infer from their contents, were written in the year 1834, long
before the American party had an existence. The work entitled
'Foreign Conspiracy' is composed of a series of articles
originally published, over the signature of Brutus, in the New
York Observer. They now appear with the name of the author,
SAMUEL F. B. MORSE. His object in writing the work was to
arouse public attention to the efforts then being made in
Europe to propagate the Catholic religion in the United States,
and to show its danger to our republican institutions. He
traces the origin of the Leopold Foundation in Austria, under
the especial patronage of the Emperor at Vienna on the 12th
May, 1829, and shows that one of its leading objects was 'to
promote the greater activity of Catholic missions in America.'

"The letter of Prince _Metternich_ to Bishop Fenwich, of
Cincinnati, under date, Vienna, April 27, 1830, is set out at
length; and, in that letter, the Prince informs the Bishop,
among other things, that the Emperor 'allows his people to
contribute to the support of the Catholic Church in America.'
Numerous quotations are made from the letters of Foreign
Bishops in the United States to their patrons at home, and,
among the rest, on page 85, is the following statement, made by
one of them, in regard to the people of the United States: 'We
entreat all European Christians to unite in prayer to God for
the conversion of these unhappy heathen and obstinate
heretics.' But, forbearing to multiply quotations from this
little work, admirable in most of its positions, my main
object, in citing it, was to make the following extract, from
page 15 of the preface, taken by the author from the lectures
of the celebrated Frederick Schlegel, delivered at Vienna in
1828, where that distinguished foreigner says, 'The true
nursery of all these destructive principles, the revolutionary
school for France and the rest of Europe, has been North
America. Thence the evil has spread over many other lands,
either by national contagion or by arbitrary communication;'
and also the following quotation, from page 118 of Mr. Morse's
book: 'Austria, one of the Holy Alliance of sovereigns, leagued
against the liberties of the world, has the superintendence _of
the operations of Popery in this coun