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FOREIGN CONSPIRACY
AGAINST THE LIBERTIES OF THE UNITED STATES:
Open letter:
NEW-YORK, Jan. 1, 1835.
To Messrs. Leavitt, Lord & Co.,
Gentlemen,-Learning that you are about to publish in a small

volume, the articles, signed Brutus, (which recently appeared in
the New-York Observer, shewing that a conspiracy is formed
against the United States by the Papal powers of Europe,) the
undersigned, who read those articles with interest, have great
satisfaction in expressing their approbation of your undertaking.
These articles are written by a gentleman of intelligence and
candor, who has resided in the south of Europe, and enjoyed the
best opportunities for acquaintance with the topics on which be
writes.
While we disapprove of harsh, denunciatory language towards

Roman Catholics, their past history, and the fact that they every
where act together, as if guided by one mind, admonish us to be
jealous of their influence, and to watch with unremitted care all
their movements in relation to our free institutions. As this work is

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now to be published in a portable form, and with additional notes
by the author, we hope it may obtain an extensive circulation and
a careful perusal.
Yours, with friendly regard,
JAMES MILNOR,
THOMAS DE WITT,
N. BANGS,
JONATHAN GOING.
*** The gentlemen who have signed the above letter represent
four Protestant denominations, viz. the Episcopal, Presbyterian,
Methodist, and Baptist.
________________ Extract from Zion's Herald a Methodist paper

published in Boston, Mass.
"FOREIGN CONSPIRACY.-We commence to-day publishing this

interesting series. The author is an American, who has resided for a
long time in Italy and Austria. The same day that we had decided to
publish them, we received a note, signed by Rev. Messrs. Lindsey,
Fillmore, Kent, and Stevens, recommending and requesting that they
should appear in the Herald."
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CONTENTS.
Footnotes are integrated into the text in this format.
CHAPTER I
The first impressions of the improbability of a Foreign conspiracy

considered-Present political condition of Europe favors an
enterprise against our institutions-The war of opinions
commenced; Despotism against liberty-The vicissitudes of this
war-Official declarations of the despotic party against all liberty-
Necessity to the triumph of Despotism that American liberty
should be destroyed-The kind of attack most likely to be adopted
from the nature of the contest-Reasons why our institutions are
obnoxious to European governments-Has the attack commenced?
Yes! by Austria-Through a Society called the St. Leopold
Foundation-Ostensibly religious in its design.
CHAPTER II
Political character of the Austrian government-The old avowed

enemy of Protestant liberty-Character of the people of Austria,
slaves-Character of Prince Metternich, the arch contriver of plans
to stifle liberty-These enemies of all liberty suddenly anxious for
the civil and religious liberty of the United States-The absurdity of

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their ostensible design exposed-The avowed objects of Austria in
the Leopold Foundation-Popery the instrument to act upon our
institutions.
CHAPTER III
Popery in its political not its religious character the object of the
present examination-The fitness of the instrument to accomplish
the political designs of despotism-The principles of a Despotic and
a Free government briefly contrasted-Despotic principles
fundamental in Popery-Infallible testimony adduced-Papal claims
of divine right and plenitude of power-Abject principles of Popery
illustrated from the Russian Catechism-Protestantism from its birth
in favor of Liberty-Luther on the 4th of July attacks the
presumptuous claim of divine right-Despotism and Popery united
against liberty of conscience, liberty of opinion, and liberty of the
press-The anti-republican declarations of the present Pope
Gregory XVI.
CHAPTER I
The cause of Popery and Despotism identical-A striking difference

between Popery and Protestantism as they exist in this country-
American Protestantism not controlled by foreign Protestantism-
American Popery entirely under foreign control-Jesuits, the foreign
agents of Austria, bound by the strongest ties of interest to

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Austrian policy, not American-Their dangerous power,
unparalleled to any Protestant sect-Our free institutions opposed
in their nature to the arbitrary claims of Popery-Duplicity to be
expected-Political dangers to be apprehended from Popish
organization-American Popery uncontrolled by Americans, or in
America-Managed in a foreign country by a foreign power for
political purposes-Consequences that may easily result from such
a state of things.
CHAPTER V
Points in our political system which favor this foreign attack-Our

toleration of all religious systems-Popery opposed to all toleration-
Charge of intolerance substantiated-The organization of Popery in
America connected with and strengthened by foreign
organization-Without a parallel among Protestant sects-Great
preponderance of Popish strength in consequence-The divisions
among Protestant sects nullifies their attempts at combination-
Taken advantage of by Jesuits-Popish duplicity illustrated in its
opposite alliances in Europe with despotism, and in America with
democracy-The laws relating to immigration and naturalization
favor foreign attack-Emigrants being mostly Catholic and in entire
subjection to their priests-No remedy provided by our laws for this
alarming evil.

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CHAPTER VI
The evil from immigration further considered-Its political bearings-

The influence of emigrants at the elections-This influence
concentrated in the priests-The Priests must be propitiated; by
what means-This influence easily purchased by the demagogue-
The unprincipled character of many of our politicians favor this
foreign attack-Their bargain for the suffrages of this priest-led
band-A church and state party-The Protestant sects obnoxious to
no such bargaining-the newspaper press favors this foreign
attack; from its want of independence, and its timidity-An anti-
republican fondness for titles, favors this foreign attack-Cautious
attempts of Popery to dignify its emissaries and to accustom us to
their high-sounding titles-A mistaken notion on the subject of
discussing religious opinion in the secular journals, favors this
foreign attack-Political designs not to be shielded from attack
because cloaked by Religion.
CHAPTER VII
The political character of this ostensibly religious enterprise

proved from the letters of the Jesuits now in this country-Their
antipathy to private judqment-Their anticipations of a change in
our form of government-Our government declared too free for the
exercise of their divine rights-Their political partialities-Their cold

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acknowledgment of the generosity, and liberality, and hospitality
of our government-Their estimate of our condition contrasted with
their estimate of that of Austria-Their acknowledged allegiance
and servility to a foreign master-Their sympathies with the
oppressor, and not with the oppressed-Their direct avowal of
political design.
CHAPTER VIII
Some of the means by which Jesuits can already operate

politically in the country-By mob discipline-By priest police-Its
great danger-Already established-Proofs-Priests already rule the
mob-Nothing in the principles of Popery to prevent its interference
in our elections-Popery interferes at the present day in the political
concerns of other countries-Popery the same in our country-It
interferes in our elections-In Michigan-In Charleston, S. C.-In
New-York-Popery a political despotism cloaked under the name of
Religion-It is Church and State embodied-Its character at head-
quarters in Italy-Its political character stripped of its religious
cloak.
CHAPTER IX
Evidence enough of conspiracy adduced to create great alarm-

The cause of liberty universally demands that we should awake to
a sense of danger-An attack is made which is to try the moral
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strength of the Republic-The mode of defence that might be
consistently recommended by Austrian Popery-A mode now in
actual operation in Europe-Contrary to the entire spirit of
American Protestantism-True mode of defence-Popery must be
opposed by antagonist institutions-Ignorance must be dispelled-
Popular ignorance of all Papal countries-Popery the natural
enemy of general education-Popish efforts to spread education in
the United States delusive.
CHAPTER X
All classes of citizens interested in resisting the efforts of Popery-

The unnatural alliance of Popery and Democracy exposed-
Religious liberty in danger-Specially in the keeping of the
Christian community-They must rally for its defence-The secular
press has no sympathy with Protestants; in this struggle it is
opposed to them-The Political character of Popery ever to be kept
in mind and opposed-It is for the Papist not the Protestant to
separate his religious from his political creed-Papists ought to be
required publicly and formally and officially to renounce foreign
allegiance and anti-republican customs.
CHAPTER XI
The question what is the duty of the Protestant community?

considered-Shall there be an Anti-Popery Union? The strong

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manifesto that might be put forth by such a union-Such a political
union discarded as impolitic and degrading to the Protestant
community-Golden opportunity for showing the moral energy of
the republic-The lawful and efficient weapons of this contest-To be
used without delay.
CHAPTER XII
The Political duty of American citizens at this crisis.
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PREFATORY REMARKS.
THE following Numbers written for the New-York Observer in the

beginning of the year 1834, and during several weeks of
confinement by indisposition, have been, perhaps, more
extensively copied into the religious journals of the different
Christian denominations than any communications, (with perhaps
a single exception,) of the same extent since the establishment of
religious newspapers; and although the subject matter is almost
altogether political, giving proofs of a serious foreign conspiracy
against the government, yet the writer is not aware that a single
secular journal in the United States has taken the pains to
investigate the matter, or even to ask if indeed there may not be

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good grounds for believing it true. The silence of the secular press
on a subject which has roused the attention of so large a body of
the Protestant community may indeed be accounted for in part,
perhaps altogether, from the all engrossing election contests
which have agitated the country from one extremity of the land to
the other; for the writer would certainly be very reluctant to adopt
the belief, which has repeatedly been urged upon him by many,
that the secular journals dare not attack Popery; he will not
believe that dare not ever stood in the way of the duty of any
patriotic independent conductor of the American press. Footnote:
A friend to whom this part was read smiled, and said "you are
sufficiently guarded in your language, but how many patriotic
independent conductors of the American press are there? Can
you name one?"
At the solicitation of many citizens without distinction of religious

denomination or of political party, the writer has consented to
collect the numbers into a pamphlet, adding notes illustrative of
many matters which could not so well have been introduced into
the columns of a newspaper.
That a vigorous and unexampled effort is making by the despotic

governments of Europe to cause Popery to overspread this
country, is a fact too palpable to be contradicted. Did not official

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documents lately published, put this fact beyond dispute, yet the
writer had personal evidence sufficient to convince him of the fact
and of the political object of the enterprise, while residing in Italy in
the years 1830-31, from conversations with nobles and gentlemen
of different countries, with the officers of various foreign
governments, visiting and resident in the Roman and Austrian
states, and with priests and other ecclesiastics of the Roman faith.
Sometimes it was hinted to him as a check to too sanguine
anticipations of the triumph of the experiment of our democratic
republican government; sometimes it was told him by the former
class in a tone of exultation that a cause was in operation which
would surely overthrow our institutions and gradually bring us
under a form of government less obnoxious to the pride, and less
dangerous to the existence, of the antiquated despotic systems of
Europe. In addition to these hints to the
writer, concerning the efforts making by the governments of Europe to

carry Popery through all our borders, other American travellers will
testify to similar hints made to them. By one I am permitted to say, that
the celebrated naturalist, the late Baron Cuvier, known also as a
zealous Protestant, inquired of him with marks of concern, if it were
indeed true that Popery had made such progress in the United States,
as to cause the exultation (which it seems was no secret) among the
legitimates of Europe. And again, that a distinguished member of one
of the Protestant German embassies, in Rome also made similar

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inquiries of him, having heard much boasting of the progress of Popery
in the United States, adding this pertinent remark, "they will be hammer
or nails, Sir, they will persecute, or be persecuted." These facts may be
of so much importance in aid of the other proofs of a conspiracy which
these numbers unfold, as to show that among the various higher
classes of Europe the enterprise of a Popish crusade in this country is
not only a subject of notoriety, but is viewed with great interest, and is
considered as having a most important political bearing.
In the following numbers the writer has chosen to rest the

evidence of conspiracy mainly on official documents published in
Vienna, because they have been translated and published,
Footnote: In the New-York Observer, of the months of January,
February, 1534. and are within the reach of any citizen of the
country who chooses more closely to examine them. He has also
availed himself of facts in the operations of Popish agents in this
country, so far as their workings have been occasionally revealed.
The writer will add in conclusion, that he writes not in the interest
of a sect or a party, for the question of Popery is not identified with
either political party. He has lived too long in foreign countries to
be able to identify himself with the local interests of mere party at
home, whether in religion or politics. The great democratic
features of his country's institutions, as contradistinguished from
the despotic, monarchical and aristocratic systems of Europe,

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were admired by him as they appeared more boldly relieved,
viewed from abroad in such striking contrast to all around him;
and he is thoroughly persuaded that these democratic institutions,
if suffered to have their unobstructed course, unobstructed except
by the natural checks of education and religion actively and
universally diffused and sustained, are more favorable to civil
liberty and to the final triumph of truth, and consequently to human
happiness, than any other civil institutions in the world. The writer
entertaining these views has deemed it an imperative duty, at any
sacrifice, to warn his countrymen, of a subtle enemy to the
democracy of the country, and to conjure them as they value their
civil and religious institutions, to watch the Protean shapes of
Popery, to suspect and fear it most when it allies itself to our
interests in the guise of a friend.
Mistrust of all that Popery does, or affects to do, whether as a friend or

foe in any part of the country, is the only feeling that true charity,
universal charity, allows us to indulge.
NEW-YORK, January, 1835.
FOREIGN CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE LIBERTIES OF THE

UNITED STATES. __________________ CHAPTER I.
The first impression of the improbability of foreign conspiracy

considered-Present political condition of Europe favors an

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enterprise against our institutions-The war of opinions
commenced-Despotism against Liberty-The vicissitudes of this
war-The official declaration of the despotic party against all liberty-
Necessity to the triumph of despotism that American Liberty
should be destroyed-The kind of attack upon us most likely to be
adopted from the nature of the contest-Particular reasons why our
institutions are obnoxious to the European governments-Has the
attack commenced? Yes! by Austria-Through a Society called the
St. Leopold Foundation-Ostensibly religious, in its designs.
DOES this heading seem singular? What, it will be said, is it at all

probable that any nation or combination of nations, can entertain
designs against us, a people so peaceable, and at the same time
so distant? Knowing the daily increasing resources of this country
in all the means of defence against foreign aggression, how
absurd in the nations abroad to dream of a conquest on this soil?
Let me, nevertheless, ask attention, while I humbly offer my
reasons for believing that a conspiracy exists, that its plans are
already in operation, and that we are attacked in a vulnerable
quarter which cannot be defended by our ships, our forts, or our
armies.
Who among us is not aware that a mighty struggle of opinion is in

our days agitating all the nations of Europe; that there is a war

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going on between despotism on one side, and liberty on the other.
Footnote: The War of Opinions. EVERY account from Europe
attests the correctness of the views here taken more than a year
since, of the political state of the civilized world. This war of
opinions, or of categories, as Lafayette termed it, is in truth
commenced, and Americans, if they will but use common
observation, cannot but feel that a neglect to notice, and provide
against the consequences of that settled, systematic hostility to
free institutions so strongly manifested by foreign powers, and
which is daily assuming a
more serious aspect, will inevitably result in mischief to the country, will
surely be attended with anarchy if they wake not to the apprehension of
the reality of this danger. Americans, you indeed sleep upon a mine.
This is scarcely a figure of speech; you have excitable materials in the
bosom of your society, which, skilfully put in action by artful
demagogues, will subvert your present social system; you have a
foreign interest too, daily, hourly, increasing, ready to take advantage
of every excitement, and which will shortly be beyond your control, or
will be subdued only by blood. You have agents among you, men in the
pay of those very foreign powers, whose every measure of foreign and
domestic policy has now for its end and aim the destruction of liberty
every where. To increase your peril, you have a press that will not
apprise you of the dangers that threaten you; we can reach you with
our warnings only through the religious journals ; the daily press is

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blind, or asleep, or bribed, or afraid; at any rate, it is silent on this
subject, and thus is throwing the weight of its influence on the side of
your enemies. Foreign spies have clothed themselves in a religious
dress, and so awe-struck are our journalists at its sacred texture, or so
unable or unwilling to discern the difference between the man and his
mask, that they start away in fear, lest they should be called bigoted or
intolerant, or persecuting, if they should venture to lift up the
consecrated cloak that hides a foreign foe. Americans, if you depend
on your daily press, you rely on a broken reed; it fails you in your need.
It dare not, no, it dare not attack Popery. It dare not drag into the light
the political enemies of your liberty, because they come in the name of
religion. All despotic Europe is awake and active in plotting your
downfall, and yet they let you sleep, and you choose not to be awaked;
"a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the
hands to sleep." And now like a man whose house is on fire, dreaming
of comfort and security, you will perhaps repel with passion and
reproach the friendly hand that would wake you in season to escape
with your life.
Do you doubt whether Europe is in hostile array against liberty?

Read of the movements and revolutions of foreign cabinets, as
one or the other principle temporarily predominates. Read the
views of the statesmen of Europe. A distinguished member of the
Spanish Cortes Don Telesforo de Trueba, in a speech delivered
before that body a few months since, says, "The present war is

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not a war of succession but of principle-liberty and despotism are
at issue. England, France, Belgium, Spain and Portugal, have
ranged themselves under the banner of the former, but it is not
necessary for me to name those powers who follow the standard
of the latter."-Of Don Carlos and his government he says,
"Ignorance, hypocrisy, and fanaticism, are his only counsellors,
whispering to him new modes of oppressing his people. Every
thing around is stamped with the marks of baseness and
falsehood, while in this infernal
the God of peace and loveregion desolation and death reign

triumphant. A sanguinary priesthood is sacrificing human victims to
,-men who wish to bring back the dark ages, the age of tyranny, and
ignorance, and death."
The foreign correspondent of the Evening Post, in a letter from

Florence, Italy, published in that journal, Dec. 27, 1834, has the
following information, directly from Tuscany.
"Hitherto" (in the administration of the government) "a disposition

has been shown to let off political offenders as lightly as possible-
but lately, however, something of the same jealousy of
republicanism has shown itself, which has been manifested by the
other absolute governments of Europe. A quarterly journal was
suppressed a few months since, on account of something which

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gave offence to Austria. This, and several other acts of the Grand
Duke, have greatly diminished his personal popularity. The rulers
of Italy appear to have come to an understanding, that it is time to
make an example of some of the disaffected."
Now this Austria is the same busy, meddling government that is

operating in this country; we scarcely read the name of Austria in
a foreign journal, or in letters from abroad, but in connection with
some plan for extinguishing liberty, and yet we harbor her
emissaries, promote their secret designs, contribute our money to
swell their coffers, build for them their seminaries and convents,
entrust our children to their instruction, court their favor, shield
them from all attack, yes, even put ourselves under their
protection: all, all this we do, and our native blood flows evenly in
our veins. Spirit of 76 where dost thou sleep? And with what deep
anxiety should Americans watch the vicissitudes of the conflict.
Having long since achieved our own victory in the great strife
between arbitrary power and freedom, having demonstrated by
successful experiment before the world, the safety, the happiness,
the superior excellence of a republican government, a government
proceeding from the people as the true source of power; enjoying
in overflowing abundance the rich blessings of such a
government, must we not regard with more than common interest
the efforts of mighty nations to break away from the prejudices,

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and habits, and sophistical opinions of ages of darkness, and
struggling to attain the same glorious privileges of rational
freedom? But there are other motives than that of curiosity, or of
mere sympathy with foreign trouble, that should arouse our
solicitude, in the fearful crisis which has at length arrived, a crisis
which the prophetic tongue of a great British statesman Footnote:
Mr. Canning. long since foretold, the war of opinion, threatening
the world with a more frightful sacrifice of human life, than history
in any of its blood-stained pages records. Happily separated by an
ocean-barrier from the great arena where the
physical action of this bloody drama is to be performed, we are secure

from the immediate physical effects of the strife; but we cannot remain
unaffected by the result.
Of European wars arising from the craving of personal ambition,

from thirst for national glory, from desire of territorial increase, or
from other local causes, we might safely be ignorant both of cause
and result. No armed bands of a conqueror flushed with victory,
could give us a moment's alarm. But in a war of opinions, in a war
of principles, in which the very foundations of government are
subverted, and the whole social fabric upturned, we cannot, if we
would, be uninterested in the result. Principles are not bounded by
geographical limits. Oceans present to them no barriers. All of
principle that belongs to despotism throughout the world, whether

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in the iron systems of Russia and Austria; or the scarcely less
civilized system of China, and all of principle that belongs to pure
American freedom in the United States, or in the mixed systems of
Britain, France, and some other European states, are in this great
contest arrayed in opposition. The triumph of the one or the other
principle, whether in the field of battle, or in the secret councils of
the cabinet, or the congress of ministers, or the open debate,
produces effects wherever society exists. The recent convulsions
in Europe should not pass unheeded by Americans. The three
days' revolution of France, the reform in Britain on the side of
liberty; the suppressed revolutions of Italy and Poland on the side
of despotism ; the yet doubtful victory of the two principles now in
contest in Portugal and Spain; Footnote: These numbers were
written in January and February, 1834. the crooked diplomacy, the
contradictory measures, the faithless promises of the despotic
cabinets, all show that the war of principles has indeed
commenced, and that Europe is agitated to its very centre with the
anxieties of the contest.
No open annual message reveals frankly to all the world the true
internal condition of the oppressed nations of Europe. From the
well guarded walls of the secret council chamber of the imperial
power, documents seldom escape to show us the strength of the
opposing principle. Despotism glosses over all its oppressions.

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The people are always happy under the paternal sway. They that
plead for liberty are always enemies of public order. "Order reigns
in Warsaw," was the proclamation that told the world that
despotism had triumphed over Poland, and none now may know
the number of her sons of freedom still at large. still unexiled to
the mines of Siberia; yet it is great; for Russia, and Prussia, and
Austria. have leagued anew against unconquerable Poland ; and
the agony of determination, the desperate resolution which the
Russian Autocrat has just uttered, tells the secret of the yet
unvanquished spirit of Polish patriots, and at the same time
discloses the plot of mighty efforts, of united efforts, of
persevering efforts utterly to extinguish liberty
"As long as I live," says the Emperor, "I will oppose a will of iron to the
progress of liberal opinions. The present generation is lost, but we must
labor with zeal and earnestness to improve the spirit of that to come. It
may require an hundred years; I am not unreasonable, I give you a
whole age, but you must work without relaxation."
This is language without ambiguity, bold, undisguised; it is the

clear official disclosure of the determination of the Holy Alliance
against liberty. It proclaims unextinguishable hatred, a will of iron.
There is no compromise with liberty, a hundred years of efforts
unrelaxed, if necessary, shall be put forth to crush it for ever. Its
very name must be blotted from the earth. What! and is there a

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Holy Alliance, a "union of Christian princes," leagued to extinguish
the kindling sparks of liberty in Europe? and will they make no
effort to quench the great altar-fires, that blaze in their strength in
the temples of this land of liberty? An oversight like this would
seem to be too palpable for the wisdom of the despotic cabinets to
commit. This conquest must be achieved, or liberty will never die
in Europe.
With declarations before us, thus officially put forth by despotism,

of such exterminating hostility to liberty, is it not possible that an
attack on us may be made from a quarter, and in a shape little
expected? Should we not at least look about us? Nations may be
attacked and conquered too, with other weapons than the sword.
The diplomatic pen, as England can testify, has often wrested
from her that territory which her sword had won. We need not
look, therefore, to the ports of Europe to see if fleets are
gathering. We are safe enough from ships. Nor need we fear
diplomacy, for we have "entangling alliances with none." Where,
then, shall we look? What shape would attack be likely to
assume? Let the nature of the contest aid us in the inquiry. It is
the war of opinion; the war of antagonist principles: the war of
despotism against liberty. But how can this contest be carried on
in this country? We have not the warring opinions to set in array
against each other. One principle is certainly absent. We have no

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party in favor of despotism. This party is to be created. If then a
scheme can be devised for sowing the seeds, and rearing the
plants of despotism, that is the scheme which would find favor
with the Holy Alliance, to subserve its designs against American
liberty.
Is it asked, Why should the Holy Alliance feel interested in the

destruction of transatlantic liberty? I answer, the silent but
powerful and increasing influence of our institutions on Europe, is
reason enough. The example alone of prosperity which we exhibit
in such strong contrast to the enslaved, priest-ridden, tax-
burdened despotisms of the old world, is sufficient to keep those
countries in perpetual agitation. How can it be otherwise? Will a
sick man, long despairing of cure, learn that there is a remedy for
him,
and not desire to procure it? Will one born to think a dungeon his
natural home, learn through his grated bars, that man may be free; and
not struggle to obtain his liberty? And what do the people of Europe
behold in this country? They witness the successful experiment of a
free government; a government of the people; without rulers de jure
divino, (by divine right:) having no hereditary privileged classes; a
government exhibiting good order and obedience to law, without an
armed police and secret tribunals; a government out of debt; a people
industrious, enterprising, thriving in all their interests; without

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monopolies; a people religious without an establishment; moral and
honest without the terrors of the confessional or the inquisition; a
people not harmed by the uncontrolled liberty of the press, and
freedom of opinion; a people that read what they please, and think, and
judge, and act for themselves; a people enjoying the most unbounded
security of person and property; among whom domestic conspiracies
are unknown; where the poor and rich have equal justice; a people
social and hospitable; exerting all their energies in schemes of public
and private benefit without other control than mutual forbearance. A
government so contrasted in all points with absolute governments,
must, and does engage the intense solicitude, both of the rulers and
people of the old world. Every revolution that has occurred in Europe
for the last half century, has been in a greater or less degree the
consequence of our own glorious revolution. The great political truths
there promulgated to the world, are the seed of the disorders and
conspiracies, and revolutions of Europe, from the first French
revolution, down to the present time. They are the throes of the internal
life, breaking the bands of darkness with which superstition and
despotism have hitherto bound the nations struggling into the light of a
new age. Can despotism know all this, and not feel it necessary to do
something to counteract the evil?
Let us look around us. Is despotism doing any thing in this

country? It becomes us to be jealous. We have cause to expect
an attack, and that it will be of a kind suited to the character of the

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contest, the war of opinion. Yes! despotism is doing something.
Austria is now acting in this country. She has devised a grand
scheme. She has organized a great plan for doing something
here, which she, at least, deems important. She has her Jesuit
missionaries travelling through the land; she has supplied them
with money, and has furnished a fountain for a regular supply. She
had expended a year ago more than seventy four thousand
dollars in furtherance of her design! Footnote: From the best
authority, I have just learned, Dec. 1834, that $100,000 have been
received from Austria, within two years! These are not surmises.
They are facts. Some official documents giving the constitution
and doings of this Foreign Society, have lately made their
appearance in the New-York Observer, and have been copied
extensively into other journals of the country. This society having
ostensibly a religious object, has been for nearly
four years at work in the United States, without attracting, out of the
religious world, much attention to its operations. The great patron of
this apparently religious scheme is no less a personage than the
Emperor of Austria. The Society is called the St. Leopold Foundation. It
is organized in Austria. The field of its operations is these United
States. It meets and forms its plans in Vienna. Prince Metternich has it
under his watchful care. The Pope has given it his apostolic
benediction, and "His Royal Highness, Ferdinand V., King of Hungary,
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graciously pleased, prompted by a piety worthy the exalted title of an
apostolic king, to accept the office of Protector of the Leopold
Foundation." Now in the present state of the war of principles in
Europe, is not a society formed avowedly to act upon this country,
originating in the dominions of a despot, and holding its secret councils
in his capital, calculated to excite suspicion? Is it credible that a society
got up under the auspices of the Austrian government, under the
superintendence of its chief officers of state, supplying with funds a
numerous body of Jesuit emissaries who are organizing themselves in
all our borders, actively passing and re-passing between Europe and
America; is it credible, I say, that such a society has for its object purely
a religious reform? Is it credible that the manufacturers of chains for
binding liberty in Europe, have suddenly become benevolently
concerned only for the religious welfare of this republican people? If
this Society be solely for the propagation of the Catholic faith, one
would think that Rome, and not Vienna should be its headquarters! that
the Pope, not the Emperor of Austria, should be its grand patron! It
must be allowed that this should be a subject of general and absorbing
interest. If despotism has devised a scheme for operating against its
antagonist principle in this country, the stronghold, the very citadel of
freedom, it becomes us to look about us. It is high time that we awake
to the apprehension of danger. I propose to show, why I believe this
ostensibly religious society covers other designs than religious.
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Political character of the Austrian government, the power
attacking us-The old avowed enemy of Protestant liberty-
Character of the people of Austria-Slaves-Character of Prince
Metternich the arch contriver of plans to stifle liberty-These
ENEMIES of all liberty, suddenly anxious for the civil and religious
liberty of the United States-The absurdity of their ostensible
design exposed-The avowed objects of Austria in the Leopold
foundation-Popery the instrument to act upon our institutions
THE documents to which I have alluded, exhibit so much of the

correspondence of the "St. Leopold Foundation," as it was
deemed advisable to publish in Vienna. They consist of letters and
statements from Jesuists, bishops and priests, residing or
itinerating in this country, and whose resources are derived chiefly
from the Society in Austria. In documents thus prepared by
Jesuists, (the most wary order of ecclesiastics,) to draw forth more
liberal supplies of money from abroad, and then submitted to the
revision of the most cautious cabinet of Europe, that so much only
may be published as will attain, their object in the Austrian
dominions, while all that might excite suspicion in the United
States is concealed, we must expect to find great care to avoid
any unnecessary exposure of covert political designs. The
evidence therefore of a concerted political attack upon our
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extraordinary zeal of Austria for the religious welfare of the United
States, will not depend altogether on the information derived from
these documents. Such an attack is what might be expected from
the present political attitude of the European nations, in regard to
the principles of despotism and liberty; from the powerful and
unavoidable effect which our institutions exert in favor of the
popular principle; and also from the known political character of
Austria.
Who, and what is Austria, the government that is so benevolently

concerned for our religious welfare? Austria is one of that Holy
Alliance of despotic governments, one of the "union of Christian
princes," leagued against the liberties of the people of Europe.
Austria is one of the partitioners of Poland; the enslaver and
despot of Italy. Her government is the most thorough military
despotism in the world. She is the declared and consistent enemy
of civil and religious liberty; of the freedom of the press; in short, of
every great principle in those free institutions which it is our glory
and privilege to inherit from our fathers. Austria, from the
commencement of the Reformation to the present time, has been
the bitter enemy of Protestantism. The famous thirty years' war,
marked by every kind of brutal excess, was waged to extirpate
those very principles of civil and religious liberty which lie at the
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this republic would never have been founded.
And what are the people of Austria? They are slaves, slaves in body
and mind, whipped and disciplined by priests to have no opinion of their
own, and taught to consider their Emperor their God. They are the jest
and by-word of the Northern Germans, who never speak of Austrians
but with a sneer, and, "as slaves unworthy the name of Germans; as
slaves both mentally and physically." [Dwight.]
And who is Prince Metternich, whose letter of approval, in the

name of his master the Emperor, is among the documents? He is
the master of his Master, the arch contriver of the plans for stifling
liberty in Europe and throughout the world. "Metternich," says
Dwight in his Travels in Germany, "by his wonderful talent in
exciting fear, has thus far controlled the cabinets of Europe, and
has exerted an influence over the destinies of nations, little, if any
inferior to that of Napoleon." He persuaded the Emperor of Austria
and King of Prussia not to fulfil the promise they so solemnly
made to their German subjects of giving them free constitutions. It
was the influence of Metternich that prevented Alexander from
assisting Greece in her struggles for liberty. He lent Austrian
vessels to assist the Turks in the subjugation of the Greeks.
Metternich crushed the liberties of Spain by inducing Louis XVIII.,
against his wishes, to send 100,000 men thither under the Duke d'
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Genoa, in 1820-1, threw off the galling yoke of slavery, Metternich
sent his 30,000 Austrian bayonets into Italy and re-established
despotism. And when in 1831, (as the writer can testify from
personal observation,) goaded to desperation by the extortion and
tyranny, and bad faith of the Papal government, the Italian patriots
made a noble and successful effort to remedy their political evils
by a revolution firm, yet temperate, founded in the most tolerant
principles, marked by no excess, and hailed by the Legations with
universal joy, again did this arch-enemy of human happiness let
loose his myrmidons, overwhelming the cities, dragging the
patriots, Italy's first citizens to the scaffold, or incarcerating them in
the dungeons of Venice, filling whole provinces with mourning,
and bringing back upon the wretchedly oppressed population the
midnight darkness which the dawn of liberty had begun to dispel.
"Prince Metternich," says Dwight, "is regarded by the liberals of
Europe as the greatest enemy of the human race who has lived
for ages. You rarely hear his name mentioned without exciting
indignation, not only in the speaker but in the auditors. Metternich
has not been attacking MEN but PRINCIPLES, and has done so
much towards destroying on the continent those great political
truths, which nations have acquired through ages of effort and
suffering, that there is reason to fear, should his system continue
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more. The Saxons literally abhor this Prince. The German word
mitternacht means midnight. From the resemblance of the
word to Metternich, as well as from his efforts to cover Europe with

political darkness, the Saxons call him Prince Mitternacht-Prince
Midnight."
This is the government and the people, which have, all at once,
manifested so deep an interest in the spiritual condition of this
heretic land. It is this nation of slaves, this remnant of the
superstition and vassalage, and degradation of the dark ages,
from whom the light of the nineteenth century has been so
carefully shut out, that it fondly conceits its own darkness to be
light, its death-like torpor, order,-it is this nation, not yet
disenthralled from the chains of superstition, that is anxious to
enlighten us, in the United States, in the principles of civil and
religious liberty. Civil and religious liberty! words that may not be
uttered in Austria but at the risk of the dungeon; words that would
carry such shrieks of dismay through the ranks of Prince
Metternich's vassals, as the flash of a torch would bring forth from
a cavern of owls.
And can it be believed that such a government, the determined,

consistent enemy of liberty, has no interested motive, no political
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operations in this country ? Is it likely that we, Protestant
republicans of the United States, have won the kind regards of the
Austrian government, which has been the persevering foe of the
Reformation and its republican fruits since the days of Luther?
Has not Austria had vexation and anxiety and trouble enough for
fifty years past, in stopping up the opening crevices of the
European dungeon through which the unwelcome light of
American liberty has so often broken, to be perfectly apprised of
the hated source of that light ? Yes, she cannot but now perceive,
that those Protestant principles, which she has been incessantly
engaged in endeavoring to suppress, driven by the winds of
persecution from Europe, have been taking root, and
strengthening in a congenial soil, and are here bearing their
genuine fruits, liberty and happiness, and all the religious and
social virtues. She cannot view this Protestant nation growing to
gigantic dimensions, a living proof of the truth and salutary
influence of the principles she hates, without feeling that her own
principles of darkness are in danger. And well may she be
dismayed. Yes, Austria has turned her eyes towards us, and she
loves us as the owl loves the sun. Can any one doubt that she
would extinguish every spark of liberty in this country, if she had
the power? Can any one believe that she would make no attempt
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existence of her throne? We may be told by some, perhaps, that
her designs are purely of a religious character. Who can believe
it? No one who has been in Austria. Every intelligent man who has
resided even for a short time in the Austrian dominions, must have
seen enough of the craft, both of the government and the
priests, to make him suspicious of all their doings, and most so, when
they are most lavish of their professions of kindness and benevolence.
"Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes."
But let us see what Austria avows as her design in the formation
of the Leopold Foundation. Footnote: Some may be inclined to
ask. Is not this society a private association, merely chartered by
the government, not differing materially from the religious
societies in our own country? I answer that, were the Leopold
Foundation an association of private individuals, (which it is not.)
yet got up in the Austrian dominions, it would still be a government
affair.-For we must not confound the practices of two
governments, so totally opposite in the administration of all their
affairs as the Austrian and our own. From the happy, separation of
church and state in our own country, religious societies, of
whatever cha-racter, have no connection with the government.
They move in a separate sphere of action, yet in perfect harmony
with it. But in Austria, no plan, no society of any kind, is private;
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persecuted Maroncelli, confined in the dungeons of Spielberg for
the crime of loving the political principles of this country, must wait
a week, at the risk of this life, for a gracious permission from the
Paternal government to have his leg amputated. Yes, a private
matter like this is a government affair; how much more then a
grand society, with the Emperor its patron, the Crown prince and
heir to the imperial throne its protector, and Prince Metternich, and
all the dignitaries of the empire, temporal and ecclesiastical,
engaged in its operations? It is the Austrian government that is
engaged in this plan of an ostensibly religious character. The first
great object is "To promote the greater activity of Catholic
missions in America." She may be, and doubtless is, perfectly
sincere in this design, for it is only necessary that she should
succeed in her avowed object to have her utmost wishes
accomplished. She need avow no other aim. If she gains this, she
gains all. If she succeeds in fastening upon us the chains of Papal
bondage, she has a people as fit for any yoke she pleases to
grace our necks withal, as any slaves over whom she now holds
her despotic rod. She has selected a fitting instrument for her
purpose. Her armies can avail her nothing against us, for the
ocean intervenes. Her diplomacy gives her no hold, for there are
scarcely any political relations between us. The only instrument by
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precisely which she has chosen. Its perfect fitness to accomplish
any political design against the liberties of this country and of the
world, I shall next consider.
CHAPTER III.
Popery, in its political not its religious character, the object of the
present examination-The fitness of the instrument to accomplish
the political designs of despotism considered-The principles of a
despotic and free government, briefly contrasted-Despotic
principles fundamental in Popery-Proved by infallible testimony-
Papal claims of divine right and plentitude of power-Abject
principles of Popery illustrated from the Russian catechism-
Protestantism from its birth in favor of liberty-Luther on the 4th of
July attacked the presumptuous claim of divine right-Despotism
and Popery hand in hand against the liberty of conscience, liberty
of opinion; and liberty of the press-The anti-republican
declarations of the present Pope Gregory, XVI.
BEFORE commencing the examination of the perfect fitness of

the instrument, Catholic missions, to accomplish the political
designs upon this country of Austria and her despotic allies, I
would premise, that I have nothing to do in these remarks with the
purely religious character of the tenets of the Roman Catholic
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in the religious controversy, the acute pens of the polemic writers
of the day will furnish them abundant means of deciding for
themselves. But every religious sect has certain principles of
government growing out of its particular religious belief, and which
will be found to agree or disagree with the principles of any given
form of civil government. Footnote: Opposite tendencies of Popery
and Protestantism. On the very threshold of the examination upon
which I have here entered, and while searching among the
records of the two sects for the political tendencies of the
principles of Popery and Protestantism, I was struck with the
marked difference in extent which the two fields of inquiry
legitimately offered for examination. The prime dogma of the
Catholics, that all which their church teaches is infallible,
unchangeable; that what she has once taught as truth must now
and forever be truth, lays open to our examination a wide field. All
and each of the precepts, laws, and acts of Popery, from the
earliest ages to the present day, may be legitimately quoted to
show the political character of that sect. Innovation, repeal,
reform, or progress can find no admittance into the Papal system,
without destroying the fundamental principle on which the whole
system rests. "The whole of our faith," says Cardinal Pallavicini,
an infallible authority, "rests upon one indivisible article, namely
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give up any part whatever, the whole falls, for what admits not of
being divided, must evidently stand entire, or fall entire."
Protestantism, on the contrary, is founded on the Bible; the Bible is the

rallying point of all Protestant religious sects. They all believe that God
is its author. The religious faith of each is bound to this one volume. But
as the Bible prescribes no form of faith, or doctrine, or of church
government, in which all, in the exercise of the natural and revealed
right of private judgment, can agree, each sect adopts that form most in
accordance with what it believes to be the spirit of the doctrines which
the Bible teaches. Hence there is diversity of views, according to the
diversities of human constitution, according to the varying degrees of
intellectual cultivation, or the peculiar wants and condition incident to
the infinite variety of circumstances in which human society exists.
Upon this freedom to choose according to the dictates of reason and
conscience, granted to man by his Maker, denied by Roman Catholics
and claimed by Protestants, is built the fabric of religious liberty.
Difference of opinion being allowed, controversy of course ensues, and
converts are to be made not by force of arms, but by force of truth
supported by appeals to reason and conscience. Zealous according to
the strength of his belief in the dogmas of his sect, the Protestant calls
to his aid all the treasures of science. He believes that the divine
Author of truth in the Bible is also the author of truth in Nature. He
knows, that as truth is one, He that created all that forms the vast field
of scientific research cannot contradict truth in Scripture by truth in
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learning, of all investigation. Every discovery in science, he feels,
brings to religious truth fresh treasures. Free inquiry, and discussion,
all intellectual activity legitimately belong to Protestantism. It is by thus
opening wide the doors of knowledge, and letting in the light of natural
science upon what it believes to be the revealed truth of the Bible, that
Protestantism has been able gradually to bring out the principle of
religious liberty, and in its train the invaluable blessing of civil liberty.-At
the commencement of the Reformation, however, we are not to look for
a full development of the free principles of Protestantism. We must
expect to find many truths, (which to us who live in the noon of
freedom, are as clear as the sun,) then obscured or entirely invisible in
the popish darkness of the times. The slavish prohibitions, the deep-
rooted heathen rites, and the arbitrary dogmas of Popery were then
enforced by power, by ignorance, and corruption, so that the struggle of
free with despotic principles was attended, through many generations,
with constant vicissitude. No maxim or usage of Popish intolerance,
that for a long time clung or still clings to any of the Protestant systems
of Europe, can be quoted against American Protestantism;
consequently I am under no necessity of defending any despotic or
intolerant practice, which may be charged or proved upon foreign, or
ancient Protestantism, while every act or practice, past or present of
Popish enactment is, (Papists themselves being judges,) available to
demonstrate the immutable character of Popery. It is my design,
therefore, briefly to consider some of the antagonist principles of the
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and of the United States, and compare them with the principles of
government of the Catholic and Protestant sects. By this method we
shall be able to judge of their bearing on the permanency of our
present civil institutions.
Let us first present to view the fundamental principle of

government, that principle which, according to its agreement with
one or the other of the two opposite opinions that divide the world,
decides entirely the character of the government in every part of
the body politic. From whom is authority to govern derived?
Austria and the United States will agree in answering,-from God.
The opposition of opinion occurs in the answers to the next
question. To whom on earth is this authority delegated? Austria
answers, To the EMPEROR, who is the source of all
authority,-"The Emperor do ordain," &c. The United States
answers, To the PEOPLE, in whom resides the Sovereign
power,-"We the People do ordain, establish, grant," &c. In one
principle is recognized the necessity of the servitude of the
people, the absolute dependence of the subject, unqualified
submission to the commands of the rulers without question or
examination. The Ruler is Master, the People are Slaves. In the
other is recognized the supremacy of the people, the equality of
rights and powers of the citizen, submission alone to laws
emanating from themselves; the Ruler is a public servant,

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receiving wages from the people to perform services agreeable to
their pleasure; amenable in all things to them; and holding office
at their will. The Ruler is Servant, the People are Master. The fact
and important nature of the difference in these antagonist
doctrines, leading, as is perceived, to diametrically opposite
results, are all that is needful to state in order to proceed at once
to the inquiry, which position does the Catholic sect and the
Protestant sects severally favor? The Pope, the supreme Head of
the Catholic church, claims to be the "Vicegerent of God,"
"supreme over all mortals;" "over all Emperors, Kings, Princes,
Potentates and People;" " King of kings and Lord of lords." He
styles himself, "the divinely appointed dispenser of spiritual and
temporal punishments;" "armed with power to depose Emperors
and Kings, and absolve subjects from their oath of allegiance:"
"from him lies no appeal ;" "he is responsible to no one on earth;"
"he is judged of no one but God." But not to go back to former
ages to prove the fact of the Pope's claiming divine right, let the
present Pontiff Gregory XVI. testify. He claims, and attempts the
exercise of this plentitude of power and asserts his divine right.
The document I quote is fresh from the Vatican, scarce four
months old, a document in which the Pope interferes directly in
the political affairs of Portugal against Don Pedro. "How can there
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united to the head and do not obey it? And how can this union and
obedience be maintained in a country where they drive from their
sees the bishops, legitimately instituted by Him to whom it
appertains to assign
pastors to all the vacant churches, because the DIVINE RIGHT grants
to Him alone the primacy of jurisdiction and the plentitude of power."
The Catholic catechism now taught by Catholic priests to the Poles in
all the schools of Poland, and published by special order at Wilna,
1832, is very conclusive of the character of Catholic doctrine. The
following questions and answers are propounded
"Quest. 1. How is the authority of the Emperor to be considered in

reference to the spirit of Christianity?
Ans. As proceeding immediately from God.
"Quest. 2. How is this substantiated by the nature of things? Ans.

