dismissal from its employment.

Has it come to this ! that the sons of the American
navy are placed under persecution for daring to aspire
to wisdom ? Are naval officers but a body of tars^



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destined by tlieir country to remain as serfs, as callous
to mental progress and improved sensibility as a rhi-
noceros' bide? Look at the naval history of tbe
country, at tbe expeditions of Wilks, of Perry, and of
Kane, as well as other distinguished men to whom we
have referred, and in pure American integrity, choose
the testimony of the eye, to show this trespass on for-
bidden ground ! Beside the illustrious men of whom
honorable mention has been made, who suffer now,
under the automata of administrative passion, and who,
not being reachable by climbing, have been under-
mined by creeping, regardless of its own appearance
in the scramble. Commodore Charles W. Skinner,
one of the most intelligent and efficient officers on
ship-board or ashore, is found upon the list. Captain
David Gesinger, of the same elevation of character,
Capt. H. 0. Ogden, who covered himself with glory in
the battle of the Essex, under the command of that
name which every true American delights to honor,
the late Commodore Porter. In this galaxy of immu-
table lights, which blend in our country's greatness,
are seen two commanders, Piatt and Horace Sawyer,
survivors of the victory so gallantly achieved on Lake
Champlain, under McDonough. Captain Kamsey, a
Catholic, now dropped, is a brave and distinguished
officer, who performed services for his country in the
last war, which entitle him to its best affections, and
who is yet in the vigor of manhood. Captains
Parker and Latimer, who have ever rendered the most
acceptable effectiveness in the various grades where
thoy have served their government ; while the latter is



294 THE GEEAT AMERICAN BATTLE.

known to have been tlie first officer on board a frigate of
tlie U. S., who entered Pensacola harbor in Florida,
after the exchange of flags, in the year 1821. And by
his singular energy and industry, to have rendered the
Pensacola Navy Yard, the great naval depot of the
south, to which end he procured the government ap-
propriation of one million of dollars. He served Avith
distinguished ability in the war of 1812, and during
the Mexican war, Commodore Perry, one of the " Fif-
teen," repeatedly expressed in his despatches, his obli-
gations for the assistance afforded his fleet, by the firm-
ness and moral intrepidity displayed by this officer.
And why, after a service of forty-five years, has this
faithful servant been displaced, is not a problem of
doubtful solution. Godon, a member of the Board,
had been dismissed from the service upon charges pre-
ferred by Capt. Latimer, and afterwards restored, as
has been shown by political gasconading. This Lieut.
Godon is a protege of Barron, whose son-in-law and
nephew were also members of the Board. And hence,
mercy was too far hidden, in his case, to be pumped up,
when there was no forcing principle to be found.

Among the Lieutenants who have been disengaged,
or dropped from the service, there is the son of the
late gallant Commodore Stevens, who brilliantly illus-
trated his nationality on Lake Erie; the son of the
late Commodore Woolsey; McDonough, nephew of the
Hero of the battle of Champlain ; Decatur, a nephew
of the late Commodore Stephen Decatur. And Eobert
B. Eiell, whose character has not only been ever
unimpeachable as an officer, but whose reputation as a



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champion of Cliristianitj, tlie records of tlie Bible, Tract
and Seamen's Friend Societies, abundantly prove by
his zealous and earnest dissemination of the principles
of Protestantism, in each, and every position the
government has assigned him. When it is remem-
bered that the Jesuits in '44, declared Mr. Freling-
huysen's nomination, defeated Henry Clay, as he was
a Protestant and President of the American Bible So-
ciety, and Eoman Catholics could not vote for him — it
is not at all wonderful that this imperfection of young
Riell should make him a victim, to that same influence. /
In extenuation of the Board, in his case however, it
should not be forgotten, that there is one crime for
which he was chargeable. He asked permission of Com-
mander Grerry, of the ill-fated sloop Albany, to place a
quarto Bible and a religious library on board, for
which offence he was soon after detached from the
ship, and saved in Grod's providence from the watery
grave, in common with about two hundred and one of <
his brother officers, of v arious grades.

