Shall liberty die?

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Preface

This book has been written because the writer believes that such a book is needed. As a nation we are living on a moral and political volcano. Vesuvius is not necessarily a safe place for the near by dwellers simply because it is not in violent eruption — belching forth smoke, and fire, and melted lava. Silent and harmless as it may appear, there are prodigious powers of destruction lurking within, that are liable to burst forth, in awful and ruinous fury, at any moment. Nor is the dweller on its bosom any more safe because he is unapprehensive of danger, and laughs at the friendly voice that warns him of his peril.

This book is intended to add another warning voice to the many that have been raised to arouse an indifferent, or a too confiding people, to the perils that threaten all that Patriots, and Protestant Christians, hold most dear. " The Philistines be upon thee, Samson !" As a nation we are proud of our greatness, and our strength, and flatter ourselves that nothing can do us harm ; and while Samson thus dreams on the lap of Delilah, the " Harlot" — a great Foreign, Political Ecclesiasticism — is shearing off the locks of his strength.

PREFACE.

Our book is written in popular style for the general reader, and all technical phrases and foreign quotations have been avoided, the aim of the writer being to present the exact truth — nothing but the truth — in the simple, every-day language of the people, being assured that what the great mass of the people can easily grasp, the scholars and philosophers who may read this volume, will not find difficult of comprehension.

In order not to try the patience of the printer, or divert the attention of the reader, with foot notes, we have given our references and authorities in the body of the work.

There was a time when ancient Rome was mistress of the world. She gloried in her vast territorial extent ; in her mighty populations ; in her boundless wealth ; in her invincible armies, and in her wonderful prosperity. But when she seemed the most powerful and glorious in the eyes of the world, and in her own eyes, there were influences and forces at work within her that at last undermined her strength, and laid her glory in the dust. And bye and bye the historian wrote the " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."

Greater than ancient Rome is the country we call the United States of America, This " Young Giant of the West" is the wonder and admiration of the world ;

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the richest, freest, happiest, most intelligent, most religious, and most prosperous nation the world has ever known. But weakening influences, and destructive forces are at work among us; for a crafty, and cruel enemy, from over the seas, is " sowing tares among the wheat," and unless the liberty-loving American people shall arise from their indifference, and false security, they will reap from this sowing a harvest of bitterness, and perhaps some future Gibbon may write the " Decline and Fall of the Great Republic."

Dedication

If you fear God, and love our Lord Jesus Christ ; — if you are a minister of the Gospel ; — or a Sunday School Worker ; — if you are a Free Mason ; — or an Odd Fellow ; — or an American Mechanic ; — or a Knight of Pythias ; — or an A. P. A. ; — or if you belong to any other Patriotic Order, or to no Order at all, yet, — if you are a Patriot, and love the flag of this free country, and its glorious institutions ;- — an open Bible ; — Liberty of Conscience ; — Free Speech ; — a Free Press; — Separation of Church and State; — the perpetuation, in their integrity, of our Public Schools ; — and if you will do what you can to hand down to future generations these institutions that have cost so much in treasure, and suffering, and blood, and in the lives of Patriot Heroes ; — then this volume is most respectfully, and affectionately,

Dedicated to You, by the Author,

who loves every star, and every stripe, in Our Glorious Banner of the Free.

Contents

CHAPTER I. page.

Shall liberty die ? — Widespread apprehension — Great interest in the subject of Popery — What is Popery ? If better than the American Constitution, we all want it — Who and what is the Pope ? — Cardinal Manning — Vicar-General Preston — Satolli — Leo XIII. and Public Schools — Ignorance of the people in Eoman Catholic countries — Protestantism to be destroyed — Protestantism has no rights — Treason in the Eomish Congress in Baltimore — Popery the deadly enemy of American institutions — The foe of civil and religious liberty — Guerilla warfare of the Jesuits — Parochial schools nests of treason — Lies about Luther — The truth about Luther — Popery and politics — Gladstone's protest against Popery — Popery rules New York — Rules in Boston — New England has become New Ireland — The Pope in Washington — Our National Government being Romanized — - Patriotism at a discount in Washington — The silent pulpit and the muzzled press — The rift in the clouds — Patriotic uprising — A. P. A. — Not bigots, but patriots — Who are the bigots? — The great political machine — A. P. A. platform — Mr. Froude's warning to America — No Protestant votes against Liberty. 1

