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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
THE following work is intended to supply a
want at the present time in respect to the allabsorbing subject of Foreign and American
influence in this Republic. A portentous cloud
seems to be rising in the East.  As it gradually approaches our zenith it becomes darker
its thunders begin already to roar and its lightnings to flash, and it is feared that a tempest
of inconceivable terror will soon be upon us,
and demolish our glorious temple of freedom,
unless the Almighty arm shall interfere and
save us. From Maine to Georgia the country
is convulsed with intense excitement upon this
subject. Shall TRUE AMERICANS govern themselves, or shall foreigners, unacquainted with
our laws and brought up under monarchical
governments, rule? Shall those who are temporally and spiritually subject to a foreign
prince be our legislators, and change our laws
as they are directed by the Pope of Rome?
Such a result is to be feared, unless True Na
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tive Americans come up to the work like men,
and rescue our liberties before it shall be too
late. We believe that the present excitement
will not cease; we believe that true Americans
and Protestants will labor and pray until our
happy country shall be regenerated from the
influence of civil and ecclesiastical tyranny.
In the present work will be found some of
the most thrilling facts and startling developments ever published in respect to the premeditated destruction of our religious freedom.
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RIxS AN) PROHRESS DF THE PAPAL POWER, SPIRITnuAL
AND TEMPORAL...........
PERMANENT PERSECUTION OF THE INQUISITION.
CONTEST BETWEEN THE POPE AND THE BIBLE.
ABOMINATIONS OF JESUITISM.........
CURIOUS EXTRACTS............
OATH OF A JESUIT BISHOP.........
A BROOKLYN ROMISH FATHER........
LUTHER'S  ACCOUNT OF Is BOOKS, WRITTEN WHEN HE WAS
A PAPIST........
ROME'S THEORY OF LYING........
INCREASE OF POPERY.......
SUPREMACY IN AMERICA THE DESIGN OF POPERY. 
POPERY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 
CATHOLICS OWE NO ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES
LICENTIOUSNESS THE FRUIT OF CELIBACY..
ENCYCLICAL LETTER OF POPE PIUS IX...
CONFESSION OF PRIEST RIEMBA uER....
JESUIT THIEVES........
MIRACLE OF THE SKULL......
MORALS OF THE JESUITS..........
BUYING SALVATION...........
CHRIST THE ONLY LIVING HEAD.......
POER  AND1 DV1ESPR~tOTIM..............
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THE ROmISH PR [ESTHOOD.
BISHOP HUGHES AND GREGORY XVI...
HOLY WELL AND RocK......
PAPISTS AND DESPOTS AGAINST AMERICAN LIBERTY
ROMISH CHURCH NOT ALWAYS THE SAME:
POPE EQUAL WITH GOD.........
THE TITLE OF PAPIST......
MEANS BY WHICH POPERY MAY BE CHECKED..
CARDINAL JOKE BY A ROMAN PRIEST. 
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RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE PAPAL POWER, SPIRITUAL
AND TEMPORAL.
EVERY reader is aware that, till the reign of Constantine,
the Christian v>urches were but private associations, frequent
ly proscribed, and totally unconnected with the political system. In those days of persecution and religious fervor, the
bishops of Rome were assuredly far from aspiring to govern
provinces; they would have been too happy to be left to the
unmolested exercise of obscure virtues; they obtained on earth
no other crown but that of martyrdom. Constantine permitted the churches to acquire real property, and individuals to
enrich them by legacies; and with wealth, ambitious prospects
of worldly distinction began to open before these pastors of
the flock of Christ.
They declared themselves the aathorized vicegerents of
Heaven, as the successors of St. Petev in the episcopal chair,
founding their claim upon the words of Christ to that apostle,
On this rock will I build my church," and hence asserting
that the Church of Rome is the only true church, though they
could niot produce a tittle of evidence that Peter had ever set,
foot in that city. 
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Forgeries of papers and documents are of frequent recur rence in the history of the temporal power of the Popes. The
eighth century was the era of the most impudent of these
frauds. Between the years 756 and 779 was fabricated a
donation, from the Emperor Constantine to Pope Sylvester,
a few lines of which will be sufficient to show its palpable absurdity. "We attribute to she chair of St. Peter all the
imperial dignity, glory, and power.... Moreover, we give to
Sylvester and to his successors our palace of Lateran, incontestably one of the finest palaces on earth; we give him our
crown, our mitre, our diadem, and all our imperial vestments;
we resign to him the imperial dignity.... We give as a free
gift to the holy pontiff the city of Rome and all the western
cities of Italy, as well as the western cities of the other countries. To make room for him, we abdicate our sovereignty
over all these provinces; and we withdraw from Rome, transferring the seat of our empire to Byzantium, since it is not
just that a terrestrial emperor shall retain any power where
God has placed the head of religion." It would be useless to
waste a word on so clumsy a forgery, which, however, serves
to convey some idea of the expedients employed in the eighth
century to establish the temporal power of the Popes.
So much is certain, that before the ninth century they
laid claim to no independent temporal power, but acknowledged the emperors of the East or West as their sovereigns.
The pretensions which they soon afterward began to put forward were founded on those clumsy forgeries just mentioned,
which, but for the extreme ignorance of the people of those
days, never could have gained the slightest degree of credit.
A power, though not sovereign, may nevertheless be effective. Such was that of the Popes from the time of Charlemagne. A positive temporal power, though subaltern, delegated, or borrowed, did thenceforward exist in the hands of the
bishops of Rope; and from that time the continual wars
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between the priesthood and the lay sovereignty had no other
object than to emancipate and to increase that power.
It is at the commencement of the 9th century that we
we begin to perceive, not indeed the establishment, but the
first symptoms of the temporal power of the Roman prelates.
The principal of the causes that could not fail to lead to this
result consisted in the prodigious progress of all the ecclesiastical institutions. Several of the Popes and many other prelates had, by their virtues and talents, deserved the respect
of nations and the esteem of kings: they had gained those
imposing reputations which, in times of public troubles and
disasters, are always the beginnings of power. Zealous missionaries had carried the light of the Gospel to most of the
countries of Europe, and prepared, nay, even forwarded, by
religious instructions, the civilization of some of the barbarous
nations.   On  all sidce  those richly endowed churches  and
monasteries, the pious liberality of princes and private persons,
augmented every where, and especially at Rome, the treasures
and immovable property of the c:;.rgy; its territorial possessions gradually became extensive  sough to be insensibly
transformed into principalities-a metamorphosis but too easy
under such weak and tottering governments. Add to this
the frequency and the solemnity of councils, the general interest excited by their decisions, and the almost inevitable
contact of their discussions with the order or disorder of political affairs.
Charlemagne, the conqueror and succesor of the Lombard
kings, assumed the title of King of Italy, and in the year 800
was elevated to the dignity of emperor, not by the Pope alone,
but by an assembly of the clergy, nobility, and people of
Rome. He possessed the supreme dominion of the whole
Peninsula.
A council went so far as to represent Constantine the
Great as addressing the bishops in these terms; "God has
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given you power to judge us, but you cannot be judged by
men. God has set you up over us as gods,' and it is not fit
that man should judge gods. This belongs only to him of
whom it is written,'God hath seated himself in the synagogue
of the gods, and he judgeth them!'"
The subsequent dissensions among the numerous descendants of Charlemagne afforded the Popes abundant occasions
to set themselves up for judges of their pretensions, to obtain,
in return for the service which they rendered to some, a right
to humble the others and a right to rule them all.  Hence
those enterprises of the Popes, who, looking upon themselves
as dispensers of an emipire of which they were but the first subjects, pretended, unn  r the shadow  of a purely spiritual
power, to dispose of the sovereignty of States.
Though there was not yet any authentic act exalting
the Pope into a sovereign, and emancipating the authority
which he exercised in Rome aLd the surrounding districts
from the imperial supremacy, yet his power was becoming de
facto independent; and, since he fancied that, in anointing
the emperors, he was actually making them; since he dared
talk of their dignity as a gift for which they were indebted to
him,, he was no doubt strong enough to set bounds to any
obedience which they might have required.
It was not till the latter half of the eleventh century that
the whole extent of the Papal pretensions was manifested,
and that those pretensions began to be enforced with unbounded arrogance and inflexible perseverance. Hildebrand, the
most remarkable personage of his time, was elevated to the
papal throne in 1073. In his ardent mind, the idea of a
universal theocracy had grown up into a passion. To ensure
the empire of the priesthood over the rest of mankind, and
the domination of the Pope over the whole priesthood, he felt
the necessity of reforming their manners and concentrating
their relations, of cutting them off more completely from
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the rest of the  world,  and forming them into one great
family.
The unlimited aggrandizement of the pontifical power continued to be the ruling principle of Hildebrand's conduct,
after he had seated himself in the papal chair by the name of
Gregory VII. Like all rigid enthusiasts, he thought himself
disinterested, and was, without remorse, the scourge of the
world.
To  this Pope are  attributed the following twenty-seven
maxims, forming a complete declaration of the sovereignty,
spiritual and temporal, of the Roman pontiff, including the
right of deposing all princes, of giving away all crowns, of
reforming all laws:
"The Romish Church is the only one that God has founded.
"The title of universal belongs to the Roman pontiff alone.
"He alone can depose and absolve bishops.
"His legate presides over all the bishops in every council,
and may pronounce sentence of deposition against them.
"' The Pope can depose absent persons.
"It is not lawful to live with such as have been excommunicated.
"He has power, according to circumstances, to make new
laws, to create new  churches, to transform a chapter into an
abbey, and to divide a rich bishopric into two, or to unite
two poor bishoprics.
"He alone has a right to assume the attributes of empire.
"All princes must kiss his feet.
"His name is the only one to be uttered in the churches.
"It is the only name in the world.
' He has a right to depose emperors.
"He has a right to remove bishops from oae see to another.
"He has a right to appoint a clerk [priest] in every
church.
"He whom he has appointed may govern another church,
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And cannot receive a higher benefice from any private bishop
"No council can call itself general without the order of the
Pope.
"No chapter, no book, can be reputed canonical without
his authority.
"No one can invalidate his sentences; he can abrogate
those of all other persons.
"He cannot be judged by any one.
"All persons whatsoever are forbidden to presume to condemn him who is called to the apostolical chair.
"To this chair must be brought the more important causes
of all the churches.
"The Roman church is never wrong, and will never fall
into error.
"Every Roman pontiff canonically ordained becomes holy.
"It is lawful to accuse when he permits, or when he commands.
"He may, without synod, depose and absolve bishops.
"He is no Catholic who is not united to the Romish
Church.
"The Pope can release the subjects of bad princes from all
oaths of allegiance."
Absurd and extravagant as these assumptions may appear,
such then became, and such has never since ceased to be, the
system of the court of Rome.
When Gregory saw William the Conqueror firmly seated
on the throne of England, he did not scruple to summon him
to pay homage for that kingdom to the apostolical chair.
Sardinia, Dalmatia, Russia, were, in the eyes of Gregory,
but fiefs dependent on the tiara.  "In the name of St. Peter,"
he wrote to the Russian prince Demetrius, "We have given
your crown to your son, who is to come and to receive it at
our hands, on taking an oath of allegiance to us." Nicephorus Botoniates, Greek emperor, he commanded to abdicate 
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the crown; Boleslaus, king of Poland, he declared to be de posed; Solomon, king of Hungary, he referred to his aged
subjects, to learn from them whether their country belonged
to the Romish Church.
From the end of the tenth century, the decretals of Isa dore had sown the seeds of pontifical omnipotence: Gratian
collected and fecundated them. Represented as the source
of all irrefragable decisions, as the universal tribunal for set tling all differences, for dispelling all doubts, for clearing
away all difficulties, the court of Rome soon found itself consulted from all quarters, by metropolitans, by bishops, by
chapters, by abbots, by monks, by nobles, nay, even by
princes and private individuals.
So early as the first half of the twelfth century, we find
that even in Rome itself, doctrines closely resembling those
of the reformers of the following ages, were publicly promulgated. Arnold of Brescia, one of the superior spirits of those
dark and turbulent times, after studying at Paris under Abe
lard, returned, in 1136, to Italy, ftill of new ideas respecting
religion and the Church. His bold, independent mind, his
intimate acquaintance with Christian antiquity  and his persuasive eloquence in the pulpit and in the professor's chair,
gave prodigious weight to his denunciations of the ambition
and despotism of the clergy.   Condemned, in 1139, by the
second council of Lateran, he sought refuge in France, where
his doctrines procured him numerous adherents. The excommunication pronounced against him and his followers by Pope
Innocent II. could not quench the spreading flames of disaffection;  and Arnold, removing to Zurich in Switzerland,
preached his doctrine without molestation till 1144, when
the people of Rome, having expelled the Pope, established a
semblance of a republican government in their city. Pro
ceeding thither at the head of 2000 Swiss, Arnold proposed
the restoration of consuls, tribunes, and the equestrian order
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of the ancient republic; he farther urged the expediency of
depriving the Pope of all civil power, and limiting that which
the Romans were obliged to leave to the emperor. For several years the pontifical authority was not recognised in the
capital, nor was it recovered till 1153 by Eugene III., aided
by the influence of Frederick Barbarossa. Venerated by the
people, and protected by the senate, Arnold continued to disseminate his doctrines at Rome till the accession of Adrian
IV., the only Englishman that ever sat on the pontifical
throne, who, to get rid of so formidable an opponent, laid, for
the first time, the whole city under an interdict. This bold
measure produced universal consternation and dismay; the
Romans solicited pardon, and the senate banished the reformer. Scarcely had Arnold left the city, when he was
seized by the soldiers of Frederick Barbarossa; the emperor
delivered him up to the Pope, by whose command he was
burned alive, unknown to the Romans, at daybreak, and his
ashes were thrown into the Tiber, "lest," says Fleury, "the
people might collect them as those of a martyr."
The history of the Romish See in all ages proves that pretentions onc  advanced by it are not very readily abandoned.
It was during the pontificate of Adrian's successor, Alexander III.,- that the audacious conduct of Becket, archbishop
of Canterbury, encouraged by the Pope, brought a violent
death upon himself, and the deepest degradation upon King
Henry II. The circumstances of that melancholy struggle
between the sovereign authority and the omnipotence of the
Church are too well known to every reader of English history to need recapitulating here.
Among the three hundred popes and anti-popes whose
names history presents to us, we know of none more imposing
than Innocent  III, "In lIis actions, his principles, and the
effects produced by both on the state of Europe," says an eloquent living writer, "we scarcely recognize a human being 
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He, in fact, takes a stand wholly above the class of figures
which form the ordinary pageant of history.
"A pope," said Innocent, "a vicegerent of Christ, if less
than God, is greater than man: he is the luminary of day; the
civil authority being only the pale orb of night." It was Inno cent who discovered in the first chapter of Genesis this celes tial theory of the two powers   and it was with such allegories,
evidences of the ignorance of his age and of his own, that he
subjugated the West, disturbed the East, ruled the earth, and
deluged it with blood.   "Swiord, sword,' he exclaimed, when
informed of the landing of the French in England, "sword,
leap from the scabbard; sword, whet thyself to exterminate 1a
The grand engines by which the Popes were enabled to
maintain their usurped supremacy over temporal sovereigns
were excommunication and interdict. By the one, refractory
princes were excluded from all the offices of the Church, and
their subjects were forbidden on the like penalty to render
them assistance or service of any kind: by the other, the interdict, the effects of excommunication were extende- to a
city, a province, a whole kingdom.
The Bible became a proscribed book, which the laity were
forbidden to read in the vernacular language. Public worship
itself was ordered to be performed in Latin, an unknown
tongue to the great mass of those who heard it. The clergy,
conscious that what they taught as Christianity was not to be
in the Scriptures, now set up in. their stead the unwritten
word, or tradition, such passages from the Fathers as could
be construed into a sanction of their corruptions, and legends
too childish for nursery tales.
As a new source of revenue, purgatory was invented, in
order to make the dead as well as the living tributary to the
rapacity of Rome-Purgatory, a place so near the region of
everlasting torment, that the same fire pervades both. No
bodily pain can convey an idea of the agony inflicted by a
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single spark of this fire.  If the vicegerent of God wished to
promote a new practice of devotion, or to encourage a particular shrine, or to excite men to slaughter their unoffending
fellow-creatures, he granted to those who should promote
these objects a dispensation for so many years of purgatory 
,smetimes for centuries or thousands of years, and the indulgence was often plenary-" a toll ticket," says Southey, "enabling the soul to pass scot-free." The Church, in its infinite
benevolence, sold these indulgences.
To rivet the chains of slavery upon the souls as well as the
bodies of men too firmly to be thrown off, private, or, as it is
called, auricular confession of sins to a priest, was made an
imperative duty of all Catholics of both sexes, at certain times
and seasons.   "Of all the'practices of the Romish        Church,',
says Southey in the work already quoted, "this is the one
which has proved most injurious.   And if it be regarded in
connection with the celibacy of the clergy, the cause will be
apparent why the state of morals is generally so much more
corrup4t in Catholic than in Protestant countries.
"The Church of Rome," continues Southey, "appears to
have delighted in insulting as well as in abusing the credulity
of mankind, and to have pleased itself with discovering how far
it was possible to subdue and degrade the human intellect.
If farther proof were needed, it would be found in the prodigious doctrine of transubstantiation. According to this, in
the sacrament, when the words of consecration have been
pronounced, the bread becomes that same actual body of
flesh andi blood in which Christ suffered upon the cross.
The priest, when he performed this stupendous fuinetion,
had before his eyes and held in his hands the Maker of heaven
and earth; and the inference which they deduced from so
blasphemous an assumption was, that the clergy were Aot to
be subject to any secular authority seeing thiat they could
create God their Creator. 
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" If such, then, were the power of the clergy, even of the
meanest priest, what must be attributed to theirearthly head,
the successor of St. Peter!  According to the canons, the
Pope was as far above all kings as the sun is greater than
the moon.  lie was king of kings and lord of lords; and the
Popes declared it was to be held as a point necessary to salvation that every human creature is subject to the Roman
pontiff.   The  proudest  sovereigns waited  upon him  like
menials, led his horse by the bridle, and held his stirrup while
he alighted;and there were ambassadors who prostrated
themselves before him, saying,'O thou that takest away the
sins of the world, have mercy upon us!'
Christ had bestowed upon the Pope the same infallibility
which resided in himself; consequently, if he should enjoin
vices to be committed, and prohibit virtues, the Church would
be bound to believe that vices were good and virtues evil
lie could change the nature of things, and make injustice
justice.
All this was certain, because the Church was infallible.
A necessary consequence of notions so arrogant, of doctrines
which taught that there was no possibility of attaining salvation out of the bosom of the Romish Church, which inculcated 
the duty of persecuting, and, if possible, exterminating all
whom it was pleased to call heretics, and gave the murderers
a right to seize the property of the victims, was a spirit of intolerance, to which History can scarcely furnish a parallel,
sunless, perhaps, in the immediate successors of the prophet
of Mecca.
The Catholics affect to turn the charge of intolerance
against the Protestants themselves, forgetting or wilfully sliut- 
ting their eyes to the fact that the intolerance occasionally
exhibited by the Protestants soon after the Reformation was
but a relic of Popery, which the principles whereon that Reformation was founded were destined ere long to destroy.   A
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glance at the page of History will convince every reader that
the Catholics have invariably been the first to persecute;
that, if the Protestants ever appeared in the character of persecutors, it was after they had been provoked, and by way of
retaliation.
It is idle to adduce the execution of Servetus at Geneva,
the case of two Arians burned in London in the time of James
I., the hardships inflicted on the Nonconformists under Charles
II., and other facts of that kind. What are these compared
with the massacres committed by the hordes of the Crusaders,
under Peter the Hermit, on the Jews in the cities of Western
Germany; the extermination of the Albigenses; the persecu.
tions of the Vaudois; the slaughter of millions of human
beings in America, in the name of Jesus Christ and the Virgin
Mary; the massacres of St. Bartholomew  and in Ireland;
the permanent persecution of the Inquisition, and the auto-da
fes of Spain. Portugal, and Italy, for centuries; the expatriation of hundreds of thousands of families from Spain, France,
Salzburg; and, to crown the bloody catalogue of Catholic persecutions, we may add the assassination of two kings of
France, Henry III. and Henry IV.!
