gree among themselves, at least until after
they avert a common danger, and will rally as a band of
brethren to resist, in such mode as they may deem proper, the
encroachments and the insults of Rome, and all her satellites
and allies.

"If I do not greatly err in the estimate which I place upon the
Protestant clergymen of America, the Democratic party and the
Catholics will discover, sooner or later, that the same spirit
which caused the Protestant fathers to brave the perils of the
BOOT and the STAKE: to stand, without flinching, before such
miscreant judges as _Jeffreys_ and _Scroggs_: to yield two
thousand pulpits and look beggary and starvation in the face,
rather than compromise with conscience; and, above all, to risk
the untried dangers of the ocean and settle among savages--will
nobly animate their descendants, and they will act in a manner
worthy of themselves and of the great cause which is intrusted
to their keeping.

"Never was a more unfounded charge made against any party than
that of _proscription_ against the American party. It is only
the political feature--the allegiance to the Pope of
Rome--which we have felt called upon especially to oppose:
leaving it to Protestant ministers to expose, if they choose,
the absurdity of Catholic theological tenets.

"It is a historical fact that the Romish clergy of France in
1682, under the lead of Louis XIV., made a declaration that
'Kings and sovereigns are not subject to any ecclesiastical
power by the order of God in temporal things, and their
subjects cannot be released from the obedience which they owe
them, nor absolved from their oath of allegiance.' The doctrine
of this declaration is called indifferently 'the Gallican, or
the French, or the Cis-Alpine doctrine. That of the Court of
Rome is called the Italian, or trans-Alpine doctrine."

"Under the solemn assurance of the Louisiana delegation that
the native Catholics of Louisiana do not acknowledge the
temporal supremacy of the Pope, they were admitted to
representation in the American Council and Convention, and this
fact abundantly proves that there is no desire to _persecute_
Catholics for their religion, but only a determination to
resist their political doctrine, which, although denied by Mr.
Chandler in