Chapter II

The Little Horn — The " Mother of all the churches" paints her face — Many deceived — The Antichrist — The book of Daniel — The monarch's dream — The dream interpreted — The four great empires — Iron and clay will not mix — Elements of weakness in the Roman Empire — Dangers of too extensive immigration — Destroyed the fourth great monarchy — A warning to the United States — Citizens, but not Americans — The Prophet has a dream — Four great beasts — Chaldea, Persia, Greece and Eome — The ten horns — The little horn — Antichrist — Testimony of the Fathers — Emperor Constantine — Pagans rush into the church — The Christian church becomes Paganized. 48

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CHAPTER III. page

A " stout look" — Romish arrogance — Hildebrand and Henry IV. — Rules in heaven, earth, and hell — Three Kingdoms rooted up by the Little Horn — Sir Isaac Newton's view — Kings above popes — Temporal power of the popes — Charles Martel — Pepin — Charlemagne — The sinister "eyes" of the Papacy — " Speaking great words against the Most High " — Antichrist — "Making war with the saints" — "Wearing out the saints of the Most High ' ' — Rome delights in blood — The Waldenses and the Albigenses — The popes have a special grudge against the saints — John Wickliffe — Council of Constance — John Huss denounces the profligacy of the priests — Huss tried for heresy — Condemned by the Council — Emperor Sigismund breaks his word — Huss insulted and degraded from the priesthood — Huss is burned at the stake — Horrible sufferings of Jerome of Prague, Huss's devoted friend — Jerome's trial and martyrdom — He sings amidst the flames — Emperor's breach of faith justified by the Council — No faith to be kept with heretics. 62

CHAPTER IY.

" The man of sin, and son of perdition " — Paul's confirmation of Daniel — Portrait of the papacy in 2 Thess. 2 chapter — A succession of pre-eminently wicked men — True of the popes of Rome — A look at a few of them — Saint Gregory I. — His insincerity — Emperor Mauritius — Phocas, the usurper and murderer, flattered and eulogized by Gregory— Gibbons' statement — Gregory and Antichrist — Pope John VIII. — Tyrannical and cruel — Pope Sergius III. — Rome ruled by prostitutes — " The slave of every vice, and the wickedest of men ' ' — Pope John X. the paramour of the harlot Theodora — Pope John XL was the bastard son of Ms Holiness Pope Sergius III. — A few more of the holy links in the chain of apostolical succession — Pope Vagilius wades through blood to the pontifical chair — Pope Marcellinus an idolator — Pope Honorius a heretic — Pope Eugenius a Simonist, a perjurer, and altogether bad — Pope John II. charged with incest by his own church — Others of the same sort — Testimony of Romish writers. 94

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CHAPTER V. page.

Pope Boniface the eighth — King Philip the Fair — The storm brewing — The insulting Legate imprisoned — The pope's bulls burned at Paris — The bull, Unam Sanctam — The two swords — Death of Boniface — His ' l glaring vices ' ' — Pope takes up his residence in France — The Italians demand that the pope return to Rome — Election of Pope Urban VI. — The cardinals feel insulted — Urban declared a usurper, and deposed — A "holy" Tammany — The great schism — Election of Pope Clement the VII. — Rival popes — Council of Pisa — Another pope elected — Three popes at one time — Successors of Judas, the traitor — Pope John XXIII. fierce and furious — Blasphemy of Alexander VI. — Council of Constance — Election of Pope Martin V. — The schism healed — Popes the vicars of Satan — The papacy is Antichrist. 108

CHAPTER VI.

Growth of the Little Horn — The opposer of the Almighty — Sitteth in the temple of God — " Our Lord God the Pope " — Squabbling over a title — Holy keys — The blasphemous title — Antichrist revealed — Boniface III. the first pope — Phocas, the infamous creator of popes — Emperor Mauritius and his sons murdered by Phocas — Empress and her daughters also murdered — Base origin of the papacy — The god of the Vatican — Rome's hatred of the Bible — Papacy vs. the Word of God — Wickliffe burned after being forty years in the grave — Afraid of the light — Popes and the Bible Societies — Canon Farrar to Leo XIII. — Popish Bible burnings — Practiced in U. S. — A bonfire of New Testaments — Laws of the papacy above the laws of God — Apostle John on Antichrist — You must be a papist or be damned — Romemade mediators — Prayers to the Virgin — Mary the mediatrix between God and man — Christ not sufficient for Eome — God has appointed one Mediator, and Rome has appointed thousands. 121

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CHAPTER VII. page.