PERMANENT PERSECUTION OF THIE INQUISITION.
THE Inquisition, the most formidable of all the formidable
engines devised by Popery to subdue the souls and bodies, the
reason and the consciences, of men to its sovereign will, was
a capital contrivance for rendering persecution permanent, as
the Jacobins of recent times did the guillotine. Indeed, the
one was only a slower process than the other for arriving at
the same end.
The immediate motive for its establishment was, the sup 
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pression of th  alleged heresy of the Albigenses, whom the
Church, in her maternal anxiety for their eternal salvation,
undertook, in spite of their natural sovereigns, to reclaim orto exterminate. Innocent III., the then dispenser of her tender
mercies, considering that, whatever might be done against tho
Albigenses by open force, there would still be left a great
number who would persist in their sentiments and in the pro
fession of their doctrines, conceived the plan of a permanent
tribunal for the detection and punishment of heretics.
To this end it was requisite that the persons composing it
should be entirely dependent on the court of Rome, and absolutely devoted to its interests. It was requisite that they
should have no other duties to divert their attention; that
they should be of low condition, in order that they might
feel themselves honored by an employment which consisted at
first in the mere search after heretics. It was requisite that
they should be without family ties and connections, so as to
have no consideration for any person whatever; that they
should be obdurate, inflexible, without pity and without compassion; because the intended tribunal was to exceed in
severity any that had ever existed. Lastly, it was requisite
that they should be zealous in behalf of religion, men of little
or no ability, but interested, from particular motives, in the
destruction of heretics.
Innocent, who was not satisfied with the bishops and their
officials, whose zeal against heretics was, in his opinion, not
sufficiently active, thought that in the monks of the recently
established orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis were to be
found all the qualities just enumerated.
For the court of Rome they had the strongest possible at
tachment. The solitude and retirement of which they made
profession, but of which, as it appeared in the sequel, they soon
began to tire, afforded them leisure to attend incessantly to
this new cal.nug.  The mne,nness of their dress, the poverty of
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their monasteries, and, above all, the public mendicity and humility to which they bound themselves, could not fail to make
them regard the office of Inquisitors as one that flattered any
relic of natural ambition which might yet lurk within their
minds. The general renunciation which they made, even of
the names of the families from which they sprung, must go a
great way towards stifling those sentiments which the ties of
kindred and civil connections generally inspire. Besides, the
austerity of their rules, and the severity which they were continually practising towards themselves, were not likely to allow
them to have much feeling for others. Lastly, they were
zealous, as possessors of newly established religions most commonly are; and learned, after the fashion of the times; that
is to say, well versed in scholastic quibbles and in the new
canon law. Moreover, they had a particular interest in the
suppression of heretics, who were incessantly declaiming against
them, and spared no pains to discredit them in the minds of
the people.
On these monks, therefore, the Pope conferred the office of
Inquisitors of the Faith, and they acquitted themselves in such
a manner as not to disappoint his expectations.   At  first
however, their duty was limited to laboring for the conversion
of heretics by means of preaching and instruction; to.exhorting princes and magistrates to punish those who persisted in
their errors; to inquiring the number and quality of the heretics, and also what degree of zeal and diligence was shown by
Catholic princes, magistrates, and bishops, in searching out
and inflicting punishment. Their reports on these points were
transmitted to the Pope, to be used as he should think fit;
and from these inquiries the persons who were engaged in them
received the name of Inquisitors.
Sometime afterwards, their authority was  extended,  and
they were empowered to grant indulgences, to publish crusades,
to animate nations and princes, to put themselves at the head 
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of the crusaders, and to lead them on to the extirpation of
heretics. In later times, the Inquisition was also made use
of, to condemn as heretical all books in which the rights of
temporal princes and potentates are carried too far in the
opinion of the court of Rome; and every occasion was seized
for enlarging its powers in order to render it a more effective
instrument, under the pretext of religion, against all who should
dare to oppose the temporal pretensions of the Pope. This
terrible engine of the most cruel tyranny was gradually introducedt into all the Italian States, except Naples and some of
the provinces of France, and into the kingdoms of Spain and
Portugal: but the Papal See was baffled in all its attempts
to obtain the formal establishment of the justly dreaded tribunal in the other European States.
The Inquisition, comprehended under the name of heretics,
all who spoke, wrote, taught, or preached anything contrary
to the holy Scriptures and the traditions of the Clhurchi; all
who praised the customs and ceremonies of other religions, or
held that it was possible to be saved in any other Church than
the Romish; all who maintained opinions contrary to those
received at Rome and in Italy respecting the sovereign and
unlimited authority of the Popes, their superiority even to
general councils, and their power in temporal matters over
princes; in short, all who spoke, wrote, or taught against the
determination made by the Popes on any subject whatever.
The mere suspicion of heresy opened a still wider field to
the operation of the Inquisition. To speak against the sacraments, to deface or destroy images, to keep or lend forbidden
books, to abstain from the ordinary practices of Catholics, as,
for example, to pass a whole year without confessing and communimating, to eat meat on fast days, to neglect attending
mass on the days prescribed by the Church, were each a suf ficient -ause for incurring that suspicion. To save, to assist,
or to favor a heretic in any way whatever was a crime: nay,
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to neglect to denounce one, even though the nearest and dearest relative, was an offence which exposed a person to excommunication. and to the horrors of the Inquisition, as a suspected heretic. This tribunal likewise took cognizance of
charges of magic, sorcery, and witchcraft; and, as the belief
in these imaginary crimes was almost universal, especially in
Italy, none contributed so much as they did to crown the
prisons with women of all conditions. But with the Inquisition the most heinous of all transgressions was to give any,
even the slightest, offence to its officers. This was held to be
a capital crime, and neither birth nor character, neither office,
nor rank, nor dignity, was a safeguard from the penalty. If,
therefore, a man was seized in the midst of his friends, or in
the circle of his family, not a hand durst be lifted in his defence,
not a voice in his favor. From that moment, the prisoner
was cut off from all intercourse with his kind; without friends
or kindred, without counsel, succor, or consolation, he was
left to his judges and to himself, and frequently to his bitterest
enemnies. All exact inventory was taken of everything found
in his house and about his person; and all or at least'part
of his property was seized, by way of security, for the expenses
and fines which he might be sentenced to pay: for rarely
did a prisoner get out of the clutches of the Inquisition without being half ruined, unless he were very rich.
The prisons of this most terrible of all tribunals were unwholesome, subterraneous dungeons, situated at a distance
from all traffic. To these dreary abodes the light of day never
penetrated. Here the wretched prisoners were not allowed
to see or to speak to any one. If the proximity of one dungeon to another allowed the inmates to converse, they were
forbidden to hold communication; and if they were overheard
talking to themselves or to one another, they were most cruelly
scourged.  When a prisoner had passed several days, or perhaps months without even knowing the crime of which he was. 
CALLED " KNOW-NOTHINGS."
accused or the witnesses against him, the jailor, as if of his
own motion, advised him to apply for a hearing; for it was
an invariable maxim with this tribunal that the accused should
always be the applicant, and be made to impeach himself.
When brought before hisjudges, they affected entire ignorance
of his case, inquiring who he was, what he wanted, and if he
had anything to say. The prisoner of course gave the best
account that he could of himself, and was released, as the Inquisition was too regardful of human life to send to the stake
those who were brought before it for the first time; but his
family was declared infamous, and his first judgment rendered
him incapable of bearing arms or of holding any office in the
Church or in the State.
Spies, who were called Familiars of the Inquisition, were
then sent to dog him, to pick up his every word, and to watch
his every motion. These men, pretending to be his friends,
wormed themselves into his confidence: and sometimes his
own servants or his nearest relatives played this treacherous
part. On the slightest suspicion, he was again apprehended:
the wretched man was then irretrievably undone, for never
was the Inquisition known to forgive twice.
After he had again languished for several months, he again
applied for a hearing, at the secret suggestion of his judges,
who, if they could not draw from him such a confession as
they desired, ordered him to be put to the torture, of which
there were three kinds. The first, called squassation, consisted in tying back the arms by a cord, fastening weights to
his feet, and drawing him up to the full height of the place by
means of a pulley. Having been kept suspended for some
time, he was suddenly let down with a jerk to within a little
distance of the floor, and with repeated shocks all his joints
were dislocated; this species of torture was continued for
an hour and sometimes longer, according to the pleasure of
the inquisitors present, and to what the strength of the sufferer
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seemed capable of enduring. If this torture was not sufficient
to overcome him, that of water was resorted to.  He  was
obliged to swallow a great quantity, and then laid in a wooden
trough, provided with a lid that might be pressed down as
tight as the operators pleased. Across the trough was a bar,
on which the sufferer's back rested, and by which the spine
was broken. The torture by fire was equally painful. A very
brisk fire was made, and the prisoner being extended on the
ground, the soles of his feet were rubbed with lard or some
other combustible matter, and placed close to the fire, till the
agony extorted from him such a confession as his tormentors
required.  Not satisfied with their success, the judges doomed
their miserable victims to the torture a second time, to make
them own the motive and intention for the actions which they
acknowledged to have committed; and a third time, to force
them to reveal their accomplices or abettors.
If these infernal cruelties failed to wring a confession, artifices and snares were resorted to. Suborned wretches were
sent to their dungeons: pretending to comfort and assist them,
or even to be prisoners like themselves, they launched out
against the Inquisition as an insupportable tyranny and the
greatest of all the scourges with which God had ever afflicted
mankind. Their dupes fell the more readily into the snare,
as it is hard to withstand the services of friendship and compassion performed for us when in the extremity of misery. The
Inquisitors seconded these artifices to the utmost of their
power. They assured the sufferers that they sympathized
with them; that all they aimed at was their conversion; that
the slightest confession, which they might make to them in
private, and which they promised to keep inviolably secret,
would be sufficient to put an end to their afflictions and to
procure their liberation.
The upshot was, that if the accused was held to be convicted in thejudclgment of the Inquisitors, or by witnesses, or
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CIALTED  IKNOW-NOTHI'NGS.'7
by his own confession, he was sentenced, according to the
heinousness of the offence, to death, to perpetual imprison
ment, to the galleys, flogging, or some other punishment.
After condemnation, the execution was deferred for one or
perhaps several years, that the sacrifice of a great number of
delinquents at once might produce a more striking, and terrible
effect.
The wholesale executions of the Inquisitions, being considered as a religious ceremony, were styled in Spain and
Portugal Autos-da-fe, or Acts of Faith.  These were celebrated in general at the accessior of a king to the crown, or
on occasion of his majority, of his marriage, or of the birth
of an heir-apparent. By the besotted and priest-ridden ins
habitants of those countries, these horrible sights were at last
regarded nearly in the light of public amusements. Execun
tions on a smaller scale took place every year towards the
conclusion of Lent, on the Friday immediately preceding Good
Friday.
By daybreak, the tolling of the great bell of the cathedral
summoned the faithful to the horrid tragedy. Persons of the
highest distinction eagerly offered their services to escort the
victims; and grandees were often seen assuming the character
of familiars of the Inquisition. The Dominicans, with the
standard of the execrable tribunal, opened the procession.
The condeonned walked barefoot, with a pointed cap on their
heads, and dressed in a san-benito, a yellow frock, with a cress
on the breast and on the back, and covered with painted re presentations of the faces of fiends. The penitents, on whom
some penance only was imposed, came first, and after the
cross, which was borne behind them, followed such as were
doomed to die. Effigies of persons who had escaped, and the
remains of the dead that had incurred condemnation, appeared
in the fearful procession lying in black coffins, on which were
painted flames and infernal figures; and it was closed by
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priests and monks. Passing through the principal streets of
the city to the cathedral, a sermon was preached, and their
sentence read to the delinquents, each of them standing meanwhile, with an extinguished taper in his hand, before a crucifix.
A servant of the Inquisition then smote them on the breast
with his hand, to signify that the tribunal had ceased to have
any power over them. The condemned were then delivered
up to an officer of the civil authority, and soon afterwards
conducted to the place of execution. Each was asked in
what faith he would die; if he said Catholic, he was strangled
before he was burned; the others, who persisted in their
opinions, were consigned alive to the flames.   These autos-daf6 of which the professed historian of the Inquisition gives such
harrowing details as thrill the blood with horror, the people
of both sexes and all ages throngred to witness with transports
of satisfaction and joy surpassing those displayed on any other
occasion.  Even kings deemed it a meritorious act to attend
those cruel exhibitions, with their whole court, and to feast
their eyes on the torments of the wretched sufferers.
The effects, moveable and immovable, of all the prisoners
condemned to death were confiscated; as for the others, their
property, having been seized immediately after their apprehension, was almost entirely consumed before they were released, through the mismanagement of the sequestrators, peculation, confiscations, and fines. 
From the mode of proceeding adopted in the Inquisition, it
could not be otherwise than that many innocent persons should
perish along with the guilty. This was a fact admitted by
the Inquisitors themselves, but which gave them no sort of
concern: for it was one of their principal tnaxims-better
put to death a hundred Catholics irreproachable in their faith,
than let one heretic escape. The former, they argued, were
sure of paradise; whereas, a heretic, if he gets off, may infect
and lead to perdition a great number of souls. 
CALLED " I(NOW-NOTHINGS." 2
Neither were those innocent sufferers allowed to complain
of the injustice which they experienced; this would have been
a fresh crime, which would have been punished with the more
severity, since it involved the reputation of the tribunal, which
never acknowledged itself to be in the wrong. Of course,
they had no other consolation than that held forth to them by
the Directory of the Inquisitors, in these words: "Let no one
complain that he is condemned unjustly, or murmur against
the ecclesiastical judges, or the judgment of the Church.   But,
if he is unjustly condemned, let him rejoice in that he is condemned for justice." If this language was not intended for
insulting mockery, it wears at least all the appearance of such:
in what other light can it be viewed, when addressed to men
who find themselves stripped of all they possessed, or have
been condemned to the galleys, to exile, to perpetual imprisonment, or even to a most cruel and infamous death?
The power of this infernal tribunal extended to the dead as
well as the living: Even the bones of persons long consigned
to the grave, when competent  evidence could be found to
convict them of heresy, torn from their resting places, were
doomed to the flames, and their property to confiscation.
The court of Rome considered the Inquisition as its masterpiece, as the firmest and most solid support of its power,
spiritual and temporal. Hence it put all things under the
feet of this tribunal in the countries subject to its authority.
There the most extravagant maxims were held to be incontestable, and the most unfounded pretensions established beyond
dispute. Thus the infallibility of the Popes, their superiority
to general councils, their dominion over the possessions of all
the churches in the world, the power to dispose of them as
they pleased, their pretended authority over the temporal concerns of sovereigns, the right which they claim of deposing
them, of absolving their subjects from the Oath of allegiance
and giving way their dominions, are maxims which none dared
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to doubt in the countries of the Inquisition, much less to contest them, lest they should expose themselves to all the horrors of that detestable tribunal. No wonder that the Popes,
in return, so warmly supported all its pretensions, and earnestly and incessantly labored to procure for it so extensive an
authority, that it at length became formidable to the very
princess by whom it was adopted.
But in no country of Christendom did the Inquisition
acquire such unbounded power as in Spain. There it was in
troduced so early as the middle of the 13th century; though,
in some of the petty kingdoms into which the Spanish peninsula was then divided, the States manfully opposed its admission, particularly in Castile and Leon, where the bishops asserted their exclusive right of judging in all religious matters.
When, however, all these minor sovereignties had, in the
course of the next two centuries, gradually merged into one
monarchy, its rumiers, the crafty Ferdinand and Isabella, perceived what important aid they might derive from the employment of such an engine as the Inquisition, in the execution of
their ambitious, arbitrary, and cruel plans. They had already
made several successful attempts towards reducing the power
of the feudal nobility, and investing the crown with absolute
authority. The population of Spain at this time was composed of Christians, Jews, and Mohammedans.  The Moors
still retained the kingdom of Granada, which, however, was
already threatened by the preparations of Ferdinand and
Isabella. In the principal cities of Spain, the Jews had their
synagogues, and formed a distinct class fromn the rest of the
inhabitants.  The commerce of the country was for the most
part in their hands; they were the farmers of the sovereigns
and of the grandees, and the only burden imposed upon them
was a moderate poll-tax, which they were obliged to pay to
the clergy. The wealth which they had acquired by industry
excited great envy and hatred against them, and these pas. 
CALLED " KNOW-NOTHINGS."
sions were fostered by ignorant priests. About a century
earlier, the sermons of a fanatical monk, Fernan Martinez
Nunez, who preached up the persecution of the Jews as a
good work, were the principal cause of the riots which took
place, in 1391 and 1392, in various cities, where the populace
rose and plundered and murdered the Jews, many of whom,
in order to save their lives, submitted to be baptized.
After the reduction of several restless grandees in the
South of Spain, cardinal Mendoza, archbishop of Seville, made,
in 1477, the first attempt to establish a Tribunal of the Faith.
By his command, punishments, both public and private, were
inflicted on many of the inhabitants of Seville of Jewish
descent, who were accused of secretly following in their houses
the laws and customs of tneir forefathers. A plan was formed
for extending the same species of Inquisition over the whole
country, and submitted to the government by Mendoza. Ferdinand and Isabella approved the establishment of such an institution, which promised at once to gratify the persecuting
spirit of the age, and to be a useful tool in the hands of the
State. It was calculated that, by means of this tribunal,
wholly dependent on the court, the Jews, both secret and
acknowledged, and the Mohammedans, might be suppressed,
the royal treasury enriched by the property of all delinquents
which would devolve to it, and the power of the grandees and
even of the clergy curbed.
Two grand obstacles, however, required moving before the
Inquisition could be solidly established in Castile. The consent of the States was absolutely necessary; and some value,
it was considered, ought to be attached to the consent of the
Pope.  The institution of the new tribunal proposed by thie
cardinal was therefore the most important question discussed
at the diet of Toledo in 1480. When the superior' adminis —
trative authorities, the supreme council of Castile, the council
of State, and the council of Aragon, were confirmed by the
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States, he declared that it was necessary to have likewise a
permanent tribunal for matters relating to the faith, and for
the administration of the ecclesiastical police. In spite of all
opposition, it was determined that such a tribunal should be
instituted by the name of General Inquisition; and it was
opened at Seville in 1481.
The first Grand Inquisitor, who indeed was appointed three
years before, was Thomas de Torquemada, prior of the Domini can convent at Segovia, and confessor to cardinal Mendoza.
He nominated 200 assistant inquisitors, and had a body-guard
of 50 horse; so that the Dominican convent soon became too
small for the numerous prisoners, and the king was obliged to
give up the palace in the Triana suburb to the tribunal. At
the first auto-da-f6, or execution, which was always kept as a
grand festival, seven relapsed Christians were burned, and
many more  did penance.   Hereupon, 17,000  persons, as
Spanish historians relate, accused themselves to the Inquisition; upwards of 2000 were doomed to the flames in the first
years, and a much greater number fled to the neighboring
countries.
The Pope, for his part, had opposed the foundation of the
Spanish Inquisition-a metamorphosis of an ecclesiastical into
a secular tribunal. Soon after the appointment of the new
Inquisitor, he had authorized the archbishop of Toledo, a bitter
enemy of Mendoza's, to bring to judgment a professor of Salamanca, who was accused of heretical opinions, and several
times cited the Inquisitor-general to Rome; but Torquemada,
instead of obeying the summons, sent a friend to conduct his
defence. A warm dispute ensued between the court of Spain
and the Pope, till, in 1483, Sixtus IV. was obliged to give
way, and to confirm Torquemada as Inquisitor-general of Castile and Leon. Atthe same time he was empowered by the papal
bull to establish such subordinate tribunals for religious matters as he might think proper, to displace the judges previous 
CALLRED  KNOW-NOTHINGS.)        )
ly appointed by the Pope, and to remodel the former mode of
proceeding, in cases of heresy, according to the new system.
