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CHRIST AND TRUE REPUBLICANISM.
Published with the design to promote Conventions for Union of true
Christians or true Republicans, to prevent so far as possible the
approaching and impending great destruction of human
life and property in these U. S. of America:
ALSO,
To introduce more fully and establish the promised Universal Republic of
Harmony and Peace, commonly called the Millennium.
BY ANDREW B. SMOLNIKAR,
Formerly Priest of the Benedictine Order, and Imperial Royal Professor
of Biblical Literature.
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CATHOLIC PATRIARCH
HUGH KIRKLAND,
Virtute Clavorum et Clavium.
1853.
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ALSO,
To introduce more fully and establish the promised Universal Republic of
Harmony and Peace, commonly called the Millennium.
BY ANDREW B. SMOLNIKAR,
Formerly Priest of the Benedictine Order, and Imperial Royal Professor
of Biblical Literature.
REVISED AND PUBLISHED BY THE TRUE AMERICAN CHRISTIAN
CATHOLIC PATRIARCH
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HUGH KIRKLAND,
Virtute Clavorum.
1853.

CATH. PATR. KIRKLAND.
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PREFACE:
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All inhabitants of these U. S. may be viewed as constituting two
parties, viz: 1st. Monarchists, and 2d. Republicans. If we ask
those professing citizenship in this Republic, to which of the be-
fore-named two parties each of them belongs, we presume very few
among them would dare to confess that they belong to the party of
Monarchists; but most would say they belong to the Republican
class; although a large number of them would tell this hypocritical-
ly, knowing well that they support the Pope of Rome, the Monarch
of Monarchs; or that they are supporting some of the Monarchs
who are directed and controlled by the Pope and his Priests, or by
Protestant Ministers who have more or less of Popish tradition which
tends to monarchy. This is fact, even though the larger portion of
Monarchists in this Republic may be ignorant that they are support-
ing Monarchs, because the Papal Imperial royal powers through a
long course of centuries have learned such a system of politics,
that they can affect and influence free nations in such a gradual
manner as to make them entirely mature for the Popish Imperial
Royal, or Anti-Christian government. Now, in this country they
have advanced thus far. Attention! readers of the following
pages.
Attentive readers may see and judge for themselves in what
manner and in how great a degree this Republic has been ruined
by monarchists, and this while citizens who desire to be true repub-
licans were not aware of the most treacherous machinations to make
it a Papal Imperial Royal Empire; nor did they understand the
real nature and tendency of many facts which have taken place, to
change this republic into various monarchies, although these facts
were published either by traitors to this country, or by ignoramuses
of what every true republican, especially editors of newspapers,
should have known, as having some other tendency than the ruin of
this republic. How many editors, professing to be Protestants, have
published many columns in their papers respecting the Irish refugee
Meagher, and patriot as he is called, and his speeches? Have any
of them penetrated into the depths of his movements? Have they
in this respect opened the eyes of their readers, or of their brother
editors, by representing his movements as they should be represent-
ed? If such editors had taken into consideration only these circum-
stances, that Meagher's family, one of the richest in Ireland, had
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advanced so far in the worship of the Holy Father, the Pope of
Rome, (who, according to true republican principles, is the most
dreadful Monarch, and fell destroyer of human rights,) that a broth
er of this Meagher became Captain of the Pope's Guard, they had
soon discovered the proper tendency of his movements in America,
and informed the people of this republic of their highest duties un.
der these circumstances.
But alas! among the many classes of citizens in this country we
find, among editors of newspapers, officials, office seekers and priests
of all sects, the larger portions of those by whom this Republic is
ruined, nor can it be saved from the grasp of Monarchs with weap-
ons of iron, but by a true conversion of the people to the principles
of truth and righteousness, as they are unfolded and disclosed at
the present manifestation of Christ's Spirit, by instrumentality of
our mission, to arouse nations for co-operation, to establish the true
Church of Christ, usually called the Millennial Church, which will
be the great Republic, in which Truth, Righteousness and Peace,
that is, Christ's Spirit, will reign.
This nation must be converted, i. e.: become truly republican, or
which is the same, truly Christian, free from all sects and parties,
entirely open to conviction, ready to receive truth, whenever it ap-
pears sufficiently proved, and to act accordingly, or it inust be partly
destroyed in revolutions and wars, and its people subjugated by
Monarchs. Matters have arrived so far, that if a sufficient number
of those who desire to be true republicans, will refuse to unite in
Christ's spirit, being ready to forsake all things, when truth and
righteousness demand the sacrifice, they cannot be delivered from
the hands of Monarchs. If the people of these U. S. continue to
be so sectarian, each one so attached to his religious association, or
political party; if editors of newspapors, publishers of periodicals
and books, and if officials continue to be so corrupt as I have found
them, while traveling in more than twenty of the United States,
and applying to influential men of different religious sects and poli-
tical creeds, as also to open and secret societies, whenever I had
opportunity to meet with them, then most certainly after all the
preparations which have been made, the Pope of Rome will not re-
quire much assistance from his first-born sons and daughters, the
Emperors, Kings and Queens, to bring into his Church, or kill by
his inquisition the members of the three hundred sects of heretics.
or rebels, which are in this country, and to divide this Republic into
Monarchies and give them Kings of such families as have given
him the greatest assistance in the subjugation of heretics.
According to his principles he regards all Protestants as heretics,
those excepted who, under mask of Protestantism, render greater
service to his infernal schemes, than if they would appear as open
papists. And since his principle is, "Divide et regna;" divide thy
adversaries into as many sects and parties as possible, and then thou
wilt obtain the power and government over them all, is it not evi-
dent that his cause is a hopeful one? Besides, the heads of Pro-
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testant sects and political parties, knew, and know well, how to give
the best assistance to their Pope in Rome, and have divided the
Protestant body in the United States into more than three hundred
religious sects, and Priests or Ministers in all these sects become
servants of the Pope, by supporting each one his own sect, instead
of supporting the true Protestant or true Christian principle, which
is the principle of free discussion, and spreading of truth when 'tis
made manifest by free discussion.
When I applied to Protestants for the use of their meeting-houses
for preaching, some among them were willing to give them, parti-
cularly when I assured them that I would explain prophesies re-
garding the Pope of Rome. But when I mentioned that the popish
Church is the Mother, and that their sects and parties are her dear
daughters and grand daughters, and that the leaders of sects were
small popes or small tyrants, they united with papists in persecu-
ting me. I could scarcely believe it to be possible on reading (be-
fore my departure from the seaport of Trieste for America,) a Ger-
man work explaining the tenets of the three hundred sects of the
United States and their abominable deeds. But alas! it is but too
true. In my travels and labors in this country I have met with
divisions and sub-divisions of sects, and I have found their number
was not exaggerated.
No person can be a true disciple of Christ if he is not ready to
forsake his father and mother, wife and children, and all his pro-
perty, when Christ and His cause requires him to do so; nor is any
person a true Republican, or true Christian, if he is not ready to
come out from his sect or his party, and profess the true Republican
or true Christian principie; to prove or investigate freely all things
which are of importance for the true Republic, or the true Church
of Christ, and to hold fast and spread in the world that which is
good or beneficial to and for mankind.
I would be a traitor to my mission, which is the mission of every
true Christian, if I were afraid to declare truth, that I might not
offend any party or sect of Babylon, or confusion and delusion, all
of which must and will disappear, and in and on its place the Hea-
venly Jerusalem, or Truth and righteousness according to the true
Republican or true Christian principle will be established. And
we have the promise of Heavenly assistance in establishing it.
But if Americans will continue to treat the true republican prin-
ciple, supported by me, in such manner as I have experienced un-
til now, I will then have greater hope sooner to convert my Slavo-
nian nation and the Emperor of Russia as their representative into
true republicans, than citizens of these U. S. But I act as a true
citizen of this republic, in hope that people at length will be aroused
from their incredible lethargy.
Now, after many and various trials for this purpose I have writ-
ten the following pages in this city of Pittsburgh, and have made
many applications to private persons as well as to representatives of
such societies as are boasting that they are maintaining the true
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Tepalilican principle; but each of them when tried by me, it was
found that they were supporting the monarchical principle, and
therefore I could get no assistance from them to publish these
pages.
Then I took my departure from Allegheny county and proceeded
to one which I thought to be less subjugated by the Papal Imperial
Royal powers, than any other county in Pennsylvania. In this I
preached in a number of churches, explaining prophesies and the
signs of the times, also obtaining names of subscribers for printing
the following pages.
But when success had nearly crowned my
efforts, a Papist, (digging coals near to a village, in the Presbyterian
church of which village I was preaching,) has shown that he exer-
cised such a power not only over a large audience in a Presbyterian
meeting-house, but also over the Judge, the Court, the Bar, Justices
of the Peace, and the whole county, that I had to run from the
place, where I could find no refuge or justice. Then I returned to
Allegheny county, in hopes that the case which will be annexed to
these pages, written many weeks before this preface, will at length
open the eyes of citizens of this county to publish my pamphlet,
and to act with me for the support and spreading of the true repub-
lican or true christian cause.
This preface was written on the 29th day of November, 1853,
"in vigilia sancti Andreæ Apostoli," the 16th anniversary of my
arrival in America, and the 58th anniversary of my birth-day; be-
cause it was the same day and the same hour when I first touched
American soil as when, I was born, 42 years before that, "in civitate
collapsa," which in my native language is called Kamnik, in Ger-
unan Stein, in English Stone of Illyria or Illyricum: Rom. xv:19;
and I hope that the American people will begin to be born for the
true republican and true christian principle, and that they will co-
operate for the redemption of mankind from the yoke of monarchs
with their sincere brother and fellow-citizen,
ANDREW B. SMOLNIKAR.
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PERSONS AND PARTIES:
THEIR
PRINCIPLES AND OPERATIONS,
Considered with reference to the Dispensation of
the Fulness of Times. Eph. 1:10.
There are two classes of persons among men, who not only hin-
der but prevent the introduction of Harmony, Peace and Happiness,
to which the people are entitled in virtue of their intellectual and
moral faculties, and physical strength to realize them, but also in virtue
of the promise given by the prophetical spirit which foresaw and
foretold its realization.
To the first class belong those deluded people who think the te-
nets of their church cannot be improved, and endeavor to remain in
a perpetual stagnation, supporting blindly such principles as, when
examined with a sound mind, and in application of all the means
which knowledge and science can afford, appear not to be according
to truth, but accordant with delusion; not to be beneficial, but perni-
cious, and therefore not to be tolerated, but abolished, by spreading
light on subjects which men should know to enable them to enjoy
that happiness which they are able to realize by uniting knowledge
and strength for the common welfare.
1
The second class are those persons among the people who have
discovered that Churches should not be in stagnation, but in progres-
sion; but who are not prepared to penetrate through the surface of
creeds into the depths of realities, to perceive truth as it will be per-
ceived by the application of the whole amount of human knowl
edge, and who, instead of occupying a higher ground than the pres-
ent churches do occupy, descend to a level with beasts, and in their
brutal ignorance of all the testimonies which were given through
the course of centuries, and continue to be given in a great abun-
dance in our time, for the continuation of the personal existence of
man in his interior body after his departure from his corruptible or
exterior body, and his close connexion with his congenial friends
living in their corruptible bodies, they are trusting in weapons of
war to destroy tyrants, not knowing that these weapons are unfit for
the introduction of a reasonable or christian government, and that
with these weapons if one tyrant is destroyed, a number of others
are raised, to divide amongst themselves the prey, from which they
may have repelled their antagonists.
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i.
Now, the wrong course of these two classes of persons hereto-
fore has been the main cause of the destruction of human life and
property, occasioning hindrances to the progression of our race to-
wards the promised New Era of Harmony and Peace. And these
two classes are still preparing weapons in great abundance for the
destruction of life and property, as if there was not for men a nobler
destiny than learning the art of butchering each other.
In the year 1832, which was the thirteenth of my Priesthood and
fifth of my Professorship in the Roman Catholic Church, and after
having been (for what happened) duly prepared by continuous stu-
dies, from earliest youth, besides having an earnest desire to learn
to know truth, that I might act accordingly, for the good of man,
and welfare of the human race. 'Twas then my eyes were so un-
expectedly and wonderfully opened that I began to understand the
prophetical position of the Roman Church and her daughters, and
the signs of the times, according to prophecies, for their abolition
by Christ's spirit, and for the introduction of Christ's peaceable
reign, or the Great Republic in which nations will be united in and
by the spirit of truth and righteousness.
From that period till now I have been preparing to give testimo-
ny in due season, respecting that which had been disclosed to me;
but experiencing that the Austrian government, under which I held
and performed my offices before-mentioned, was not ready to exam-
ine my testimony, much less spread it in the world, I then had to
depart for America. For that purpose, a passport from the govern-
ment was needed, which I received, after explanation, that I had
been called by the spirit to America, to labor in that field for the
union of nations in the Church of Christ. I, however, under-
stood, the true Church of Christ, which will be established in the
place of the prophetical or Papal Church; but the government un-
derstood the papal church, by which Monarchs are supported.
From the year 1838 I performed in America, under guidance of
Christ's Spirit, that which was required according to prophesies for
the abolition of Popery, and published its explanation, with the signs:
and prophesies by which it has been confirmed, in five German'
volumes, which were printed from 1838 to 1842. But by the ex-
ertions of the above mentioned two classes, the circulation of my
volumes was stopped, and the Papal Imperial Royal agency against
the liberties of this country was patronized powerfully not only by
Romanists, but also by Protestants, who preferred private interests
to the common welfare, else they were deceived so that they thought
they were supporting a true Republican, which is the same as a
true Christian; whilst they were supporting a Monarchical, which
is the same as anti-Christian government, and they steadily refused
to pay attention to my message, in which these matters are explain-
ed. By ignorance of these things, in the year 1849, bloody revo-
lutions and wars, which had been predicted in my publications.
broke out in Europe, and chained nations with new shackels forged
by Monarchs, when as in use and by application of means shown
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in my writings, Monarchies of this world would have been convert-
ed in a peaceable manner into the Great Republic which will be
Christ's peaceable reign on earth. While revolutions and wars
were raging dreadfully in Europe, I thonght it the proper time
to commence, in a new manner, to exhort Bishops and others to ex-
amine my Message of Peace and the credentials of my Mission,
which is the mission of every true Christian.