It is by the will of God that men live in society; hence the various
relations which constitute society, which for its more complete
security is divided into parts called nations; the government of
which is intrusted to a Prince, King, or Emperor, or in other words,
to a Supreme ruler; we see, then, that as man exists in conformity
to the will of God, society emanates from the same divine will, and
more especially the supreme power and authority of our lord and
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"Quest. 3. What duties does religion teach us the humble subjects
of his majesty the Emperor of Russia, to practice towards him?
Ans. Worship, obedience, fidelity, the payment of taxes, service,
love and prayer, the whole being comprised in the words worship
and fidelity.
"Quest. 4. Wherein does this worship consist, and how should it

be manifested? Ans. By the most unqualified reverence in words,
gestures, demeanor, thoughts and actions.
"Quest. 5. What kind of obedience do we owe him? Ans. An

entire, passive, and unbounded obedience in every point of view.
"Quest. 6. In what consists the fidelity we owe to the Emperor?

Ans. In executing his commands most rigorously, without
examination, in performing the duties he requires from us, and in
doing every thing willingly without murmuring.
"Quest. 8. Is the service of his Majesty, the Emperor, obligatory on

us? Ans. Absolutely so; we should, if required, sacrifice ourselves
in compliance with his will, both in a civil and military capacity, and
in whatever manner he deems expedient.
"Quest. 9. What benevolent sentiments and love are due to the

Emperor? Ans. We should manifest our good will and affection,
according to our station, in endeavoring to promote the prosperity of

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our native land, Russia, (not Poland,) as well as that of the Emperor,
our father, and of his august family.
"Quest. 13. Does religion forbid us to rebel, and overthrow the

government of the Emperor? Ans. We are interdicted from so
doing, at all times, and under any circumstances.
"Quest. 14. Independently of the worship we owe to the Emperor,

are we called upon to respect the public authorities emanating
from him? Ans. Yes; because they emanate from him, represent
him, and act as his substitute, so that the Emperor is every where.
"Quest. 15. What motives have we to fulfil the duties above

enumerated? Ans. The motives are two-fold-some natural, others
revealed.
"Quest. 16. What are the natural motives? Ans. Besides the
motives adduced, there are the following: The Emperor, being the
head of the nation, the father of all his subjects who constitute one
and the same country, is thereby alone worthy of reverence,
gratitude, and obedience: for both public welfare and individual
security depend on submissiveness to his commands.
"Quest. 17. What are the supernatural revealed motives for this
worship? Ans. The supernatural revealed motives are, that the
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divine commands; and, consequently, disobedience to the
Emperor is identified with disobedience to God himself, that God
will reward us in the world to come for the worship and obedience
we render the Emperor, and punish us severely to all eternity
should we disobey and neglect to worship him. Moreover, God
commands us to love and obey from the inmost recesses of the
heart every authority, and particularly the Emperor, not from
worldly considerations, but from apprehension of the final
judgment.
"Quest. 19. What examples confirm this doctrine? Ans. The

example of Jesus Christ himself, who lived and died in allegiance
to the Emperor of Rome, and respectfully submitted to the
judgment which condemned him to death. We have, moreover,
the example of the Apostles, who both loved and respected them;
they suffered meekly in dungeons conformably to the will of
Emperors, and did not revolt like malefactors and traitors. We
must, therefore, in imitation of these examples, suffer and be
silent."
This is the slavish doctrine taught to the Catholics of Poland. The

people, instead of having power or rights, are according to this
catechism mere passive slaves, born for their masters, taught by a
perversion of the threatenings of religion to obey without murmuring, or
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cringe and fawn and kiss the very feet of majesty, and deem
themselves happy to be whipped, to be kicked, or to die in his service.
Is it necessary to say that there is not a Protestant sect in this country
that holds such abject sentiments, or whose creed inculcates such
barefaced idolatry of a human being? Protestantism, on the contrary, at
its birth, while yet bound with many of the shackles of Popery, attacked,
in its earliest lispings of freedom, this very doctrine of divine right. It
was Luther, and by a singular coincidence of day too, on the fourth of
July, who first in a public disputation at Leipsic [sic Liepzig] with his
Popish antagonist, called in question the divine right of the Pope.
Let us now examine in contrast other political rights, liberty of

conscience, liberty of opinion, and liberty of the press. Austria and
the United States differ on these points as widely as on the
fundamental question. Austria not only has the press in her own
territory under censorship, but intermeddles to control the press in
neighboring states on the principle of self preservation. "In
Saxony," says Dwight, "the press is fettered by Austria and
Prussia, who allege this reason, 'that all the works published in
Saxony, which are not on the proscribed list, are freely admitted
into our dominions. For our happiness, therefore, and the stability
of our thrones, it is necessary that the press should be fettered!!'"
As to liberty of opinion, political or religious, in Austria, no one
dreams of the existence of such a thing; the dungeon is a
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opinion throughout all the imperial dominions. It is our glory, on
the contrary, that all these rights are secured to us by our
institutions, and freely enjoyed, not only without the least danger
to the peace of the state, but from the very genius of our
government, they are esteemed among its most precious
safeguards. What are the Catholic tenets on these points? Shall I
go back some three or four hundred years, and quote the
pontifical law which says. [ Art. 9.] "The Pope has the power to
interpret Scripture and to teach as he pleases, and no person is
allowed to teach in a different way." Or to the fourth Council of
Lateran in 1215, which decrees "That all heretics, (that is all who
have an opinion of their own,) shall be delivered over to the civil
magistrate to be burned." Or shall I refer to the Catholic Index
Expurgatorius to the list of forbidden books, to show how the
press is still fettered? No! it is unnecessary to go farther than the
present day. The reigning pontiff Gregory XVI. shall again answer
the question. He has most opportunely furnished us with the
present sentiments of the Catholic church on these very points. In his

encyclical letter, dated Sept. 1832, the Pope, lamenting the disorders
and infidelity of the times, says,
"From this polluted fountain of 'indifference,' flows that absurd and

erroneous doctrine, or rather raving, in favor and defence of
'liberty of conscience,' for which most pestilential error, the course

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is opened to that entire and wild liberty of opinion, which is every
where attempting the overthrow of religious and civil institutions;
and which the unblushing impudence of some has held forth as an
advantage to religion. Hence that pest, of all others most to be
dreaded in a state, unbridled liberty of opinion, licentiousness of
speech, and a lust of novelty, which, according to the experience
of all ages, portend the downfall of the most powerful and
flourishing empires."
"Hither tends that worst and never sufficiently to be execrated and

detested LIBERTY OF THE PRESS, for the diffusion of all manner
of writings, which some so loudly contend for, and so actively
promote."
He complains too of the dissemination of unlicensed books.
"No means must be here omitted, says Clement XIII., our

predecessor of happy memory, in the Encyclical Letter on the
proscription of bad books-no means must be here omitted, as the
extremity of the case calls for all our exertions, to exterminate the
fatal pest which spreads through so many works; nor can the
materials of error be otherwise destroyed than by the flames,
which consume the depraved elements of the evil."
Now all this is explicit enough, here is no ambiguity. We see

clearly from infallible authority that the Catholic of the present day,
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wherever he may be, if he is true to the principles of his sect,
cannot consistently tolerate liberty of conscience, or liberty of the
press. Is there any sect of Protestants in this country, from whose
religious tenets doctrines so subversive of civil and religious
liberty can be even inferred? If there be, I am ignorant of its name.
The subject will be pursued in the next chapter.
CHAPTER IV.
The cause of Popery and despotism identical-Striking difference

between Popery and Protestantism as they exist in this country-
American Protestantism not controlled by foreign Protestantism-
American Popery entirely under foreign control-Jesuits the foreign
agents of Austria, bound by the strongest ties of interest to
Austrian policy, not to American-Their dangerous power-
unparalleled in any Protestant sect-Our free institutions opposed
in their nature to the arbitrary claims of Popery-Duplicity to be
expected-Political dangers to be apprehended from Roman
Catholic organization-American Roman Catholic ecclesiastical
matters uncontrolled by Americans or in America-Managed in a
foreign country by a foreign power for political purposes-
Consequences that may easily result from such a state of things.
I EXPOSED in my last chapter the remarkable coincidence of the

tenets of Popery with the principles of despotic government, in this
respect so opposite to the tenets of Protestantism; Popery, from
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its very nature, favoring despotism, and Protestantism, from its
very nature, favoring liberty. Is it not then perfectly natural that the
Austrian government should be active in supporting Catholic
missions in this country? Is it not clear that the cause of Popery is
the cause of despotism?
But there is another most striking and important difference

between Popery and Protestantism, in their bearing upon the
liberties of the country. No one of the Protestant sects owns any
head out of this country, or is governed in any of its concerns by
any men or set of men in a foreign land. All ecclesiastical officers
are nominated and appointed or removed by the people of the
United States. No foreign body has any such union with any sect
of Protestants in the United States, as even to advise, much less
to control any of its measures. Our Episcopalians appoint their
own bishops without consulting the church of England; our
Presbyterians are entirely independent of the church of Scotland ;
and our Wesleyan Methodists have no ecclesiastical connection
with the disciples of Wesley in the old world. But how is it in these
respects with the Catholics? The right of appointing to all
ecclesiastical offices in this country, as every where else, is in the
Pope, (now a mere creature of Austria. He claims the power, as
we have seen, by divine right. All the bishops, and all the
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are from the genius of the system entirely under his control. And
he, of course, will appoint none to office but those who will favor
the views of Austria. He will require all whom he appoints, to
support the agents whom Austria is sending to this country for the
accomplishment of her own purposes.
And who are these agents? They are, for the most part Jesuits, an
ecclesiastical order, proverbial through the world for cunning, duplicity,
and total want of moral principle; an order so skilled in all the arts of
deception that even in Catholic countries, in Italy itself, it became
intolerable, and the people required its suppression. They are Jesuits
in the pay and employ of a despotic government, who are at work on
the ignorance and passions of our community; they are foreigners, who
have been schooled in foreign seminaries in the doctrine of passive
obedience; they are foreigners under vows of perpetual celibacy, and
having, therefore, no deep and permanent interest in this country; they
are foreigners, bound by the strong ties of pecuniary interest and
ambition, to the service of a foreign despot. Footnote: The foreign
Emissaries of Popery rewarded in their own country. This is a matter
deserving of serious attention. Where now is Bishop Cheverus, who
passed about fourteen years in Boston? He was a foreigner, with no
ties to this country, paid for his services by a foreign government, he
had a duty to his foreign masters to perform. What that duty was, may
now easily be conjectured. Boston, as the capital of New-England, was
considered at the time he arrived, the strong hold of Protestant, of Anti-

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Popish principles. Popery was there, and throughout New-England,
held in the greatest abhorrence, for to Popery may be traced, though
remotely, yet clearly, the persecutions which drove the Pilgrim fathers
to this country The history of those fathers, for ages previous, is but the
history of hard fought battles, to wrest from Popish usurpation those
invaluable rights, civil and religious, which they fled to this wilderness
securely to enjoy. Ere popery then could expect to gain foothold among
the descendants of the persecuted Puritans, their almost innate
abhorrence to popery must be overcome. What plan could be better
devised to accomplish the end, than to send the mild, conciliating,
gentle Bishop to demonstrate by his example and his teaching, that
Popery was not that monster their fathers had taught them to believe it
to be, or at least that now the tyrant had grown mild and tolerant. If this
were the design, no plan could have been more successful. Who that
has visited Boston, does not know the epithets with which Bishop
Cheverus' name is coupled. The good bishop, the liberal bishop, the
excellent, pious, tolerant, mild bishop. Now all this might have been
and perhaps is true of the bishop. The instrument was well chosen, his
duty was well accomplished, and he receives the reward of a faithful
servant from his foreign masters, in a translation to the wealthy
archbishopric of Bordeaux.
Again, where is Bishop Dubourg, of New-Orleans? He has resided

in this heathen land his stated time, and having accomplished the
duty prescribed to him is translated to the Bishopric of Montauban,

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in France.
And again, where is Bishop Kelly, of Richmond, Va.? He also sojourns

with us until his duties to foreign masters are performed, and then is
rewarded by promotion at home to the Bishopric of Waterford and
Lismore.
And where, soon will be that busy, pompous Jesuit, who has been
so often announced as passing and repassing between Rome,
Vienna, and the United States, Bishop England? 1f report speaks
truth, he is soon to be rewarded for his services in the cause of his
foreign masters with a Cardinal's hat. The following from the
Dublin Freeman's Journal, preceded by a nauseous mass of
fulsome compliment, gives substance to the report:-"After
escorting these ladies (some nuns) to Charleston, Dr. England
proceeds without delay as Legate from the Pope to Hayti [sic
Haiti], over the ecclesiastical affairs of which republic he carries
with him from the Holy See the most full and unlimited powers;
from which we confidently trust ere long he will again return to
Europe, to receive as some reward for all his labors and services,
a Cardinal's hat; for instead of receiving dignity from, should such
an appointment take place, Dr. England will confer dignity upon
the sacred purple."
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rewarded by appointments in Europe, the question naturally
occurs: What interest have these servants of a foreign despotism
in the free institutions of this country? What sympathies with
American liberty can these foreigners have, educated, as they
have been in their own country, in the principles of despotic
institutions, living but temporarily in this country, (whose entire
political system is diametrically opposed to their whole education,)
and looking forward, after their task is performed, to a recall to
comfortable benefices and high places of profit and honor at
home, to rewards devised by Austria and the Pope, and meted out
to their faithful advocates according to the zeal and devotion
manifested to their interests? What would be said of the
Episcopalian, or Presbyterian, or Methodist, or Baptist clergy,
were they announced as foreigners sent from England, who after
a short sojourn of active service in this country, were known to be
recalled and promoted in their own country, to be Bishops, and
dignified officers under the British government? Is there no danger
to our free institutions from a host commanded by such men,
whose numbers are constantly increasing by the machinations
and funds of Austria?
Consider, too, the power which these Jesuits and other Catholic
priests possess through the confessional, of knowing the private
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power arising from their right to prescribe the kinds and degrees of
penance; and the power arising from the right to refuse absolution
to those who do not comply with their commands. Suppose such
powers were
exercised by the ministers of any other sect, the Episcopalian, the

Methodist, the Presbyterian, the Baptist, &c. what an outcry would be
raised in the land! And should not the men who possess such powers
be jealously watched by all lovers of liberty?
Is it possible that these Jesuits can have a sincere attachment to

the principles of free institutions? Do not these principles oppose
a constant barrier to their exercise of that arbitrary power, which
they claim as a divine right, and which they exercise too in all
countries where they are dominant? Can it not be perceived, that
although they may find it politic for the present to conceal their
anti-republican tenets, yet this concealment will be merely
temporary, and is only adopted now, the better to lull suspicion? Is
it not in accordance with all experience of Popish policy, that
Jesuits should encroach by little and little, and persevere till they
have attained to plenitude of power. At present they have but one
aim in this country, which absorbs all others, and that is to make
themselves popular. If they succeed in this we shall then learn,
when too late to remedy the evil, that Popery abandons none of its
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organized, and have their adherents entirely subservient to their
will. Here then is a regular party, a religious sect, ready to throw
the weight of its power, as circumstances may require, ready to
favor any man, or set of men, who will engage to favor it. And to
whom do these leaders look for their instructions? Is it to a citizen
or body of citizens belonging to this country; is it to a body of men
kept in check by the ever jealous eyes of other bodies around
them, and by the immediate publicity which must be given to all
their doings? No, they are men owning no law on this side of the
ocean; they are the Pope and his Consistory of Cardinals,
following the plans and instructions of the imperial cabinet of
Austria,-plans formed in the secret councils of that cabinet,
instructions delivered in secret, according to the modes of
despotism, to their obedient officers, and distributed through the
well disciplined ranks in this country, to be carried into effect in
furtherance of any political designs the Austrian cabinet may think
advantageous to its own interests. And will these designs be in
favor of liberty? With a party thus formed and disciplined among
us, who will venture to say that our elections will not be under the
control of a Metternich, and that the appointment of a President of
the United States will not be virtually made in the Imperial Cabinet
of Vienna, or the Consistory of Cardinals at Rome? Will this be
pronounced incredible? It will be the almost certain result of the

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dominion of Popery in this country.
But we need not imagine that it will always be deemed expedient

to preserve the name of President, or even the elective character
of our chief magistrate. How long would it take the sophistry that
deludes the mind of its victim into the belief of a man's infallibility,
and fixes the delusion there indelibly, binding
him soul and body to believe against the evidence of his reason, and
his senses; holding him in the most abject obedience to the will of a
fellow-man; how long, I say, would it take such sophistry to impose the
duty of acknowledging the divine right of an emperor over the priest
conquered vassals of this country-vassals well instructed in the
Russian Catechism, and prepared to worship, love and obey as their
Lord and Master, some scion of the House of Hapsburg,-the Emperor
of the United States?
CHAPTER V.
Points in our political system which favor this foreign attack-Our

toleration of all religious systems-Popery opposed to all toleration-
Charge of intolerance substantiated-The organization of Popery in
America connected with and strengthened by foreign
organization-Without a parallel among Protestant sects-Great
preponderance of Popish strength in consequence-The divisions
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Taken advantage of by Jesuits-Popish duplicity illustrated in its
opposite alliances in Europe with despotism, and in America with
democracy-The laws relating to immigration and naturalization
favor foreign attack-Emigrants being mostly Catholic and in entire
subjection to their priests-No remedy provided by our laws for this
alarming evil.
WHAT I have advanced in my previous chapters may have

convinced my readers that there is good reason for believing that
the despots of Europe are attempting, by the spread of Popery in
this country, to subvert its free institutions; yet many may think
that there are so many counteracting causes in the constitution of
our society, that this effort to bind us with the cast-off chains of the
bigotry and superstition of Europe cannot meet with success. I
will, therefore, in the present chapter, consider some of the points
in our political system, of which advantage has already been
taken to attack us, by the wily enemies of our liberties.
It is a beautiful feature in our constitution, that every man is left to

worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, that
the church is separated from the state, and that equal protection is
granted to all creeds. In thus tolerating all sects, we have admitted
to equal protection not only those sects whose religious faith and
practice support the principle on which the free toleration of all is

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found-ed, but also that unique, that solitary sect, the Catholic,
which builds and supports its system on the destruction of all
toleration. Yes, the Catholic is permitted to work in the light of
Protestant toleration, to mature his plans, and to execute his
designs to extinguish that light, and destroy the hands that hold it.
It is no refutation of the charge of intolerance here made against
Catholics as a sect, to show that small bodies of them, under
peculiar circumstances, have been tolerant, or that in this country,
where they have always been a small minority, they make high
professions of ardent love for the republican, tolerant institutions
of our government. No one can be deceived by evidence so partial
and cir-cumscribed, while the blood of the persecuted for opinion's
sake, stains with the deepest tinge every page of the history of
that church, aye, even while it is still wet upon the dungeon floors
of Italy; while the intolerant and anti-republican principles of
Popery, are now weekly thundered from the Vatican, and
echoed in our ears by almost every arrival from Europe. Footnote:

Sanguinary spirit still existing in Modern Popery. If any suppose that
Popery has changed its intolerant character in modern times, we refer
them to the following specimen of its spirit. It is Popery of the present
day; Popery of 1833.
In the recent journals of Modena, in Italy, are articles signed by

the duke of Canosa, the language of which knows no bounds. He

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justifies the St. Bartholomew's Massacre. He says, "when a
disease has made such progress, that it cannot be cured by
magnesia and calomel, to save life, resort must be had to arsenic.
If Charles IX. had recoiled from the massacre of the Huguenots,
he would certainly have perished, a few weeks after, upon the
scaffold, as happened to the indulgent and compassionate Louis
XVI., because he took an opposite course. He who in such a case
has not the courage of a lion, and does not resolve on rigorous
measures, is lost. The pusillanimous alone are ignorant of this
truth." Such shocking sentiments, be it remembered, are
published in a country, where there is a censorship of the press:
and they are therefore the language of the government.
The duke reasons like a true legitimate. The happiness and lives
of the people to any amount, are mere chaff compared with the
happiness and life of that sainted bauble called a king. His
reasoning amounts to this: "better that thousands of the common
people should perish by the bloodiest butchery, than that the
single life of one human being endowed with divine right to reign,
should like Louis XVI. perish on the scaffold." It is not necessary
to defend the shedding of royal blood, but there is a trick of
kingcraft which ought to be exposed, because its influence is not
unfelt in this country. The divine right to reign is first assumed,
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divinity, he becomes sacred, and all the names and paraphernalia
of idolatrous worship surround him. He becomes a God, every
word he utters, every step he takes, every action, however
unimportant in any other human being, is invested in this earthly
divinity with a sacred character. Does the god-king ride out, the
whole country must know the important event; is he married, the
whole nation keeps jubilee; is he dead, the world is clad in
mourning. The misfortunes of his offspring are magnified and
consecrated by all the arts of the imagination, by all the
embellishments of romance. Is an illustration wanted? Take a
recent case. Look at the history of the Duchess de Berri, an
infamous woman, notoriously profligate, of a character that in
common life would condemn her to the neglect of the world, and
cast her out of all society. But she is a princess, she has a spark
of royal divinity that shines upon her brazen front, and the duped
multitude bow in adoration before her. Her sufferings, her
wanderings, her dress in the minutest particulars, her words, her
looks, are the subject of sympathetic appeals to the compassion
of the world; ladies shed tears over the distresses of the
unfortunate princess. Alas! alas! that royal blood should suffer!
And are
we not influenced by this mawkish, morbid sympathy for suffering

despots? Where are our sympathies, when the interested statements of

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a government-controlled foreign press, inform us of the struggles of the
people against age-consecrated oppression. Are they with the people?
Do we ever suspect the truth of the glowing details of the doings of the
scandalous mob, the high-wrought accounts of outrage and rebellion of
a wicked rabble against lawful authority, which circulate through our
land, the production abroad of pensioned writers; of a licensed press,
and those too without remark or explanation from our press? What
should be the feelings of a true American? Where should be his
sympathies, who has been nurtured in the air of liberty, who has
learned from his father's lips the black catalogue of despotic wrongs,
which his ancestors suffered, and which were defended by all the tricks
and glosses, and arts of oppression? If any human being should feel
quick sympathy with the struggles of the people, should examine with
the greatest care the charges preferred against them, and exercise a
willing charity for their apparent or real excesses, and quick mistrust of
all the doings, representations and fair speeches of despotism, it is an
American.
Let me not be charged with accusing the Catholics of the United

States with intolerance. They are too small a body as yet fully to
act out their principles, and their present conduct does not affect
the general question in any way, unless it may be to prove that
they are not genuine and consistent Catholics. The conduct of a
small insulated body, under the restraints of the society around it,
is of no weight in deciding the character of the sect, while there

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are nations of the same infallible faith acting out its legitimate
principles uncontrolled, and producing fruits by which all may
discern, without danger of mistake, the true nature of the tree. If
Popery is tolerant, let us see Italy, and Austria, and Spain, and
Portugal, open their doors to the teachers of the Protestant faith;
let these countries grant to Protestant missionaries, as freely as
we grant to Catholics, leave to disseminate their doctrine through
all classes in their dominions. Then may Popery speak of
toleration, then may we believe that it has felt the influence of the
spirit of the age and has reformed; but then it will not be Popery,
for Popery never changes; it is infallibly the same, infallibly
intolerant.
The conspirators against our liberties who have been admitted

from abroad through the liberality of our institutions, are now
organized in every part of the country; they are all subordinates,
standing in regular steps of slave and master, from the most
abject dolt that obeys the commands of his priest, up to the great
master-slave Metternich, who commands and obeys his Illustrious
Master the Emperor. Footnote: Popery is organized throughout
the World. This organization is asserted in the late proclamation of
the Pope to the Portuguese. In the catalogue of his complaints he
says: "Nevertheless, that which principally
afflicts us is, that those acts and measures have evidently for their aim

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to break every bond of union, with that venerable chair of the blessed
Peter" (his own throne) "which Jesus Christ has made the centre of
unity; and thus the society of communion being once broken, to wound
the church by the most pernicious schism. In fact, how can there be
unity in the body, when the members are not united to the head, and do
not obey it?" They report from one to another, like the sub-officers of an
army, up to the commander-in-chief at Vienna, (not the Pope, for he is
but a subordinate of Austria. Footnote: Lest the charge often made in
these numbers should seem gratuitous; of the Pope being the creature
of Austria, and entirely subservient to the Imperial Cabinet, it may be as
well to state that the writer was in Rome during the deliberations of the
Conclave, respecting the election of the present Pontiff. It was
interesting to him to hear the speculations of the Italians on the
probability of this or that cardinal's election. Couriers were daily arriving
from the various despotic powers, and intrigues were rife in the anti-
chambers of the Quirinal palace; now it was said that Spain would carry
her candidate, now Italy, and now Austria, and when Cardinal
Capellani was proclaimed Pope, the universal cry, mixed too with low-
muttered curses, was that Austria had succeeded. The new Pope had
scarcely chosen his title of Gregory XVI. and passed through the
ceremonies of coronation, before the revolution in his states, gave him
the opportunity of calling in Austria to take possession of the Patrimony
of St. Peter, which his own troops could not keep for an hour, and at
this moment Austrian soldiers hold the Roman Legations in submission
to the cabinet of Vienna. Is not the Pope a creature of Austria?) There

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is a similar organization among the Catholics of other countries, and
the whole Catholic church is thus prepared to throw its weight of power
and wealth into the hands of Austria, or any Holy Alliance of despots
who may be persuaded to embark for the safety of their dynasties, in
the crusade against the liberties of the country which, by its simple
existence in opposition to their theory of legitimate power, is working
revolution and destruction to their thrones.
Now, to this dangerous conspiracy what have we to oppose in the

discipline of Protestant sects? However well organized, each
according to its own manner, these different sects may be, there is
not one of them that can by any possibility derive strength through
its organization, from foreign sects of the same name. Nor is this a
matter of regret; it is right that it should be so; no nation can be
truly independent where it is otherwise. Foreign influence, then,
cannot find its way into the country through any of the Protestant
sects, to the danger of the State. In this respect Catholics stand
alone. They are already the most powerful and dangerous sect in
the country, for they are not confined in their schemes
and means like the other sects, to our own borders, but they work with
the minds and the funds of all despotic Europe.
And not only are each of the Protestant sects deprived of foreign
aid; they are weak collectively, in having no common bond of
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The mutual jealousies of the different sects have hitherto
prevented this, and it is a weakness boasted of by Catholics, and
of which advantage is and ever will be taken while the unnatural
estrangement lasts. Catholics have boasted that they can play off
one sect against another, for in the petty controversies that divide
the contending parties, the pliable conscience of the Jesuit
enables him to throw the weight of his influence on either side as
his interest may be the command of his superiors, and the alleged
good of the church, (that is the power of the priesthood,) being
paramount to all other considerations. This pliability of
conscience, so advantageous in building up any system of
oppression, religious or political, presents us with strangely
contradictory alliances. In Europe Popery supports the most high-
handed despotism, lends its thunders to awe the people into the
most abject obedience, and maintains at the top of its creed, the
indissoluble union of church and state! while in this country, where
it is yet feeling its way, (oh! how consistent!) it has allied itself with
the democracy of the land, it is loudest in its denunciations of
tyranny, the tyranny of American patriots! it is first to scent out
oppression, sees afar off the machinations of the native American
Protestants to unite church and state! and puts itself forth the most
zealous guardian of civil and religious liberty! With such sentinels,
surely our liberties are safe, with such guardians of our rights, we

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may sleep on in peace!
Another weak point in our system is our laws encouraging

immigration, and affording facilities to naturalization. Footnote:
Immigration and our Naturalization Law. The subject of
immigration is one of those which demands the immediate
attention of the nation, it is a question which concerns all parties:
and if the writer is not mistaken in his reading of the signs of the
times, the country is waking to a sense of the alarming evil
produced by our naturalization laws. Let us war among ourselves
in party warfare, with every lawful weapon that we can convert to
our purpose. It is our birthright to have our own opinion, and
earnestly to contend for it, but let us court no foreign friends.
Every American should feel his national blood mount at the very
thought of foreign interference. While we welcome the intelligent
and persecuted of all nations and give them an asylum and a
share in our privileges, let us beware lest we admit to dangerous
fellowship those who cannot and will not use our hospitality aright.
That such may come, and do come, there is no reason to doubt.
Consider the following testimony of an emigrant, given before a
justice in Albany. He says that "in June last, the parish officers
paid the passages of
himself and about forty others of the same parish, from Chatham to the
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and that they landed in Boston in the month of July last-that the parish
officers gave him thirty shillings sterling, in money, in addition to paying
his passage,-that he is now entirely destitute of the means of living, and
is unable to labor, and prays for relief." Now here are forty paupers cast
upon our shores from one parish in England, and in five years they
become citizens, entitled to vote!! Is there an American of any party,
who can believe that there is no danger in admitting to equal privileges
with himself such a class of foreigners. A remedy to this crying evil
admits of not a moment's delay. At this moment the ocean swarms with
ships crowded with this wretched population, bearing them from misery
abroad to misery here.
The expense incurred in this city (New York) for the support of
foreign paupers, it is well known is enormous. In Philadelphia
more than three fourths of the inmates of their Almshouse are
foreigners. Whole families have been known to come from on
board ship, and go directly to the Almshouse. In the Boston
Dispensary there were the last year, (1831) from two districts only,
477 patients; of these 441 were foreigners!! Leaving but 36 of our
own population to be provided for. In the Boston Almshouse, the
following returns show the increase of foreign paupers in five
years.
The year ending Sept. 30, 1829, Americans 395 " " " " " "
Foreigners 284 The year ending Sept. 30, 1834, Americans 340 "

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" " " " " Foreigners 613
Thus we see that native pauperism has decreased in five years,

and foreign pauperism more than doubled. In Cambridge, (Mass.)
more than four fifths of the paupers are foreigners.
The first and immediate step that should be taken, is to press

upon Congress and upon the nation, instant attention to the
NATURALIZATION LAWS. We mast first stop this leak in the ship,
through which the muddy waters from without threaten to sink us.
If we mean to keep our country, this life-boat of the world, from
foundering with all the crew, we must take on board no more from
the European wreck until we have safely landed and sheltered its
present freight. But would you have us forfeit the character of the
country as the asylum of the world? No: but it is a mistaken
philanthropy indeed that would attempt
to save one at the expense of the lives of thousands; that would

receive into our families those dying of the plague. Our naturalization
laws were never intended to convert this land into the almshouse of
Europe, to cover the alarming importation of every thing in the shape of
man that European tyranny thinks fit to send adrift from its shores, nor
so to operate as to compel us to surrender back all the blessings of that
freedom for which our fathers paid so dear a price into the keeping of
its foreign enemies. No, we must have the law so amended that NO
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PASSAGE OF THE NEW LAW, SHALL EVER BE ALLOWED TO
EXERCISE THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE. This alone meets the evil in
its fullest extent.
Who can complain of injustice in the enactment of such a law? Not

the native American, he is not touched by it. Certainly not the
foreigner now in the country, whether naturalized or not. It cannot
operate against him. It would take away no right from a single
individual in any country. This law would withhold a favor, not a
right from foreigners, and from those foreigners only who may
hereafter come into the country. If foreigners abroad choose to
take offence at the law, we are not under obligations to consult
their wishes, they need not come here. This favor, it should be
understood, has repeatedly been abused, and it is necessary for
the safety of our institutions in future to withhold it. The pressing
dangers to the country from Popery, which I think I have shown
not to be fictitious; other visible indications of foreign influence in
the political horizon; the bold organization of foreigners as
foreigners in our elections-these all demand the instant attention
of Americans, if they mean not to be robbed by foreign intrigue of
their liberty and their very name. In the early state of the country
liberality in these points was thought to be of advantage, as it
promoted the cultivation of our wild lands, but the dangers which
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balance all advantages of this character. The great body of
emigrants to this country are the hard-working mentally neglected
poor of Catholic countries in Europe, who have left a land where
they were enslaved, for one of freedom. However well disposed
they may be to the country which protects them, and adopts them
as citizens, they are not fitted to act with judgment in the political
affairs of their new country, like native citizens educated from their
infancy in the principles and habits of our institutions. Most of
them are too ignorant to act at all for themselves, and expect to be
guided wholly by others. These others are of course their priests.
Priests have ruled them at home by divine right; their ignorant
minds cannot ordinarily be emancipated from their habitual
subjection, they will not learn nor appreciate their exemption from
any such usurpation of priestly power in this country, and they are
implicitly at the beck of their spiritual guides. They live surrounded
by freedom, yet liberty of conscience, right of private judgment,
whether in religion or
politics, are as effectually excluded by the priests, as if the code of

Austria already ruled the land. They form a body of men whose habits
of action, (for I cannot say thought,) are opposed to the principles of our
free institutions, for they are not accessible to the reasonings of the
press, they cannot and do not think for themselves.
Every unlettered Catholic emigrant, therefore, that comes into the

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country, is adding to a mass of ignorance which it will be difficult
to reach by any liberal instruction, and however honest, (and I
have no doubt most of them are so,) yet from the nature of things
they are but obedient instruments in the hands of their more
knowing leaders to accomplish the designs of their foreign
masters. Republican education, were it allowed freely to come in
contact with their minds, would doubtless soon furnish a remedy
for an evil for which, in the existing state of things, we have no
cure. It is but to continue for a few years the sort of immigration
that is now daily pouring in its thousands from Europe, and our
insti-tutions, for aught that I can see, are at the mercy of a body of
foreigners, officered by foreigners, and held completely under the
control of a foreign power. We may then have reason to say, that
we are the dupes of our own hospitality; we have sheltered in our
well provided house a needy body of strangers, who, well filled
with our cheer, are encouraged by the unaccustomed familiarity
with which they are treated, first to upset the regulations of the
household, and then to turn their host and his family out of doors.
CHAPTER VI.
The evil from immigration further considered-Its political bearings-