A subsequent bull subjected Aragon, Valencia, and likewise
Sicily, then under the sway of Ferdinand, to the jurisdiction
of the Inquisitor-general of Castile;  and thus the Inquisition
became the supreme tribunal in both the kingdoms composing
the Spanish monarchy; for, at the assembly held at Tarragona
in 1484, the States of Aragon were obliged to swear to protect it.
The introduction of this tyrannical institution excited ferments and insurrections in various parts of Spain.  Shocked
by the cruelty of the judges, perhaps also excited by the jealous
bishops, various cities, and Saragossa in particular, refused to
admit the Inquisitors, several of whom were sacrificed by the
popular fury, The power of the Crown soon overcame this
resistance: thenceforward, the kings became absolute judges
in matters of religion, and the honor, the property, and the
life of every subject were at their arbitary disposal. They
appointed the Grand -Inquisitor, and by them, or at least
under their immediate influence, the assistant-judges were
elected, and two of these were always members of the supreme
council of Castile. Thus this tribunal became wholly dependent on the court, and a powerful instrument for founding the
despotic authority of the sovereign on the ruins of the ancient
liberties of the country, for reducing the mighty influence of
the clergy, for crushing the high-spirited nobility, and for
suppressing the privileges of the State.
The confiscated property of condemned persons devolved to
the king, and, even when it was given to the Inquisition, he
had power to specify the purpose to which it was to be applied. Ferdinand and Isabella, indeed, expended part of the
produce of these confiscations in the endowment of monasteries
or hospitals; still much wealth was diverted from the Church
by the Inquisition; and that this institution was obliged to
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serve as a tool for replenishing the royal coffers exhausted by
war, is proved by an ordinance issued by Torquemada in 1487;
for so early as that was the treasury of the Inquisition drained
by royal assignations, to such a degree that the salaries of
the officials could not be paid.
The first ordinance of Torquemada's, declaring that this
court was to be held for the service of God and of their highnesses, was issued in 1484: by virtue of it, proclamation was
to be made  in every parish, enjoining heretics or relapsed
Papists to denounce themselves to the Inquisition within the
space of thirty or forty days.   Torquemada, tormented by
gout, resigned his office; and, dying in 1498, was buried in
the Dominican convent at Avila, which, founded with the confiscated property of heretics, was, strictly speaking, a monument of his cruel activity.
At first, the jurisdiction of the Inquisition was not precisely
determined: by the ordinance of 1484, tribunals subordinate
to the Inquisitor-general were established in the province of
Spain. In later times, the supreme court was at Madrid.
The Grand Inquisitor was its president; of the six or seven
assistant judges, whom he nominated at the king's recommendation, one, agreeably to an ordinance issued by Philip III.,
was always a Dominican. Under him were a fiscal, two
secretaries, a receiver, two referendaries, and several officials,
as they were called, appointed by the president with the king's
assent. The court sat every day, excepting holidays, in the
royal palace; and, on the last three days in the week, two
members of the council of Castile were present. It was the
duty of the fiscal to examine the statements of witnesses, to
denounce delinquents, to apply for their apprehension, and to
accuse them when secured. The secretary, besides making
minutes of the proceedings, was charged to watch in the
strictest manner the slightest motions of the accusers, witnesses
and accused, by which their nost secret feelings might be 
CALLED "' KNOW-NOTHINGS."
betrayed The officials were persons employed in apprehending the accused. A sequestrator, who was obliged to give
security to the court, had the management of the confiscated
property, the produce of which was handed to the receiver,
who paid the salaries and discharged the assignations to which
the funds of the tribunal were liable. The number of the
agents and spies of the Inquisition, called familiars, was computed to exceed 20,000; and such offices were sought after,
even by members of the highest families, because considerable
civil immunities and ample indulgences were attached to them.
The Jews and the Moors were the especial objects of the
persecution of the Inquisition in Spain.   The former, who
were very numerous in that country, were left, till the second
half of the 14th century, in nearly undisturbed enjoyment of
their privileges, which were considerable. Favored by the
sovereigns, they were appointed to public offices, allowed to
have their own court of justice, and to acquire landed property.
With the increasing power of priests, the impoverishment of
the nobles, and the abuses arising from their own usurious
transactions, they became more and more exposed to envy,
hatred, and persecution. In Aragon, during a season of extraordinary drought, they were expelled from the cities; and
in 1391 and 12 an indiscriminate slaughter destroyed great
numbers of them in Seville, Cordova, Toledo, Valencia, Catalonia, and Majorca.  Many saved their lives by submitting to
be baptized, or by flight to Africa.
In the 15th century, the tyranny exercised by the Inquisition against those who had been baptized and were not allowed
to emigrate, and compulsory conversions, continued to thin
their numbers. Thousands were burned or subjected to cruel
punishments.   At length, after the conquest of Granada,
Ferdinand and Isabella resolved to drive the Jews out of
Spain. Accordingly, in 1492, they published an edict, commanding all those who would not change their religion to
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quit the Spanish dominions. The space of four months was,
however, allowed them to decide, with permission to sell their
property, to carry with them what they could, and to retire
whithersoever they should think fit. At the same time, all
Christians were forbidden, on the severest penalties, to hold
intercourse with those people, or to supply them with provisions and munitions.
It is not known how many Jews left Spain on this occasion
some authors compute!them at 170,000 families, others at
800,000 souls. Vast numbers retired to Africa, Italy, and
the East. Eighty thousand settled in Portugal, on the frontiers
of Spain; but they were received only on condition of paying
a yearly tax of eight gold crowns per head for the right of
hospitality; and this was granted merely for a certain term,
after which they were to seek a retreat in some other country,
upon pain of being made slaves.  In 1495, King Emanuel
commanded all Jews to leave his dominions, and directed the
children of the poor above the age of fourteen years to be
taken from them and shipped off to the Serpent Islands. The
last Jews emigrated in 1497; and, in 1506, 2000 of the new
converts, who had embraced Popery to evade the decree of
expulsion, were slaughtered in Lisbon. The lot of the same
class in Spain, under the lingering horrors of the Inquisition,
was, if anything, still more pitiable.
After the conquest of the kingdom of Granada by Ferdinand
the Catholic, in 1491, part of the Moors retired to Africa, but
most of them remained in Spain, and great numbers of these
assumed the external appearance of Christianity. Here they
continued to live as industrious and quiet subjects, till that
sanguinary bigot, Philip II., in his cruel zeal for Popery, resolved upon their total destruction. In 1571, his oppressions
and persecutions drove the Moors of Granada into insurrection,
after the extinction of which 100,000 of them were expelled.
Philip III., instigated by the same inhuman spirit of religious 
CALLE,D "KNOW-NOTHINGS."
intolerance, and urged by the Inquisition, renewed the persecution of the Moors, and finally decreed their total expulsion
from the kingdom of Spain, on the plea that, though these
people conformed externally to the rites of Christianity, they
were still Mohammedans in their hearts, and might corrupt the
true believers. Thirty days only were allowed them to prepare for their departure, and death was the threatened penalty
for remaining beyond that time. In this dilemma, the descendants of the ancient conquerors of Spain elected a king,
and attempted to oppose the royal mandate; but, unprovided
with arms, they were soon compelled to submit.   By this
equally barbarous and impolitic measure, Spain lost about a
million of her most industrious inhabitants. It is universally
admitted that the expulsion of the Jews, whose commercial
activity brought great wealth into the country, and of the
Moors, whose agricultural skill and industry were a still more
important source of prosperity, was the main cause of the
subsequent rapid decline of Spain from the most powerful
state in Europe to comparative insignificance.
Such were the deplorable effects of that spirit of immitigable intolerance, praised, preached, and imperatively enjoined
as one of the highest of Christian virtues, by the antichristian
See of Rome I
The possession of powers so extensive and so uncontrolled
as those of the Inquisitor-general, naturally generated an arrogance unmatched, save by that which the wearers of the
tiara themselves exhibited.   I shall quote one or two instances.
Among the reports circulated respecting the abdication of
the Emperor Charles V., the most extraordinary was, that the
intercourse which he had had with the German Protestants
had given him some inclination for their opinions, and that he
had gone into retirement, that he might have liberty to end
his days in exercises of piety conformable with his disposition
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It was alleged that he could not forgive himself for the manner
in which he had treated the brave princes of that party, whom
the fortune of arms had thrown into his power; and that their
virtue, which in their adversity shamed his success, had insen
sibly excited in his heart a sort of esteem for their opinions.
This esteem was manifested in the choice which he made of
persons, all suspected of heresy, for his spiritual guides-Dr.
Caculla, his preacher, the archbishop of Toledo, and, above
all, Ponce, bishop of Dresse, his confessor.
It is further related that a singular circumstance contributed
to this change in Charles's sentiments. Anong the occupations with which he beguiled the solitary hours of his retirement, was the making of wooden clocks. Finding that it was
impossible to make two of them to go exactly alike, he is said
to have been deeply struck with the folly of his own former
efforts to force millions of men to square their opinions according to one standard.
Such an acknowledgment, if it really was made, was well
worthy of the monarch who, when urged to take Luther into
custody, in violation of his letter of safe-conduct, when the
Reformer appeared before the diet of Worms, on the ground
that, according to the orthodox Popish maxim, faith ought
not to be kept with heretics, made this noble reply: "I will
not, like Sigismund, my predecessor, have cause to blush." In
this answer, Charles alluded to the case of the intrepid Huss,
who, being sentenced to the flames, insisted on the performance
of the pledge given by the emperor for his safety; and, as he
spoke, fixed his eyes on Sigismund. The appeal brought a
deep blush into the face of the false-hearted prince.
Soon after the decease of Charles, it became known that, in
the cell in which was his abode in the convent of St. Just,
near Placentia, in Estremadura, there had been found many
papers written by him on' religious subjects, which deviated
A,f 
CALLED "KNOW-NOTHINGS.?
but little from the doctrines of the Protestants. But nothing
tended to confirm the notion of a leaning to their opinions so
much as his last will. He had left no legacies to the Church,
or to found masses for the good of his soul; and the document
differed so much in language from the testamentary papers
of zealous Catholics, that the Inquisition of Castile deemed
itself authorized to institute proceedings against it.
The Inquisitors durst not, however, make any stir till the
arrival of his son, Philip II., not knowing his sentiments, and
how he might take the matter. But this prince, having marked
his arrival in Spain by the execution of all the partisans of
the new opinions, the Inquisition, emboldened by his example,
first attacked the archbishop of Toledo, primate of Spain,
next Caculla, and lastly Ponce, the late emperor's confessor.
The king having suffered all three to be imprisoned, the
people regarded this permission as an evidence of his zeal for
religion; but the rest of the world beheld with horror the
man in whose arms the emperor had expired, consigned, with
the consent of his own son, to the most cruel and ignominious
of all punishments.   In fact, the Inquisition not only accused
those three persons of having had a share in the emperor's
will, but had the hardihood to condemn them along with that
document, and many of the monks of St. Just, to the flames.
Philip, whose inhuman soul was jealous of his father's glorY,
at first felt some pleasure at seeing his memory exposed to
this insult; but, roused by the noise which this sentence made
in the world, he prevented the complete execution of it by the
gentlest and most secret means that he could devise, so as not
to irritate the Inquisitors, or to lower the authority of their
tribunal. Caculla was burned alive, together with the effigy
of Ponce, who had died in prison a few days before. The
archbishop of Toledo appealed to Rome; it was only by the
influence of friends and money that he extricated himself from
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the danger; and nothing further was said about the will of
the emperor.
Another instance of the daring presumption of those priests
was exhibited in the time of Philip III. That king, being
present at an auto-da-fe, at which two monks were burned
for holding some new opinions in religion, expressed some pity
for the sufferers. The Grand Inquisitor, when informed of the
circumstance, openly quarreled with the king, and would not
be reconciled till he had received a cupful of his most Catholic
majesty's blood, which he then caused to be burned by the
executioner.
Indeed, it was not always that royal spectators deigned to
bestow so much as pity on the agonized sufferers. In a letter
to Bishop Burnet, written at Lisbon, in 1706, by Mr. Wilcox,
afterwards bishop of Gloucester, he describes the execution of
a man and a woman. The practice there was to set up so
many stakes as there were prisoners to be burned. These
stakes were about four yards high, and within half a yard of
the top was attached a small board, on which the prisoner
was seated when chained to the stake. Around the foot was
piled a considerable quantity of dry furze. The flame, however,
seldom reached higher than the seat, and, if there happened
to be a wind, it seldom reached so high as the knees of the
sufferer; who, if it was calm, might expire in half an hour,
but, if windy, might survive an hour and a half or two hours,
till really roasted, not burned to death. In the case mentioned
by Wilcox, the woman was alive in the flames half an hour,
the man about an hour. The king and his brother were
seated at a window so near, that the latter, while burning,
addressed them for a considerable time in the most moving
terms. The only favor he implored was a few more fagots,
but even this he could not obtain. The wind being a little
fresh, his hinder parts were absolutely roasted; and, as he
turned himself around, his ribs opened before hlie left off speak 
CALLED " KNOW-NOTHINGS."
ing, the fire being recruited as it wasted, to keep him just in
the same degree of heat; nor could all his entreaties procure
a larger allowance of wood to despatch him more speedily.
Grievously as the national character of the Spaniards, once
so generous, noble, frank, and light-hearted, was debased by
the influence of this tribunal of blood, so deeply did the ancient
glory of Spain decline under that change. It was not till the
eighteenth century that, though the Inquisition retained its
original constitution almost unaltered, the horrors of that
dark tribunal began gradually to abate. The awful spectacle
of an auto-da-f6 was more rarely exhibited. If we consider
the most remarkable demonstrations of its activity during that
period, we shall nevertheless find that this institution, in spite
of the restrictive vigilance exercised by a more enlightened
policy, continued to be a tool which, under more favorable
circumstances, was capable of producing revolting effects. If,
in 1714, it condemned several monks to death on account of
their infamous lives, and, in 1784 and  1804, doomed several
persons to imprisonment and penance for making philtres and
telling fortunes, or imposed recantation  and  ecclesiastical
chastisement on many more for indiscreet expressions, no one
could discover in such circumstances cause for alarm. So
much the more strongly must it have been excited, when, in
1 7 63, several heretics were consigned to the flames at an auto da-fe at Llerena; when, even in 1777, the Inquisition armed
itself with all its terrors against Olavides, for his patriotic at tempt to bring the wastes of the Sierra Morena into cultiva tion by the labor of foreign colonists; and when, in 1780,
an old woman at Seville was sentenced by this tribunal to be
burned alive as convicted of witchcraft.
Such was the barbarous spirit of the Inquisition till it was
surpressed by Napoleon, in 1808. After its restoration by
Ferdinand VII., many enlightened men strove to destroy the
superanuated tool of a gloomy policy, but without success;
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till it was totally abolished by the constitution of Cortes, in
1820, and, on the recommendation of the principal European
powers, in 1823, not again restored.
Llorente, in his History of the Spanish InquisitioL, compniled from its own records, calculates that, from the year 1481
to 1808, this tribunal condemned, in Spain alone, 341,021 persons. Of these 31,912 were burned in person, 17,659 in
effigy, and severe penances were imposed on 291,456.
I shall not dilate further on the horrors practised under the
pretext of religious zeal by this most atrocious institution, than
to extract some interesting particulars, not so generally known,
respecting the State of the prisons of the Inquisition at Toledo,
on the arrival of the French in that city. The narrative is
furnished by a French officer, who served in the corps under
general Lasalle. After describing the manner in which an
entrance was forced by cannon, and the liberation of the pri
oners, many of whom were butchered by the populace, he thus
proceeds:
"Graves seemed to open, and pale figures, like ghosts, issued from the dungeons, which emitted a sepulchral odor
Bushy beards, hanging down over the breast, nails grown to
the length of birds' claws, disfigured the skeletons, who, with
laboring bosom, inhaled, for the first time during a long series
of years, the reviving breath of beneficent Nature. Many of
them were reduced to cripples, the back arched, the head
inclined forward on one side, and arms and hands hanging
down, rigid and helpless. On closer examination, it was
found that these poor wretches had been confined in dens so
low that they could not rise up in them, and hence their bodies
had, during a long imprisonment, naturally contracted this distorted form. In spite of all the care of the regimental surgemons, several of them expired the same day. The light of
the sun made a particularly painful impression on the optic
nerves. From this portraiture of these unfortunate creatures, 
CALLED H KNOW-NOTHINGS."
the state of the prison may be so accurately inferred that it is
unnecessary to give a more particular description of it.
"On the following day, general Lassalle minutely inspected
the whole place, attended by several officers of his staff. The
number of machines for torture, especially the rack for stretching limbs, and the drop-baths, producing one of the most lin
gering of deaths, which are already known, thrilled even men
inured to the battle-field with horror Only one of these implements, unique in its kind for refined cruelty, and disgraceful to
reason and religion for the choice of its object, seems deserving
of more particular notice.
In a recess, in a subterraneous vault, contiguous to the private hall for examinations, stood a wooden figure, made by
the hands of monks, and representing the Virgin MAary. A
gilded glory encompassed her head, and in her right hand she
held a banner. It struck us all, at first sight, that, notwithstanding the silken robe, descending on each side in ample
folds from her shoulders, she would wear a sort of cuirass.
On closer scrutiny, it appeared that the forepart of the body
was stuck full of extremely sharp nails and small narrow knifeblades, with the points of both turned towards the spectator
The arms and hands were jointed; and machinery behind the
partition set the figure in motion. One of the servants of the
Inquisition was compelled, by command of the general, tc
work the mtachine, as he termed it. When the figure extended
her arms, as though to press some one most lovingly to her
heart, the well-filled knapsack of a Polish grenadier was made
to supply the place of a living victim. The statue hugged it
closer and closer; and, when the attendant, agreeable to
orders, made the figure unclasp her arms and return to her
former position, the knapsack was perforated to the depth of
two or three inches, and remained hanging on the points of
the nails and knife-blades. To such an infernal purpose, and
in honor of the true faith, was the Madonna rendered subser
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vient!-she, the immaculate and blessed, who transfused celestial grace into the pencils of the greatest painters, and the
highest charm of which art is susceptible, into the works of
the most eminent sculptors t
"One of the familiars, as they are called, of the Inquisition
gave us an account of the customary mode of proceeding on
using this machine. The substance of his report was as follows:
"Persons accused of heresy, or of blaspheming God or the
saints) and obstinately refusing to confess their guilt, were
conducted into this cellar, at the further end of which numerous lamps, placed round a recess, threw a variegated light on
the gilded glory, and on the head of the figure and the flag
in her right hand.  At a little altar, standing opposite to
her and hung with black, the prisoner received the sacra
ment; and two ecclesiastics earnestly admonished him, in the
presence of the mother of God, to make a confession.'See,'
said they,'how lovingly the blessed Virgin opens her arms
to thee I on her bosom thy hardened heart will be melted;
there thou wilt confess.' All at once the figure began to
raise her extended arms. the prisoner, overwhelmed with
astonishment, was led to her embraces; she drew him nearer
and nearer, pressed him almost imperceptibly closer and
closer, till the spikes and knives pierced his breast. Either
agony and terror extorted a confession from the writhing
wretch, or, if he still withheld it, he remained insensible in
the arms of the figure, while the blood trickled from a hundred small, but not mortal wounds    Oil and healing balsam
were applied to them; and on a carpet, spread at the feet of
the figure, in the vault now brilliantly lighted up, he was left
to come to himself. If this experiment failed, he was remanded to his dungeon, there probably to await fresh torments.