To forgive our enemies is a divine injunction, but
we know no similar text, in reference to friends. And
hence, in this present national revulsion, what has it
made but one great aceldama ! And the sad experience
just recited, settles the question as to the danger of
constituting a tribunal of Naval men, to decide upon
the cases of their brother officers. It cannot be done !
And the American people should at once insist, that
every officer retired or dropped by this inquisitorial
act of the government, be instantly restored to his for-
mer position. And that a Board be appointed from



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the native citizens of the country, elected by ballot
from the great body of the American people, who in
their peaceful industrial pursuits are not inoculated
with political virus. Let this Board number twelve
men, so elected, who shall receive a per diem and hold
their sessions in the city of ISTew York, to avoid the
influence of government surroundings. And with the
rules of common law — evidence as their guide, let them
summon persons and papers and examine the testi-
mony. Let the ballots for this Board be cast by the
officers of the Navy, but wholly removed from all
connection, relation, or association with the members
of the service. And after being sworn to administer
justice and examine carefully into each case, they shall
keep a record of every stage of its proceeding, and
make a report of its action to Congress, for approval.
If this cannot be effected, then retire the officers to their
late places, and if any charges are preferred of recent
origin, try them like American men, and sentence
them, if guilty, in conformity with Constitutional Am-
erican law.

It is undoubtedly true that a large number of meri-
torious officers have been promoted by the action of
that board. And we rejoice, so far, in their promo-
tion, as it is a just recompense of their deserts. But
we are satisfied that even these officers themselves can-
not feel complimented to know they have been ele-
vated at the sacrifice of their superiors in grade — who
have been cowardly prostrated by the same ink and
pen which set them above the heads of these, their
brother officers. We see not, indeed, how any man



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witli cultivated sensibilities, and a higli sense of moral
rigbt, and consequent abhorrence of national as well
as individual wrong, would not loathe the unjust means
by Avhich he has reached his present position. What
patriot heart does not rejoice in the promotion of such
gallant officers as Commander Wm. C. Nicholson, late
Flag-Captain of the Pacific squadron, promoted to a
captaincy? And yet he is too noble, generous, and
brave, in all the impulses which honor his manhood
and belong to the rights of an officer, to sanction this
wrong to his brothers in the service, even though it
promoted himself to the highest position in the navy
of his country, of which he is one of the brightest
ornaments.

The betrayers of these officers have indeed received
the Judas reward ! But they, with the author of the
Bill — who came from that sinking soil of Key West,
on which Protestant blood has been shed by Jesuits,
and upon whose sandy sod nothing strong or stable
stands — will soon be judged by the American people,
and sentenced according to their desert, for subverting
their government, selling out their navy, and daring
to cast ofP from the service of their country, those who
have given honor, fame and glory to the American
name !



" Is there not some chosen curse
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,
Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man,
Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin V

13*



CHAPTER XX.

THE EXPULSION OF THE JESUITS.

" There's a warfare where none but the morally brave,
Stand nobly and firmly their country to save I
'Tis the war of ojnmon, where few can be found,
On the mountain of principle, guarding the ground,
With vigilant eyes ever watching the foes.
Who are prowling around them, and aiming their blows.^

Holding it be tlic American's right to abolisli or
cliange any principle of their policy, which has been
found destructive to themselves, and contrary to the
spirit of their free institutions, which are sacred to those
by whom they have been inherited — ^let a consideration
of facts be submitted to the candid judgment of the
American people. Foreigners have trampled into dust
the naturalization laws, and destroyed the purity of the
elective franchise. They have demanded that their
children be taught in a tongue foreign to our own.
They have organized military companies, anti- Ameri-
can not only in language, spirit, and political associa-
tion, but have required our laws to be printed in their
respective foreign tongues, for their especial nse ! In
all our elections, they have acted as foreigners. They
have intrigued with political native-party Jesuits, by
selling their votes for the highest offices of trust, honor,