Hindrances removed — Popery to be destroyed — Important testimonies — Popery the devil's masterpiece — After the workings of Satan — Little Catholic and his Bible — The unwelcome curate — The impertinent priest — One Romanist who would not be a slave — Popish darkness vs. Gospel light— Origin of image worship— Growth of image worship — Emperor Leo III. against image worship— Popes righting for the idols — The pope insults the emperor — Three hundred and thirty-eight bishops declare against idolatry — The Empress Irene murders her son — The murderess favors idolatry— Council of Nice convened by a blood-stained woman. 145

CHAPTER VIII.

Evil "power" of the papacy — Christ's way and the Pope's way — What might have been — Popery makes infidels — Popery the curse of France — Papacy produced Voltaire and French atheism — Noble acts of Voltaire— Priests inferior to Voltaire — Alas ! Poor Erin ! — Priests the curse of Ireland — How the Irish are educated — Priests kindly do all Pat's thinking for him — Ireland the Paradise of bishops and priests — Fat priests and lean people — Money ! Money ! Money ! Give ! Give ! Give ! — Rome and rum Ireland's ruin — Holy wells of Ireland — Very much like heathenism — Heathen performances — Painful self -torture— Miracles of St. Patrick's Well — All "stark naked" — Feast of lunatics — Indecent orgies promoted by the priests — Romanism deserving only of contempt. 16S

CHAPTER IX.

What Popery has done for Spain — Pius IX. becomes Pope in 1846 — He begins well — A Pope becomes a Reformer !— Noble conduct of the new Pope — The tiger has a velvet paw — And very sharp and ugly claws — Rome never changes — Flight of the pope in disguise — The Roman Republic — Palace of the Inquisition — The chamber of horrors — The Mother of abominations — "Such are thy tender mercies, tyrant Rome !" — Liberty is crushed, and the Pope is happy — Christ blesses. The Pope curses. 184

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CHAPTER X. page.

The Pope has the 1 1 keys ' ' of the torture chamber — What Popery has done for Mexico — How Rome converted the Mexicans — Priests fatten on the ignorance of the people — Romanism promotes immorality — Popery in Ecuador — Ecuador a finished specimen of priestly work — United States to be Romanized — Syllabus of Pius IX. — A menace to liberty — Rome relies on her criminals — Rome breeds murderers — Niece of an Archbishop arraigns popery — A dreadful crop from bad seed — Damaging testimonies — There is trouble ahead— Papists arming and drilling. 202

CHAPTER XL

' ' Signs and lying wonders " — Rome's use of relics — " Kirwan' ' to Archbishop Hughes — Priests in the rag and bone business — Infamous frauds of the priests — Blind leaders of the blind — Saints with too many arms and legs — Heathen performance in Hoboken, X. J. — Blood and bones of St. Quietus — Praying to old bones — Rome knows how to make money — Priests raising the wind in Xew York — Holy House of Loretto — Wonder-working porringer — Priests own the seamless coat of Jesus Christ — An honest man's protest — Holy coat makes millions — A priest with the spirit of Luther — A brave priest rebukes his bishop — "Holy coat, pray for us. ' ' 220

CHAPTER XII.

Hungry sheep fed on chaff — Feeding the sheep in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Xew York — Virgin Mary turned artist — Heathenism in St. Patrick's Cathedral — The flag that insults the Stars and Stripes — Decree of the Immaculate Conception — The horrible definition— Pius IX. a dangerous teacher — Some tricks attributed to Virgin Mary — Romanists dishonor Mary — Mary and the fallen nun — Talking head on the wellcurb— Mary takes the place of a wife — Blasphemy of Transubstantiation — Creating the Creator — u Lying wonders "of the mass — Eating human flesh, and swallowing God — Wafer changed into a child — Bees erect a chapel of wax — Asses kneel before the wafer god — The worshipping mule converts his master. 245

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CHAPTER XIII. page.