"It deserves remarks that the barbarians, by a perversion 
CALLED " KSOW-NOTHIMGS.?
of language worthy of Satan himself, gave this machine of
torture the appellation of Madre dolorosa-not the afflicted,
but the afflicting mother."*
CONTEST BETWEEN THE POPE AND THE BIBLE.
READER-Will yoU please to notice the following:
Pope.  I am the head of the church.
Bible.  Christ is the head of the church.  Eph. v. 23.
Pope.   Therefore, as the church is subject to the pope, so
let all obey him in all things.
Bible. Therefore, as the church is subject to Christ, so let
wives be to their own husbands in all things. Eph. v. 24.
Pope. I must add to the Bible, because it is not a sufficient rule of faith and practice.
Bible. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall
add unto him the plagues written in this book.   Rev. xxii., 18o
Pope, Believe and trust in me, and I will see you saved.
Bible, Cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh
flesh his arm. Jer. xvii., 5.
Pope.  Make for yourselves little gods.
Bible.  Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Ex. xx., 3,
Pope.  Make unto yourselves the likeness of Saint Peter.
Bible, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,
or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above. Ver. 5
Pope. Bow down to the little gods and serve them.
Bible. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve
them. Ver. 5.
Pope.  Every one that will not obey the pope, hall be de
stroyed by the Inquisition.
* The World in Miniature- Spain and Prtngal, i., 171480.
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Bible. Thou shalt not kill. Ver. 13.
Pope. The priests, who are too holy to be lawfully married,
may take every opportunity to * * * * * * satisfy lust.
Bible. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Ver. 14.
Pope. Or if the above be impossible, they may betray some
other man's wife.
Bible. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife. Ver. 17.
Pope. I will make the people believe that I and the priests
have power to forgive sins, and thereby get their money.
Bible. Thou shalt not steal. Ver. 15.
Pope. I must keep the Bible from my people, because it
is injurious to them.
Bible.  The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul;
the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart. Psalm
xix. 7, 8.
Pope.   I have prescribed a decree, that every man and
woman not belonging to the holy church of Rome, shall be
considered a heretic; but every one belonging to my church,
and being obedient to me, without regard to the Bible, shall
have pardon for any crime, and shall be prayed out of purgatory by paying so and so much:
"So bald das Geld im Kasten klingt,
So bald die Seel' in Himmel springt."
Bible. Wo unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and
that write grieyousness which they have prescribed; to turn
aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right
from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey,
and that'   may rob the fatherless.  x. 1-3.
What tc.gue can describe the abominations of popery? 
CALLED "KNOW-NOTHINGS."
ABOMINATIONS OF JESUITISM.
WE call the attention to the following extracts from a small
work entitled" Secret Instructions of the Jesuits."  We hope
they will be deeply pondered over by every native-born American:
1. Emmanuel Sa, Aphor., p. 41. "The rebdelion of Roman
priests is not treason, because they are not subject to the civil
government."
In the face of this article, we have between two and three
hundred Roman priests arriving yearly in this country, and
instructing catholic foreigners to vote for men of their own
religious principles.
2. Bellarmin, Controvers., lib. v., cap. 6, p. 1090. "The
spiritual power must rule the temporal by all sorts of means
and expedients, when necessary. Christians should not tolerate
a heretic king."
Our constitution denies this principle in toto. If Christians
should not tolerate a heretic king, they certainly should not
tolerate a heretic ruler. A small majority of our present
rulers are " Ieretics"-consequently they should not be tolerated
by catholics.
3. Salmeton, Comment Evan. Hiist., vol. iv., pars. 3, tract
4, p. 411.  "The pope hath supreme power over the whole
earth, over all kings and governments, to command and enforce them, to employ their power to promulge popery; which
mandate of the pope they are bound to obey, and if they resist, he must punish them as contumacious."
Then the pope must have supreme power over this government, and can command our rulers to obey his orders, and to
compel the authorities in this land to use every means to increase popery, notwithstanding it is diametrically opposite
to the letter and spirit of our constitution and our laws.
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4. Sanctafel, Tract de DIares., cap. xxx., p. 296.  "The
pope can depose negligent rulers, and deprive them of their
authority."
5. Lessius, lib. 2, cap. 42, Dub. 12, p. 632.   "The pope
can annul and cancel every possible obligation arising from an
eath."
We would ask, then; in what manner the oath of allegiance,
which is taken by foreigners in this country, can be binding on
Catholics?-for it appears that the pope can at any time annul
and cancel them. Were the pope at any time to say that the
oath of allegiance to this country was not binding on his subjects, and should "annul and cancel every possible obligation"
arising therefrom-we should suddenly find in our councils,
and through our land, a number of individuals, enjoying equal
rights with American citizens, who are in truth foreigners,
and owing allegiance to a foreign potentate. With such facts
as these in the face of our native citizens, we trust that they
will come forward, and aid us in ejecting fromn office men who
hold principles so entirely opposed to our present constitution.
It cannot be said that opposition to such principles can be
intolerant.   Is it not rather a natural using in self-defence?
Is it not saying that we wish the eyes of American people
opened, and the secret principles of foreign demagogues exposed? They now openly state that in a few years they will
ask no favors of us; and when that time comes, Americans
will learn that they will grant none.-May God long put off
that dreadful day!             -
We have recently met with some curious displays of Romanism, which we think will edify our readers:
Extreme Unction.-In the "Beehive of the Roman Court,"
book il., chapter 2, is the following account of their extreme
unction: "Whensoever anybody lies a passing, so that there
is no more hope of life in him, the priest shall then anoint
hint..,ith holy oil, bless him with crosses, and conjure him 
CALLED "KNOW-NOTHINGS."
with certain words, and then he can never come into hell; for
all the devils will run away from before the crosses, like a
dog before a flitch of bacon; and therefore must he take up
his lodgings either in the suburbs of hell or in purgatory,
where he shall have his househire and firewood free, till such
time as, with soul-masses and pope's pardons, he have gotten
a plot of ground in heaven, to build a house thereupon, of
merits and good works."
PoFish Preachment.-Chevreau, the French historian, says:
"I heard a sermon preached by a prelate who was greatly
celebrated, on the feast of Mary Magdalene. Having enlarged
on the subject of her repentance, the prelate gravely added:
'Her tears opened to her the way to heaven. She traveled
by water to a place, where few other persons go by land."'
The Posary.-Dominic was the author both of the rosary
and of the Inquisition.   Among  other testimonies to the
miraculous benefits of the rosary, the following is told in the
life of the first grand inquisitor: "A girl, named Alexandra,
was induced by Dominic's preaching to use the rosary; but
her heart followed after the world. Two young men, rivals
for her affections, killed each other, and, in revenge, their relatives cuit off her head, rnd threw it into a well.  The devil
immediately seized her soul, to which he said he had a title;
but, for the sake of the rosary, the Virgin Mary interfered,
rescued the soul out of his hands, and gave it permission to
remain in the head at the bottom of the well, till it should
have an opportunity of confessing and being absolved. After
some days, it was revealed to Dominic, who went to the well
and told Alexandra to come up from the well. The bloody
head obeyed, remained on the well-side, confessed its sins, recei.ved absolution and the mass-wafer, and edified the people
for two days; when the soul departed, to pass two weeks in
purgatory, on its way to heaven."
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Spanish Sermons.-Southey, in his letters from Spain, quotes
the following passage from a Spanish sermon: "Many reasons
have been assigned for the earthquake and darkness at the
crucifixion, but this appears to be the only rational cause:
The Virgin Mary, who, through humility, always looked upon
the ground, lifted up her eyes to the cross. Deprived of the
light of her eyes, the earth trembled, and the sun hid himself,
ashamed to behold her superior radiance!"
Ensor assures us that a Spanish friar, preaching upon the
Lord's temptation, exclaimed:  "Happily for mankind, the
lofty Pyrenees hid this delightful country, Spain, from the
eyes of the Redeemer, else the temptation would have been
too strong for the Lord t"
Spanish Theatricals.-In Spain plays are performed inhonor,
and for the benefit, of the Virgin Mary and the saints; and
balls and bull-fights are given for the deliverance of souls from
purgatory. One of the playbills thus concluded: "To the
Empress of Heaven, Mother of the Eternal World, the leading Star of all Spain, the consolation, faithful sentinel, and
bulwark of all Spaniards, the most holy Mary. For her benefit, and for the increase of her worship, the comedians of
Seville will perform a merry comedy entitled E1 Legatarios."
Indian Estimate of Roman   Priests.-Cacica, a Peruvian, be
ing condemned to die by the Spaniards, who had massacred ten
millions of people, was persuaded by a Franciscan priest to
turn Christian, and then he would surely go to heaven. The
heathen man inquired: "Are any Spaniards there?" To
which the friar replied: "It is full of them." Upon which
the Peruvian retorted: "Then I prefer going to hell, rather
than have any more of your company."
Bedes BEloquence.-The popish legend tells us that Bede, in
his old age, was blind. In that condition he once preached to
a heap of stones, thinking he was in a church. The stones
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CALLED " KNOW-NOTHINGS."
became so much affected by his eloquence and piety that they
cried out: "Amen, venerable Bede, amen I"
Pope's Bull.-Pope Clement VI., in his bull against the
emperor Louis, thus denounced that monarch: "May God strike
him with imbecility and madness! May heaven overwhelm
him with its thunders!  May the anger of God, and of Peter,
and of Paul, fall upon him in this world, and in the next!
May the whole universe revolt against him!  May the earth
swallow him up alive I May his name perish from the earliest
generation, and may his memory disappear! May all the
elements be adverse to him!  May his children be delivered
into the hands of his enemies, and be cursed before the eyes
of their father I" Such are the tender mercies of popery I
IsLther's Account of Pope Leo X., and the Purchasers of Tetzeps Indulgence.-" The pope was born of the devil, and is
full of devils, lies, blasphemy, and idolatry. He is antichrist,
the robber of churches, the violater of virgins, the chief of
pimps, and the governor of Sodom. The papists are all asses.
Put  them in whatever form you please-boiled, roasted,
baked, fried, skinned, beat, or hashed-they are all the sameasses!"
Calvin.-In the Spanish Index Expurgatorias is this remark: "Let the name of Calvin be suppressed, and instead
of it, put Studiosus quidam, a certain scholar."  The hatred
of the papists to that reformer is his highest eulogy and
honor.
Spanish Inquisitor's Dry-pan and Fire for Refractory Girls.
-The woman who frightened the girls at Aragon, that they
might submit to the inquisitor's sensuality, showed them three
tortures: "1. The dry-pan, for heretics and those who oppose
the inquisitor's will and pleasure: they are put naked, alive,
into the pan; and the cover of it being locked up, the executioner begins to put a fire in the oven, and augments it imtil
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the body is reduced to ashes. 2. The great wheel, set with
sharp razors, is designed for those who speak against the pope
and the inquisitors; for they are put within the wheel, and
the little door being locked, the executioner turns the wheel
till the person is dead. 3. The pit full of serpents and toads
is for those who contemn images, and refuse to give respect
and veneration to ecclesiastical persons; for they are thrown
into the pit, and so become the food of serpents and toads."
When the girls were frightened almost out of themselves at
these horrid scenes, they were led to the inquisitor's chamber,
and, as they thought, were happy to escape the "dry-pan,
wheel, and snakes," by gratifying his lascivious desires.
The Pope's Valuation of a Cardinars Hat.-" Pope Benedict
offered Petrarch the poet a cardinal's hat, upon condition that
he would persuade his sister to become his mistress. The
poet indignantly refused. His brother, however, acceded to
the offer; but, after the pope had satisfied his ungodly wishes,
he refused to make her brother a cardinal, who in consequence
became almost deranged, and entered a monastery.-Beehive
of the Romish Court, book i.
Satan and a Monk.-Among the records of the second council of Nice is the ensuing circumstance, which, it is said, was
narrated by Stephanus in that assembly: "There was a monk
who was continually tempted and troubled with a devil, even
till his old days; and when, in the end, he began to wax
weary of it, he then did pray the devil very friendly, that he
would leave him alone in quiet.  But the devil answered him,
that if the monk would promise to do, and swear to keep
secret, a thing that he would command him, then he would
leave off to trouble him any more. The monk promised him,
and took thereupon a deep oath. Then said the devil:'If
thou wilt that I shall trouble thee no more, then thou must
not pray allny more to that image,' meaning an image of the 
CALLED "KNOW-NOTHINGS.?
virgin Mary, holding her child in her arms, which the monk
worshipped.  But the monk was more crafty than the devil;
for he went and confessed his doing the next day to the abbot,
and the abbot dispensed with his oath to the devil, upon condition that he should continue his adoration of the image."
The above specimens of popery are from authentic Romish
documents, and fully develop its deceitfulness, and the wretched
debasement of those who believe in such "strong delusions
and lying wonders."
CURIOUS EXTRACTS.
Extreme  Unction.-A papist in Jersey, being  very sick,
lately sent for a priest, from a distance. His wife and children
were Protestants. When the priest arrived, he ordered the
whole of the family out of the house.  What he did no person
knows; but, upon his departure, the priest informed his silly
disciple's wife that her husband would not live more than
two weeks, if so long.  He died about the time specified; and
it is strongly suspected, from other circumstances, that the
priest, according to custom, administered a slow poison, that
the wretched creature might not survive his extreme unction.
During the time of the cholera, the Papists and their priests,
who visited their friends that were sick in the hospitals, were
a serious annoyance, not only to other patients, but to the
medical men and the attendants. One of the superintendents
of the funerals addressed a Roman priest thus:  "How can
you be so foolish as thus to carry on your tricks? Yox cannot belive in your own nonsense.  You know that your silly
ceremonies cannot do the dying people any good." " Very
true," said the priest, whom the Jesuit Dubois has lately prohibited from saying mass; "but it is necessary to do it, just
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to satisfy the ignorant people. They do not know any better.
There is no meaning in it, and all we do it for is only to pacify
them." That is the Jesuit's account of his own mummery!
Curing a iHeretic Cow.-Some time ago an Irish Papist
bought a cow of a Protestant, and, according to custom, it
became necessary to exorcise the four-legged animal, to drive
away the heresy which she had contracted in consequence of
having been owned by a Protestant. The Romish woman
accordingly brought forth her bottle of "blessed water," with
which to purify the cow; but she mistook the article, and,
instead of the water, took up a bottle of vitriol. Having
poured some of the vitriol upon the creature as soon as she
felt the burning, the cow began to roar and kick lustily.
"Arrah I said the woman, but the crathur is a terrible ould
heretic!" Then she poured some more vitriol upon her, which
only increased her restlessness and bellowing; upon which the
woman added: "Och I by Saint  Patrick, but the harasy is
very dape in the baste!" This is a fair specimen of the
wickedness and superstition which the Roman priests teach
their infatuated devotees.
Priest's Fees. The London Times complains of the system
of taking fees adopted by the priests in Ireland, and states
that in Munster and the other parts of the'land, the fee for
marriage is sometimes as much as twenty pounds. The bride
has to ask forty persons and the bridegroom the same nnmber.
Each person has to contribute 5s. toward the priest's fees.
Baptisms are 5s. each, and the suims collected at funerals are
very considerable.  There are aiso fees for blessing cattle,
which sometimes amounts to as much as fourteen pounds per
annum. Some time ago, when a former government asked
them what fees they would giv  up if they had a provision
made for them, their reply Was that they would give up all
but the marriage fee.
A 
CALLED " KNOW-NOTHINGS."
OATHI OF A JESUIT BISHOP.
"1, A. B., now in the presence of the Almighty God, the
blessed Virgin Mary, the blessed Michael the Archangel, the
blessed St. John Baptist, holy apostles St. Peter and Paul,
and  the saints and sacred host of heaven, and to you my
ghostly father, do declare from my heart, without mental reservation, that his holiness Pope Urban is Christ's Vicar-General, and is the true and only head of the catholic or universal church throughout the earth; and that by the virtue of
the keys of binding and loosing given to his holiness by my
Saviour Jesus Christ, he hath power to depose heretical kings,
princes, states, commonwealths,  and governments,  all being
illegal without his sacred confirmation-and that they may
safely be destroyed: therefore, to the utmost of my power, I
shall and will defend this doctrine, and his holiness' rights
and customs, against all usurpers of the heretical (or Protestant) authority whatsoever; especially against the now pretended authority and Church of England, and all adherents,
in regard that they and she be usurpal and heretical, opposing the sacred mother Church of Rome. I do renounce and
disown any allegiance as due to any heretical king, prince, or
state, named Protestant, or obediei ie to any of their inferior
magistrates or officers. I do further declare, that the doctrine
of the Church of England, of the Calvinists, Iuguenots, and
of others of the name Protestants, to be damnable, and they
themselves are damned, and to be damned, that will not forsake the same. I do further declare, that I will help, assist,
and advise all or any of his holiness' agents, in any place where
ever I shall be, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, or in any
other territory or kingdom I shall come to, and do my utmost
to extirpate the heretical Protestants' doctrine, and to destroy
all their pretended powers, regal or otherwise.   I do further
promise and declare, that notwithstanding I am dispensed with,
to assume any religion heretical, for the propagating of the
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mother Church's interest, to keep secret and private all her
agents' counsels, from time to time, as they entrust me, and
not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing, or
circumstances whatsoever; but to execute all that shall be
proposed, given in charge, or discovered unto me, by you, my
ghostly father, or any of this sacred convent. All which, I, A.
B., do swear, by the blessed Trinity and blessed Sacrament,
which I am now to receive, to perform, and on my part to
keep inviolably; and do call all the heavenly and glorious
host of heaven to witness these my real intentions, to keep
this my oath. In testimony hereof, I take this most holy and
blessed - Sacrament of the Eucharist; and witness the same
further with my hand and seal, in the face of this holy convent,
this        day of        An. Dom. &c.
A BROOKLYN ROMISH FATHER.
That popish Father Walsh, of whom the true account has
already been published respecting his refusal to bury the corpse
of Shields, who was drowned, has since given another specimen
of his Jesuitical abominations.   A  young man, named  Peter
rPoway, on Saturday, December 3, was choked while eating
his dinner, and died upon the spot. As he was a Papist, that
crafty priest, who presented tkl  Jesuit prelate Dubois a fivehundred-dollar note for Melchisedek's fatner, and another five
hundred-dollar note for Melchisedclek's mother, was called
upon, by his superstitious Roman friends, for some'blessed
earth,' and for permission to bury the corpse in the popish
graveyard. MAr. Walsh positively refused to permit a grave
to be dug, and declared he would stand at the gate of the
burying-ground to keep the corpse out, if it was necessary.
The friends of the deceased then begged him to sell them some
'blessed earth.'  But he refused, declaring that'the deceased
had not received the unction of the church, and that he was 
CALLED "KNOW-NOTHINGS."
damned, and ought to be lost.' This fact, I was told by one
of the friends of the young man who died so suddenly. So
much for Father Walsh's Jesuitism and Popery.  What do you
think of the Brooklyn Romnish father and his tricks?"
In reply to this last question, we simply say, that we think
that he is a very consistent Jesuit, who carries on the Papal
craft in its genuine spirit and character. But we are convinced that the Papists who can so long patiently tolerate
such things, are really the people concerning whom the Apos
tle Peter spake. Father Walsh "makes merchandise of their
souls," to make tools of them for his own ghostly ends here,
and to destroy their immortal souls forever, unless "they
repent and come out of Babylon."-Protestant Vindi.ator.
LUTHER'S ACCOUNT OF HIS BOOKS, WRITTEN WHEN HE
WAS A PAPIST.
"Before all things, I entreat you, for our Lord Jesus Christ's
sake, to read my writings with cool consideration, and even
with much pity. I wish you to know that when I began the
affair of indulgences at the very first, I was a monk, and a
most mad Papist. So intoxicated was I and drenched in Papal
dogmas, that I would have been most ready at all times to
murder or assist others in murdering any person who should
have uttered a syllable against the duty of obedience to the
Pope. I was a complete Saul; and there are many such yet.