800 THE GREAT AMERICAN BATTLE.

or profit in our country. They liave violated American
nationality and law, by insisting on a recognition of
tlieir own, as separate and distinct. Tliey have upheld
a foreign hierarchy, controlled by an impudent eccle-
siastic, called a Pope, Avho lives at Rome, but fearlessly
asserts that he is the Sovereign Lord of these United
States by Divine right ! And, through the ballot-box,
they have made a union between Church and State, by
striking at our dearest institutions, and by their efforts
to destroy the public and free schools of our country.
They have taxed our poor and filled our almshouses.
They have increased crime an hundred fold, as the prison
vStatistics show, in comparison with criminals born upon
the soil. They have demanded, as a right, the public
offices of the country, and now occupy a majority of these,
to the exclusion of native citizens. Truly our country has
run against an axe, and this is the crisis to try its edge :
when our society, our schools, our religion, our con-
stitutional liberty, and our great nationality have been
black-balled upon their own race-ground. It is shown,
by irrefragible evidence, that the Inquisition of Popery
has already been established on American soil, and
nine hundred French Protestant Huguenots, the first
who ever came upon it for the cause of God and free-
dom, were thus made to water the Southern portion
of these United States with their blood. The Masonic
fraternity, to which the Father of his Country, Wash-
ington, belonged, the Temperance organizations, and
the humane and beijevolent order of Odd Fellows,
are under the curse of the Pope in this country ; and
the laity are forbidden by their Priests, not only agaijist



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uniting with tliem, but they have refused, in Balti-
more, Philadelphia and elsewhere, to perform burial
services in their churches while they were in attendance.

Eev. Dr. De Barth, the Vicar-General of Penn-
sylvania, residing in Philadelphia, inquired of Mr.
tlogan, then Priest of Saint Mary's Church, if he in-
tended becoming a citizen of the United States. Ho-
gan replied, he could not conscientiously take the oath
of allegiance to this government, without violating that
taken at his ordination. "You are mistaken," said the
cunning Jesuit Yicar-Greneral. "Any part of your
oath to this country, incompatible with your first and
greater allegiance to the Head of your Church, cannot be
binding." Mr. Hogan still doubting, the Vicar-General
boldly said, " This looks heretical — it is necessary to de-
clare yourself a citizen of the country that you may be
empowered to hold property for the good of the
Chukch : it must be got out of the trustees' hands."

There is not a Priest or Bishop in the United States
who dares to deny the fact, that they teach three mil-
lions in our land, that they do absolve from this oath
of allegiance to our American laws ! Priests confess and
forgive, weekly, the sins of each other ! !

Americans, here is the language of Popery among
us! " Although the life or salvation of a man, or the
ruin of the State should depend upon it, what is disco-
vered in confession cannot be revealed. The secret of
the ceal — the confession — ^is more binding than the ob-
ligation of an oath." " It is no perjury for a confessor
to deny," if asked, says the Popish Church—" Yon must
answer you do not know; and, if necessary, confirm it,



302 THE GREAT AMERICAN BATTLE.

with an oatli !" " Because lie knows it not as man.,
but as God " Can Americans permit a sj^stem, which
is designed to elude all the ends for which life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness were sought and obtained
by our great Eevolution? Hogan, who officiated as
Eomish Priest of tlie aforesaid St. Mary's Church, in
Philadelphia, acknowledges having baptized thousands
of Protestant children, taken to him in the arms of Eo-
man Catholic nurses, without the consent or knowledge
of their parents. He states it to have been usual to
find six or eight nurses waiting with children for his re-
turn home, after daily church services, in the morning.
And that this habit, though common in all Protestant
countries w^here there are Eomish Priests, is noAvhere
so generally practised as in the United States. " And
I should not be the least surprised," said he, " if
nearly all the children of Boston, nursed by Eoman
Catholics, are now baptized by their Priests and
Bishops." These little innocents are heretics, they be-
lieve, and that they thus save them from damnation.
New- York, Baltimore, and other cities undoubtedly
could give, if there was an insight to the corruption, a
similar experience. Americans know that, as here-
tics, death and destruction is the watchword of Popery.
Can a Protestant worship God, according to his con-
science in Eome or any Popish country of Europe,
South- America, Cuba, Mexico, and the adjoining
islands? We, citizens of the United States, cannot
even carry a Bible into those countries. The trunks
of a Protestant are searched ; and, if one is found, it
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the pain of deatli can speak to liim ; no Bible can be
opened ; and, in death, no good Catholic would close
the eyes of a heretic.

