Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States: The Numbers of Brutus, Originally Published in the New-York Observer, Revised and Corrected, With Notes (Classic Reprint)

Cautious attempts of Popery to dignify its emissaries and to accustom us to their high-sounding titles A mistaken notion on the subject of discussing religious opinion in the secular journals, favors this foreign attack Political designs not to be shielded from attack because cloaked by Religion. CHAPTER VII 73 The political character of this ostensibly religious enter prise proved from the letters of the Jesuits now in this country Their antipathy to private judgment Their anticipations of a change in our form of government Our government declared too free for the exercise of their divine rights Their political partialities Their cold acknowledgment of the generosity, and liberality, and hospitality of our government Their estimate of our condition contrasted with their estimate of that of Austria Their acknowledged allegiance and servility to a foreign master Their sympathies with the oppressor, and not with the oppressed Their direct avowal of political de sign. CHAPTER VIII 83 Some of the nieans by which Jesuits can already operate politically in the country By mob discipline By priest police I ts great danger Already established Proofs Priests already rule the mob Nothing in the principles of Popery to prevent its interference in our elections Po pery interferes at the present day in the political concerns of other countries Popery the same in our country It interferes in our elections In Michigan In Charleston, S. C. In New-Y ork Popery a political despotism cloak ed under the name of Religion It is Church and State embodied I ts character at head-quarters in Italy I ts political character stripped of its religious cloak. CHAPTER IX 95 Evidence enough of conspiracy adduced to create great alarm The cause of liberty universally demands that we should awake to a sense of danger An attack is made which is to try the moral strength of the Republic The mode (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don’t occur in the book.)