There were, however, and are now, others, who appear to me
to adhere to the Pope on the principles of Epicurus, that is for
the sake of indulging their appetites, when secretly they even
deride him, and are cold as ice if called upon to defend the Payacy.  I was never one of these; I was ever a sincere believer;
I was always earnest in the doctrines I professed; I went
seriously to work, as one who had a horrible dread of the day
of judgment, and who, from his -inmost soul, was anxious for
salvation.  You will find, therefore, in my earlier writings,
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with how much humility, on many occasions, I gave up very
considerable points to the Pope, which I now detest as blasphemous and abominable in the highest degree. This error my
slanderers call INCONSISTENCY: but you will have the kindness
to make some allowance on account of the times and of my
inexperience."
ROME'S THEORY OF LYING.
THE CONFESSIONAL A COVER FQR CRIMINALS.
RECENTLY a man, by the name of Brian Leery, a devoted
member of the Romish Church, was executed in Ireland for
attempting to murder Sir Francis Hopkins.   This man pro
tested his innocence in the most positive manner, even on the
scaffold. His case enlisted the strongest sympathies of the
Romish Church, and a petition, signed by the priests, was
presented to the lord lieutenant on his behalf. But the evidence of his guilt was so clear and convincing, that his lordship, in concurrence with the judge who tried the case, refilsed
to interpose to prevent his execution.   The powerful yet
unavailing efforts made to save the unhappy man, served to
strengthen the presumption of his guilt. There seems not to
have been a shadow of doubt of his guilt.
On supposition Leery was guilty, his conduct in the awful
circumstances in which he was placed, strange as it may
appear, may be accounted for on the principle of Romanism,
which justifies the criminal in denying his guilt, as he did.
Roman theology teaches the lawfulness of such conduct inr
extreme cases.  St. Liguori (vol. i) says, "To  swear with
equivocation, when there is a just cause and equivocation
itself is lawful, is no evi1." He defines a "just cause" to be
any honest end in order to preserve  a spiritual or temporal
good." Ile gives various examples to illustrate the principle
"It is asked whether the accused, legitimately interrogated.
A 
CALLED I KNOW-NOTHINGS.?
can deny a crime, even with an oath, if the confession of the
crime would be attended with great disadvantage." In reply,
Liguori gives a host of authors who answer in the affirmative, such as Cardinal de Seego, Tamborin, Sanches, Viva,
Sporer Cardenas, Sessius, Sa, Tillucius, &c., &c.  These and
many others teach that "an accused person, in danger of
death, exile, the galleys, loss of property, &c., can deny the
crime even with an oath, by understanding that he did not
commit it, so that he is bound to confess it." If he has
sacramentally confessed his crime, his crime is taken away.
He comes forth from the confession an innocent man, and can
lift up his hand to heaven and protest his innocence.  Thus
Rome has set her seal and sanction to lying and perjury
This principle Liguori and Elbel teach should be suggested
to confessors and penitents. Such are the morals of Rome
in the nineteenth century.
INCREASb OF POPERY.
IT is only about 60 years (a Writer says 7 years ago) since the
first Papal see was created by the Pope in these U. States.
There is now 1 archbishop; 30 bishops; 21 sees; 1,000
priests; 750 churches and cathedrals; 437 missionary stations; 63 female seminaries; 21 theological seminaries; 25
colleges and literary institutions; 36 female convents.
It is now estimated that tbhere are in the United States
2,500,000 Papists under the M,ernment of the pope of Rome,
all of whom are sworn enenm A to this republic, and that the
annual increase is about 150,000.
An Irish paper lately says: "We never recollect to have
seen such preparations as are making among us to emigrate
to America." A correspondent in Germany says, that "hundreds of thousands of German Papists are preparing to come
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to the United States. So great is the desire of the Belgian
population to emigrate to America, that a Belgian paper says:
"The authorities are determined to ship all her poorest class
here." Belgium is a Papal country.
The Roman Catholic church has built or consecrated over
thirty new churches in the United States within the year.
The number of missionaries received from abroad during the
same period is estimated at one hundred and twelve.
Let it be remembered that it is chiefly to the western states
that this mighty stream of emigration tends. It is there the
battle must be fought, which is to decide whether this land is
to be occupied for Christ, or whether it is to become the strong
hold of Popery. One third of our population is already in the
western states. Sixty years ago a man might have taken his
stand on the banks of the Ohio, at Pittsburg, and drawn a
line north to Lake Erie, and southward along the Alleghany
and Cumberland mountains to the gulf of Mexico, and the
whole white population west of that line would have been less
than a quarter of a million. hiere we have an increase of
twenty-four fold in about 60 years.
Arclidiocese of Batitnore, l/Id.-Churches, 59; chapels, 12;
churches building, 1; other stations, 20; clergymen on the
mission, 44; clergymen otherwise employed, 37; ecclesiastical
seminaries, 5; clerical students, 56; literary institutions for
young men, 4; convents, 5; female academies, 5; charitable
institutions, 2; religious institutions, 12; catholic population,
90,000.
Diocese of Philadlphi'a, Pa.-Churches, 61; chapels, 6;
clergymen on the mission, 47; clergymen otherwise employed,
3; ecclesiastical seminary, 1; clerical students, 30; literary
institutions for boys, 4; literary institutions for girls, 6; charitable institutions, 4; catholic population, 70,000.
Diocese of Pittsburg, Pa.-Churches, 41; clergymen, 23;
clerical students, 8; academy for boys,'1; schools for young 
CALLED    KNOW- OTHINGS.?
ladies, 2; charitable institutions, 4; catliolic population,
30,000.
Diocese of New  York.-Churches, 110; chapels 10; other
stations, 65; clergymen on the mission, 96; clergymen otherwise employed, 6; ecclesiastical seminary, 1I; clerical students,
20; college for young men, 1; literary institutions for young
ladies, 3; institutions under sisters of charity, 11; asylums
for orphans, 6; orphans supported and educated, 420;  catholic population, over 200,000.
Diocese of Detroit,  Alich.-Churches,  12; chapels,  15
churches being built, 10; other stations, 16; clergymen on
the mission, 14; catholic schools, 16; charitable societies and
convents, 11; catholic population, 40,000.
Diocese of Cincinnati, Ohio. —Churchles, 70; churches building, several; oth, v stations, about 50; clergymen on the mission, 56; clergymein otherwise employed, 10  ecclesiastical seminary, I1; clerical students, 19; college for young men, 1;
convents, 5; academies for young ladies, 2; charitable insti
tutions, 5; religious associations, 12; catholic population,
65,000.
DI)iocese of Hartford, Ct.-Church,cs, 10; clergymen, 7.
Diocese of  Vincennes, Ind.-ChuIrches  and  chapels,  50
clergymen in the ministry, 33; clergymen otherwise employed,
6; theological seminary, 1; ecclesiastical students, including
four in Europe, 19; convents, 3; literary institutions for
young men, 2; female academies, 5; Scuools under direction
of brothers, 3; catholic population about 25,000.
Diocese of Chicago, Ill.-Churches,  about 38; churches
building, about 8; stations, numerous; clei,gymen on mission, 21; clergymen otherwise employed, 2; ecclesiastical
seminary, 1; college, 1I; convent,  1; catholic population,
over 50,000.
D)iocese of Milwatkie, 1risconsin.-Churches and chapels,;
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18;  churches  building  6;  clergymen,  9;  academy,  1;
schools, 4; catholic population, 20,000.
Diocese of Dubuque, Iowa.-Churches, 13; stations, 8;
Indian mission, 1; clergymen, 13; religious academies, 3;
catholic population, 5,800.
Diocese of New Orleans, La.-Churches, 46; private stations, 26; clergy on missions, 40; otherwise employed,  11;
ecclesiastical'seminary, 1; ecclesiastical students, 10; college
for young men, 1; free school, 1; charitable institutions, 6;
benevolent associations, 4; convents, 4; Catholic population,
160,000.
Diocese of Natchez, Miss.-Churches,  5; clergymen,  6;
stations, 16; churches building, 4.
Diocese of Nashville, Tenn.-Churches, 3; chapels, 3;
stations, 30; clergymen, 8; ecclesiastical seminary, I; clerical students, 3; academy for young men,  1; academy for
young ladies, 1; school for colored people,  1; circulating
libraries, 2
Diocese  of  Louislle,  Ky.-Churches,  40; chapels,  10;
other stations, about 75; clergymen on mission, 31; clergymen in various institutions, 23; ecclesiastical institutions, 3;
colleges for young men, 3; convents, 4; female academies,
11; charitable institutions, 2; catholic population, 30,000.
Diocese of Richmond, Virginia.-Number of clergymen, 11;
churches building, 3; churches built, 10; ecclesiastical seminary, 1; clerical students, 10; college for young men, 1;
school for young ladies, 1; charitable institutions, 2.
Diocese of Mlobile, Ala.-Churches, 12; stations 30,; clergymen, 12; ecclesiastical seminary, 1; clerical students,  7;
college for young men, 1; female academies, 4; charitable
institutions, 7; Catholic population, 11,000.
Diocese of Boston, Mass.-Churches, 32; churches building
8; other stations, about 15; clergymen on the mission, 31; 
CALLED " KNOW-NOTHINGS."
lergy-men oLhei wise employed, 3; Catholic college for young
men, 1; orphan asylum, 1; schools, numerous; Catholic population, 65,000.
Diocese of Charleston, S. C.  Churches dedicated,  15;
churches not dedicated, 5; churches building,  2; churches
about to be erected, 3; stations, about 50; clergymen on
the mission, 19; clergymen otherwise engaged, 2; clerical
students, 4; convents, 2; female academies,  2; charitable
institutions, 6; catholic population. over 10,000.
Diocese of Little Rock, A'k.-Churchles,  2; stations, 6
clergymen, 2; convents, 2; female academies,  2.
Diocese of St. Louis, Y/Io.-Churches, 33; churches building, 4; other stations, about 25; clergymen on the mission,
31; clergymen otherwise employed, 29; ecclesiastical seminaries, 3; Indian mission, 1; colleges for young men, 2;
academy for boys, 1; convents, 8; academies for young ladies, 8; schools,; charitable institutions, 6; Catholic population, about 100,000.
In Canada, on the north, Popery is the established religion
of one province, and is liberally supported by the other. They
number 10 bishops, 133 priests, and 500,000 Papists. In
Texas equal activity is displayed.   In South America  and
Mexico, they have 44 bishops, 5,000 priests, and 23,000,000
Papists.  Total for the new world, 80 bishops, 6,000 priests,
26,541,000 Papists.  The whole number in the world: Archbishops, 147; bishops, 584; vicars apostolic, 71; prefects,
9; apostolicals, 3; priests and Jesuits, 400,000;  monks,
600,000; and 156,000,000 of Papists   From 1800 to 1842,
40 new sees have been created.
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SUPREMlACY IN AMIERICA THE DESIGN OF POPERY.
THE illustrious La Fayette, the companion and fellow-soldier
of Washin.gton, observed, "If ever the liberty of this republic
is destroyed, it will be by Roman priests." And the father
of his country, probably with an eye to the encroachments of
tht same power, warns his countrymen to guard against
"foreign influence."  We lay it down as an incontrovertible
truth, that Catholic European nations are determined to plant
their institutions among us, until they reduce this free and enlightened republic to the dominion of the Roman see.
There is abundant proof that a foreign conspiracy has been
organized in Catholic Europe, to embarrass and overthrow the
institutions of this country, and that Austria is a member of
it. One of the most formidable instruments for effecting its
object, is the Leopold Fouandation, established in Vienna, May
13th, 1829, to support Catholic missions in the United States.
Every member of this society agrees to offer daily one Peter
and ava, with the addition, "St. Leopold, pray for us;" and
every week to contribute a ciruciftx. The valley of the Mississippi has been mapped as well as surveyed by the Jesuits of
the Vatican, and Popish cardinals are rejoicing in the prospect
of the entire subjection of this land of freedom and intelligence
to Papal supremacy. The Rev. Dr. John Angell James, an
eminent clergyman of EIngland, says: "The church of Rome
has determined to compensate herself for her losses in the old
world, by the conquests in the new." Hence a Papal editor
in Europe says: "We must make  haste-the moments  are
precious, America may become the centre of civilization."
The Right Reverend Dr. Reze, of Detroit (now in custody
at Rome), a few years since, writing to his master, the Pope
of Rome, says: "We shall see the truth triumph, the temple
of idols overthrown, the seat of falsehood brought to silence, 
CALLED " KNOW-NOTHINGS."
and all the United States embraced in the same faith of that
Catholic church, wherein dwell truth and temporal happiness."
A Popish priest in Indiana, told a Protestant minister that
the time would come, when Catholics would make Protestants
wade knee deep in blood in the valley of the Mississippi. In
conversation with a Catholic priest, a Protestant minister
lately observed, "Catholicism is making rapid progress in this
country, and will doubtless ere long obtain the ascendency."
To which the priest replied, "There is not a member of our
church but believes the same."
Bishop England, in a letter to his holiness the Pope, writes:
"Within thirty years the Protestant heresy will come to an
end. If we can secure the west and south, we will take care
of New England." This same dignitary said to his Catholic
brethren at Vienna, "All that is necessary is money and
priests to subjugate the mock liberties of America."
The Boston Pilot says: "Catholics should CONTROL  AND
SWAY the destinies of the far west. Catholic enterprise first
measured its immense lakes, opened paths in the eternal forests,
and traced its mighty rivers from their mountain nurseries to
the ocean. The west was a conquest of the Catholic spiritTHE JESUIT spirit, if you will.  THE CHURCH  has a right to
claim the immense valley of the Mississippi of which THE JESUII
missionaries were the first explorers-the lands that bank the
Ohio and the Illinois, and those adjoining the great lakes.
"We long to have an Irish policy in America; and if good
presses in Canada, and this republic, will carefully consult each
other's position, lending aid and approbation-that policy can
be established."
A Romish doctor in the south, speaking of the difflcllties
Catholic missionaries find in converting the western Indians,
closes with this as the principal obstacle: "Tteir continual
traffic among the whites, which cannot be hindered as long as
republican government  shall exist."   Would  the  Romish
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doctor put an end to our republican government? Doubtless,
if he had the power, he would do as the Catholic French commander did, who introduced Catholicism into the Sandwich
islands at the cannon's mouth, or as a New York bishop would
have long since done to the Protestants, for not granting him
$50,000 to establish Popery in our city.
Speaking on this subject, the Rev. Dr. Beecher, formerly of
Cincinnati, says: "We have reached an appalling crisis; the
work is vast and difficult, and is accumulating beyond our
sense of danger and deliberate efforts to meet it. Our ablest
patriots are looking out on the deep, vexed with storms, with
great forebodings and failings of heart, for fear of the things
that are coming upon us." Recently an eminent minister of
the gospel in Europe, addressed the people of this country in
the following emphatic language: "Rouse  and inflame the
zeal of Protestantism in America, to disappoint the apostles
of darkness of their wished-for prey."
Will any one say there is no cause for apprehension; that
there is no danger; that we are sounding a false alarm? We
answer, his un-holiness the pope, will not view it in this light.
His plans are deeply laid; his emissaries are secretly and
effectually laboring with the most untiring zeal to accomplish
their purposes, and make proselytes to their religion. And
shall we, the descendants of the pilgrims, who fled from tyranny
and opposition; who planted the Protestant religion in the
wilds of America; who watered it with their tears, and invoked the blessing of God with their most ardent prayers;
shall we stand still and quietly submit to this worst of all
bondage? Forbid it, gracious IHeaven I 
CALLED "t KNOW-NOTHINGS.
POPERY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
To THOSE who believe that Popery is entirely changed from
what it was, that its spirit of intolerance no longer exists,
and that Rome is keeping pace with the refinement of the
age, we present the following facts of recent occurrence:
A  convert to Protestantism, traveling  along the road
leading to Scariff, Ireland, in the county of Clare, was
accosted by some laborers in the field. After threatening
him several times, they at length suffered himn to pass, saying,
"If you dare to come this way again, you bloody Sassenah
rascal, we'll blow your brains out." —Limerick Standard.
A savage4-looking ruffian violently attacked the Rev. Mr,
Marks, a Protestant clergyman, late of the Molyneux Asylum, in the public streets of Dublin, and without provocation,
knocked the reverend gentleman down.  What next? — War,
let.
On the evening of Wednesday last, 13th inst., as John
Honner, a respectable Protestant, was returning home from
the Macroon Sessions, he was savagely assaulted midway
between Castletown and Enniskeane, by some persons at present unknown; no less than sixteen wounds having been
inflicted on his head and face, besides several others on his
body and limbs; his skull was severely fractured.- Cork
Standard.
The names of nearly one hundred persecuted Protestant
clergymen are given in the Tipperary Constitution. The
manner in which they were treated is thus marked: stoned
to death; murdered; stoned; fired at; dangerously assault
ed; assaulted; abused and persecuted; plundered; interrupted and assaulted in the performance of duty; house
attacked, demolished, or burned down; driven from his home,
or his country.
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Who  was it, a few years since, that drove six hundred
families from the Austrian empire into the Prussian territory,
because they would not renounce the reformed religion? It
was popish priests.
Who  was it that drove the Rev. Mr. Rule from Cadiz?
Papal authorities, by direction of the archbishop of the see.
Who flogged a man nearly to death for renouncing Popery
in the state of Pennsylvania? It was a Popish priest. In
the neighborhood of Doylestown, a German Catholic attended
a funeral sermon of a Protestant minister, after which a priest
called and asked him if he had become a Protestant. "If
you have," said he, "you have committed a mortal sin; confess your sin to me>'-" I have confessed my sin to Christ,"
said the sick man, "and obtained absolution."  The priest
urged him with increasing warmth to confess he declined.
The  priest then seized a chair, jumped on the bed, and
pounded him with it till he broke it in pieces  he then took
from his pocket a raw-hide, and began to scourge him, to
compel him to confess. A stranger passing by, hearing the
noise, entered the house, and finding the priest in the act of
scourging the sick man, he seized him by the collar,  and
dragged him down stairs. Soon after, the man died. The
priest was arrested) and tried in Doylestown court-house, and
fined fifty dollars and costs) and left the country.
Who was it that threatened the city of Boston?  It was
the lady superior of the consumed convent, who said, "The
B3ishlop has more than 20,000 Irishmen at his command, who
will tear your houses over your heads, and you may read youre
riot acts till your throats are sore."
Who was it) a short time since, that said, "The first chance
I have of seeing your face, if powder and ball will do it, you
will drop." It was an agent of the Pope, who signed himself
"A Friend to Truth."  The person to whom the threat was
addressed was the Rev, Mr, S. 
CALLED "KNOW-NOTHINGS.f i
A few years ago a Protestant minister of the west, after
preaching to his own congregation on the subject of Popery,
was met by the priest of the town at the church door, and
told b3 him that "were it not for the laws of the country,
he would cut his throat."  "Yes," said the minister, "I know
that already."
The Rev. Mr. Nast, of Cincinnati, who has been instrumental in the conversion of many German Papists, by preaching, lecturing, and publishing a German paper, received a
letter a few months since, stating that "if he did not stop
his efforts, they would do with their fists what their priests
cannot do with-pens-knock your eyes out."
An Episcopal clergyman in the west, stated that a member
of his church married a Roman Catholic lady, who by his influence was converted to the Protestant faith. The father of
the young lady called to inquire if it was so.  "Yes," said the
daughter, "it is." On leaving the house, he said to his son-inlaw, " Sir, I will never be satisfied till I have washed my hands
in your heart's blood."
A few years since a young lady of New York attended a
lecture on popery by one of the city ministers, was hopefully
converted, returned home, and told her father that she had
concluded to renounce popery and embrace protestantism.  "If
you do," replied her father, "I'll flog your protestantism out
of you."-"Act your pleasure," replied she.  HIe immediately
took her up stairs, tied her to a bed-post, and proceeded to
flog her protestantism out of her.  In the act of fainting, he
untied the rope, and threw her upon the bed.  Since that time
she has gone into eternity.
