try_.'

"In the tract entitled 'Startling Facts for American
Protestants,' written in the year 1834, by REV. HERMAN NORTON,
Corresponding Secretary of the American Protestant Society,
from pages 27 to 39, an account is given of a London pamphlet
entitled 'New Plan of Emigration,' the production of a Roman
Catholic gentleman, a London Banker; in which a project for
occupying the North Western States with the Roman Catholic
population of Europe, is unfolded, together with _a map of the
country_, and, among other things, it is said, on page 29: 'The
first settlements should be made in those fertile prairie
districts situated on the southern sides of the Canadian lakes,
_where slavery is unknown_. On page 28, the objects of this
society, as set forth in this pamphlet, are stated to be,

"'1. To provide the means for colonizing the surplus Roman
Catholic population of Europe in our Western States.

"'2. To do this in such a way as to create a large demand for
articles of British manufacture.

"'3. _To make Romanism the predominant religion of this
country._'

"The census tables will show that, since these plans were set
on foot, in England and in Europe, to break down our
government, there has been an astonishing increase in the
foreign immigration to this country. Great as it was prior to
the Revolutions in Europe in 1848, it has been amazingly
augmented since that time. Millions of foreign money have been
collected in Europe and expended since the organization of the
society for the propagation of the faith, at Lyons in France,
about the year 1822, in the United States. While an Austrian
Emperor has had the charge, in a good degree, of the
propagation of the Catholic religion in the United States, the
public authorities in various parts of Europe have defrayed the
expenses of their criminals and paupers to this country, as was
clearly shown by Congressional investigations.

"What do these facts prove? Why, that the declaration of the
Duke of Richmond, that the crowned heads of Europe intended to
subvert our government, was true. What more do they prove? Why,
that the effort to establish the Catholic religion in this
country has, for more than twenty years, been conducted with
steady perseverance, until the Catholics, who, i