to say, I will not vote for you because you are
a Catholic.

"Neither does the American party propose, in the slightest
degree, to interfere with any of the rights secured to Roman
Catholics, in common with others, by the Constitution. If they
choose to worship a great DOLL as the Virgin Mary--to burn tall
wax-candles in daylight--to pray to God in an unknown
tongue--to believe that a simple wafer is the actual body, and
common wine the very blood of our Saviour--to enforce the
celibacy of the clergy--to worship the host--to believe that
old toe-nails and pieces of wood are precious relics--to
prevent their people from reading the Bible--to refuse to send
their children to Protestant schools--to retain the
confessional and the nunnery--to pin their faith to
unauthenticated traditions--to assert that theirs is the only
true Church, and to perpetrate a thousand ridiculous
mummeries--the members of the American party with one accord
will say, molest them not, disturb them not, trouble them not;
the religious privileges of this country are as free to them as
they are to us, and we will not, by law or by violence,
interrupt or interfere with them in the slightest degree. But
knowing that the Catholic Church was for a thousand years
allied to the State; that it claimed dominion, in temporal as
well as spiritual affairs, over the kings of the earth; that it
regards the Pope as the Vicegerent of the Almighty; that he
wears the tiara as the symbol of his power in heaven, earth,
and hell; that Romanists treat all other professions as
heretics; that its Archbishops, Bishops and Priests are sworn
to persecute all who differ with them; that the persecuting
spirit of that Church has been displayed, for centuries, in the
most odious acts of cruelty as well as the most despotic
tyranny that ever cursed the earth; that fire and faggot,
confiscation and torture have been its favorite weapons; that
no age, or sex or condition has been exempt from its inhuman
butcheries and demoniac lusts; that it exterminated the
Albigenses and Waldenses; that it caused the gutters of Paris
to run with human blood on St. Bartholomew's day; that it
lighted the fires of Smithfield; that through the
instrumentality of Tyrconnel and Catholic and Irish Rappadees,
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