Some time ago, M. Maurette, a French Roman priest, was
brought to the kdowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus, and in
consequence abandoned the pale of the idolatrous and apostate church in which he had been brought up. Being convineed himself of the danger of continuing in Babylon, he wish
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ed to iuduce as many as possible of his countrymen to flee out
of her infected communion. With this view he published a
statement of the reasons that had led him to adopt the protestant faith, and plainly and forcibly exposed the superstition of
Rome, by the usual arguments employed by the divines of the
French protestant church. For this he was condemned, on the
17th of May, 1844, by the court of Assizes of L'Ariege, to a
year's imprisonment,  and a fine of 600 frawns! as being guile
ty of "insulting, and turning into derision, a religion, the estab
lishments of which is legally recognized in France." 
You have all heard of brutish papal persecutions at Da.
mascus, where two or three of the unprotected sons of Abraham were recently flogged, soaked in large vessels of watertheir eyes pressed out of their sockets with a machine-dragged about by the ears till the blood gushed out-thorns driven
in between the nails and flesh of their fingers and toes, and
candles put under their noses, burning their nostrils.   This is
popery! After hearing of this act of persecution, and hundreds of others constantly taking place in papal countries, and
our own country, who will believe that this unchangeable
church has changed her system of butchery? What she has
been she is now, and you, my protestant brethren, would feel
it if she had the power.
The church of Rome has shed the blood of 50,000,000
of the human race for protesting against and renouncing
the anti-christian doctrines of her system. The laws which
enacted these human sacrifices stand all of them unrepealed;
they are in full force to this day-this we shall now prove
from her standard works. The following propositions, taken
from Dr. Den's System of theology (a text-book for every papal theological seminary in the land), will put this matter be.
yond a doubt:  1st. "Protestants are heretics, and as such are worse than
Jews and pagans." 
CALLED "KNOW-NOTHINGS."
2d. "They are, by baptism and blood, under the power of
the Roman catholic church."
3d. "So far from granting toleration to protestants, it is
the duty of the church to exterminate the rights of their religion."
4th. "It is the duty of the Roman catholic church to compel heretics to submit to her faith."
5th. "That the punishments decreed by the Roman catholie church are confiscation of goods, exile, imprisonment and
death."
The following paragraph of an oath was taken from the
Jesuit confession of faith published in Germany at Berlin, as
late as 1829:  "We  also swear that we will persecute this
cursed evangelical doctrine, as long as we have a drop of
blood in our bodies: and we will eradicate it secretly and
publicly, violently, and deceitfully, with words, and with deeds,
the sword not excluded." This is the oath taken by every
Jesuit, and let it be remembered that multitudes of the priests
in our country are Jesuits.
We next give some notes from the Popish Testament, commonly known as the Rhemish Testament; they need no comment.
".Protestants.-To be present at their service, and all communication with them in spiritual things is a great and damn,
able sin."
"The church service of England, they being in heresy and
schism, is not only unprofitable but damnable."
"The translators of the English Bible ought to be abhorred
to the depths of hell."
"Justice and rigorous punishment of sinners is not forbidden,
nor Christian princes for putting heretics to death."
"Heresy and apostacy from the catholic faith, punishable
by death."
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"Heretics ought, by public authority, either spiritual or
temporal, to be chastised or executed."
The blood of millions of saints, shed by the papal church, "is
not called the blood of saints, any more than the blood of
thieves, man-killers, or any other malefactors, for the shedding
of which, by order of justice, no commonwealth shall answer."
These notes are taken from a version of the  Holy Scriptures, revised for the Irish Romanists of the present day, published by a Roman archbishop, and sanctioned by the highest
authorities of the Romish body.
CATHOLICS OWE NO ALLEGIANCE TO THE U. STATES.
EVERY Romish bishop, before he is permitted to exercise his
episcopal functions in the United States, is obliged to take an
oath, in which he solemnly swears "to defend the dominion of
St. Peter against every aggressor; to preserve augment and
extend, the rights, honors, priviliges, and powers, of the-LoRD
POPE and his successors; to observe and enforce his decress,
ordinances, reservations, provisions, and all dispositions what,
ever emanating from the CoURT OF ROME; to persecute and
combat, to the last extremity, heretics, schismatics, and all
who will not pay to the sovereign pontiff all the obedience
which the sovereign shall require."  Consequently, no catholic
bishop can become a citizen of this country, nor even put himself under the control of the government. Wlhere is not one
of these bishops, nor of the numerous,, army of priests, it is
believed, are naturalized citizens. Are these men to be trusted?
Should they be allowed to interfere with the laws, or institutions of the country, while preserving, in the most solemn
form, an allegiance to a foreign power, and that power a
deadly enemy to our liberty and religion?
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LICENTIOUSNESS THE FRUIT OF CELIBACY.
CELIBACY, in the stringent form in which it now exists in the
Romish church, owes its origin to Gregory VII. It forms
one of the most mournful and shocking pages in human his.
tory. It has been the polluted fountain of multiplied abominations. The relations of the best and most credible ecclesiastical historians, especially from  the twelfth century  to the
Reformation, are absolutely frightful, and would utterly ex
deed belief, if not corroborated by the testimony of universal
history. St. Bernard, in the twelfth century, admitted and
lamented the improprieties of the priesthood, "who committed
in secret such acts of turpitude as would be shameful to express."'
Agrippa, another historian, accuses the bishops of taxing
the inferior clergy for liberty to violate the laws of chastity.
"One bishop," says he, "on one occasion, boasted of having
in his diocese 11,000 priests, who paid their superior every
year a guinea for leave to keep a concubine."' Licenses of
this kind were common in many European kingdoms.
Henry K., professor of theology, and vice-chancellor of the
university of Paris, in the fifteenth  century, draws a picture
equally odious, including pope, cardinals, bishops, priests, and
monks. He attributes ignorance, pride, simony, and licentiousness, to the pontiff, the cardinals, and the prelacy, whlile the
priests, according to him, "wallowed in sensuality."
Clemangis declared the adultery and impurity of the clergy
beyond all description: "They frequent stews and taverns,
and spend their whole time in eating, drinking, rioting, gaming,
and dancing. Surfeited and drunk, these sacerdotal sensualists
fought, shouted, rioted, and blasphemed, and passed directly
from the embrace of the harlot to the altar of God."
Alvares, a Spanish author, asserts that "the sons of the
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Spanish clergy were as numerous as those of the laity." "They
will pass," says he, "without confession, from their concubines
to God's altar."   It is almost beyond credit, the extent to
which this author represents the evil to have spread. The
seductive arts of tie priests became so notorious and alarming,
as to require the interference of the pope. On one occasion,
a papal enactment required all who had been solicited or in:
sulted by the priests to inform against the guilty. Maids and
matrons, of the nobility and peasantry, of every rank and
situation, crowded to the inquisition.   In Seville alone, it took
all the inquisitors and thirty notaries thirty days to take thp
depositions of these injured women
The German clergy are represented to have been as bad as
the Spanish. The evidence of their horrible licentiousness
appears in the decrees of councils, princes, and emperors. One
German council asserted that the priesthood were widely
guilty of unchastity, voluptuousness, and obscenity.   Some
are charged with living in open concubinage; others of committing incest; and, according to its expressive language,
"wallowing in sensuality, plunging, with slackened reign, into
the lake of misery, and mire of filthiness." Albert, duke of
Bavaria, depicted the infamy of the German priesthood in
glowing colors: "The recital," says he, "of clerical criminality
would wound the ear of chastity." "Debauchery has covered
the ecclesiastics with infamy."
Switzerland was the scene of similar profligacy. It rose to
such a height, prior to the Reformation, that the Swiss laity
compelled every priest to take a concubine of his own, in order
to preserve the safety of others. Clemangis also narrates,
that the laity would tolerate the clergy only on condition of
their keeping concubines.
The French clergy were by no means behind those of other
countries in this disgraceful career. According to the account
of Mezerey, an eminent historian all the French ecclesi astice 
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were in a sad state of irregularity. The majority had concubines, while some of the deacons had four or five female companions.
The Italian and Roman clergy surpassed all others in infamy.
A select council of cardinals and bishops, assembled by
Pope Paul III., have drawn a picture of the morals of the
Roman clergy, which is absolutely frightful.  Amours were
carried on in open day, and with most unblushing effrontery.
Popes, too, were as badly implicated as the clergy. Some of
these hierarchs licensed houses of ill fame, and gathered large
taxes from this source.  John, Boniface, Sextus, Alexander,
Julius, Leo, and other popes, were notoriously guilty of adultery and incest. A Roman council convicted John XII. of
adultery and incest with two of his sisters. John XXII. was
also guilty of a like crime. So profligate were the clergy,
that the meeting of a council in a city was enough to demoraL
ize it.  At a general council in Lyons, a Cardinal Hoge, in
a speech to the citizens, immediately after the dissolution of
the sacred synod, alleged that, by the peipetration of licentious
ness, the city had been converted into one vast fermenting,
overflowing sink of pollution. At the general council of Constance, it was quite as bad. It is said that the number of
females of bad character in attendance was not less than fifteen hundred.
These are but specimens of the deliberate assertions of the
most authentic historians of the church. And what a horrible,
disgusting picture do they present of the fruits of the celibacy
of the clergy! Human depravity never had a worse development, if these accounts are to be believed-and believed they
must be, if any credit is ever to be put in any history. And
what this practice has done once, it will do again. The grosser
and more open manifestations of crime, of course, are prevented by the civilization of the age; but to deny that the same
cause will produce the same effect, would be to deny that
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human passions still exist, and that the depravity of the heart
is more intense in one age than another. Celibacy has ever
been the source of impurity and licentiousness. It is so now,
There are evidences in our own possession, which will show
that the Romish priesthood, since the Reformation-nay, in
our own country-are deeply implicated in the crime, so deepr
ly as to proclaim, in tones that should reach every parent's
heart, so long as it forms a feature of Catholic policy-the
priesthood are never to be trusted.
ENCYCLICAL LETTER OF POPE PIUS IX.
GRANTING A GENERAL JUBILEE.
To OUR VENERABLE BROTHERS, THE PATRIARCHS, PRIMATES, ARCH  BISHOPS, BISHOPS, AND OTHER ORDINARIES HAVING GRACE AND
COMMUNION WITH THE APOSTOLIC SEE-PIUS P. P. IX.
VENERABLE BROTEHkRs-Health and apostolic benediction t
While contemplating the whole Catholic world with the solicitude and affection of our apostolic charity, we can scarcely
give expression, venerable brothers, to the grief with which
our heart is afflicted when we behold the Christian and civil
commonwealth disturbed, oppressed, and troubled on all sides
with most deplorable calamities of every kind to a lamentable
extent; for you well know how Christian nations are afflicted
and tried with the most cruel wars, or with intestine disturbances, or pestilential disease, or mighty earthquakes, or other
great evils. And all this the more lamantable because, among
so many evils and misfortunes, the children of darkness, who
are wiser in their generation than the children of light, struggle
more and more every day, with all kinds of diabolical frauds,
artifices, and efforts, to wage the most bitter war against the
Catholic Churc. and its salutary doctrine, to pull down and
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destroy the authority of all legitimate power, to corrupt and
deprave the minds and intellect of the people-to propagate
on all sides the deadly poison of indifferentism and incredulity,
to confuse all rights, divine and human, to stir up dissensions,
discords, and the commotions of impious rebellion, to encour age crime and all kinds of depravity, and to leave nothing
untried, so that, if it were possible, our most holy religion
might be obliterated from the midst of us, and human society
overturned from its foundation.
Knowing well, therefore, in the midst of such imminent danger, that by the singular kindness of a merciful God, we have got
in prayer the means of obtaining all the good of which we
stand in need, and of averting the evils which we fear; we have
not forgotten to raise our eyes towards the lofty and holy
mountain, whence we hope to obtain aid. And, in the humility
of our heart, we do not cease, with fervent and earnest prayer,
to implore and beseech Almighty God, rich in mercy, that,
taking away warfare to the end of the earth, and removing
all dissensions, Hie would bestow upon Christian princes and
their people, peace, concord, and tranquility; and that He
would espicially grant to the princes themselves a pious care
always to guard and propagate Catholic faith and doctrine,
in which the happiness of their people is principally comprised;
that he would rescue both princes and people from all the
evils with which they were afflicted, and gladden them with
all true prosperity;  that he may bestow  the gifts of His
heavenly grace upon those who are in error, so that they may
return from the road of perdition to the paths of truth and
justice, and be converted to God in sincerity of heart. But
although we have already ordered prayers to implore the
Divine clemency to be offered in this our city, nevertheless,
following the footsteps of our predecessors, we have determined to have recourse to your prayers also, and to those of
the universal Church.
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We have, therefore, venerable brothers, written to you this
letter, by which we again and again implore of your excellent
and well-known piety, that, for the above-mentioned reasons,
you would, with all care and diligence, urge the faithful entrusted to your care that, laying down the burden of sin by
means of truth penance, they would, by prayer and fasting,
and alms-giving, and other works of piety, endeavor to appease
the wrath of the Lord provoked by the wickedness of men. In
your own piety and wisdom, explain to the people how many
are the mercies of God to all who invoke Him, and how great
is the power of prayer, if we approach the Lord without allowing the enemy of our salvation to come near us-for, that
we may use the words of Chrysostom, " Prayer is the fountain,
the root, and the mother of innumerable good things. The
efficacy of prayer overcomes the power of fire, curbs the fury
of lions, subdues wars, assuages strife, calms the tempests, puts
demons to flight, opens the gates of heaven, breaks the chains
of death, expels disease, repels misf6rtune, strengthens tottering cities, and removes the scourges of heaven, the snares of
men, and all other evils."  But we earnestly desire, venerable
brothers, that while fervent prayers are offered up to the most
clement Father of mercies for the above-named purpose, you
and your people would not cease to implore Him, supplicating
with still more earnestness, according to the encyclical letter
of the 2d day of February, 1849, given to you at Gaeta,
that by the light of His Holy Spirit, THe would propitiously
deign to enlighten our mind, that we may be able as soon as
possible to decree concerning the conception of the most Holy
Mother of God, the immaculate Virgin Mary, what may
pertain to the greater glory of God, and the praise of the
same Virgin, our loving mother,
And now, in order that the faithful entrusted to you may
pray with more fervent charity and more abundant fruit, we
have determined to bring forth and offer those treasures of 
CALLED " KNOW-NOTHINGS."
heavenly gifts, the dispensation of which has been entrusted to
us by the Most Hligh, for which reason, relying on the mercy of
Almighty God, and on the authority of His blessed apostles
Peter and Paul, out of that power of binding and loosing
which the Lord has committed to us, though unworthy, by
this letter, unto all and each of the faithful of your dioceses,
of either sex, who, within the space of three months, to be fix
ed by each of you, and to be computed from the day which
each of you shall have appointed, having confessed their sins
humbly and with a sincere detestation, having expiated them by
sacramental absolution, shall have reverently received the
most holy sacrament of the Eucharist, and shall have devoutly visited either three churches pointed out by you, or three
times at one of them, and shall have there, for some space of
time, offered up their pious prayers to God according to our
intention, and for the exaltation and prosperity of our holy
mother the Church, and of the apostolic see, for the extirpation of heresies, for the peace and concord of Christian princes,
and the peac6e and unity of all Christian people, and shall,
moreover, within the same interval of time, have fasted once,
and give some alms to the poor, according to their devotiondo concede and grant a plenary indulgence of all their sins,
in the form of a jubilee, which indulgence may also be applied
in the way of suffrage for the souls in purgatory. And that
this indulgence may also be gained by nuns, and by other persons living in strict cloister, and also by those who are in prison, or are prevented by bodily infirmity or other impediment
from performing any of the aforesaid works, we give to confessors the faculty of commuting the same into other works
of piety, or of postponing them to another proximate time,
with the powier also of dispensing with the communion for
children who have not yet been admitted to their first communion.  Wherefore we give to yoQu the power on this occasion, and during the aforesaid space of three months, that you
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may confer on the confessors of your dioceses, by our apos
tolic authority, all those same faculties which were conferred
by us in the jubilee conceded by our encyclical letter of the
21st of November, 1851, transmitted to you, published, and
beginning, "Ex aliis nostri," with, however, all those excep
tions reserved by us in that letter.
Moreover, we give you the faculty of granting to the faithful of your dioceses, both laity and ecclesiastics, secular and
regular, and of whatsoever institute, the permission to choose
for themselves, for this purpose, any priest as their confessor,
whether secular or regular, of those who are approved, and of
giving the same permission to religious, although exempt from
the jurisdiction of the ordinary, and to other women residing
within cloisters.
Act, therefore, venerable brothers, as participating yourselves in our solicitude, and as being constituted watchmen
on the walls of Jerusalem. Cease not, in union with us, day
and night, in all prayer and entreaty, with thanksgiving, humbly and earnestly to cry to our Lord God, and implore His
divine mercy, that He may propitiously avert the scourges of
His anger, which we deserve for our sins, and that He may clemently pour out, upon all, the riches of His bounty. We have
surely no doubt but that you will most fully comply with these,
our desires and requests; and we are quite certain that all,
more especially ecclesiastics and religious men and nuns, and
also the faithful laity, who, living piously in Christ, walk worthily in the vocation to which they have been called, will,
with the utmost ardent effort of piety, address their suppliant
prayers to God without intermission. And that God may
the more easily incline His ear to our prayers, let us not omit,
venerable brothers, to ask the suffrages of those who, being
already crowned, have obtained the palm; and in the first
place, and always, let us invoke the Mother of God, the Immaculate Virgin Mary, than whom there is no more fit or 
CALLED "t KNO-NOTHINGS.?
more powerful intercessor with God, and who is the mother
of grace and mery; and let us invoke the patroniage of the
Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints who
reign with Christ in heaven. But before all things, with redoubled efforts, assiduously exhort, admonish, and encourage
those entrusted to your care, that they may continue immovable, and with daily increasing stability in the profession of the
Catholic religion, that they may inost carefully avoid the snares,
fallacies, and frauds of hostile men; that they may walk with
a still more ready step in the paths of God's commandments,
and that they may most dil;gently keep themselves from sill,
which is the most abundant source of evil to the human race.
Wherefore cease not especially to inflame the zeal of parish
priests, that, fulfilling their own duty sedulously and. religously, they may never omit to imbue and instruct accurately the
Christian people committed to them in the holy rudiments and
precepts of ourSDivine faith, to feed them diligently by the administration. of the sacraments, and to exhort them in sound
doctrine.
Finally, as a sign of all heavenly gifts, and in testimony of
our most ardent love, receive our apostolic benediction, which,
proceeding from our inmost heart, we permanently bestow upon you, venerable brothers, and upon all the faithful, clerics,
and laity, entrusted to your vigilance.
Given in Rome, at St. Peter's, on the 1st day of Aullgust,
in the year 1854, in the ninth year of our pontificate.
Plus P. P IX.
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CONFESSION OF PRIEST RIE[BAUER.
THE following extracts are from the "Confession of the Rev.
F. Riembaner, a RBoman Catholic Priest, who was convicted of
the murder of Ainna Eichstaedter."  We copy from the "In.
vestigator," edited by J. F. Polk, brother of the President of
the United States:  "The letters that I received from Ainna Eichstaedter filled
me with terror.  Unless I would provide for the child, and
receive her into my house, she threatened to denounce me to
my ecclesiastical superiors.  The result of my visit to her at
Ratisbon increased my alarm. I explained to her my pecuniary embarrassments, and the impossibility of my receiving
her; but she would not listen to any excuses, and would be
convinced by no arguments. My honor [!1], my position, my
powers of being useful, all that I value in the world, were at
stake.  I often reflected on the principle laid down by my old
tutor, Father Benedict Sattler, in his Ethica Christiania (a
principle which he often explained to his young clerical pupils),
That it is lawful to deprive a?wuther of life, if that be the oldy
7eans of preser=ing one's own hoiwr and repuitati(c.'"