And these libellers upon religion and humanity who
become citizens of our country, ask our lands upon which
to build churches, pulpits, and schools, are sworn foes to
our civil and religious freedom ! Why have not Amer-
icans demanded a different course in Eoman Catholic
countries, if necessary, by the power of the sword?
Why enter into treaties of amity with any Popish
power, unless the rights of Americans can be redressed,
as Avell as protected by law ? Great God ! can Ameri-
cans thus abnegate all their natural rights within
Popish dominions — forbidden their Bibles, forbidden
to bury their dead, forbidden to Avorship God by the
rights of their forefathers? The Executive Messages
tell the people of " assurances of friendly relations"
from Popish countries, when it is only by buying
the privilege from their Priests, at an enormous sacri-
fice of money, that the body of an American, however
distinguished at home, could find a grave in their do-
minions! When this subject, two years ago, was
brought before a Democratic Congress, by one of its
most influential Senators, Gen. Cass, the Popish repre-
sentative for New-York, f John, shook his tyrannical
sceptre over that national body, and the noble efforts
of the Senator were hushed into silence. Thus has
the science-bafSing star of Popery shot its impure
action even into our legislative halls, when the least
evidence of American independence there appeared!



804 THE GREAT AMERICAN BATTLE.

And it is higli time to cast these facts in the lap of the
immense intelligence of the American joeople.

Will Americans continue to be brow-beaten by
blood-thirsty cowards in Romish countries ? "Will they
longer allow these contemptible international treaties
of amity and commerce to exist ? Papal nations, which
deny to our own citizens all the principles of justice,
reciprocity, courtesy, and amity, which we extend to
them. Let our Protestant country arouse at once to
a sense of this insolent humiliation of Americans
abroad, and through their representatives in Congress,
annul and forbid forever, the execution of any treaty with
a Popish power, which denies them the right to their own
Protestant Bible — the right to the burial of their own
citizens there, and as they please — the right to the perfect
freedom to worship God, or erect altars to His service,
and all other privileges which, as America'n citizens,
they fully reciprocate in their own native land. Think
of the sons of revolutionary sires forbidden to worship
God in Rome, without attendance from the spies of
the Inquisition, and being liable to imprisonment, from
which they may never be released ; and the finding a
Bible in their houses, a jail offence for their families!
This is the exact state of the case : when an American
ship arrives at any of these countries in Europe, where
the Romish Church is the State, a search is made, and
the captain and crew are forbidden to carry a Bible on
shore. Should a Protestant chaplain accompany them,
he dare not open his lips to a congregation of sailors
on that soil, nor give them Christian burial in the event



EXPULSION OF THE JESUITS. 805

of deatli. A ship may at the same moment leave that
port for our country, loaded with rosaries, saints, in-
dulgencies, scapulas, and hosts of little gods ; and cap-
tain, crew and saints, find no barrier whatever to their
religion or progress, from one end of this Union to the
other. And yet, these are nations holding treaties
of friendly relations and amity with the United States
— nations Avhich compel Americans, whom they hold
to be damned, to bow the knee to the idolatrous wor-
ship of wooden images and particles of bread, which
are paraded as gods in the streets of Eomish countries
— nations who trample down every natural right of
American citizens, and curse the eternal laws of God's
immutable truth.

The American, who enters into an alliance with the
Pope, or a Popish countrj^, explicitly agrees to deny
his God and forswear the Protestant religion. He vir-
tually consents that the party with whom he agrees
shall curse and damn him, his country, his religion,
and his rights !

Do these amicable and friendly treaties with Eoman
Catholic countries mean but the right to ship our com-
modities there, and receive theirs in exchange? Is
the almighty dollar the only consideration with Ameri-
can men, that the sacred principles of justice, of right
and wrong, of moral and national obligations are al-
lowed to be discarded by the surest and most rapid
evolutions ? And now, with heads of crystal and nerves
of brass, let Americans, with God's help, advance and,
seizing upon their rights, resolve, and act. When their
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306 THE GREAT AMERICAN BATTLE.

their hands. This foreign hierarchy prohibiting the
light of our civil and religious freedom, and holding
American citizens imprisoned, in their dungeons at
Eome, for its exercise upon American soil, raising
the cry of persecution and proscription against our
American Party for religious intolerance^ looks as
though the Beast had lost its wisdom tootli !

