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Chapter LIX.

MOMENT OF INTERRUPTION IN THE THREAD OF MY "FIFTY
YEARS IN THE CHURCH OF ROME," TO SEE HOW MY SAD
PREVISIONS ABOUT MY DEFENDER, ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
WERE TO BE REALIZED—ROME THE IMPLACABLE ENEMY
OF THE UNITED STATES—SHE WANTS TO CONQUER AND
RULE THEM, IN ORDER TO DESTROY ALL THEIR RIGHTS,
PRIVILEGES AND LIBERTIES.

WHEN it became evident, in 1851, that my plan of forming
a grand colony of Roman Catholic French-speaking people
on the prairies of Illinois was to be a success, D'Arcy McGee,
then editor of The Freeman's Journal, official journal of the
Bishop of New York, wrote me to know my views, and immediately
determined to put himself at the head of a similar
enterprise in behalf of the Irish Roman Catholics. He published
several able articles to show that the Irish people, with
very few exceptions, were demoralized, degraded and kept poor,
around their groggeries, and showed how they would thrive,
become respectable and rich, if they could be induced to exchange
their grog shops for the fertile lands of the west. Through
his influence, a large assembly, principally composed of priests,
to which I was invited, met at Buffalo, in the spring of 1852.
But what was his disappointment, when he saw that the greatest
part of those priests were sent by the Bishops of the United
States to oppose and defeat his plans!

He vainly spoke with a burning eloquence for his pet
scheme. The majority coldly answered him: "We are determined,
like you, to take possession of the United States and rule
them; but we cannot do that without acting secretly and with
the utmost wisdom. If our plans are known, they will surely
be defeated. What does a skillful general do when he wants to
conquer a country? Does he scatter his soldiers over the farm
lands, and spend their time and energy in ploughing the fields

and sowing grain? No! He keeps them well united around his
banners, and marches at their head, to the conquest of the
strongholds, the rich and powerful cities. The farming countries
then submit and become the price of his victory, without
moving a finger to subdue them. So it is with us. Silently and
patiently, we must mass our Roman Catholics in the great cities
of the United States, remembering that the vote of a poor journeyman,
though he be covered with rags, has as much weight
in the scale of power as the millionaire Astor, and that if we
have two votes against his one, he will become as powerless as
an oyster. Let us, then, multiply our votes; let us call our poor
but faithful Irish Catholics from every corner of the world, and
gather them into the very hearts of those proud citadels which
the Yankees are so rapidly building under the names of Washington,
New York, Boston, Chicago, Buffalo, Albany, Troy,
Cincinnati, etc. Under the shadows of those great cities, the
Americans consider themselves as a giant and unconquerable
race. They look upon the poor Irish Catholic people with supreme
contempt, as only fit to dig their canals, sweep their
streets and work in their kitchens. Let no one awake those
sleeping lions, to-day. Let us pray God that they may sleep
and dream their sweet dreams, a few years more. How sad will
their awakening be, when with our outnumbering votes, we will
turn them, forever, from every position of honor, power and profit!
What will those hypocritical and godless sons and daughters of
the fanatical Pilgrim Fathers say, when not a single judge, not
a single teacher, not a single policeman, will be elected if he be
not a devoted Irish Roman Catholic? What will those so-called
giants think of their matchless shrewdness and ability,
when not a single Senator or member of Congress will be chosen,
if he be not submitted to our holy father, the Pope? What a
sad figure those Protessant Yankees will cut when we will not
only elect the President, but fill and command the armies, man
the navies, and hold the keys of the public treasury? It will
then be time for our faithful Irish people to give up their grogshops,
in order to become the judges and governors of the land.
Then our poor and humble mechanics, will leave their damp
ditches and muddy streets, to rule the cities in all their departments,
from the stately mansion of Mayor of New York, to the
humble, though not less noble position of teacher.

"Then, yes! then, we will rule the United States, and lay
them at the feet of the Vicar of Jesus Christ, that he may put an
end to their godless system of education, and sweep away those
impious laws of liberty of conscience, which are an insult to God
and man!"