The influence of emigrants at the elections-This influence
concentrated in the priests-The priests must be propitiated-By
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The unprincipled character of many of our politicians favor this
foreign attack-Their bargain for the suffrages of this priest-led
band-A church and state party-The Protestant sects obnoxious to
no such bargaining-The newspaper press favors this foreign
attack-From its want of independence and its timidity-An anti-
republican fondness for titles favors this foreign attack-Cautious
attempts of Popery to dignify its emissaries and to accustom us to
their high-sounding titles-A mistaken notion on the subject of
discussing religious opinion in the secular journals favors this
foreign attack-Political designs not to be shielded from attack
because cloaked by religion.
I WILL continue the consideration of some of the points in our

political system, of which the foreign conspirators take advantage
in their attacks on our liberties. We have seen that from the nature
of the case the emigrant Catholics generally are shamefully
illiterate, and without opinions of their own. They are and must be
under the direction of their priests. The press, with its arguments
for or against any political measure, can have no effect on minds
taught only to think as the priest thinks, and to do what the priest
commands. Here is a large body of ignorant men brought into our
community, who are unapproachable by any of the ordinary
means of enlightening the people-a body of men who servilely
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by none of the usual ties, owing allegiance and service to a
foreign government, depending on that government for promotion
and reward, and this reward too depends on the manner in which
they discharge the duties prescribed to them by their foreign
master; which is, doubtless for the present, to confine themselves
simply and wholly to increasing the number of their sect and the
influence of the Pope in this country. It is men thus officered and
of such a character, that we have placed in all respects on a level
at our elections with the same number of native patriotic and
intelligent citizens.
The Jesuits are fully aware of the advantage they derive from this
circumstance. They know that a body of men admitted to
citizenship, unlearned in the true nature of American liberty,
exercising the elective franchise, totally uninfluenced by the
ordinary methods of reasoning, but passively obedient only to the
commands of their priests, must give those priests great
consequence in the eyes of the leaders of political parties; they
know that these leaders must esteem it very important that the
priests be propitiated. And how is a Catholic priest to be
propitiated? How, but by stipulating for that which will
increase his power or the power of the church, for be it always borne in
mind, that they are identical. The Roman church is the body of priests
and prelates; the laity have only to obey and to pay, not to exercise

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authority. The priest must be favored in his plans of destroying
Protestantism, and building up Popery. He must have money from the
public treasury to endow Catholic institutions; he must be allowed to
have charters for these institutions which will confer extraordinary
powers upon their Jesuit trustees; Footnote: One College at the West
under Austrian influence. The following fact illustrates the dangerous,
successful intriguing spirit of the Jesuits, and the culpable negligence
of one of our state legislatures (that of Kentucky) who has thus suffered
itself to be the dupe of Popish artifice. "St. Joseph's College, at
Bardstown, Kentucky, was incorporated by the State Legislature in
1824. The Bishop of Bardstown is Moderator, and five Priests are
Trustees. And there is this provision in the charter: "The said trustees
shall hold their station in said college one year only, at which time the
said moderator shall have the power of electing others, or the same, if
he should think proper, and increase the number to twelve, and this
power may be exercised by him every year thereafter, or his successor
or successors to the Bishopric; and in case of the removal, resignation
or death of either of the said trustees, his place may be supplied by an
appointment that may be made by the said Bishop, or his successor or
successors, who may also become moderators in the institution, and
act and do as the said B. J. Flaget is empowered by this act to do."
The Bishop of Bardstown, in a letter to a friend in Europe, dated

February, 1825, says:-"Our Legislature has just incorporated the
college. The Bishops of Bardstown are continued perpetually its

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moderators or rectors. I might have dictated conditions, which I
could not have made more advantageous or honorable; and what
is still more flattering is, that these privileges were granted almost
without any discussion, and with unanimity in both houses."
Now the Pope it is well known appoints all Bishops. Here then is
one college in the country already placed in perpetuo under the
exclusive control of the Pope, and consequently for an indefinite
period under that of Austria!! he must be permitted quietly to break
down the Protestant Sabbath, by encouraging Catholics to buy
and sell on that day as on other days; in one word, he must have
all the powers and privileges which the law or the officers
appointed to administer the law can conveniently bestow upon
him. The demagogue or the party who will promise to do most for
the accomplishment of these objects, will secure all the votes
which he controls. Surely there is great danger to our present
institutions from this source, and men as skilful as are the Jesuits
we may be sure will not fail to use the power thus thrown into their
hands to work great mischief to the republic.
The recklessness and unprincipled character of too many of our

politicians give a great advantage to these conspirators. There is a set
of men in the country who will have power and office, cost what they
may; men who, without a particle of true patriotism, will yet ring the
changes on the glory and honor of their country, talk loud of liberty,

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flatter the lowest prejudices, and fawn upon the powerful and the
influential; men who study politics only, that they may balance the
chances of their own success in falling in with, or opposing, this or that
fluctuating interest, without caring whether that interest tends to the
security or the downfall of their country's institutions. To such politicians
a body of men thus drilled by priests, presents a well fitted tool. The
bargain with the priest will be easily struck. "Give me office, and I will
take care of the interests of your church." The effect of the bargain
upon the great moral or political interests of the country, will not for a
moment influence the calculation. Thus we have among us a body of
men, a religious sect, who can exercise a direct controlling influence in
the politics of the country, and can be moved together in a solid
phalanx; we have a church interfering directly and most powerfully in
the affairs of state. There is not in the whole country a parallel to this
among the other sects. What clergymen of the Methodists, or Baptists,
or Episcopalians, or of any other denomination, could command the
votes of the members of their several congregations in the election of
an individual to political office? The very idea of such power is
preposterous to a Protestant. No freeman, no man accustomed to
judge for himself, would submit even to be advised, unasked, by his
minister in a matter of this kind, much less dictated to.
Connected with these evils, and assisting to increase them, we

have a Press, to an alarming extent, wanting in independence.
Most of our journals are avowedly attached to a particular party, or

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to particular individuals, they are like council retained for a
particular cause; they are to say every thing that makes in favor of
their client, and conceal every thing that makes against him. Does
a question of principle arise, of fundamental importance to the
country?-the inquiry with a journal thus pledged is not, how are
our free institutions, how is the country affected by the decision,
but how will the decision affect the interests of our particular party
or favorite? How few are there among our newspaper editors who
dare to take a manly stand for or against a principle that affects
vitally the constitution, if it is found to bear unfavorably upon their
party or their candidate? A press thus wanting in magnanimity and
independence is the fit instrument for advancing the purposes of
unprincipled men; and editors of this stamp, and they are confined
to no particular party, whether they have followed out their
conduct or not to its legitimate results can easily be made the
tools of a despot to subvert the liberties of their country.
Again we have, still unsubdued, some weaknesses: (perhaps they

belong to human nature,) of which advantage may be taken, to the
injury of our republican character, and in aid of despotism, and which
may seem to some too trivial to merit notice in connection with the
more serious matters just considered. One of these weaknesses is an
anti-republican fondness for titles; Footnote: Glory-giving Titles. One of
the plainest doctrines of American Republicanism, which is essentially

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democratic, is, that mere glory-giving titles, or titles of servility, are
entirely opposed to its whole spirit. They are considered as one of
those artificial means of kingcraft by which it fosters that aristocratic,
unholy pride in the human heart, which loves to domineer over its
fellow-man, which loves artificial distinction of ranks, a privileged class,
and of course which helps to sustain that whole system of regal and
papal usurpation which has so long cursed mankind. If such titles are to
some extent still acknowledged in this country, they have either been
thoughtlessly but unwisely used as mere epithets of courtesy, or they
are the remains of old deep-rooted foreign habits, which, in spite of the
uncongenial soil to which they have been transplanted, still maintain a
sort of withered existence. It now, however, becomes a serious inquiry,
whether this practice, hitherto seemingly unimportant, may not be
attended with danger to the institutions of the country. For Popery, it
appears, is already taking advantage of this, as of all other weaknesses
in our habits and customs, to introduce its anti-democratic system, and
this too while it manifests in words great zeal in defence of democratic
liberty. Let the democracy look well to this.
Is it asked, to what extent should titles or names of distinction be

abolished throughout the land, the answer is plain. Every title that
merely designates an office, is perfectly in accordance with our
institutions, such as President, Secretary, Senator, General,
Commodore, &c. So are letters after a name which designate the
office or membership in a society, but titles of reverence, titles

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which imply moral qualities, such as Your Excellency, Your Honor,
The Reverend, Rt. Reverend, Honorable, &c.; and letters which
imply moral or intellectual superiority, I think it must be conceded
are now not only useless but dangerous. There needs no law to
abolish these gewgaw appendages to a name; they must be left to
the good sense of the individual who uses them, to discontinue
them; and fortunately they generally belong to intellectual men,
who have minds capable of discerning the remote evils to which
the practice leads, and patriotism enough to make a greater
sacrifice than this occasion calls for to avert dangers which
threaten their country.
Will it be said that this is a little matter. Nothing is of little

consequence that may endanger, however remotely, the civil
liberty of the country. Nay more, no practice is unworthy of reform,
which continued may aid by its example in the surrender of
Religious liberty into the hands of Popery. and whoever has
lived in the old world, and knows the extraordinary and powerful
influence which mere titles of honor exercise over the minds of men,
and their tendency to keep in due subjection the artificial ranks into
which despotic and aristocratic power divide the people, subduing the
lower orders to their lords and masters, will not think it amiss in this
place to draw attention to the subject. Republicans as we are, I fear we
are influenced, in a greater degree than we are aware, by the high

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sounding epithets with which despotism and aristocracy surround their
officers, to awe into reverence the ignorant multitude. A name having
half a dozen titles for its avant couriers, and as many for its rear guard,
swells into an importance, even in the estimation of our citizens, which
the name alone, and especially the individual himself, could never
assume. Let Mr. Brown, or Mr. Smith, or any other intelligent, upright,
active citizen, be elected president of a benevolent society, does he
excite the gaze of those who meet him, or inspire awe in the multitude?
No one regards him but as a respectable, useful member of the
community. But let us learn that a gentleman, not half as intelligent, or
upright, or active, is to land in our city who is announced as the "Most
Illustrious Archduke and Eminence his Imperial Highness the Cardinal
and Archbishop of Olmutz, RODOLPH, (this last is the gentleman's real
name) Highest Curator of the Leopold Foundation," and although not
half as capable in any respect as Mr. Brown, or Mr. Smith, or ten
thousand other honest, untitled citizens among us, I very much fear
that the Battery would be thronged, and the windows in Broadway
would be in demand, and the streets filled with a gaping crowd to see a
man who could have such a mighty retinue of glittering epithets about
him. Yet this title-blazoned gentleman holds the same office as Mr.
Brown or Mr. Smith. Poor human nature! Alas, for its weakness?
Footnote: There is reason to believe we are reforming in this particular,
for we have now titled foreigners, respectable men, travellers in the
country, and our press no longer lends itself to announce their
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Who is not struck with the difference of effect upon the
imagination, when we describe a person thus : "Mr. ----, a good-
hearted old gentleman, rather weak in the head, who finds in the
manufacture of sealing-wax one of the chief and most agreeable
employments of his time," and when we should describe a man
thus: "His Imperial Majesty FRANCIS I., Emperor of Austria, King
of Jerusalem, Hungary, Bohemia, of Lombardy and Venice,
Dalmatia, Croatia, Sclavonia, Galizia, and Lodomiria, Archduke of
Austria, Duke of Lorena, Salsburg, Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola,
Grand Prince of Transylvania, Margrave of Moravia, Count Prince
of Hapsburg, and Tyrol," &c. &c.-and yet these two descriptions
belong to one and the same individual.
There used to be a sound democratic feeling in the country, which

spurned such glosses of character and frowned out of use mere glory-
giving title. Austria, however, is gradually (as fast as it is thought safe)
introducing these titled gentlemen into the country. Bishop Fenwick, a
Catholic priest, is "his Grace of Cincinnati," Mr. Vicar-General Rese,
another priest, is only "his Reverence," and Bishop Flaget, and all the
other Bishops, are simple Monseigneurs, this title in a foreign language
being less harsh at present to republican ears than its plump,
aristocratic English translation, "My Lord Bishop of New-York," "My
Lord Bishop of Boston," "My Lord Bishop of Charleston," &c. &c. &c. As
we improve, however, under Catholic instruction, we may come to be
quite reconciled even to his Eminence Cardinal, so and so, and to all

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the other graduated fooleries, which are so well adapted to dazzle the
ignorant. The scarlet carriage of a Cardinal, too, bedizzened with gold,
and containing the sacred person of some Jesuit, all scarlet and
humility, as is at this day often seen in Rome, may yet excite our
admiration as it rolls through our streets, and even a Pope, (for in these
republican times in Italy, who knows but his Holiness may have leave
of absence,) yes, even a Pope, a Vicegerent of God, the great divinely
appointed appointer of Rulers, the very centre from which all titles
emanate, may possibly in his scarlet and gold and jewel-decked
equipage, astonish our eyes, and prostrate us on our knees as he
moves down Broadway. To be sure some of his republican friends, now
in strange holy alliance with his faithful subjects here, might find their
Protestant knees at first a little stiff, yet the Catholic schools which they
are encouraging with their votes and their money and their influence,
will soon furnish them good instructors in the art of reverential gesture,
and genuflexion.
Again, there are some minds of a peculiarly sensitive cast, that

cannot bear to have the subject of religious opinion mooted in any
way in the secular journals. They use a plausible argument that
satisfies them, namely, that religion is too sacred a subject to be
discussed by the daily press. I agree to a certain extent, and in a
modified sense, with this sentiment, but it should be remembered
that all is not religion which passes under that name. The public
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show the true character of a design which may have assumed the
sacred cloak, the better to pass unchallenged by just such feeble
hearted objectors. Were such objections valid, how easy would it
be for the most dangerous political designs, (as in the case we are
considering,) to assume a religious garb, and so escape
detection. The exposure I am now making of the foreign designs
upon our liberties, may possibly be mistaken for an attack on the
Religion of the Catholics, yet I have not meddled with the
conscience of any Catholic; if he honestly believes the doctrine of
Transubstantiation, or that by doing penance he will prepare
himself for heaven, or in the existence of Purgatory, or in the
efficacy of the
prayers and masses of priests, to free the souls of his relatives from its
flames, or that it is right to worship the Virgin Mary, or to pray to Saints
or keep holy days, or to refrain from meat at certain times, or to go on
pilgrimages, or in the virtue of relics, or that none but Catholics can be
saved, or many other points; however wrong I may and do think him to
be, it is foreign from the design of these chapters, to speak against
them. But when he proclaims to the world that all power temporal as
well as spiritual exists in the Pope, (denying of course the fundamental
doctrine of republicanism;) that liberty of conscience is a "raving," and
"most pestilential error," that "he execrates and detests the liberty of
the press;" when his intolerant creed asserts that no faith is to be kept
with heretics, (all being heretics in the creed of a Catholic who are not

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Catholics,) and many other palpable anti-republican as well as immoral
doctrines, he has then blended with his creed political tenets that vitally
affect the very existence of our government, and no association with
religious belief shall shield them from observation and rebuke. It would
indeed be singular if these mere "ravings" (the Pope's phrase is
appropriate here,) subversive of the fundamental principles of our
government, should be shielded from exposure because misnamed
religion. If incendiaries or robbers should ensconce themselves within a
church, from the windows and towers of which they were assailing the
people, the cry of sacrilege shall not prevent us from attempts to
dislodge them, though the walls which protect them should suffer in the
conflict.
CHAPTER VII.
The political character of this ostensibly religious enterprise

proved from the letters of the Jesuits now in this country-Their
antipathy to private judgment-Their anticipations of a change of
our form of government-Our government declared too free for the
exercise of their divine rights-Their political partialities-Their cold
acknowledgment of the generosity, and liberality, and hospitality
of our government-Their estimate of our condition contrasted with
their estimate of that of Austria-Their acknowledged allegiance
and servility to a foreign master-Their sympathies with the
oppressor, and not with the oppressed-Their direct avowal of

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political intention.
LET me next show the political character of this ostensibly

religious effort, from the sentiments of the Austrian emissaries
expressed to their foreign patrons. The very nature of a
conspiracy of this kind precludes the possibility of much direct
evidence of political design; for Jesuit cunning and Austrian
duplicity would be sure to tread with unusual caution on American
ground. Yet if I can quote from their correspondence some
expressions of antipathy to our free principles, and to the
government; some hinting at the subversion of the government;
prevailing partialities for arbitrary government; and siding with
tyranny against the oppressed; and some acknowledgments of
POLITICAL EFFECTS to be expected from the operations of the
society, I shall have exhibited evidence enough to put every
citizen who values his birthright, upon the strict watch of these
men and their adherents, and to show the importance of some
measures of repelling this insidious invasion of the country.
The Bishop of Baltimore writing to the Austrian Society, laments

the wretched state of the Catholic religion in Virginia, and as a
proof of the difficulty it has to contend with, (a proof doubtless
shocking to the pious docility of his Austrian readers,) he says:
"I sent to Richmond a zealous missionary, a native of America. He

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travelled through the whole of Virginia. The Protestants flocked on
all sides to hear him, they offered him their churches,
courthouses, and other public buildings, to preach in, which
however is not at all surprising, for the people are divided into
numerous sects, and know not what faith to embrace. In
consequence of being spoiled by bad instruction, they will judge
every thing themselves; they, therefore, hear eagerly every new
comer," &c. The Bishop, if he had the power, would of course
change this "bad instruction" for better, and, as in
Catholic countries, would relieve them from the trouble of judging for
themselves. Thus the liberty of private judgment and freedom of
opinion, guaranteed by our institutions, are avowedly an obstacle to the
success of the Catholics. Is it not natural that Catholics should desire to
remove this obstacle out of their way? Footnote: A Catholic journal of
this city, (the Register and Diary,) was put into my hands as I has
completed this last paragraph. It contains the same sentiment, so
illustrative of the natural abhorrence of Catholics to the exercise of
private judgment, that I cannot forbear quoting it.
"We seriously advise Catholic parents to be very cautious in the

choice of school-books for their children. There is more danger to
be apprehended in this quarter, than could be conceived. Parents,
we are aware, have not always the time or patience to examine
these matters: but if they trust implicitly to us, we shall with God's

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help, do it for them. Legimus ne legantur." We read, that they may
not read!!
How kind! they will save parents all the trouble of judging for
themselves, but "we must be trusted implicitly" Would a Protestant
journal thus dare to take liberties with its readers?
My Lord Bishop Flaget, of Bardstown, Kentucky, in a. letter to his

patrons abroad, has this plain hint at an ulterior political design,
and that no less that the entire subversion of our republican
government. Speaking of the difficulties and discouragements the
Catholic missionaries have to contend with in converting the
Indians, the last difficulty in the way he says, is "their continual
traffic among the whites, WHICH CANNOT BE HINDERED AS
LONG AS THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT SHALL
SUBSIST!" What is this but saying, that a republican government
is unfavorable in its nature to the restrictions we deem necessary
to the extension of the Catholic religion; when the time shall come
that the present government shall be subverted, which we are
looking forward to, or hope for, we can then hinder this traffic?
Mr. Baraga, the German missionary in Michigan, seems

impressed with the same conviction of the unhappy influence of a
free government upon his attempts to make converts to the church
of Rome. In giving an account of the refusal of some persons to

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have their children baptized, he lays the fault on this, "TOO FREE
(allzu freien) GOVERNMENT." In a more despotic government, in
Italy or Austria, he would have been able to put in force
compulsory baptism on these children. Footnote: Compulsory
Baptism. Perhaps Father Baraga was thinking of the facilities
afforded in Spain in the time of Ximenes for administering
baptism, when "Fifty thousand (50,000,) Moors under terror of
death and torture received the grace of baptism, and more than an
equal number of the refractory were condemned, of
whom 2,536 were burnt alive." May our government long be "too free"
for the enacting of such barbarity. These few extracts are quite
sufficient to show how our form of government, which gives to the
Catholics all the freedom and facilities that other sects enjoy, does from
its very nature embarrass their despotic plans. Accustomed to dictate
at home, how annoying it is to these Austrian ecclesiastics to be
obliged to put off their authority, to yield their divine right of judging for
others, to be compelled to get at men through their reason and
conscience, instead of the more summary way of compulsion! The
disposition to use force if they could, shows itself in spite of all their
caution. The inclination is there. It is reined in by circumstances. They
want only strength to act out the inherent despotism of Popery.
But let me show what are some of the political partialities which
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their Austrian supporters. They acknowledge their unsuspicious
reception by the people of the United States; they acknowledge
that Protestants in all parts of the country have even aided them
with money to build their chapels and colleges and nunneries, and
treated them with liberality and hospitality, and-strange
infatuation!!-have been so monstrously foolish as to intrust their
children to them to be educated! so infatuated as to confide in
their honor and in their promises that they would use no attempts
to proselyte them! And with all this, does it not once occur to these
gentleman, that this liberality, and generosity and openness of
character are the fruits of Protestant republicanism? Might we not
expect at least that Popery, were it republican in its nature, would
find something in all this that would excite admiration, and call
forth some praise of a system so contrasted to that of any other
government; some acknowledgments to the government of the
country that protects it, and allows its emissaries the unparalleled
liberty even to plot the downfall of the state? But no, the
government of the United States is not once mentioned in praise.
The very principle of the government, through which they are
tolerated, is thus slightingly noticed: "The government of the
United States has thought fit to adopt a complete indifference
toward all religions." Footnote: Quart. Regist. Feb. 1830, p. 198.
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Again, of the people of our country they thus write: "We intreat all
European Christians to unite in prayer to God for the conversion of
these unhappy heathen, and obstinate heretics." We are spoken
of as a country "on which the light of faith has hitherto not shined."
"A vast country, destitute of all spiritual and temporal resources."
But if Austria is mentioned, what are the terms? "Your Society,
(the Leopold Foundation) which is an ornament to the illustrious
Austrian Empire,"-"the noble and generous
inhabitants of the Austrian empire." " Of many circumstances in our

condition, few perhaps in your happy empire can form a correct notion;"
and again, "Here are many churches, if you may so call the miserable
wooden buildings, differing little from the barns of your happy land!"
Austria, happy land!! How enthusiastic, too, is another Bishop, who
writes, "we cannot sufficiently praise our good Emperor (of Austria,)
were we to extol him to the third heaven!" Such are the political
partialities which are discovered in various parts of these documents.
Are they in favor of our republican darkness, and heathenism, and
misery, or of Austrian light, and piety and happiness?
In the struggles of the European people for their liberty, do these

foreign teachers sympathize with the oppressor or with the
oppressed? "France no more helps us," (Charles X. had just been
dethroned,) "and Rome, beset by enemies to the church and
public order, is not in a condition to help us." And who are these

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men stigmatized as enemies of public order? They are the Italian
patriots of the Revolution of 1831, than whom our own country in
the perils of its own Revolution did not produce men more
courageous, more firm, more wise, more tolerant, more patriotic;
men who had freed their country from the bonds of despotism in a
struggle almost bloodless, for the people were with them; men
who, in the spirit of American patriots, were organizing a free
government; rectifying the abuses of Papal misrule, and who, in
the few weeks of their power, had accomplished years of benefit.
These are the men afterwards dragged to death, or to prison by
Austrian intruders, and styled by our Jesuits, enemies of public
order! Austria herself uses the self-same terms to stigmatize those
who resist oppression. I will notice one extract more, to which I
would call the special attention of my readers. It is from one of the
reports of the society in Lyons, which society had the principal
management of American missions under Charles X. When this
bigoted monarch was dethroned, and liberal principles reigned in
France, the society so languished that Austria took the design
more completely into her own hands, and through the Leopold
Foundation she has the enterprise now under her more immediate
guardianship.
"Our beloved king (Charles X.) has given the society his
protection, and has enrolled his name as a subscriber. Our society

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has also made rapid progress in the neighboring states of
Piedmont and Savoy. The pious rulers of those lands, and the
chief ecclesiastics, have given it a friendly reception."
Charles X., be it noticed, and the despotic rulers of Piedmont and

Savoy, took a special interest in this American enterprise. The
report goes on to say-
"Who can doubt that an institution which has a purely spiritual aim
whose only object is the conversion of souls, desires nothing less than
to make whole nations, on whom the light of faith has hitherto not
shined, partakers of the knowledge of the gospel; an institution
solemnly sanctioned by the supreme head of the church: which, as we
have already remarked, enjoys the protection of our pious monarch, the
support of archbishops and bishops; an institution established in a city
under the inspection of officers, at whose head stands the great
almoner, and which numbers among its members, men alike honorable
for their rank in church and state; an institution of which his excellency
the minister of church affairs, lately said, in his place in the Chamber of
Deputies, that, independent of its purely spiritual design, IT WAS OF
GREAT POLITICAL INTEREST."
Observe that great pains are here taken to impress upon the
public mind the purely spiritual aim, the purely spiritual design of
the society, and yet one of the French ministers, in the Chamber
of Deputies, states directly that it has another design, and that it

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was of "GREAT POLITICAL INTEREST."-He gives some of these
political objects-"because it planted the French name in distant
countries, caused it, by the mild influence of our missionaries, to
be loved and honored, and thus opened to our trade and industry
useful channels," &c. Now if some political effects are already
avowed as intended to be produced by this society, and that too,
immediately after reiterating its purely spiritual design, why may
not that particular political effect be also intended, of far more
importance to the interests of despotism, namely, the subversion
of our Republican institutions?
CHAPTER VIII.
Some of the means by which Jesuits can already operate

politically in the country-By mob discipline-By priest police-Their
great danger-Already established-Proofs-Priests already rule the
mob-Nothing in the principles of Popery to prevent its interference
in our elections-Popery interferes at the present day in the politics
of other countries-Popery the same in our country-It interferes in
our elections-In Michigan-In Charleston, S. C.-In New-York-
Popery a political despotism cloaked under the name of Religion-It
is Church and State embodied-Its character at head-quarters in
Italy-Its political character stripped of its religious cloak
BUT some of my readers, notwithstanding they may be convinced

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that it is for the interest of despotism to subvert our institutions,
and are even persuaded that this grand enterprise has been
actually undertaken, may be inclined to ask in what manner can
the despots of Europe effect, by means of Popish emissaries, any
thing in this country to counteract the influence of our liberal
institutions? In what way can they operate here?
With the necessity existing of doing something from the instinct of

self-preservation, to check the influence of our free institutions on
Europe, with the funds provided, and agents on the spot
interested in their plans, one would think it needed but little
sagacity to find modes and opportunities of operating, especially
too, when such vulnerable points as I have exposed, (and there
are many more which I have not brought forward,) invite attack.
To any such inquirers, let me say, there are many ways in which a
body organized as are the Catholics, and moving in concert, might
disturb (to use the mildest term) the good order of the republic,
and thus compel us to present to observing Europe the spectacle
of republican anarchy. Who is not aware that a great portion of
that stuff which composes a mob, ripe for riot or excess of any
kind, and of which we have every week or two, a fresh example in
some part of the country, is a Catholic population; Footnote:
Priests control the Mob. If farther proof were wanting of the fact of

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the supreme influence of the Catholic priests over the mob, it is
opportunely furnished in the testimony on the trial of the rioters at
Charlestown, (Mass.). Mr. Edward Cutter testified that the Lady
Superior, in an interview previous to the burning of the convent,
thus threatened him; she said "the bishop had 20,000 of the vilest
(or boldest) Irishmen under his control, who would tear down the
houses of Mr. Cutter and others; and that the selectmen of
Charlestown might read the riot act till they were hoarse, and it
would be of no use."
But if any doubt is thrown over Mr. Cutter's testimony because he is a

Protestant, hear what the Lady Superior herself testifies; "I told him,"
she says, that "the Right Reverend Bishop's influence over ten
thousand brave Irishmen might lead to the destruction of his property,
and that of others."
Here we have the startling fact, acknowledged in a court of justice

by the Superior of the convent, that the Bishop has such influence
over a mob of foreigners, that he can use them for vengeance or
restrain them at pleasure. The question that occurs is, How much
stronger is it necessary for this foreign corps to become, before it
may prudently act offensively against our noxious Protestant
institutions? The fact is established by Catholic testimony, that the
Popish population is not an unorganized mob, but is moved by
priestly leaders, Jesuit foreigners in the pay of Austria. They are

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ready to keep quiet or to strike as circumstances may render
expedient. But exclusive of other proof, another most important
fact is rendered certain by this singular confession of the Lady
Superior, and that is Roman Catholic interference in our elections.
Jesuits are not in the habit of slighting their advantages, and the
Bishop who can control ten or twenty thousand, or five hundred
thousand men, as the case may be, for the purpose of destruction
and riot, can certainly control the votes of these obedient
instruments! Will not American freemen wake to the apprehension
of a truth like this? and what makes it turbulent? Ignorance, an
ignorance which it is for the interest of its leaders not to enlighten;
for enlighten a man and he will think for himself, and have some
self-respect; he will understand the laws and know his interest in
obeying them. Keep him in ignorance, and he is the slave of the
man who will flatter his passions and appetites, or awe him by
superstitious fears. Against the outbreakings of such men, society,
as it is constituted on our free system, can protect itself only in
one of two ways: it must either bring these men under the
influence and control of a sound republican and religious
education, or it must call in the aid of the priests who govern them,
and who may permit, and direct, or restrain their turbulence, in
accordance with what they may judge at any particular time to be
the interest of the church. Yes, be it well remarked, the same

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hands that can, whenever it suits their interest, restrain, can also,
at the proper time, "let slip the dogs of war." In this mode of
restraint by a police of priests, by substituting the ecclesiastical for
the civil power, the priest-led mobs of Portugal and Spain, and
South America, are instructive examples. And start not, American
reader, this kind of police is already established in our country!
We have had mobs again and again, which neither the civil nor
military power have availed any thing to quell, until the magic
'peace, be still' of the Catholic priest has hushed the winds, and
calmed the waves of popular tumult. Footnote: At the time this
was written, riots in this country were almost entirely confined to
the emigrants from foreign countries employed as laborers on our
rail-roads, canals,
&c. While I write, what mean the negotiations, between two Irish bands
of emigrants, in hostile array against each other, shedding each other's
blood upon our soil, settling with the bayonet miserable foreign feuds
which they have brought over the waters with them? Why have not the
civil and military power been able to restore order among them, and
obedience to our laws, without calling in the priests to negotiate and
settle the terms on which they will cease from violating our laws?
Footnote: As our readers have probably forgotten the particulars of the
affair here alluded to, we subjoin from the Journal of Commerce, a
copy of the agreement subscribed by the leaders of the riot. The civil
and military authorities of Maryland had tried repeatedly, but in vain, to
quell the riot.-Ed. Obs.
The Jesuit Conspiracy All Rights Reserved by James E Nance 2014c

From the Journal of Commerce.
THE RIOTERS.-It appears by the following notice, that the rioters

on the Baltimore and Washington Rail-road have concluded a
treaty of peace, through the intervention of a priest. There was
considerable talk during the late riots in this city, of calling in the
agency of the priests, to put an end to the disturbance. No doubt it
would have been effectual.
AGREEMENT. On the 24th of June, 1834, the subscribers, in the

presence of the Rev. John McElroy, have respectively and
mutually agreed to bury forever, on their own part, and on behalf
of their respective sections of country, all remembrance of feuds
and animosities, as well as injuries sustained. They also promise
to each other, and make a sincere tender of their intention to
preserve peace, harmony, and good feeling between persons of
every part of their native country without distinction.
They further mutually agree to exclude from their houses and

premises all disorderly persons of every kind, and particularly
habitual drunkards. They are also resolved, and do intend to apply
in all cases where it is necessary, to the civil authorities, or to the
laws of the country for redress-and finally they are determined to
use their utmost endeavors to enforce, by word and example,
these, their joint and unanimous resolutions.

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Signed by fourteen of the men employed on the 4th, 5th, and 8th
sections of the 2d division, B. and W. R. R. } on behalf of all
employed.
And also by thirteen of the 8th section of the 1st division. } on

behalf of all employed.
Have the priests become necessary in our political system? Have the
emissaries of a foreign despotic power stolen this march upon us? Can
they tell their foreign masters, "we already rule the mob?" Yes, and
facts will bear them out in their boasting. Footnote: See previous
footnote "Priests control the Mob."
And what now prevents the interference of Catholics as a sect

directly in the political elections of the country? They are
organized under their priests: Is there any thing in their religious
principles to restrain them? Do not Catholics of the present day
use the bonds of religious union to effect political objects in other
countries? Did not the Pope interfere in Poland in the late
revolution, and through the priests command submission to the
tyranny of the Czar? At the moment I am writing, are not monks
and priests leaders in the field of battle in Spain; in Portugal? Is
not the Pope encouraging the troops of Don Miguel, and exciting
priests and people to arms in a civil contest? Has Popery
abandoned its ever busy meddling in the politics of the countries

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where it obtains foothold? Footnote: Political interference of
Popery. The kind of interference in the political affairs, of other
countries by the Sovereign of Rome, may be learned from the
following extracts from the Pope's Proclamation against Don
Pedro in which he thus speaks of Portugal.-He laments the
defection of "That kingdom, cited, until now, as a model of
devotion and of fidelity to the Catholic faith, to the Holy See, and
to the Roman pontiffs, our predecessors; a kingdom which, as is
meet, has already felt it an honor to obey its Sovereigns,
distinguished by the title of Most faithful Kings. We confess that
we could not at first believe what report and public rumor related
upon enterprises so audacious, but the unexpected return to Italy
of him who represented us in the said kingdom as Apostolic
Nuncio, and the most positive testimony of many persons, soon
convinced us that what had been previously announced to us was
but too true.
"It is then as certain as it is greatly to be deplored, that the above-

mentioned Government has unjustly driven away him who
represented our person and the Holy See, commanding him to
quit the kingdom without delay. But after so gross an insult offered
to the Holy See, and to us, the audacity of these perverse men
bas been carried still further against the Catholic Church, against
ecclesiastical property, against the inviolable rights of the Holy

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See. Considering that all these measures have been exercised,
almost at the accession of a new Power, and in consequence of a
conspiracy prepared beforehand, our mind is filled with horror,
and we cannot refrain from tears. All the public prisons have been
opened, and, after having let those who were detained there go
forth, they have thrown into them, in their place, some of those of
whom it is written, Touch not my Anointed. Laymen have rashly
arrogated to themselves a power over sacred things; they have
proclaimed a general reform of the secular clergy, and of religious
orders of both sexes."
After enumerating various acts of rigor of the new government against

those priests, monks and other ecclesiastics, who had taken an active
part in the civil war, the Pope continues:-"For this reason, venerable
brethren, we expressly proclaim that we absolutely reprobate all the
decrees issued by the aforesaid government of Lisbon, to the great
detriment of the Church, of its holy ministers, of the ecclesiastical law,
and Holy See prerogatives; we, therefore, declare them to be null and
of no effect, and express our most serious complaints against the
audacious measures we have referred to; we declare that in exercising
the duties of our office, and with God's help, we will oppose ourselves
as a wall for the House of Israel, and show ourselves in the combat at
the day of the Lord, as the interests of religion and the gravity of
circumstances may require."

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He hopes this low rumbling of the thunders of the Vatican will
prevent his "having recourse to those spiritual arms with which
God has invested his apostolic ministry," namely anathemas,
curses of excommunication, &c. And these are not the records of
doings of the dark ages, but are fresh from the papal throne, the
acts of 1833.
Will it be said, that however officious in the old countries, yet here,
by some strange metamorphosis, Popery has changed its
character, and is modified by our institutions; that here it is surely
religious, seeking only the religious welfare of the people, that it
does not meddle with the state? Footnote: If any suppose that
Popery meddles not with civil matters in this country, let them
peruse the following extract of a letter from one of their
missionaries.
"Mr. Baraga to the Central Direction of the Leopold Foundation,

dated L'ARBRE CROCHE, October 10th, 1832.
" * * On the 5th of August, after partaking the sacrament of

confirmation, the bishop called all the chiefs and head men of the
mission, and made known to them some civil laws, which he had
made for the Ottowas. The Indians received these laws with much
pleasure, and promised solemnly to obey them. The missionary
and four chiefs are the administrators of these laws.

