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and a hundred and seventeen female academies all
founded by the Jesuits, bringing danger and death to
unbelief and misbelief to American Know Nothingism
and un-American Eadicalism. And the hierarchial
band which, like a golden thread, surrounds fortj^-one
diocesses and two apostolic vicariates, and stretches
from the Atlantic Ocean to the still waters of the Pa-
cific, and maintains an invisible, secret, magnetic con-
nexion with Eome — this hierarchy is to us a sure guar-
antee that the Church, perhaps after several struggles
and sufferings, will one day come off victorious over
all the sects of America. It is computed that there are
at present, more than three millions of Catholic inhab-
itants in the United States who are baptised and con-
firmed Catholic soldiers of the Lord, and who, at the
first summons, will assemble in rank and file; then
will men not undervalue the poAver of the Catholic
Church in the United States. I will scatter sand in
no one's eyes, and therefore I stand forth openly, and
directly declare that the power and the influence of
the Catholic Church are stronger than many be-
lieve. Whoever doubts this must be either a fool or
blind."

Can Americans hesitate after such a disclosure, to
rip up this swelling, bullying, bragging enemy from
our soil, and in the solid column of truth, frankness,
courage and love, compel these Jesuit foes to flee from
our country ? It is in the ears of these foes, that the
secrets of the noble, the powerful, and the beautiful of
American concerns, are breathed. And at their feet
that the young are instructed to steal away the love of



810 THE GKEAT AMERICAN BATTLE.

liberty from tlie soul, and tlie old to plot against our
government tlirougli apostate sons, wlio would plunge a
knife into the hearts of the people, to inscribe their
own names upon its statutes ! By heathen as avcII as
Christian, by Romish far more than Protestant States;
tlie Jesuits have been driven from the pulpit, the press-
the confessional, and the schools. From 1355 to 1773,
thirty-four states of Europe had rid themselves from
this stain of infamy. Subsequent to this, in 1816, they
were expelled from Russia by Alexander, and more re-
cently still, from the whole continent. And now warned
by the exterminating swo;-d of these Crusaders, in the
old Avorld, they proclaim that they mean to save them-
selves in the new, by revising our political action and
exterminating our Protestant institutions.

"America," says Guistiniani, a prophetic writer,
"is the land of the Jesuits. They need but a majority
of votes, which can easily be had by an importation
of Roman Catholics, from Ireland, Bavaria and Aus-
tria. Rome knows herself as a mere political institu-
tion under the garb of Christianity. She takes care,
therefore, to uphold that holy Militia^ the order of
Jesuits, to appear what she is not. In ten years they
will have a mighty influence over the ballot box — in
twenty they will command."

Yes, Americans, it is even so. These cunning, sneak-
ing, intriguers, have scathed and desecrated our fair
political heritage by the assistance of the native trick-
sters !

The " Catholic SentineV of Philadelphia, commenting
some years since upon the sermon of Mr. McCalla, an



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eminent Protestant divine, who eulogized ISTew-England,
thus reflected npon that great people : —

"Their minds are warped bj fanaticism, darkness
and bigotry, and vitiated by the abhorred and atrocious
principles inculcated by the vice of sanguinary wretches^
called the Pilgrim Fathers P^

Mr. Hogan, when sent out as a Eomish Priest, re-
ceived from his Bishop in Ireland these instructions :
"Be sure not to permit any member of our holy
Church to read the Bible. It is the source of all
heresies. Whenever you see an opportunity to build
a church, make it known to your Bishop. Let the
land be purchased for the Pope and his successors in
office. Never yield the divine right, Avhich the head
of the church has by virtue of the Keys to the govern-
ment of uSTorth America, as well as every other country.
The confessional w^ll enable you to know the people
by degrees ; with the aid of the holy tribunal^ and our
bishops, we may expect at no distant day, to bring over
North America to the bosom of our hol}^ Church."

Our ancestors, Americans, came with no other re-
commendation than their holy lives, their pious hearts,
their strong arms, and the treasure of the word of God.
And that blessed book has not only been cast out of
many Protestant Schools in nine States of this Union,
but it has been burned in the public streets of Cham-
plain, in the State of New York, October 27th, 1842,
under the inspection of the Jesuit Missionary, Telmont,
a Popish Priest, as proved by the oaths of many re-
spectable witnesses.