Seducing spirits — Doctrines of devils — Pagan philosophers on demon worship — Roman demon -worshippers — Priests claim to cast out devils —Paul denounces heathen practices — Dr. South ey on St. Dominic — The saintly fiend — Ignatius Loyola and the Jesuits — Romanists misrepresent our Christ — Rome's tyrannical Christ — Father Chiniquy's testimony — Popery and Buddhism — Interesting letter from Burmah — A striking parallel — A word of warning. 273

CHAPTER XIV.

A word of warning — Speaking lies in hypocrisy— Decree of infallibility — Peter not the first pope — Peter never in Rome — The confessing, or the lying Peter, which ? — God's order vs. the pope's — Had Peter a grudge against John ? — Rome puts Linus and Clement above the apostle John — Rome's rock nothing but sand — A blunder as well as a crime — The forged Decretals — Testimony of a learned Papist — Rome finds forgery profitable — A pope does a little lying on his own account — Romish forgeries multiply — Forged donation of Constance — Gibbons' testimony — Pope Adrian's letter to Charlemagne —A letter from Peter in heaven — Still that shameful fraud — The Pope in heaven flatters the French — "Their conscience seared with a hot

CHAPTER XV.

God's law of marriage — Priestly celibacy contrary to Scripture — God's law trampled under foot — Blasphemy in the Council of Trent— Horrible results of the rule of celibacy — The law against nature — The bitter fruits of celibacy— Forbidding to marry a mark of Antichrist — Dictating as to what men may eat — Legislating for men's stomachs— A dispensation a permission to sin — Interesting quotation from Bishop Newton — "Idle, popish, monkish abstinence" — Who are "good ministers of Jesus Christ " ? — " Ye are all of your father, the devil." 322

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CHAPTER XVI. page.

The Apocalypse on the Papacy — An interesting Scripture quotation — A most instructive prophecy — A most intelligent interpretation — The Eomish ' ' Beast from the bottomless pit ' ' — Protestantism beaten by the Beast — Protestants bleeding, and Rome rejoicing — Resurrection of the witnesses — The Beast in Daniel and Revelation identical — Truth crushed, and Rome makes merry — All the world at the feet of the Pope — Always darkest before day — The welcome voice of Luther — A woman clothed with the sun — The Great Red Dragon — The Dragon disappointed of his prey — The last of the Pagan persecutions — Marvellous fortitude of a mistaken Christian — The rift in the clouds — Hypocrisy of false religions — The fierce Maximin is dead — Constantine gives peace to the Church — " Man's inhumanity toman." 340

CHAPTER XVII.

The monster coming up out of the sea — Seven heads, and ten horns — The crowns transferred from heads to horns — The Beast with a deadly wound — How the deadly wound was healed— In appearance a lamb ; in reality a dragon — Rome Pagan still survives in Rome papal — Making an image of the beast — Giving life to the image of the beast — Tyrants support each other — Whom they create they adore — Romish boycotting, ancient and modern — Speaking like a dragon, and killing like a wild beast — Gregory VII. defines the powers of the papacy — Innocent III., beast and dragon in one — King John of England surrenders the crown to the Pope — Dreadful effects of the interdict on England — Insolent letter of Innocent to Count Raymond — The Pope's shameful treatment of the Count— Count Raymond plotted against by the Pope — Count Raymond scourged, naked, by the Pope's Legate. 367

CHAPTER XVIII.

Who will not worship the beast must be killed— The Legate and the wafer god lead the murderous host — Priests sing while heretics burn — ''Rather than betray our friends, we

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will eat our own children " — Kivers of blood flowing, and the Legate happy —Sixty thousand slaughtered, and Beziers laid in ashes— Count Roger's brave defence of Carcassone — The Legate's infamous terms rejected — Treachery of the Legate toward Roger — Roger and his Knights betrayed — The holy assassins disappointed of their prey — Fifty hung, and four hundred burnt alive — Count Roger stripped of his estates and murdered — Heretics had their eyes torn out and their noses cut off — Wearing out the saints — Sad farewells as the Albigenses prepare for death — A hundred and forty heretics in one bonfire — Lady Guiraude buried alive — The Papacy is always and essentially cruel — Brave Ugo Bassi the victim of priestly cruelty — The monster with great iron teeth. 392

CHAPTER XIX.

