his
Lordship, (Lord Baltimore himself!) or of his
Lieutenant-General." _See Laws of Maryland, at large, by T.
Bacon_, A. D. 1765. 16 and 17 _Cecilius's Lord Baltimore_.

God deliver us from such toleration! _Death_ was the penalty for
expressing certain religious opinions, not acceptable to Lord Baltimore
and the Holy Catholic Church! Fines and _whipping at the post_ was the
penalty for speaking against the image-worship of the Catholic Church.
But I need not pursue this subject further: the _onus propandi_ is on
your side.

Speaking of Mr. Wesley, you say:

"If Wesley were alive, what would he think of your midnight
plots, and open tirades against Papists? But a letter of his
has been going the rounds of the newspapers, which the Know
Nothings obviously think gives the sanction of that good man to
their movement. Not so. Mr. Wesley was not the man to write as
inconsistently as their version of this letter makes him
write."

Why, sir, Mr. Wesley goes much further in his political opposition to
Roman Catholics than the American party have ever proposed to go. The
American party say only that they will not vote for Catholics, or put
them in office, because their principles are antagonistic to the spirit
of Republican institutions. Mr. Wesley lays down the comprehensive, but
_true doctrine_, in this very letter, that "_no government not Roman
Catholic ought to tolerate men of the Roman Catholic persuasion_." And
to show how fully and clearly he sustains this position, I quote from
his letter at length. You will find the letter in Vol. 5, page 817, of
Wesley's Miscellaneous Works, dated January 12th, 1780. It was
originally addressed to the Dublin Freeman's Journal. Here is what Mr.
Wesley says, in the very letter you seek to _deny out of_:

"I consider not whether the Romish religion is true or false:
build nothing on one or the other supposition. Therefore, away
with all your common-place declamation about intolerance and
persecution for religion! Suppose every word of Pope Pius's
creed to be true! Suppose the Council of Trent to have been
infallible; yet I insist upon it that no government not Roman
Catholic ought to tolerate men of the Roman Catholic
persuasion.

"I prove this by a plain argument--let him answer it that
can--that no Roman Catholic does or can give security for his
allegiance or peaceable beh