At that time I was aroused. by peculiar circumstances, to invite,
by letter, Michael O'Connor, Roman Catholic Bishop in this city of
Pittsburgh, to appoint a time and place for a public reading of my
Latin Manuscript, in which is concentrated what every true Chris-
tian should know, to co-operate for the union and peace of nations,
and which I wrote in Latin that it might be sent to the Pope and all
his Cardinals and Bishops, because they are the first in duty bound
to act for this co-operation, because the follies of their administration
have produced, in the Christian Church, the two above-mentioned
classes of people, by whom revolutions and wars were nurtured
through the long course of many Christian centuries, and who are
now preparing the most tremendous destruction of human life and
property. I invited the Bishop to appear with as many Divines
as he could assemble, that they might first hear the reading of my
Latin Manuscript, and then reply in writing what they should deem
proper, that their eply with my remarks might be annexed to my
manuscript and published in Latin and in translations, that every
person might be able to examine matters for themselves and learn
what is most needed for the harmony and peace of nations. And
in the first place, that Bishops might do this, because their anti-
christian proceedings advance in these United States in the same
manner as they did in France, and caused that dreadful Revolution
in which, at the end of the last century, besides hundreds of thou-
sands of others, also twenty-four thousand Priests, that is, all Priests
who did not escape, were killed in France. The Bishop answered
my long Latin letter in a short manner. His answer is very suitable
to the present circumstances, therefore I publish it here verbatim et
punctuatim, in Latin and in English, as follows:
"Andreæ Smolniker, M. O'Connor, Episcopus Pittsburgensis-
Quod de doctis sacerdotibus gratis asseris multo sæpius verum est
de iis qui se legatos Christi" appellant-eos nempe esse incredu-
los. Cum tu extra Ecclesiam Christi apostasia tua te constitueris
extra corpus ejus es, et fidem sine qua impossibile est placere Deo
abjecisti. Quid, ergo, doceas parum refert cum extra doceas quamvis
sicut omnes alii Heretici ex Scripturis doctrinam tuam extundere
coneris.
"Pro nobis scire sufficit Jesum Christum heri et hodie ipsumque
et in sæcula Nobis providisse media quibus quæ ad salutem necessa
ria vel utilia sunt addiscere possimus. In Ecclesia nimirum san-
guine suo mundata salutis viam Nobis reliquit. Huic a Christo fir-
mitatem derivanti quamvis ab hæreticis et apostatis rejectæ. Nos
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inbærentes imbecilles minas eorum despicimus qui se "Legatos Chris-
ti" vocant, et qui. (si ab iis legationis suæ extraordinarite signum
rogetur,) ne claudum quidem canem sanitati restituere valent.
"Ut te nefandi apostasiæ criminis pœniteat aliquando, et salutis
quam Christus etiam pro carnificibus rogavit particeps fias ex corde
Deum precor quod ut fiat necesse est ut de blasphemia qua tế
"Christi legatum" constituis eosque quos ille constituit rejicis ex
corde doleas vitamque emendes. Datum Pittsburgi, die Sa Mart,
1849." Which means:
M. O'Connor, Bishop of Pittsburgh, to Andrew Smolnikar:-
What you assert without reason in regard to learned Priests, is very
often true in regard to those who call themselves Christ's Legates, to
wit: that they are Infidels. Whereas you have constituted your-
self, by your apostacy, outward of Christ's Church, you are out of
her body, and you have rejected the Faith, without which it is im-
possible to please God. Therefore, it is of small concern what you
teach, because you teach outward, although, as all other heretics,
you endeavor to extort your doctrine from Scripture.
For us it is sufficient to know that Jesus Christ, who is yesterday,
to-day and all times, has provided the means by which we are able
to learn what is needful or useful for salvation; to wit, he has left us
the way to salvation in the Church cleansed with his blood. To
this Church, which derives her strength from Christ, although she
is rejected by heretics and apostates, we inhere and despise the fee-
ble threats of those who call themselves "Christ's Legates," and who
(if you require a sign of their extraordinary legation,) are not able
to restore a lame dog to his health.
I pray God with all my heart that you might repent the execra-
ble crime of apostacy, and that you might partake of the salvation
which Christ prayed also for his executioners. That it might hap-
pen, it is necessary that you regret with all your heart the blasphe-
my with which you constitute yourself Christ's Legate and reject
those whom he has constituted, and mend your life.
Given in Pittsburgh on the 3d day of March, 1849.
It would be necessary to copy my long letter to the Bishop and
then to write an extended treatise to show all the follies contained
in this answer, in which the spirit by whom Popish Bishops and
Priests are inspired is made manifest. I mentioned in my letter
that in my Latin manuscript, to the examination of which I invited
him and his clergy, the credentials of our mission is concentrated.
These credentials have been given for all men and women, by whose
instrumentality the promised New Era will be established. They
appear according to prophecies as Christ's Legates for the introduc
tion of the Dispensation of the Fulness of Times: Eph. I:10, in which
nations will be united, not in the Pope of Rome, but in the' Spirit of
Jesus Christ, which is the Spirit of Truth and Righteousness, Harmo-
ny and Peace, and they will show their true faith by their works;
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but in Popedom many learned Priests prove to be Infidels, supporting
follies by which nations are fighting and destroying each other. I
understood, in my letter to Bishop O'Connor, by the learned Priests
in the first place Bishops, because learned Priests who apply their
learning to support the usurpations and pretensions of the Pope, are
used by him as Bishops or Inspectors of other Priests.
Wherever I challenged Bishops and others to examine my Mes-
sage of Peace and they refused to do so, the Spirit of darkness, by
whom they are inspired, was made manifest in a similar manner as
in the above copied letter of Bishop Michael O'Connor. He pro-
ved to be a terrible infidel. I invited him with the clergy of his
Diocese, and others to come and hear the reading of the Signs which
happened according to Prophecies for the establishment of the pro-
mised harmony and peace on earth. But instead of accepting my
invitation to come and examine the argument of my assertion, he,
without an examination of the matter, declared me to be an apostate
and Heretic; but in the same connexion he confessed that he is of the
Band of those who are Infidels. He confesses at the end of the let-
ter that I reject those whom Christ had constituted to be his Legates;
but at the commencement of the letter he tells, that many who call
themselves Christ's Legates are Infidels. Ideny that Christ had consti-
tuted Popish Bishops to be his Legates. They are Infidels, as the
Spirit by whom Bishop O'Connor was possessed while he was wri-
ting the above copied letter was compelled to confess, and Bishop
O'Connor was such a blind writing Medium of the Demon, that he
was not aware what he was writing. Popish Bishops are Infidels.
who call themselves Successors of the Apostles, which is the same
as Christ's Apostles, or Christ's Legates, because a Successor of an
Apostle is as certainly an Apostle, as a regal successor to a King is
a King. And Bishop O'Connor asserts the same at the end of the
copied letter, that Christ has constituted Popish Bishops to be his
Legates. Legate in Latin means the same as Apostle in Greek.-
But Popish Bishops are laboring, not to establish Christ's Govern-
ment or the great Republic of Truth and Righteousness, Harmony
and Peace, but have been supporting, through a long course of cen-
turies, and continue to support the most dreadful, warlike and des-
potic monarchy, inspired and filled with all kinds of absurd errors.
and most abominable practices. After having crushed in Europe
the Freedom which nations should enjoy in Christ, they keep them
in bondage by an enormous militia, who consume the produce of
the laboring classes, to kill and to be killed, and they have rejected
with such impertinence as their Representative shows in the copied
letter, all my invitations to learn the Message of Peace, and have
prepared in these United States and vicinity as much fuel for fierce
and fiery revolutions and wars as was in their power.
Their pa-
pers and books are filled with most arrogant boasting of their hav-
ing the means for salvation which are not elsewhere, and the most
abusive treatment of Heretics, that is, of those who know that they
do not need the Pope and his Bishops as Mediums to come to Christ,
( 13 )
but that these ministers of darkness are rather impediments than
assistants in their coming to Christ.
While traveling among the Indians, I found they were inspired
by Popish Priests with an incredible hatred to Protestants, and they
will be good instruments of the first born sons and daughters of the
Pope, that is, of Monarchs, to effect enormous destruction by sallies
from woods upon those who will not be ready to defend themselves.
The black Emperor of Hayti was crowned and inspired by Jesuits,
to make as great preparation as possible for fighting, to assist white
Emperors and Kings in their conspiracy against the liberties of this
country. And Santa Anna is assisted by crowds of Spanish sub-
jects and other Europeans in converting Mexico into a land of sol-
diers. I saw accounts in newspapers, before commencing to write
this, of fifty thousand new soldiers in Mexico, large numbers of
whom are Spanish subjects. The most Popish are the most war-
like countries, that is, countries in which comparatively the greatest
amount of life and property is destroyed. The Pope and his Bish-
ops are preparing people for destruction, because they are laboring
with great zeal to make all men and women on the whole earth to
be their sheep. At length some begin to feel that they are not
sheep, but men and women; but others remain sheep of the Pope,
and his first born sons and daughters, to whom they give their wool.
They are employed as wild beasts to kill those who will not belong
to the l'ope's flock, and to be killed by them; because Bishops them-
selves who pretend to be Pastors, are found to be Wolfs, i. e. wolves,
Their representative is Anthony Aloysy Wolf, Prince Bishop of my
native Diocese, Laibach. After this Wolf had in such manner de-
ceived Ferdinand, Emperor of Austria, that he neglected to fulfil
his high duty in regard to my Message of Peace. by the power of
the Spirit, I compelled this Bishop Wolf to confess his conspiracy in
a letter directed to me, which was published in the fourth of my
before mentioned five volumes, and that letter occasioned the writing
of three hundred pages, where many abominations of Bishops were
made manifest, which without that letter would not have been dis-
closed. Notwithstanding all the instructions and warnings given to
Bishops, they remained obstinate sinners against the Holy Spirit;
but after that I received no writing from any Bishop, except the
above copied answer of Bishop O'Connor to my letter, which was
occasioned by a Priest and Professor of Divinity in the Theological
Institution at Birmingham, near Pittsburgh. The Professor affirm-
ed, in a conversation with me, besides other absurdities, that Luther
was a hog, because he married a Nun. I invited the Professor to a
public discussion of the matter, whether it would not be better for
Priests, Monks and Nuns to marry, than to continue in celibacy,
and other matters which should be made known to Priests. He
declined accepting my invitation.
In Allegheny city I met with Professor Mosettitsch, a spy from
the Austrian government. I was acquainted with that Priest during
our studies in the city of Laibach; then he was Professor of Divin-
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ity in Goricia, while I was Professor in Clagenfurt; but he was offi-
ciating as Parson in Allegheny city, and as Vicar General of Bishop
O'Connor, and in these offices he had good opportunity to find out
many secrets useful for his government. When I found in my con-
versations with him that he was an obstinate sinner against the
Holy Spirit, I used him as my letter carrier to Bishop O'Connor.-
But when he brought me no answer, though I wrote the Bishop that
he should either directly return my letter or send an answer, I then
wrote a second letter, and sent it by a citizen of Pittsburgh to Bish-
op O'Connor, and required that he should either directly send me an
answer or return both letters. Then he wrote as above copied, from
which it is manifest that be belongs to the Band of those men who
are named by Jesus Christ, Wolves. Those wolves have roused not
only those nations by whom the United States are surrounded to a
warlike spiru, to kill and to be killed for the advantage of the Po-
pish Dominion, but they have also gained in the United States mil-
lions of inen for the same abominable purposes; and powerful bodies
which seem not to be Popish, bave inherited the Popish Spirit and
exercise it against the liberties of this country. For instance, Mor-
monism is nothing else but Popery in a new Protestant form, and
the government of Utah Territory is secretly inimical to the gov-
ernment of the United States. But its secret hatred will become
manifest, and I wish that it might become known before it may be
too late to make use of our Solemn Warning.
I did not find much of that kind of republican spirit by which ci-
tizens of the United States must be inspired and roused to action if
they would escape the yoke of Monarchs, while I was traveling in
more than twenty of the United States, seeking assistance against
the usurpations of the Pope of Rome and other Monarchs; but all
kind of Humbugs, preparatory to the subjugation of this Country
by the Pope and his first born Sons and Daughters, received great
support, while I was left without assistance.
Were I to write volumes instead of a Circular, I would disclose
unexpected things in reference to this point; but I only mention that
after having endeavored to move Bishop O'Connor to examine my
Message of Peace, I applied in several cities to such Protestant Cler-
gymen as profess to be Latin scholars, to furnish me a place for
holding a Convention for examining my Latin Manuscript, and to
publish my invitation, which would draw Roman Catholic Bishops
and Priests to our Convention, else they must continue to appear be-
fore their own sheep as manifest enemies of God and Man. But I
could not succeed in moving them to render assistance in this most
important and just cause; because they are either ignorantly or wit-
tingly supporting the government of the Pope in this Country. At
length I hired the American Hall, in the city of New York, pub-
lished in an English Circular the appointment of a Latin Conven-
tion, sent the Circular and a long Latin letter to the Archbishop of
Baltimore, exhorting him to come with other Bishops and Priests to
our Convention on the 15th of May, 1840.
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In the letter to the Archbishop of Baltimore, I quoted a large por-
tion of the above copied letter of Bishop O'Connor, showing that it
was written in a Demoniac State, and how Bishops and Priests should
relieve themselves from being blind instruments of malicious De-
mons, by coming to the appointed convention with a sincere desire
to find out truth, and to examine freely, without prejudice, the Cre-
dentials of my mission which is the mission of every true Christian,
And in the first place Bishops and Priests should not be obstinate
Infidels, but carefully examine the long chain of Signs according to
prophecies, which will be shown in the Convention; Signs worthy
of the glorious mission which we have received to establish Christ's
peaceable Reign on Earth; because the time has arrived, according to
prophecies, when the great promise of Harmony and Peace on
earth will be accomplished by the instrumentality of true Christians
in this Age. But to restore a lame Dog, to health, (referring to what
is said by Bishop O'Connor in the above copied letter.) is not befit-
ting our mission; but it would be more suitable for Popish Bishops
than to transubstantiate wafers into their Christs, and to give the
same power to others when ordaining them to be Priests.
I did all I could to move the Archbishop of Baltimore and the
whole Synod, to send most able Theologians to our Convention; but
they rather preferred to be Governors in this Country, as appointed
by their Lord and Monarch, the Pope, than to be true christians. A
Popish Bishop in this country is nothing else but a Governor, receiv-
ing power and jurisdiction from the Pope. Every Popish Bishop
in this country exercises as much jurisdiction, so far as his power
extends, and applies all his influence for the subjugation of the
whole earth to be under control of the Pope, who claims to be the
infallible Monarch of the Church, and that to be saved it is necessa-
ry that all should unite with his Church.
The Archbishop and his Bishops were not yet ready to come to my
Latin Convention, and learn to know their dreadful delusion and be
true Christians, and Christ's Legates, co-operating with us for Christ's
peaceable Reign. Nor would other Latin scholars attend that Con-
vention which had been appointed, to be conducted in the Latin lan-
guage, on the 15th May, 1819, in the American Hall of New York,
although they were most urgently invited in my Circular to come
and learn how to sustain the true republican principle and spread it
over the whole earth. Latin scholars receive greater advantages
from Popes, Kings and Queens than from republicans. Therefore
I then translated my Latin Manuscript into German and English,
endeavoring to assemble people to Conventions in those languages.