D'Arcy McGee was left almost alone when the votes were
taken. From that time, the Catholic priests, with the most admirable
ability and success, have gathered their Irish legions into
the great cities of the United States, and the American people
must be very blind indeed, if they do not see that if they do
nothing to prevent it, the day is very near when the Jesuits will
rule their country, from the magnificent White House at Washington,
to the humblest civil and military department of this vast
Republic. They are already the masters of New York, Baltimore,
Chicago, St. Paul, New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah, Cincinnati,
Albany, Troy, Milwaukee, St. Louis, San Francisco, etc.
Yes! San Francisco, the rich, the great queen of the Pacific, is
in the hands of the Jesuits!

From the very first days of the discovery of the gold mines
of California, the Jesuits had the hopes of becoming masters of
these inexhaustible treasures, and they secretly laid their plans,
with the most profound ability and success. They saw, at once,
that the great majority of the lucky miners, of every creed and
nation, were going back home, as soon as they had enough to secure
an honorable competence to their families. It became then
evident, that of those multitudes which the thirst of gold had
brought from every corner of the world, not one out of fifty
would fix their homes in San Francisco. The Jesuits saw at a
glance, that if they could persuade the Irish Catholics to settle
and remain there, they would soon be the masters and rulers of
that golden city, whose future is so bright and so great! And
that scheme, worked day and night with the utmost perseverance,
has been crowned with perfect success.

The consequence is, that while you find only a few Americans,

Germans, Scotch and English millionaires in San Francisco, you
find more than fifty Catholic Irish millionaires in that city. Its
richest bank (Nevada Bank) is in their hands, and so are all the
street railways. The principal offices of the city are filled with
Irish Roman Catholics. Almost all the police are composed of
the same class, as well as the volunteer military associations.
Their compact unity, in the hands of the Jesuits, with their enormous
wealth, make them almost supreme masters of the mines
of California and Nevada.

When one knows the absolute, abject submission of the Irish
Roman Catholics, rich or poor, to their priests; how the mind,
the soul, the will, the conscience are firmly and irrevocably tied
to the feet of the priests, he can easily understand that the Jesuits
of the United States form one of the richest and most powerful
corporations the world ever saw.

It is well known that those fifty Catholic millionaires, with
their myriads of employees, are, through their wives, and by
themselves, continually at the feet of the Jesuits, who swim in a
golden sea.

No one, if he be not a Roman Catholic, or one of those so-called
Protestants who give their daughters to the nuns, and
their sons to the Jesuits to be educated, has much hopes, where
the Jesuits rule, of having a lucrative office in the San Francisco
to-day.

The Americans, with few exceptions, do not pay any attention
to the dark cloud which is rising at their horizon, from
Rome. Though that cloud is filled with rivers of tears and
blood, they let it grow and rise without even caring how they
will escape from the impending hurricane.

It is to San Francisco that you must go to have an idea of
the number of secret and powerful organizations with which the
Church of Rome prepares herself for the impending conflict,
through which she hopes to destroy the schools, and every vestige
of human rights and liberties in the United Siates.

In order to more easily drill the Roman Catholics and prepare
them for the irrepressible struggle, the Jesuits have organized
them into a great number of secret societies, the principal

of which are: Ancient Order of Hibernians, Irish American
Society, Knights of St. Patrick, St. Patrick's Cadets, St. Patrick
Mutual Alliance, Apostles of Liberty, Benevolent Sons of the
Emerald Isle, Knights of St. Peter, Knights of the Red Branch,
Knights of the Columskill, The Sacred Heart, etc., etc.

Almost all these secret associations are military ones. They
have their headquarters at San Francisco; but their rank and file
are scattered all over the United States. They number 700,000
soldiers, who, under the name of United States Volunteer Militia,
are officered by some of the most skillful generals and officers of
this Republic.

Another fact, to which the American Protestants do not sufficiently
pay attention, is that the Jesuits have been shrewd
enough to have a vast majority of Roman Catholic generals and
officers, to command the army and man the navy of the United
States.

Rome is in constant conspiracy against the rights and liberties
of man all over the world; but she is particularly so in the
United States.

Long before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church
was the most implacable enemy of this Republic. My professors
of philosophy, history and theology had been unanimous in
telling me that the principles and laws of the Church of Rome
were absolutely antagonistic to the laws and principles
which are the foundation-stones of the Constitution of the
United States.

1st. The most sacred principle of the United States Constitution
is the equality of every citizen before the law. But the
fundamental principle of the Church of Rome, is the denial of
that equality.

2nd. Liberty of conscience is proclaimed by the United
States, a most sacred principle which every citizen must uphold,
even at the price of his blood. But liberty of conscience is declared
by all the Popes and Councils of Rome, a most godless,
unholy and diabolical thing, which every good Catholic must
abhor and destroy, at any cost.

