its se
verity returned in his usual policy, a very ambiguous
answer, which had the appearance of-his compliances
but which in fact was otherwise.t The he istorian,
therefore, whose assertion on on‘is by
ans to -b ected, was Specfectly “tain when
he declared that the religious. In uisition was, to all
intents and pur,
people of Arragon had obtained from pope Leo Xth,
th d
object of their. petition ; this fact would]
shew the universal Spirit 0 tl e chureh, as well as
the character of sovereign pontifls. Charles
Vth. however, oppose to the operation of these
bulls, and the pope, who aa not eis to offend this
quivocal faults ; ‘especially when it wou db
al in it to acto ther
Besides, the tribunal of the Inquisition q does not
condemn to death, the violator of the This
‘belongs to the purely civil authority, otwnstand:|
certain appearances to the cant hat
@ Ina UISITION
Unmasx pie
Had. [sa ys 3 he] “the Tost absurd 0 of princes, W vas the
real fnuuder of the Inquisition. His refined policy
raised him to this high degre pride. Kin,
have always rejected the counse' suspicions,
presentes to tt against this tribu-
n all es. absolute masters
pen ng the Inquisi-
ave, moreover, ‘nothing to apprehend. fr
the inguin, which is terrible “only to the subjects.{
T avail myself of thie furmal declaration or the
committee. for the purpose of shewing tha the
‘priesthood should not be maliciously 6 licated 3
and if further proof were ne ou may. find it
in the report itself, where the reporter of said com-
mittee observes, that in none. af the pope’s Bulls can
y not be unintoresting to prosent the reader wit! th works
tm
ge very words of the declaration, in the Spanish language,
which wo alluded ‘in our last number,
° Declaramos al dicho N. N. haber sido y ser herege Bposta-
ta, fautor y encubridor do hereges (quando cs relapso) fic fict
‘om |a deep impression upon the mit
us, Lut fan doctrine, which’ menaced et the civil
and religious institutions of Germany, imperiously
required TA
Now, Sir, permit the reporter to declare that the
establishment of the Inquisition is s absolutely null,
because it had not the approbation e Cortes,and|
especially that thes tribunal js Sacompatii with the
sovereignty of the nation
s_fo my part am ‘willing to allow the Spani-|"
rards | to tu settle thé -qilestion-or me peupre nurse]
ty as they think proper, with, their king, by the Gra
of God, Ferdinand. VIL.;. let them be particularly
mindtul to ask his majesty with ‘the reporter of the
committee, ‘*
eignty in the judgments of the Inquisition ?”
tively in no way.** Such Hankness cannot but make.
ind of the monarch,
What shall T say o that fan mous s expression, w whi
should be, written in letters of gold, wherein the re-
porter e loquently describes the terrible tribunal |
ring away, at the midnight hour, the husband from
the bosom of his affectionate wife, &&c.—There is no
man, I can ass sure you, less disposed thos Lam to{
excite the alarms of a woman, and especially in the
night-time : and. I further declare, that in all the
of politics and law, which*f have read in the
jcourse of my life. I do not remember to
istancé of a culprit, who: ha t
° en day, from an apprehension ot intmiating the
order
°
&
s
PRIZE 10, 1820...
$) Court- tribunal and to examine all its de epen
oes the nation exercise its sover- 4
AMEND; CON. UNITED STATES.
(TOT. NO, 326...”
“elt pleased’ our lord, the ‘king (whom God pre-
serve). to honor with his.august - presence, on, th
(4th April last, about nine o’clock, A. M., the Holy
Uffice-Hotel of the court Inquisition, ‘His
render the most satisfactory. ju
zeal with which the ministers of this tribunal serve
the two masesties.* During t is-visit, which lasted:
nearly three hours, the king
panied by his excellency, the
who ¥ complimented in having waited g
majesty, and given him satisfactory ausw: Ht
The superior magistrate thus: addressed ig Royal.
| master at the moment of deport ure—
ise oe
r
pon hie
ho by his’ just and. incompribensiblejudg-
me’ ao “hough proper that. the tridunal,of the farth.
should drink to the very dregs thé cup of bitterness,
has rescued your majesty from captivity and re-estab- —
lished you upon the throne of yo neestors, to become
, the restorer, co: onsoler and sprotector of the figquisi-- ‘
Your majesty, after having visited the Supreme~
Council, condescends to honor with his. presence the
endenciesi—
monarch, issued anotl 1520,° ea » th instruments of torture, about which: the:
proved of Charles! conduct, on ascertaining that the| enemies of the throne and the altar have talked’'s
character of the impi-| my crazy m 2 you' seen the
ulging in all the cruelty, which the most systematic:
barbarity could devise ?