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"Two days afterward, I buried her; and as the hatits had
st'fend in an attitule of entreatil, they rose above the grave,
and I was forced to remove them.   I have nothing more to
relate, except that I have frequently saiid maisses to her sold,
and that her death has always been a source of grief to me,
thou?gh the Imotites which led  ie to effect it were PRAISEWORTHY.
These motives-my only motives-were, to save the credlit of nmy
honorable profession, and to prevent the many evils and crimes
which a scandalous exposure must have occasioned. Had I
not stood so high with my people, I would have submitted to
that exposure. But if the faults of a priest, rev(red as I was. 
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had been revealed, many men would have thought my example
justified their sins; others would ha e lost confidence in
their clergy, and some, perhaps, might have thoought religion a
fable. As these calamities could be prevented only by the
getting rid of Anna Eichstaedter, I was forcel to get rid of
her. The end was good-her death was the only means.
Therefore, I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT IT WAS A CBIrAE.  The same
motive induced me to endure, year after year, a dungeon.   As
soon as I had reason to believe it to be the will of God that
I should myself reveal what I have done, I made a full confession.
"My failings (so far as they were failings) were the incidents
of my position.  The?! were thefailings of celibacy.  They nemer
disturbea my conscience; for I could defend them, both by reasoning adTx by exampe taken from eles-iastical histo?-y; and I thlina
that I deserve credit for having so managed my conduct as to
give no public offence."
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In one of his examinations, he said: "I thought upon the
remark of St. Clement, of Alexandria, that',man is never so
obvio7tsly the image of God as when he assists God in the crea
tiont of a hilman being!'  To do so cannot be against the will
of God, since thereby the number of the elect may be increas
ed; nor against the will of the church, since it adds one to
the number of her communion; nor against that of the state,
which gains a citizen.'lIly conscience, therefore, g,t  e  no
u,nea.si,ne.ss.1 1
Such abominable principles need, in a community like ours,
no comment.
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JESUIT TIIIEVES.
.& WRITER in the Dublin Warder gives the following schedule
of the amount of the robberies perpetrated by the Jesuits of
Ireland.  We have changed the sums into American enrrency 
Dues at confessions........    $1,350,000
Christenings...........................150,000
Extreme unctions and burials.......     270,000
Marriages............            1,750,000
Purgatory.............................450,000
Collections in mass-houses........      2,400,000
Curate's collection..........          100,000
Maynooth........... v40,000
Total..............$6,510,000
Besides these items, he avers that the product of stations,
month's mind, saying masses, remission of penance,  mendicant
friars, indulgences, jubilees, All-souls' day, and the exactions in
bacon, poultry, oats, oatmeal, straw, hay, groceries, wine, spirits,
and the contributions of all the necessaries of life, would double
the above sum; so that the priests of the 1,800 popish
parishes in Ireland contrive to filch from the ragged, starving,
wretched papists in that island, at least thirteen millions of
dollars per annum, which they publicly squander in every
species of the lowest and most brutalized proffligacy.
According to this review, we can calculate the amount of
robbery transacted by the Irish massmen, and the Italian and
French blood-sucking Jesuits, and their confederated conspirators in the United States. The Irish papists are ten times the
number of those in the United States; but then the latter
are full five times as able to pay the priest's demand as the
~ormer.  The  consequence is, that the American papists pay
yearly to the pope's deputies only $6,500,000 for the privilege
of being led blindfold into the dungeon of everlasting despair.
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CAILJ,ED "KNOW-NOTHINGS."
MIRACLE OF THE SKULL.
Two MEN, digging a grave in a churchyard at Macon, upon
the river Seine, found a skull, which they thre v upon  the
grass by them, with the common unconcern of grave-diggers;
but soon perceiving it to stir, they ran to the curate of the
parish, and told him what they had seen. The superstitious
curate immediately supposed it was the skull of some saint
that had been buried ill that place, aud therefore posted
thither, where, to his great surprise and joy, he found the skull
still moving, upon which he cried out, "A miracle I a mira.
cle!" and resolved to have the precious relic deposited in his
church with all proper ceremonies; for which purpose he sent,
in all haste, for a consecrated dish, a cross, and holy water,
his surplice, stole, and cap, ordered all the bells to be rung,
and sent to give notice of the joyful news to the parishioners,
who thronged in crowds to the place. Then he had the skull
placed in the consecrated dish, and, being covered with a nap
kin, it was carried to the church in procession; during which,
great debates arose among the parishioners, every one insisting
that some of their family had been buried in that place, in order
that they might assume to themselves the honor of having
a saint in their family. Upon their-arrival at the church, the
skull was placed on the high altar, and a Te Deum was begun;
but when they came to the verse, " Te per orbum terrarum,"
a mole, unluckily crawling out of the skull, discovered the
secret cause of its motion; upon which a stop was put to the
ceremony, and the congregation, being greatly disappointed,
dispersed.
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MORALS OF TIHE JESUITS.
WHEN, as in the case of the Jesuits, a society of persons
set themselves up as universal teachers of mankind, and every where manifest a disposition to monopolize the instruction of
youth, it is proper to inquire into the mature and tendency of
their systems of instruction.   The question needs to be viewed,
not so much in a literary, as in a moral and religious point of
view. A course of instruction may be such as to refine the
taste and sharpen some of the faculties of the mind; at the
same time it may utterly corrupt the mind, or vitiate and
extinguish every virtuous sentiment and~feeling.
The Jesuits, we know, manifest great skill in adapting their
instructions to youth. What may be called the mechanical
part of education, they have carried to the highest point of
perfection. The whole disciplinary process is calculated less
to make correct thinkers, than subtle disputants and plausible
declaimers. All this would be comparatively harmless, if
they did not employ edqcation as a means of injecting moral
oison into the mind.   On this subject the clergy of Paris give
the following testimony: "The principal evil of the Jesuit
morality is, that it not only depraves the morals, but corrupts the
very principles of morality." To substantiate this heavy charge,
we shall summon only Popish witnesses-eminent Jesuit doctors.
In the year 1643-'44, when the tide of immorality was swollen
by the Jesuits to an alarming extent, they were impugned by
the university of Paris, in a work entitled "The Moral Theology
of the Jesuits," extracted faithfully from their writings, by
Mons. Perrot. From this work it appears that there is no
important truth in Christian morals which the Jesuits have
not corrupted; nor any maxim, however erroneous, scandalous,
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sists of a large collection of extracts from the writings of no
less than one hundred and forty-seven Jesuit authors, publish ed by authority, as verified and collated by the commissioners
of the parliament of Franee.   By  order of parliament, a
copy was presented to the king, to put him in possession of
the most ample knowledge of the perverse and poisonous doc trines of the Jesuits. The strongest and most indisputable
evidence against the morality of the Jesuits is thus furnished
from their own accredited and authorized writings. We shall
briefly touch upon the principal points which relate to and
illustrate the morals of the Jesuits.
Unity of Opinion.-The Jesuit Daniel says: "The constitution [of the Jesuitsj ordained three things: The first, that
our members do not introduce new opinions; the second, that
if at any time they should hold an opinion contrary to that
which is commonly received, they shall adhere to the deci'swn
of the society; the third, that in controverted questions, in
which either opinion is from being common, they restrict themselves to conformity." Thus, however corrupt and pernicious
the opinions and doctrines of the Jesuits may be, we see-they
are one and unchangeable.
Probable  0inions.-According to this doctrine, "in the
concurrence of two opinions, of which one is more probable
and in conformity with law, the other less probable, butfavoring concupiscence, it is lawful to follow the latter in practice."Extract des Assertions,  tome i., page 27.   "That  opinion
is considered highly probable," says Valerius Reginald, "which
is supported by high authority, or by an argument of considerable weight." Vincent Fillucius says: "The authority
of one good and learned doctor renders an opinion probable,
because his authority is not slight foundation." Also, George
de Rhodes  says:  "The authority of one good doctor is a
sufficient reason on which to ground the probability of any
opinion, sQ that every one may safely follow it."
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This doctrine of probable opinion, it will be seen, opens  a
door for the admission of any error. I am taught that I may
safely do anything for which I have the authority of one good
Jesuit doctor.  What, then, may I do?  Is, then, each Jesuit
doctor  infallible;  this out-Romes  Rome.   Rome  justifies
herself in much that she does, simply on the ground of her infallibility; but here the authority of one good Jesuit doctor
is a sufficient reason to ground the probability of any opinion,
so that every one may safely follow it!!  From the case thus
presented, it is evident that the object of introducing this doctrine of probable opinions was not to solve conscientious
scruples, but rather to remove from the minds of their pupils
any scruples that might stand in the way of their most flagitious purposes.
Philosophical Sin.-The doctrine of philosophical sin, as
held by the Jesuits, teaches the art of sinning philosophically.
The Jesuits-wonderful masters!-instruct us how to sin,
not vulgarly, but philosophically. They give such definitions
of sin, and such definitions respecting the various modes of
sinning, as a philosophical mind may be supposed to do to
palliate or justify the act of sinning. According to this doctrine, an action the most criminal in itself offends against reason, but does not displease God, nor deserve eternal damnation, if the agent who commits it knows not God, or does not
actually think of him, or does not reflect that he offends.
"Probable ignorance;" says Vincent Fillucius, "which originates in a wilf2t fault, or voluntary cause, excuses from sin,
provided its effects were not foreseen." George de Rhodes
says: "If a man commit adultery or homicide, refjecting indeed but very imperfectly and superficially upon the wickedness
and great sinfulness of these crimes, however heinous may be
the matter, he still sins but slightly."  "It is also certain,"
says Yasquez, "that a full knowledge of such wickedness is
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of the goodness of God to exclude men from his glory, and to
reject them for ever, for a sin on which they had not reflected."
Behold, what morals! What do a lawless banditti think of
the right or wrong of an action before they plunder a party,
or murder those who offer resistance? And yet, according
to this refinement of Jesuitism, any one individual act, however base, is not criminal, provided the agent is so hardened
in sin that he can do it without any scruples about its lawfilness. Into what depths of Satan will these moralists lead
us?   thither will they ultimately lead those who resign
themselves to their infernal guidance?
Perjury, lying, and false witness, are all inculcated and justified by Jesuit moralists. Emmanuel Sa says: "It is not
mortal sin to swear that you will not do that which it is better
to do, nor if you swear a false oath as to words, but a true
one as to the meaning of the inquirer; and as you are not
bound to swear according to the meaning of the inquirer, you
may according to your own," &c.  Francis Suarez says: "It
is not intrinsically wrong to use equivocation, even in making
an oath, whence it is not always perjury." To the same effect
writes Thomas Sanchez. Leonard Sessius says: "If a judge
examines concerning an action which has been committed
without sin, at least without mortal sin, the witness and the
accused are not obliged to answer according to the meaning
of the judge." Hence it follows, that there is no compulsion
to answer according to the meaning of the judge, but that
equivocation and mental reservation may be used. But this
is not all: tlese moralists tamper with the judge, as well as
with the witness, and justify him in receiving bribes.   In
answer to the question, "Is a judge bound to restore the
bribe which he has received for passing sentence?" John
Baptist Taverna replies: "If he has received the bribe for
passing an unjust sentence, it is probable that he may keep
it.... This opinion is defended  and maintained  by
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fifty-eight doctors!"  For a just sentence a judge may not re tain a bribe, because we may suppose he obtained it by com pulsion.  For an unjust sentence, then, he is not bound to re store it until compelled by law. Thus do these Jesuit moralists
justify villainy and wickedness even in the representative and
guardian of justice.
On the subject of theft and secret compensation, Emmanuel
Sa writes: "It is not a mortal sin to take secretly from one
who would give if he were asked, although he may be unwilling that it should be done secretly, and it is not eossary to
restore." Again: "It is not theft to take a small thing secretly
from a husband or a father; but if it be considerable, it must
be restored."  Again:  "He who from urgent necessity, or
without causing much loss, takes wood from another mapn'ls
pile, is not obliged to restore it."  Again, Valerius Reginald
says: "Servants may not take the property of their masters,
secretly, by way of compensation, on pretence that their wages
are not equitable, unless it shall in reality appear to be the
case, in the opinion of an experienced man,"-say in the opinion
of a Jesuit confessor or director.  Again: "Servants are excused from sin and from restitution, if they oldy take an equitable compensation."  Such is the teaching of the Jesuit moralists
to that large and useful class of society, on whom our domestic happiness to so great an extent depends. Satan himself
could not give worse advice-advice more ruinous to them
selves and society. Farewell to peace and confidence between
masters and servants, employer and the employed-farewell
to domestic happiness-when our servants shall fall under the
influence of the Jesuits and do according to their teaching.
We have yet to mention the doctrine which caps the climax
of Jesuitical presumption, and carries out their system of
morality into its most appalling consequences.   It is that
which justifies homicide, regicide, and assassination. The Jesuit
doctors, E. S. A. Salmeron and Gregory of Valen(e, establish 
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positively the right of assassination politiqte.   These, wi-h
many other eminent doctors, justify murder, assassination, on
the part of private individuals, at the beck of priests, bishops,
or the Pope; yea, they instigate them to the deed, and applaud
it as meritorious, when done with the devout intention of promoting the interests of the holy see. They also justify similar
deeds for ends purely persoial.  Yea,  they justify the  commission of murder, when it becomes necessary to conceal their
own delinquencies.
Such are the morals of the Jesuits, as confessed by their
own writers. Who can overrate the pernicious nature and
influence of Jesuit morality?  How  is it possible to paint
their moral maxims in colors sufficiently dark and detestable?
It is impossible to find, in any human language, terms sufficiently strong to characterize this foul and hideous system. We
witness here a progression in spirit and wickedness which has
no parallel in the history of man. And all this, too, under
the sanction of the name of Jesus, as though the great Teacher
of Christian morals was the father of such abominations?
Think of the lofty principles of Christian morality-morality,
pure and stern, sublime and awful; think of its unsparing
denunciations of sin; think of the soul-purifying and elevating
views of revealed religion, and of the exalted character of
the Saviour: then turn and see this hellish monster, Jesuitism, rising from the bottomless pit to destroy every plant of
virtue, and put out the light of hope.
. ZUINGLIUS, on 2 Theg. ii,, in answering the Papal application of it to the protestants, says
"Let our doctrine be examined, and it will appear that
thev are false. We preach Jesus Christ and him crucified,
and that he is the only Reconiciler and only succor of man; but
the Papists preach the Pope, the antichrist, whom here Paul
so accurately describes.
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BUYING SALVATION.
TETZEL'S outrageous sale of indulgences, and the arts of
RIIomish priests in obtaining money by promises of masses and
prayers, once roused an indignation in Europe, which founds
expression in the Reformation.   But has the corrupt practice
ceased!  Is the Romish Church altered in this odious partic ular?  The following paragraphs, published in a late number
of the Catholic Herald, for the purpose of stimulating its readers to contribute to the support of a den of mendicants in Ireland, will answer the question:
"The Trappists daily offer their fervent and most grateful
prayers for their generous and liberal benefactors.
"1. They celebrate every day the holy sacrifice of their
benefactors.
"2. A memento is said for them at every private mass.
"3. They are prayed for at the midnight office, and at the
canonical hours of the day.
"4. The community make a general communion for them on
the first Thursday of every month
"5. Every Friday the holy sacrifice is celebrated for the
deceased benefactors.
"6. They are prayed for when the community are informed
of their illness.
". A de p'ofundis is recited every afternoon by the com.
munity assembled, for the deceased benefactors.
"8. Every special benefactor shall be associated with the
prayers and good works of the whole society.
Notwithstanding a thousand such evidences of the unchanging folly and corruption of popery, we sometimes meet with
Protestants who tell us of the improvements in Romanism,
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CHRIST THE ONLY LIVING HEAD.
THE Church is in the wilderness,
And many a snare is round her spread,
Yet in the midst of all distress
She looks to Christ, her living head.
She feels that neither friar nor saint,
Nor aught below, nor aught above,
Of heavenly birt.h, or earthly taint,
Can separate her from his love.
She glories in his cross alone,
She brightens in each smile he gives,
She gazes on his heavenly throne,
And in his promises she lives.
She breathes no prayer to heaven's queen
To whom the Romanists have cried;
What mother ever stood between
The bridegroom and his chosen bride?
Columbia! thou spring of might and powet
Thou birthplace of the bright, the brave
Never, "not even for one hour,"
Give place to her that would enslave.
0 never! never! be it said
That hearts all noble, bold, and free,
Should, by the wily serpent ied,
Yield and succumb to popery.
This be thy long, thy lasting word,
In lands abroad, or streets at home,
Long as thy voice shall e'er be heard,
No treaty with apostate Rome'
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POPERY AND DESPOTISM.
POPERY always has been the ally and supporter of despotism;
and it is fair to suppose that it always will be. The real
tendency of a system ought to be understood after centuries
'of active operation, especially if that tendency be uniformly
and forever in one direction: but the genius of universal history challenges a single proof that popery has ever put forth
any other than a despotic, oppressive influence. Church and
state is the grand law of Catholic development.   Always and
everywhere it has created this union, if left to pursue its own
ends. And so it must be in the very nature of the case. It
would be as wise to expect to gather grapes from thistles,
or to receive figs from thorns, as any other fruit from a
system whose principal feature is the subjugation of all authority, human and divine, to one will, and that the will of the
church; The fundamental principle of popery is, that all
power is by divine appointment in the pope; the fiundamental
principle of freedom is, that the people are the source of power.
There is, and must be, an eternal clash between the two;
whoever doubts it, should go to Rome and examine for himself. The world affords not another so complete a specimen
of the union of church and state, or rather the subjugation of
the state to the church, as modern Rome presents. The testimony of another, whose reputation and great respectability
place him above suspicion of misrepresentation, is so conclusive
on this point, that we ask the reader's attention to it:
"Popery," says the writer alluded to, "embodies in it,.self the
closest 1it?qiio of chirch and state.  Observe it at the fountain
head.  In the Roman  states, the civil and ecclesiastical offices
are blended together in the same individual: the pope is the
king; a cardinal is the secrelary of state; the consistory of
ardinals is the cabinet councii, the ministry, and they are vice
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troys in the provinces. The archbishops are ambassadors to
foreign courts; the bishops are judges and magistrates; and the
road to preferment, to most if not all the great offices of the
state, is through the priesthood. In Rome and the patrimony
of St. Peter, the temporal and spiritual powers are so closely
united in the same individual, that no attack can be made on
any temporal misrule, without drawing down upon the assailants
the vengeance of the spiritual power exercised by the same
individual. Is the judge corrupt or oppressive, and do the
people rise against him, the judge retires into the bishop, and
in his sacred retreat cries,'Touch not the Lord's anointed.'
... Take," continues the same writer, "from popery its name
of religion, strip its officers of their pompous title of sacredness,
and its decrees of nauseous cant of piety, and what have you remaining? Is it not a nqaked, odious despotism, depending for its
strength on the observance of the strictest military discipline
in its ranks, from the pope, through his cardinals, archbishops,
bishops, &c., down to the lowest priest of his dominions?"
When the effect is separated from its cause, or the character of the fruit from the nature of the tree which bears it, we
may reasonably expect'that the Roman Catholic religion may
be predominant in this country, without producing similar
political results as are now developed at Rome and in the
papal states, and not till then.
THE ROMISH PRIESTHOOD.
BY the concurrent testimony of all travelers in South
America, Cuba, Malta, and Italy even, the priesthood constitutes the most licentious class in the community.   "Clerical
celibacy," says the regent of Brazil, "is the chief source of
public immorality in Brazil." And no doubt the same is
true elsewhere. Infidelity itself is less a fear to public morals
than Romanism.
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BISIHOP HUGHES AND GREGORY XVI.
BISHOP IIUGHES, the sturdy defender of the popedom, has
taken great offense at the publication of an article in the Cou rier and Enquirer, purporting to be a letter from the correspon dent of the Boston Atlas at Rome, in which certain things
are imputed to Gregory XVI., which present the character
of his holiness in rather an unfovorable light. The thing was
soon reported at headquarters, and, as we might have expected, drew forth the direful fulminations of the zealous vicar,
which have been chronicled in the Freeman's Journal. Knowing what the characters and lives of his predecessors generally have been, we were not at all surprised at the account
given of Gregory XVI.