3rd. The American Constitution assures the absolute independence

of the civil from the ecclesiastical or church power;
but the Church of Rome declares, through all her Pontiffs and
Councils, that such independence is an impiety and a revolt against
God.

4th. The American Constitution leaves every man free to
serve God according to the dictates of his conscience; but the
Church of Rome declares that no man has ever had such a right,
and that the Pope alone can know and say what man must believe
and do.

5th. The Constitution of the United States denies the right
in any body to punish any other for differing from him in religion.
But the Church of Rome says that she has a right to
punish with the confiscation of their goods, or the penalty of
death, those who differ in faith from the Pope.

6th. The United States have established schools all over
their immense territories, where they invite the people to send
their children, that they may cultivate their intelligence and become
good and useful citizens. But the Church of Rome has
publicly cursed all these schools, and forbidden their children to
attend them, under pain of excommunication in this world and
damnation in the next.

7th. The Constitution of the United States is based on the
principle that the people are the primary source of all civil
power. But hundreds of times, the Church of Rome has proclaimed
that this principle is impious and heretical. She says
that "all government must rest upon the foundation of the Catholic
faith; with the Pope alone as the legitimate and infallible
source and interpreter of the law."

I could cite many other things, proving that the Church of
Rome is an absolute and irreconcilable enemy of the United
Stases; but it would be too long. These are sufficient to show
to the American people that Rome is a viper, which they feed
and press upon their bosom. Sooner or later, that viper will
bite to death and kill this Republic.

This was foretold by Lafayette, and is now promulgated by
the greatest thinkers of our time.

The greatest inventor, or rather the immortal father of

electric telegraphy, Samuel Morse, found it out when in Rome,
and published it in 1834, in his remarkable work, "Conspiracies
Against the Liberties of the United States." The learned Dr.
S. Irenæus Prime, in his life of Prof. Morse, says: "When Mr.
Morse was in Italy, he became acquainted with several ecclesiastics
of the Church of Rome, and he was led to believe, from
what he learned from them, that a political conspiracy, under
the cloak of a religious mission, was formed against the United
States. When he came to Paris and enjoyed the confidence and
friendship of Lafayette, he stated his convictions to the General,
who fully concurred with him in the reality of such a
conspiracy."

That great statesman and patriot, the late Richard W.
Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, in his admirable work, "The
Papacy and the Civil Power," says: "Nothing is plainer than
that, if the principles of the Church of Rome prevail here, our
constitution would necessarily fall. The two cannot exist together.
They are in open and direct antagonism with the fundamental
theory of our government and of all popular government everywhere."

The eloquent Spanish orator, Castelar, speaking of his own
Church of Rome, said, in 1869, "There is not a single progresssive
principle that has not been cursed by the Catholic Church.
This is true of England and Germany, as well as all Catholic
countries. The Church cursed the French Revolution, the Belgian
Constitution and the Italian Independence. Not a Constitution
has been born, not a step of progress made, not a solitary
reform effected, which has not been under the terrific anathemas
of the Church."

But why ask the testimony of Protestants or Liberals to warn
the American people against that conspiracy, when we have the
public testimony of all the bishops and priests to prove it? With
the most daring impudence, the Church of Rome, through her
leading men, is boasting of her stern determination to destroy all
the rights and privileges which have cost so much blood to the
American people. Let the Americans, who have eyes to see
and intelligence to understand, read the following unimpeachable

documents, and judge for themselves of what will become of
this country, if Rome is allowed to grow strong enough to execute
her threats.

"The church is of necessity intolerant. Heresy, she endures
when and where she must, but she hates it, and directs all her
energies to destroy it.

"If Catholics ever gain a sufficient numerical majority in this
country, religious freedom is at an end. So our enemies say, so
we believe."—The Shepherd of the Valley, official journal of the
Bishop of St. Louis, Nov. 23, 1851.

"No man has a right to chose his religion. Catholicism is
the most intolerant of creeds. It is intolerance itself. We
might as rationally maintain that two and two does not make
four, as the theory of Religious Liberty. Its impiety is only
equalled by its absurdity."—New York Freeman, official journal
of Bishop Hughes, Jan. 26, 1852.

