t perpetrated the inhuman atrocities of the Irish Massacres;
that, it drove the Huguenots from France, and the Puritans from
England; that it has delighted in the chains and dungeons of
the Inquisition, and shouted, with fiendish exultation, at the
cries and groans of the victims in the _auto da fe_; that no
republican government has ever flourished under its sway; that
it regards ignorance as the mother of devotion, and denies the
obligation of an oath; that it gave rise to the Order of
Jesuits, the most detestable sect that the earth has ever seen;
that, in the midst of the blaze of the nineteenth century, it
has burned the Bible in America and imprisoned men and women in
Europe for no other offence than that of reading it; that,
abusing the freedom of the press and speech secured in the
United States, it unblushingly avows that all Protestantism is
heresy--that it is a crime--and punished in _Christian
countries like Spain and Italy_ as a crime; that it has
banished the Bible from Protestant schools, when under its
control; that it has intermeddled in political elections, and
is struggling for political power; that it wears a mask and
claims to be harmless in this country for present effect,
although it has never renounced one of its dogmas in any
authoritative mode; that it is typified, in the Bible, as the
Man of Sin and the Great Whore of Babylon; that it comes to us
as an angel of light, but is allied with the Prince of
Darkness: knowing all these things, and believing that the
Roman Catholic Church, now that it is covered with the broad
wings of Modern Democracy, partakes of its meat and is pampered
by its patronage, is, infinitely, the most dangerous political
power with which the people of the United States have ever been
compelled to grapple, the American party invites all who love
national liberty more than Democracy; who prefer civil and
religious freedom to the spoils of office; who revere the
memory of Tyndale, Luther, and Calvin; of Cranmer, Latimer, and
Ridley; of the seven Bishops; of Fox; of the Puritan fathers;
of Wesley and Hall; of the Reformers and Protestants of every
name, and, more than all, of our revolutionary ancestors, to
burst the fetters of party and come to the rescue of their
bleeding country, bleeding at