But Papal Imperial Royal Agents, with whom this country is abun-
dantly supplied, knowing the danger intended as to their Master's
cause from our conventions, deluded the people, and frustrated my.
attempts in such manner that I only succeeded, in the year 1851,
in holding a small English Convention, in which thirteen Resolutions,
to commence the New Era of Harmony and Peace, commonly cal
lod the Millenium, were unanimously adopted, and then published,
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with other things showing in what manner people are magnetized
by Priests, firmly to believe, besides many other incredible things,
that also which Bishops in the Council of Trent decreed according
to the wishes of their Master, the Pope, in Session 13th, Canon 1st,
to wit: "If any body denies that there is in the Holy Sacrament of
the Altar the body and the blood, the soul and the Deity of Jesus
Christ, and consequently the whole Jesus Christ truly, in reality
and essence, let him be Anathema or accursed."
According to the Council of Popish Bishops, all men are accur-
sed and eternally dainned, who do not believe this and other articles
of their faith. The Sacrament of the Altar is made of the water.
or piece of bread, with the power of the Priest, when he speaks
these words in his Mass: "Hoc est Corpus meum:" "This is my
Body." This Sacrament is in every wafer which is transubstantia-
ted with the above quoted words by the Priest while he is saying
Mass, although thousands of these Masses are said every day, and
one Priest transubstantiates sometimes hundreds of wafers in one
Mass to supply all customers who are desirous to receive the Sacra-
ment, that is, to receive the whole Jesus Christ, who, according to
the Popish doctrine, is in each transubstantiated wafer; and if one
wafer is broken into many pieces, each transubstantiated piece con-
tains the whole Jesus Christ, that is, according to our apprehension,
one Jesus Christ is multiplied into as many Jesus Christs as Priests
are pleased to make.
In the same pamphlet in which the above mentioned thirteen Res-
olutions appeared, I published a Lecture on the dreadful abuse of
Human Magnetism in the Mysteries of the Roman Church, by
which readers were enabled to comprehend how Popish Bishops
and Priests could gather immense riches by their masses and multi-
plications of their Christs. But the anti-christian powers soon
made the copies of my pamphlet disappear, because it is extremely
dangerous to their machinations, by which they are subjugating this
country before people are aware of it.
They also know how to control editors, that facts which cannot be
kept secret any longer, are misrepresented in newspapers. I could
fill volumes with instances of this kind; but in this Circular I shall
only mention one. When it could no longer be kept secret that
Papists in this republic were preparing weapons of war, then the
following version of the fact appeared in Protestant newspapers. I
quote from the Monthly Jubilee for August, 1853.
In that paper
we read as follows:
"We quote from the Democratic Review the significant an-
nouncement that the Irish refugees are organizing a power for the
deliverance of their fellow sufferers. They avow the intention to
avail themselves of the first opportunity which shall present itself.
We quote the Review:
There is a spirit abroad among this mass of our citizens, which
has lately been aroused to a degree of resolution that must lead to a
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successful issue in due course of time. This spirit is rapidly ex-
tending to every town, city and village, and the alacrity with which
过 ​progresses shows a degree of earnestness which has been made
the subject of much cominent by many leading friends of Ireland
at present sojourning in America. The spirit of military organiza
tion cannot have escaped the notice of cur citizens within the last
few years, particularly since the Irish 'failure' of 1818. There are
many of the bone and sinew of Ireland here, who would fight, and
they thirst for another blow at England. It is in contemplation, we
are assured, to raise from sixty to one hundred thousand fighting
men in these United States, fully armed, drilled and disciplined, to
be ready at some future day to rescue their native land.”
Not long since, I read the prospectus of a new Irish paper to be
issued in Boston, containing the following remarkable confession :-
We shall endeavor to extend military operations until every Irish-
man capable of bearing armis, is enrolled in some military associa-
tion!"
You will be deceived so long as you are not ready to hear truth,
ahhough it may not be pleasing when it shows how you have been
deluded for many years, by the conspiracy against the liberties to
which you are entitled in Jesus Christ. You will never be well in-
structed concerning the number of emigrants coming from countries
devoted to the Pope if you depend upon Almanacs and the more
popular class of newspapers. Only in one paper I read, that in the
year 1819 about one million of persons crossed the Atlantic Ocean
from Ireland, a large number of them to Canada and from thence
to the Western States. From what I have seen and heard from
those who must know better than many cthers, as to the increase of
Roman Catholics in their own sections of the United States. I found
the statement of an observer of the movements in Ireland much more
exact, than statements of these who reported a lower nunter. And
in regard to the intention of their military movements, it should be
known everywhere that the true Popish spirit considers heretics, cr
Protestants, as Rebels against their Monarch, the Pope. They are
tolerated only so long as it would hurt the interests of the Pope, if
he should proclaim a crusade against them. And the great riches
which are in the United States, are strong alurements for daring en-
terprises. The true Popish spirit, made manifest in buils and other
Popish documents, is the spirit of extermination of Heretics
you will find the same spirit in the above copied leuer of Bishop
O'Connor. Those who arrogantly and boldly refuse to examine the
arguments against their pretensions and usurpations, would certain-
ly apply force to secure their usurpations and gratify their ambition,
if they should feel themselves strong enough to crush their opposers.
To know their power, it is to be understood that
to be understood that many Protestants
are secret Papists, under the Protestant mask rendering greater ser-
vice to the Pope than they could do if they were openly Papists.-
Soon after Queen Victoria's marriage, I heard from several Roman
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Catholics, who seemed to be instructed in the matter, that she, too,
is a secret Roman Catholic, and that she would be such openly if
the law only allowed this to the Queen. Then I observed her steps,
and believed the report.
I read a sermon preached by Father Matthew in Ireland, several
years before his call to this country. He is a Capuchin Monk, and
Capuchin Monks are great and blind instruments of the Pope of
Rome. In that sermon, notes of which were taken by one of his
admirers, while he was preaching, and then it was published in this
country, Father Matthew assured his countrymen that none of them
need emigrate to America, that during the week preceding he had
traveled through millions of acres of the best land in Ireland, not
yet cultivated by any person, and that Irishmen could make as
good a living in their own country as in America. When Father
Matthew was preaching in that style, he did not yet know the se-
cret design of Monarchs and their servants against the liberties of
this country.
But having been let into this secret, he done all in
his power to promote the emigration of Irish people to this country,
and to make citizens of the United States favorable to the enterpri-
ses of his Lord, the Pope of Rome. In commendation of this in-
strument of Monarchs, and the promotion of the cause he advocated,
Protestant Editors used much space in their newspapers. It would
be but a poor excuse if they should say it was the temperance cause
which they patronized, because Popish agents always come under
pretext of reformation. to seduce and enslave so many as they may
be able to move, and this, too, when not aware that they are enchain-
ed. So powerful and successful was Father Matthew that editors
to whom I offered articles showing his proper position, as also of
other Popish agents, they dared not publish them. Such Editors
keep people in darkness concerning the one thing needful, filling
their columns with all kinds of trashy and delusive affairs. For
the present, vague speculations and lengthy reports of the war be-
tween Russia and Turkey fill their columns.
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After this manner the minds of most men are directed to those
places where human life and property are in process of destruction,
whilst few orally, or through the more popular papers of the day,
have moral courage to instruct, direct and exhort people that they
should mourn. Whilst many hearing and reading of such dreadful
things, testifying the greatest possible degradation of our race, how
few are attempting to do that which is most necessary to be done,
to avert similar calamities from this country? The present destruc-
tive scenes occurring in Europe are precursors of unexpectedly
dreadful calamities in this country. Monarchs of Christian name
will not be conquered by the Turks, no matter how great the assis-
tance which may be afforded them by those who are trying to change
European Monarchies into Republics. But the Monarchs have
plenty of arms, provisions, armies, and vessels of war, which, with
the assistance of their almost innumerable friends in America, makes
them feel confident that they are equal to begin so great a butchery.
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as may be necessary to convert this Republic into Monarchies. And
they have great reason to expect that very soon opportunity will
occur to fight, and to fight with success, if the people of this coun-
try have not knowledge of better weapons, and the right manner of
using them against their power, than artillery, powder and bullets,
swords of iron, rifle guns and other weapons of war.
"Religious Liberty, in the sense of liberty possessed by every
man to choose his religion, is one of the most wicked delusions ever
foisted upon this age by the Father of all Deceit;" this is their prin-
ciple, expressed in their newspapers, in their Bullarium Romanum,
and other works containing the Popish Imperial Royal Canon-Law,
which shows the determination of the Pope and his Bishops and
Monks to crush down, not only all religious, but also all political
liberty in the whole earth. They know that it is impossible for
them to rule in security so long as this Republic exists. Therefore
they have been preparing, secretly, weapons of war in this country,
till at length the fact cannot be kept any longer secret. However,
they have numerous Protestant papers, the editors of which give
such a version of this affair that Protestants are as little alarmed as
those were to whom Noah was preaching repentance and prophesy-
ing the near approaching deluge; but they would not believe, and
consequently perished. Papists, who are the same as Monarchists,
are expecting the near approach of their victory against Republi-
cans in the United States. Whether they are right or wrong de-
pends on you, my fellow-citizens and fellow-christians. If you take
the right position and the right steps, making use of the right weap-
ons, all Monarchs of this world cannot prevail against you. But if
you take a wrong position and wrong weapons, you will suffer de-
feat, till you correct your mistakes.
Just as I am revising this sheet, in hopes that I shall at length find
one who will publish it, I see an article, dated New York, Novem-
ber 29, reporting a very great excitement on the arrival of the Irish
refugee, Mitchell. Salutes were fired by the Irish military compa-
nies, and other manifestations of the greatest enthusiasm took place.
Meagher, Col. Doheny, and others, were among the earliest to greet
Mitchell.
The latter part of the 17th chapter of Revelations continues to
be fulfilled in this age. In the 16th verse, Monarchs appear as ex-
ecutioners of judgments against the Harlot, or Church apostatized
from the principles of Truth and Righteousness. Those who be-
long to that Harlot, trust in the arms of the Prince of this world,
and expect they will subjugate Monarchs by revolutions and wars,
not knowing the prophecy, according to which it is evident that in
this manner they will be made naked by Monarchs, that is, depri-
ved of their property and consumed and burnt with fire. But my
mission is to show how to make use of the weapons of the Lamb in
the 14th verse of the 17th chapter of Revelations, to prevail against
the Beast and its Horns, against Popery, Monarchy and all kinds
of Tyranny.
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But
On the 29th of November, 1853, that is, on my birth-day, there
seemed to be such an enthusiasm in the city of New York on the
arrival of a new and great Irish Refugee, i. e., a Great Minister of
the Harlot of the 17th chapter of Revelations, to prepare her for
destruction, as there was at the arrival of Louis Kossuth and his
suite. Kossuth is my countryman, of the same Slavonian nation,
and of the same government; his name is properly Koshuta, which
means a Deer, an animal most persecuted by hunters, and he, as
Grand Master of the Harlot, which according to the 16th verse of
the 17th chapter of Revelations, must be made by Horns, Monarchs
or Hunters, naked and desolate, and be burnt with fire, he deserved
mystical names, farther explanation of which cannot be given in this
small pamphlet, in which many things can only be hinted at.
after he and his companions had destroyed a large proportion of the
people of my nation, and had come as refugees to America, I wrote
to him while he was in New York, to deliver him from the womb of
the Harlot: Rev. xvi1:16, and to prepare him for the warfare which
is directed by the Lamb, and waged by those who are called and
chosen, and faithful: Rev. xvII:14. Then I wrote him again to
Pittsburgh and informed him that I would meet him in Cincinnati.
On his arrival in Cincinnati I gave him in writing so much infor-
mation as was abundantly sufficient to move him to appoint a pri-
vate conversation with me. But he was so cunning that he recei-
ved me in a public audience, and excused himself with not having
time to converse with me, and directed that I should apply to Count
Pulsky.
In the year 1844, a Hungarian Nobleman who, in America, for
several months, had studied my publications and comprehending
my Message of Peace, he was sent by mne to the Imperial Court of
Vienna and to Hungary, to instruct the leading men how to co-op-
erate in a peaceable manner for the fulfilment of the great promises.
It would have been too difficult for Koshuta and his suite to answer
a number of inquiries in connexion with the great question-Why
they used such weapons (Rev. xv: 16,) to destroy the Harlot by
the Ten Horns, instead of using the weapons of the Lamb, (Rev.
xvII:14,) to convert her to be Christ's Bride? Rev. xIx:7. It was
best for him to send me to his Minister, Pulsky, and this man ex-
cused himself as not having been in Hungary at the time when my
messenger arrived there. And since it would have been in vain if
I had complained against the enormous destruction of human life
and property during the dreadful revolution and war, on account
that they despised to study my Message of Peace, and to make the
application of the means prepared in my publications and my man-
uscripts, to destroy the Beast with ten Horns and the Harlot or
Whore, without killing a man. But since they have accomplished
just the contrary of what should have been done to prevent repeti-
tion of like destructions, I demanded from Count Pulsky to move
Kossuth to retire with his suite into a suitable place to examine my
publications and manuscripts, and thus learn how to work, not for
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destruction, but for Harmony and Peace of nations. But after sev
eral conversations with Polsky, he at last brought the ultimatum of
Kossuth that it was impossible for him to change his plans; because
he is not preparing peace, but destruction of nations; and since he
has rejected my advice, he contributed his share to the present war
between Russia and Turkey.
Not to write a volume of solemn warnings, instead of a small pam-
phlet, I will only give some instances, showing how my Lord, the
Lamb, (Rev. xvn:14,) will dethrone those who receive not our Mes-
sage of Peace, when the people are prepared to receive it.
In the year 1838, after the publication of the first of the five Ger-
man volumes mentioned in this pamphlet, copies of it were sent to
Ferdinand, Emperor of Austria, whom I exhorted, in a letter, most
energetically to enjoin on his best Theologians the examination of
my Message of Peace, and to send the result of their examination
to be published with my remarks, to enable people to judge for
themselves correctly concerning these matters. But I received no
answer. Then I published my second volume and sent a box filled
with copies of both volumes to Matthew Raunicher, Bishop of Triest,
directing him in a letter to send copies to the government, and to
proceed in such manner that my volumes might be examined by
Theologians, and the result transmitted to me, to be published with
my remarks. I wrote for the same purpose to Doctor Joseph Pletz,
Imperial Royal Director of Theological Studies, Parson of the Im-
perial Court in Vienna, &c.; to Anthony Aloysy Wolf, Prince Bish-
op of Laibach, and to a number of others, but I received no answer,
excepting from a Professor, who made a journey from my country
to London and wrote me from that city, declaring that it would be
very dangerous to wiite me from any place under the Austrian gov.
ernment.
After that I published the third volume, and sent a box contain
ing copies of the three volumes to the King of Bavaria, exhorting
him in a letter, that the Emperor of Austria having been deceived
by his false prophets, and had failed to perform his highest duty,
that he, the King of Bavaria, should fulfill what the Emperor had
failed to do, and recommend to his Theologians the examination of
my publications, and then convert the other Monarchs. About the
same time, to wit, the end of April, 1840, I also sent a copy of all
three volumes to the King of France, exhorting him to translate and
publish them in French, that the French nation might be among the
first in proclaiming the glorious Message for the introduction and es-
tablishment of Harmony and Peace of and among the nations. The
Emperor of Austria, the King of Bavaria and the King of France
were the only three among Monarchs to whom my first three vol
umes had been sent. Those volumes contained a complete view of
that which should then have been spread among the nations as a
preparation for the introduction of the promised New Era of Har-
mony and Peace. I also wrote to a number of other Monarchs, in-
forming them that I had sent copies of my publications, (the con-
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tents of which all Monarchs should know.) to the Emperor of Aus-
tria and the King of Bavaria; but alas! neither Monarchs nor people
we're ready to make use of the means for stopping destruction of
human life and property.