We give en extract describing that event, as deserv-



812 THE GREAT AMERICAN BATTLE.

ing no ordinary attention from Americans. "As an
instance of the intolerance of Popery and its determined
hatred to the Bible in the vulgar tongue, may be men-
tioned an occuri-ence by which the feelings of Protes-
tant Americans ^i^ere outraged, viz., the public burning
of Bibles^ which took place no longer ago than Oc-
tober 27th, 1842, at Champlain, in the State of New
York. From an official statement of facts we gather
the following particulars : About the middle of Octo-
ber, one Telmont, a missionary of the Jesuits^ with one
or more associates, came to Corbeau, in this town, where
the Catholic church is located, and as they say in their
own account, given of their visit, ' by the direction of
the Bishop of Montreal.' Telmont and his associates
ordered the Catholics to bring all the Bibles and Tes-
taments in their possession and ' lay them at the feet
of the missionaries.' The requirement was generally
complied Avith, and day after day Bibles and Testaments
were carried in ; and after a sufficient number was col-
lected, they were burned.' On the 27th of October,
Telmont, who was a prominent man in all the move-
ments, brought out from the house of the resident
priest, Avhich is near the church, as many Bibles as he
could carry in his arms at three times, and placed them
in a pile, in the open yard, and then set fire to them and
burned them to ashes. This was done in open day, and
in the presence of many spectators." And every one
of them, were it expedient, would with far more zeal
have burned the heretics who read it.

There are citizens of this country who remember
the disturbances in Philadelphia in 1821, caused by an



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Irisli Bisliop trying to get possession of the churcli
property, then estimated at one milhon of dollars. This
was the first attempt the Pope made to establish his
temporal power, under our Constitutional government.
The case was simply this: Hogan, then a Komish
Priest, had a difference with the Archbishop of Balti-
more, about the reading of the Bible, and to check his
heresy, the Jesuits wrote to the Man- God^ his Holiness,
to send on a successor. Hogan A^as ordered out of
the Church, but refused to leave unless released by
the trustees, whereupon he was indicted and im-
prisoned by this Jesuit emissary for disturbing public
worship, by officiating in that Church with the full
undivided consent of its trustees ! The Bishop's right
to commit this tyrannical act was questioned, and an
appeal was brought before the Supreme Court of Penn-
sylvania, Chief-Justice Tilghman presiding. Hogan
was released from custody and the rights of the trus-
tees sustained. But these Jesuits, more determined
than before to rob the people of their rights and defeat
the intentions of the donors of this property, called a
meeting of the leading Komanists of the diocese, order-
ing each to bring a hickory stick.

It was convened in the Church of St. Joseph, and
at the hour of midnight, when the Jesuit Bishop of
the diocese of Pennsylvania, an Irishman but a few
months in the country, appeared in his pontificals, and
dii-ected the multitude to lay down their sticks in a
pile that he might hless them for their use. He then
said mass, sprinkled the holy water, and gave a heav-
enly benediction to the bundle of club^. Binding the



814 THE GREAT AMEEICAN BATTLE.

wliole party, by a solemn vow at tlie same time, never
to cease effort until they elected a legislature in Penn-
sylvania to annul the charter of St. Mary's Church !
And would you believe it, Americans, they succeeded !
The charter was annulled, and property worth a mil-
lion of dollars would have passed into the hands of the
Pope and his agents, but for a salutary provision of
their State Constitution, requiring the Supreme Court
to decide on legislative acts. This came therefore
again before the court and Justice Tilghman, when
the act was negatived and the rights of the American
people to retain their own property, fearlessly upheld
by that tribunal. These are the people, with Daniel
O'Conuell at their head, who have been for centuries on
their knees, begging favors of the British government —
now call Americans " cowards," and their " Pilgrim
Fathers," who drew their swords and threw away their
scabbards when that power refused them their just
rights, they term "sanguinary wretches and pirates."

When the Convention sat in 1787, to form our great
federal Constitution, the prophecis of Merlin, which
date back a thousand years, were publicly read, in
regard to our Country.

" When the cock shall guard the eagle's nest,
The stars shall rise in all the West."