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"FREDERICK BARAGA, Missionary."
Here is a specimen of the disposition of Popery to meddle in civil

matters in this country where it has the power; the Bishop is the
propounder, and the Missionary one of the administrators of the
civil laws. It is not true that Popery meddles not with the politics of
the country. The cloven foot has already shown
itself. Popery is organized at the elections! For example: In Michigan

the Bishop Richard, a Jesuit (since deceased,) was several times
chosen delegate to Congress from the Territory, the majority of the
people being Catholics. As Protestants became more numerous, the
contest between the bishop and his Protestant rival was more and
more close, until at length by the increase of Protestant immigration the
latter triumphed. The bishop, in order to detect any delinquency in his
flock at the polls, had his ticket printed on colored paper; whether any
were so mutinous as not to vote according to orders, or what penance
was inflicted for disobedience, I did not learn. The fact of such a truly
Jesuitical mode of espionage I have from a gentleman resident at that
time in Detroit. Is not a fact like this of some importance? Does it not
show that Popery, with all its speciousness, is the same here as
elsewhere; it manifests, when it has the opportunity, its genuine
disposition to use spiritual power for the promotion of its temporal
ambition. It uses its ecclesiastical weapons to control an election.
In Charleston, S. C., the Roman Catholic Bishop England is said

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to have boasted of the number of votes that he could control at an
election. I have been informed, on authority which cannot be
doubted that in New-York, a priest, in a late election for city
officers, stopped his congregation after mass on Sunday and
urged the electors not to vote for a particular candidate, on the
ground of his being an anti-Catholic; the result was the election of
the Catholic candidate.
It is unnecessary to multiply facts of this nature nor will it be

objected that these instances are unworthy of notice, because of
their local or circumscribed character. Surely American
Protestants, freemen, have discernment enough to discover
beneath them the cloven foot of this subtle foreign heresy, and will
not wait for a more extensive, disastrous, and overwhelming
political interference, ere they assume the attitude of watchfulness
and defence. They will see that Popery is now, what it has ever
been, a system of the darkest political intrigue and despotism,
cloaking itself to avoid attack under the sacred name of religion.
They will be deeply impressed with the truth, that Popery is a
political as well as a religious system; that in this respect it differs
totally from all other sects, from all other forms of religion in the
country? Popery embodies in itself THE CLOSEST UNION OF
CHURCH AND STATE. Observe it at the fountain head. In the
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together in the same individual. The Pope is the King. A Cardinal
is Secretary of State. The Consistory of Cardinals is the Cabinet
Council, the Ministry, and they are Viceroys in the provinces. The
Archbishops are Ambassadors to foreign courts. The Bishops are
Judges and Magistrates, and the road to preferment to most if not
all the great offices of State is through the priesthood. In Rome
and the patrimony of St. Peter the temporal and spiritual powers
are so closely united in the same individual, that no attack can be
made on any temporal misrule, without drawing down upon the

assailants the vengeance of the spiritual power exercised by the same
individual. Is the Judge corrupt or oppressive; and do the people rise
against him, the Judge retires into the Bishop, and in his sacred retreat
cries "Touch not the Lord's anointed." Can we not discern the political
character of Popery? Shall the name of Religion, artfully connected
with it, still blind our eyes? Let us suppose a body of men to combine
together, and claim as their right, that all public and private property, of
whatever kind, is held at their disposal; that they alone are to judge of
their own right to dispose of it; that they alone are authorized to think or
speak on the subject; that they who speak or write in opposition to
them are traitors, and must be put to death; that all temporal power is
secondary to theirs and amenable to their superior and infallible
judgment; and the better to hide the presumption of these tyrannical
claims, suppose that these men should pretend to divine right and call
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pleading conscience, demand to be tolerated. Would the name of
Religion be a cloak sufficiently thick to hide such absurdity, and shield
it from the frown of public indignation? Take then from Popery its name
of Religion, strip its officers of their pompous titles of sacredness, and
its decrees of the nauseous cant of piety, Footnote: Through the
Leopold foundation reports there is this perpetual cant of piety. We
have "pious prelate," "pious purpose," "pious end," "pious curiosity,"
"pious dread," and even "pious progress," and "pious dress." and what
have you remaining? Is it not a naked, odious Despotism, depending
for its strength on the observance of the strictest military discipline in its
ranks, from the Pope, through his Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops,
&c., down to the lowest priest of his dominions? And is not this
despotism acting politically in this country?
Let us suppose, for the sake of illustration, that the Emperor of

Russia, in a conceited dream of divine right to universal empire,
should parcel out our country into convenient districts, and should
proclaim his intention to exercise his rightful sway over these
States, now not owning his control. Should we not justly laugh at
his ridiculous pretensions? But suppose he should proceed to
appoint his Viceroys, Grand Imperial Dukes, giving to one the title
of "his Grace of Albany," to another the "Grand Duke of
Washington," and to another "his Imperial Highness of Savannah,"
and should send them out to take possession of their districts, and
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to his legitimate sway. And should these pompous Viceroys, with
their train of sub-officers, actually come over from Russia, and
erect their government houses, and commence by compliant
manners and fair
promises to procure lands and rentals to hold in the power of the

Emperor, and under the guise of educating the rising generation should
begin to sap the foundations of their attachment to this government, by
blinding their reasoning faculties, and by the Russian catechism
instilling the doctrine of passive obedience and the divine right of the
Emperor, what should we say to all this? Ridiculous as the first
conceited dream of imperial ambition appeared, if matters got to this
pass, we should begin to think that there was something serious in the
attempt, and very properly too, be a little alarmed. Suppose then further
that the Emperor's cause, by Russian emigration, and the money
supplied by the Emperor, had become so strong that the Viceroys were
emboldened in a cautious way, to try their influence upon some of the
local elections, that the Russian party had become a body somewhat
formidable, that its foreign leaders had their passive obedience troops,
so well under command as to make themselves necessary in the police
of the country, that we feared to offend them, that the secular press
favored them; Footnote: Is this a harsh judgment on the secular press?
If a secular paper ventures to remonstrate against Catholics, is not the
cry of intolerance or persecution at once raised and the editor scared
away from his duty of exposing the secret political enemies of the

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republic, under the false notion that he is engaged in a Religious
controversy? and the unprincipled courted them; to what point then, in
the process of gradually surrendering our liberties to the Russian Czar,
should we have come; and how near to their accomplishment would be
those wild dreams of imperial ambition, which we had in the first
instance ridiculed? And is this a caricature? What is the difference
between the real claims, and efforts, and condition of Popery at this
moment in these United States, and the supposed claims, and efforts,
and condition of the Russian despotism?
The one comes disguised under the name of Religion, the other,
more honest and more harmless, would come in its real political
name.
Give the latter the name of Religion, call the Emperor, Pope, and
his Viceroys, Bishops, interlard the imperial decrees with pious
cant, and you have the case of pretension, and intrigue, and
success too, which has actually passed in these United States!
Yes, the King of Rome, acting by the promptings of the Austrian

Cabinet, and in the plentitude of his usurpation, has already
extended his sceptre over our land, he has divided us up into
provinces, and appointed his Viceroys who claim their jurisdiction,
Footnote: "Indiana and Illinois, two states
our countrydepending on my jurisdiction!"-[My Lord Bishp Flaget's

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letter.] from a higher power than exists in this country, even from his
majesty himself, who appoints them, who removes them at will, to
whom they owe allegiance, for the extension of whose temporal
kingdom they are exerting themselves, and whose success let it be
indelibly impressed on your minds, is the certain destruction of the free
institutions of .
CHAPTER IX.
Evidence enough of conspiracy adduced to create great alarm-

The cause of liberty universally demands that we should awake to
a sense of danger-An attack is made which is to try the moral
strength of the republic-The mode of defence that might be
consistently recommended by Austrian Popery-A mode now in
actual operation in Europe-Contrary to the entire spirit of
American Protestantism-True mode of defence-Popery must be
opposed by antagonist institutions-Ignorance must be dispelled-
Popular ignorance of all Papal countries-Popery the natural
enemy of general education-Popish efforts to spread education in
the United States delusive
Is not the evidence I have exhibited in my previous numbers

sufficiently strong to prove to my countrymen the existence of a
foreign conspiracy against the liberties of the country? Does the
nature of the case admit of stronger evidence? or must we wait for

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some positive, undisguised acts of oppression, before we will
believe that we are attacked and in danger? Must we wait for a
formal declaration of war? The serpent has already commenced
his coil about our limbs, and the lethargy of his poison is creeping
over us; shall we be more sensible of the torpor when it has
fastened upon our vitals? The house is on fire; can we not believe
it, till the flames have touched our flesh? Is not the enemy already
organized in the land? Can we not perceive all around us the
evidence of his presence? Have not the wily manoeuverings of
despotism already commenced? Is he not inveigling our children
to his schools? Is he not intriguing with the press? Is he not
usurping the police of the country, and showing his front in our
political councils? Because no foe is on the sea, no hostile armies
on our plains, may we sleep securely? Shall we watch only on the
outer walls, while the sappers and miners of foreign despots are at
work under our feet, and stealthily advancing beneath the very
citadel ? Where is that unwearying vigilance which the eloquent
Burke proclaimed to be the characteristic of our fathers, who did
not wait to feel oppression, but "augured misgovernment at a
distance, and snuffed the approach of tyranny in every tainted
breeze?" Are we their sons, and shall we sleep on our posts? We
may sleep, but the enemy is awake; he is straining every nerve to
possess himself of our fair land. We must awake, or we are lost.

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Foundations are attacked, fundamental principles are threatened,
interests are put in jeopardy, which throw all the questions which
now agitate the councils of the country into the shade. It is Liberty
itself that is in danger, not the liberty of a single state, no, nor of
the United States, but the liberty of the world. Yes, it is the world
that has its anxious eyes upon us; it is the world that cries to us in
the agony
of its struggles against despotism, THE WORLD EXPECTS AMERICA,

REPUBLICAN AMERICA, TO DO HER DUTY.
Our institutions have already withstood many assaults from within

and from without, but the war has now assumed a new shape.
An effort is now making that is to try the MORAL STRENGTH of

the Republic. It is not a physical contest on the land, or on the
water. The issue depends not on the strength of our armies or
navies. How then shall we defend ourselves from this new, this
subtle attack?
"Defend yourselves!" cries the Austrian papist, "you cannot defend

yourselves;" your government, in its very nature, is not strong
enough to protect you against foreign or domestic conspiracy.
You must here take a lesson from legitimate governments.
We alone can teach the effectual method of suppressing

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conspiracies.
You say you have a body of conspirators against your liberties, a

body of foreigners who are spreading their pernicious heresies
through your land, and endangering the state.
The weakness of republicanism is now manifest.
What constitutional or legal provision meets the difficulty?
Where are your laws prohibiting Catholics from preaching or

teaching their doctrines, and erecting their chapels, churches, and
schools?
Where is your Passport system, to enable you to know the

movements of every man of them in the land?
Where is your Gens d'armerie, your armed police, those useful

agents, whose domiciliary visits could ferret out every Catholic,
seize and examine his papers, and keep him from further mischief
in the dungeons of the state?
Where are your laws that can terrify, by the penalty of

imprisonment, any man that dares to utter an opinion against the
government?
Where is your judicious censorship of the press, to silence the

Catholic journals, and stifle any Catholic sentiments in other

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journals?
Where is your Index expurgatorius, to denounce all unsafe books, that

no Catholic book may be printed or admitted into the country?
Where is your system of espionage, that no Protestant may read a

Catholic publication, or express in conversation a single sentiment
unfavorable to Protestantism, without being overlooked, and
overheard by some faithful spy, and reported to the government?
Where are the officers in your post-office department for the

secret examination of letters, so that even the most confidential
correspondence may be purified from dangerous heresy?
Where is your secret Inquisitorial Court for the trial and

condemnation of apostate Protestants?
Without these changes in the constitution and laws of your

government, you can oppose no efficient obstacle to the success
of this conspiracy.
And what shall I reply to this consistent Papist?
The methods he would prescribe have the sanction of successful

experiment for some centuries.
They are in sober truth the very means that Popery employs at
this very day, in the countries where it is dominant, to prevent the

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spread of opinions contrary to its own dogmas.
But are these the methods that commend themselves to American

Protestants? Does not such a cumbrous machinery of chains, and
bolts, and bayonets, and soldiers, to hold the mind in bondage,
seem rather a dream of the dark ages, than a real system, now in
actual operation in the nineteenth century? Away with Austrian
and Popish precedent. American Protestantism is of a different
school. It needs none of the aids which are indispensable to the
crumbling despotisms of Europe; no soldiers, no restrictive
enactments, no index expurgatorius, no Inquisition. This war is the
war of principles; it is on the open field of free discussion; and the
victory is to be won by the exercise of moral energy, by the force
of Religious and Political Truth. But still it is a war, and all true
patriots must wake to the cry of danger. They must up, and gird
themselves for battle. It is no false alarm. Our liberties are in
danger. The Philistines are upon us. Their bonds are prepared,
and they intend, if they can, to fasten them upon our limbs. We
must shake off our lethargy, and like the giant awaking from his
sleep, snap these shackles asunder. We are attacked in
vulnerable points by foreign enemies to all liberty. We must no
longer indulge a quiet complacency in our institutions, as if there
were a charm in the simple name of
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constitutes the life of our justly cherished institutions? Where is the
living principle that sustains them? Is it in the air we breathe? Is it in the
soil we cultivate? Is our air or our soil more congenial to liberty than the
air and soil of Austria, or Italy, or Spain? No! The life of our institutions!
It is a moral and intellectual life; it lies in the culture of the human mind
and heart, of the reason and conscience; it is bound up in principles
which must be taught by father to son, from generation to generation,
with care, with toil, with sacrifice. Hide the Bible for fifty years-(we will
not ask for the hundred years so graciously granted by the autocrat to
stifle liberty)-hide the Bible for fifty years, and let our children be under
the guidance of men, whose first exercise upon the youthful mind is to
teach that lesson of old school sophistry, which distorts it forever, and
binds it through life in bonds of error to the dictation of a man; a man
whom, in the same exercise of distorted reason, he is persuaded to
believe infallible; let these Jesuit doctors take the place of our
Protestant instructors, and where will be the political institutions of the
country? Fifty years would amply suffice to give the victory to the
despotic principle, and realize the most sanguine wishes of the tyrants
of Europe.
The first thing to be done to secure safety, is to open our eyes at

once to the reality and the extent of the danger. We must not walk
on blindly, crying "all's well." The enemy is in all our borders. He
has spread himself through all the land. The ramifications of this
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Surprising and unwelcome as is such an announcement, we must
hear it and regard it. We must make AN IMMEDIATE, A
VIGOROUS, A UNITED, A PERSEVERING EFFORT TO
SPREAD RELIGIOUS AND INTELLECTUAL CULTIVATION
THROUGH EVERY PART OF OUR COUNTRY. Not a village, nor
a log-hut of the land should be overlooked. Where Popery has put
darkness, we must put light. Where Popery has planted its
crosses, its colleges, its churches, its chapels, its nunneries,
Protestant patriotism must put side by side college for college,
seminary for seminary, church for church. And the money must
not be kept back. Does Austria send her tens of thousands to
subjugate us to the principles of darkness? We must send our
hundreds of thousands, aye our millions, if necessary, to redeem
our children from the double bondage of spiritual and temporal
slavery, and preserve to them American light and liberty. The food
of Popery is ignorance. Ignorance is the mother of papal devotion.
Ignorance is the legitimate prey of Popery.
But some one here asks, are not the Roman Catholics
establishing schools and colleges, and seminaries of various
kinds, in the destitute parts of the land? Are not they also zealous
for education? May we not safely assist them in their endeavors to
enlighten the ignorant? Enlighten the ignorant? Does Popery
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America, of Canada? What sort of instruction is that, in the latter
country, for example, which leaves 78,000 out of 87,000 of its grown up
scholars signers of a petition by their mark, unable to write their own
names, and many of the remaining signers, who write nothing but their
names. What sort of light is that which generates darkness? Popery
enlighten the ignorant? Popery is the natural enemy of GENERAL
education. Do you ask for proof? It is overwhelming. Look at the
intellectual condition of all the countries where Popery is dominant. If
Popery is in favor of general education, why are the great mass of the
people, in the papal countries I have named, the most ill-informed,
mentally degraded beings of all the civilized world, arbitrarily shut out
by law from all knowledge but that which makes them slaves to the
tyranny of their oppressors? No! look well to it! If Popery in this country
is professing friendship to general knowledge, it is a feigned alliance. If
it pretends to be in favor of educating the poor, it is a false pretence, it
is only temporizing. It is conforming for the present, from policy to the
spirit of Protestantism around it, that it may forge its chains with less
suspicion. If it is establishing schools, it is to make them prisons of the
youthful intellect of the country. If the Papists in Europe are really
desirous of enlightening ignorant Americans, by establishing schools,
let them make their first efforts among their brethren of the same faith
in Canada and Mexico.
Do our fellow citizens at the South and West ask for schools, and
are there not funds and teachers enough in our own land of wealth
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our own institutions? or are we indeed so beggared as to be
dependent on the charities of the Holy Alliance, and the Jesuits of
Europe for funds and teachers to educate our youth-in what?
The PRINCIPLES OF DESPOTISM! Forbid it patriotism! Forbid it

religion!-Our own means are sufficient; we have wealth enough,
and teachers in abundance.
We have only to will it with the resolution and the zeal that have so
often been shown, whenever great national, or moral interests are
to be subserved, and every fortress, every corps of Austrian
darkness would be surrounded: the lighted torches of truth,
political and religious, would flash their unwelcome beams into
every secret chamber of the enemies of our liberty, and drive
these ill-omened birds of a foreign nest to their native hiding-
place.
CHAPTER X.
All classes of citizens interested in resisting the efforts of Popery-

The unnatural alliance of Popery and Democracy exposed-
Religious liberty in danger-Specially in the keeping of the
Christian community-They must rally for its defence,-The secular
press has no sympathy with them in this struggle, it is opposed to
them-The Political character of Popery ever to be kept in mind and
opposed-It is for the Papist, not the Protestant to separate his

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religious from his political creed-Papists ought to be required
publicly and formally and officially to renounce foreign allegiance
and anti-republican customs.
In considering the means of counteracting this foreign political

conspiracy against our free institutions, I have said that we must
awake to the reality and extent of the danger, and rouse ourselves
to immediate and rigorous action in spreading religious and
intellectual cultivation through the land. This indeed would be
effectual, but this remedy is remote in its operation, and is most
seriously retarded by the enormous increase of ignorance which is
flooding the country by foreign immigration. While therefore the
remote effects of our exertions are still provided for, the pressing
exigency of the case seems to require some more immediate
efforts to prevent the further spread of the evil. The two-fold
character of the enemy who is attacking us must be well
considered. Popery is doubly opposed,-civilly and religiously,-to
all that is valuable in our free institutions. As a religious system, it
is the avowed and common enemy of every other religious sect in
the land. The Episcopalian, the Methodist, the Presbyterian, the
Baptist, the Quaker, the Unitarian, the Jew, & c. & c., are alike
anathematized, are together obstinate heretics, in the creed of the
Papist. He wages an indiscriminate, uncompromising,
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As a Political system, it is opposed to every political party in the
country. Popery in its very nature is opposed to the genius of our
free system, notwithstanding its affected, artful appropriation (in
our country only,) of the habits and phraseology of democracy.
Present policy alone dictates so unnatural an alliance, aye, most
unnatural alliance. What! Popery and Democracy allied?
Despotism and Liberty hand in hand? Has the Sovereign Pontiff in
very deed turned Democrat in the United States? Let us look into
this incongruous coalition, this solecism in politics-Popish
Democracy. Do Popish Bishops or Priests consult the people?
Have the people any voice in ecclesiastical matters? Can the
people vote their own taxes? or are they imposed upon them by
irresponsible priests? Do the bishops and priests account for the
manner in which they spend the people's money? Has Popery
here adopted the American principle of RESPONSIBILITY TO
THE PEOPLE; a responsibility which gives the most insignificant
contributor
of his money towards any object, a right to examine into the manner in
which it is disbursed? No! the people account to their priests in all
cases, not the priests to the people in any case. What sort of
Democracy is that where the people have no power, and the priests
have all, by divine right? Let us hear no more of the presumptuous
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It is the same petty tyrant of the people here, as in Europe. And this is
the tyranny that hopes to escape detection by assuming the name and
adopting the language of democracy. Footnote: The poor, the illiterate,
and the working classes, the most deeply interested in quelling riot and
disorder. I have elsewhere hinted at the danger to the stability of our
institutions of the mob spirit which has been manifested in different
parts of the country. But I fear that the process of disorganization, the
gradual change which frequent riot necessarily works in the nature of
government has not been duly considered by those whom it most
deeply, most vitally concerns; I mean the hardworking, uneducated
poor. Let me endeavor to trace this process. What is the proper effect
of our democratic republican institutions upon the various classes into
which human society must ever be divided? How do they affect the
condition of the rich and the poor, the educated and the illiterate?
Equality, the only practicable equality, is their result; not that spurious,
visionary equality which would make a forced community of property,
but that equality which puts no artificial obstacles in the way of any
man's becoming the richest or most learned in the state; which allows
every man without other impediment than the common obstacles of
human nature and the equal rights of his neighbor impose, to strive
after wealth and knowledge and happiness. True Christian
republicanism, by its benevolent and ennobling principles, impels the
wealthy and the educated to use their talents for the benefit of the
whole community; it prompts to acts of public spirit, to self-sacrifice,
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poor and uneducated to competence and intellectual character, by
affording them both employment and education. The kindness and
benevolence thus shown to the poor beget in this class of our citizens,
industry and mental effort. They feel that they are not like the
proscribed of other countries, they see that the way is equally open to
all to rise to the same rank of independence in mind and condition, and
they consequently are without the exciting causes of envy and ill-will
and bitterness of feeling towards the wealthy and educated, which exist
and produce these fruits in other and arbitrary governments. Society in
its two extremes is thus knit together by a mutual confidence, and a
mutual interest, for causes beyond human control are ever varying the
condition of men. He that is rich to-day may be poor to-morrow; and
thus there is a constant interchange, a mingling of ranks, which like a
healthful circulation in the natural body, begets soundness and vigor
through the political body. The vicious, and voluntarily ignorant being
the only portions of society naturally and justly excluded from the
benefits of this system.
Let us now look at the condition of these same classes under an

arbitrary government. In Austria, for example, the poor and illiterate are
considered as the natural slaves of the wealthy and learned. These
classes are perpetually separated by the artificial barrier of hereditary
right; the line of separation is distinctly drawn, and in all that relates to
social intercourse there is an impassable gulf. There may be
condescension on the one part, but no elevation on the other. High
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strengthening the hands of the arbitrary power that sustains them; on
the other, low birth, ignorance, poverty, and boorishness, kept down by
their intrinsic weakness, generation after generation in irretrievable
subjection; the upper classes knowing that their own security is based
upon the perpetuity of ignorance and superstition in the lower classes.
Now to make the change from republicanism to absolutism, what
means would an arbitrary power like Austria be most likely to devise?
Would she not attain her object entirely by the creation on the one
hand, in the wealth and talent of this country, a necessity for employing
physical force to hold in subjection the poor and illiterate? And the
production, on the other hand, of a class ignorant and unprincipled, and
turbulent enough to need the very restraints the other class might be
compelled to employ? Are there any indications of such a change in
this country? We have a daily increasing host of emigrants, a portion of
the very class used to foreign servitude abroad. How could Austrian
emissaries better serve their imperial master's interests, than by
keeping these unenlightened men in the same mental darkness in
which they existed in the countries from which they came, surrounding
them here with a police of priests, and shutting out from them the light
which might break in upon them in this land of light, nourishing them for
riot and turbulence, at political meetings, and for bullying at the polls
those of opposite political opinions? And what would be the effect of
such a mode of proceedings upon that class, who have acquired by
lives of honest industry and studious application, wealth, and
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drive them away from any participation in the politics of the country,
and is not such seditious conduct intended to produce this very result?
Will not men who have any self-respect, who have any sense of
character, turn away and ask with feelings of indignation, where is that
intelligent, sober, orderly body of native mechanics and artizans, who
once composed the wholesome, substantial democracy of the country,
and on whose independence and rough good sense the country could
always rely, that well-tried body of their own fellow-citizens,
accustomed to hear and read patiently, and decide discreetly? And
when they see them associated with a rude set of priest-governed
foreigners, strangers to the order and habits of our institutions,
requiting us for their hospitable reception by conduct subversive of the
very institutions which make them freemen; when they see them
become the dupes of the machinations of a foreign despotic power,
refusing to be undeceived, and madly rushing
to their own destruction, will they not from motives of self preservation
be willing to adopt any system of measures, however arbitrary, which
will secure society from violence and anarchy? When disgust at priest-
guided mobs shall have alienated the minds of one class of the citizens
frorn the other, we have then one of the parties nearly formed, which is
necessary for the designs of despotism in accomplishing the
subversion of the republic. And the other party is still easier formed.
The alienation of feeling in the wealthier class, and their remarks of
disgust, may be easily tortured into contempt for the classes below
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always furnish occasions to excite to violence. When hostility between
these two parties has reached a proper height, the signal from the arch
jugglers in Europe to their assistants here, can easily kindle the flames
of civil strife. And then comes the dextrous change of systems.
Frequent outrage must be quelled by military force, for the public peace
must at all events be preserved, and the civil arm will have become too
weak, and thus commences an armed police, itself but the precursor of
a standing army. And which party will be the sufferer? All experience
answers that wealth and talent are more than a match for mere brute
force, for the plain reason that they can both purchase and direct it. The
rich can pay for their protection, and soldiers belong to those who pay
them. The man of talent is wanted to direct, and he also is retained by
the rich. What then becomes of the illiterate and laboring poor?
Reduced after ineffectual, ill-concerted resistance to the same state of
perfect subjection that obtains in the "happy Austrian empire." It is the
poor then, the poor and ignorant, not the rich and learned, that have
every thing of hope and liberty to lose from the machinations of Austria.
In a moral and intelligent Democracy, the rich and poor are friends and
equals, in a Popish despotism the poor are in abject servitude to the
rich. Let the working men, the laboring classes, well consider that their
liberty is in danger, and can be preserved only by their encouragement
of education and good order. It is this tyranny that is courted and
favored at political elections by our politicians of all parties, because it
has the advantage of a despotic organization. Footnote: And infidelity
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content with civil and religious liberty, has introduced a third kind, and
organizing itself into a new interest, demands to be represented in the
state as the advocate of irreligious liberty! How much longer are the
feelings of the religious community to be scandalized, and their moral
sense outraged, by the bare-faced bargainings for Catholic and infidel
votes? Have the religious community no remedy against such outrage?
If they have not, if there is not a single point on which they can act
together, if the religious denominations of various names can have no
understanding on matters of this kind, if they have no common bond to
unite them in repelling common enemies, then let us boast no more of
religious liberty. What is religious liberty? Is it merely a phrase to round
a period in a fourth of July oration? Is it a dazzling sentiment for Papists
to use
in blinding the eyes of the people, while they rivet upon them their
foreign chains of superstition? Is it a shield to be held before Infidels,
from behind which, they may throw their poisoned shafts at all that is
orderly and fair in our civil as well as religious institutions? Or is it that
prize above all price, that heaven-descended gift to the world, for
which, with its twin sister, we contended in our war for independence,
and which we are bound by every duty to ourselves, to our children, to
our country, to the world, to guard with the most jealous care? And has
it ever occurred to Christians that this duty of guarding religious liberty
in a more special manner devolves on them? Who but the religious
community appreciate the inestimable value of religious liberty?-Are
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and uses his civil liberty to subvert all liberty? Is it safe in the hands of
imported radicals and blasphemers? Is it safe in the hands of
calculating, selfish, power-seeking politicians? Is it safe in the keeping
of Metternich's stipendiaries, the active agents of a foreign, despotic
power? Does the secular press take care of our religious liberty? Is
there a secular journal that has even hinted to its readers the existence
of this double conspiracy? The most dangerous politico-religious sect
that ever existed, a sect that has been notorious for ages, for throwing
governments into confusion, is politically at work, in our own country,
under the immediate auspices of the most despotic power of Europe,
interested politically and vitally in the destruction of our free institutions,
and is any alarm manifested by the secular press? No! they are
altogether silent on this subject. They presume it is only a religious
controversy, and they cannot meddle with religious controversies. They
must not expose religious imposture, lest they should be called pious.
They have no idea of blending church and state. They have a religion
of their own, a worship in which the public, they think, feel a more
exciting interest. One has a liberty pole to be erected, another a hickory
tree, and the rival pretensions to superiority of these wooden gods of
their idolatry, it is of the last importance to settle, and the bacchanalian
revelry of their consecration must be recorded and blazoned forth in
italics and capitals in its minutest particulars. "Oh Pole! oh Tree! thou
art the preserver of our liberty!" No; If the religious community, (in
which term I mean to include Protestants of every name who profess a
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if they indulge timidity or jealousy of each other, if they will not come
forward boldly and firmly to withstand the encroachments of corruption
upon their own rights; the selfish politicians of the factions of the day
(and they swarm in the ranks of all parties,) will bargain away all that is
valuable in the country, civil and religious, to the Pope, to Austria, or to
any foreign power that will pay them the price of their treason.
We cannot be too often reminded of the double character of the enemy

who has gained foothold upon our shores, for although Popery is a
religious sect, and on this ground claims toleration side by side with
other religious sects, yet Popery is also a political, a despotic system,
which we must repel as altogether incompatible with the existence of
freedom. I repeat it, Popery is a political, a despotic system, which
must be resisted by all true patriots.
Is it asked, how can we separate the characters thus combined in

one individual? How can we repel the politics of a Papist, without
infringing upon his religious right? I answer, that this is a difficulty
for Papists, not for Protestants to solve. If Papists have made their
religion and despotism identical, that is not our fault. Our religion,
the Protestant religion, and Liberty are identical, and liberty keeps
no terms with despotism. American Protestants use no such
solecism as religious despotism. Shall political heresy be shielded
from all attack, because it is connected with a religious creed? Let
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can, and the former shall suffer no political attack from us. "But
no," the Papist cries, "I cannot separate them; my religion is so
blended with the political system, that they must be tolerated or
refused together; my 'whole system is one, and indivisible,
unchangeable, infallible'-I am conscientious, I cannot separate
them." What are we to do in such a case? Are we to surrender our
civil and religious liberty to such presumptuous folly?
No! our liberties must be preserved; and we say, and say firmly to
the Popish Bishops and Priests among us, give us your
declaration of your relation to our civil government. Renounce
your foreign allegiance, your allegiance to a FOREIGN
SOVEREIGN. Let us have your own avowal in an official
manifesto, that the Democratic Government under which you here
live, delights you best. Put your ecclesiastical doings upon as
open and popular a footing. as the other sects. Open your books
to the people, that they may scrutinize your financial matters, that
the people, your own people, may know how much they pay to
priests, and how the priests expend their money; that the poorest
who is taxed from his hard earned wages for church dues, and the
richest who gives his gold to support your extravagant ceremonial,
may equally know that their contributions are not misapplied.
Come out and declare your opinion on the LIBERTY OF THE
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OPINION, Americans demand it. They are waking up. They have
their eyes upon you. Think not the American eagle is asleep.
Americans are not Austrians to be hoodwinked by Popish tricks.
This is a call upon you, you will be obliged soon to regard. Nor will
they be content with partial, obscure avowals of republican
sentiments in your journals, by insulated priests or even bishops.
The American people will require a more serious testimonial of
your opinions on these fundamental political points. You have had
Convocations of Bishops at Baltimore. Let us have at their next

assembling their sentiments on these vital points. Let us have a
document full and explicit, signed by their names, a document that may
circulate as well in Austria, and Italy, as in America. Aye, a document
that may be published "Con permissione" in the Diario di Roma, and be
circulated to instruct the faithful in the united church, the church of but
one mind, in the sentiments of American democratic Bishops on these
American principles. Let us see how they will accord with those of his
Holiness Pope Gregory XVI. in his late encydical letter! Will Popish
Bishops dare to put forth such a manifesto? No? They dare not.
CHAPTER XI.
The question, what is the duty of the Protestant community,

considered-Shall there be an Anti-Popery Union?-The strong
manifesto that might be put forth by such a union-Such a political
union discarded as impolitic and degrading to the Protestant

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community-Golden opportunity for showing the moral energy of
the Republic-The lawful, efficient weapons of this contest-To be
used without delay.
THERE is no question of more pressing, more vital importance to

the whole country, than this: What is the duty of the Protestant
community in the perilous condition to which religious as well as
civil liberty is reduced by the attempts of Popery and foreign
enemies upon our free institutions? Have Christian patriots
reflected at all on the possible, nay, I will say probable loss of
religious liberty; or in idea attempted to follow out to their result
and in their immeasurable extent the fearful consequences of its
loss? Why is it then, that no more energetic efforts are made to
save ourselves?
----we hear this fearful tempest sing, Yet seek no shelter to avoid
the storm; We see the wind sit sore upon our sails, And yet we
strike not, but securely perish. * * * * * * * * We see the very wreck
that we must suffer; And unavoided is the danger now, For
suffering so the causes of our wreck. ~Shakspeare~
Yes, the rocks are in full view on which American liberty must inevitably
be wrecked, unless all hands are aroused to immediate action. Our
dangers are none the less, be assured, because they are not those
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great political parties of the day. In the heedless strife they are now
waging, the most superlative epithets of alarm have been already
exhausted by each, on fictitious, or comparatively trivial dangers to the
commonwealth. The public ear is deafened by their noise; its sense of
hearing is grown callous with the reiterated cries of alarm on every
slight occasion. "Wolf! Wolf!" has been so often falsely cried, that now,
when the wolf has in reality appeared, we cannot be made to realize it.
"If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for
the battle?" We are busying ourselves in quenching the few falling
sparks that threaten the deck of the ship without heeding the fire
beneath, that is approaching the magazine. In this reckless warfare of
passion, and falsehood, and slander, and aided by the deafening din of
party strife, neither party seem to have observed that a secret enemy,
an artful foreign enemy, has stolen in upon us, joining his foreign
accents to swell the uproar, that he may with less suspicion do his
nefarious work. Footnote: Dangers from a riotous spirit, and the kind of
treatment due from Protestant Americans to Catholic Emigrants. All the
topics which grow out of this momentous subject of Popery as their
prolific parent, are of absorbing national interest, but no one forces
itself upon our consideration more imperiously at this moment than that
which heads this note. For, unless I am greatly deceived, the waking up
of this great nation's indignation, the shaking off of the lethargy which
has so long held in unaccountable stupor the senses of the people,
which has shut their eyes and stopped their ears to the proofs of
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gathering of all real patriots to the defence of their liberties, which the
sounds of preparation from all quarters of the land but too strongly
indicate, may be attended with effects disastrous to the cause of true
liberty, may produce through excess or ill-regulated zeal, the evil which
it is desirous to remedy. For excess even in favor of right principles,
doubles the amount of the evil which it attempts to cure. Excess of all
kinds, whether in thought, word, or action, (oh! that this could be
impressed on every American heart,) is just so much gain to the side of
Popery. I know not how prevalent is error on this point, but I am
persuaded that it exists to an extent to make an American tremble for
the permanency of our democratic institutions.
Is there not a culpable acquiescence in the doings of a mob, if

their violence is directed against some apparent or real irritating
popular evil? Is not the language of such acquiescence most
dangerous? It amounts to this; "Although we are averse to mob
law, yet on the whole there are cases where the sin is venial, and
the character of the nuisance it would abate justifies its violence."
Now once concede in a
democratic community, a community which makes its own laws

according to modes prescribed by itself, that an irresponsible minority
may set at defiance these laws, and then let me ask where is
government? It is prostrated. It has become anarchy, and on the ruins
of social order will arise another form of government more or less
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the destruction of the first. Of all forms of government, a truly
democratic government, while it is least obnoxious to the disturbing
influences of mobs, can at the same time least of all bear the shocks of
their turbulence. No events, therefore, that have occurred in the
eventful history of the country, have so justly caused alarm for the
stability of the government, as the spirit of mob violence which has
lately manifested itself so frequently in our large cities. We should do
well to remember that we have secret and artful enemies busily at
work, who can and will take advantage of this unnatural state of the
public feeling, and who will not fail secretly to administer fuel, in modes
in which they are perfectly familiar, to a diseased excitement so
favorable to their views.
We have in the country a powerful religious-politico sect, whose

final success depends on the subversion of these democratic
institutions, and who have therefore a vital interest in promoting
mob-violence. The saying of the German ambassador concerning
the Papists, (quoted in the prefatory remarks,) is full of meaning,
and should be constantly borne in mind; it lets us into the secret of
much of their manoeuvering in this country; "they will be hammer
or nails, they will persecute or be persecuted." Where they are in
power they always persecute; when not in power and
consequently unable to persecute, they will be sure to conduct,
either in so outrageous or mysterious, or deceptive a manner, as
to rouse public indignation. They will contrive ingenious modes of

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irritation that shall draw upon them popular vengeance, and then
all meekness and innocence, and resignation, raise the imploring
cry of persecution. And how do they gain by these opposite
modes? If they are strong enough to persecute, they will destroy
their opponents, in obedience to the openly avowed principles of
their sect, by exile, by dungeons, and by death. If they themselves
are persecuted in a Protestant community, (Protestant principles
being in known direct opposition to persecution,) it is always by an
irreligious mob, acting in defiance of Protestant principle, and
unsustained by public opinion, and the reaction of Protestant
sympathy for the sufferers on any such occasion, more than
makes amends by its gifts for the injury sustained. Thus the very
virtues of Protestants growing out of principles directly antagonist
to Popish principles, are made to work against Protestantism, and
in favor of Popery. Do not Jesuits know the well known truth, that
a sect is helped by a little persecution? Do they not now act upon
a knowledge of it? And should not Americans replenish their
memory with it also, that they may most rigidly abstain from
disorder, and discountenance every disposition to riot or violence? Let

them remember that the laws that govern them are their own laws, and
they must not allow them to be broken. Let them suspect a Popish plot
to rob them of their liberties in every disorderly assemblage, and by
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the designs of these worst enemies of Democracy.
In close connection with this topic, is that of the kind of treatment

which Protestant Americans should show to Catholic emigrants.
On this subject a volume could be written. I have space but for a
few remarks. The condition of the Catholic emigrants that are daily
pouring into the country from Germany and Ireland should awaken
the strongest sympathies of Americans; and in whatever aspect
viewed, should enlist all their feelings of benevolence. Reflect a
moment who and what they are. We have read, and our own
countrymen who have travelled and seen them in their native
land, bear testimony to the effects upon the people of the grinding
oppressions of Papal government; to the mental degradation, to
the poverty, to the wretchedness of the vassals of despotism. And
as if to prove to us what we might doubt on the authority of others,
so sombre is their picture of human misery, the very subjects of
foreign oppression are brought and placed before our eyes. See
yonder ship slowly furling her sails. She approaches the city. She
casts her anchor. Who are those that crowd her decks? With
eager eyes they gaze in one direction. They see at length the far-
famed land of liberty. Yes; its name has been wafted even to their
ears, and with the longings of captives for freedom they have
broken away from slavery and sought the asylum of the
oppressed. They land upon our shores. Look, Americans, see

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before you the fruits of papal education! of papal care of the
bodies and minds of its children. Filthy and ragged in body,
ignorant in mind, and but too often most debased in morals, they
fill your streets with squalid beggary, and your highways with
crime; they are such a loathsome picture of degradation, moral
and physical, that you turn away in disgust from the sight. But why
should this be? They are human beings, although oppression has
blotted out their reason and conscience and thought. They are the
progeny of Popery; they are the victims of its iron despotism. It is
Popery that has reared them up in its own caverns of superstition.
They exhibit before you the blighting effects of this scourge of the
earth. It is Popery that has filled their minds with puerile fables,
closed their mental eyes in the darkness of ignorance, fleeced
them of their property by systematic robbery, kept them from the
knowledge of their natural rights as men to liberty of conscience,
and of opinion, extorted an abject obedience to their fellow-men,
to blasphemous usurpers of the prerogatives of Deity. Their
ignorance is their lasting, fatal curse; their
reason and conscience stifled at their birth, they are cast upon our care
mere human machines, for the fell usurpers of God's power have torn
out of them their very minds. To think for themselves, that inalienable
right of a rational being, is rebellion against their priest; they read not,
they understand not our charter of liberty. They love liberty, indeed, but

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what shape has liberty to men without minds? What perception of light
has a sightless eye? Their liberty, is licentiousness, their freedom, strife
and debauchery. And now with what emotions should Protestants look
on these suffering, deluded men? In what channel should their
sympathies flow? They have already been beaten to the dust by
tyranny. Is it for freemen to follow up the cruel blow of foreign tyrants?
They have been brutalized by neglect; shall they now be hunted by
proscription? Shall no Christian effort be made to light up again in their
darkened bosoms the extinguished spark of humanity? They are
followed into our habitations; yes, Americans, they are pursued into
your own asylum of liberty by their foreign oppressors, who, like hungry
wolves, have ventured with unhallowed feet into the very sanctuary of
freedom to grasp again their scarcely escaped prey. And have
Americans no compassion? Have they no courage? Will they not
protect the oppressed? Will they not interpose between them and their
priestly oppressors, and say to the latter, "Stand off; this is a land of
freedom; these men are now American citizens. They have a right to
American education; to republican education; to Bible education. They
have a right to the knowledge that they owe no allegiance to priests,
that here there are no forbidden books, that knowledge here is not
meted out in scanty drops to serve the purposes of power grasping
despots, but is spread out before them wide and deep as the ocean;
that American laws protect them from ecclesiastical as well as civil
proscription, from ecclesiastical as well as civil extortion, that they owe
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right to know the amount, and the manner of disbursement, of every
cent they are called on to contribute in church as well as state."
Will not Americans teach them these truths, and aid them to break
the chains with which foreign tyrants have bound them? or will
they compel them, by proscription and persecution, or unfeeling
neglect, to clan together around their priests, because deserted by
those who should, and who alone can, undeceive and enlighten
them? In the one case there is hope of incorporating them into the
American republican family as useful fellow-citizens. In the other,
there is the certainty of perpetuating a distinct foreign and hostile
interest in the country, to distract its councils, to sully the peaceful
character of its institutions, and finally to aid in the complete
destruction of this stronghold, this last hope of Freedom.
---"but once put out thy (light,) Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling
nature, I know not where is the Promethean heat That can thy light
relume."
Like incendiaries at a conflagration, they even cry fire! loudest,

and are most ostentatiously busy in seeming to protect that very
property which they watch but to make their prey.
What then can be done? Shall Protestants organize themselves

into a political union after the manner of the Papists, and the
various classes of industry and even of foreigners in the country?