કે
Having received no answer from the Austrian government, a
Messenger from the Heavenly Congress (Rev. XIX:14) instructed
me that Anthony Aloysy Wolf, Prince Bishop of Laibach, was the
Prince of those who kept the Emperor and his subjects in darkness
in regard to my publications, but that he was appointed to be given
as a warning example.
Then I called two of the 144 witnesses
who had been given me for assistance in what I performed in the
Popish Church for a testimony that her time was expiring. I read
before them the letter which was prepared according to direction of
the Heavenly Messenger, to compel Bishop Wolf to give me an an-
swer, and said to them, You, as witnesses that this letter will be
answered by Bishop Wolf, should do what follows, to wit: one of
you seal the letter with my seal, and the other will write the direc-
tion as I shall dictate it. Then the letter was committed to the care
of my Invisible Directors, who, before that time, had given permis-
sion to infernal executioners to punish with a sudden death Doctor
Joseph Pleitz, Parson of the Emperor and Conspirator with Bishop
Wolf to stop the circulation of my volumes. But Prince Bishop
Wolf was preserved to be a warning example for all Bishops. The
spirit of Dr. Pletz was compelled by my Directors to make Bishop
Wolf a writing medium to answer my letter, and to confess, not as
a penitent, but as an obstinate sinner, his conspiracy and his great
rebellion against Christ and the Heavenly armies. Rev. xix: 14.-
When his letter was in transmission on the Ocean, internal Demons
were permitted to raise tremendous storms, in consequence of which
not only other vessels but also the steamer President perished in
such manner that there was no vestige of her found. She perished
and President Harrison died at the same time; then Bishop Wolf's
letter arrived in America, and after a certain prophetical course thro'
several post-offices, it was handed me in Philadelphia, on the 19th
of April, 1841, that was, on the birth-day of the Emperor Ferdi-
nand. I understood from this letter how rapacious Wolfs, or wolves
had devoured the poor Emperor. Then I added "The One Thing
Needful," as the 4th volume is entitled, the composition and print-
ing of which at the end, was almost 300 pages, of Memorable Events,
referring to the conspiracy of rapacious Wolves against the liberty
which nations should enjoy in Christ Jesus.
}
Not to enter farther into explanation of matters, I only mention
that in "The One Thing Needful," dreadful judgments, and the
year in which they were to occur, 1848, have been prophesied in so
wonderful a manner by the prophetical names and actions of the
48th among the 144 witnesses, that I myself did not understand the
prophecy, till in February, 1848, the European Revolutions broke
out, which was the same month in which I appeared publicly, in
the year 1838, as Christ's Legate, against the Abominable Deeds of
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Bishops and Priests, and declared my separation from, and inde-
pendence of the Pope of Rome and his Bishops. In that Revolu
tion the three Monarchs to whom my volumes had been sent, were
cast alive from their thrones by secret judgments; but nations, be-
cause they were not yet prepared for better governments, and were
seeking Freedom with carnal weapons, received other Despots.
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Whilst great Revolutions and dreadful Wars were consuming an
enormous amount of human life and property in Europe, I wrote to
President Polk towards the end of his Administration, because I
did not find it convenient to disturb him while executing judgments
on the Great Harlot in the war with Mexico, according to the 16th
verse of the 17th chapter of Revelations. In my letter I showed
how he, with his friends, after the expiration of his Administrative
term, might be much greater than any President of the United
States ever was before him, if he would only publish and spread a
work by the circulation of which the Monarchical influence would.
be destroyed in this country, and the European Revolutions would
have good results for the Liberty of Nations. However, Polk did
not answer my letter but died about the same time in which my
work would have been published under his direction, if he had com-
prehended the contents of my letter, and then he would have been
Christ's Legate, instead of being a dead man.
When the Latin Convention, mentioned in this Pamphlet, had
been appointed, I sent to the President, Zachary Taylor, a parcel,
enclosed in which was a copy of my English Circular, containing
the appointment, and a copy of my Latin Letter to the Archbishop
of Baltimore, and a Letter to the President, entreating him energet-
ically, to fulfill his Highest Duty, and to send Latin Scholars to the
appointed Convention, in which matters of the greatest importance
for the Government of the United States would be disclosed, and to
remember that he, as 12th President of the United States, should
not be a Traitor to the cause of this Republic, as Judas was a trai-
tor to the cause of Christ; but that he should be the Great Apostle
of the New Era, and the Great Instructor of Emperors and Kings
for the Pacification of the World. The President did not under-
stand my letter. No Latin Scholar appeared at the Latin Conven-
tion, but men continued to slaughter each other with as much fury
as if they had been ferocious beasts, and Monarchs overcame and
crushed down all Revolutionary movements in Europe. Afterwards
I wrote my last exhortation to President Taylor, showing him how
he might correct so far as possible, what he had neglected to do
respecting the Convention. But he remained obstinate, and died on
the right day and hour in correspondence with what happened in
other places, and according to what I was ordered to do at the com-
mencement of the same day, towards the end of which he expired,
to be a warning example to all officers. But these matters cannot,
be more fully explained in this small pamphlet, in which as many
points as can be comprehended on a few pages, must be printed, that
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lethargy, to do that which their predecessors neglected to perform,
and this in order to save this Republic from the rapacious grasp of
Monarchs.
If President Fillmore had examined the writings which I sent
him, and had he performed that which was shown him therein, he
would have been the most important man in our time, and he could
have effected the greatest things for the deliverance of Nations from
the shackles of Tyrants. He himself may report whether my les-
ters were handed to him or remained in the hands of his Secretary,
Webster. It certainly was his fault if he had such a Secretary as
would not hand him the most important documents. And because
he despised the solemn warnings given him by my instrumentality,
he began just at the same time according to the prediction in my
writings to him, to die politically, when his Secretary, Webster, also
died physically. But Henry Clay died too, and also, in due time,
the Wife of President Fillmore died at the expiration of his Admin-
istration, before he left Washington City, All of which happened
according to our Prophetical Almanac, whereby we prophesy im-
portant things.
Yet it is not proper in this Pamphlet to explain Prophecies which
will be more easily comprehended after reading my Manuscript in
our Convention, and nothing would be more agreeable to me than
that Ex-President Fillmore, with as many of his friends as he might
be able to bring with him, should attend our Convention and co-op-
erate with us for the resurrection not only of those who are living
in their corruptible bodies, but also of the departed, who are con-
genial minds with him, and for the General Union of all Men in
Christ's peaceable Reign.
In our Convention, not only this, but other things will also be made
manifest, that those who study our Message of Peace with a sincere
heart, their congenial departed friends also study it; because they
perceive its reading and preaching through their friends who are
living in their corruptible tenements. I notice this to arouse all
those who read or hear this, not only for their own, but also for the
happiness of their departed friends, to reflect deeply upon the con-
tents of this Circular, and to do that which is recommended therein.
Action is required for the deliverance of all men from bondage, for
the greater advantage of the Slave-holders, as well as those who are
kept in bondage by them. An enormous amount of time and mon.
ey has been squandered, and many people have been killed in the
fighting caused by Slavery, without any amelioration in this matter;
also, by Anti-Slavery agitation an immense amount of fuel for the
destruction of this Republic; but by our Message of Peace means
will be shown by which Slave-holders themselves will acquire great
advantages, even temporally, by the manumission of their Slaves,
and Slaves will acquire that Liberty to which every person has his
right and claim under Christ's peaceable Reign.
Whereas, a knowledge of the contents of the often-mentioned
Manuscript is quite necessary to the officiating President, Franklin
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Pierce, and to the Congress, that every one may be on his proper
station, such as it should be in their present critical situation and
circumstances, it is necessary before inentioning my proposal. pub-
licly, to remind the President that I sent him, on the first day of
January, 1853, a printed Circular containing an invitation to a Čon-
vention. That Circular was enclosed in my short Letter, in which
he was exhorted to attend the Convention and learn how to remove
a scourge from the country. If other business had not prevented
him from learning to know the worth of that New Year's Gift, the
members of his Cabinet might have known at present that which
they need most, and by his co-operation it would have been spread
abroad. But neither the President elect, nor any other influential
man had time to reflect upon the contents of my Circular, nor did
they attend the Convention appointed in that Circular, nor did they
move their friends to do this. But the tools of Monarchs had plen-
ty of time to prevent the success of that Convention. On this point
we shall say no more, except that the President and his party need
also strong Signs of instruction and exhortation, that at least they
might now learn to understand their high calling, after matters have
become more mature.
The great stroke on the 6th of January, on which day the Romish
Church was celebrating her great Festivity of Manifestation, is in
close connexion with what I have sent on the first of the same month
to the President elect, and has a deeper Prophetical meaning than
can be explained here. The death of the President's only son, who
was suddenly taken away, at length should move his father to pre-
pare the resurrection for many. His own life has been wonderfully
saved that he might do this. The most influential Senator of the
Democratic party was also instructed and exhorted at the right time,
by the death of his wife, to assist his wife, or his party, as to resur-
rection into the Reign of Peace. And Vice President King died on
the 19th of April. on the birth-day of the Emperor Ferdinand, who
was exhibted during my Proclamation of the Fall of Babylon, as
the Representative of Monarchs in my five volumes, published from
A. D. 1838 till 1842, and since that time every year on that day
there have happened memorable events, by which we receive the
assurance that in our age Great and Small Kings will disappear, and
the World's Republic of Harmony and Peace will be established.
And this is my anxious desire, that President Pierce might take our
Spiritual Sword and Pierce with it great and small Kings, and do
all in his power to stop destruction of human life and property.
But if he despises our Message of Peace, trusting in fragile weap-
ons, great loss of human life will occur, and much property also will
be destroyed, and large portions of this country will come into the
hands of Monarchs. Because, the longer that Members of the Cab-
inet, Representatives in Congress. in Legislatures, in the various
Offices of the United States, and of each State, and also the longer
all citizens of this Republic will delay to apply the right means,
which are concentrated in my Manuscript, existing in three lan-
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guages, to convert Einperors and Kings, the Pope and his Bishops
into true Republicans or true Christians, the greater will be the dis-
asters and evils inflicted upon you and your country.
But if you
attend Conventions to prepare to hold which in many places, will be
shown, and if you will purify your hearts from selfish interests and
be inspired with a sincere desire to know truth and act accordingly,
and if you comprehend the contents of my Manuscript and spread
them with the power of Christ's Spirit, I have great hope that you
will convert the Pope. himself, and many other Monarchs, and large
numbers of their Political and Ecclesiastical servants; because you
may conclude from what I have hinted at in this Pamphlet as brief-
ly as possible, that if you unite as true Christians, or what is the
same, as true Republicans, and take the weapons to collect and con-
centrate which I was Commissioned, according to Prophecies, the
Heavenly Armies, Rev. xix: 14, will be united with you, to give as-
sistance to those who will endeavor to know Truth and act accord-
ingly; otherwise to let Malicious Demons loose to make their fury
manifest among those who refuse to receive our Message, and when
some of them are destroyed in such a strange manner as they will
effect it, others will more easily comprehend that it was a warning
example for them, then will many begin to receive our Message of
Peace.
This is written to awaken as many as possible from their lethargy,
and especially those who exercise great influence over their fellow
men, and have great opportunity to spread it at home as well as
abroad; therefore I exhort the President and Congress of the United
States to peruse this Circular, copies of which will be sent them so
far as necessary, that they may comprehend it fully; because I hope
that, notwithstanding they may find several points in it not concur-
ing with their prejudices, that yet they will judge favorably of the
whole; particularly when they see and weigh the reasons and argu-
ments which will be unfolded in the long chain to be exhibited in
our Convention, to bind the Dragon, or the Spirit of Delusion, Rev-
elations xx:1.
I require nothing, unless it be just and right, viz: that which I
communicate to Nations to establish true Freedom, Harmony and
Peace of and for all, should be properly examined, and if sufficient-
ly proved as true and beneficial to Mankind, that it shall be received
and spread in the world. But if any point or link in the chain sub-
mitted be found not strong enough to hold all other links of the
chain together, let it be cast out, yet the remaining ones can be so
connected that the chain may be spread over the whole Globe, and
it will be sufficiently strong to bind the Dragon, or the Old Spirit of
Delusion, and thus pacify the Living in their outward mortal body,
as well as the Deceased. Since it is the principal duty of the Pres-
ident and Congress of these United States to contribute for this pur-
pose all that may be in their power, I expect they will find from this
Pamphlet that it is their duty to encourage the appointment of a
Convention, to be held in the City of Washington, as soon as possi-
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ble after receipt and examination of this Pamphlet. The Conven-
tion might be continued for one week, reading first the English
translation of my Latin Manuscript. The reading should not be in-
terrupted by remark, nor by question, unless the meaning of a word
or phrase should not be understood, and in this case I will be ready
to give its explanation. Because in this Manuscript there is such a
connexion of things and chain of events, that the whole must be
exhibited to be fully understood. In this manner Nations will be
enalled to examine the matter, judge about it, and thus learn how to
bind the Dragon, the Spirit of Delusion, or the Old Serpent, who
has so long deceived the Nations. The Wise Man examines be-
fore he judges, but the Fool judges before he examines."
Millions of Fools have judged about my Message, without having
examined the links of the chain presented therein, to discover the
various links in their unique connection, and whether each link is
strong enough to keep the whole chain together. When the whole
chain will be exhibited, or the whole Manuscript read in the Con-
vention, then I demand that any person who may feel themselves
able to refute either the whole or parts thereof, they shall do this in
writing. All that they may have to declare should be presented in
one written instrument, proposed by those who have attended the
reading in the Convention. The writing to be proposed by them in
my presence and in presence of other witnesses, and signed by all
concerned in the writing, that their celebrity as wise men may be
perpetuated, if they have written as wise men, and as fools, if they
have written as fools.
Then their writing, with the signatures of those who have writ-
ten their objections and refutations, will be handed me as addenda to
the Manuscript, with my replication, the whole to be published in
the English language, as soon as means can be obtained. Also, to
be published in Latin, to be sent to the Pope and other Bishops who
do not understand English, and in ferman, and as many other lan-
guages as may be necessary that Nations may judge for themselves
about this matter; for I do most solemnly declare that in my Manu-
script are exhibited the Credentials, showing and proving that I ap.
pear according to Prophecies as Messenger of the Dispensation of
the Fulness of Times, Ephs. 1:10, commonly called the Millennial
Dispensation, and that all who understand these Credentials, who
are united with me in Christ's Spirit, and who 'spread the glorious
Message of Peace, are Christ's Messengers and acting in concert
with me, for the fulfillment of the Great Promise of the Pacification
of all Nations. Therefore, as Christ's Messenger, I demand that the
President and Congress of the United States, on the receipt and care-
ful study of this Pamphlet, shall call and appoint a Convention as
soon as possible, and gather together the Bishops of the United
States, particularly of those States which existed before the acquisi-
tion of Territory by the late war with Mexico. The reason is that
precious time may not be lost by waiting to gather together those
Bishops who reside at too great a distance; because the present is
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the most precious time for this country, that judgments now raging
in Europe, so far as possible, may be prevented in this country, and
that Messengers of Pacification may be sent from our Capitol to all
Governments of the whole Earth.