Seemed with singular force to predict our national des-
tiny. The cock representing France; the eagle, our
God-conferred America. But neither in that Con-
stitution, nor in the enumeration of our bill of rights,
was there a single provision for that power which the



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Pope of Rome, a foreigner, has actually set up in our
country ! And it becomes a duty to our God, our
own rights, and our nationality, to prohibit a Papist to
hold office or cast a ballot in our box, until he shall
have proved himself the friend of liberty, religion, and
humanity, by expressly forswearing, without mental
reservation, all allegiance to the Pope of whatever kind
and under whatever name, who as a foreign popentate is
acknowledged by the powers of all Europe. So long
as these immigrants who are taught by their priests at
home to despise their own governments, that their law\s
are all penal, and it is no crime to evade them — so
long as their priests and bishops are pitchforked from
potato holes and bogs, into American gentlemen and
politicians, so long must we be cursed by the mendi-
cant foreign agitators, to make miserable kettles of
American votes !

AVhoever hears of an Irish or other foreign Protes-
tant disturbing the peace or voting fraudulently at
elections ; w^e find them worthy, useful, respectable, and
industrious in all the pursuits of American citizens.
It is because of the Bible, taught in their youth, by
which they are educated to love God above all things,
and their neighbors as themselves. It is found by
the books and receipts from which this statement is
taken, that upwards of one hundred thousand dollars
are annually derived from Europe, to aid in corrupt-
ing the American Legislatures, by procuring a majority
favorable to the wishes of the foreign hierarchy. And
this, with the millions they raise by their confessional
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316 THE GREAT AMERICAN BATTLE.

skilful Jesuits, liow soon would the light of reason
and science disappear, and the free American who
now walks erect before God and man, become a fit
thing to dwindle and crouch before a despot Pope, but
for the timelj awakening of the national sentiment to
the condition of our imminent clanger ? These Jesuits
reason ever from things seen to unseen^ and thej soon
twist their coils into families of wealth in our country,
and from which they boast in their semi-annual dis-
jDatches to the Pope, that they are peculiarly fortunate
in gaining many converts. And when parents are too
wise to send their children to their schools, their next
expedient is to get Eoman Catholic servants into their
families, who, instructed in the confessional by the
priest, soon learn by saying not a word about their
church, to disarm Americans, whose family secrecy
is thus possessed by the priest, to be used in whatever
way may tend most to advance the hierarchy in our
country. The beautiful and accomplished, are, by this
method, often drawn into Jesuit Nunneries, who, single-
minded and innocent, take the veil to become subser-
vient to Popish Jesuits. These jails are known in all
Catholic countries to have foundling hospitals attached,
and in this country they have private burying places
and secret vaults. Only a few years since the Jesuits
in Baltimore petitioned the Maryland legislature for
leave to run a subterraneous passage from a Chapel to a
Nunnery some five hundred yards. A more daring
outrage was never perpetrated towards any legislative
body in America, and to its eternal honor, the petition
was rejected with the most unmitigated indignation



EXPULSION OF THE JESUITS. 817

and scorn. Yet these Jesuits hold fairs to biiild Nun-
neries in New York and otlier States, which, have been
patronized by Americans, who give freely their money,
while there is not an Irish Priest nor an Irish Eoman
Catholic, a true son of the Church, who under the Bull
of Jubilee of the Pope, would not feel he did Grod a
service, and even the heretics themselves, if they could
collect in a pile and burn to ashes every Protestant
citizen of our beloved land. The same oath of alle-
giance which bound the whole Eomish Church to
curse Mr. Hogan for differing with the Pope, binds
every Papist against all other heretics. And they use
the term spiritual to Americans as the loadstone
among splinters of steel, to delude the contemptible,
unsuspecting Protestant whom they assume to catch
as drift-wood.

America is the only nation, for the three last cen-
turies, where Popery has had an unmolested resting
place, with none to hinder its incredible impudence.
It has talked of its spiritual allegiance to us, as to a nation
of fools I AYhy, China furnishes an example of intel-
ligence on this matter which should bring a blush of
shame to American men. The Jesuits built there Con-
vents, Churches, Monk-houses, and Nunneries; but
getting into a dispute among themselves about their
temporal rights, appealed to the Pope. AYhen the Em-
peror heard it, he began to suspect the deception about
the spiritual allegiance, and he summoned his commis-
sioner to know what it meant. The Jesuits failed after
aU their ingenuity and subtlety to satisfy the Commis-
sioner that it meant less than that the Pope claimed the



318 THE GEEAT AMERICAN BATTLE.

rigTit to govern tlie kingdoms of tlie earth, to be the
rightful owner of the lands, and to give and take them
as his royal holiness pleased. When the Emperor
instantly issued his order, that every Eoman Catholic
Bishop, Priest, Friar, Jesuit, Monk, and Nun within
his empire, should quit within a given time, on pain
of death. Many disobeyed, who were executed, and
their churches burned to the ground.