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Shall they form an Anti-Popery Union, and take their places
among this strange medley of conflicting interests? And why
should they not? Various parties and classes do now combine and
organize for their own interest; and if any class of men are allowed
thus to combine to promote their own peculiar interests at the
expense of another class, that other class surely has at least an
equal right to combine to protect itself against the excess of its
antagonist. A denial of this right would certainly come with an ill
grace from those who are already formed into separate
organizations, as a Working Men's party, as a Trade's Union
party, as a Catholic party, as an Irish party, as a German party,
yes, even as a French and an Italian party. Footnote: By classing
these together at this moment, I do not intend to commit myself as
expressing approval or disapproval of the right of each and all of
these to organize, but merely to show that such organization does
already exist among other classes in the community, and if even
foreigners among us are allowed to exercise the right to organize
into a separate interest, yes, even as foreigners, can the right with
any propriety be refused to American Christians? Having thus
stated the case, I am now free to make the passing remark, that
excluding from view the three classes first named, the right of
foreigners to organize as foreigners for political purposes is at
least very questionable; but were their right unquestionably legal

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through the mildness of our laws, yet the practice is dangerous,
indecorous and a palpable abuse of political liberality. The Irish
naturalized citizens who should know no other name than
Americans, for years have clanned together as Irish, and every
means has been used and is still used especially by Catholics, to
preserve them distinct from the American family. Recently a
portion of the Germans have organized to keep up their distinct
nationality, and the French and Italians have just followed the
example. [Nov. 1834] To what will all this lead?
And now, on the supposition that such a political organization of

Protestants were expedient, (for it resolves itself altogether into a
question of expediency) let us see whether any party or interest could
show a stronger claim upon the support of the whole nation. Its
manifesto might run thus:
Popery is a Political system, despotic in its organization, anti-

demoocratic and anti-republican, and cannot therefore coexist
with American republicanism.
The ratio of increase of Popery is the exact ratio of decrease of

civil liberty.
The dominance of Popery in the United States is the certain

destruction of our free institutions.

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Popery, by its organization, is wholly under the control of a
FOREIGN DESPOTIC SOVEREIGN.
AUSTRIA, one of the Holy Alliance of Sovereigns leagued against

the liberties of the world, HAS THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF
THE OPERATIONS OF POPERY IN THIS COUNTRY.
The agents of Austria in the United States are Jesuits and priests
in the pay of that foreign power, in active correspondence with
their employers abroad, not bound by ties of any kind to our
government or country, but, on the contrary, impelled by the
strongest motives of ambition, to serve the interests of a despotic
foreign government; which ambition has already, in one or more
instances, been gratified, by promotion of these agents to higher
office and wealth in Europe.
Popery is a UNION OF CHURCH AND STATE, nor can Popery

exist in this country in that plenitude of power which it claims as a
divine right, and which, in the very nature of the system, it must
continually strive to obtain, until such a union is consummated.
Popery on this ground, therefore, is destructive to our religious as
well as civil liberty.
Popery is more dangerous and more formidable than any power in

the United States, on the ground that, through its despotic
organization, it can concentrate its efforts for any purpose, with

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complete effect, and that organization being wholly under foreign
control, it can have no real sympathy with any thing American.
The funds and intellect, and intriguing experience of all Papal and
Despotic Europe, by means of agents, at this moment organized
throughout our land, can, at any time, be brought in aid of the
enterprises of foreign powers in this country.
These are the grounds upon which an appeal for support might be
made to the patriotism, the love of liberty, the hatred of tyranny,
temporal and spiritual, which belong in common to the whole
Protestant American family.
But is this the plan of opposition to Popery that should be

proposed, the plan which ought to be adopted by the Protestant
community? No; distinctly and decidedly NO; plausible as it may
appear, and perfectly in accordance as it is with the practice of
politicians, the Christian community ought not, cannot adopt such
an organization. There must not be a Christian party. What! shall
Christianity throw aside the keen moral and intellectual arms with
which alone it has gained and secured every substantial victory
since the commencement of its glorious career; shall it exchange
those arms of heavenly temper, "mighty in pulling down strong
holds," for the paltry, earthly (I might even say infernal) weapons
of party strife? Can Christianity stoop so low? Can it bring itself
down from contemplating its great work of revolutionizing the

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world by bringing moral truth to bear on the conscience and the
heart, and narrow its vision to the contracted sphere of party
politics? Can it enter, without defilement, into the polluted and
polluting arena of political contest? Can it consent to be bargained
for by political hucksters, or have the price of its favors hawked in
the market by political brokers? Footnote: Both political Parties
intrigue for Catholic votes. Let neither political party throw upon its
antagonist the exclusive odium of courting this foreign, priest-
disciplined band. There are some of both parties who must hide
their heads with shame, when real Americans, the patriots of the
country, disregarding party name, shall turn their indignant eyes
upon this lurking enemy of liberty, and shall apprehend the reality
of this foreign conspiracy. Is either political party disposed to
upbraid the other with tampering with Popery, or to congratulate
itself that it has kept its own garments unspotted front the crime of
this indirect treason? If either thus flatters itself, let it be dumb; let
guilt stop the utterance of both. Both are deplorably, notoriously
guilty. This is a truth that cannot and will not be denied. Both have
bargained with these organized vassals of a foreign power. Both
in their eager recklessness to triumph over each other, have aided
foreign despotism to prostrate at its feet the liberties of their
country, the liberties of the world. All parties, religious and
political, are suffering, and have yet much more to suffer from the

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evils already produced by this their blind folly, by their culpable
servility to priest-governed foreigners, their cowardly
backwardness in not daring to drag into the light this covert
treason, because, forsooth, it comes in a sacred garb, their
wretchedly loose notions of tolerance, and charity and liberality,
their shameful disregard of the consequences of their
bargainings.-And is it indeed come to this? A nation of Protestant
freemen, nurtured in Protestant principles, the only true principles
of liberty, principles wrested from tyranny by the persevering valor
of
their fathers, the result of the intellectual, aye, and physical combats of
centuries, the fruits of obstinately contested struggles with despotism,
and superstition, and bigotry, struggles of ages against the united
intrigues of kingcraft and priest-craft; Americans, thus emancipated,
having enjoyed the peaceful fruits of these blood-earned truths for two
centuries, at length grow careless of their treasure; they sport with their
liberty as if it were nothing worth; they grow weary of guarding their
happiness, they sleep on their posts, they settle down into quiet
security. They have ships, and forts, and arms, and brave hearts to
defend their shores, and so there is no danger, all is peace, for the
battle has long since been won, they can now safely doff their armor,
there is no further need of the watchings of the camp. Our enemies,
they say, have in truth become our friends; Kings are now Republican,
and the Pope, yes the Pope, (his bulls and proclamations to the

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contrary notwithstanding,) we hope and believe has turned a Protestant
Republican, at least in this country.-Let us be generous, say these
descendants of ever jealous sires, let us invite our former foes to
partake of our hospitality. How noble the sentiment! How will the world
applaud! let us show an example of liberality unparalleled. The
invitation is accepted, and they flock in countless thousands to our
shores; a motley band, the oppressor and the oppressed together, and
their relations to each other too unchanged. They have needed no
Trojan Horse to hide them from our too credulous eyes, we lead them
openly into the midst of us.-They parade our streets with foreign
banners, already they flaunt them in our faces in derision. They even
threaten us with their vengeance, and we cower beneath their frown.
Yes, we plead with them to spare us, we thank them for restraining
their rod, we humbly confess the sins of our ancestors, we tell them our
fathers were bigotted and fanatical, they were too prejudiced against
these our regal and papal friends.
We their children, grown more liberal, will show our freedom from
narrow prejudices; we will make amends for past offences; our
papal friends shall be received with open arms; we will even urge
them to be the umpires in our family quarrels; we will beseech
them to educate our children in their foreign principles of passive
obedience; we will build for them their fortresses on our own soil,
to attack our own strong holds, and then we will trust to their
mercy; we shall then have delivered up to them all the keys of our

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house, and what will remain for us but to bow our necks beneath
the foot of the Pope, and asking absolution for our own sins, and
our father's sins of long rebellion against his rightful sovereignty,
humbly beg a legal charter for our country, and a consecrated king
for our throne? Can it consent to compete with Popery in the use
of those instruments of intrigue, and trick, and gambling
management, in which Popery is perfectly skilled from the
hoarded experience of ages? Can Christians present themselves
before the country and the world, in this enlightened age and
country, as a mere
political party? No, no; God forbid, that we should forget the holy
character of our cause; let us not be caught in that snare of the enemy.
The danger cry of Church and State may safely be left to the people, to
trumpet aloud through the land, when the blind infatuation, which now
closes their eyes, shall have been removed, and they shall be able to
see, what many already see, the secret political manoeuverings
Footnote: Popish experiment on the Military of the country. The
experiments of Popery in various parts of the country on the ignorance
or credulity, or apathy of the people, are every day, I might say every
hour, more manifest, and they are prosecuted with a boldness, with an
audacious defiance of American habits, and the feelings of American
Republicanism, truly astonishing. Yet upon reflection, is it so
astonishing that a tyranny of such inexhaustible resources of cunning
and artifice, backed by the treasures, and the open encouragement of

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the arbitrary governments of Europe, should be more than ordinarily
bold? For if success attends the advance of these arch intriguers
against our Protestant habits and institutions, high honors and
pecuniary rewards await them at home: if detection at any time
overtakes them from the sudden waking of their victim, and his restive
efforts to break off the bands that they would spider-like softly bind
upon him, they have a retreat from punishment in their own country. A
new experiment, another step forward in the march against our
freedom, and to all appearances at present, a successful one has been
tried at the West, at St. Louis, in the consecration of the Popish
cathedral. The account is from a Popish Journal, called the Catholic
Telegraph. They shall have the benefit of their own recital.
"The Cathedral of St. Louis is 134 feet long by 84 wide. There are
8 rows of pews. 25 in each row, calculated to contain at least 8000
persons. There are two magnificent colonnades at opposite sides
in the body of the church, consisting of five massive pillars, of
brick, elegantly marbled, and each four feet in diameter.
"The altar is of stone. It is only temporary, and will soon be

superseded by a superb marble altar, which is hourly expected
from Italy.
"The church it is said has already cost $42,000. It is presumed

that about $18,000 more will be required to finish it, according to
the original and magnificent design of its founders; so that the

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entire cost of the building and its furniture cannot be less than
$60,000.
"The consecration took place on the Sabbath Oct. 26, 1834.
"At an early hour, 7, A. M. on the day of consecration, four Bishops,

twenty-eight Priests, twelve of whom were from TWELVE different
nations-and a considerable number of young aspirants to the holy
ministry, making the entire ecclesiastical corps amount to fifty or sixty,
were habited in their appropriate dresses. As soon as the procession
was organized, the pealing of three large and clear-sounding bells, the
thunder of two pieces of artillery raised all hearts, as well as our own to
the Great Almighty Being. "When the HOLY RELICS were moved
towards their new habitation, where they shall enjoy an anticipated
resurrection-the presence of their God in His holy tabernacle, the guns
fired a second salute. We felt as if the SOUL OF ST. LOUIS, Christian,
Lawgiver and HERO, was in the sound, and that he again led on his
victorious armies in the service of the God of Hosts, for the defence of
his religion, his sepulchre, and his people.
"When the solemn moment of the consecration approached, and

the Son of the living God was going to descend for the first time,
into the new residence of his glory on earth, the drums beat the
reville, three of the star-spangled banners were lowered over the
balustrade of the sanctuary, the artillery gave a deafening
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"The dedication sermon was preached by the Bishop of
Cincinnati. During the Divine Sacrifice, two of the military stood
with drawn swords, one at each side of the altar; they belonged to
a guard of honor formed expressly for the occasion. Besides
whom, there were detachments from the four militia companies of
the city, the Marions, the Grays, the Riflemen, and the
Cannoneers from Jefferson Barracks, stationed at convenient
distances around the church.
"Well and eloquently did the Rev. Mr. Abell, pastor of Louisville,
observe in the evening discourse, alluding to his own and the
impressions of the clergy and laity, who were witnesses to the
scene ; 'Fellow-Christians and Fellow-citizens! I have seen the
flag of my country proudly floating at the mast-head of our richly
freighted merchantmen; I have seen it fluttering in the breeze at
the head of our armies, but never, never did my heart exult, as
when I this day behold it, for the first time, bow before its God!
Breathing from infancy the air which our artillery had purified from
the infectious spirit of bigotry and persecution, it would be the
pride of my soul, to take the brave men by the hand, by whom
these cannons were served. But for these cannons, there would
be no home for the free, no asylum for the persecuted."
, which struck off my hat far into the crowd. Upon recovering from the
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pouring forth a torrent of Italian oaths, in which il diavolo had a
prominent place, stood with his bayonet against my What are the
reflections of an American on an occurrence like this? What must they
be to one who has ever felt his pride of country stir within him, when in
foreign lands he has beheld the degraded slaves of despotism bow in
like manner before the altars and idols of heathenish superstition, awed
into seeming reverence by the military array which always
accompanies the imposing ceremonial of the Popish church? But the
military were only a guard of honor! Yes; this is the soft name given to
this despotic chain, the musical sound to charm us away from
scrutinizing it, and it will be sufficient, doubtless, to drown its harsher
clanking in our torpid ears. The guard of honor, that universal
appendage of kings and sacred despots, is a serviceable band. It not
only helps to swell a procession by its numbers, but with the glitter of its
arms, and accoutrements, and gay banners, it adds splendor to the
pageant of a heathen ritual. But, reader, it has an essential duty to
perform. Its duty is to enforce the ceremonies of worship upon all
present. Do you doubt this duty of the guard of honor? The writer will
give his own experience of the duties of the guard of honor. I was a
stranger in Rome, and recovering from the debility of a slight fever, I
was walking for air and gentle exercise in the Corso, on the day of the
celebration of the Corpus Domini. From the houses on each side of the
street were hung rich tapestries and gold embroidered damasks, and
towards me slowly advanced a long procession, decked out with all the
heathenish paraphernalia of this self-styled church. In a part of the

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procession a lofty baldechino, or canopy, borne by men, was held
above the idol, the host, before which, as it passed, all heads were
uncovered, and every knee bent but mine. Ignorant of the customs of
heathenism, I turned my back upon the procession, and close to the
side of the houses in the crowd, (as I supposed unobserved,) I was
noting in my tablets the order of the assemblage. I was suddenly
aroused from my occupation, and staggered by a blow upon the head
from the gun and bayonet of a soldierbreast. I could make no
resistance, I could only ask him why he struck me, and receive in
answer his fresh volley of unintelligible imprecations, which having
delivered, he resumed his place in the guard of honor, by the side of
the officiating cardinal.
Americans will not fail to observe in the precious extract of the

discourse in which the priest gives vent to his feelings of
exultation upon seeing our national flag, the star-spangled banner,
humbled in the dust before the Pope, that with the cunning of his
craft he flatters the soldiery, and in a sermon professedly to the
God of Peace, and in dedicating a temple to his name, he is
inspired with no loftier feelings of soul than this, "it would be the
pride of my soul, to take the brave men by the hand, by whom
these cannons
were served." Why? Is it such a brave act to touch off a cannon? Or

was the imagination of the priest revelling in the dream of seeing the
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the Pope, and his Austrian master? of a sect whose very existence
depends upon a Union of Church and State. No; let American
Christianity proclaim anew to all the world that it can never be wooed to
any such unholy alliance. It will keep its garments unspotted from the
crimes of the State. It will take none of the responsibilities of the
political errors of the age, nor father any of the evils which the
unprincipled politicians of the day may bring upon the country and the
world as the effect of their political bargainings.
Now is the time for this Christian Republic to show her moral
energy. Europe is an anxious spectator of our contests, and is
watching the success of this new trial of the strength of our
boasted institutions. Oh! what a lesson, what an impressive
lesson might free America now read to Europe! what an example
of the power of moral over physical government, can she give to
the world if she will but rouse herself in her moral might, to the
grand effort which the occasion demands? How would the petty
jealousies of the different Protestant sects be swallowed up in the
magnitude of the one great enterprise? How would every sect
rather cheer the others on in their united march against a common
foe, and make a common rejoicing of the success of any and
every corps, as of a victorious regiment in the same great army?
Will American Christians prepare themselves for this enterprise?

Will each sect awake to the feeling of its being a corps of the great

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Christian army, marching under the command of no earthly
leader, fighting with no earthly weapons, and against no earthly
foe. Will they wake to the perception of the great truth, that while
their great Captain allows each to act separately and
independently within certain limits, it is he that commands in chief
and now orders all his soldiers, under whatever earthly banner
enrolled, in united phalanx to go forward, forward in his single
service. Which corps will first marshall itself for action? Which will
be first in the field? Which will press forward with most zeal for the
honor of the advance, for the post of danger? Which in the battle
will be most in earnest to carry forward the standards of truth and
plant them upon the battlements of papal darkness? Will any
shrink back for fear? Will any be deterred from unholy jealousy of
its neighbor? Will any indulge in unchristian, ignoble suspicion of
its brethren? What cause have any for fear, or jealousy, or
suspicion? This enterprise asks no sacrifice of sectarian principle;
it demands no surrender of conscientious predilection of each to
its own modes and forms; but it does ask the sacrifice of petty
prejudice; it does demand the surrender of those miserable
jealousies and envyings which more or less belong to some of
every sect, when they learn the greater success of another, as if
the victory of one were not the victory of all.
And what are the weapons of this warfare?

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The Bible, the Tract, the Infant school, the Sunday school, the
common school for all classes, the academy for all classes, the
college and university for all classes, a free press for the
discussion of all questions.
These, all these, are weapons of Protestantism, weapons

unknown to Popery! Yes, all unknown to genuine Popery!
Let no one be deceived by the Popish apings of Protestant

institutions. The Popish seminary has little in common with the
Protestant seminary but the name. It is but the sheep's skin that
covers the wolfs back; the teeth and the claws are not even well
concealed beneath. With the weapons we have named, and with
our Education societies, Theological seminaries, and Missionary
societies, we need no new organization, no Anti-Popery union.
But we must use our arms, and not rest satisfied with the
possession of them. They must be furbished anew, and we must
prepare ourselves for a vigorous warfare. We must be stirring, if
we mean indeed to be victorious. Not a moment is to be lost. The
enemy knows well the importance of the present instant. Hear
what he says, "We must make haste, the moments are precious.-
IF THE PROTESTANT SECTS ARE BEFOREHAND WITH US, IT

WILL BE DIFFICULT TO DESTROY THEIR INFLUENCE."
Ought not this acknowledgment of the enemy to quicken and

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encourage to instant effort. And again writes a Catholic
Missionary, "zeal for error is always hot, particularly among the
Methodists, whom nothing can turn from their track, and who heap
absurdity upon absurdity. I should despair, if I should see this sect
building a church in my neighborhood."
Will not our Methodist brethren take this hint?
CHAPTER XII.
The political duty of American citizens at this crisis.
IN my last number I deemed it a duty to warn the Christian

community against the temptation to which they were exposed, in
guarding against the political dangers arising from Popery, of
leaving their proper sphere of action, and degrading themselves to
a common political interest. This is a snare into which they might
easily fall, and into which, if Popery could invite or force them, it
might keep a jubilee, for its triumph would be sure. The propensity
to resist by unlawful means the encroachments of an enemy,
because that enemy uses such means against us, belongs to
human nature. We are very apt to think, in the irritation of being
attacked, that we may lawfully hurl back the darts of a foe,
whatever may be their character; that we may "fight the Devil with
fire," instead of the milder, yet more effective weapon of "the Lord
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return railing for railing, and persecution for persecution, forbids
the use of unlawful or even of doubtful means of defence, merely
because an enemy uses them to attack us. If Popery, (as is
unblushingly the case,) organizes itself at our elections, if it
interferes politically and sells itself to this or that political
demagogue or party, it should be remembered, that this is
notoriously the true character of Popery. It is its nature. It cannot
act otherwise. Intrigue is its appropriate business. But all this is
foreign to Christianity. Christianity must not enter the political
arena with Popery, nor be mailed in Popish armor. The weapons
and stratagems of Popery suit not with the simplicity and
frankness of Christianity. Like David with the armor of Saul, it
would sink beneath the ill fitting covering, before the Philistine.
Yes! Popery will be an overmatch for any Christian who fights
behind any other shield than that of Faith, or uses any other sword
than the sword of the spirit of Truth.
But whilst deprecating a union of religious sects to act politically

against Popery, I must not be misunderstood as recommending
no political opposition to Popery by the American community. I
have endeavored to rouse Protestants to a renewed and more
vigorous use of their religious weapons in their moral war with
Popery, but I am not unmindful of another duty, the political duty,
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upon Amercan citizens, with equal force,-the imperious duty of
defending the distinctive principles of our civil government. It must
be sufficiently manifest to every republican citizen that the civil
polity of Popery is in direct opposition to all which he deems
sacred in government. He must perceive that Popery cannot from
its very nature tolerate any of those civil rights which are the
peculiar boast of Americans. Should Popery increase but for a
little time longer
in this country with the alarming rapidity with which, as authentic

statistics testify, it is advancing at the present time, (and it must not be
forgotten that despotism in Europe, in its desperate struggles for
existence, is lending its powerful aid to the enterprise,) we may even in
this generation learn by sad experience what common sagacity and
ordinary research might now teach, in time to arrest the evil, that
Popery cannot tolerate our form of government in any of its essential
principles.
Popery does not acknowledge the right of the people to govern;

but claims for itself the supreme right to govern all people and all
rulers by divine right.
It does not tolerate the Liberty of the Press; it takes advantage

indeed of our liberty of the press to use its own press against our
liberty; but it proclaims in the thunders of the Vatican, and with a
voice which it pronounces infallible and unchangeable, that it is a

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liberty "never sufficiently to be execrated and detested."
It does not tolerate liberty of conscience nor liberty of opinion. The

one is denounced by the Sovereign Pontiff as "a most pestilential
error," and the other, "a pest of all others most to be dreaded in a
state." It is not responsible to the people in its financial matters. It
taxes at will, and is accountable to none but itself. Now these are
political tenets held by Papists in close union with their religious
belief, yet these are not religious but civil tenets; they belong to
despotic government. Conscience cannot be pleaded against our
dealing politically with them. They are separable from religious
belief; and if Papists will separate them, and repudiate these
noxious principles, and teach and act accordingly, the political
duty of exposing and opposing Papists, on the ground of the
enmity of their political tenets to our republican government, will
cease. But can they do it? If they can, it behoves them to do it
without delay. If they cannot, or will not, let them not complain of
religious persecution, or of religious intolerance, if this republican
people, when it shall wake to a sense of the danger that threatens
its blood-bought institutions, shall rally to their defence with some
show of indignation. Let them not whine about religious
oppression, if the democracy turns its searching eye upon this
secret treason to the state, and shall in future scrutinize with
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who are so ready to rush to a fraternal embrace. Let them not
raise the cry of religious proscription, if American republicans shall
stamp an indelible brand upon the liveried slaves of a foreign
despot, the servile adorers of their "good Emperor,"
the Austrian conspirators, who now sheltered behind the shield of our
religious liberty, dream of security, while sapping the foundations of our
civil government.
Let no foreign Holy Alliance presume, or congratulate itself, upon

the hitherto unsuspicious and generous toleration of its secret
agents in this country.
America may, for a time, sleep soundly, as innocence is wont to

sleep, unsuspicious of hostile attack; but if any foreign power,
jealous of the increasing strength of the embryo giant, sends its
serpents to lurk within his cradle, let such presumption be assured
that the waking energies of the infant are not to be despised, that
once having grasped his foes, he will neither be tempted from his
hold by admiration of their painted and gilded covering, nor by fear
of the fatal embrace of their treacherous folds.
THE MASK THROWN ASIDE.
A charge of hostility to American institutions, against any sect or

class in the community, is a very serious one, and only requires

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evidence to support it, to draw upon all its doings the watchful eye
of American freemen. Is it asked, what evidence should you think
sufficiently strong to substantiate the charge? I answer, the
general principles of the sect would be sufficient, but its own
declarations of hostility would certainly substantiate the charge. If
a Presbyterian journal, in commenting on the trial of the rioters at
Charlestown, should make remarks like the following, the
evidence would doubtless be considered complete:
"A system of government which admits a feeling of alarm in the

execution of the laws from the vengeance of the mob, which Mr.
Austin" (the prosecuting attorney,) "distinctly allows to be the
case-a vengeance exhibited by letters to the public officers and
threats to the public authorities-may be very fine in theory, very fit
for imitation on the part of those who seek the power of the mob in
contradistinction to justice and the public interest, but it is not of a
nature to invite the reflecting part of the world, and shows at least
that it has evils. A public officer in England, who would publicly
avow such a fear of executing his duty and carrying into effect the
law of the realm, ought and would be thrust out of office by public
opinion. This one fact is condemnation OF THE SYSTEM OF
AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS, confirmed lately by numerous other
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Now, could hostility to our institutions be more strongly
expressed? and were Presbyterians or any other Protestant sect,
thus boldly to avow its political antipathies, every political journal
would seize upon this evidence of treason, and trumpet it through
the whole country. Why then are they now silent? This treason is
actually uttered, nor is it less humiliating, or less dangerous that it
is flung in our faces by a set of foreigners in the employment and
pay of a foreign government, instead of native citizens. The very
words I have quoted are from the Catholic Telegraph, a Roman
Catholic journal, edited and published at Cincinnati. Let it be
borne in mind too, that a Catholic journal is under the supervision
of the Bishops, who exercise a rigid censorship over it, that it
speaks the authorized sentiments of the sect, and we shall then
perceive something of the importance to be attached to these anti-
republican declarations. They are indeed a precious, an
invaluable testimonial to the People, of the duplicity of their
professed friends. Every where in the land hitherto, Papists have
been loudest in professions of attachment to American republican
institutions. They have now thrown off the mask. They
unblushingly declare, that "our system of government, though very
fine in theory, is not of a nature to invite the reflecting part of the
world," in short, that it is an experiment that has failed: that "American

institutions stand condemned by a single fact in the trial in Boston, and

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by numerous other proofs." And what has brought out this precious
confession; what has occurred to make it a fit time to lay aside the
disguise in which they have till now deceived the democracy of the
country? What has produced this sudden revolution in their opinion of
our form of government? Let us look into this matter.
A body of native citizens is excited to indignation by rumors,

(whether true or false alters not the case,) that an act of foul play,
such as the history of those nuisances, (convents,) in all countries
have abundantly furnished, had occurred in the Charlestown
nunnery. This mob, instead of being met with efforts to appease it
by immediate explanation, as would have been the case in any
Protestant seminary in the land, (for Protestants have no secret
mysteries in their discipline,) this mob, I say, is kept for days in an
excited state by mysterious manoeuvering, on the part of the
Catholics, and by irritating threats from the Superior of the
Convent, that, 20,000 foreigners under the orders of the Bishop
would take vengeance upon the citizens, if they dared to commit
any injury upon the Convent, and this threat was uttered in sight of
Bunker's hill. Under this provocation the outrage was committed.
And is it a matter of surprise? I know of no one who justifies the
illegal violence in burning the Convent, but I unhesitatingly say,
that the feeling of indignation which animated the populace, was a
just and proper feeling. It was roused by the belief, that a young

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and helpless female had been illegally and cruelly abducted from
her friends, and subjected to a secret tyrannical punishment. The
feeling, I say under this belief, was not only honorable to the
Charlestownians, but had they viewed such an outrage with
indifference, they would have shown themselves unworthy of
American citizens. Their error, (and it cannot be defended,
however it may be palliated by the gross insult which they
received,) consisted in suffering their just indignation to flow in an
illegal channel, and instead of rallying round the laws, and
strengthening them by a strong expression of public opinion at a
special meeting of citizens, they leaped the bounds of law and
committed a crime which the Papists are trying every possible
means to cause to react in their favor. But allowing that no
palliating circumstances attended the act of the rioters, that no
excuse could be pleaded for them as acting under the impulse of
the most stinging insult that could be given to any people by a
foreigner; what have these acts to do with our "system of
government," or with "American institutions?" In England,
forsooth, they manage things better. There are never riots in
England! London, Manchester, Bristol, I suppose were never
agitated by riots! Paris, Lyons, Marseilles, Nismes, St. Petersburg,
Brussels, Frankfort, Rome, Constantinople, none of these places
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riots!! But this Popish enemy to our institutions may say, it is not
the
, that tells against the government. Indeed, and who wrote the letters?
Is it quite certain that they were not the production of some Jesuit to fan
an excitement which was so likely to be turned to the advantage of his
schemes? Threatening letters are much in use in a certain Catholic
country called Ireland, under a monarchical system of government. But
suppose these letters were not written by Jesuits, but were the
production of some wicked, or thoughtless person, what then? Is our
form of government the cause of the writing of anonymous threatening
letters? Would any other form of government prevent this evil of so
alarming magnitude in the eyes of the Catholic Telegraph? Can it be
prevented in England, or in any other form of government in the world?
Yes, there is one government which could probably prevent it. It is one
in which the Inquisition is established, and by means of which, aided by
the confessional, all that is considered necessary for the good of the
church, could be brought to light, or rather to the ears of those most
interested in knowing all secrets that bear upon their own power. riot
but the threatening letters sent to the prosecuting attorney to intimidate
him in his duty
How soon we shall be prepared for such a change of government

to suit the designs of these busy, foreign emissaries, depends on
the continuance of the character for sagacity, intelligence, and
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Whatever doubts some may have hitherto had in regard to the
existence of a foreign conspiracy in the country, I think the case is
now become too plain to need further proof. Indeed so bold are
these foreign emissaries in the utterance of their anti-republican
dogmas, so unblushing in their attacks upon our institutions, that
we are often led to exclaim what does this mean? Are these men
fools, or madmen? or are they so strong in their support from
abroad, that they feel secure in bearding American freemen in
their own homes? The latter supposition alone satisfactorily
explains their conduct. Austria is now playing a desperate game
against liberty, for the safety of her own throne, and for that of her
allies. It is the last hazard, and her object is gained if she can
destroy the influence of our prosperity upon the people of Europe,
a prosperity the natural result of our popular free institutions; and
this latter object is effected if by any means, no matter how, riot
and disorder can be produced in this country, to be pointed at as
the effect of republican government. Americans! Friends of liberty;
Friends of order; examine this subject, and decide with your usual
sagacity and discretion. You have a busy, a crafty, a powerful, a
dangerous set of foreign leaders, controlling and commanding a
foreign population, ignorant and infatuated, intermixed with your
own population, and who at a single signal from the Pope or from
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can spread disorder and riot through all your borders.
Shrink not, Americans, from looking at the truth. You may boast of your
peace and prosperity, you hold them both at this moment, at the mercy
of Austria! She has a disciplined band of foreigners in the midst of you,
who in any season of excitement, she can make to fill your streets and
dwellings with fear and confusion. She may not think it prudent or
expedient just now to exercise her power, but she has the power,
through Popish priests, who hold in check, at their pleasure, the
elements of discord, and whose favor you are compelled humbly to
conciliate as the price of your tranquillity. And this power is daily
increasing, not merely by foreign immigration, and foreign money, but,
with the deepest shame be it spoken, by the assistance, direct and
indirect, of Protestant Republican Americans, who, with a facility most
marvellous, fall into every snare and pleasant baited trap that Popery
spreads for them.
*** As the last sheet was printing, an article of intelligence was

received, bearing importantly on the subject of this volume.
Bishop England, the busy Jesuit, whom I have had occasion
before to notice, has just put forth an address to his Diocese, at
Charleston, on his return from Europe, from which we make the
following extracts
"During my absence I have not been negligent of the concerns of

this Diocese. I have endeavored to interest in its behalf several

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eminent and dignified personages whom 1 had the good fortune
to meet; and have continued to impress with a conviction of the
propriety of continuing their generous aid, the administration of
those societies from which it has previously received valuable
succor. In Paris and at Lyons I have conversed with those
excellent men who manage the affairs of the Association for
propagating the Faith. This year their grant to this Diocese has
been larger than usual. I have also had opportunities of
communication with some of the Council which administers the
Austrian Association; they continue to feel an interest in our
concerns. The Propaganda in Rome, though greatly embarrassed,
owing to the former plunder of its funds by rapacious infidels, has
this year contributed to our extraordinary expenditure; as has the
holy father himself, in the kindest manner, from the scanty stock
which constitutes his private allowance; but which he economizes
to the utmost for the purpose of being able to devote the savings
to works of piety, of charity, and of literature."
"The prelates of the Church of Ireland, are ready, as far as our

hierarchy shall require their co-operation, to give to them their
best exertions in selecting and forwarding from amongst the
numerous aspirants to the sacred ministry that are found in the
island of saints, (Ireland,) a sufficient number of those properly
qualified to supply our deficiencies. I have had very many

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applications, and accepted a few, who, I trust, have been
judiciously selected."
We have here additional confirmation, if any were wanted, that in

countries where Church and State are closely united, and where
consequently every religious association, (totally unlike our religious
associations, which have no connection with the government,) is
directly connected with political objects, there is a great and special
effort making to effect certain objects in the United States. We have no
less than three great societies, all formed to operate on this country.
THEY say religiously, but let Americans, who know that Austria makes
no movement which is not intended for political effect, judge whether
religious benevolence towards this benighted land, or a deeper and
more earthly feeling of political self-preservation prompts her
"continued feeling of interest in our concerns."
The Most Powerful Man In The World THE SUPERIOR GENERAL

(THE BLACK POPE) - Peter Hans Kolvenbach
Notes on the Advancement by 2007
HISTORIC WARNINGS TO AMERICANS CONCERNING

ROMAN CATHOLICISM
Until 1870, the Popes ruled their states like any other monarch.
The Bible teaches (in Revelation 17) that they will certainly regain
this temporal power. They have regained much of it already.

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Therefore, the warnings below should be heeded. They are not
grounds for childish cruelty or hatred of the Catholic people. They
are warnings against a wicked SYSTEM of religion and politics.
The Christian reader will ignore these warnings to his or her own
peril, in this life, and at the Judgment Seat of Christ.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON: "...they may as well establish Popery in

New York and the other colonies as they did in Canada. They had
no right to do it there than here. Your lives, your property, your
religion, are all at stake." ("Full Vindication of the Measures of
Congress")
Catholicism was seen to be incompatible with Republican

government. In 1787, Alexander Hamilton urged the New York
State assembly to allow Catholics full voting rights based on the
fact that they had little power remaining in Europe. Yet, as can be
seen by the quotes below, "toleration" for Catholics in voting rights
never meant to these founding fathers that U.S. citizens should
cease, or had to cease, from warning against the system.
JOHN ADAMS (1735-1826): John Adams was the 2nd President,

the 1st Vice President, and a signer of the Declaration of
Independence. He writes:
"I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits....Shall we not have

regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king

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of the Gypsies can assume, dressed as printers, publishers,
writers and schoolmasters? If ever there was a body of men who
merited damnation on earth and in Hell, it is this society of
Loyola's. Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of
religious toleration to offer them an asylum." (Letter to Thomas
Jefferson, May 5, 1816)
"Do you think a Protestant Popedom is annihilated in America? Do

you recollect, or have you ever attended to the ecclesiastical
Strifes in Maryland Pennsylvania, New York, and every part of
New England?
What a mercy it is that these People cannot whip and crop, and
pillory and roast, AS YET in the U.S.! If they could they would."
(Letter to Thomas Jefferson, 18 May 1817)
"Do you know that The General of the Jesuits and consequently
all his Hosts have their Eyes on this Country?" (Letter to Thomas
Jefferson, 18 May 1817)
"Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic

religion?" (Letter to Thomas Jefferson, May 19, 1821)
SAMUEL F. B. MORSE: I do not have the space or time in this

issue to present a case for Lincoln against Catholicism and the
Jesuits. Therefore, I will simply mention Lincoln's friend, S. F. B.

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Morse. Morse was a premillennialist. He was the inventor of the
telegraph and the Morse Code. His book "Foreign Conspiracy
against the Liberties of the United States" (1835) follows the logic
of Frederick Schlegel of Austria who declared that monarchy and
Catholicism are inseparable.
His book states:
"The author undertakes to show - that a conspiracy against the liberties

of this Republic is now in full action, under the direction of the wily
Prince Metternich of Austria, who knowing the impossibility of
obliterating this troublesome example of a great and free nation by
force of arms, is attempting to accomplish his object through the
agency of an army of Jesuits.
This array of facts and arguments going to prove the existence of

such a conspiracy, will astonish any man who opens book with the
same incredulity as we did."
JOSEPH S. VAN DYKE ("Popery: The Foe of the Church and of

the Republic," Peoples Publishing, 1871): Although we could code
from scores of late 19th century works that issue warnings to
Americans against Catholicism, I will close this section with some
quotes from Joseph S. Van Dyke:
"The deep interest awakened in the hearts of many by the present

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condition and reawakened energies of the Papal Church, is our
apology for presuming to call the attention of the public to
Popery's inveterate hostility to civil and religious liberty...
Rome has never yielded her right to temporal rule.
The unparalleled efforts now made to extend her influence are

instigated by the hope of securing control in the political world. We
need, therefore, a reaffirmation of the lesson written in the
struggles of thirteen centuries, that Romanism is the ally of
despotism...."
"...Romanists are aiming at power in this country... The aspirations

of the Papacy in all countries during its entire history of thirteen
centuries have been to become dominant in the state. And we can
scarcely hope that an infallible Church will change its character at
this late day.
If the power for which they toil so arduously is acquired, there can
be no doubt the results...our free Bible, free schools, and free
press will be things of the past.
Possibly some Protestants with a smile of contempt may affirm,

'Romanism, at least in this country, is a friend of liberty.' Let them
point, however, to the country or the time in which Popery has not
opposed a will of iron to all free institutions. A Catholic paper in St.