The bishop does not consider and refute in detail the imputations cast upon his master, but, Jesuit-like, lumps them all
together and stigmatizes them as calumnies-a gross and infamous libel on his moral character.  IIe says: "The stupid
calumny is refuted by the whole life of the deceased pontiff:
the voice of Catholic and Protestant Europe has pronounced
against it." If Gregory was the holy man he is represented
to have been, why that solemn high mass and dirge at St.
Mary's Roman Catholic chapel, Moorsfields, London, attended
with great pomnp, for the repose of the soul of the pope? Bishop
Kenrick also, with great splendor, celebrated pontifical mass
for the repose of the soul of his late holiness, Pope Gregory
XVI. Why must the self-styled vicar of Jesus Christ pass
through a period of purgatorial sufferings ere he can attain
the blessedness of heaven? This idolatrous ceremony must be
performed in every branch of the papal church ere the pope
can be released from purgatorial fires, and his soul, purified
from sin, find rest in heaven.
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diction of the charges brought against Gregory will not be
counted a just and conclusive refutation of them. Dying at
the advanced age of eighty-one years, it would be strange if
his passions had not cooled somewhat, and he had not maintained the appearance of sobrietv and decorum before the
world.  If indeed he was not a bad man, sensual, proud, and
ambitious, it must have been owing to the fact that popery
did not exert its natural and legitimate influence upon his life
and character. But time will bring the truth to light, and
set this matter right between the bishop and those who called
in question the purity of the head and pink of catholicity.
I'OLY WELL AND ROCK.
NEAR the village of Bin, Ireland, is a small well about
twelve or thirteen feet in circumference. Around this is built
a wall about eighteen inches in height, and nearly as thick
You may see on Sunday mornings dozens of poor deluded
priest-ridden slaves going around this well on their bare knees
and counting their beads. They place, every time they go
around, a small piece of rag on a withered white thorn-bush.
This they do as penance for venial sins; but before they conclude the penance, they make a kind of finish at the rock which
is near the well.   The rock is very large; and they go around
this also on their bare knees. They have to get off their knees
every time they go round, to place a small stone on the top
of the rock for the same purpose as on the rag bush. There
is also a small track in the rock: to this they pay great reverence, which they signify by bowing each time they come
opposite to it. They say, that St. Patrick having knelt on
this rock, has left the track above mentioned by his knee
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DAPISTS AND DESPOTS AGAINST AMERICAN LIBERTY.
THE duke of Richmond, who was governor-general of Canada,
was a violent papist. Shortly before his death he made the
following disclosures, respecting the designs of European de,
pots and papists upon the liberties of this country, the truth
of which the developments of time, since that period, have
too fearfully confirmed, Speaking of the government of the
United States, lie said, "It was weak, inconsistent, and bad;
and could not long exist. It will be destroyed; it ought not,
and will not be permitted to exist; for many and great are
the evils that have originated from the existence of that government. The curse of the French revolution, and subsequent
wars and commotions in Europe, are to be attributed to its
example; and so long as it exists, no prince will be safe upon
his throne; and the sovereigns of Europe are aware of it,
and they have been determined on its destruction, and have
come to an understanding upon this subject, and have decided
on the means to accomplish it; and they will eventually succeel by subtersion rather than conquest."  "All the low and surplus population of the different nations of Europe will be carried into that country; it is, and will be, a receptacle for the
bad and disaffected population of Europe, when they are not
wanted for soldiers, or to supply the navies; and the European governments will favor such a course.  This will create
a surplus and a majority of low population, who are so very
easily excited; and they will bring with them their principles;
and in nine cases out of ten, adhere to their ancient and former governments, laws, manners, customs, and religion, and
will transmit them to their posterity; and in many cases propagate them among the natives. These men will become citizens, and by the constitution and laws, will be invested with
the right of suffrage. The different grades of society will 
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then be created by the elevation of a few, and by degrading
many, and thus a heterogeneous population will be formed,
speaking different languages, and of different religions and sentiments; and to make them act, think, and feel alike, in political affairs, will be like mixing oil and water; hence, discord,
dissension, anarchy, and civil war, will ensue; and some popular individual will assume the government, and restore order,
and the sovereigns of Europe, the emigrants, and many of the
natives, will sustain him."  "The church of Rome has a design upon that country; and it will, in time, be the established
religion, and will aid in the destruction of that republic." "I
have conversed with many of the sovereigns and princes of
Europe, and they have unanimously expressed these opinions
relative to the government of the United States, and their de.termination to subvert it."
ROMISH CHURCH NOT ALWAYS THE SAME
DURING the first three hundred years, their Papal indulgences
were yet unhatched; their purgatory fire was yet unkindled;
transubstantiation was yet unbaked; the treasury of merits
was yet uninvented; the Pope's transcendent power was yet
uncreated; ecclesiastics were unexempted; and deposing of
kings yet undreamed. The people were as yet not cozened of
the cup; communion in one kind was yet unthought of; it
was not then customary to mutter liturgies in a tongue un.
known; nor were wooden or brazen gods then worshipped;
they worshipped that which they knew "in spirit and in truth;
and they called on him in whom they believed.";
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TIlE POPE EQUAL WITH-GOD.
2 Thessalonians, ii. 3, 4.
"AND that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called
God, or that is worshipped; so that he, as God, sitteth in the
temple of God, showing himself that he is God."
The place in which the person spoken of in this passage was
to be manifested, was the visible church-the time of his appearance was subsequent to the first great apostasy from the faith
and purity of the gospel, and previously to the second advent
of Christ. Beyond a doubt, the character pointed out is the
Pope of Rome.  The representation made in the above passage
and the account given of his mode of operation, in the 9th
and 10th verses, will apply strictly, letter for letter, to no other
character of which we have any account.
Both the name and works of God have been appropriated
to the Pope by the highest authorities and the most eminent,
theologians of the Romish Church.
I. The nane of God has been given to the Pope.   His
holiness has been complimented with the name of deity, and
the vicegerency of heaven has been acceded to him.
Jacobatius, Durand, Gibert, and Pithou, on the authority
of canon law, style the pontiff the Almighty's vicegerent,
"who occupies the place not of a mnere man but of the true
God."-Jacob. VII., Barclay, 222; Pithou, 29; Decret. I,
vii., c. 3.
Gregory the II. says: "The whole western nations reckoned Peter a terrestrial God; the Roman pontiff, of course, succeeds to the title and estate. Labb. viii. 666; Bruy. ii. 100.
This blasphemy, Gratian copied from the canon law. "The Emperor Constantine," says Nicholas the First, "conferred the 
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appellation of God on the Pope, who, therefore, being God,
cannot be judged by man."-Labb. ix. 1572.
According to Innocent the Third, "The Pope holds the
place of the true God."
The canon law in the gloss, denominates the Roman hierarch, "our Lord God." Extrao.'it. XIV., c. iv., Walsh,
p. 9.
The canonists generally reckon the Pope the one God, who
hath all power, human and divine, in heaven and earth.-Bar clay, II., iv. 220.
Marcellus, in the Lateran council, and with its full approbation, called Julius "God on earth."-Labb. xix. 731, Bin.
9, 54.
II. The works as well as the name of God have been
ascribed to the Pope by Innocent, by distinguished Catholic
writers, by the canon law, and the Lateran council. According to Innocent, Jacobatius, Durand and Decius, "The Pope
and the Lord form the same tribunal, so that, sin excepted,
the Pope can do nearly all that God can do."  Jacob. III.
Jacobatius and Durand say, "The pontiff possesses a plenitude of power, and none dare say to him, any more than to
God, what doest thou?  He can change the nature of things,
and make  nothing out of something and something out of
nothing. —Extrao. Tit. IV., c. 2; Jacob. III.; Durand, I.
50, &c.
These are not the views of these writers alone; they are
found, in all their absurdity and blasphemy, in the canon law,
which represents the Pope as responsible to no being in the
universe, and attributes to him the power of performing the
works of God, and making something out of nothing.   rhe
Pope, according to Lainez, at the council of Trent, "has the
power of dispensing with all laws and the same authority as
the Lord."
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An archbishop, in the last Lateran Synod, called Pope
Julius "prince of the world."-Labb. xix. 100.
Another orator styled Leo, "the p )ssessor of all power in
heaven and in earth, who presided over all the kingdoms of
the globe."-Dupin iii. 602; II Theis. ii. 4.
This blasphemy the holy, infallible Roman council listened
to without expressing their disapprobation or dissent, and the
haughty pontiff himself doubtless with great complacency.
The man of sin, then, "sat in the temple of God," or that
which was called so, and both by his silence and his state,
"showed himself that he was God."
"Some Popes," says Coqueville, "have allowed themselves
to be called Omnipotent."-Coqueville, 408.
THE TITLE OF "PAPIST."
IT has been objected to by some Protestants, and by the
Papists, that this is an opprobrious title; and that we ought
from courtesy, to lay it aside in our writings and speeches.
We answer, we shall not lay it aside. It is one of the
many very appropriate and highly expressive names of the
followers and worshippers of their head, and Lord, the Pope.
They own him as their only king. They admit him to
occupy on earth, the place of Jesus Christ;  "teneat locum
* Christi." They admit him to be the head of all indulgences
as the fount of pardoning power. For the priest pronounces
pardon "judicially," from the "tribunal of confessions," by
virtue of the power to pardon sin, and give absolution, given
to him through his bishop, from the Pope. They are in the
strictest sense, called Papists; even as true believers are
called Christians after CHRIST.
But, the fact is, the principal authors of Roman history,
and the expounders of Romanism, do glory in the name of
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Papists. This is not generally known by either Protestants,
or Papists.  Bishop Barlow in his work, "Brutem fulmen,"
has shown this. In his epistle to the reader he proves out of
Baronius, in his "Martyrol. B." that he boasts of this title,
and glories in it.
We shall quote the words of Baronius, in his "Martyrology," under October 16. "The modern heretics call Catholics,
Papists. Certainly they would not give them a more glorious
title. Let it, therefore, be our praise living, and our epitaph
when dead, ever to be called PAPISTS. Sint ideo nobis viventibus, hsec semper preconia laudum, et post-mortem tituli
sepulerates, ut -et semper dicamur papiste."
And, moreover, we may add, that Gother recognized the
title in his book, "the Papist misrepresented." See London
Protestant Journal, for August, 1831.
MEANS BY WIHICH POPERY MAY BE CHECKED.
FoR American Christians to close their eyes to the efforts
of the church of Rome, to extend her influence and to secure
to herself dominion over this country, were criminal. And
for those whom God has placed as watchmen upon the walls
of Zion, to refrain from sounding the alarm in the holy mountain, were to render themselves responsible for all the injuries
which the cause of Christ or our common country or individual persons, should suffer from such negligence.
The combined influences and resources of the papal hierarchy in both Europe and America, are becoming more and
more concentrated upon this country, the United States.
Money to the amount of millions on millions, is poured forth
from the treasuries of popery and tyranny in Europe, to build
np institutions to extend influences which are deemed efficient
for bringing the people of America under the spiritual domi
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Zon of the  great  antichrist, and  the  political despotism
exercised by those European tyrants who are leagued for the
overthrow of our spiritual and political freedom. Every art
which jesuitical and anti-christian subtlety can devise and
practice, is put in requisition for decoying the unwary and for
alluring with the glare and splendor wherewith the great
harlot bedecks herself, "the kings of the earth to the commission of spiritual fornication with her."
And how are we to be affected in view of these deep-laid
schemes, these mighty efforts and these rapid strides of successful operations of anti-christ and tyraniny? We are not
to remain- indifferent: nor  are  we  to sink into hopeless
despondency, or trembling with fearful apprehensions, to
suffer our hands to hang down in inactivity.   No:  we  must
arise to the work-we must come up promptly, fearlessly, to
the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the
mighty. We must, in the strength of the Captain of Salvation, check the encroachments of popery —we must rescue at
least some of the prey already in the jaws of the roaring lion,
from destruction.
CARDINAL JOKE BY A R0OIAN PRIEST.
ONE of the Popish priests of New York has, for sometime
past, as is currently reported, been confined to his bed and
room, in consequence of not having complied with the commands of his own craft, by the requisite abstinence during
Lent. One of his brethren desired an Irish Papist to carry
a verbal message to the priest who was tortured from the tips
of his fingers to the ends of his toes with the racking gout.
The unthinking creature fulfilled his commission, and delivered
the following memento.   "M air. ***  sends his compliments to
Father ****, and advises him to eat less, and drink less, and
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to fast and pray, as he does; and then you will not be troubled with the gout! The rage with which Father **** was
filled could only be vented in language. "By Saint Patrick,"
said he, "it is well for you that I cannot stir hand nor foot,
or I would kick you into purgatory at one toss, you."
Frightened out of his wits at the priest's denunciation, the
Irishman quickly returned to give the other waiting priest
who employed him, an account of his doings. He pacified the
terrified messenger by assuring him, that the threat of Father
**** was of no importance: as he had not his vestments on,
and as the gout was inflicted upon him for penance for his
sins; while he was doing that penance, he could not act as a
priest.
N U N NER I ES.
IT is indubitable that the monastic system is one of the
most depraved and anti-republican departments among all the
machinations of popery.   Aware of that fact, and conscious
that Protestant money cannot be obtained in the United
States, for the erection and endowment of male and female
convents, direct application is made to American citizens, for
pecuniary aid in behalf of those pestiferous institutions, only
in peculiar circumstances. All the large sums which are constantly transmitted from Europe for papistical purposes, are
especially applied to the establishment of the monastic system;
for it should be remembered, that every jesumitical institute.
whether deceitfully named seminaries or colleges, or asylums, are
only male or female convents, which are subject to all the monastic discipline and regulations.
One of the great delusions which pervades all classes of
the American community is this-that Romanism is now, and
in the United States, of a totally different character from its
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attributes in Europe or South America, and during the dark
ages; and also, that although nunneries may have been the
mere brothels of Roman priests, and "filthy, murderous dense"
in France, Italy, and Spain, prior to the reformation, yet in
this country they are now abodes of piety, purity, and wisdom,
We know not how to account for this indescribable and infatuated skepticism, except by fearing that the awful declaration
of the Apostle Paul, 2 Thes. ii. 8-12, may be fulfilling in the
experience of our citizens, and even of our churches. "That
WICKED is revealed, whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders; and with
all deceivableiness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth that they might
be saved. For this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a LIE; that they all might be
damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
POPISHII IDOLS.
AMONG the many curious relics in the monastery of Heile
gen Krutz, in Austria, is shown a pretended large piece of
"the true cross," of mahogany! Now every body knows that
mahogany is an American wood, which was not carried to
Europe until about 250 years ago; and yet well-educated
Papists shut their eyes and close their lips to the absurdities
of the priests who thus beguile their ignorant votaries.
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TIlE CONFESSIONAL.
A COVER FOR ALL CRIMES.
IN proof that the awful secresy of the priest's closet super sedes and extinguishes all moral obligcations, as well as every
duty due from the subject to the state, one important and
conclusive case occurs to us as singularly marked, being con nected with the destiny of Henry IV., king of France.
A popish fanatic, named Barriere, had consulted his priest
in confession, and also afterwards a Dominican monk called
-'atheir Seraphim, on the lawfulness of killing Henry IV.,
expressing his fixed determination to murder that monarch.
The priest considered this resolution most orthodox, and kept
the secret.  But the monk did not so view the affair; and
having in vain used every persuasion possible to induce the
assassin to renounce his detestable design, the Dominican
anticipated the crime, and sent intelligence to the king's
ministers. The papist would-be regicide was taken and put
to death.  Henry having been erroneously informed  that
Barriere, instead of having simply consulted the monk, aklso
communicated his plan to him in confession, when the Dominican was afterwards presented to him, said-" Did not Barriere reveal his wicked design to you in confession?"  Not
only should all the wretchedly-duped Roman Catholics listen
to the monk's reply, but all Protestants should lay it to heart.
Greatly agitated, the Dominican, Father Seraphim, replied —
"Sire, do not imagine it —I would giot have divulged it in that
case for the world. I know of what vast consequence is the
seal of the sacrament of confession for the glory of God, the
good of the church, and the safety of individuals. Barriere
only proposed to me his intention of murdering your majesty,
and only by way of asking my opinion." This exposure of
popery must satisfy all persons as to French secresy.
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BLESSING THIE BELL.
[Extract of a Letter fronm a Father to his Children.]
ANOTHER superstition of the Romanists is peculiarly appa
rent in the baptism of bells. The ceremony of thus blessing
them is supposed to consecrate them to the service of God,
to the end that he may give them the power, not merely of
striking the ear, but of touching the heart!  When  a bell is
to be thus blessed, a procession is made from the vestry, and
the officiating priest having seated himself near the bell, describes to the people the holiness of the act about to be performed, and then sings the miserere. Next, he blesses some
salt and water, and offers a prayer that the bell may acquire
the virtue of guarding Christians from the stratagems of Satan,
of driving away ghosts, of breaking the force of tempests, and,
among other things, of raising devotion in the heart   Hle then
mixes the salt and water, and, crossing the bells thrice in the
name of the Trinity, pronounces over each of them, "God be
with you."  This being done, he dips the aspergillum, or sprinkler, in the holy water, and with it washes the bell, during
which ablution psalms are sung. After this) a vessel, containing what is called oil for the infirni,*is opened by the dean,
into which the officiating priest dips the thumb of his right
hand, and applies it to the middle of the bell,' marking it with
the sign of the cross The twenty-eighth psalm being then sung,
the bell is marked with seven other crosses, during which
water is again applied as a sort of baptism, consecrating it in
the name of the Trinity, and calling it after some particular
saint, whose name, as a godfather, it bears thenceforward.
The bell is then perfumed with incense and myrrh, which is
styled, in a prayer used on that occasion, "the dew of the Hioly
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THE NATIVE AMERCAN FLAG.
WUEN Freedom from her mountain height
Unfurl'd her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night,
And set the stars of glory there.
She mingled with its gorgeous dyes
The milky baldric of the skies,
And striped its pure, celestial white,
With streakings of the morning light;
Then, from his mansion in the sun,
She call'd her eagle bearer down,
And gave into his mighty hand
The symbol of her chosen land.
Majestic monarch of the cloud,
Who rear'st aloft thy regal form,
To hear the tempest trumpings loud,
And see the lightning lances driven,
When strive the warriors of the storm,
And rolls the thunder-drum of heaven,
Child of the sun! to thee'tis given
To guard the banner of the free,
To hover in a sulphur smoke,
To ward away the battle-stroke,
And bid its blendings shine afar,
Like rainbows on the cloud of war,
The harbingers of victory!
Flag of the brave! thy folds shall flyy
The sign of hope and triumph high,
When speaks the signal trumpet tone,
And the long line comes gleaming on.
Ere yet the life-blood warm and wet,
Has dimm'd the glistening bayonet,
Each soldier eye shall brightly turn
To where thy sky-born glories burn;
And as his springing steps advance,
Catch war and vengeance from the glanee
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And when the cannon-mouthings loud
Heave in wild wreathes the battle-shroud,
And gory sabres rise-and fall
Like shoots of flame on midnight's pall;
Then shall thy meteor glances glow,
And cowering foes shall sink beneath
Each gallant arm that strikes below
That lovely messenger of death.
Flag of the seas! on ocean wave
Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave
When death, careering on the gale,
Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail,
And frighted waves rush wildly back,
Before the broadside's reeling rack,
Each dying wanderer of the sea
Shall look at once to heaven and thee,
And smile to see thy splendors fly
In triumph o'er his closing eye.
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Flag of the free heart's hope and home!
By angel hands to valor given;
The stars have lit the welkin dome,
And all thy hues were born in heaven.
Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but falls before us.
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?
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