The Chinese were peaceable and quiet, and had no
objection, though harharians, to Papists worshipping God
according to conscience ; but, when it was discovered
that they owed spiritual allegiance to a foreign power,
they thought it wise to remove them from their country.
It is now reserved for free-born Americans, unbiassed
by education, and nnawed by tyrants, to put such an
interpretation on their duplicity, treachery and intrigue
in their borders, before the armies of Jesuits, Friars,
and Monks, who have claimed the land and the
churches — ^have to be expelled by battle-cannon and
blood.

The Protestants of Madeira, with whom the United
States hold a treaty of friendship and alliance, were
butchered and slaughtered a few years ago by Popish
savages, imder the mask of religion. When the news
reached our shores, instead of the people assembling to
express indignation, and our government demanding
explanation, the brutality was unnoticed by shrewd and
crafty politicians, who feared, indeed, the unpopularity
of the measure. The American people must not expect
politicians more than horses, to walk in straight lines
when they have been long blinded by the treadmill.



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The following items are merely a specimen of tlie
dangerous cliaracter and designs of the Komish Church
against the liberties of this Kepublic, and the rights of
man everyioliere. And let Americans remember, that
whatever have been the Eomish dogmas, bulls, decrees
of councils, discipline and practices, heretofore, the same
are in full force to-day — ^for Rome never changes : —

EXTRACTS FROM THE ROMISH PRESS AND OTHER ROMISH AUTHORITIES.

The Pilot, a Eoman Catholic press in Boston, calls the Ameri-
cans " common liars, defamers and vagabonds."

Brownson says :

" The time has come when Catholics must begin to make their
principles tell upon the public sentiment of the country."

The Catholic Telegraph, of Cincinnati, says :

"The enemies" (Protestants) of mankind may try to shake from
their necks the pressure of the foot of Mary, and rob her of preroga-
tives (immaculate conception), but in vain."

The Chicago Catholic Tablet says :

" The Common Schools of this country are sinks of moral pollu-
tion and nurseries of hell."

Kotes from the Rhemish Testament, sanctioned by
the Archbishop of Dublin, and the Bishops and Clergy
generally.

"Bishops and lay-people (Romanists) should have great zeal
against heretics (Protestants) ."

" Neither is the Church of God (that is, of Rome), nor Christian
(popish) friends blamed by God for putting heretics (Protestants)
to death."

" When the Romish Church puts heretics (Protestants) to death,
their blood is not of saints, nor is it more to be accounted of than
that of thieves, man-killers, or other malefactors."



820 THE GREAT AMERICAN BATTLE.

" A Christian should deface and burn all heretical (Protestant)
books."

" The translation of the English Protestant Bible should be ab-
horred to the depths of hell."

" All Protestant clergy are thieves, murderers, and ministers of
the devil." — Notes on John 1st a7id Hebrews v. 1.

" Heretics' (Protestants) sermons must not be heard — no, not if
they preach the truth. Their prayers and services are no better
than the bowlings of wolves." — Notes on Mark, i. 25.

Brownson's Review says : — " The liberty of the press is only
tolerated in this country, until a different order of things can be
inaugurated.

" The liberty of the press is that fatal license of which we cannot
entertain too great a horror. Liberty of conscience is an absurd
and dangerous maxim." — The Pope's circular letter a few years ago.

The General Council of Lateran, AD. 1215, decreed as follows :
" Let the secular powers be compelled, if necessary, to exterminate,

to their utmost power, all heretics (or Protestants) denoted by the

Church."

THE S' PREMACY OF THE POPE 0"\T:R THE CIVIL POWER.