"The Church is instituted, as every Catholic who understands
his religion believes, to guard and defend the right of God,
against any and every enemy, at all times, in all places. She,
therefore, does not, and cannot accept, or in any degree favor
liberty, in the Protestant sense of liberty."—Catholic World,
April, 1870.

"The Catholic Church is the medium and channel through
which the will of God is expressed. While the state has rights,
she has them only in virtue and by permission of the Superior
Authority, and that authority can be expressed only through the
church."—Catholic World, July, 1870.

"Protestantism has not, and never can have, any right, where
Catholicity has triumphed. Therefore, we lose the breath we
expend in declaiming against bigotry and intolerance and in favor
of Religious Liberty, or the right of man to be of any religion
as best pleases him."—Catholic Review, June, 1865.

"Religious Liberty is merely endured until the opposite can
be carried into effect without peril to the Catholic Church."—
Rt. Rev. O'Connor, Bishop of Pittsburgh.

"The Catholic Church numbers one-third the American population;
and if its membership shall increase, for the next thirty

years, as it has the thirty years past, in 1900, Rome will have a
majority, and be bound to take this country and keep it. There
is, ere long, to be a state religion in this country, and that state
religion is to be the Roman Catholic.

"1st. The Roman Catholic is to wield his vote for the purpose
of securing Catholic ascendancy in this country.

"2nd. All legislation must be governed by the will of God,
unerringly indicated by the Pope.

"3rd. Education must be controlled by Catholic authorities,
and under education, the opinions of the individual, and the utterances
of the press are included, and many opinions are to be forbidden
by the secular arm, under the authority of the church,
even to war and bloodshed."—Father Hecker, Catholic World,
July, 1870.

"It was proposed that all religious persuasions should be free
and their worship publicly exercised. But we have rejected this
article as contrary to the canons and councils of the Catholic
church."—Pope Pius VII., Encyclical, 1808.

Every one knows that one of the first and most solemn acts
of the present Pope Leo XIII., was to order that the theology of
St. Thomas Aquinas should be taught in all the colleges, seminaries
and universities of the Church of Rome throughout the
whole world, as the most accurate teachings of the doctrines of
his church. Well, on the 30th of Dec., 1870, I forced the Rt.Rev.
Foley, Bishop of Chicago, to translate from Latin into English,
before the court of Kankakee, and to swear that the following
law was among those promulgated by St. Thomas as one of the
present and unchangeable laws ot the Church of Rome:

"Though heretics must not be tolerated because they deserve
it, we must bear with them, till, by a second admonition, they
may be brought back to the faith of the church. But those who
after a second admonition, remain obstinate in their errors, must
not only be excommunicated, but they must be delivered to the
secular power to be exterminated."—St. Thomas Acquinas
Summa Theologia, vol. 4, p. 90.

After the Bishop had sworn that this was the true doctine
of the Church of Rome, expressed by St. Thomas, and taught

LEO XIII., PRESENT POPE.

in all the colleges, seminaries and universities of the Church of
Rome, I forced him to declare, under oath, that he, and every
priest of Rome, once a year, under pain of eternal damnation, is
obliged to say, in the presence of God, in his Breviarum (his
official prayer-book) that that doctrine was so good and holy,
that every word of it has been inspired by the Holy Ghost to
St. Thomas.

The same Bishop Foley was again forced by me, before the
same court of Kankakee, to translate from Latin into English,
the following decree of the council of Lateran, and to acknowledge,
under oath, that it was as much the law of the Church of
Rome to-day, as on the day it was passed, in the year 1215:

"We excommunicate and anathematize every heresy that exalts
itself against the holy orthodox and Catholic faith, condemning
all heretics, by whatever name they may be known, for
though their faces differ, they are tied together by their tails.
Such as are condemned are to be delivered over to the existing
secular powers to receive due punishment. If laymen, their
goods must be confiscated. If priests, they shall be degraded
from their respective orders, and their property applied to the
church in which they officiated. Secular powers of all ranks
and degrees are to be warned, induced, and, if necessary, compelled
by ecclesiastical censure, to swear that they will exert
themselves to the utmost in the defence of the faith, and extirpate
all heretics denounced by the church, who shall be found
in their territories. And whenever any person shall assume government,
whether it be spiritual or temporal, he shall be bound
to abide by this decree.