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Louis said, not many years since: 'We are not advocates of
religious toleration except in cases of necessity.'"
"Facts like these, and numerous others which might be adduced,

make it but too painfully evident that there is more than an idle
boast in the assertion of the 'Catholic World,' that 'The question
put to us a few years since with a smile of incredulity and pity, 'Do
you believe that this country will ever become Catholic?' is
changed into the question, 'How soon do you think it will come to
pass?'
Soon, very soon, we reply, if statistics be true...The Bishop of

Cincinnati said, in 1866: 'Effectual plans are in operation to give
us the complete victory over Protestantism.'
Another bishop affirms: 'Notwithstanding the Government of the

United States has thought fit to adopt a complete indifference
towards all religions, yet, the time is coming when the Catholics
will have the ascendancy.'"
"If Papists conquered Rome, why may they not conquer America?
Is it so utterly impossible that the next generation should witness
the supremacy of Romanism that we can afford to fold our arms in
ease? Possessing the balance of power between the two political
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the condition of support, and wielding political power in some of our
largest cities, Popery is a foe whose giant strength it is folly to
underestimate...Under the banner of civil liberty Rome may possibly
bind upon us the fetters of spiritual despotism."
"Tyrants, the more effectually to secure power, have ever

professed supreme regard for man's highest interests."
"That the Roman Church is nothing less than a conspiracy against

liberty, personal and national, civil and religious, we firmly believe.
Being the twin sister to despotism, she ever has been, and is now,
most bitterly hostile to freedom of conscience, freedom of press..."
"[Jesuits] pretend to love our from of government, to laud our

liberty, and to wish for us a future of success....at this very time,
Father Hecker dares to stand before an audience of American
freemen, and affirm, 'We Catholics are the truest, the best, the
only firm friends of civil liberty, which is the gift of our Church to
the world."
"The 'Catholic World' (endorsed by the highest dignitaries of

Rome, including the Pope himself), in the leading article of July,
1870, entitled 'The Catholic of the Nineteenth Century,' asserts in
unmistakable language the supreme duty of the Papists to obey
the commands of the Pope, and seek, in every way, and
especially by means of the ballot, to render the Papal policy

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effective in this country."
"Nor has Romanism shown less hostility to another principle of our

national life, the separation of Church and State...Almost every
Pope for the last thousand years has pronounced it a 'damnable
heresy.' Schleigel, a member of the Leopold Foundation, in
lecturing to the crowned heads of Europe with the design of
showing the mutual supports which Popery and monarchy lend to
and receive from each other, said: - 'Church and State must
always be united, and it is essential to the existence of each that a
Pope be at the head of the one, and an Emperor at the head of
the other...Protestantism and Republicanism is the cause and
source of all the discords, and disorders and wars of Europe.'
(Vol.iii. Lect. 17, p. 286.)...It must certainly be evident to every one
of our fellow-citizens that where the principles and spirit of Popery
attain full power, Republicanism must soon perish..."
"The 'Catholic World,' a monthly magazine published in New York,

actually has the hardihood to affirm (June, 1870) that Catholicism
ha sever shown itself the guardian of civilization, the friend of
liberty, the advocate of Republican forms of government....And the
same periodical denounces, in unmeasured terms, the civilization
of the present day, defends the Crusades, advocates the dogma
of Infallibility....Does warmth of devotion to the cause of

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Republicanism such as this enkindle a flame on liberty's altar? Do
we broil our beefsteak by the glowing fires of an artic iceberg?
Shall we entrust the cause we love to the hands of its enemies?"
"The Jesuit order, which has been revived and inspired with new
energy, is straining every nerve to enlarge its numbers and secure
a controlling influence in legislation, especially in these United
States, with the hope of ultimately bringing them under Papal
domination. True to their principles - deceitful always - they laud
the liberty of our country while forging the weapons for its
destruction."
"'The Shepherd of the Valley,' a Catholic paper published in St.

Louis, with the approbation of the archbishop, says: 'We say that
the temporal punishment of heresy is a mere question of
expediency. Where we abstain from persecuting them, they are
well aware that it is merely because we cannot do so; or think that
by doing so we should injure the cause that we wish to serve....If
the Catholics ever gain - which they surely will do - an immense
numerical majority, religious freedom in this country is at an end.
So say our enemies, so we believe.'"
TODAY: CATHOLICISM IN MODERN, AMERICAN POLITICS
As we pray and strive to save unborn babies, we must not

foolishly endanger the lives of the children out of the womb by

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empowering Rome in this nation. It should be obvious to everyone
today (regardless of campaign platforms and promises) that both
the Democratic and Republican parties are friends of mammoth
government, homosexuality, and abortion. They are also in bed
with Roman Catholicism, which is no friend to true religious or civil
liberties. In fact, as we shall see, Catholicism is so seductively
entrenched in American politics that even the so-called "far right"
and third party platforms are often infested with loyal papists.
Thus, with subtle, Jesuit maneuvering, regardless of who is
elected, Rome ultimately wins the power to continue her assault
on liberty.
The reason for this state of affairs is largely due to the now
common belief that "tolerance" means that people are no longer
allowed to have any degree of DISTRUST based on a person's
associations or religious beliefs. People ARE encouraged to
stereotype Christian fundamentalists and paint them as Nazis, etc.
Yet, it is considered a "hate crime" to be suspicious of people who
are loyal papists (or Muslims), and call attention to the fact that the
Roman Catholic Church has never given up its claim that it has
the right to rule the earth spiritually, politically and temporally. But
the stage must be set for Revelation 17. And unless God allows
us a temporary revival in this country (a fundamental awakening
of common sense and love for Bible truth), the country is destined

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for a Roman Catholic controlled despotism.
Let us now notice the degree of Roman Catholic saturation in

modern politics. To fully understand this list, please slowly read
the historic warnings in the first part of this newsletter.
TOM RIDGE: The most recent star to shine for the papal throne is
Tom Ridge, a Roman Catholic from Pennsylvania: "He attended
local Catholic schools before winning a scholarship to Harvard
University from where he graduated with a degree in Government
Studies in 1967....he refused to follow the Roman Catholic
Church's doctrine on abortion, supporting a limited form of
abortion rights...." (BBC News, Nov. 25, 2002)
Some lay Catholics wanted Ridge excommunicated for breaking

his promises concerning abortion when he was elected governor.
However, the Catholic CLERGY opposed the movement.
President Bush has appointed Ridge to be the new "homeland
security chief" to save the nation from "terrorism":
"Head of Homeland Security - First Day as New Anti-Terror

Chief....Ridge's office will be steps away from President Bush's.
He will be one of the select few officials participating in top-level
war council meetings every day as he oversees domestic efforts
to prevent terrorist actions. Bush and his new homeland security
chief have been political and personal friends for more than 20

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years..."(ABCNews, Oct. 8, 2002)
The power newly placed in the hands of Ridge to trample over the
Constitution in the name of security is baffling to the mind. Is it
really possible, after the bloody history of the Roman
INQUISITION, that such power could be given to a Roman
Catholic without a national outcry? Let us pray the Lord will
convert him to liberty preserving Christianity (1 Timothy 2:1-2).
PAT BUCHANAN: Pat Buchanan (b. 1938) is a devout Roman

Catholic. He was a Reform Party presidential candidate in 2000.
The US Taxpayers Party (now Constitution Party) intended him to
run as their 1996 nominee, but Buchanan stayed with the GOP.
He has been associated with the Catholic Campaign for America
organization. His loyalty to Rome may be seen in the following
interview:
"What kind of Catholic are you?' [Buchanan:] 'A believing Catholic, a

practicing Catholic and a PAPIST. I think John Paul II is a singular
leader of our time. He's immensely attractive and charismatic, but more
than that, he speaks out with a sense of authority and moral courage. I
think he's a genuinely great man, really a gift of God to the Church."
("Our Sunday Visitor," August 28, 1988)
In 1996, "Catholic Family News" wrote:

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"As a faithful son of Holy Mother Church, Pat Buchanan has
drawn extensively from these immortal papal encyclicals. They
form the very bedrock for his political agenda." (May, 1996)
ALAN KEYES: In 1995, Keyes became the first black Republican

presidential candidate. He is a devout Roman Catholic. He calls
the separation of church and state a "misinterpretation of the
Constitution." But what does Keyes mean by "church"? Catholics
have never believed in the separation of church and state! Our
Constitution was written to hinder their efforts at producing a
Roman Catholic "state church" in America. We do not side with
atheists. The Constitution was not intended to prohibit the public
exercise and expression of Christianity. However, we are not so
gullible as to join hands with Roman Catholics in setting the stage
for Revelation 17. In 2000, the Constitution Party invited Keyes to
join their efforts: "We warmly invite Ambassador Keyes, and all
those who love liberty and justice, to join with us in building a
party that will unreservedly work towards the restoration of our
beloved republic." Notice the following news report:
"As former US Ambassador Alan Keyes continues his campaign

for the Republican presidential nomination, there are overtures
from the Constitution Party beckoning the former ambassador to
break with the GOP. 'USA Today' reported Monday that Keyes 'is

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ready to join the Constitution Party' if Republican Party
presumptive presidential nominee George W. Bush 'chooses a
running mate who does not oppose abortion.' Constitution Party
candidate Howard Phillips reportedly 'is ready to step aside' if
Keyes decides to run on his party's platform. Phillips, who
describes himself as a 'close' friend of Keyes, says, 'I'm open to
discussing anything he (Keyes) would want to do..."
(CNSNews.com, May 23, 2000)
Call me a literalist, but I take people according to their profession.

What do DEVOUT Catholics have in common with our
Constitution? If they publicly state that they disagree with Rome,
and repudiate their doctrines in the area of civil and religious
liberty, then that is one thing. But to just pretend that there is no
contradiction between Rome and the Constitution is insanity.
Madness is often fashionable. I do not believe that Catholics
should be persecuted. Yet, this does not mean that I must agree
with them. It also doesn't mean that I must ignore that they are a
political entity headquartered in Rome with a desire to regain lost
power in spiritual and civil affairs. To ignore common sense and
the Bible (Revelation 17) to appear "tolerant" is foolish and
irresponsible.
JOSEPH SOBRAN: Joseph Sobran was born in Michigan in 1946.

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He is a devout Catholic. He was invited to join the staff of
Buckley's National Review. He was nominated unanimously to be
the Constitution Party's Vice Presidential candidate (he later
resigned). Although conservative, he is no friend to truth if it
happens to be negative against the popes. He writes:
"The scandal of pedophile priests and systematic coverup by

bishops threatens to be the worst scandal the Church has faced in
centuries, maybe the worst since the Reformation. It's far worse
than some of the old malicious lies of scurrilous anti-Catholic
literature." (thewandererpress.com, 3-28-02) On another
occasion, Sorban observed:
"What is startling is the perpetual passion of anti-Catholicism.

You'd think that by now people who reject Catholicism would
calmly ignore its teachings as old and irrelevant superstitions.
After all, the Church has none of her old political power,
adherence is now totally voluntary, and she has enough trouble
getting her own children to listen to her."(CatholicInsight.com)
Catholic writer Malachi Martin would have disagreed (see "The Keys of
This Blood"). Before his death, Martin was working on what he said
would be his most important book. It was entitled "Primacy: How the
Institutional Roman Catholic Church became a Creature of the New
World Order." The Vatican takes an aggressive stance at the United

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Nations in debates and international conferences:
"[Bush stated] 'The position of my administration will be very clear

and firm: America supports permanent observer status for the
Holy See.'...The Vatican, classified as a nonmember state with
permanent observer status, has many of the same rights and
privileges as the 188 countries that are full U.N.
members."("USAToday," May 26, 2000)
The Vatican is the only religious group provided this special

standing. Other denominational groups are treated as NGOs.
KEITH FOURNIER Keith Fournier is a Roman Catholic deacon

and lawyer. He is the author of "A House United: Evangelicals and
Catholics Together." He writes:
"Some Christians question his [the current Pope's] position as

successor to Saint Peter - I do not. Others question his theology -
I do not. But no one can question his love for Jesus Christ and
deep commitment to proclaiming the gospel. I believe he is the
leading evangelical Christian in the world."("Evangelical
Catholics")
He was the executive director of the American Center for Law and
Justice. The ACLJ has been the "religious liberty" arm of the
Christian Coalition. Like Keyes, Fournier, as a devout Catholic,

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maintains:
"The wall of separation between church and state that was

erected by secular humanists and other enemies of religious
freedom has to come down." ("Law and Justice")
I continue to remind the reader that what Rome means by

"religious liberty" is not the same as what early Baptists believed
when they labored for the first amendment.
The Christian Coalition established the Catholic Alliance in 1995.

In 1996, Fournier became the first president. He is also president
of Liberty, Life and Family Institute.
PAUL WEYRICH: In 1977, Weyrich (a Catholic deacon) became

the president of the Free Congress Research and Education
Foundation. He is the founding president of the Heritage
Foundation. He was presented the 1998 American Patriot Award
from Concerned Women for America, September 1998. Named by
Regardie's Magazine as "One of the 100 most powerful
Washingtonians," in January 1990.
OTHERS: The traditional, Christian, conservative view of the

Roman Catholic Church has always been that until it publicly
changes its doctrines and brings forth fruits meet for repentance
(it will not SINCERELY do so according to Revelation 17) it is a

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great threat to religious and civil liberties.
Phyllis Schlafly (of Eagle Forum), Catholic activist William

Bennett, William F. Buckley (editor of "National Review"), and
many other Roman Catholics are working hard to reshape this
traditional viewpoint. They have largely succeeded.
Let us sound the alarm.
Source: http://www.historicist.com/articles2/historicwarnings.htm
THE
SECRET
TERRORISTS
The United States is in more danger today than she has ever
been. A secret terrorist organization has been working within to
destroy America, its Constitution, and everything for which she
stands. This book gives all the details, and shows how far this
terrorist organization has been able to progress in the destruction
of America.
CHAPTER 1 - TARGET: AMERICA
The United States must soon face the most deadly enemy it will
ever have to face. This enemy is not only the usual military

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enemy, but it has the organization and the capability for massive
espionage and clandestine operations within the United States. It
uses a facade that is virtually perfect to hide its operations. In fact,
right now, this enemy is working secretly to undermine the
principles that made this country the greatest nation in the world.
This enemy has infiltrated the highest levels and departments of
the U. S. government, and poses an extreme danger to America.
Let us look at a little history and understand the methods this
enemy has used in the past and how it is secretly working today.
Europe was finally at rest. The Napoleonic Wars were now over,
having lasted nearly 20 years. The brilliant and crafty Napoleon
had spread Europe with the blood of her noblest sons. At long
last, there was peace. In the aftermath, European sovereigns
convened a general council in Vienna, Austria in 1814. This
council has come to be known as the Congress of Vienna. The
Congress continued its proceedings for one year, ending in 1815.
The Congress of Vienna was a black conspiracy against Popular

Governments at which the high contracting parties announced at
its close that they had formed a holy alliance. This was a cloak
under which they masked to deceive the people. The particular
business of the Congress of Verona, it developed, was the
RATIFICATION of Article Six of the Congress of Vienna, which

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was in short, a promise to prevent or destroy Popular
Governments wherever found, and to reestablish monarchy where
it had been set aside.
The high contracting parties of this compact, which were Russia,

Prussia, [Germany], Austria, and Pope Pius VII, king of the Papal
States, entered into a secret treaty to do so. Burke McCarty, The
Suppressed Truth About the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln,
Arya Varta Publishing, 1924, p. 7.
According to McCarty, the Congress of Vienna formed the Holy

Alliance, whose primary goal was the destruction of all popular
governments. Popular governments are those where the
government allows its
subjects to enjoy certain inalienable rights. Can you think of any

popular governments that were establishing themselves in the world
and granting their citizens certain inalienable rights around the year
1815?
Senator Robert L. Owen placed in the Congressional Record of

April 25, 1916 the following statement, which shows clearly he
thought the primary target of the Holy Alliance was the United
States.
The Holy Alliance having destroyed popular government in Spain,

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and in Italy, had well-laid plans also to destroy popular
government in the American Colonies which had revolted from
Spain and Portugal in Central and South America under the
influence of the successful example of the United States.
It was because of this conspiracy against the American Republics

by the European monarchies that the great English statesman,
Canning, called the attention of our government to it. Ibid. pp. 9,
10. (emphasis added).
Senator Owen understood from the Congress of Vienna that the

united monarchies of Europe would seek to destroy the great
American republic and its blood-bought freedoms.
Senator Owen was not the only one who knew about this
conspiracy against American freedom and the constitution. In
1894, R.W. Thompson, American Secretary of the Navy, wrote,
The sovereigns of the Holy Alliance had massed large armies,

and soon entered into a pledge to devote them to the suppression
of all uprisings of the people in favor of free government; and he
[Pope Pius VII] desired to devote the Jesuits, supported by his
pontifical power, to the accomplishment of that end. He knew how
faithfully they would apply themselves to that work, and hence he
counseled them, in his decree of restoration, to strictly observe
the useful advices and salutary counsels whereby Loyola had

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made absolution the cornerstone of the society. R.W.
Thompson, The Footprints of the Jesuits, Hunt and Eaton, 1894,
p. 251.
Thompson pinpointed exactly who would be the agents used by

the monarchs of Europe to destroy the republic of America,
namely, the Jesuits of Rome! Since 1815 there has been a
continual assault on America by the Jesuits to try to destroy the
constitutional rights of this great nation.
The famous inventor of the Morse Code, Samuel B. Morse, also

wrote of this sinister plot against the United States.
The author undertakes to show that a conspiracy against the

liberties of this Republic is now in full action, under the direction of
the wily Prince Metternich of Austria, who knowing the
impossibility of obliterating this troublesome example of a great
and free nation by force of arms, is attempting to accomplish his
object through the agency of an army of Jesuits. The array of facts
and arguments going to prove the existence of such a conspiracy,
will astonish any man who opens the book with the same
incredulity as we did. Samuel B. Morse, Foreign Conspiracy
Against the Liberties of the United States, Crocker and Brewster,
1835, Preface.
The array of books written that detail the sinister plots of the

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Congress of Vienna and the Jesuits against the American
Republic are numerous. That this conspiracy has raged since
1815 is a fact of history. We will show that this conspiracy is in full
force today and that it is the reason America is having so many
problems at the present time and is so close to losing her
freedoms.
Most people know very little about the Popes Jesuits. The reason for
this is that they are a very secretive society. In order to understand
what the Order of the Jesuits is, please consider the following
quotation.
Throughout Christendom, Protestantism was menaced by

formidable foes. The first triumphs of the Reformation past, Rome
summoned new forces, hoping to accomplish its destruction. At
this time the order of the Jesuits was created, the most cruel,
unscrupulous, and powerful of all the champions of popery. Cut off
from earthly ties and human interests, dead to the claims of
natural affection, reason and conscience wholly silenced, they
knew no rule, no tie, but that of their order, and no duty but to
extend its power. The gospel of Christ had enabled its adherents
to meet danger and endure suffering, undismayed by cold,
hunger, toil, and poverty, to uphold the banner of truth in face of
the rack, the dungeon, and the stake. To combat these forces,
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them to endure like dangers, and to oppose to the power of truth
all the weapons of deception. There was no crime too great for
them to commit, no deception too base for them to practice, no
disguise too difficult for them to assume. Vowed to perpetual
poverty and humility, it was their studied aim to secure wealth and
power, to be devoted to the overthrow of Protestantism, and the
re-establishment of the papal supremacy.
When appearing as members of their order, they wore a garb of

sanctity, visiting prisons and hospitals, ministering to the sick and
the poor, professing to have renounced the world, and bearing the
sacred name of Jesus, who went about doing good. But under this
blameless exterior the most criminal and deadly purposes were
often concealed. It was a fundamental principle of the order that
the end justifies the means. By this code, lying, theft, perjury,
assassination, were not only pardonable but commendable, when
they served the interests of the church. Under various disguises
the Jesuits worked their way into offices of state, climbing up to be
the counselors of kings, and shaping the policy of nations. They
became servants to act as spies upon their masters. They
established colleges for the sons of princes and nobles, and
schools for the common people; and the children of Protestant
parents were drawn into an observance of popish rites. All the
outward pomp and display of the Romish worship was brought to

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bear to confuse the mind and dazzle and captivate the
imagination, and thus the liberty for which the fathers had toiled
and bled was betrayed by the sons. The Jesuits rapidly spread
themselves over Europe, and wherever they went, there followed
a revival of popery. E. G. White, The Great Controversy, pp.
234, 235, Pacific Press Publishing Assn., 1911.
The Jesuits function like the Papacys secret world-wide police.

They are very secretive and go to great lengths to keep their
operations secret. They tell no one that they are Jesuits. To all
outside appearances, they appear as normal people.
One last author will be cited here.
They are Jesuits. This society of men, after exerting their tyranny
for upwards of two hundred years, at length became so formidable
to the world, threatening the entire subversion of all social order,
that even the Pope, whose devoted subjects they are, and must
be, by the vow of their society, was compelled to dissolve them.
[Pope Clement suppressed the Jesuit Order in 1773.]
They had not been suppressed, however, for fifty years, before
the waning influence of Popery and Despotism required their
useful labors, to resist the light of Democratic liberty, and the
Pope [Pius VII] simultaneously with the formation of the Holy
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And do Americans need to be told what Jesuits are? they are a secret
society, a sort of Masonic order, with super added features of revolting
odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous. They are not
merely priests, or of one religious creed; they are merchants, and
lawyers, and editors, and men of any profession, having no outward
badge by which to be recognized; they are about in all your society.
They can assume any character, that of angels of light, or ministers of
darkness, to accomplish their one great end They are all educated
men, prepared and sworn to start at any moment, and in any direction,
and for any service, commanded by the general of their order, bound to
no family, community, or country, by the ordinary ties which bind men;
and sold for life to the cause of the Roman Pontiff. J. Wayne Laurens,
The Crisis in America: or the Enemies of America Unmasked, G. D.
Miller, 1855, pp. 265-267.
Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit Order in the 1540s. Its position
in the Roman Catholic Church was solidified during the Council of
Trent, which ran from 1546 to 1563. The Council of Trent was
convened with one great goal in mind: how to stop the Protestant
Reformation. The Reformation began in 1517 when Martin Luther,
the fearless German friar, nailed 95 theses on the door of the
Wittenburg chapel. These theses challenged, among other things,
the heinous doctrine of indulgences taught by Rome that declared
a man could save himself and loved ones by dropping enough
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Luthers great teachings that the Bible only is the standard for all
doctrine and practice, and that a person is justified before God
through faith in Jesus Christ alone, sent thrills through the hearts
of thousands throughout Europe and shock waves through the
halls of the Vatican.
Thus, the Council of Trent was convened to counter the

Reformation; hence it is known as the Counter Reformation, and
the Jesuits would be the chief tools of Rome to undo and destroy
every trace of Protestantism wherever it was found.
Americas two greatest documents, the Declaration of

Independence and the Constitution, are filled with Protestant
declarations that are absolutely intolerable to the Jesuits of Rome.
Does it surprise you that the Vatican condemns the founding
documents of the United States?
The Vatican condemned the Declaration of Independence as

wickedness and called the Constitution of the United States a
Satanic Document. Avro Manhattan, The Dollar and the Vatican,
Ozark Book Publishers, 1988, p. 26.
Here is part of the Jesuit Oath.
I do further promise and declare, that I will have no opinion or will

of my own, or any mental reservation whatever, even as a corpse

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or cadaver, but will unhesitatingly obey each and every command
that I may receive from my superiors in the Militia of the Pope I
furthermore promise and declare that I will, when opportunity
presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly,
against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to
do, to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole
earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex or condition; and that I
will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these
infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and the wombs of their
women and crush their infants heads against the walls, in order to
annihilate forever their execrable race. That when the same
cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poisoned cup, the
strangulating cord, the steel of the poniard or the leaden bullet,
regardless of the honor, rank, dignity, or authority of the person or
persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or
private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agent of
the Pope or Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Faith, of the
Society of Jesus. Edwin A. Sherman, The Engineer Corps of
Hell; or Romes Sappers and Miners, Private Subscription, 1883,
pp. 118-124.
To think that a person would concur with such an abominable oath

defies reason. One could not even imagine a more despicable oath.
The word heretic in the above quote refers to anyone who disagrees

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with the pope.
In a letter from John Adams to then President Thomas Jefferson

about the Jesuits we read,
Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many

disguises as only a king of the gypsies can assume, dressed as
painters, publishers, writers and schoolmasters? If ever there was
a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth and in hell
it is this Society of Loyolas [the Jesuits]. George Reimer, The
New Jesuits, Little, Brown, and Co., 1971, p. 14.
Napoleon Bonaparte made this statement:
The Jesuits are a military organization, not a religious order. Their

chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a
monastery. And the aim of this organization is: POWER. Power in
its most despotic exercise. Absolute power, universal power,
power to control the world by the volition of a single man.
Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms; and at the same
time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.
The general of the Jesuits insists on being master, sovereign,

over the sovereign. Wherever the Jesuits are admitted they will be
masters, cost what it may. Their society is by nature dictatorial,
and therefore it is the irreconcilable enemy of all constituted

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authority. Every act, every crime, however atrocious, is a
meritorious work, if committed for the interest of the Society of
Jesuits, or by the order of the general. General Montholon,
Memorial of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena, pp. 62, 174.
There was no disguise they could not assume, and therefore,

there was no place into which they could not penetrate. They
could enter unheard the closet of the Monarch, or the Cabinet of
the Statesman. They could sit unseen in convocation or General
Assembly, and mingle unsuspected in the deliberations and
debates.
There was no tongue they could not speak, and no creed they
could not profess, and thus there was no people among whom
they might not sojourn, and no church whose membership they
might not enter and whose functions they might not discharge.
They could execrate the Pope with the Lutheran, and swear the
Solemn League with the Covenantor. J. A. Wylie, The History of
Protestantism, Vol. II, p. 412. (quoted in Sydney Hunter, Is Alberto
for Real?, Chick Publications, page 13.)
In the light of these statements, several questions arise. Since the

Jesuits began a direct assault on America in 1815 and nothing
stands in their way, then are the policies carried out today in
America under the control of this despot of Rome? Have the

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assassinations of certain presidents, like Abraham Lincoln,
William McKinley, James Garfield, and William Henry Harrison,
been Jesuit inspired? Have the atrocities, like Waco, Oklahoma
City, and the destruction of the Twin Towers in New York City
been planned behind the walls of the Vatican? What about our
precious Constitution and the Bill of Rights that have come under
such unrelenting attack in the past few decades? Is this the
ultimate prize of the Jesuits to annihilate our precious freedoms
that were purchased at so great a cost? Following chapters will
analyze some of these very sobering questions.
As if the Congress of Vienna was not clear enough as to the

objectives of the European monarchs and the Jesuit Order, there
were two more Congresses that were convened.
The first of these was held at Verona in 1822. During this Congress, it
was decided that America would be the target of Jesuit emissaries and
that America was to be destroyed at all costs. Every principle of the
Constitution was to be dissolved and new Jesuitical principles were to
be put into place in order to exalt the Papacy to dominion in America.
The other meeting was held in Chieri, Italy in 1825. Here is what
was decided there.
In 1825, some eleven years after the revival of the Jesuit Order, a
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Chieri near Turin, in Northern Italy. At that gathering, plans were
discussed for the advancement of Papal power, world-wide, for
the destabilizing of governments who stood in the way and for the
crushing of all opposition to Jesuit schemes and ambitions
What we aim at, is the Empire of the World
We must give them [the great men of earth] to understand that

the cause of evil, the bad leaven, will remain as long as
Protestantism shall exist, that Protestantism must therefore be
utterly abolished
Heretics are the enemies that we are bound to exterminate
Then the Bible that serpent which with head erect and eyes
flashing threatens us with its venom while it trails along the
ground, shall be changed into a rod as soon as we are able to
seize it. Hector Macpherson, The Jesuits in History, Ozark
Book Publishers, 1997, appendix.
The goal of Chieri is clear; destroy Protestantism at any cost, and

restore the temporal power of the Papacy WORLDWIDE. As we
watch John Paul II traversing the globe and being accepted
worldwide as the man of peace, we can see how well the Jesuit
plan, instituted at Chieri, is working.
These three meetings, at Vienna, Verona, and Chieri, were held

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with as much secrecy as possible. However, one man attended
the first two meetings that would not be silenced. British foreign
minister George Canning contacted the U.S. government to warn
them that the monarchs of Europe were planning to destroy the
free institutions of America.
It was because of this conspiracy against the American Republics

by the European monarchies that the great English statesman
Canning, called the attention of our government to it, and our
statesmen then, including Thomas Jefferson, who was still living
at that time, took an active part to bring about the declaration by
President Monroe in his next annual message to the Congress of
the United States that the United States would regard it as an act
of hostility to the government of the United States and an
unfriendly act, if this coalition, or if any power of Europe ever
undertook to establish upon the American continent any control of
any American republic, or to acquire any territorial rights.
This is the so-called Monroe Doctrine. The threat under the secret
treaty of Verona to suppress popular government in the American
republics is the basis of the Monroe Doctrine. This secret treaty
sets forth clearly the conflict between monarchial government and
popular government, and the government of the few as against
the government of the many. Burke McCarty, The Suppressed

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Truth About the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, page 10.
The Monroe Doctrine was Americas response to the Jesuits

Congress of Vienna and Verona. America would consider it an act
of war if any European nation sought colonial expansion in the
western hemisphere.
The Jesuits have been able secretly to attack and infiltrate America to
accomplish exactly what the Monroe Doctrine was stated to protect
against.
They have been able to get away with it because it was done with
the utmost secrecy and under the facade of being a church.
In a letter to President Monroe, Thomas Jefferson made the

following observations:
The question presented by the letters you have sent to me, is the
most momentous which has ever been offered to my
contemplation since that of Independence. That made us a nation,
this sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer
through the ocean of time opening on us. And never could we
embark on it under circumstances more auspicious. Our first and
fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the
broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to
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has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly
her own. She should therefore have a system of her own,
separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring
to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely
be, to make our hemisphere that of freedom [We must be]
declaring our protest against the atrocious violations of the rights
of nations, by the interference of any one in the internal affairs of
another, so flagitiously begun by Bonaparte, and now continued
by the equally lawless Alliance, calling itself Holy
We will oppose, with all of our means, the forcible interposition of

any other power The question now proposed involves
consequences so lasting, and effects so decisive of our future
destinies, as to rekindle all the interest I have heretofore felt on
such occasions, and to induce me to the hazard of opinions, which
will prove only my wish to contribute still my mite towards anything
which may be useful to our country. Archives, Mount Holyoke
College.
Jefferson saw this as a great crisis in Americas young history

because the wily and sinister Jesuits had been ordered to target
Americas destruction.
The Monroe Doctrine challenged any advance on America by

Europe. However, Monroe did not really understand that the crafty

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Jesuits would not initially use the force of arms to gain their
objectives. They would use cunning, craftiness, and utmost
secrecy. They would appeal to mens basest points. They would
plant their agents in positions of wealth and power and then use
their influence to gain their great prize the subversion and
destruction of every Protestant principle as outlined in the
Constitution of the United States.
The Vatican
Jesuit Global
Conspiracy
by Dr. Ronald Cooke
PREFACE
This is the fourth in a series of booklets on the Vatican in the
Western world today. In this booklet we try to sketch the role that
the Vatican plays in world politics today and the goal and plan it
has for the world. We also look at the enormous financial

resources

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that the Vatican possesses and the billions more which are at its
disposal.
We also look at the part that the Jesuits play in helping to

implement
the goal of the Vatican. In our travels and teaching we find
that there is almost a total blackout concerning the sinster

aspirations
of the Vatican and the Jesuits. Men who purport to write on
the great conspiracy that is out to control the world not only never
mention the Vatican, but if they do, they make the Vatican out to
be
the target of the conspiracy rather than the originator of the
conspiracy.
It is obvious to anyone who is even remotely interested in the
Vatican conspiracy that times have certainly changed the attitudes
of Protestant Christians toward the Jesuits. The word "Jesuit"

used

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to conjure up in the minds of those who heard it a malevolent and
satanic rictus. But times have changed. Today Jesuits are
accorded reverence and respect in all segments of western
society, and yes, even allowed back into Eastern society after
being banned from countries like China for almost thirty years.
Former President Nixon used a Jesuit to write his speeches.
Jesuits are leading lights in the modern irenic dialogue of the
ecumenical movement so that at least in the United States an

aura
of respectability now surrounds the workings of the Jesuits. Not all
Americans or even all American Roman Catholics are impressed
with the Jesuits, but the plans of the Vatican Hierarchy are
proceeding along clearly defined lines no matter whether some
Roman Catholics may approve or not. The Vatican and the Jesuits
have the same goal in mind. They are both working to bring the
world to the feet of the Roman Pontiff. The Jesuits have been

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backing the Marxists in some trouble spots of the world, especially
in Latin America. The Pope wants to retain the close
backing he enjoys from men like Ronald Reagan; therefore, he
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pretended to reprimand the Jesuits for working with the Marxists

in
Central America. As we will see later, the Marxists in Central
America, as in Northern Ireland, all have good Roman Catholic
credentials.
What most people do not realize is that the Jesuits are the C.I.A.
of the Vatican. That is, just as Washington often seems to conflict
with, and disavow some of the covert activities of the C.I.A
especially when they are going to prove embarrassing, so the
Vatican from time to time will appear to disavow the activities of

the
Jesuits. In actuality just as Washington many times secretly hopes
for the success of some clandestine operation of the C.I.A.

