Achilli V. Newman
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Excerpt from Achilli V. Newman: A Full and Authentic Report of the Above Prosecution for Libel, Tried Before Lord Campbell and a Special Jury, in the Court of Queen´s Bench, Westminster, June, 1852; With Introductory Remarks The melancholy exhibition which has just been witnessed in the Court of Queen´s Bench (detailed in the following Report), is a fit subject for humiliating reflection to those who have been indulging the hope that human nature was gradually, though slowly, progressing towards that state of perfection, of which so many are wont to speculate, but of which it is feared the consummation is still distant. In this remarkable trial it is self-evident that the most determined and wholesale perjury has been practised. It is not that any particular witness on one side has been guilty of it, but that the whole of the witnesses on one side or the other must be guilty of perjury the most flagrant and systematic. Even where there is no temptation to perjury, it is difficult to find half a dozen witnesses agreeing in their evidence; how numerous, therefore, must the rehearsals have been preparatory to this unprecedented performance! It is generally the lot of one combatant to come off victorious, but in the present instance only the most mortifying and unsatisfactory results to both parties have been obtained from great exertions and much sacrifice of feeling. In corroboration of this, we cannot here do better than quote the following passage from a most able article in the Times, in which the pith of the controversy is condensed: - "What has either party gained by dragging these revolting details before the public eye? The Protestant supporters of Dr. Achilli have, indeed, succeeded in painting in very forcible colours the known and admitted tendencies of the Church of Rome; they have shown how awfully the superhuman power which Rome places in the hands of weak and fallible mortals may be prostituted and abused. They have shown that, before man shall be permitted to pry into the heart and probe the conscience of his fellow-creatures, he ought to be invested with the perfection as well as the omniscience of the Deity. Little has the victim of this frightful power to hope from the boasted discipline of the Church of Rome. The confessor shrouds the shame of a brother priest under the injunction of eternal silence. The religious orders connive at the delinquencies of a brother whose eloquence can support, and whose teaching edify, the church. If scandal becomes troublesome, a change of residence removes all difficulties, and the church is willing to let the discipline sleep which cannot be enforced without casting obloquy on the priestly character, and exposing the hollowness of the system on which she builds her pretensions and from which she derives her riches. The dreaded Inquisition itself, that name of blood and terror, waxes mild in dealing with merely moral offences, and reserves for heretics penalties which she is too merciful to impose on the erring sons of the church. These things have undoubtedly been presented to us by this remarkable trial in a tangible shape; but who is there so little versed in the history of the Romish Church as to require three days of indecent details in order to convince him that, if weakness has compelled abstinence from her favourite sin of cruelty, the Church of Rome still permits to her ministers scarcely less license than of old in the indulgence of unbridled lust?" - Times, June 25, 1852. For proofs of the statements made in the above extract we beg to refer our readers to a pamphlet lately published, entitled "The Confessional Unmasked," where the principal Romish authorities are quoted in full upon this subject. In that work, from pages 32 to 40, will be found ample extracts justifying priests in the commission of all the immoralities which were charged again
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