Extract f .om the pastoral letter of Archbishops and Bishops of
the " Province of St. Louis," in council assembled, just issued. Our
readers will find this letter in the last number of the Catholic Mirror,
published in Baltimore :

" We maintain the superiority of the spiritual over the temporal
order. We maintain that the temporal ruler is bound to conform
his enactments to the Divine law. (That is, the law of the Pope
or the Church.) We maintain that the Church is the Supreme Judge
of all questions concerning faith and morals, (or belief and character
of men.) And that, in the determination of such questions, there
is no appeal from the Roman Pontiff."

Pope Innocent III. claimed for the " See," universal temporal and
spiritual empire. He excommunicated Philip H. of France, and



EXPULSION OF THE JESUITS. 821

placed England under an interdict, and excommunicated John, king
of England. The Council of Lateran styled him. Lord God the
Pope!!/ He caused to be murdered and burnt 147,000 Albigenses.

The Council of Constance decreed ; " That no faith was to be
kept with heretics."

It is estimated that that the Eomish hierarchy have put to death
by tortures, racks, burning at the stake, auto dafe's, and persecuting
wars, sixty millions of human beings ! ! ! And the Romish church
declares she never changes in her dogmas and practices.

KOMISH MAXIM "THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS."

The following are among the Jesuit Rules, contained in Pitrat's
History of the Jesuits.

" The domestics who believe that their wages are not worth their
labor, may steal secretly from their masters." (The R. F. Jesuit
Cardenas— Crisis Theologica, Diss. 23.)

" If murder is practicable without scandal, it is not unlawful."
(The R. F. Jesuit Erancis Amicus — Theological Cursus, published
in 1642.)

" If it is useful to the Roman Catholic faith, and if the culpable
are more numerous than the innocent, it is right to cause their
death."

" You may falsely accuse your enemy to take away his credit,
even to kill him." (The R. F. Jesuit Guimenius — 7th proposition.)

" We may kill by treachery a man banished." (The R. F. Jesuit
Escobar — vol. 4, p. 148.)

" A man is allowed to kill a false accuser, the witnesses produced
by him, and the judge himself." (The R. F. Jesuit Francis Amicus
— Theological Cursus, Tract 29, ch. 2.)

" Protestant countries are always dissatisfied ; whereas, in Cath-
olic countries, the very peasantry are contented to remain in the
condition they were born in.

" We would much rather our children should grow up in igno-
rance of letters, than be taught in a school that is not Catholic." —
0. A. Broimson.

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822 THE GREAT AMERICAN BATTLE.

" Tou should do all in your power to carry out the pious inten-
tions of His Holiness the Pope. Where you have the electoral
franchise, give your votes to none but those who will assist you in
so holy a struggle." — O'ConneWs Letter to the Repealers in America.

" The Government of the United States is weak, inconsistent, and
bad ; it must and will be destroyed ! So long as it exists, no prince
in Europe will be safe on his throne.

" All the low population of Europe will be carried into AEterica.
It will be a receptacle for the bad and disaffected. This will create
a surplus — a heterogeneous population — speaking a different lan-
guage — of different religion and sentiments ; these will carry with
them their principles — will adhere to their former government,
laws, manners, customs, and religion — speak of them among the na-
tives, some of whom will join them — and they will become citizens —
discord and civil war will follow — some popular man will take the
lead to restore order — the European sovereigns will aid him— all the
emigrants will join, and the government wrll be subverted." — Duke
of Richmmid.

" The time has come," says Hughes's Romish organ of New York
city, " to make our sentiments tell upon the public sentiment of the
country, and to teach the country itself those moral and political
doctrines which flow from the teachings of our own church. This
is our country, and as it is to become thoroughly Catholic, we have a
deeper interest in public affairs than any other of our citizens. As
Catholics, we can never be indifferent to the moral principle which
enters into the laws, and shapes the public policy of this country."

Let it not be forgotten that tlie Eomish Bisliops
assembled in the last Baltimore Council, to carry for-
ward the aforesaid doctrines, were, with but few excep-
tions, foreigners!

• Hear, now, what Washington said upon the point : —

" Against the insidious wiles of Foreign Influence — I conjure you
to believe me, fellow-citizens — the jealousy of a free people ought to



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be constantly awake ; since history and experience prove that
foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of a Eepublican
Government."

And, in the language of Ms and our country's friend,
Lafayette : —

" May this great monument raised to Liberty serve as a lesson to
the oppressor, and an example to the oppressed ! May it call to
mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every
citizen, and which take new force when they are solemnly recog-
nized by all : for a Nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she