"If any temporal lord, after having been admonished and
required by the church, shall neglect to clear his territory of
heretical depravity, the Metropolitan and Bishop of the Province
shall unite in excommunicating him. Should he remain contumacious
a whole year, the fact shall be signified to the Supreme
Pontiff, who will declare his vassals released from their allegiance
from that time, and will bestow his territory on Catholics, to be
occupied by them, on condition of exterminating the heretics and
preserving the said territory in the faith."

"Catholics who shall assume the cross for the extermination
of heretics, shall enjoy the same indulgence, and be
protected by the same privileges as are granted to those who
go to the help of the Holy Land. We decree further that all
those who have dealings with heretics, and especially such as
receive, defend and encourage them, shall be excommunicated.
He shall not be elegible to any public office. He shall not be
admitted as a witness. He shall neither have the power to
bequeath his property by will, nor to succeed to any inheritance.
He shall not bring any action against any person, but
any one can bring action against him. Should he be a judge,
his decision shall have no force, nor shall any cause be brought
before him. Should he be a lawyer, no instruments made by
him shall be held valid, but shall be condemned with their
authors."

Cardinal Manning, speaking in the name of the Pope, said:
"I acknowledge no civil power; I am the subject of no prince;
and I claim more than this. I claim to be the supreme judge and
director of the consciences of men. Of the peasants that till the
fields, and of the prince that sits upon the throne; of the household
that lives in the shade of privacy, and the legislator that
makes laws for kingdoms. I am sole, last, supreme judge
of what is right and wrong. Moreover, we declare, affirm,
define and pronounce it to be necessary to salvation to every
human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff!!"—Tablet,
Oct. 9, 1864.

"Undoubtedly it is the intention of the Pope to possess this
country. In this intention he is aided by the Jesuits, and all the
Catholic prelates and priests." — Brownson's Review, May,
1864.

"For our own part, we take this opportunity to express our
hearty delight at the suppression of the Protestant Chapel in
Rome. This may be thought intolerant; but when, we ask, did
we profess to be tolerant of Protestantism, or to favor the question
that Protestantism ought to be tolerated. On the contrary,
we hate Protestantism. We detest it with our whole heart and

soul, and we pray our aversion for it may never decrease."—
Pittsburgh Catholic Visitor, July, 1848, official journal of the
Bishop.

"No good government can exist without religion, and there
can be no religion without an inquisition, which is wisely designed
for the protection and promotion of the true faith."—Boston
Pilot, official journal of the Bishop.

"The Pope has the right to pronounce sentence of deposition
against any sovereign, when required by the good of the Spiritual
Order."—Brownson's Review, 1849.

"The power of the church exercised over sovereigns in the
middle ages was not a usurpation, was not derived from the concessions
of princes or the consent of the people, but was and is
held by divine right, and whoso resists it, rebels against the
King of Kings and Lord of Lords." — Brownson's Review,
June 1851.

The council of Constance, held in 1414, declared: "That any
person who has promised security to heretics shall not be obliged
to keep his promise, by whatever he may be engaged.

"It is in consequence of that principle that no faith must be
kept with heretics, that John Huss was publicly burned on the
scaffold, the 6th of July, 1415, in the city of Constance, though
he had a safe passport from the Emperor."

"Negroes have no rights which the white man is bound to
respect."—Roman Catholic Chief-Justice Tany, in his Dred-Scot
Decision.

"If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed,
they will fall by the hands of the Catholic clergy."—Lafayette.

"If your son or daughter is attending a State School, you
are violating your duty as a Catholic parent, and conducing to
the everlasting anguish and despair of your child. Take him
away. Take him away, if you do not wish your deathbed to
be tormented with the spectre of a soul which God has given
you as a sacred trust, surrendered to the great enemy of mankind.
Take him away, rather than incur the wrath of his God, and the
loss of his soul."—Western Tablet, official paper of the Bishop
of Chicago.

All the echoes of the United States, are still repeating the
same denunciations against our public schools made by Mg
Capel, a prelate attached to the household of the Pope. That
Roman Catholic dignitary has not only passed again the sentence
of death against the schools of the United States; but he has
warned the Americans that the time is not far away when the
Roman Catholics, at the order of the Pope, will refuse to pay
their school tax, and will send bullets to the breasts of the government
agents, rather than pay it. "The order can come any
day from Rome," said the prelate. "It will come as quickly as
the click of the trigger, and it will be obeyed, of course, as
coming from God Almighty, himself!"