Papacy the great whore of the Apocalypse — The woman on the scarlet-colored beast — The Mother of harlots — The Mother of abominations — Incense adopted from Paganism — Holy water — More heathen abominations — Testimony of the Italian patriot, Gavazzi — Rome sends unbaptized infants to liell — Romish baptism an abomination — Kirwan to Archbishop Hughes on the silly performance — Holy salt, holy oil, holy breath, and holy spittle — The mass an abomination — Excuses for using Latin in the mass — Indulgences — Sale of indulgences lead to the Reformation — Making merchandise of souls — John Tetsel selling indulgences — Tetsel's cross equal to the cross of Christ — Money down, sin all you please. 416

CHAPTER XX.

Purgatory — Purgatory for those who die in the grace of God — Purgatorial fires against the cleansing blood — Better than a gold mine — Challoner's weak defence of Purgatory — Pertinent questions to an Archbishop — A stupendous fraud — Robbing the poor — The heartless priest and the weeping widow — Drives off the widow's cow to pay for masses — No money, no mass— The priest and the sucking pig— A priestly protest against priestly iniquity — Auricular confession —

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Shameful questions to females — Testimony of Father Hogan — Priest and fair penitent will swear to a lie — The anxious wife and the accommodating friar — Auricular confession encourages immorality — Horrible wickedness of father confessors — The father confessor comes between husband and wife. 440

CHAPTER XXI.

Story of priestly outrage — Father Chiniquy on the confessional — The fly in the web of the black spider — A mother's confession of guilt — The confessional the modern Sodom — "That bottomless sea of iniquity" — The confessional a school of perdition — The priest is lord of the family — Monasticism a Popish abomination — The United States a fair field for Popish manoeuvering — Nunneries an offset to celibacy — Monks and nuns are on the best of terms — Relation of lying-in hospitals to nunneries — Convents and nunneries houses of prostitution — Nuns sw r orn to obey the priests — Convent life is a hell upon earth — A dying nun sees nothing but purgatory before her — Longs in vain for her mother — Rome has the heart of a dragon — Ninety thousand women without the protection of law. 465

CHAPTER XXII.

The city of the seven hills — The home of the harlot — Drunken with the blood of the saints — The right to murder heretics — Romish wolves after the sheep and lambs — Four hundred children suffocated — Mother and child dashed over the rocks — The Holy Inquisition — Deluged with Protestant blood — Massacre of St. Bartholomew— Horrors of Bartholomew's Day — Revocation of the Edict of Nantes — Horrors of the Dragonades — Horrors of the Irish massacre — Unspeakable barbarities — All for the glory of the church — The butcher Alva in the Netherlands — Martyr fires kindled by Bloody Mary— Queen Elizabeth crowned by the people — And cursed by the Pope— Spain's " Invincible Armada " — Still thirsting for Protestant blood — Not so ' ' invincible, ' ' after all — She bargained for Protestant blood, and was cheated. 489

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CHAPTER XXIII. page.

The Beast ascended out of the bottomless pit — Eomanists are a lost people— May sincerely believe lies and be damned for it — The chief product is ignorance and crime — Rome the wickedest city in Italy— The Fathers and Reformers on Papal Rome as Antichrist — What the future of the Papacy ? — The days of Papacy are numbered — United States must submit to the Pope — This Republic declared to be atheistical—Rome claims the right to rule the United States — Wise words from an ex-member of the U. S, Cabinet — Solemn responsibility of the Protestant ministry — Jesuits delighted with the new American Pope — What Romanizing this country means — The True Christ, or the Antichrist ; which shall it be ? 516

CHAPTER I.

Our National Peril.