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although publicly disavowing any knowledge of it, so the Vatican
hopes for the success of the Jesuits while publicly reprimanding
them to appease those who are disturbed by their intrigue.
So although there may appear to be friction between the Jesuits
and the Vatican, the friction has nothing whatsoever to do with
Marxism per se as the American news media constantly affirms, it
has to do with the possible break of some of the Marxists with the
Vatican power structure, which might occur in countries like
Nicaragua. The Vatican lost Cuba because it misjudged Fidel
Castro, who at one time was a faithful son of the Church. It does
not want to make the same mistake again with Ernesto Cardenal
and his Roman Catholic henchmen in Nicaragua. So the
preemptive moves of the Pope in Central America today are
primarily self-serving. The Pope realizes that much governmental
control will be lost in Central America if the "church" does not go
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leaders. On the other hand if the Pope appears to support the
Marxist liberation movements openly, he will lose the support of
the United States in Latin America. So the present Pope gives the
impression that he is against Marxism by calling upon the Jesuits
to get out of politics in Latin America and by summoning the
Brazilian liberation theologian Leonardo Boff to Rome for an
investigation.
These moves and others, which the present Pope is making, get
mixed reviews in the U. S. press, but as Yallup points out in his
recent book, IN GOD'S NAME, this Pope came to the Vatican with
the attitude "business as usual," meaning that all the corruption
which the former Pope, who was murdered, wanted
cleaned up, would continue.
The present Pope is a master politician, so he has spoken out
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Poland. It is plainly a part of his overall strategy, a strategy which
has always played both ends against the middle. The Pope backs
the Marxist-oriented liberation movements of Latin America to the
hilt as long as they remain subservient to the overall goals of the
Vatican. It was to reinforce this subservience that he met with the
Jesuits.
The Vatican realizes that it has lost out completely in most of
Latin America if it does not back the Marxist revolutionaries, 99%
of whom are Roman Catholics. So when the Pope visited the

area,
he alluded to the struggles for justice and human rights, which
were going on in that part of the world. However, since the United
States looks with concern on the Marxist revolutionaries, the Pope
has since shifted course again and pretended to reprimand the
clergy, who were, and are, involved in this region.
The C.I.A. of the papacy are without a doubt the Jesuits. They

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are working night and day to further the global aspirations of the
Vatican. Their zeal and persistence are as great as they ever were
even though they enjoy much more respectability than they once
did. We try to show with documented evidence that the Vatican-
Jesuit intrigue, far from being a "Protestant myth," is a

contemporary
phenomenon, which is still functioning in the latter half
of the twentieth-century.
Ronald Cooke
Manahath School of Theology
Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania
1985
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CONTENTS
The Jesuits in History.....................................................................9
The Jesuits Today........................................................................17

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A Financial Empire Second to None............................................27
The Conspiracy of Misdirection....................................................33
Concluding Remarks....................................................................45
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THE JESUITS IN HISTORY
The true church of the Lord Jesus Christ has suffered reproach
and endured persecution in almost every age since Stephen was
martyred. In the early years of the church to confess Christ invited
persecution and martyrdom. As the years rolled by and the church
gained more power, it was not long until the church was doing the
persecuting instead of being persecuted.
Augustine was one of the first, but certainly not the last, to
advocate
the necessity of force to extirpate error. As Farrar points
out: "His writings became the Bible of the inquisition."1 So from
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intrigues although stridently denied by some contemporary
writers.
Martin Luther was used of God to set forth the liberating doctrine
of justification by faith in the finished work of Christ and so dealt a
death blow to Roman Catholicism. For this great Biblical doctrine
destroys completely the whole-sacramentarian-good-works-

priestly
enterprise known as Roman Catholicism. Since the time of Luther
the Roman institution has been working day and night to

overthrow
Bible Protestantism and return the "separated brethren" to the one
true foldthe Vatican. No greater effort has been made than that
made by the Jesuits. The Society of Jesus, founded by Loyola,

has
been at the origin of many conspiracies directed against
Protestantism. They are documented conspiracies, not figments of
an over active imagination. So it is nothing short of amazing when

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Gary Allen, who claims to be an authority in the field of
conspiracy,
calls in Pedro Arrupe to substantiate his thesis that a conspiracy
exists. At the time that Allen wrote ten years ago, Pedro Arrupe
was the head of the Jesuits.
The Jesuits are famous in history for their conspiracies, intrigues,
assassinations, and their undying hatred of the Protestant
Reformation. Pedro Arrupe was the head of an organization which
every well informed Protestant knows was the main force behind
the Counter Reformation. The Counter-Reformation sought by
every means, fair or foul, to overthrow and undo the work of the
glorious Protestant Reformation.
If there were no other reason to be against the Jesuits but this,
that they attempted wherever possible to stop or hinder the true
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work of revival and gospel enlightenment in the church, it would

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more than enough. But there are many more reasons than this. So
for anyone claiming to be knowledgeable in the field of conspiracy
to align himself with the head of the Jesuits is a severe blow, to

say
the least, to his credibility. Yet thousands of fundamental and
conservative preachers speak constantly about Allen's "Insider"
conspiracy without once stopping to consider the work of the
Jesuits and their sponsor, the Vatican.
The Jesuits were so evil that they were feared even by Roman
Catholic kings! MacPherson notes:
The (Roman) Catholic king of Portugal says: it cannot be
but that the licentiousness introduced by the Jesuits, of which
the three leading features are falsehood, murder and perjury,
deprive the laws of their power, destroy the submission of
subjects, allow individuals the liberty of killing, calumniating,
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dictate.2
McKinley adds his testimony to that of MacPherson.
This society which has dared to appropriate to itself the
Name, which is above every name, by calling itself, "The
Order of Jesus," deserved rather from the nature of its doctrines
and from the work it has done in the world to be called
the Order of Satan.3
Even the secular historian, W. E. Lunt, whose text was used for
years in American colleges and universities, recognized the
conspiracies of the Jesuits.
In this development the English Catholics had no small
part...They were not a serious political menace until 1580
when two Jesuits came to England and began to plot with the
Spanish ambassador...to place Mary on the throne. From that
time Catholic plots were continually being hatched. Some had
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others sought their object by the simple mode of Elizabeth's
assassination. None of the plots succeeded...
Walsingham...laid bare the plots....and arrested several of
the conspirators.4
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The Jesuits actually became so powerful and overbearing that
they were disbanded by none other than the pope himself. In 1773
Ganganelli, who succeeded Clement XIII, issued a papal bull in
which he declared them suppressed and extinct and their statutes
annulled. They remained suppressed for forty years, but in 1814
Pius VII issued a bull solemnly restablishing the society under the
constitutions of "St. Ignatius."
The fact that the society was held in such disrepute even by its
own institution is certainly not much of a recommendation for its
evil practices. Yet, the man who headed this society when Gary
Allen wrote his book, "NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY," was

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called in by Allen to corroborate the fact that an international
conspiracy
exists. It is obvious that it is very easy to postulate a
Bilderberger, Insider, or Trilateralist type of conspiracy without
generating any animosity among the general public. Everyone and
anyone can identify against a few rich evil men lurking in the
shadows and working to take over the world. But to identify
religious men as conspirators causes millions of people to bridle in
anger and disbelief.
It is obvious that very few people know anything about the
Jesuits today. Let us look at the organization that Ignatius of
Loyola brought into being. There were several steps through

which
every well-trained Jesuit was to pass before he was graduated
from his training.
1. The Spiritual Exercises.
These were undertaken with the object of inducing among other

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things a state of complete subjection of the will.5
2. If the trainee passed the first test, he was invited to become a
novice.
From this time on, he is excluded from all earthly friends and is
to have no will of his own as to his future. He is to put himself in

the
hands of his director as the interpreter of heaven toward him.
Complete obedience is the thing that is absolutely required. His
conscience must never assert itself in opposition to his superiors.
Newman notes: "Absolute destruction of individual will and

conscience
is aimed at and to a great extent accomplished."6
Can anyone imagine a better base upon which to build a global
conspiracy than complete and unquestioning obedience? In every
small conspiracy about which details can be studied, one of the
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primary goals is to get each conspirator to give his unquestioning

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and complete obedience to the plan.
The Novitiate usually lasts two years. If the novice is found to
possess the right qualities, he is accepted as a Scholar. Notice

the
weeding out process that continues all through the entire program.
Only the most dedicated make it through to the final stages of the
Society.
The Scholar now undergoes a protracted course of training in
various branches of knowledge. Attention is paid to the cultivation
of a sound physical make-up. If the Scholar is able to meet the
requirements of this stage, he becomes a Coadjutor. Those who
attain this rank are to devote themselves wholeheartedly to the
advancement of the society. They serve as priests, missionaries,
teachers and businessmen for the society.
The next rung on the ecclesiastical ladder is a group called the
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Coadjutors who have proved themselves and have been tested as
to their complete trustworthiness regarding the aims of the

society.
It is from this group the officers of the society are drawn. They are
the ones who are entrusted with its secrets. Watchcare is another
important part of the society. Each member including the general

is
responsible to another, and according to Newman:
to whom he must regularly make confession of his inmost
thoughts, and who is required to exercize a watchcare over
him and to report every deviation from rectitude, according to
the standards of the body.7
The aim of the Order was, according to Ignatius, the promotion
of the greater glory of God. According to Newman:
The greater glory of God was identified by them in the most
absolute way with the world wide and undisputed dominion of
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The methods of the Order are well known. In most cases the
Jesuits deny the charges against them. But it has been charged
that they infiltrate into places of power using as their watchword,
the phrase "the end justifies the means." The fact that they deny
such actions should not cause any surprise since that is part and
parcel of their method of operation.
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Their ethical system allows all kinds of loopholes by which to
escape any situation that might cause embarrassment to the
Society or to the Roman Catholic Church. The society did openly
defend their recommendation that tyrants should be

assassinated.9
Their doctrine of Probabilism, although rejected by some

members,
nevertheless secured papal recognition. Their ability to escape
responsibility by the method of "directing the intention" also
demonstrates that the phrase "the end justifies the means,"

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although never appearing in their writings, is there in their purpose
as plain as day.
Another equally objectionable doctrine was their teaching on
mental reservation or restriction, whereby one, without burden to
his conscience, might tell a downright lie provided the word or
clause that would make it true is in his mind.
Thus, one accused of having committed a certain act last week
in a certain place may swear that he was not there, reserving the
statement "this morning."10 The Secret Instructions, supposed to

be
the frank directions of the generals to the provincials and others
involving unscrupulous commands, can no longer be used. The
genuineness of the document has been denied by the society. It
was first published in 1612, and, if not genuine, was probably the
production of the ex-Jesuit Hieronymus Zaorowski.11 However,

as
Newman cogently reasons:

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The repudiation of the work by the Society is, of course, no
conclusive evidence of its spuriousness. It has been the

consistent
policy of the society from the beginning to deny everything
disadvantageous to the church or to itself.12
The supreme end as noted above was the greater glory of God.
So any superior can declare an end, however diabolical, to involve
the greater glory of God, and command his inferior to use any
means whatever for the accomplishment of this end, including, as
Newman points out: "deceit, theft, and even murder; and the
inferior must unquestioningly obey."13
Hodge also points out in his work the notoriety which the Jesuits
attained through their principle of mental reservation.
The doctrine that the character of an act depended solely -
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whether it be falsehood, perjury, murder, or any other conceivable
crime. Pascal quotes the Jesuit moralist Escobar as
laying down the general principle, "that promises are not
binding unless there was an intention of keeping them, at the
time they were made." On the same principle, that the intention
determines the character of the act, the murder of Henry
III, in 1589; of the Prince of Orange in 1584; of Henry IV, of
France in 1610; and especially the massacres on the feast of
St. Bartholomew, were all justified,.14
Gordon Liddy, who was also educated by the Jesuits, used the
same type of reasoning for justifying his part in the Nixon
Watergate scandal. It is very significant that Liddy, who now

claims
he does not believe in God, nevertheless uses the various
definitions of the Roman moralists to justify murder.
It is the same rationale by which I was willing to obey an

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order to kill Jack Anderson. But I would do so only after satisfying
myself that it was: (a) an order from legitimate authority;
(b) a question of malum prohibitum; and (c) a rational response
to the problem.15
Once we allow the reasoning of the Jesuits to prevail, then
murder becomes a viable means of policy if we feel that it is
necessary. It is tragic that many fundamental and evangelical
Christians agree with this tvpe of reasoning today, showing that
Jesuitical casuistry has made vast strides since the sixteenth
century.
We believe in capital punishment. We do not believe, however,
that any man has the right to be judge, jury and executioner. Once
allow this type of thinking, and Tomas Torquemada and the
Inquisition will not be far away.
The Jesuits were well received in Italy and in Portugal at first.
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to
their ideas of papal absolutism. Leading Roman Catholic Spanish
theologians such as Melchior Canus denounced them as the
forerunners of anti-Christ foretold by the Apostle in II Timothy 3:2.
In France they met with opposition but finally gained a foothold
and permission to establish a college at Clermont. In Lyons, their
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presence and preaching resulted in the burning of the books and
churches of the Huguenots. It is probable that the Massacre of St.
Bartholomew's Day was due in some measure to their

influence.16
In England, Trevelyan says of the Jesuits that their policy aimed

"at
the overthrow of the existing regime and the forcible extirpation of
Protestantism."17 A likelier group to originate a global conspiracy
would indeed be difficult to find. Their zeal knew no bounds. They
were and are the heart and soul of the Counter-Reformation. As

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Newman, the great Southern Baptist Historian, points out:
The chief means that were used by the Counter-Reformation
from this time onward (1541) were the Council of Trent,
The Society of Jesus, and the Inquisition...These means of
fortifying the church and repressing heresy are closely interlinked.
The Council of Trent, especially in its later and more
important phases, and the establishment and working of the
Inquisition, like the policy of the papacy in general, were due
to Jesuit influence.18
So for someone to call in Pedro Arrupe to comment on the
possible existence of a conspiracy is like calling in Adolf Hitler to
comment on the possible existence of Nazism. It is better to go
with known facts about conspiracy than to hint at hidden

conspiracies
which may not even exist.
The Jesuits were indefatigable in their efforts to restore

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Romanism to its former glory in the areas where Protestantism
had gained a foothold. Von Ranke tells of the return of the idolatry
of Romanism to parts of Germany.
In Cologne it was again an honor to wear the Rosary. Relics
were once more held up to public reverence in Treves, where
for many years no one had ventured to exhibit them... the
youth of Ingolstadt belonging to the Jesuit school walked... on a
pilgrimage...in order to be strengthened for their confirmation
"by the dew that dropped from the tomb of St. Wal-purgis."19
The Jesuits were the first effective counter action against the
progress of Protestantism that the Roman Catholic Church was
able to wage. Yet few Protestants then, and now, fail to realize the
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eternal issues which are at stake in this battle. Grace and
idolatrous works are mutually exclusive. Error is only defeated by
the proclamation of the truth. It is never defeated by compromise,

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half-truths, or a failure to recognize its existence.
REFERENCES
1. Farrar, F. W. History of Interpretation, Baker Book House,
Reprint, p. 235
2. MacPherson, Hector, The Jesuits in History, Edinburgh,

Scotland.
1914, pp. 104-105
3. Ash, McKinley, The Antichrist, Blackwood, N.J. p. 91
4. Lunt, W.E., History of England, p. 378
5. Newman, Albert Henry, A Manual of Church History, Vol. II,
Philadelphia, 1947, p. 369
6. Ibid., p. 370
7. Ibid., p. 371
8. Ibid., p. 372
9. loc cit.
10. Ibid., p. 372

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11. loc. cit
12. Ibid., p. 378
13. Ibid., p. 379
14. Hodge, Charles, Systematic Theology, Vol. Ill, N.Y. 1873, pp.
445-446
15. Liddy, G. Gordon, Will, Dell Pub. Co. 1981, p. 291
16. Newman, p. 381
17.Trevelyan, G.M., History of England, Vol II., Doubleday, N.Y.
1953, p. 158
18. Newman, p. 355
19. Von Ranke, Leopold, History of the Popes, Vol II, Collier, N.Y.
1901, p. 23
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THE JESUITS TODAY
Many Americans, of course, while paying half-hearted attention
to such historical matters are convinced that although there may

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be some misdeeds in history, the Jesuits of the present have
changed. Others seem to believe that the intrigue of the Jesuits is
needed today to counteract the communist menace.
G. Gordon Liddy of Watergate fame was taught by the Jesuits,
and nowhere does he apologize for their teachings or for his
philosophy of life which is based on the Jesuit teaching that the
end justifies the means. In fact, he unashamedly advocates this
teaching as the only way that America can survive.
In his autobiography he states:
Fordham was a feast for the mind and a challenge to the
spirit. To begin with, it was still under the absolute control of
the Jesuits...As much as I had admired the German Benedictines,
I admired the Jesuits more...
The Society of Jesus was something specialthe shock
troop of the Catholic Church.1
He goes on to say that Heinrich Himmler used it as the model for

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his dreaded black-uniformed SS in Hitler's Germany and that the
SS swore a special oath of loyalty to the Fuhrer, just as the

highest
order of the Jesuits swore a special oath of loyalty to the Pope.
Liddy says later on that "just as I do, John Sirica believes the end
justifies the means."2
The Jesuits obviously have gained respectability in our time.
They have come a long way since John Adams, the second
President
of the United States, wrote in a letter to Thomas Jefferson: "If
ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on
earth and in Hell, it is this Society of Loyola."3
John G. Schmitz, who ran for President on the American Party
ticket a few years ago, was educated by the Jesuits. His education
by the Jesuits was put forward as something in his favor rather
than a liability. He also wrote the foreword to Gary Allen's book,
"NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY." So we live in remarkable

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times when Jesuit trained leaders can write about conspiracy and
be accepted not only by the general public, but by
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professed conservative Protestant Christianity.
Jerry Brown, the Governor of California, who has twice sought
the presidential nomination, was also educated by the Jesuits.
Again, this was not something considered a liability, rather it was
advertised as proof of his moral fiber and strength of character.
Times certainly have changed in America.
Harry Reasoner, as he was signing off his nationally televised
newscast a few years ago, also demonstrated how far the Jesuits
have come in gaining complete acceptance in the United States.
He told a joke about three orders in the Roman Catholic Church. It
went something like this. The Dominicans, the Franciscans and

the
Jesuits were all arguing about which order God loved the most.

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They went down to the altar and were told that they would receive
the answer the next day. When they went back the next day, there
was a note on the altar which said, "I love you all equally." Signed,
God, S.J. Harry signed off chuckling to himself. While we can
appreciate a joke, we do not consider the Jesuits a laughing
matter. For if the Bible is true, and we believe it is, then the Jesuit
idea of salvation by works, masses, and ceremonies has led
millions, and is still leading millions, to a lost eternity.
To those who cherish biblical truth and the freedom to preach
the true Gospel, the rise of the Jesuits to a place of complete

acceptance
and indeed power in the United States today does not
bode well for the future of this great land. Everything that
Protestant
Americans hold dear will be forfeited if these men ever gain the
ascendancy in this land.
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complete respectability in the United States today is the startling
fact that a man claiming to outline the global shadowy conspiracy
that threatens the world should call in the leader of the Jesuits to
substantiate and corroborate his thesis. No one informed in the
area of church history would ever do such a thing unless he
believed that the time had come when the Jesuits were no longer
suspect themselves. Apparently, Gary Allen believes that this time
has arrived. Millions of conservatively oriented Americans who
agree with Allen are either totally ignorant of the historical record
or
believe that the Jesuits have changed. It can be said without fear
of contradiction that whether or not one agrees with the idea of a
Jesuit Conspiracy, no Protestant who has studied church history
would ever call in the leader of the Jesuits to
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The Jesuits have not only gained complete respectability in the
United States today, but they have also gained great power. They
own a controlling interest in the Bank of America as well as other
financial interests. They are thus able to influence Roman Catholic
politicians to serve the ends of the Roman Catholic Church more
vigorously. (We will look at the Vatican's vast financial empire in
more detail in the next chapter.)
The Jesuits were involved in intrigue at the highest levels of the
United States government. During the administration of John F.
Kennedy, the Jesuits had access to the most powerful office in the
world. The Rev. James Vizzard, an American Jesuit who served

as
a labor lobbyist in Washington, disclosed that in 1963 he was
having lunch with another Jesuit, Roger Vekemans, a Belgian
priest on assignment to Chile, when a White House car picked
Vekemans up and took him to a meeting with President Kennedy,

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Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and C.I.A. Director John Mc-
Cone, certainly three of the most powerful men in the world at that
time.
Vizzard said: "Roger came back with a big smile on his face
and said, 'I got $10 million$5 million overt from AID (Agency
for International Development) and $5 million covert from the
C.I.A.' "4
Since that time some other investigations have shown that there
was a Roman Catholic bishop on the payroll of the C.I.A. in
Vietnam as late as 1971, that millions of dollars were sent by the
U.S. government to help the Jesuits in Chile, a country then beset
by assassinations and intrigue and still embroiled in murder and
mayhem, and at this writing still controlled by a Roman Catholic
military dictatorship. Only the tip of the iceberg has ever been
seen. It is obvious that the subject of Jesuit intrigue in the C.I.A.
has so far never been explored in any depth whatsoever. Licio
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together the Vatican conspiracy, which is out to control the world,
has strong links with the C.I.A. He is called II BurattinacoThe
Puppetmaster. Yallop says of him, "Gelli was the puppetmaster
with a few thousand strings. The strings appear to have led
everywhere, to the heart of the Vatican, to the White House, to
presidential palaces in a wide range of countries."5
Gelli was the man who bought Exocet Missiles from France for
Argentina in its war with Britain. Yallop says that the Vatican
indirectly
funded Celli through Calvi and the Bianco Ambrosiano.
Gelli was an honored guest at Reagan's presidential inauguration.
Gelli, of course, has strong ties with Michele Sindona. He is the
head of P2, the mysterious organization founded in Italy which
functions in Argentina, Venezuela, Paraguay, France, Portugal,
Nicaragua, Switzerland, and the United States. It interlocks with
the Mafia in Italy, Cuba and the United States and also with
military
regimes in South America, and also with the C.I.A. and reaches

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right into the heart of the Vatican.6
So the tentacles of the Vatican power structure spread worldwide.
Men come and go, but the organizations of the papacy perpetuate
themselves and have done so for more than a thousand
years, making the Vatican the source of the most formidable

intrigue
in world history. When Yallop sought to find out about the
mysterious death of Pope John Paul, he said that:
The fact that men and women living within the heart of the
Roman Catholic Church (Vatican City) cannot speak openly
and be identified, is an eloquent comment on the state of
affairs within the Vatican.7
The Pope has called for the Jesuits to cease from their intrigue in
Central America. On March 2, 1982, over one hundred Jesuit
Provincial Superiors, the leaders of the Order, were called to

Rome
for discussions with "Father" Paolo Dezza, the man the Pope had

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appointed to oversee the Order in 1981.
The Jesuits were accused by the Pope himself of engaging in
"political activism under the guise of religious duties."8 In the

same
article the Jesuits were reported to be "one of the primary groups
controlling both extremes in Central America."9
So the Jesuits are still in the thick of the murders and

assassinations
which are being carried out by both sides in the war in El
Salvador. The Pope, like others before him, is trying to curb their
zeal to keep all factions in the war subservient to Rome.
With the rise of the death squads like those in Ulster, the focus of
world opinion is forcing the Pope to do something to at least give
the impression that he is not in favor of the murders and killings in
El Salvador. But the high degree of Jesuit involvement
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with the extremists on both sides of the conflict in El Salvador is

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now a matter of public record.
The Extremists on both sides of this conflict are Roman
Catholics. Roman Catholic Marxists are fighting Roman Catholic
conservatives. The church is charting a course that will enable it

to
identify with whoever wins in the end. The Acting Archbishop said
recently, "The left has lost its struggle against the government and
therefore the influential church here must stay in a neutral, centrist
position."10 The acting Archbishop made this statement after the
killing of 3 Marxist nuns, 10 Marxist priests, and the assassination
of Marxist Archbishop Oscar A. Romero. It was after this reign of
terror by the Roman Catholic conservatives that the "influential
church withdrew to its neutral, centrist position." It is obvious that
the conservative wing of Romanism, which has a large
representation among the North American clergy, is backing the
right-wing fighters in El Salvador. However, some local Roman

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Catholic leaders are calling for the United States to back off in El
Salvador. So it looks like another capitulation to Marxism is
shaping up in Central America.
Latin America sits on a veritable power keg because Romanism,
which has been entrenched there for four hundred years, has not
brought a scintilla of freedom or justice to the oppressed millions
who live below the border of the United States and well below the
abject poverty line. Romanism has managed to keep the

multiplied
millions in such a state of miserable existence that we have no
hesitation in saying that if Americans rebelled against George III
for his repression, they would have rebelled long ago against
almost every government in Latin America.
Instead the United States bolsters the repression of Rome all
over Latin America, paving the way for the inevitable revolution
and "liberation" promised by the Marxists. It is time the United

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States stopped identifying with Romanism. But while the massive
propaganda machine of Rome churns out its slanted coverage of
the news, public opinion in the United States will enable Rome to
keep its stranglehold on the people either by repressive fascist
governments as in Chile or repressive Marxists government

dictatorships
as in Nicaragua. Not only that, but the Vatican wants the
U.S. to fund the "rebuilding" of this region while the "church"
retains control over the people.
Ed Asner has been blasted by many in the U.S. for his stand
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against U.S. involvement in El Salvador. Asner, of course, was the
popular Hollywood actor in several recent television series. He

was
hounded into silence by being labelled a Communist or leftist or
worse if that were possible. What was it that brought down the
wrath of a large section of the American public upon Ed Asner?

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Simply because he spoke out on the situation in El Salvador.
What
is the situation in El Salvador that Asner deplores? It is the
conservative Roman Catholic death squads massacring hundreds
of civilians under the guise of eliminating leftists. It is amazing the
leftists that are in the world today. Everyone who opposes
Romanism is a leftist, Marxist or Communist. The possibility of a
Protestant Christian opposing Rome is so remote today that
apparently it is safe to label everyone who opposes Romanism as

a
leftist. (A few years ago one conservative west coast commentator
even called Paisley a communist.)
This is the propaganda that Asner was challenging, that anyone
who opposes the totalitarian poverty and ignorance-producing
regimes of Latin America today must be a leftist. There are leftists
to be sure who challenge Rome's 400 year reign of terror and

extreme

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poverty, and the sad thing that should be noted but never is,
is that there are few Americans who would not have challenged
such regimes long, long ago!! The poor peons ground into the dirt
for centuries look to the U.S. to liberate them, and all they get in
return is the backing of the rotten tyrannical dictatorships by the
powerful U.S. government, a mere lackey of the Roman Catholic
lobby in Washington. So they turn to whoever will help them in

their
struggle for some semblance of freedom. It is one of the great
tragedies of our times that the only choice left to the people of
Latin
America in many cases is between Romanism on one side and
Marxism on the other, and the Marxism even is the Jesuit brand.
They are never given the choice of choosing neither Romanism

nor
Marxism but Protestantism. Protestantism has become so weak
and has been betrayed by so many lily-livered compromisers that

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there is no viable choice left to many of the peoples of the world.
Yet when the world is examined, Protestant countries with but few
exceptions are the only ones where even a semblance of freedom
remains.
Sister Ann Gormly, associate director of the U.S. Catholic
Mission Association, in commenting on some of the allegations
made against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua said, "I
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hear of no limitations to the work of the church in Nicaragua." She
also said that it is good to have four churchmen in high

government
posts in Nicaragua.11 So although there are many uncertain
sounds emanating from Nicaragua, the Vatican is deeply
embroiled in the present government, and no amount of

doubletalk
can dispel the fact that at least four sons of the "church" have
the highest posts in the Sandinista government.

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We certainly do not try to play down the fact that there are
apparently
deep rifts between some local priests and nuns who side
with the poor and believe in "liberation theology" and the present
Pope, who is opposed to them. But the bottom line is loyalty. If the
leftist leaning clergy and political leaders promise to remain loyal

to
the Vatican in all their intrigues, then the Pope will overlook their
Marxist ideology even as a former Pope overlooked the Nazi
ideology of Hitler and his henchmen.
One modern writer commenting on the situation in Nicaragua
said:
The major target of the U.S. is the Sandinista government of
Nicaragua, which is now considered a Marxist regime. The
truth of the matter is that there are more Jesuits and

Jesuitcontrolled
individuals in the Sandinista government than there

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are individuals in the whole of Nicaragua who have gone
beyond the first chapter of Marx's Capital.12
The same writer went on to note that it is difficult to tell the

difference
between Andropov and a Jesuit, especially when the
"Jesuit is wearing a red Andropov T shirt."13 In other words the
"leftist" regime is very definitely and very closely intertwined with
Roman Catholicism in general and the Jesuits in particular. The
guru of the Sandinista revolution is Ernesto Cardenal, a Trappist
Monk; the foreign minister is E'Escoto, a Maryknoll priest; and the
brains behind the whole operation, Fernando Cardenal, is a

Jesuit.
When these three "Marxist" Roman Catholic clergymen join forces
with the strongman Daniel Ortego, who preaches about a
revolutionary being a Christian and vice-versa, it is indeed difficult
to escape the blanket of Jesuit casuistry which seems to cover the
revolution in Nicaragua.

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If we are to believe the New Solidarity paper, which takes a
definite Roman Catholic stance, there is not much hope for the
liberation of Nicaragua from the hands of the Vatican-Jesuit-
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connection. For this paper states that the man the U.S. is
grooming
to replace the Sandinistas, Eden Pastora, who is now building a
base of operations in Honduras, is Jesuit-controlled himself. So
that even if the Sandinistas were removed tomorrow, another
Jesuit-controlled man would be installed, this time with the help of
the C.I.A. and the U.S. government.
Where the Jesuits end and the Marxists begin is certainly a

difficult
question to answer, but one thing is certain as of this writing:
the Jesuits are in control of Nicaragua. All the banks of Nicaragua
were nationalized when the Sandinistas took over except the

Ambriosano

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Group. This group mysteriously escaped nationalization.
The reason being, of course, that the Ambrosiano Group is

controlled
by the Vatican.
The Vatican has kept the people in Central America in ignorance
and misery for four centuries. It is in the interest of the Vatican to
keep its stranglehold on these nations. They are doing so either

by
the death squads in El Salvador or the Jesuit Marxists in
Nicaragua, but they are maintaining their hold over the people.
The
U.S. as a Protestant country could bring some pressure to bear,
which could really liberate the people from both warring factions,
but alas, no such pressure is ever brought to bear on the Vatican.
Instead the U.S. seems to become more and more the lackey of
the Vatican, and the power that keeps the rotten status quo in
place in Latin America.

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A classic example of their failure to uphold the one truly free
government in Central America was seen in the case of Rios

Montt
in Guatamala. Rios Montt was a charismatic Protestant. He had
his limitations, to be sure, but he was beginning to bring some real
liberty to the people of Guatamala. As far as we can ascertain the
Roman Catholic church began to agitate for his removal. We only
picked up small items of news here and there, but we did read that
some "leaders" in Guatamala were concerned that unless he was
removed, he was going to cause a civil war in Guatamala. One
item also spoke of the fact that anti-catholic feeling was being
generated by his fanatical form of Christianity. (All this is the same
old Jesuit line we are seeing in Canada and the U.S. tdoay. That
is, no one should say anything against the Pope or Roman
Catholicism. As we are typing these pages we read that several
people have been arrested in Canada for distributing "anti-

catholic"

cclv
literature. Imagine, if you can, get-
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ting arrested in a so-called free country for passing out literature

of
a theological nature. Truly the freedoms of the Protestant
Reformation are being seriously abridged right now in North
America.) Montt was deposed, and the Vatican returned to power

in
Guatamala with the tacit approval of the C.I.A. Protestant

Americans
better wake up!
The Vatican is the center of a never ending web of conspiracy. It
is working day and night to bring the world to the feet of the
Roman
pontiff. The Vatican octopus has tentacles reaching into almost
every government circle on earth. When the Red Chinese needed
the off-shore oil drilling expertise of the United States (no other

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country possesses it) a bargain was struck so that the Jesuits
were
once again allowed into China. Surely such a move is almost
incredible when viewed in the light of the fact that America is still
an overwhelmingly Protestant nation at least in the numerical
make-up of her population.
The Vatican works incessantly at building bridges over which its
plans may be put into operation. Pedro Arrupe, then the head of
the
Jesuits, was the man that Pope Paul VI sent to Moscow in 1971.
He met with the communists to try to get the then repressive
government of Czechoslovakia to relax her repressive policies.
When he returned from Moscow he stated that he saw signs of
relaxation of religious persecution in Russia. (Billy Graham came
back with the same line.) Arrupe was immediately challenged by
the Director of Lithuanian Catholic Aid, Casimir Pugevicus, who
said that Arrupe's statement was a "time serving Soviet maneuver

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used in order to create a false impression."14 It is obvious that the
Vatican wants a soft line taken toward Communist Russia

because
the ultimate goal of the one world church envisaged by the

Vatican
is the total absorption of all into the one true fold of Romanism.
Bible Protestantism is the only faith that can never capitulate to
Romanism. Romanism with its ability to absorb false religions into
its fold will become the cage of every unclean bird. But it can
never
absorb Bible Protestantism because the difference between the
two is of such a nature that union is spiritually and ecclesiastically
impossible. This is the reason biblically ignorant newsmen speak
of the bigotry of the bible-believing fundamentalists of our times;
they do not realize the eternal difference that exists between vital
biblical Christianty on the one hand and all
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false religions on the other. So Bible Protestantism must ultimately
be the target of every conspiracy, and the target of the final
apostate conglomerate.
REFERENCES
1. Liddy G. Gordon, Will, Dell Publ. Co., 1981, p.54
2. Ibid., p.383
3. Canadian Revivalist, Nov./Dec, 1981, p.4
4. Church and State, Vol. 28, No. 8, p.3
5. Yallop, David, IN GOD'S NAME, Bantam Books, N.Y., N.Y.,
1984, p.313
6. Ibid., p.117
7. Ibid., p.X
8. Small, Gretchen, New Solidarity, March 8, 1982, p.3
9. Ioc cit.
10. AP News Release
11. U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Sept. 3, 1984, p.46

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12. New Solidarity, April 25, 1983, p.6
13. loc cit.
14. Martin, Malachi, The Final Conclave, Stein and Day, N.Y.,
1978,
p.86
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A FINANCIAL EMPIRE SECOND TO NONE
Whenever anyone writes on conspiracy money is always given a
prominent place. In this regard the Vatican certainly does not take
a back seat to anyone. The wealth of the Vatican, as we will see,

is
so vast that in all probability its true worth will never be known.
We are going to examine in some detail what various writers,
who have tried to research the wealth of the Vatican, have said.
Several of these writers are members of the Roman Catholic
church. It is surely interesting to every Protestant that when Pope
Paul brought his entourage from Milan to the Vatican, they were

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dubbed by Roman Catholic writers as the Milan Mafia.1
It is not within the bounds of this study to examine the Mafia in
detail. But the Cosa Nostra, the Family, or The Mafia are a 100%
Roman Catholic outfit. They originated in Sicily where Michele
Sindona was also born. They control vast holdings in Italy and
North America. They have gone what they call "legit" in many
enterprises
and were able to close down an entire cheese plant in
Wisconsin. They did this to establish a monopoly in the Pizza
business. This incident made the national news. Businessmen
came in and brought the cheese factory. After they bought it, they
closed it down. It was only later that Mafia involvement was
discovered. As far as we know, the factory, which employed most
of the town's work force, is still closed down as of this writing.
It is interesting to notice the timing of the move by the Mafia to
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Panatella, a Vatican controlled company dealing mainly in flour
and pasta, lost two and a half million dollars just prior to the Mafia
takeover and required financing of 4.8 million dollars to keep it
afloat.
Martin discloses that by the late sixties both the Institute for
Religious Words (whose assets were conservatively put at 3

billion
dollars) and the Special Administration of Holy See Property were
invested in every sector of Italian industry and commerce. He

went
on to say, "On the boards of directors of companies in which the
Vatican had an interest there always sat a Vatican ' family ' man,
somebody like Massimo Spada or Luigi Mennini."2
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Martin also pointed out that the Special Administration of Holy See
Property, which was run by competent lay bankers, was advised
by J. P. Morgan, Hambros Brothers of London, and the

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Rothschilds of Paris.
Ostling recounts the story of Boys' Town, a Roman Catholic
charity.
Boys Town now has a worth of well over $200 million, including
a securities portfolio valued (very conservatively) at
$157 million. Although the interest on such a nest egg is ample
to operate the Town, it still spends millions to send the traditional
tearjerker fund appeals to 34 million people and raises
nearly $18 million a year. This means Boys Town has about
three times the endowment of Notre Dame University, raises
more money than the Greater New York United Fund, and
would rank 372nd in assets on the Fortune 500 if if were a
business corporation. All this for 700 boys.3
All this came to light after much digging by a weekly newspaper
in Omaha, Nebraska.
According to Lo Bello, a Roman Catholic journalist, the Vatican is

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the only sovereign state that never publishes a budget. He was
accused of exaggeration in his estimates of Vatican wealth, but
suffice it to say, the wealth of the Vatican must be immense, for a
simple honest disclosure of its holdings, if they do not constitute
great wealth, would lay to rest all the "extravagant" estimates of
various writers, but such a disclosure has not been forthcoming.
The Sindona debacle, which the Vatican sought to hide from the
general public, resulted in a loss of close to one billion dollars. Yet
the Vatican carried on as before, demonstrating its reservoir of
financial reserves as nothing else could. Very few companies

could
sustain such a loss and carry on without so much as a whisper.
(Chrysler Corporation lost half a billion and would have gone

under
but for the U. S. government.)
The financial tentacles of the Vatican reach into numerous banks
in different countries. Yallop says that the Rothschilds in Paris

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have been doing business with the Vatican since early in the 19th
century.4 He goes on to point out that, "Credit Suisse, Hambros,
Morgan Guaranty, Bankers Trust, Chase Manhattan, and
Continental Illinois among others became Vatican partners."5
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This financial empire which finances the Vatican conspiracy is
filled with murder and mayhem. Yallop states, "The murder of
Luciano-Pope John Paul I was to stop him from removing

Marcinkus
who was the foundation holding up Calvi, Sindona, and
Celli."6 When the dust had cleared from John Paul's mysterious
death, it left in its aftermath a series of murders, assassinations
and "suicides" that only the Mafia could match for cold
bloodedness.
Of the main players in the scene only Marcinkus and Celli
still remain in control. Yallop recounts in detail each one of the
murders and "suicides," and his pages, which are very difficult to

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refute, make grim reading. His book, IN GOD'S NAME," merits
close reading by all who are concerned about freedom.
Because of the criticism that no disclosure is ever made of its
wealth, the Vatican has in recent years tried to reform some of its
monetary policies, but much still remains to be done. No estimate
can be given of the immense wealth of the Vatican, but one can
get some glimpses of the multi-billion dollar enterprise through
various works that have appeared in recent years.
Ostling, in his work, "Secrecy in The Church," written from the
standpoint of one sympathetic to the Church, does give some

interesting
insights into the wealth of the Papacy.
He recounts that the late Bishop James A. Pike (a convert from
Romanism to Episcopalianism) wrote what he calls a sensational
article in which he said that the Jesuits had a controlling interest in
the Bank of America, the nation's largest, and that they earned

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250 million dollars a year from their investments (a quarter of a
billion). He goes on to say that the Jesuits "sputtered, but they
have never made a full accounting of their holdings."7 Gollin, a
freelance writer who tried to research Papal wealth, figured the
securities and commercial properties of the Dioceses of the U.S.
at almost "one billion dollars."8 Nino Lo Bello put "the American
Jesuit's annual income at $250 million." He claims that all Catholic
units in the U.S. and Canada combined have assets of more than
$80 billion and an annual income of nearly $12.5 billion."9
It was none other than Cardinal Vagnozzi who observed

concerning
the Vatican's finances:
It would take a combination of the KGB, the C.I.A. and Interpol
to obtain just an inkling of how much and where the
monies are.10
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According to this Cardinal three of the most powerful agencies in
the world could only obtain an inkling of how much the Vatican is
worth. Yallop points out that the "Vatican bought into General
Motors, Shell, Gulf Oil, General Electric, Bethlehem Steel, IBM
and TWA." He went on to say that "the Vicar of Christ had
acquired a new unofficial title: Chairman of the Board."11
The Vatican also acquired "controlling interest in companies, in
fields of insurance, steel, financing, flour and spaghetti, industry,
cement and real estate."12 It owns sections of downtown

Montreal,
Canada, sections of Mexico City in Mexico, many of the major
hotels in Italy, blocks of real estate on the Champs D'Elysee in
Paris, the Watergate area in Washington, D.C., real estate in New
York City, and the entire satellite city of Lomas Verdes in Mexico.
This is only the tip of the iceberg, for much of the Vatican's wealth
is hidden in holding companies so that it is difficult to come even

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close in an estimate of its vast wealth. It is interesting to observe
also that Pope John Paul, who was murdered in the Vatican,
intended to reform the Vatican's finances. Yallop in his work

claims
that this could have been one of a half dozen reasons why he was
murdered right in the Vatican. Another very interesting fact is that
Pope John Paul confessed to Father Dezza. Even the Pope has a
prelate to whom he confesses, and poor Pope John Paul for some
reason chose the head of the Jesuits as his "Father Confessor." If
for any reason he chose to confide some of his proposed changes
to Dezza, he may have unwittingly sealed his own death warrant.
Malachi Martin, former Jesuit professor at the Pontifical Biblical
Institute in Rome, in his new book, "RICH CHURCH POOR
CHURCH," puts the wealth of the "church" at 300 billion dollars.
He points out that the Vatican is the:
largest single stockholder in the world with about $20 billion

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dollars traceably invested (but much more untraceably
invested) with gold deposits exceeding those of most medium
sized countries, and with a worldwide real estate operation.13
He goes on to say in another place:
a list of the companies and banks in Italy and abroad in which
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the Vatican acquired a controlling interest before the outbreak
of World War II, when added to the list of those in which it
acquired a minor but substantial interest, would fill some sixty
or seventy pages of this book.14
Even Martin, who still classes himself as a Roman Catholic, is
appalled at the extent of the Vatican's wealth when contrasted

with
the impoverished millions of Roman Catholics around the world.
The present Pope speaks much about economic justice. Although
much has been written about the present Pope in glowing terms,

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Yallop does not share the international newsmen's accolade.
Yallop states candidly:
the papacy of John Paul II has been a case of business as
usual. The business has benefitted immeasurably not only
from the murder of Albino Luciana, but also from the murders
that have followed that strange lonely death in the Vatican.15
He goes on to say:
Many millions of words have been written since the election of
Karol Wojtyla in attempts to analyze and understand what
kind of man he is. As can be seen, he is the kind of man who
could allow men like Villot, Cody, Marcinkus, Mennini, De
Strobel and Poletto to remain in office.16
He adds:
"It is a papacy of double standards, one for the Pope and
one for the rest of mankind.
"There can be no defense on the grounds of ignorance,

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Marcinkus is directly answerable to the Pope."17
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REFERENCES
I.Martin, Malachi, THE FINAL CONCLAVE, Stein and Day, New
York, 1978. p. 18
2. Ibid., p. 26
3. Ostling, Richard, SECRECY IN THE CHURCH, Harper and
Row, N.Y. 1974, p. 51
4.Yallop, David, IN GOD'S NAME, Bantam Books, N.Y., N.Y.
1984, p 97
5. loc. cit.
6. Ibid., p. 103
7. Ostling, p. 49
8. loc.cit.
9. Ibid., p. 50 10.Yallop,p. 105
11. Ibid., p. 99

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12. Ibid., p. 98
13. Martin, Malachi, RICH CHURCH POOR CHURCH, G. P.