majesty has seen ‘that the prisons are: eae.
even “comfortable, and that the. ministers of th oly:
Ofice know to temper justice will vildnese-and?
that the visit’ of your. Majesty
mau be the means of rectifying the errors ¢ such mei
eee ging the ere Plime. Court
adoption of stich mutasures. as ate-
best suited to such critical cireumprances, and the hap
piness of REIG Lone,$ r eatholie-sube
jects, who are. worthy of the Spanish name.
T doubt whether a president of the Srar-crau--
BER ever addressed his roya in st
only dispense with, but éven anticipate every:
thing in the shape of pre ee
~ e -Jnquisition cannot be too
.
ol! er | wife of the prisoner, and ino y and: -
rimulado © onfitente, impenitente relapso, y por Ho haber tg the arrest, may have been conscientiously arty-spirit can uence men who are otherwise-
yen confiscation y. per ginietie de todos sus bienes, los ques informed whether. the individual was ma rriod, or sin- {sensible | and well: ‘informed, you have only. to: read.
bemos He relaxar y relaxamog Ta perso- gle, dissipated, or industrious.’ How flimsy and the following new c charge of the committe CO.
deo Miike que d sie join yaa secular. .alos quales | conte mptibl le, . therefor! €, must t the etre of brain- ' ‘* Philip IE.” ‘say they, ‘ prohibits an. appeal, as
{the secular’ judges less an ppea considers it an abuse of the decisions of this
como de derecho” mejor “podemos, 88 hayan benigna y | ted with sulid reality! - After h: aioe “far rnished. you | court, so that it is independeet. of all civil authority. §
piedosamente conel. [{bid. p. 180. 18h) Yan. Espen Jus} nah a'few specimens of euch revolutionary charac-|and the grand Anguiei itor isa sovereign in the midst |
Ecclesiast. Univ. Pari Hf. Tit. X. cap. How me to lay before you an Extract from the | ofa sovereign nation, or, in asmuch a 8 he is placedon.
1 t be mins to notice a favorite “phrase of the | Malid Gazette. tt he right hand of sovere! ian, ondemns Span-
ly hostile to the
Inquisition, -and how the expression has J riginat ted. All
culprits who are condemned by thie tribunal are called Vic-
dims of the Inquisition
They are victims, aly i inasmuch ag are alteriminals, who
judicial power
words run thus, Il tri
shia subject about 28 years ago
[a correct expression] ail
bule det Officio non abandon
* Pago 35. oo
musmos 4. «los edictos de la tnguisicion no podian
. $9.
P $ Ibid. p
$ Garner.
481.
|| Ibid, p. 52.
65.
“Hist do Charlemagne, T. i. + op TH, p.
modo axcred la Nacion a svborani on tos jui-
cios de la Inquisicion De Ningu! no. - 66. reportor is
t, he only forgets (andthe or wnistton ieno
ultimo - evppliso cl delle
pin orbil empiot 2 (Dalla punizion ‘iat Eretici, e del tribu-
ale del! 3. Inquisizio om 15s in ae p. 133.
srque son (los Reyo: 8) @ arbitros do
suspender no sombrar y revocar a ioe 5 inion &c. p. 68.
right
doubt unintentional) that this reproach i is intended for all
a tr unals.
+ El tribunal de} Santo Officio de la Inquisicion de Corte
—Gezott de
2 Madrid, April 1815. This passage proves that
all is referred to the Royal poser.
+ Ho: s
publicorse ti sin haber antes obtenide’ ef consentimiento det Revs) at
ish subjects according to the civil law. _Withont any
secular interfe
hority, that the
that all hia ordinances are null and void, unless they.
* En obsequio do ambas magestades. How carr rect an
expraasion ! How sensible! w true! Monarchy, uni+
v, independence of each, and yet aperfect union, Thus the
reat Bossuet thong ht when he made use of the words; the
{two sovereignti
+ Thie ‘title and. the distinctive sipnelation, of the threo
Inquisit
2 Pr
that none co them belonged toa religions o
&'
[2 Pe
rder, , .
-f These two words have a. forcible eigniiation, . aha
P.-61, y) P66. ok