To effect this, I likewise demand that the President and Congress
shall not only gather Roman Catholic Bishops, but also Ambassa-
dors of all Foreign Nations sent to the Government of the United
States, who reside in Washington City, inviting them to said Con-
vention, and for this purpose, my Pamphlet should, without delay,
be read in both Houses of Congress as the most necessary and pre-
cious document, tending to save this Nation from approaching and
impending Judgments, and for the Pacification of the whole World.
And that a copy of this Pamphlet should be printed and sent with
the appointment of the Convention and with the invitation to all
Bishops of this Republic, and of Ambassadors from foreign Gov-
ernments.
The invitation to Bishops and Ambassadors should be made by
the President and Congress, and the new edition of this Pamphlet
should be sent directly to said Bishops and Ambassadors, that Bish-
ops or others may prepare themselves to refute any point in my
Manuscript on its being read in the Convention.
Here I will give the contents of Five Sections of my Manuscript,
written in Latin, English and German, the English translation of
which will be read in the Convention. The place in Washington
City, and time to be appointed by the President and Congress of
the United States, and published, with a new edition of this Pam-
phlet. And this Message of Truth, Justice and Peace, will be found
of more importance than all the President's Messages that have ever
been sent to Congress or submitted to the consideration of the Amer-
ican people. And woe be to the President, Congress and people of
this Republic, if it is not attended to, because it is a Message from
the President of Presidents, and one that will tell upon mankind.
SECTION I. The Beast with Seven Heads and Ten Horns in the
13th Chapter of Revelations, is the Papal Monarchy, the principal
Representative of which is the Pope of Rome, who, with his Hier-
archy, have received power from the Dragon, the Spirit of Delu-
sion, or Old Serpent, who deceived, and deceiveth the Nations, keep-
ing them in bondage, destroying them in wars, and by various other
ways, until Nations shall have arrived at maturity and the enjoy-
ment of a truly Christian, Catholic and Republican Government.
In this Section, which is introductory to the following Sections, in
relation to matters which had been seen in part by my predecessors,
and partly such matters as could not have been seen by them; be-
cause they had not yet received the key, to unfold which is disclosed
in the following Sections, and which afford light, and confirm the
contents of the first Section. But things concerning the name of
the Beast, Rev. xIII: 17.18, and how to count with the number 666,
Rev. x: 18, the Times of the Duration and Power of the Beast,
concerning which all my forerunners were ignorant, (because I was
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the first among men in their mortal bodies to whom the key was-
given to unlock these things, which are explained in 3d and 4th Sec-
tions of the Manuscript, after explanation of what is necessary con-
cerning the 144 witnesses, amongst whom the 90th has brought the
number of the name of the Beast, and the 100th the Image of the
Beast into our Catalogue, referring to the great excommunication
which had been predicted by many Prophets.
SEC. II. The Beast re-appeared from the Abyss, or 'it of the
Deep, according to the 8th verse of the 17th chapter of Revelations,
when Pope Pius VII, after the destruction of Napoleon's Empire.
returned from French captivity, retaking the Papal Territory, aud
commencing to rule again as an independent Monarch.
SEC. III. The Angel, which means Messenger, spoken of in the
first three verses of the 18th chapter of Revelations, was a Holy-
Martyr of the One Hundred and Forty-Four Thousand spoken of
in Rev. xiv:1, who was found worthy the charge, to prepare for the
fulfillment of the contents of said three verses. This Angel. or
Messenger, (whose name and ministry, while in his mortal body,
are explained in this Section,) at the proper season appointed
in Prophecies for proclamation of the Dispensation of the Fulness
of Times, Ephs. 1:10, found that I was prepared and ready, under
his direction, to perform what was required according to Prophecies,
to be performed in the Roman Catholic Church, as a preparation for
the proclamation of the contents of the three first verses of the 18th
chapter of Revelations, and for the proclamation itself, for a testi-
mony to Bishops and all others, that the Popish Administration was
to expire, and the promised New Era to commence. And this, so
soon as a sufficient number of Christ's Messengers, or Christ's Le-
gates, are awakened and understand the glorious News, and cause
to resound through the desolate territories of Babylon, the Heaven-
ly Voice, spoken of in Rev. xvIII, verse 4th, and following, saying,
"Come out from Babylon, partake not with her in her sins, that ye
be not partakers of her plagues.
This Holy Martyr was the Angel, or Minister, and my Leader,
that by my instrumentality the Fall of Babylon, Rev. xvi: 1-3,
might be proclaimed, which was explained in my former publica-
tions, as well as in the third Section of my Manuscript, in a manner
that sincere inquirers after truth are able to understand it. A long
chain of Memorable Events preceding the proclamation and follow-
ing it, are explained in the third section, which is longer than the
preceding ones taken together; and although the contents of Section
third appear in this report to be very strange, they will no longer
be strange when considered and understood in connection with all
the events.
Spirit Manifestations, during the last four or five years, have ap-
peared very strange to many, but I tell you they are not understood;
nor will they be understood even by those who experience more or
less of Spirit Influence, nor by those who, although they pro-
fess to believe in Spirit Manifestations of the Bible, are offended
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​when they bear of them taking place. Their connection with what
has been explained in my writings concerning Spirit Manifestations,
from the times of the ancient Prophets and Apostles, through a long
course of centuries, and my experience in this respect, during the
disclosures of matters for the New Era, will shed much light on this
point. And all this was and is necessary to prevent the shedding
of blood, and to draw Nations into a state of Peace, Harmony,
Righteousness and Truth.
SEC. IV. Matters mentioned in the preceding Sections are confir-
med by a long chain of Signs, in such manner that those only who
are not able to examine for themselves, and consider them in coinmon,
or who are pertinaciously obstinate sinners against the Holy Spirit,
and as such, not ready to examine for themselves, will not be con-
vinced of the Truth of our Mission for the abolition of Popery and
introduction of the Reign of Peace.
Sɛc. V. There must be a Centre of Action and an Association,
to begin practically to show how to make the Poor rich and the Rich
happy, as it will take place in the Millennial Dispensation. In the
existing order of things all classes suffer on account of the wrong
relations and connections among men, and in this Babylon even the
richest persons cannot enjoy that happiness which the man who ap-
pears to be very poor will enjoy, when the right order of things is
established, and all classes of persons co-operate for the welfare of
every human being, then they will understand the above-mentioned
points, in connection with many other things which are explained
in my Manuscript, the English translation of which is to be read in
the Convention, which should be appointed by the President and
Congress of the United States as soon as possible, and in Conven-
tions which will be spoken of at the end of this Pamphlet.
The written volumes should convince the President and Con-
gress that nothing ever was or ever can be more necessary
and use-
ful for the Nation and for them, than holding this Convention.
No business is more pressing to be undertaken without delay than
this. I hope that which has been presented in this Pamphlet will
be sufficient to move the majority of the members of Congress to
act for this purpose, and to represent their opponents in Congress
as the greatest enemies of the Human Race, notwithstanding they
may appear, in the opinion of Fools, as great Benefactors.
I know not what Gerrit Smith and other Anti-Slavery Champions
will do in this cause. I have instructed and exhorted him person-
ally and by letter, to examine my Message of Truth and Peace, then
to co-operate with me for the Freedom of all Men, with consent and
approbation of Congress, as well as of Slave-holders themselves.-
But the Blind Leaders of the Blind despised the voice of Christ,
the Lord, which was made by his true Messengers, yet following
the Spirit of Delusion, they have prepared fuel to kindle a dreadful
fire for the ruin of this Republic. I found no more dangerous Sec-
tarians than Anti-Slavery Ministers. It would be necessary to write
volumes and explain how they and other leaders of Abolitionists
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have retarded the progess of my Message of Pence, and either wit
tingly or ignorantly have supported the cause of Monarchs against
this Republic.
How great the strength of Monarchs is in Canada, those persons
may estimate who have traveled on foot in the interior and on the
Lake shores of Canada several hundred miles, as I have done, and
have also examined the numerous fortifications, for which only a
Fool would apply many Millions of Pounds Sterling, suppose there
were no intention to use them, at a convenient time, against this Re-
públic. Anti-Slavery people, instead of using our Message of Peace
for the abolition of all kinds of Slavery, have labored to bring as
many Slaves into Canada as they could, to be drilled there in the
use of weapons of war, and in due time to kill citizens of the Uni-
ted States, and be killed by them. It is not necessary to give many
facts of their foolish proceedings, let one suffice.
Being in Professor Stowe's house at different times, while he was
Professor in Lane Seminary, near Cincinnati, striving to move him
to examine my writings, then to take our position for Harmony and
Peace of Nations. But he always refused. At length, instead of
passing the house of his father-in-law, Professor Beecher, I stopped
there with my trunk, and said to Prof. Beecher, in my trunk there
are Manuscripts of great importance to Professors of Divinity-that
he should call his son-in-law and the other Professor of Divinity, and
then I would explain the matter to all three Professors together.
When they came together, I assured them that besides other Man-
uscripts, there was also one in my trunk written in Latin, English
and German, to wit, the same spoken of in this Pamphlet, which
they might read either in Latin or the English translation, on con-
dition that if they should find any point therein which they thought
they were able to refute, they should try to do so; but engaging
them at the same time to co-operate with me in the promulgation
and spreading of that which they might not find themselves able to
gainsay.
Although I insisted most strenuously, assuring them that it would
be of the greatest importance and utility in promoting the Freedom
and Peace of all nations, Prof. Stowe was opposed to my proposal,
and his father-in-law and the other Professor followed his bad exam-
ple, instead of preparing Nations on the right principle and man-
ner for such Freedom as they would be able to enjoy. At length
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" appeared, by Mrs. Stowe, wife of Professor
Stowe, and daughter of Prof. Beecher, which was received, even
in Europe, with such an enthusiasm as Monarchs and their servants
were able to excite by spreading that Cabin in many European lan-
guages; also in twenty Russian editions, to inspire with hatred all
classes of people in Europe against the United States, and to show
them that citizens of this Republic are not able to govern themselves,
and consequently need Monarchical Governments. This is one of
the many ways in which this idea is instilled, as much as possible,
into the minds of the subjects of Monarchs. And Anti-Slavery
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people, instead of preparing for Peace, are preparing for desolating
Revolutions.
While I was traveling in more than twenty of these States, I also
met with some Anti-Slavery people who were preparing for Insur-
rections of Slaves, but I warned them that such steps would not only
tend to destroy many Slaves, but ultimately would bring Slaves and
Masters under the yoke of Monarchs, whereas by spreading our
Message the Great Republic, or true Church of Christ, would be
established. But they were so brutalized, that instead of hearing
my warnings, they answered: in Insurrections, tho' resulting in a
Revolution, many Slaves would not be killed, for after they would
set fire to the buildings of their Masters, they would take refuge in
such places where they would be protected by Monarchists. I have
given these hints that persons of all political parties in Congress
may be moved to co-operate in holding a Convention without delay,
thus preventing, as far as possible, the threatened destruction of life
and property.
Intending hold a Convention, preparatory to the one proposed
to be held in Washington City, District of Columbia, I went to Mer-
cer county, Pa., which seemed to be less subjugated by Popish Im-
perial Royal Powers than other counties in Pennsylvania, consequent-
ly most suitable for our purpose.
Thither I went in October, 1853, delivering addresses in many
places. On Sunday before noon, Nov. 13th, I preached in the Free
Presbyterian Church; in the evening in the Methodist Church; and
the Old School Presbyterian Minister and myself intimated my
"Lecture on the Number of the Beast, 666, Rev. xш:18," to be de-
livered on Monday, Nov. 14, at candie lighting, in the Old School
Presbyterian Church. The meeting-house was crowded.
Having finished my Lecture, on descending from the Pulpit to the
stand, to obtain names of subscribers towards printing this Pamphlet,
a case occurred which I feel it to be iny duty to bring before the au-
thorities, not only in self-defence, but also thereby to arouse the at-
tention of the people to the matter.
But
I first brought it before a Justice of the Peace in that place; bus
he said the matter belonged to the Court, the November term of
which had commenced in Mercer on the same day. I therefore pre-
sented the case in writing, with reasons showing why I felt it to be
my duty to proceed in this manner. The case was presented by a
Lawyer, praying the necessary steps to be taken in my case.
it seemed not to be sufficient to move the Judge. I then added two
pages of extraordinary facts, showing the justice of my demand,
and that it was such a case as should be taken into consideration in
any Court pretending to be a Court of Justice. But when nothing
had been done in my behalf, I wrote an Illustration of what had hap-
pened, referring to the contents of the sheets which had been writ-
ten and presented to Court.
I will give some extracts, omitting the name of the man implica-
ted, who is American by birth, a Roman Catholic, or Papist, by pro-
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fession, and a blind worshipper of Bishop O'Connor. He spoke
aloud, that all could hear him in the Presbyterian Church, of Clarks-
ville, Mercer county, Pa., as follows, with my remarks—
1, That what I said in the Lecture was a lie. 2. That I was an
Impostor. 3. That I never was a Priest in the Roman Catholic
Church. And when, in reply, I remarked that I would read a let
ter of Michael O'Connor, Bishop of Pittsburgh, writted in Latin by
him to me, the text of which, and the English translation were then
in my possession, he asserted.
4. That Bishop O'Connor had never written a letter to me;-
While I affirmed that he had so written, and that I had both the
Latin text and its translation in my pocket, to be published in my
Pamphlet. And he repeated oftentimes that if I would prove the
contrary of what he had asserted, he would pay over five hundred
dollars.
"Since by machinations of secret and open Papists, my labors to
enlighten the deluded and to save this Republic from approaching
destruction, have been frustrated, all my property, among which
were many Manuscripts containing collections on which I had la-
bored twenty-five years, have been destroyed, attempts to kill me,
conspiracies against my life, though detected; and as though these
evils were insufficient, my best fellow-laborer, John George Zeigler,
while traveling to assist me in this work, was pushed from a Steam-
boat into the Ohio river, the Murderer then swore that Zeigler was
insane and must himself have jumped into the Ohio river. But his
letters to me testify to his soundness of mind, and another document
testifies that he was pushed into the River by a Papist.
