The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-11-16

, oJtnr. Such as these are the men, with whom
YOU ally yourself, Americansj whose suhrages
you bec whose assistance you ask in your cleo
! lions: these are the men with whom you would
divide the future destinies of your country.
wish you would but look at the history of Popery
and see if ereY Catholic country has been
happy.
stAmericansl be uniteA as the stars upon your
flag against these Catholics designs Open your
ewes and see. Popery overfows-invades you
and YOU are not aware of it; it strides with
the steps of a giant to the conquest OF your glo-
rious land and YOU do not resist 1T; yea, you
stretch out your hand to it. 1t is awake, but
YOU sleep; it is Jealous, busy, and you remain
in rest and indolence like the spider, which ex-
tends its web and lays its snares IN secret, and
YOU will not perceive it. The result OF such
| blindness cannot be uncertain. When | see
your tranquility and your security, can easily
| conceive their hopes, designs, and ulumphs.
| You will never understand the great Importance
! the Pope sets on the conquest OF '4naef'c0 ne
knows that Europe escapes from his power, and
he wishes to Indemnify himself with the new
world. How many times have l heard, and
have myself said, that, " the light of Catholic
ism would ere long be out in the ancient CONT
nent, but lpotGld be Tenes0ed IN .fnle71cu'" like
! the sun, which seems to descend below the hori-
zon to Tighten another hemisphere"
e'The Pope is now making desperate exertion
with men ana money 10 accomplish TINS P''foSS'
! That diabolic institution for the propagation
of the faith, "a member of which l was, and
which | have increased with my savings puts
immense sums of money at the disposal OF the
Pope As in TIE time of Luther, the Catholics
exchanged their weekly Offering for some years
of ii diligence, as formerly Leo y. sold indul-
gences to build st. Peters at Rome, now Gregory
XVI. sells the same goods to Catholicise to
subdge America. Three centuries have rolled
away, and obstinate PoPery, without being cor
rected by the hard lessons of experience, perse-
veres IN its abominable course"
| Astonishing prodigy! None in France,
among its thiIty-three millions OF inhabitants,
none in this celebrated and proud nineteenth
century, dares, or even wishes to raise his voice
against such immortality. On the contrary,
every coed Catholic groans and sighs for the
blindness of the misled millions of Americas
earnest in Offering his money for their conversion.
Men, women, servants, boys, atone for their
sins with the money, which passes into the
hands of the Pope, for the propagation of the
faith in America. The letters of missionaries
are printed in each month, and published every
where, at the expense OF the selling OF indul-
gences. In those letters, as in the old legends
of menasteries daily prodgies, miracles, visible
assistance of God, Sc, stated as proof of
their divine mission. But the Protestants-and
above all, your ministors-are treated with their
usual Catholic chsrity; your independence and
press are treated as the true Pandora's box of
the world; shown as capital obstacle to
the complete introduction of Catholicism. To
warm our zeal in the seminaries, those accounts
are faithfully read daily; and in each year,
young priests, brought up in ignorance, preju-
dices, superstitions, and hatred Of all freedom,
set out with large sums, (the price of indul-
gences) to destroy the plague OF Professionalism,
and ingraft Popery in its stead"
$50 many exertions, indeed, are crowned with
some success Listen to their oracles sin
/ IL. L., i - Il.
States" (annah Of Propag of Faith)
600 you understand, Americana In thirty
years. The author Of this prophecy is grand
Vicar, who knows well his resources and means
of success Perhaps this may appear incredible,
| and even absurd. But compare the present state
| of the Roman religion IN your country with its
state thirty years ago. If some time since any
friend of America had told you that you should
see on your soil converts, monasteries, and semi
naries, the asylums Of seductiOns and idleaess,
you would have laughed at this prediction
Would it have been groundless, however, Your
land is covered with those institutions Of Catho-
lies, who, under the shelter of your laws, taking
advantage of American liberty, give themselves
| up to the cloister life, recruit their armies Of
| both sexes: and you cannot penetrate into those
! retreats, and their number increases every day"
fsI,hus Popery invades you in spite of your
riches, learning aud civilization; no barriers, no
gates, no seas can stop it.
from the Papal woke, while one hopes that all |
the exertons Of the Pope to assume again his
former tyranny will be like the arrow darted by
the trembling hand of old Priam, while every |
friend of his fellow creatures sees with delight |
that Catholicism is nearly at an end IN many |
countries of Europe; In America, on the contra |
~, it seems to grow youthful and vigorous, as |
in the days of its brightest triumphs. Never, |
perhaps, in any country has it strided on so vic
toriously. In America it spreads the same net,
which has in former times entrapped Europe,
that net, which bloody struggle and Prodigious
endeavors have been necessary to cast of.
fFWhat! shall your beautiful America, which,
without passing through the tedious period Of
childhood or youth, has sprung with one leap to
a level with the nations of the old world; which
was born great rich and fully formed, as Miner
va sprang quite armed from the head of Jupiter,
shall she be destined to undergo the fatal influ-
ence of Poperya Shall the vulture, which has
gnawed the entrails of Europe for so many CEN
turtles, alight on and drain the best blood OF
| American
E'The priests are not yet strong enough to
gage with you in pitched battle, to attack
openly your institutions, your liberty, your reli
gion, whose existence is Incompatible with their
designs. 1t is not yet strong enough to cstab-
lish among you inquisition, although the
Pope has trusted the Bishop of Charleston with
this office, if we believe Mr.. Morrisey, Roman
priest. 1t has not yet obtained laws, privileges,
exemptions and immunities, as in Europe, nor
made America large convent; but have they
not multiplied those establishments of dirty
monks, vicious and corrupted fellows, greedy
and ravenous, Improbable burdens to the earth,
the fruit of which they devour' You have al
ready % cloisters. 1t is not yet strong enough
to preach impisus crusade against hereticS,
as it does In France daily, by the mandatory
letters of bishops; to shut your schools, where
the Bible is taught; to interdict your Bible So
cieties, it does in my country; but i! r. Esres
its means it creeps, it inyades every tiuEB ';rs-
dually; and the day, in which it will feel .tself
powerful enough to attack you close, the wrest-
pent is not yet strong enough to confront the
vigorous claws and beak of the American Eagle;
wait till it becomes older; yea, but it protects
| 1t, that it may devour her"
"Amercans! your carelessness reminds me OF
that of those tha ho11oxr of