The Catholic Columbian, edited under the immediate supervision
of the Rt. Rev. Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, says: "Secular
(government) schools are unfit for Catholic children.
Catholic parents cannot be allowed the sacraments, who choose
to send their children to them, when they could make use of the
Catholic schools."

"The absurd and erroneous doctrines, or ravings, in defense
of liberty of conscience, are a most pestilential error, a pest of
all others, to be dreaded in the State."—Encyclical Letters of
Pope Pius IX., Aug. 15, 1854.

"You should do all in your power to carry out the intentions
of his holiness, the Pope. Where you have the electoral franchise,
give your votes to none but those who assist you in so
holy a struggle."—Daniel O'Connell.

"Catholic votes should be cast solidly for the democracy at
the next election. It is the only possible hope to break down
the school system."—Toledo Catholic Review.

"It is of faith that the Pope has the right of deposing heretical
and rebel kings. Monarchs, so deposed by the Pope, are
converted into notorious tyrants, and may be killed by the first
who can reach them.

"If the public cause cannot meet with its defence in the
death of a tyrant, it is lawful for the first who arrives, to assassinate
him."—Suarez, Defensio Fidei; Book VI., chap. 4,
Nos. 13-14.

"See, sir, from this chamber, I govern, not only to Paris,
but to China; not only to China, but to all the world, without
any one knowing how I do it."—Tambriorini, General of the
Jesuits.

"A man who has been excommunicated by the Pope, may
be killed anywhere, as Escobar and Deaux teach, because the
Pope has an indirect jurisdiction over the whole world, even in
temporal things, as all the Catholics maintain, and as Suarez
proves against the King of England."—Bussambaum—Lacroi,
Theologica Moralis, 1757.

The Roman Catholic historian of the Jesuits, Cratineau
Joly, in his Vol. II., page 435, approvingly says: "Father
Guivard, writing about Henry IV., King of France, says: `If
he cannot be deposed, let us make war; and if we cannot make
war, let him be killed.' "

The great Roman Catholic theologian, Dens, puts to himself,
the question: "Are heretics justly punished with death?
He answers: `St. Thomas says: Yes! 22, question 11, Art. 3.
Because forgers of money, or other disturbers of the state, are
justly punished with death; therefore, all heretics who are forgers
of faith, and, as experience testifies, grievously disturb the
State.'

"This is confirmed, because God, in the Old Testament,
ordered the false prophets to be slain, and in Deuteronomy it is
decreed that if any one will act proudly, and will not obey the
commands of the priests, let him be put to death.

"The same is proved from the condemnation of the 14th
article of John Huss, in the Council of Constance."—Dens, p.
88, Tome II., Dublin, 1834.

"That we may, in all things, attain the truth. That we may
not err in anything, we ought ever to hold, as a fixed principle,
that what I see white, I believe to be black, if the superior authorities
of the church define it to be so."—Spiritual Exercise,
by Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits.

"As for holy obedience, this virtue must be perfect in every
point, in execution, in will, in intellect, doing which is enjoined
with all celerity, spiritual joy, and perseverance; persuading

ourselves that everything is just, suppressing every repugnant
thought and judgment of one's own, in a certain obedience,
should be moved and directed under Divine Providence, by his
superior, just as if he were a corpse (Perindi acsi cadaver esset)
which allows itself to be moved and led in every direction."—
Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual Exercise.

"If the Holy Church so requires, let us sacrifice our own
opinions, our knowledge, our intelligence, the splendid dreams
of our imagination and the sublime attainments of human understanding."—Pope
Gregory XVI., Encyclical, Aug. 15th,
1832.

"No more cunning plot was ever devised against the intelligence,
the freedom, the happiness and virtue of mankind, than
Romanism."—Gladstone, Letter to Aberdeen.

"The principal and most efficacious means of practicing
obedience due to superiors, and of rendering it meritorious
before God, is to consider that, in obeying them, we obey God
Himself, and that by despising their commands, we despise the
authority of the Divine Master.

"When, thus, a Religious receives a precept from her prelate,
superior or confessor, she should immediately execute it, not
only to please them, but principally to please God, whose will is
known by their command.

"If, then, you receive a command from one who holds the
place of God, you should observe it as if it came from God
Himself. It may be added that there is more certainty of doing
the will of God by obedience to our superiors than by obedience
to Jesus Christ, should He appear in person and give His command.