Putnam's
Sons, N.Y., N.Y. 1984, p. 14
14. Ibid., p. 40
15.Yallop, p. 264
16. Ibid, p. 265
17. Ibid., p. 264
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THE CONSPIRACY OF MISDIRECTION
Satan has a plan for this world. His plan is doomed to failure, but
that does not mean it is to be taken lightly or that it cannot affect
men and nations and do untold harm before it is finally frustrated.
Dr. Stuart McBirnie retraced the steps of the Apostle Paul's
missionary journeys. In those cities where the great Apostle had
established churches in the first century, the cause of Christianity

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has disappeared. McBirnie recounted how not only was he not
able to find a church of any kind, but in some instances he could
not even find one Christian. So although the gates of Hell will not
prevail against the Church of the Living Christ, some local

churches
do fold up and disappear under the onslaught of the devil and
this world.
Satan has been at work since the fall of man. So his Satanic
conspiracy to dominate this world is of age long duration. Satan's
primary area of operation we saw in our first study as the area of
religion. Only God's believing remnant can understand this aspect
of the conspiracy, and even many of them are at sea at this point.
Every unsaved person thinks that religion is a good thing when in
fact only vital biblical Christianity is a good thing: every other
religion is a satanic counterfeit. Satan is working to deceive the
nations. He works through individuals. It should be obvious to

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every thinking person that there are people working day and night
to overthrow vital biblical Christianity and many of these

individuals
are religious, even posing as "Christians." In other words the

battle
we face is primarily a spiritual one. It will not be defeated by

merely
legal efforts or even protests unless the protests are centered on a
proper interpretation of the Word of God.
Romanism has made unbelievable advances in the United
States in the last one hundred years. As one leading Roman
Catholic spokesman said, "We are less than one hundred years
from Rum, Romanism and Rebellion, referring to the slogan of
American politicians at the close of the nineteenth century. (See
our first booklet for further documentation.)
Gary Allen in his examination of conspiracy fails to come to
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cclxxv
grips with known historical conspiracies. For one reason or
another
he obviously ignores the documented religious conspiracies of
history. Roman Catholic conspiracies are part of the historical
record. Papal plots have been discovered, and the conspirators
arrested and brought to trial at various junctures of history. Father
Chiniquy portrays Romanists as the main plotters in the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln. So the Vatican has been
working night and day to shift the burden of conspiracy from its
shoulders to some other group of conspirators. Since the

McCarthy
era, extremist groups have painted almost every leader in the
United States as Communist, pro-communist, or an insider. NO
ONE HAS EVER LOOKED AT THE PAPAL INTRIGUE, which is
still going on today as it has for over 1,000 years. While men hunt
for shadowy conspirators among America's leaders, who evidence
no continuity whatsoever, Romanism, with a continuity in

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conspiracy
unparalleled in the history of man, continues to flourish and
to call the shots in the area of religion and politics.
It should be obvious to every Bible-believer that one of the main
tasks of the Satanic conspiracy is to direct those who are seeking
to discover the conspiracy and alert Christians to it to some other
apparent culprit. This we term the conspiracy of misdirection.
Misdirection is written large in the field of conspiracy.
We see this conspiracy of misdirection focused in four main
areas.
1. Toward the Masons
The Masons have become a favorite whipping boy for

conspiratorialists
writing on the great global conspiracy. While we do not
approve of the Masons, we do not believe the Roman Catholic
propaganda put out against the Masons. Yallop postulates a

secret

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Masonic Conspiracy against the Vatican in his work, "IN GOD'S
NAME." Michele Sindona is also linked to the Masons by Yallop,
Martin, and other writers. Sindona came out of Sicily, the reputed
home of the Mafia but is regarded as a Mason by Martin. He is
certainly a man of mystery. But to try to link him to the Masonic
Lodge and hint at some hidden conspiracy by the Masons to
destroy the Roman Catholic Church through financial
embezzlement is more fiction than fact. It is true that Sindona was
linked to the loss of almost one billion dollars, which the Vatican
financial empire sustained, and that he at one time was a close
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friend of Pope Paul. According to Newsweek he was the brains
behind
an intricate group of holding companies (and) he controlled a
chain of hotels, a giant multinational real-estate operation,
several industrial firms in Europe and America, half a dozen

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banks. Rumor had it that he was the Pope's chief financial
adviser, or alternatively, the Mafia's number one banker.1
When Pope Paul realized the amount of money involved in the
Sindona scandal, he said that Sindona was in the "hands of
unknown powers," hinting at some dark super-conspiracy against
the Papacy. For it is a belief of many Roman Catholics and even
some "Protestant" writers, that the great conspiracy is not directed
by Rome but is directed at Rome. At least Malachi Martin seems

to
indicate as much in his work. He tells that:
Montini (who later became Pope Paul) had known that over in
the Quirinal...and within the Vatican behind Pacelli's back,
there were men and women who dealt every day in millions of
church dollars the "Patrimony of St. Peter" buying war
and selling peace down the river, cynically scandalously....
Montini could almost see a Satanic rictus behind

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the whole affair.2
Martin also points out that late in the Sindona scandal, "It is now
reported to Paul that Michele Sindona is a member of the Masonic
order."3 Before the whole affair with Sindona was over, Paul was
to
feel that Sindona was a shadowy figure behind some great
conspiracy against the Papacy.
Roman Catholic writers, of course, do not believe in a Roman
Catholic conspiracy. So they are constantly proffering Masonry or
some other Bilderberger or Tri-lateralist conspiracy as the real
one. Some conservative Protestants, who do not know their
Bibles, have taken up the cry of the Roman Catholic

conspiratorialists.
But to try to link Michele Sindona to some conspiracy
against the papacy is a difficult task. For the few things that we do
know about his early education show that he was educated by the
Jesuits. Also his bank failures, while definitely affecting the

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Vatican, also affected him. The Vatican not only lost millions, but
Michele Sindona lost so much that he was wiped out. So if Sin-
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dona was in the hands of "unknown powers," they must have

been
unknown to him too, for they certainly deserted him when he
needed a friend. The powers, which seem to be connected with
Sindona, were the Mafia. For the main government witness
against him, Giorgio Ambroscoli, who had been appointed to
liquidate the Sindona controlled banks in Italy, was killed in Milan.
No one was ever charged with the crime.
Sindona had to flee to America where after another bank failure
he was arrested and brought to trial and sentenced to five years
on "65 counts of conspiracy, fraud and perjury."4 The truth that
must be grasped in this whole Sindona scenario is that Sindona,
who drew a lot of attention to the Vatican, is now out of

commission

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and thoroughly discredited. But the Vatican is still there,
directing would-be conspiracy hunters away from the Vatican
conspiracy to Insider, Bilderberger or other shadowy conspiracies.
The enduring nature of the Vatican power base makes it a prime
suspect in the field of conspiracy.
Michele Sindona was at one time one of the most powerful men
in Italy. He was also closely identified with Vatican finances. It
seems to us that there is much more substance to the assertion
that Sindona was probably "done in" by the Vatican instead of
vice-versa. Sindona was about to be investigated by the Italian
government. The man sent to investigate his bank, who unearthed
many things, some of them probably not complimentary to the
Vatican, was murdered for his trouble. Yallop believes that he was
murdered by the Mafia. However it appears obvious that Sindona
had now become a very possible international embarrassment to
the Vatican, and he himself maintained that he fled to the United

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states to escape being murdered.
After arriving here, even the bank that he owned in the United
States went under. Again the only power on earth able to bring
banks down in any one of fifty countries is the Vatican. It not only
wields great financial clout but has hundreds of dedicated
devotees in powerful positions in banks and financial institutions,
which it does not even control, to help fulfil its plans. Sindona went
down, down, down without a friend to help. His financial fortune

for
the most part disappeared almost over night. Yallop believes that
Sindona is a suspect behind the murder of Pope John Paul I. It
seems that Sindona for all his mystery really had little or no clout
at all in the end. He just went to jail. As Hammer
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points out in his book, "THE VATICAN CONNECTION," the

Roman
Catholic New York policeman, who linked the Vatican to the Mafia

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and to a billion dollar counterfeit scam, when nothing was ever
done to bring the culprits to justice, said he had finally realized

that
if you are powerful enough, you are beyond the reach of the law.
Sindona was not that powerful!
Hammer says of Coffey, the New York Irish American Roman
Catholic policeman, who had tracked the links of the Mafia right
into the heart of the Vatican in a billion dollar counterfeit scheme
so vast that few would believe it:
There had been months of plodding along twisted and
tangled pathways that seemed to be leading nowhere, and
moments of startling breakthrough and discovery...Often during
those years as the scope of the hunt and its consequence
became clear, he had been convinced that this was what he
had been born to do, that this would be the capstone of his
career. And now it was over, ended not with the glittering victories

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he had foreseen but on a sour and cynical note. HE
COULD NO LONGER DENY WHAT HE HAD NOT WANTED
TO BELIEVE: THERE ARE PEOPLE SO POWERFUL AND
SO HIGHLY PLACED THAT THEY ARE IMPERVIOUS TO
THE LAW, AND THAT SOCIETY'S RULES AND CODES DO
NOT APPLY TO THEM.5 (emphasis ours)
The main lesson that Hammer's book teaches is that it is easier
to bring down the President of the United States than a crook in
the Vatican.
When the investigation ended, Aronwald, who was testifying
before a Senate sub-committee in Washington said:
Because of serious allegations that had been made with respect
to someone in the Vatican although the name of the individual
was never given, the Department of Justice made
contacts with the Vatican and obtained their cooperation... As
a result of our visit and a result of the cooperation of the

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Vatican, we were able to conclude that there was no substance
to the allegation that anyone within the Vatican was
cuipably involved in this scheme.6
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In other words, there was a complete whitewash of the whole
investigation. So while the real criminals go free, lesser men are
prosecuted and sent to jail. Michele Sindona was one of the ones
who went to jail. So although a financial wizard, in some ways he
proved to be quite vulnerable in the end while the Vatican men roll
on without batting an eye, cleared of all culpability.
The charges against Sindona were also the same as those made
against Nogara, the financial wizard who put the Vatican on the
map financially. Nogara was the brains behind the reorganization
of the whole financial structure of the Vatican in 1929. He
succeeded in moving the Vatican fortunes from millions to billions
before he retired in 1958. However, he was investigated on the

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charges that he was a Mason and belonged to a secret masonic
society and was secretly conspiring against the Vatican. The

same
old story trotted out against Sindona and also written large in
modern books dealing with Conspiracy. (See Yallop, Allen, and
Bowen for corroboration.)
Not only was Nogara not a Masonic man, nor a conspirator
against the "church," he was one of the most loyal hard working
sons of the "church" that Italy ever produced. Not only was he not
out to ruin the Vatican, he helped it on to such financial success
that it now has become one of the richest organizations on earth.
When the investigation was completed by the Vatican loyalists,

the
taciturn Nogara was completely exonerated of all charges against
him, and the record showed that he was completely trustworthy, a
loyal son of the Vatican in every respect. Yet these rumors and
charges persist in every generation and are still being made

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today.
We believe that the reason we hear of "secret Masonic

conspiracies"
is to keep the idea of a mock conspiracy before the
people to keep them from seeing the real thing. These writers lack
one thing in their writings on conspiracy, and that is an in-depth
exegesis of Revelation 17-18. They focus attention on the Masons
to draw away attention from the Vatican and to create sympathy

for
the Pope and Papacy, who are then considered victims of the
conspiracy rather than the brains behind it. 2. The second theory
that we see written large in contemporary works is the Insider
theory. That is, that a certain group of financiers are at work to
control the world. Gary Allen, of course, postulates this idea as do
others like William Bowen. Allen states:
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In the Bolshevik Revolution we have some of the world's richest

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and most powerful men financing a movement which claims its
very existence is based upon the concept of stripping of their
wealth men like the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Schiffs,
Warburgs, Morgans, and Harrimans, and Milners. But
obviously these men have no fear of international communism.
It is only to assume that if they financed it and do not fear it, it
must be because they control it.... Remember that for 150
years it has been standard operating procedure of the
Rothschilds and their allies to control both sides of every
conflict.7
It certainly is easy to direct attention toward the Rothschilds
because of their great wealth and also because they are Jews.
What Allen fails to see is that every accusation that can be made
against the Rothschilds and their allies can also be made against
the Vatican with much more weight. The Rothschilds' wealth,
although immense, is not in the same league with the Vatican's.

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The tentacles of the Rothschilds do not reach into every
government
on earth with anything approaching the same degree as the
Vatican's. The longevity of the alleged conspiracy of the

Rothschilds,
according to Allen himself, goes back a mere 150 years
again nothing in comparison to the Papacy whose global

ambitions
and intrigue go back more than a thousand years.
Again the idea of operating on both sides of every major conflict
with which Allen charges the Rothschilds can be seen in the

history
of Vatican power politics with far greater documentation to support
it. It can even be seen right now in Central America at this very
moment. The Vatican is on both sides in El Salvador and
Nicaragua, and the intrigue of the Jesuits on both sides of the
conflicts is causing such an uproar that the Pope traveled there to

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try to defuse the embarrassing situation. 3. The third idea of the
conspiracy that faces America is "Secular humanism." William
Bowen in his book, "GLOBALISM-AMERICA'S DEMISE," spends
much time and effort trying to pin America's troubles on the

secular
humanists. This has become a popular theme with other
conservative writers as well. We would be the last to downplay the
effect that secular humanism has had on America, but we do not
think that secular humanism is the global conspiracy that

confronts
the world.
In fact we believe that the flurry over secular humanism at the
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present time is another case of misdirection. The real conspiracy

is
much more closely knit and has much clearer goals. The drift of
America from her Protestant moorings allows the religious men to

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take over. We get tired of listening to those who speak of
America's
Judeo-Christian ethic. America was founded upon historic Bible
Protestantism. Anyone who has studied early American history
knows that her people were made up of the persecuted

Protestants
of Europe who fled here for a refuge and built the greatest country
the world has ever seen. It was built solidly on English-Puritanism,
Scottish Presbyterianism, Scots-lrish-Presbyterianism, German
Pietism and Dutch Calvinism. As for Jews and Roman Catholics,
they were almost unheard of in the early days of America. And

they
certainly had little or no influence outside Rhode Island and
Maryland. Why do we never hear of this in any of the writings

which
conservatives write today? You would think that American liberties
came from the Jews and Roman Catholics. America is going

down

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because the Protestant Puritan ethic upon which she was founded
is being replaced not by a secular humanism but by an effete false
religion which will not mention the past but will praise the Roman
anti-christ. This is the crux of America's trouble. God judges
idolatry whether our half-baked modern Protestant Christian

writers
realize it or not. America is going down not from secular

humanism
nor a false pietism but from a love affair with idolatry and false
religion.
It is indeed very strange that we hear nothing about the
Inquisition today. In reading the "STEALING OF AMERICA," we
note that the secular humanists are the ones we have to fear.
When illustrations are drawn of persecutions in the past, mention

is
made of the early Christians, who were thrown to the lions in the
Roman arena and of Christians, who were tortured under

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Communism
in Eastern Europe.
Various philosophers are named in recent books as the cause of
the downfall of western civilization. In all this plethora of writing
about the demise of America because of certain sinister forces, no
mention is ever made of the Inquisition which lasted 500 years. Is
that not passing strange?
We hear of the Hordes of the French Revolution but not tne
Massacre of St. Bartholmew's Day, carried out not by atheists,
secular humanists or a totalitarian state, but by those claiming to
be religious and belonging to the only true "church." Secular
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humanism is made out to be the unstoppable force while
Romanism flourishes in America as never before. While

misguided
Protestants stare at "Secular Humanism," Romanism controls the

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White House, the C.I.A., the F.B.I., the Congress, and most of the
leading posts in the present Reagan Administration. Manhattan
observes:
The existence of such an organically oriented Catholic body
would have been a matter of concern itself, but the fact that it
enjoyed the patronage of the most eminent individuals of the
U.S. political intelligence and military establishment, made
their presence one of profound disquiet. The list, although
minimal, was impressive: from General Alexander Haig,
Secretary of State, (since deposed) to Mr. Casey, head of the
Central Intelligence Agency; from D. Regan of the U.S.
Treasury to Mr. Allen of the National Security; from Mrs.
Kirkpatrick, UNO, to W. Clark, who replaced Allen in 1982, to
W.S. Wilson, the U.S. envoy at the Vatican and a convert to
Catholicism, and many others in less glamorous but nonetheless
very influential posts up and down the administration.8

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As of this writing President Reagan has appointed an ambassador
to the Vatican, and he has pledged that if reelected he
would fight for the family in the spirit of Pope John Paul II. So
Vatican influence is written large in American politics today. (As

for
fighting for the family, the papacy has been the greatest enemy of
the family in most Roman Catholic countries in the world, grinding
the family under its tyrannical heel all over Central America, South
America, Southern Europe, Eire, and wherever it has been
entrenched for centuries.)
The blackout which has been thrown over the Inquisition and the
massacres and persecutions of Romanism apparently is no
accident. Conservative writers apparently believe that the United
States has nothing to fear from the Vatican, and therefore, they
seem to have tacitly agreed not to mention known historical

horrors
connected with Rome's global ambitions.

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The use of the word "Christian" today by many of these writers,
who would alert us to the evils that confront us, is obviously an
omnibus term. It obviously includes in its meaning, as used today,
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the unchristian religion of Romanism.
So in saving America from the secular humanist conspiracy, we
are being herded along with Romanism to do the job. Such writing
leaves a lot to be desired as far as the Biblical Christian is
concerned. One has only to look at a nation where Romanism
holds absolute sway to see that the Vatican can match anything
any secular state has ever produced in the way of suppression

and
more.
Biblical Christians, keep to your Bibles! Do not be misled even
by sincere men, who have not done their homework in church
history nor apparently in Bible Doctrine.

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4. The fourth idea put forward to misdirect us concerning the
Global Conspiracy is the Usurper Theory. This theory links the
Vatican to the conspiracy but maintains that the Pope is

kidnapped
or killed and his place taken by another man who is a Communist
or atheist.
The idea is written large in contemporary works although it is not
new. The Novel, "THE JANUS POPE," is a story about the real
pope
being kidnapped and a Communist put in his place. Although this
book has some of the characters saying nasty things about the
Vatican, the idea that the Pope is God's representative or God's
deputy is put forward a number of times. So the author apparently
views the pope as Christ's vicar upon earth.
Malachi Martin in his book, "THE FINAL CONCLAVE," also
alludes to this idea of usurpation. The national news media also
gave large coverage to the Bulgarian Connection in their attempts

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to assassinate the Pope. So that the impression is given to the
unthinking
that the real conspiracy, even though it does involve the
papacy, involves it only as the target of the intrigue and not as the
originator of it.
Dean Alford in his "PROLEGOMENA TO THE REVELATION"
points out that even Roman Catholic expositors see the papacy in
Revelation 17 and 18.
From Joachim's time...men's mind even WITHIN THE
ROMISH CHURCH, became accustomed to the idea that the
apocalyptic Babylon was in some sense or other not only
Pagan but PAPAL ROME; and that Antichrist was to sit,
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whether as an usurper or not, on the throne of the papacy.9
(emphasis ours)
Joachim was Abbot of Flores in the 12th Century. He denounced

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even back then the corruption of the Roman clergy, the issue of
indulgences, the deification of the Roman Church and the
Crusades. He saw in the Revelation the description of the Papacy
as Mystery Babylon the Great and the Mother of Harlot religion.
So with such a crushing weight to dispose of, it is not surprising
that the idea of a usurper upon the seat of the papacy is written
large in contemporary thought. Something had to be done to offset
Protestant suspicions of a secret cabal in the heart of the Vatican.
So a massive propaganda effort to educate Protestants in the
niceties of the papacy and the evil machinations of some other
shadowy conspirators out to destroy this nice institution had to be
launched. The sad thing is that apparently millions of Protestants
have bought this idea without even a second thought. Malachi
Martin, a former Jesuit, may still imagine that there are many
Protestants who believe in this secret cabal in the heart of the
Vatican, but in actuality their number is very, very small. By far the

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majority of modern Protestants have swallowed the Vatican line.
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REFERENCES
1. Newsweek, Aug. 20,1979, p. 67
2. Martin, THE FINAL CONCLAVE, p. 29
3. Ibid., p. 64
4. Time, April 7,1980, p. 59
5. Hammer, Richard, THE VATICAN CONNECTION, Charter
Books, N.Y. 1982, p. 309
6. ibid., p. 308
7. Allen, Gary, NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY, Concord
Press, Rossmoor, California 1971, pp 73-75
8. Manhattan, Avro, THE VATICAN-WASHINGTON, MOSCOW
ALLIANCE, Chick Pub., 1982, p. 65
9. Alford, Henry, THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT, Vol. VI,

Guardian

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Press, Grand Rapids, Mich. 1976., Reprint, p. 246
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CONCLUDING REMARKS
Malachi Martin says:
For too long now those in the higher echelons of the Church
have been suspected of quite worldly aims: of secret-almost
cabalistic-designs on the rights, liberties, and freedoms of
ordinary people. Many a sincere modern Protestant is still
convinced that this is true.1
Martin was a former Jesuit professor. He seems to write from a
very open view point. But in his serious and even severe criticisms
of the Vatican in his books, "THE RISE AND FALL OF THE
ROMAN CHURCH, and "RICH CHURCH POOR CHURCH," he
never once criticizes the entity itself. Only things about it, bad
things to be sure, but not the historical realityand to himthe
true and only church in all of history. Martin is very shrewd. His

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open criticism of the church establishes him in the minds of
millions
as an enemy of the church. He is far from it. But the idea that he is
a critical enemy gives much more weight to his writings in the

eyes
of Protestants, thus enabling him to still latently push the idea of
the Pope as Christ's Vicar upon earth and the Roman Catholic
Church, the only true church that exists.
His contention that many a sincere modern Protestant still is
convinced that there is a cabal, an intrigue by a few powerful men
to take over the world, and that they are centered in the Vatican, is
probably less true now than at any point in Protestant history. We
would have to say that VERY FEW modern Protestants even view
the Papacy as other than another denomination, and even fewer
still see anything even approaching cabalistic designs on the part
of its leaders as the foregoing pages demonstrate. The powerful
impact of papal propaganda is beginning to show itself together

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with the almost total apathy and indifference of most modern
Protestants to Bible Interpretation. The complete failure of

anything
even approaching a Protestant solidarity against the obvious
encroachments of papal teachings in once Protestant America
proves the truth of the foregoing sentences.
The complete ignorance and apathy of most American Protes-
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tants to the Vatican designs on America is, to say the least,

disturbing.
Not only that, but even those, who are supposed to be informed
and even write books to warn Americans about the
dangers which this nation faces, never even mention Romanism
much less examine its goals for America.
We hear much about perversion today and of how America will
go down the tubes if the "Gays" have their way. But no one ever
mentions doctrinal perversion. Doctrinal perversion is always the

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forerunner of sexual perversion. The Scriptures are clear at this
point. "Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge
God gave them over unto a reprobate mind to do those things
which are not convenient." The Scriptures teach clearly that the
wrath of God is revealed from heaven against those who hold

back
the truth in unrighteousness. Doctrinal perversion leads to idolatry
which leads to sexual perversion according to Romans Chapter
one.
When the Pope of Rome preaches the perverted doctrines of
Romanism, enforced celibacy, purgatory, Mariolatry, etc., he is as
much a threat to a pure America as any sexual pervert who
clamours for "Gay" rights. This is the truth that we must see today
or perish as a nation. Impure doctrines of demons affect a society
more than the impure actions of some of its members.
The nature of our battle is spiritual. When the Biblical truths of

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the Word of God with which evil is defeated are replaced by the
satanic drivel of false religion, that society which experiences the
barrage of satanic drivel is every bit as bad off as any secular
humanist society. Secular humanism is not the only evil facing
North America! In fact, North America has far more to fear from
religious idolatry than it has from secular humanists.
Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham, Francis Schaeffer and Ronald
Reagan are all working to defeat the secular humanists. But none
of them even has one word to say about the religious idolatry
which curses America. Apparently, it is all right for that to flourish.
In other words as long as a person can say he is religious, he is
not considered a threat to the freedoms that many Americans still
hold dear.
We would have to say candidly; the judgment of God has a far
greater chance of falling upon America because of idolatrous false
religion than it does because of secular humanism. We op-

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pose the atheistic humanists without reservation, but we do not
believe that this is where the heat of the battle rages in America
today. We believe that America's love affair with the Great Whore
who sits on the Tiber poses a far greater threat to America's
freedoms than any other evil which America faces today.
We recognize the power of Communism. We recognize the
power of Islam. We recognize the power of secular humanism. We
also recognize the power of Romanism; and we would have to say
that a candid look at America today will show that of the four evils
mentioned, Romanism constitutes by far the biggest internal

threat
to America today than any of the others.
As America becomes more and more idolatrous, she comes
more and more under the indictment of the Second

Commandment.
God's wrath is repeatedly poured out in the Scriptures upon

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his chosen people for their idolatry. (This sin is never mentioned
once by most modern writers.) In the second commandment,

which
is not taught in Roman Catholic schools, God is spoken of as
"visiting the iniquity of the fathers unto the third and fourth
generation of them that hate me," a fearful judgment which our
modern writers never mention and perhaps do not even believe is
actual. This judgmental visitation of God upon succeeding

generations
is because of IDOLATRY, not atheism nor pornography.
It is great to make accusations against the Bilderbergers and the
Insiders and the llluminati because almost everyone in the world
can identify against such people. The very capability of being able
to identify against them, we believe, points up the weakness in
such accusations. According to the Word of God, which is
supposed to be the final authority for Bible Protestants, when false
Christs and false prophets arise, the only ones who are not

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deceived are God's elect people. In other words, as we pointed
out
in our first booklet, this world of people will go along with false
religion, the rise of Mystery Babylon the Great, and will worship
the
Anti-Christ.
It is only God's elect people who will in every generation stand
against the encroachments of religious evil. So if the evil is so
identified that most of the world can be antagonistic toward it, it is
in all probability not the beginning, middle or end of the final
apostate conglomerate, which is to rule the earth and be the cage
of EVERY UNCLEAN bird.
The Vatican has been the center of evil and uncleanness now
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for more than a thousand years. It was the Mother of the

Inquisition
which tortured, persecuted and martyred multiplied millions of

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precious believers for 500 years. Wilder states in his careful study:
that the records of historians and martyrologists show that it
may be reasonable to estimate that from fifty to sixty-eight
millions of human beings died, suffered torture, lost their
possessions, or were otherwise devoured by the Roman
Catholic Church during the awful years of the Inquisition.2
According to Llorente, the official recorder for the Inquisition, until
he became absolutely revulsed by it, more than 300,000 victims
were immolated on the flaming faggots of the Spanish Inquisition
alone.3 It has been the effort of modern Roman Catholic writers to
try to play down the Inquisition and to deny its holocaust. But there
are many reputable historians, who recount its atrocities for those
interested in finding out the truth.
We have a two volume set which deals with the Spanish
Inquisitors in Holland. The pages are filled with account after

account

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of torture and horror that would make our ears tingle. It tells of
one man who opposed the false doctrines of Rome, who was put
on a spit and slowly roasted over an open fire.4
The Vatican not only has been the center of cruelty and
persecution,
it has also been the center of a never ending spate of false
doctrine and practice, which if the Bible is true, will lead most of its
adherents to a lost eternity. So that the true Bible believer, who is
interested in the salvation of souls from sin and from eternal

death,
is impelled to stand against this onslaught and to warn those
caught up in it.
The fact that the Vatican is evil is, of course, admitted by some
Roman Catholic writers. They go into great detail in highlighting
some of its ancient and modern evils. But the bottom line is that
the
Roman Catholic Church is the only true church in spite of the evils

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of the Inquisition, the persecutions of the past, and even the
heinous crimes of some of the popes. Malachi Martin criticizes the
church severely. But one must be wary in reading such writings.
When Martin criticizes the Vatican, he is criticizing its financial
and secular dealings. He is not criticizing its doctrines and
teachings. He points out in his book on the decline of the church
that it started to decline when it received all the money and land,
etc. from Constantine; from then on a struggle developed between
its spiritual mission and mammon. He even has in his latest books
ideas on how the church is to rid itself of its financial empire, but
what he fails to say is that there is to be no revision of nor ridding
itself of, its erroneous dogmas and teachings. This is the crux of
the whole matter.
To the Bible believing Protestant even if the Roman Catholic
Church divested itself of every dime (something that will never
happen if Revelation 17 and 18 are true) it would still be a

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reservoir
of evil and error. Its unscriptural teaching on Purgatory is a
producer of great evil in several ways. It makes people believe
they can buy their way out of trouble in the hereafter, thus
affecting
everything they do in this life. It also deceives them as to the true
nature of eternity so that those who die expecting to buy their way
out of purgatory will instead be lost forever in the lake of fire with
no hope of ever being released.
The unscriptural teaching inherent in the Mass is also a producer
of great evil. Millions live any old way but believe that by
taking a consecrated wafer from the hands of sinful man, they are
receiving Christ. The Reformers, Puritans, and early Methodists
called the Mass a blasphemous fable. They did not do this to be
nasty. They did it because they believed that a proper

interpretation
of the Scriptures proved that Christ died once for all and his

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once for ali offering never needed to be repeated, for it was final,
full, and sufficient to deal with the problem of man's sin. No other
offering was needed, and so no other could ever be offered
especially by sinful men. The idea that sinful men could offer a
sacrifice for sins they rightly believed constituted blasphemy. The
reason they called it a fable was also established from Scripture.
"This is my body" is obviously a figure of speech and not to be
taken literally. Even as the cup, which is the New Testament in my
blood, is also a similar figure. No one ever argues for the actual
cup being the New Testament although thousands have engaged
in the controversy over the elements.
It is a fable to assume that by the magic of a priest the bread

actually
becomes the actual body of Christ. It is an egregious fable to
say the least. Yet this blasphemous fable is foisted upon an

unsuspecting
Protestant populace almost nightly especially when

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the Pope goes anywhere in the world today.
The unscriptural teaching of an enforced celibacy is also pushed
upon us until we almost vomit. As we write these words, the Pope
is visiting Canada. We get his face on every television news
program and his speeches in every newspaper. In the Altoona
Mirror, September 10, 1984, we were told this about the Pope in
Canada.
John Paul began his twelve day tour of Canada on Sunday
and followed his custom of getting straight to the point on
controversial religious issues by reaffirming the Catholic (the
writer obviously means Roman Catholic, and there is an eternal
difference) Church's stand that priests and nuns must
never marry.
Three things need to be said about this statement.
1. The Bible says that an enforced celibacy is a doctrine of

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demons. I Timothy 4:1-3.
Now the Spirit speaks expressly that in the latter times some
shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and
doctrines of demons; speaking lies in hypocrisy having their
conscience seared with a hot iron; FORBIDDING TO
MARRY....
So according to the Bible those who forbid others to marry are
a. departed from the faith.
b. heeding seducing spirits
c. teaching doctrines of demons
d. speaking lies
e. in hypocrisy (not only lies you see but hypocritical ones)
f. having their conscience seared with a hot iron.
What a devasting indictment from God's inspired, infallible,
inerrant and authoritative Word!
2. Notice it is all right for the Pope to go right to the point on con

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troversial religious issues. Let any Protestant such as Ian Paisley,
do the same thing, and he is immediately called a preacher of
sectarianism, an arch-bigot or worse. Nobody calls the Pope
an arch bigot, or Preacher of Sectarianism, even though he
comes out with some of the most bigoted sectarian statements
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that ever appear in our modern newspapers.
3. Just a few months ago seven Roman Catholic priests were

involved
in a sexual scandal with a young woman in California. News
about the incident was sketchy as anything detrimental to Rome's
good image seldom is considered newsworthy. However, we did
learn the following facts. The young woman wanted to be a nun.
She met with these priests who seduced her. She finally gave
birth
to a baby in the Philippines where the priests had sent her on the
pretext that she was there studying. They had promised her

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money. When the money failed to come, she filed a paternity suit
against the seven since they all apparently were involved with her.
The filing of the suit is what brought the story into the news. We
never heard another thing about it except that the Roman Catholic
spokesman in Los Angeles intimated that the girl was of low

morals
and that was why she got the priests involved with her. This
resulted
in a second suit filed by the girl for defamation of character. She
maintained that she was perfectly innocent of the charges and

that
she went at the start to be a nun in good faith and that the reason
she submitted to all seven was because she was under their
authority. So much for enforced celibacy! It is indeed a doctrine of
demons and the producer of an immorality in the monastic sphere
that has been legendary since the Middle Ages. The Bible does
state that a person does not have to marry if he does not want to,

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but no one has the right to enforce that upon those who cannot
bear it, for the Scripture also states categorically that it is better to
marry than to be in a burning passion.
At the very time this story of the seven priests was told once and
never mentioned again, the three part drama, "CELEBRITY," was
bring shown on a major network. We did not see the three parts,
but we did see the end of the last part and gathered that the entire
piece of fictional propaganda was directed against Bible
Protestantism. The young man who was the center piece of this
drama was a former rapist, who later became a Protestant
evangelist. He was shown going kind of berserk. He shot his

friend
to death for being a homosexual. (Making out Protestant
evangelists to be killers instead of portraying the sexual perverts

as
those who go around killing people, which would be much closer

to

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the truth). At his trial he was stabbed to death by the woman he
had formerly raped and left for dead, who apparently had not died.
So this whole sorry show was a well orchestrated at-
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tempt to denigrate Protestant evangelists.
We recognize that there are unsavory characters in Protestant
circles, who make money off the unsuspecting, but are they the
only circles where unsavory characters reside? To look at the
modern Hollywood movie industry the answer is a resounding yes.
It is well then that the actual events of life help to counterbalance
the bigoted trash of modern Hollywood and the hypocritical
remarks of a Polish Pope.
The enduring nature of Romanism is a sign that it is a

devilinspired
conspiracy in a unique sense. After some of the most cruel
atrocities of history, combined with the gross immoralities, which

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have been part and parcel of the whole system, it has still
managed not only to survive but to grow.
Cardinal Manning said, "The Catholic Church is either the
masterpiece of Satan or the Kingdom of God." Cardinal Newman
declared, "Either the Church of Rome is the house of God or the
house of Satan."5 According then to two of its most famous
representatives our choices are very limited as to the origin and
nature of Romanism. It is either of God or of Satan.
To the Bible-believing Protestant, God is holy and His church is
also holy. When the origins of the Roman Catholic church are
examined, they point to Satan rather than to Christ. Martin in his
book, 'THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN CHURCH,"

speaks of
the method used in electing popes. "Vicious enmities were

created.
Blood was shed. Lives were taken."6 He goes on to say:
At the election of Pope Damasus I in A.D. 366, thirty-seven

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corpses littered the environs of the Liberian Basilica after a
fracas between the followers of Damasus and his archrival,
Ursinus.7
He goes into much greater detail later on and tells about Pope
Stephen bringing his archrival before him with his knee caps
broken, his body whipped, and his eyes carved out. He further
elaborates:
Within a year, Pope Stephen will have used Duke Desiderius
to get Christophorus, Sergius, and Gratiosus imprisoned, first
their eyes cut out, then their lives ended. He then will
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turn on Desiderius and by December of 771 will encompass
his ruin and death.8
Martin again:
The high point in Marozia's career came at the end of her
very long life when she was visited in her Roman prison by an

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emperor who had just seized possession of the cityOtto III, a
successor of Charlemagne. He had only one reason for
visiting Maroziato lay his eyes on the woman who was the
mother of a pope, whom she had conceived by another pope,
and who was the aunt of a third pope, the grandmother of a
fourth pope, and with the help of her own mother, the creator
of nine popes in eight years, of whom two had been strangled,
one suffocated with a cushion, and four deposed and disposed
of in circumstances that have never come to public light.9
So reads the pages of Martin's book. Martin still believes in the
Roman Catholic Church, but we ask the question how could any
one believe that the Roman Cult is the kingdom of God after
reading his book and after studying church history? It is absolutely
inconceivable that the Holy Spirit of Truth has been connected

with
such atrocities, crimes, errors, and intrigues, for centuries. It is a

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spiritual and moral impossibility.
Nevertheless the Vatican has always shown great resiliency and
adaptability in keeping abreast of national and international
changes. It is working tirelessly toward one goal to bring the entire
world to the feet of the Roman Pontiff. The methods used to
achieve this goal have included and do include (as we have seen
above) murder, massacre, Marxism, propaganda, irenic dialogue,
revolution, repression, assassination, education, kindness,

coercion,
brotherhood, charity, monasticism, enforced celibacy, Jesuit
casuistry, intrigue, financial threats and chicanery, and last but
certainly not least, a global conspiracy with an historical

continuity,
and loyal henchmen to see that it continues to endure,

unsurpassed
in the annals of recorded history. The ends justify the
means is no empty slogan, but the modus operandi of the global

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aspirations of the Jesuits and the Vatican.
As the final stages of the great Satanic religious conspiracy
break upon the world, Bible believers need to watch their religious
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affiliation and fellowship. According to Revelation 18:4, some of
God's people are mixed up in the end-time unholy amalgam of
Rome's Harlot religion and the one world church. The Word says,
"Come out of her, my people, that you be not partaker of her sins,
and receive not of her plagues." The one World Church, which will
be dominated by Rome and ruled over by the Pope, is looming on
the horizon. It may be years before we see the full-orbed picture of
Mystery Babylon the Great in its final form, but every true
Biblebeliever
in every generation stands against the Roman Catholic
institution, for he sees in it all the seeds of the final apostate
conglomerate which is described in Revelation chapters 17-19.

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AGAINST THE LIBERTIES OF THE UNITED STATES:

NEW-YORK, Jan. 1, 1835.

To Messrs. Leavitt, Lord & Co.,

Gentlemen,-Learning that you are about to publish in a small

While we disapprove of harsh, denunciatory language towards

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Yours, with friendly regard,

________________ Extract from Zion's Herald a Methodist paper

"FOREIGN CONSPIRACY.-We commence to-day publishing this

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The first impressions of the improbability of a Foreign conspiracy

Political character of the Austrian government-The old avowed

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The cause of Popery and Despotism identical-A striking difference

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Points in our political system which favor this foreign attack-Our

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The evil from immigration further considered-Its political bearings-

The political character of this ostensibly religious enterprise

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Some of the means by which Jesuits can already operate

Evidence enough of conspiracy adduced to create great alarm-

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All classes of citizens interested in resisting the efforts of Popery-

The question what is the duty of the Protestant community?

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The Political duty of American citizens at this crisis.

THE following Numbers written for the New-York Observer in the

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At the solicitation of many citizens without distinction of religious

That a vigorous and unexampled effort is making by the despotic

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writer, concerning the efforts making by the governments of Europe to

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In the following numbers the writer has chosen to rest the

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Mistrust of all that Popery does, or affects to do, whether as a friend or

NEW-YORK, January, 1835.

FOREIGN CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE LIBERTIES OF THE

The first impression of the improbability of foreign conspiracy

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DOES this heading seem singular? What, it will be said, is it at all

Who among us is not aware that a mighty struggle of opinion is in

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Do you doubt whether Europe is in hostile array against liberty?

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the God of peace and loveregion desolation and death reign

The foreign correspondent of the Evening Post, in a letter from

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Now this Austria is the same busy, meddling government that is

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physical action of this bloody drama is to be performed, we are secure

Of European wars arising from the craving of personal ambition,

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This is language without ambiguity, bold, undisguised; it is the

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