Likewise, since Conventions appointed by me have been disturb-
ed, and almost at all times during and after meetings, disturbances
have been created by assertions, as above stated, and thus people are
deluded and kept back from attending Conventions appointed by
me, I am compelled to apply to the Law against Mr. M, by its
application to frighten secret and open Papists from similar actions,
and to arouse attention to my next Convention, proposed to be held
in Mercer, and for which I was preparing people by Lectures, which
were delivered in several places in this county. Therefore I request
the Judge and Court of Mercer to secure not only the five hundred
dollars to be paid by Mr. M- -, according to his own decision,
when I prove what he requires, and also that care be taken to
prevent him from executing his malicious intentions towards me;
for I heard this morning, Nov. 15, 1853, from
that he ex-
pects to prevent me from holding a Convention in this county.
'I will prove before the Court the points which he requires, and show
that I am a true Messenger of Christ, under influence of, and direct-
ed by the Spirit of Truth and Righteousness, and pertinaciously in-
sist that the five hundred dollars should be paid over, and that with
this money a new edition of my "Lecture on the Dreadful Abuse of
-Human Magnetism in the Mysteries of the Roman Church," with
such additions as I may find best, to open the eyes of Papists, should
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be published and gratuitously distributed amongst them. And I de- '
mad from the Court not only that Mr. M. be secured as a danger-
ous man, but also that action be taken to arrest all secret and known
Papists or Monarchists, wherever found dangerous to my life; be-
cause I am laboring as a Citizen of the United States to cleanse this
Republic from the Papal Imperial Royal, that is, Anti-Christian
Powers, and I am bound to make those tremble by the application
of the Law of the country, who despise the Laws of God."
These extracts are taken from the first six pages, to which I have
put my Signature, as follows: "Andrew B. Smolnikar, formerly
eighteen years Priest, Monk of the Benedictine Order, and Imperial
Roval Professor of Biblical Literature; afterwards, by Signs accord-
ing to Prophecies, declared and confirmed Messenger of the Dis-
pensation of the Fulness or Times. Ephs. 1:10.”
Then I met with the Judge of that Court, to see whether he had
taken my document into consideration or not, he replied that he had
done so, but that this case must be brought before the Congress of
the United States. I replied that in my case it is expressed, that a
Convention should be held in Mercer, and to use the words in my
application, which had been given by a Lawyer to the Judge,) "the
most convenient place will be the Court House of Mercer, and I
suppose that citizens of this county are not so subjugated by the
Papal Imperial Royal Power as to refuse to give the Court House
for such purpose, when that which is most needed to save this Re-
public from the grasp of Monarchs, will be made manifest, and then
a concentrated effort will be made to hold a like Convention in Wash-
ington City," &c.
When efforts were made by me after my first personal meeting
with the Judge, and his advice was given to apply to Congress, I
discovered such combination against my just demand, that two Com
missioners whom I saw, were opposed to giving me the Court House
for holding our Convention, and soon I understood that I need not
apply to the third Commissioner, but that it was best to leave the
county and publish this Pamphlet as soon as assistance could be
obtained, and then to apply directly to Congress, that they might
learn what is their duty in the present great crisis-to appoint a
Convention, in which Bishops will appear; and I hope they will
understand that it is their highest duty to proceed in this manner,
and that Bishop O'Connor particularly will understand that he is in
a peculiar manner bound to come to the Convention, and to exhort
his Colleagues that they should not continue any longer to be stub-
born sinners against the Holy Spirit, who most energetically exhorts
them by this Message to be open to Conviction, and to attend the
Convention.
While I am preparing great things promotive of Harmony and
Peace of Nations, Messengers from the Heavenly Armies, Rev. XIX:
14, also send me documents by proper persons, for a confirmation and
illustration of what I write. Soon after my arrival in Pittsburgh,
from Mercer county, the well known STREET PREACHER, PATRIARCH
5
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HUGH KIRKLAND came from Cincinnati, and, besides other docu-
ments, gave me also some numbers of the "Catholic Telegraph,”
edited in Cincinnati, by "Rev. S. H. Rosecrans, D. D., and Very
Rev. E. Purcell.". I think the "Very Reverend" is a brother of
Archbishop Purcell. It would be necessary to write many volumes
were I to quote and explain all that is published in the few numbers
of the Telegraph, handed me by Patriarch Kirkland, for confirma-
tion and illustration of what is written in this Pamphlet. But I
shall restrict myself to the 4th and 5th pages of Vol. xxII, No. 46,
published in Cincinnati, Nov. 5th, 1853. And then I shall explain
only some points of the quoted pages: a full explanation of the con-
tents of those two pages, in their connexion with memorable events
already explained by me in the long chain, with which the Dragon,
in the 20th chapter of Revelations, is in process of binding, would
require a volume.
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On the 4th page we read: "The Consecration of the Rt. Rev.
Bishops Baraga and Carrell. This solemn and beautiful ceremony
took place in the Cathedral (of Cincinnati,) on Tuesday, Nov. 1.
The Most Rev. Archbishop Purcell, Rt. Rev. Bishops Henni, of
Milwaukie, and Lefevre, of Detroit, were the Consecrating Prelates.
* * The Consecrated Bishops were assisted by the Very Rev.
Thos. Butler, of Covington, and Rev. Mr. Hammer, of St. Mary's,
as Chaplains.
The Bulls of the Pope were read, constitu-
ting *
Rt. Rev. Frederick Baraga, Bishop of Amyzonia, in
the Archiepiscopate of Stauropolis. * The ceremony ended
at 2.P. M., and the immense concourse of Catholics dispered from
the Cathedral thanking and praising God, who in these calamitous
times is raising up two such devoted Pastors to enlarge the tents of
Israel, and beautify the House of Sion. In the afternoon, Rt. Rev.
Bishop Baraga sang Vespers, and * preached a short Sermon,
filling his auditory with the "holy and wholesome thought" of
praying for the dead.
The Right Rev. Bishop Frederict
Baraga is a native of a Southern Province of Austria, called Illyria,
or Carniolia. *
* As soon as he had absolved his Juristical course,
he returned from the University of Vienna to Laibach and entered
the Seminary, in spite of derision, mockery and satyrical remarks
from his former worldly friends. He absolved his Theological stu-
dies with very good success, and was ordained a Priest on the 21st
of September, 1823.
In the year 1829, the Society of St.
Leopold was established in Austria, for the support of Missionaries
in the United States. As soon as he received the first news of it,
he gave in his name with the petition to be sent to the Indian Mis-
sions of North America. * *
Bishop Baraga wrote a number of
works. * He also wrote three Indian works, for the Indian
Missions. In 1850 he published a Grammar of the Chippewa lan-
guage, (properly Otchipwe.) in Detroit; and this year a Dictionary
of the same language, here in Cincinnati, for the use of Missiona-
ries. Bishop Baraga is now on his way to Europe, for the purpose
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of obtaining Clergymen for his most desolate Diocese of Upper
Michigan, and hopes to be back again in May next."
An explanation of these few extracts will show in a new and
remarkable manner how necessary it is for Congress, without de-
lay. to appoint the demanded Convention.
Frederick Baraga, the only son of a Lord of considerable estate,
was my fellow student in the city of Laibach, till he went to Vienna
to study law, while I was studying Theology and was ordained
Priest, in the year 1819. Then Baraga, on returning, instead of
taking possession of his Estate, he studied Theology and became
Priest, thus surprising all his acquaintances, and the more after-
wards, when he started for America, to be a Missionary, or Apostle
of the Pope, among Indians. Afterwards, all the glorious works
and conversions which he effected among them, were published in
Newspapers of Austria, and Baraga was the greatest Favorite of the
Imperial Royal Court in Vienna
This Baraga, tho' a great Zealot of the Pope, on revisiting Eu-
rope, in 1837, became an instrument of Providence to open my way
to America. To him I sent my first volume, containing the Cre-
dentials of my Mission, which is the Mission of every true Chris-
tian. In Spirit I saw Baraga's reception of my volume, on reading
it and perceiving that my work was not for the support, but aboli
tion of Popery, he became pale as if he were dead.
Thus agoni-
zed, and in this dreadful condition, he visited his sister, a widow
who came from our native country, to dwell with him in the forests
among Indians.
Indians. He told her (as she informed me afterwards, when,
I met with her in Philadelphia.) that I had become crazy. This
was the usual subterfuge of Priests on hearing what they did not
expect, and were afraid to examine my reasons and arguments.---
But Henni, who appeared as one of the Consecrating B shops, when
my first volume appeared in 1838, was Editor of the Wahrheits-
Freund," which means “ Friend of Truth," but which proved to be
the greatest enemy of Truth when tried by me.
On Nov. 1st, 1839, which, according to the Popish Almanac, is
the Festival of all Saints, on which day in each year, in my move-
ments for the abolition of Popery, Remarkable Events take place.
One of which I will state. Samuel Ludvigh, by country a Hunga
rian, an Infidel by profession, and at that time Editor of a weekly
Gerinan Newspaper in Philadelphia, was moved to publish an arti
cle, announcing my Mission, and this by reference to the Creden-
tials presented in the first volume. He prefaced the article, calling
me Christ's Messenger, as he ascertained it from my writings, in
which Priests especially, were exhorted to study my volume and
learn to know the Credentials of my Mission, which also should be
their Mission. But, Henni, instead of doing so, published in his pa-
per that I had received the Credentials of my Mission from the Em-
peror of Austria.
Then I published my second volume, in which
was shown his folly and blasphemy of my Master and his Armies,
Rev. xix:14, by whose co-operation and influence the Credentials of
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our Mission had been prepared. For his obstinate, blind support of
Popery he received the Bishoprick of Milwaukie.
After publication of second volume, both volumes were sent to
Bishop Rese of Detroit, with exhortation to study them. Then
meeting with Priest Hammer, who had been brought by Baraga
from Austria to Detroit; and who assisted at the consecration of Bish-
op Baraga, on asking him whether he had read my volumes, he an-
swered in the negative. And when asked his reasons, he replied
that he came to America to serve the Pope. But Bishop Rese, hav-
ing, received my first and second German volumes, instead of study-
ing them, which especially he was bound to do, being a German by
birth, and by virtue of the seal of whose Diocese I obtained permis-
sion to come to this country, he rather obeyed the Pope than God;
he went to Rome, being ordered to do so by the Pope, from whence
he never returned to America.
After publication of my third volume, on meeting with Bishop
Purcell, (the Consecrating Archbishop of Bishop Baraga,) in 1840,
returning from the Synod of Bishops in Baltimore, and stopping at
different places of his Diocese, I exhorted him, tho' he did not un
derstand German himself, to recommend that his German Priests
should study my volumes and make to him their report concerning
their contents. From my conversation with him I understood that
the Bishops, in their Synod, had conversed about me, and he said
that I should speak about the matter with the German Priests, who
happened to be there. I did so, but found that Priests were resolv
ed against examining my publications. Strange as it may appear,
when, several years after, in that same place, I made efforts to move
people to examine my publications, there arose a great persecution
against me, and attempts were made to kill me. The Holy Ghost,
whom Bishops communicate with their Priests and their followers,
made himself very manifest on that occasion.
I intended here to give only a specimen of such Bishops and
Priests as were gathered together at the Consecration of Bishop Ba-
raga; but in this Pamphlet somewhat must be mentioned of my tri
als to move Francis Patrick Kenrick, Archbishop and Metropolitan
of Baltimore, to examine my works and to appear in public either
for or against them, that the matter might be judged of by the people.
I knew not that he understood German, till in October, 1838, I met
with the Priest who was Parson of the German Roman Catholic
Congregation in Philadelphia, and he told me that F. P. Kenrick,
who was at that time Bishop in Philadelphia, understood German.
Then I went directly to him to move him to study my first volume,
because at that time the other volumes had not been published, and
then to debate with me about the matter. But on that occa-
sion the Bishop was occupied with a funeral. I was told that he
would soon return, and was requested to wait for him in the parlor
of his house. I receive directions from invisible Messengers, when
according to their wisdom, it is proper in this manner to give instruc-
tions to Nations. While I was waiting, an Angel said to me: “Let
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the dead bury their dead, go perform thy work." I obeyed, for
then I was printing the second volume in Philadelphia, and discov-
ered that at the same time, and in the same foundry in which my
second volume was stereotyped, there also was Bishop Kenrick's
"Theologia Dogmatica," stereotyped.
From this circumstance I understood that a Romish Bishop, while
he is applying his erudition and strength in support of Popery, also
gives to the world, in print, the strongest testimony he can for its
Divine Institution, and perpetuation through all future ages, while
men in their mortal bodies are completely dead to the true and right
investigation of this matter; viz: that at present the time of Popery
is coming to an end. Therefore, I left him in his deadly condition,
till the end of 1840. Then I wrote him an urgent exhortation in
Latin, to examine my three German volumes then circulation,
which contains all that is necessary to convert even the strongest
Papist, suppose he be ready to examine for himself, and is open to
conviction, as to the position on which I stand. Once more I came
to Philadelphia, paid him a visit, and understood froin his German
answer to my Latin address, that he had knowledge of the German
language, and that he was inexcusable if he did not study my vol-
umes. Although, certainly, it would be very strange if a Bishop
who publishes the Theology of the Popish Church, refuting all
Apostates and Heretics, with whom none of his readers do meet,
that he should not read and be able to refute books written and pub-
lished in a language which he understood, and in the same city, and
this by an Apo-tate and Heretic who has fairly challenged him per-
sonally and by letter, to read them and then discuss the matter with
him. But at that visit he gave me advice, in this matter to apply to
the Archbishop of Baltimore. I replied that the Archbishop did not
understand Gerinan, and that therefore it was his duty to study my
publications and instruct the Archbishop and other Priests about
this affair, especially, because he became the Instructor of Priests of
the United States, by publishing his Latin Theologia, which had
become a standard work for them. When he learned that my works
were exceedingly dangerous to his Theologia Dogmatica and The-
ologia Moralis, he would not come in contact with me, although I
applied to him after publishing my 4th and 5th volumes, sending
other men, who showed him these publications, and the latter person
by whom I sent my letter, containing a last exhortation to him; but
he returned it. Thus his management was best calculated, accord-
ing to the instruction of his Master, the Dragon, who gave him, as
a premium for his Theologia, by which he supports his infernal
Government, the highest station in the United States, by making
him Archbishop of Baltimore and Metropolitan of Bishops in these
United States.
While preparing a "Lecture on the dreadful abuse of Human
Magnetism in the Mysteries of the Roman Church," I had his
"Theologia Moralis" at hand, and quoted from it the following
passage, to be found at the end of the Preface: "In omnibus Apos-
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[3]
tolico Præsuli obsegaentes nos semper futuros sancte policemur."
I have translated these words: "We engage solemnly that we will
obey the Apostolic Chief Priest of Mars in all things." Then he
gives the reason why in all things he will obey the Pope, whom he
acknowledges to be, "the Chief Priest of Mars." Mars is the
Heathen God of War, and Bishop Kenrick confesses his Chief
Priest, the Pope, to be " Omnium Christianorum Doctorem fidei
et morum divinitus constitutum judicem et custodem," that is,
"The Doctor or Master of all Christians, the Divinely appointed
Judge and Keeper of Faith and Morals." Apostolicus Præsul, when
properly translated, means Apostolic Chief Priest of Mars,” that
is, of the Heathen God of War, he is the Doctor or Master and
Judge of ali Christians. Bishop, Archbishop and Metropolitan Ken-
rick, may prest against the proper meaning of the word "Præ-
sul,” and assert that he intended to give to that word an improper
meaning. But the proper meaning only expresses Truth. Bishop.