Shall Liberty Die ? AVhat a question ! Of course, we mean, shall the dearly-bought, and matchless liberties of this highly favored nation be destroyed ? And multitudes will incredulously exclaim — " What a question ! Is not this question far-fetched?" Well, there are millions of our citizens who think it is not far-fetched, and who are apprehensive that the land which furnished Liberty with a " cradle" may yet have to provide her with a grave. They know that with the best possible laws on our statute books, the nation may be filled with lawlessness and degradation, because statutory enactments are not self-operating ; so while Liberty has power to uplift and bless a nation, she is powerless to sustain herself, or to perpetuate^ her own existence. As laws must have living forces behind them to make them vital, and effective, so Liberty must have defenders, — must have zealous guardians, who will maintain her gracious authority, and execute her high behests ; feeling proud to be her slaves. Knowing that to be the slave of liberty is to be the freest of the free. The defenders of Liberty are those whom we call by the honored name of patriots.

The Egyptians; the Chaldeans; the Carthaginians ; the Persians ; the Macedonians ; the Romans ; — all these nations lost their liberties ; and even their national existence. Why may not we lose ours ?

2 Unusual Interest in the Subject of Popery.

Is it true that American Liberty has a foe that is to be feared ? Many think so, and are constantly affirming it. They affirm that the man who is doing his utmost to array nine millions of his obedient followers against the liberties of this great Protestant nation, has his home on the Tiber, and his throne in the Vatican.

The unprecedented interest, and even deep concern that is being manifested throughout the length and breadth of this nation, and by people of all classes of society, in the political pretensions and progress of Popery in these United States, makes it of the utmost importance that all who love American institutions shall know with infallible certainty, if possible, the true character of that imported system of religion that has produced such wide-spread agitation.

If the Romish Hierarchy can offer us anything better than what we possess in a free and inspired Bible, and our matchless American Constitution, all intelligent and patriotic souls will willingly and gladly accept so great a gift, and adjust our institutions to this superior system of government and laws. But the Protestant religion and the American Constitution have served this nation so well, making her the most free, the most prosperous, the most progressive, and the most happy country the world has ever known, that before the American people will be willing to exchange her government and laws for the government and laws of the Pope, they will be very sure they are going to profit by the bargain.

Cardinal Manning on the Power of the Pope. 3

But who is the Pope of Rome, and what are his pretensions, and what does he purpose for the welfare and happiness of this great country with its teeming millions of intelligent freemen ? It is well known that the Pope claims to be the true Vicar and representative of Jesus Christ upon earth. We quote the words of Dr. Manning, a Cardinal of the Roman Church, who, of course, speaks with authority. In a sermon preached at Kensington, England, in 1869, Cardinal Manning, personating the Pope, says : " I claim to be the Supreme Judge and director of the consciences of men — of the peasant that tills the field, and the prince that sits on the throne ; of the household that sits in the shade of privacy, and the Legislature that makes laws for Kingdoms. I am the sole, last, Supreme Judge of what is right and wrong." Many intelligent people call that blasphemy, and it looks very much like it ; but this is what the Pope claims, and what some two hundred millions of the human race accept and believe, according to Romish statistics.

Vicar General Preston, in a sermon preached by him in New York, in 1888, said, " Every word that Leo speaks from his high chair is the voice of the Holy Ghost, and must be obeyed. To every Catholic heart comes no thought but obedience. It is said that politics is not within the province of the Church, and that the Church has jurisdiction only in matters of faith. You say I will receive my faith from the Pontiff, but I will not receive my politics

4 If the Pope's Claims are Just we Must all Submit

from him. This assertion is disloyal and untruthful. You must not think as you choose. You must think as Catholics. The man who says I will take my faith from Peter, but I will not take my politics from Peter, is not a true Catholic."

And so the Pope claims to stand in the place of God as the Supreme Ruler of all men, superior to Kings and Governments, and all human laws. As God he claims the right to rule even the inmost thoughts and consciences of all men. By virtue of his holiness, and supremacy, and infallibility, he claims the right to substitute his laws for the laws of this land, his institutions for the institutions so dear to all true, patriotic Americans. And surely if the Pope does really possess the attributes and spirit of God, our citizens should gladly put themselves under his rule, and joyfully submit to his authority ; for a Ruler possessing such Divine endowments must surely exercise government most wise, the most gentle, and the most conducive to the happiness of the people, and the most rapid progress of the nation, in intelligence, virtue, and all other things that constitute real national prosperity and greatness. What nation would not feel honored to enjoy the government of a truly God-like man possessing the attributes of the Holy and Infallible God.