"St. Philip used to say that the Religious shall be most certain
of not having to render an account of the actions performed
through obedience, for these, the superiors only, who command
them shall be accountable."—Saint Ligouri, The Nun Sanctified.

"In the name and by the authority of Jesus Christ, the plenitude
of which resides in His Vicar, the Pope, we declare that the teaching
that the earth is not the centre of the world, and that it moves

with a diurnal motion, is absurd, philosophically false, and erroneous
in faith."—Decree of Pope Urbain XIII. (signed) by
Cardinals Felia, Guido, Desiderio, Antonio, Belligero, and Fabricius.

In consequence of that infallible decree of the infallible Pope,
Galileo, in order to escape death, was obliged to fall on his knees
and perjure himself, by signing the following declaration on the
22nd of June, 1663:

"I abjure, curse and detest the error and heresy of the motion
of the earth around the sun."

In obedience to that decree, the two learned Jesuit astronomers,
Lesueur and Jacquier, in Rome, only a few years ago,
made the following declaration: "Newton assumes, in his third
book, the hypothesis of the earth moving around the sun. The
proposition of that author could not be explained, except through
the same hypothesis; we have, therefore, been forced to act a
character not our own. But we declare our entire submission to
the decrees of the supreme Pontiff of Rome against the motion
of the earth."—Newton's Principia, by Fathers Lesueur and
Jacquier, vol. iii., page 450.

"A Catholic should never attach himself to any political party
composed of heretics. No one who is truly, at heart, a thorough
and complete Catholic, can give his entire adhesion to a Protestant
leader; for in so doing, he divides his allegiance, which he
owes entirely to the church."—Univers, the official Catholic paper
of the Bishops of France, Mar. 28th, 1868.

"Would he (the priest) be warranted in withholding any
sacrament of the church from a man by reason of his preferring
one candidate to the other! Absolutely speaking, he would;
because a priest is not only warranted, but bound to withhold,
the sacraments from a man who is disposed to commit a mortal
sin!!"—Bishop Vaughan's address to the Catholic Club at Salford,
England, Jan. 2nd, 1873.

"Our business is to contrive:

"1st. That the Catholics be imbued with hatred for the
heretics, whoever they may be, and that this hatred shall constantly
increase, and bind them closely to each other.

"2nd. That it be, nevertheless, dissembled, so as not to
transpire until the day when it shall be appointed to break
forth.

"3rd. That this secret hate be combined with great activity
in endeavoring to detach the faithful from every government
inimical to us, and employ them, when they shall form a detached
body, to strike deadly blows at heresy."—Secret Plans
of the Jesuits, revealed by Albate Leon, p. 127.

Henry IV., King of France, after being wounded by an assassin
sent by the Jesuits, said: "I am compelled to do one of
these two things: Either recall the Jesuits, free them from the
infamy and disgrace with which they are covered, or to expel
them in a more absolute manner, and prevent them from approaching
either my person or my kingdom.

"But, then, we will drive them to despair and to the resolution
of attempting my life again, which would render it so miserable
to me, being always under the apprehension of being
murdered, or poisoned. For these people have correspondence
everywhere, and are so very skillful in disposing the minds of
men to whatever they wish, that I think it would be better that
I should be already dead."—Sully's Memoirs, tome ii., chap. iii.

"Let us bring all our skill to bear upon this part of our plan.
Our chief concern must be to mould the people to our purposes.
Doubtless, the first generation will not be wholly ours; but the
second will nearly belong to us: and the third entirely."—The
Secret Plan, page 127-128.

"The state is, therefore, only an inferior court, bound to receive
the law from the superior court (the church) and liable to
have its decrees reversed on appeal."—Brownson's Essays, pages
282-284.

"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 the 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 the most enormous of abuses."

—Memorial of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena, by
General Montholon, vol. ii., p. 62.

"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 authority. Every act, every crime, however
atrocious, is a meritorious work, if committed for the interest of
the Society of the Jesuits, or by the order of its general."—
Memorial of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena, vol. ii., p.
174.

In the allocution of Sept. 1851, Pope Pius IX. said:

"That he had taken that principle for basis: That the Catholic
religion, with all its votes, ought to be exclusively dominant
in such sort that every other worship shall be banished and interdicted!

"You ask if the Pope were lord of this land and you were
in a minority, what he would do to you? That, we say, would
entirely depend on circumstances. If it would benefit the cause
of Catholicism, he would tolerate you; if expedient, he would
imprison, banish you, probably he might even hang you. But
be assured of one thing, he would never tolerate you for the
sake of your glorious principles of civil and religious liberty."
—Rambler, one of the most prominent Catholic papers of England,
Sept. 1851.