Kenrick did not know what he wrote, because he wrote by the in-
spiration of the Dragon, who elevated him to the highest station on
account of his confession. flis Pope whose blind tools Bishops,
Priests and their Sheep are, in whose name he spoke, is nothing
else but the Præsul, or Chief Priest of Mars, the God of War, or
the Apocalyptical Dragon. Where Mars, or the Apostolic Dragon
and his Apostles, the Pope and his Bishops, reign, there are wars
and destruction of life and property. We must also blindly believe,
besides all other Popish traditions, that Wafers, or orbicular pieces
of baked dough, are transubstantiated, or changed, by Priests, in
their Masses, into Jesus Christs, or we are cursed and burnt, when
the Pope acquires power sufficient to effect this, according to the
rules of his Church. But where our Message is received, and the
true Christ reigns, there will be Peace and Happiness, true Liberty
of Thought, Speech and of the Press. Then and there no Pope
will be Judge, but Reason will decide according to evidence and
argument.
As advised by Bishop Kenrick, I went to the Archbishop of Bal.
timore, personally, to make a trial of him, to ascertain whether he
would enjoin it upon those Priests who understand German to ex-
amine my volumes, and then come to a public debate with me in re-
gard to their contents. But when I came to the Archbishop's resi-
dence, I was informed that he was in the country, and from all the
information I could obtain in Baltimore, I concluded that he was not
yet ready to arise from the dead. I experienced the same in the
year 1849, when I invited him to send his Bishops and their Doc-
tors of Divinity to our Latin Convention. At length he also died,
physically, and Kenrick of Philadelphia was made Archbishop of
Baltimore. Now I write to arouse him and other Bishops to under-
stand that it is high time to receive this Pamphlet as a PRECIOUS
GIFT FROM HEAVEN, and to do what is required therein, to save
themselves and their sheep.
On yesterday, the 4th of December, 1863, I was reminded in a
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peculiar manner, to mention Samuel Ludvigh. Examining many
papers of both parties who are preparing much fuel for immense
destruction of human life and property in this country.
A paper
directly opposed to the Cincinnati Telegraph and its consort, the
Boston Investigator, the editors and supporters of which papers
have been so beastialized by Popish traditions that they do not yet
know whether man has an immortal soul. But on yesterday, one
of the departed said to me, that I should go from this city of Pitts-
burgh to Mr. N. in Allegheny City, and see an article, prepared
for my use, which is in the Investigator. I arrived just as the num-
ber for Nov. 30, 1853, was received. November 30th is the great
Festival of the Apostle Andrew, or of the first Apostle of the New.
Era. In that number there was an article entitled, Reflections on
Liberalism," and signed, "Davenport, Iowa, November 2, 1853,
Ludvigh."
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This is the remarkable Infidel, Samuel Ludvigh, who was moved,
on the 1st Nov., 1853, by my invisible Guide, to confess in the news-
paper "Die Alte und Neus Welt," (the Old and New World.) that
I am an Apostle, or Messenger of Christ. But Bishop Henni, after
having read that Confession of an Infidel, reported in his paper that
I had received the Credentials of my Apostleship from the Emperor
of Austria, and although in my writings he was exhorted to repent-
ance, he continued in his cbstinacy, till on the same day, fifteen years
after, he became one of the Consecrators of Bishop Baraga. But
Baraga, when he opened the way to my Apostleship, wrote what
he firmly believed, that I was called by God to this Mission. Then
however, the Popish Spirit magnetized him in such manner that he
continued a blind instrument of the Pope, to draw into Papal bond-
age as many as he could, and on Nov. 1st he became Bishop, or
Governor, having appointinent from the Pope to the largest Territo-
ry in any Papal Diocese.
Samuel Ludvigh, on performance of his task, under inspiration
of one of the departed of my Society, again came under influence
of the Infidels. But when needed as witness, he was compelled by
my invisible Guides to testify in behalf of my Mission. In this connec-
tion, his testimony as witness against the Bishops, it should be men-
tioned that he never came into my room except once, because then
he was needed, therefore he was brought by Invisible Ministers.—
While I was preparing copies of a Latin Circular to be mailed, and
directed to Bishops, he entered my room, and gave me the ne-
cessary direction to be entered upon each Circular, sent to every
Bishop of Hungary. This testimony was needed, that they might
be inexcusable, because they were preparing destruction for their
country. Had they received my Message, the tremendous destruc-
tion and consequent Bondage, might have been prevented. Peace.
might have been obtained, and Freedom would have been firmly
established.
Again the Servants of the Dragon still continuing in their obstina-
ey, in Cincinnati, on meeting with the Infidel, Sa.nuel Ludvigh,
:
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!
I told him that I had come to give him striking testimony that he
had an immortal soul, because he was under the influence of depart-
ed Spirits. He enquired how I could do that? I replied, that I would
magnetise him. He said I might do so, directly. But I objected,
as his boarding-house was not the right place for this process, but
he should come to my boarding-house. However, he replied that I
should make a trial in his residence, and on the following night he
would come to my place. I consented, and soon brought him into
the Magnetic Sleep. And when so much as was necessary had
been done, I told him that on the next night, in my boarding-house,
he should travel with me into the Spirit-land, and he promised to
But instead of him personally, I received a few lines from
him, reporting that his friends had taken him in another direction.
Thus, when I magnetized him, his Demons were compelled to give
way to our Spirits. And as soon as I left him, his Demons returned
and carried him in the direction of Europe.
come.
He took a Sword of the American Revolution and scrne war in-
struments of the Indians, crossed the Atlantic and came to Paris,
addressed the Liberals, and as soon as he had left the city, Revolu-
tion broke out. Then the same happened in Berlin, and when he
arrived in Vienna, Prince Metternich gave orders to the Police to
arrest him. But Ludvigh escaped and went to Hungary.
In the meantime, Revolution broke out in Vienna, and Ludvigh
dedicated his Sword of Revolution, and other Insignia of War, to
the National Museum of Hungary. The Revolution opened the
way for his return to Vienna. An
And after performance of his Pro-
phetical task, he published; in Hamburg, a German Pamphlet, enti-
iled: "The Sword of Revolution." I mentioned somewhere in my
publications that he changed his name, Ludwig to Ludvigh, but
that he made a mistake, and that Lud-vich would be a complete
name for his Prophetical task, a name composed of the Slavonian
Lud, which means people, and the German Vich, which means a
Beast; because by the Anti-Christian Economy of Bishops the Party
of Infidels was formed, and people are so bestialized that they do
not feel the influence from such Sphere of the Spirit-World as they
are prepared to receive.
Indeed, this Samuel Ludvigh is a very remarkable Representa-
tive of the Infidel Party, and therefore it was necessary that he
should be inspired, on the 2d of November, on the Popish Festival
of All Souls, so that on his journey he wrote the article quoted.
Baraga, the first time as Bishop, in the afternoon of the 1st of
November, "preached a short Sermon filling his auditory with the
holy and wholesome thought of praying for the dead." His Ves-
pers and Sermon were in commencement of ceremonies which are
performed on the 2d of November, for Souls, according to the Po-
pish Ritual.
But Popish Bishops and Priests are, in performance
of their ceremonies, such ignoramuses as the Jewish Priests were
in performance of their ceremonies.
I was Professor of Divinity in the Old School, till at length. I
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became Doctor of Divinity for the New Era, and in the Convention
I will give such disclosures concerning the Spirit-World, as will be
sufficient to draw Popish Bishops and Priests from their dreadful
superstition, as well as professed Infidels from their folly, in which
they bladly and wickedly deny the immortality of our Souls, and
thus prepare both parties as well as their departed friends, for a glo-
rous Resurrection, and Harmony and Peace of Nations.
These warnings ought to be sufficient for Bishops, as well as for
the President and Congress, to make no delay in meeting me in
Convention; because, besides thousands of others, the Reporter of
Bishop Baraga's Consecration in the Telegraph, as well as Samuel
Ludvigh, in the Investigator, are testifying the near approaching and
most dreadful destruction in this country, if not prevented, so far as
possible, by what shall be unfolded in our Convention; and Par-
ties who are preparing destruction, might be elevated to the ground of
Pacification, of those living in their mortal bodies, and of the depart-
ed from them.
While traveling in most of the States, instructing and warning
people, many Sectarians and Infidels told me that if any Revolution
or War should break out, by the fault of Bishops and Priests, they
would take their rifles and in the first place shoot Bishops and
Priests, and if they should continue to be so obstinate as they have
*proved themselves until now, all their power would not be sufficient
› deliver them from destruction. Ludvigh, in the above-quoted ar-
ticle, writes that: “ More than twenty German Journals are in the
field against Church and Priestcraft," and other things, from which
it is evident that there will be desperate fighting, if Bishops and
Priests do not make haste and come on the right platform, and if
Congress will not make haste for safety of the Union, and take the
first steps; for I will instruct the President and Congress what to
do to prevent bloodshed, if they appoint the Convention, tho' Bish-
ops should refuse to attend.
One fact in Baraga's Consecration must not be omitted. Among
his Consecrating Prelates was Bishop Lefevre, of Detroit. After
the voyage of Bishop Rese to Rome, and his disappearance, Lefe-
vre succeeded as Administrator of Bishop Rese's Diocese. When
in May, 1849, Bishops refused to attend my Latin Convention, Pro-
phetical destructions announced the dreadful approaching calami-
ties. The riot on Astor's Place, New York, in which a number of
persons were killed, preceded the Convention, and took place on the
same night of May, 1849, in which I wrote in April, 1849, to Pres-
ident Taylor in regard to the Latin Convention. The burning of
the Steamboat Empire, in Hudson river; also of twenty-seven Steam-
boats at St. Louis, Missouri, a great stronghold and refuge of Jesuits,
and the combustion of Milwaukie, the infernal residence of Bishop
Henni, as well as a stronghold of Infidels, and a number of other
Prophetical fires at the close of that Convention, which took place
on such days and at such hours, that when their relation to other
events connected with the appointment of that Convention will be
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shown, the meaning of those destructions will be clear. But at pres
ent, the great ignorance in which Editors of newspapers are. held
in regard to the connection of the living with the deceased, thou-
sands of disasters are reported in newspapers, the proper meaning
of which is hidden, as when the Signs were preceding the destruc-
tion of Jerusalem, which had been predicted by Christ.
After that I came to Detroit, to see whether I could move Bishop
Lefevre to meet with Baraga and other Missionaries from my coun-
try in a Convention, to hear the reading of my Latin Manuscript,
after the whole Synod of Bishops had despised Christ's Message
of Peace. In Detroit I applied first to the Presbyterian Minister,
Doctor Duffield, who sometimes had spoken publicly against the
usurpations of Roman Catholic Bishops. To him I stated the object
of my coming to Detroit, and that if possible I must have the pledge
of American Protestants who were Latin Scholars to attend the Cou-
vention, if Bishop Lefevre would engage to attend it with his clergy.
After having obtained the names of a number of Protestant Latin
Scholars, I wrote an article, in which I invited the Bishop to appear
with Baraga and other Clergymen in the Convention, and I stated
the points which I promised to prove in the Convention. I carried
the writing to the editors of the daily newspapers in Detroit; but
after perusal of my article, they were afraid to publish it. Such an.
incredible power does a Romish Bishop exercise upon Protestant
newspapers! Then I invited Doctor Duffield to take other Minis-
ters that they might be witnesses at my trial of the Bishop. He
took the Methodist Minister of that city with him, and when we
had come to Bishop Lefevre, after a short introduction, I asked him,
first: "Did the Archbishop of Baltimore, in your last Synod, read
my Latin Letter, in which Bishops were invited to attend my Latin
Convention?"
When Lefevre gave no answer, I took from my pocket a roll of
papers, and when I commenced to unroll it, Bishop Lefevre turned
to the two witnesses and said, in so still a manner that he could not be
heard by me: "This man's head is not right." His precaution did
not help him. I perceived his words and felt that he was not pre-
pared to hear what I intended to read from my papers, and I said
directly, "You Bishops, when you have no power to kill righteous
men who dare to come publicly against your usurpations of power,
and your damnable deeds, you kill them with words, calumniating
them as tho' they were insane, and by whatever other means you
may be able to deceive people." Bishop Benedict Fenwick, when
first I camé publicly in his Diocese, exposing the treachery of Bish-
ops, by which they endeavor to deliver this Republic into the hands
of Monarchs, he first commenced the cry: "Too much learning has
made Smolnikar mad," and Agents of Bishops repeated the same, be-
cause they found it to be the best means they could use, to answer
my arguments.
Who is more mad than you, Bishop Lefevre, and your Agent, my
fellow-student, Baraga, with his associates from my country, who
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are preparing hosts of Indians, that when all may be mature they
will sally forth from the woods, and kill as many Heretics as they
can, and be killed by them? But how can I be mad while I am
preaching Pacification of all Nations, and showing the means by
which Harmony and Peace will be established on the whole Earth?
While yet I see that you, Bishop Lefevre, are not prepared to re-
cere my Message, I will address people in this city, both in the
English and German languages, that they may judge whether you,
Bishop Lefevre, and your Colleagues, are not more mad than I am,
while I proclaim the glorious News of the Manifestation of Christ's
Spirit for Pacification of the World,"
This, my address to Bishop Lefevre, is in connection with the re-
port of Baraga's Consecration. The Reporter tells: "Bishop Bara-
ga is now on his way to Europe. for the purpose of obtaining Cler-
gymen for his most desolate Diocese of Upper Michigan." Most
newspapers are filled with misrepresentations of very important
facts for this Republic. Baraga, since his arrival as Missionary to
this country, his received every year great assistance from private
persons, as well as from the Society of St. Leopold, and other socie-
ties, laboring to deliver this Country into the hands of the Pope and
other Monarchs, and especially when he came himself to our native
country and assisted me to come to America, he collected many
thousand dollars. All the riches he could collect were applied to
make Indians blind tools of the Pope and other Monarchs. In 1840
I came to the Indians, if possible, to meet with Baraga. But he
was many hundred miles farther off than where I thought I would
find him.
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I only met with Priest Francis Pierz, a native of the same town
with me.
He expected that I would chant a solemn Mass, because
he did not yet know my great Apostacy. But when I began to ex-
plain the matter to him, he said that I was in great danger. I knew
that he was not naturally a cruel man, for he was my good friend,
and his house was next my house in our native town, and the Pope
had not yet proclaimed Crusades against Heretics and Apostates in
America. Therefore, I laughed when he tried to frighten me. But
after this, in my presence, he preached such a Sermon to the In-
dians against Heretics, that had he proclaimed a Crusade they
would have fought to kill them, or to be killed, and go to Heaven by
the Indulgences of the Pope. I concluded, from conversation with
Priest Pierz and others, that there were great hosts of Indians in
the British and Russian Dominions of America. In 1840, when I
was among the Indians of La Croix, Arbre Croche, &c., many of
whom, besides others, had been converted by Baraga and his Asso-
ciates to the Pope of Rome.