No wonder the Boston Pilot^ one of the administra-
tion organs, should call " Americans coAvards, and the
sons of cowards," if, like animals blind in one eye,
or lame in one limb, they make no American foot-
print on Eomish sand, or see not its clustering flies,
which swarm and sip, in surnptuousness and ease, the
honey of their own American hives. The Bull pro-
nounced in solemn pomp in Rome, in which every
Anti-Romish sect is cursed by name, is elsewhere shown
in this work. But our Legislatures, who take away the
Church property and tax the real estate of these spies
of our republic, are doubty damned in that same edict !
They are united by a band of oaths as thick as their
convent walls, to use all manner of treachery to pull
down the standard of heresy in these United States,
and erect that infamous policy of the Pope, which for
sixteen hundred years has deluged Europe in blood,
and already stained, by its Inqusition, our own soil of
freedom !

"Americans shan't rule us," was the motto in the
last Presidential election. It is their motto now fully
enacted. It is enshrined in their hearts, and borne
upon their flags in all the disgraceful riots of Phila-
delphia, Boston, Cincinatti and Louisville, where



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Americans were sacrificed to the fury of a Popish
mob !

They apply to our Legislatures for authority they
dare not exert otherwise, to build jails in our midst
for free American women, who, confined to solitary
cells, have access only to the priests^ and thus seduced
from their parents and guardians, no one is permitted
freely to know how they like their condition ; and all
this ostensibly for the purposes of education ! Mr.
Hogan, former priest of the celebrated St. Mary's
Church, in Philadelphia, distinctly declares, that Ameri-
cans of high moral worth are often ensnared into the
Eomish Church, by the exhibition of books prepared
for such cases. And hence, seeing nothing but imposing
ceremonies, and reading nothing that is objectionable,
thousands who attend its services in this country, are
as ignorant of its pernicious political teachings as the
Protestant brother with whom they associate. They
feel, therefore, the force of the appeal, that Jesuits indus-
triousl}^ enforce, to excite that slanderous attempt to fast-
en the charge of persecution UDon the American Party.
It is the solemn duty of this American government, not
merely to modify, but to exclude from every State and
territory of this Union, the deadly enemies of its free-
dom, and the sworn transgressors of all national law.
The Eomish Jesuit bishops and priests are agents
and emissaries of Mr. Mastai, more familiarly known
as the Pope of Eome ! who has one hundred millions
of dollars to dispose of yearly, for the destruction of
heresy, and who has sent his edict to his New York
agent, known as Bishop Hughes, to cause one hundred



808 THE GREAT AMERICAN BATTLE.

thousand dollars to be raised, for tlie purpose of founding
a college at Eome for American citizens. Our Great Seal
contains thirteen stripes on a shield, and thirteen stars,
which indicate the original States. The American eagle
bears these upon its breast, with an olive branch in its
right talon, and a bundle of thirteen arrows in its left.
In its beak the motto, '' E. Plurihus Unumy And there
is a glory breaking through a cloud in the crest over
its head, within the thirteen stars, while an unfinished
pyramid, with the All-seeing eye are on the reverse of
it, having at its apex and base these noted words : " God
has favored the undertaking," and "A new order of
things has commenced in the new world," dated 1776!
And it now remains for Americans to bring all their
national energies to bear in extinguishing Jesuitism
from these United States, and by the living thunder of
the people's judgment, to maintain this freedom which
God has blessed, and drive its blazing wheel, like
lightning cars, which shall send glad tidings throughout
the world.

Look at the facts, and doubt, if you can, the power
and danger of the Jesuits, in this country.

Here is the data, translated, in the words of a
"Father," in a late article in his Catholic "Kirchen
Zeitung," or "Advocate."

"Whoever undervalues the spiritual power of the
Church in the United States, wanders in a fearful laby-
rinth. We have not only seven archbishops, thirty-
three bishops, and seventeen hundred and four priests,
all in the service of the Pope and the Church, but Ave
have also thirty-one colleges, thirty-seven seminaries,