Lord Acton, one of the Roman Catholic peers of England,
reproaching her bloody and anti-social laws to his own church,
wrote: "Pope Gregory VII. decided it was no murder to kill
excommunicated persons. This rule was incorporated in the
canon law. During the revision of the code, which took
place in the 16th century, and which produced a whole volume
of corrections, the passage was allowed to stand. It appears in
every reprint of the Corpus Juris. It has been for 700 years,
and continues to be, part of the ecclesiastical law. Far from
being a dead letter, it obtained a new application in the days of
the Inquisition; and one of the later Popes has declared that the
murder of a Protestant is so good a deed that it atones, and more

than atones, for the murder of a Catholic."—The London Times,
July 20th, 1872.

In the last council of the Vatican, has the Church of Rome
expressed any regret for having promulgated and executed such
bloody laws? No! On the contrary, she has anathematized all
those who think or say that she was wrong when she deluged
the world with the blood of the millions she ordered to be
slaughtered to quench her thirst for blood; she positively said that
she had a right to punish those heretics by tortures and death.

Those bloody and anti-social laws, were written on the banners
of the Roman Catholics, when slaughtering 100,000 Waldenses
in the mountains of Piedmont, and more than 50,000 defenceless
men, women and children in the city of Bezieres. It
is under the inspiration of those diabolical laws of Rome, that
75,000 Protestants were massacreed, the night and following
week of St. Bartholomew.

It was to obey those bloody laws that Louis XIV. revoked
the Edict of Nantes, caused the death of half a million of men,
women and children, who perished in all the highways of France,
and caused twice that number to die in the land of exile, where
they had found a refuge.

Those anti-social laws, to-day, are written on her banners
with the blood of ten millions of martyrs. It is under those
bloody banners that 6,000 Roman Catholic priests, Jesuits and
bishops, in the United States, are marching to the conquest of
this Republic, backed by their seven millions of blind and obedient
slaves.

Those laws, which are still the ruling laws of Rome, were
the main cause of the last rebellion of the Southern States.

Yes! without Romanism, the last awful civil war would
have been impossible. Jeff Davis would never have dared to
attack the North, had he not had assurance from the Pope, that
the Jesuits, the bishops, the priests and the whole people of the
Church of Rome, under the name and mask of Democracy,
would help him.

These diabolical and anti-social laws of Rome caused a Roman
Catholic (Beauregard) to be the man chosen to fire the first

gun at Fort Sumter, against the flag of Liberty, on the 12th of
April, 1861. Those antichristian and anti-social laws caused the
Pope of Rome to be the only crowned prince in the whole
world, so depraved as to publicly shake hands with Jeff Davis,
and proclaim him President of a legitimate government.

These are the laws which led the assassins of Abraham Lincoln
to the house of a rabid Roman Catholic woman, Mary Surratt,
which was not only the rendezvous of the priests of Washington,
but the very dwelling-house of some of them.

That woman, gifted by God to be an angel of peace and
mercy on earth, was changed by those laws into a bloodthirsty
tigress; for she had smelt the blood which, everywhere, comes
from the robe, the hands and the lips of the priest of Rome.

Those bloody and infernal laws of Rome nerved the arm of
the Roman Catholic, Booth, when he slaughtered one of the
noblest men God has ever given to the world.

Those bloody and anti-social laws of Rome, after having
covered Europe with ruins, tears and blood, for ten centuries,
have crossed the oceans to continue their work of slavery and
desolation, blood and tears, ignorance and demoralization, on
this continent. Under the mask and name of Democracy,
they have raised the standard of rebellion of the South against
the North, and caused more than a half million of the most
heroic sons of America to fall on the fields of carnage.

In a very near future, if God does not miraculously prevent
it, those laws of dark deeds and blood will cause the prosperity,
the rights, the education, and the liberties of this too confident
nation, to be buried under a mountain of smoking and bloody
ruins. On the top of that mountain, Rome will raise her throne
and plant her victorious banners.

Then she will sing her Te Deums and shout her shouts of
joy, as she did, when she heard the lamentations and cries of
desolation of the millions of martyrs burning in the five thousand
auto-da-fes she had raised in all the capitals and great cities
of Europe.