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I understood the preaching of Francis Pierz, because he preached
in French and an Interpreter translated his words into the Indian
tongue. But Baraga learned the Indian dialects very fast, and in
the year 1837 published books for the Indian Schools. His most
desolate Diocese of Upper Michigan," is the most extensive Diocese
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in the world. He is in close connexion with the Hudson Bay Com-
pany, who keep a great secrecy concerning their power, having en-
tire control over the Indians in the British Dominions. And Bara-
ga is certainly in such intimacy with those who have control over
the Indians in the Russian Dominions in America, as close connex-
ion and intimacy as the Emperor of Austria bas with the Emperor
of Russia. His knowledge of the Indian languages, the great rich-
es he receives for their support, and his incredible zeal to bring
these Indians into the Popish Heaven, gives him great power among
and over them.
ven.
On my arrival and being recommended to them as a Priest, and a
friend of Baraga, this word was spread among them with incredible
speed, and hundreds of them came out from the woods and fell upon
their knees and faces, worshipping me as if I were a God from Hea-
I thought that there must be such multitudes of Indians, espe
cially in the vast English and Russian Dominions, as there were
of Barbarians in the Fifth Century, who overrun the Ronan Em-
pire. Now, Baraga, the greatest worshipper of the Pope, and of
the Emperor of Austria, while preparing the Indians so as to make
use of them to overthrow this Government, secretly receives as ma-
ny Missionaries as he needs.
The ques
These few remarks may spread great light upon his present jour-
ney to the Pope of Rome, the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of
France, and other Monarchs. You are cheated and deluded in all
directions, while enemies of this Republic are laboring to destroy
it and deliver this country into the hands of Monarchs.
tions to be decided in our Convention are of the most important po-
litical character. There is nothing less to be decided than, whether
the Pope of Rome and his Allies, the Emperors and Kings, have a
Divine Right to subjugate this Republic, or whether we have Di-
vine Right to require them to co-operate with us for establishing the
true Reign of Christ, the Great Republic in which Truth and Right-
eousness will abound on the whole Earth.·
Be not deluded in regard to Turkey and her reported victories
over Russia. That they are very splendid, may be all true, but
what you read in behalf of Turkey, the same may soon be changed
against your expectation, and, too late, you may come to know that
the power of all Monarchs is directed, and will continue to be di
rected against the Republican principle, till you convince Monarchs
of Christian name, that the true Republican, is the true Christian
Principle, and that we have received Divine Mission to spread this
principle over the whole Earth. The commencement of this Dem-
onstration should take place in a powerful manner in our Conven-
tion, and I hope Congress is not yet entirely enslaved by Monarchs,
and that it will comprehend the important disclosures given in this
Pamphlet, and by no means hesitate to appoint the required Con-
vention without delay.
After Consecration of Bishop Baraga, we read in the "Telegraph"
the news, that "by the Rev. Bishop Lefevre, of Detroit, a Solemn
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Mass of Requiem, for the Souls of all faithful departed, was sung.
on Wednesday, Nov. 2." On Thursday a Lecture on the "Papa-
cy" was delivered by the Right Rev. Bishop Spalding. It is to be
understood that this great Romish Orator, knows weil how to de-
Jude Protestans in the most important matters. Immediately after
that is the following very important news for us: "Right Rev. Dr.
O'Connor, Bishop of Erie, arrived in this city on W ednesday,'
(Nov. 2.) On the 1st, or Festival of all Saints, he must have had
important business to do, and then he had to hurry; because, with-
out doubt, he had secret communications to entrust to the
great Am-
bassador, Baraga, to be delivered to the Pope and his Kings and
Queens.
In the year 1840, while among the Indians, I received the news
from Priest Pierz, that our countryman, the Franciscan Monk, Ivo
Leviz, was Parson in Erie, and I came to see him. At that time
the Popish Congregation in Erie was very small, and Leviz was
building it a Church. I endeavored to move hun at least to prom-
ise to study my pablications, but he replied: I would show you
any favor which might be in ny power, but to read your books is
not in my power; because I have heard that you have written against
the Pope, whereas, I have sworn obedience to him and my Bishop;
therefore, I would rather give my neck that you might cut my head
off, than read your books."
Such´attachment of Monks to the Pope and other Monarchs who
are united with him, with such incredible perseverence in prosecu
tion of their aim. at length has converted Erie to be the residence of
a Roman Catholic Bishop. And mark well, M. O'Connor, whose
extraordinary power exercised as Bishop of Pittsburgh, might be
illustrated in this Pamphlet by facts which are very important, were
there but room.
Who asks the
Who asks why has he become Bishop of Erie?
secret of this change? I only give this hint. Canada is exceeding-
ly important for Monarchs in their action against the United States,
especially in a war with them Monarchs must have skillful Bishops
at the principal points on the Lakes in the United States. In this
respect, Erie is a very important point, and such a Bishop as M.
O'Connor will know well how to promote the Papal Imperial Royal
cause from his position there, and be able to give good advice to his
Colleagues for increase of Monarchical power.
But the counsels of Bishops and their Monarchs will be vain, and
at length many Bishops will become true Republicans with us, cast-
ing away the ensigns of Monarchs and their Popish ceremonies.—
This will be so if the President and Congress carefully examine the
contents of this l'amphlet, and act accordingly; but obstinate despi-
sers of our Message of Truth, Liberty. Righteousness and Peace,
will perish in their "FRIGHTFUL SHIPWRECK," an image of which
is on the same 5th page of the Telegraph, after the Consecration of
Bishop Baraga; where we read that the very fine ship Annie Jane,
on her voyage from Liverpool to Quebec, was dismasted and totally
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lost on the night of the 28th Sept., on Barra Island. Upwards of
three hundred persons, probably Irish emigrants, having perished.
Likewise, the cause of the Pope and other Monarchs will be dis-
masted and totally lost by spreading this Message. In traveling to
the Baraga Indian country, and from thence to Leviz, in Erie, the
number 300 is remarkable. Leviz, means a small Lion. His resi-
dence is in Erie. *
I trust that the President, Members of Congress, and American
people, will be awakened by the above disclosures. Is it not high
time to awake out of sleep, the present being a most critical moment?
But if, in spite of all our disclosures and efforts, there be no awa-
kening from their dreadful lethargy, and they continue to consume
the treasures of this Republic for advantage of Monarchs, then it is
the duty of every true Republican to take action to save this coun-
try from the grasp of Monarchs.
But, whether the President and Congress will do as they are sol-
embly bourd or not, matters have come to such a crisis that all true
Republicans should promote this cause as much as may be in their
power. Therefore, in every township, persons who first compre-
hend the contents of this Pamphlet should arouse others, and by
thein the matter should be communicated to the Magistrate of the
place. If he, like Gallio of old, cares for none of these things. or
is opposed to it, then such person or persons may conclude that they
are Monarchists, and they will be considered and treated as such.
But true Republicans, comprehending the importance of this
matter, and seeing necessity for holding Conventions, in which my
Manuscript, existing in three languages, Latin, German and English,
might be of some use, if read. Now, if fifty persons desire that
such meeting may be appointed, and on proper information being
forwarded to me, with their names, residences, place and time of
appointment, also, obligation as to responsibility, for defraying the
necessary expenses of traveling, boarding, &c., I will consider my.
self bound to hold such Meeting, if circumstances permit. But if
it should be impossible to visit their places, I will send of my pub-
lication, consider and perpetuate them as my fellow-laborers, accord-
ing to the time of the receipt of their letter, containing their names,
occupations and residences. Because, those who are Pioneers in
this most important work for Harmony and Peace of Nations, ought
and will be known as such in future ages, as well as those who are
Traitors to the true Republican, or true Christian principle. Those
who write should direct, until further notice, to:
ANDREW B. SMOLNIKAR, Zelienople, Butler Co., Pa.
It is hoped the time is near when no true Republican will vote for
any one to become an official who will not co-operate with us for
spreading the contents of the Five Sections presented above, and
more fully explained in the Manuscript to be read in Conventions,
and that Candidates for office and officers themselves will promul-
gate them in Market places and wherever people can be assembled
to hear them.
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In the year 1849, when Bishop O'Connor had answered my invitation to
a public examination of my Message of Peace, by the letter published in
this Pamphlet, his Papal Imperial Royal Baud succeeded so well that they
imprisoned Joseph Barker, one of the Street Preachers, who had been
aroused to proclaim publicly the abominable deeds of Bishops and Priests,
who had rejected all my exhortations and continued to rebel against God
and his Christ. By Barker's imprisonment the Repubiican citizens of
Pittsburgh were aroused, and elected him Mayor while he was in Prison,
and the čhy never had a Mayor who frightened Monarchists more, power-
funy supported Free Speech, made public the bad deeds of previous ad-
ministrations, by which the city had been involved in great debts He also
showed how the debts could be got rid of in the easiest manner, by neces-
sary acts of justice, and the restoration of a just taxation.
But the Popish Imperial Royal Band, on Barker's time being up, suc-
ceeded so well as to elect a man to be Mayor whose first business was to
put down Freedom of Speech and Street Preaching.
Sometimes I thought best to address people on Streets and Market places
in Pittsburgh, when they had been assembled by others. After having
heard that the Mayor was preparing to put down Street Preaching, I came
one Sabbath with Patriarch Kirkland, to address people, on a very spacious
place of a street. Kirkland opened the meeting, and I addressed the peo-
pie. During my address, a Constable delivered the Message of the Mayor
to Kirkland, that he must dismiss the people. Then Kirkland and those
assembled agreed that the Message was Anti-christian and Anti-constitu-
tional. We were told that a number of Policemen and other officers were
among those assembled, and I told them that they should carry my Message
to the Mayor, that after I had by letter invited Bishop O'Connor, then on
the streets of Pittsburgh, and in Patriarch Kirkland's Paper, entitled Street
Preacher, to publicly debate with me on subjects which all Bishops ought
to know, but which they do not, but through ignorance are preparing to
ruin this Republic; and whereas the Bishop did not accept my invitation,
and continues to be obstinate to and regardless of my exhortations, that in
these circumstances, the most important business for the Mayor of Pitts-
burgh would be to gather together Bishop O'Connor and all his Priests and
Monks to a publie Debate with me, and if they would not come together
publicly, to make known that he felt it to be his duty, as far as he was
able, to protect Street Preaching against the Anti-christian and Anti-re-
publican proceedings of Bishops and Priests.
After this, my Address and Message to the Mayor, I was waiting in
Pittsburgh till he would perform his duty as an American Mayor of an Amer-
ican city should have done; but instead of bringing the Bishop and his
Priests to a public discussion with me, he cast Patriarch Kirkland into
Prison.
Then I left the city and went to Butler, Pa., whilst the Court was in Ses-
sion there. The Commissioners permitted me the use of the Court House
to address people in at candle-light, when the Court would not be in Ses-
sion. During my address, Papists raised a terrible riot and stopped my
address, and when I would go out, my friends warned me that there was
great danger of losing my life; that Papists were before and about the
Court House ready to attack me. Then they brought me out by a small
side-door, so that I got to my boarding-house.
On the next day, while I was preparing to prosecute the Destroyers of
Human Rights, the witnesses assured me that the principal Rioter was an
Irishman, working for the President Judge of the Court, and his particular
favorite.
I obtained permission from the Commissioners on the next Sunday, to
hold a German Meeting in the Court House. The meeting was announced,
and I intended in a peculiar manner to warn Germans not to imitate the
bad example of the deluded persons who raised the riot during my English
Lecture. But the Judge then went to the Commissioners and required
them not to give the key of the Court House for my meeting.
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A Constable brought this message.
I asked some persons how a Judge
could be seduced to do such damnably Anti Republican actions? For an-
swer i was told that the time was approaching for an election of Judge by
vole of the people, and that by doing so he would secure the votes of Ro-
man Catholics.
When I saw that the Judge deserved to be punished, rather than the Ri-
oters, I wrote an article, exp.aining the case, and would have published it
in the newspaper of the opposite party to the party of the Judge. But the
Editor was afraid to publish it. Then I sent the article, by mail, to the
Editor of the "Protestant," in Pittsburgh, and wrote the Editor privately
to send me copies of the numper in which my article would be published.
But I received no copies. Then I went to Pittsburgh, but the Editor assu-
red me he had not received my article.
Having experienced such incredible corruption in all branches of the
Administration, I committed the President Judge of the Butler Court to
the just judgment of God, and left Pittsburgh for Ohio. Instead of going
directly to such places as I had intended to visit on setting out, my Guide
said that I should visit an Associate Judge of the President Judge, whom I
had committed to the judgment of God.
When I came to him and he was explaining to me how he had been con-
verted to believe in the immortality of the Soul by Rapping Spirits, his-
son brought the news that the President Judge had died suddenly, and I
understood from the information as to the time of his sudden death, that it
was at the same moment when the Angel of the Lord informed me that I
should go and see the Associate Judge.
Immediately the Spirit of the deceased President Judge became a strong
Rapping Spirit, but he gave not his own, but another name.
On ap-
proaching the place where he was Rapping, he gave this communication:
that he must leave the house and go into the Planet Venus, having impor-
tant business there. I remained the next night in that house, and at mid-.
night he made strong raps-sounds similar to breaking of crocks in a cor-
ner of the room where I was resting. My Leader informed me that the
Rapper was the Judge, who was taken away by the judgment of God.-
His abode is in the infernal regions, from which he comes surrounded by in-
fernal electricity, with which raps are produced; and when this lying Spir-
it has deluded, for a time, those who like to be instructed by him, he is cast
again into his infernal abode.
This, as well as many other points which have been mentioned in this
Pamphlet, which cannot be fully explained now, but are so explained in
other Manuscripts, which, when published, in due time you will receive
all that you need. If space allowed, I would give peculiar warnings to
Postmasters and Secret Societies, but I hope what now appears will be
sufficient for the' present. And Jesuit Postmasters will be turned out of
office, and all members from Societies, who prevent or neglect the spread-
ing of this Pamphlet, thus showing that they are not true Republicans.
Since the riot in the Court House of Butler is in close connexion with what
happened in the Court House of Mercer, where the Successor of the Rap-
ping Spirit had given advice that I should apply to Congress, it was proper
to mention the Judgment of God against the Judge of Iniquity. Likewise,
because Demons, through the Foxes, began to rap in the same month, viz:
in February, 1848, when also they commenced the Revolution in Europe.
And I have declared many times since, that Rapping Spirits will be dread-
ful Destroying Spirits in this Country, if people will not prevent destruc-
tion by spreading our Message of Peace. Whosoever comprehends this,
should spread this work as far as possible, and thus be a chosen and faith-
ful fellow-laborer of his sincere Brother,
ANDREW B. SMOLNIKAR.
This Pamphlet can always be had where Kirkland and Smolnikar
Lecture.
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