Washington telegraph., 1850-08-14
The Principles of the Jesuits.

In the generalShlp, JACOB LANES, ana
gradually wrought up by subseqent gen.
erals to its present mischevious refinement
and perfection, is, both as to its Inward
policy and outward working, an organiza-
ton the most elaborate and complete the
world ever knew. The following are
among the general PRINCIPLES of Jesuitism:
AbsotutlSm The will Of the General
of the Order is Supreme: the whole legisla-
tive, directive and judicatory functions are
with him. He claims to stand toward the
institute in the place of God. in the place
of Christ. A purer despotism never was,
than is invested in <his person. Obedience,
nninquiring, unmrhrmuring, implicit obedi-
ence 10 him, is the heart, the SOUL the
handspring of the system; every approach
TO indie ependent thought being denounced
by the constitution as sinful even as bias
phemy, and endangerlng expulsion with
out the power of appeal.
IsoLatiSm "A Jesuits word is his
Order. He is walled up in it by all isolism
as entire asif there were no world with
out. An exhausted heat for all save his
institute, is the perfection of his Jesuit
being. His springs of natural affection
he saws, are by modification as hateful as
il is intense, dried up. Ties of kindred
he has none he has broken. discarded, :,
tramped them beneath his feet, elf
said ID Jesuit, and his voice is the voice
of his Order, "God were to bid me,
| through my superior, to put to death
father. mother, brothers and sisters, |
would do it with an eye as fearless. and
heart as calm, as if | were seated at the
banquet of the Paschal Lamb"
MysticiSm-.Ee .Eesuitism is a region of
society and Disguise, on which the sun
light falls not. To tread softly; to whis-
per in the ear; to work, mole-like, under
ground, to glide to and fro, and in and out
like the serpent, through the windings OF
! society, concealed behind every mask
which may best serve their end TO move
| others, themselves miserable legion; to
employ that mighty, but of-sight engine,
the confessional, is the substance OF all
the directions under which the Jesults act.
| Machinlsm.-A Jesuit is reduced from
being of volition TO a mere piece OF
animal clock-work, an instrument to be
| put in motion by another In his superior
| he lives, moves and has his being; his
superior being TO him at once his conscl-
ence, his rule OF action and his God
| Suppose not that [ over-s.ate. The lam
.sLet every one persuade himself that
they who live under obedience, should
| permit themselves to be moved and ham
| died in any way; or, as staff IN an old
inan's hand, which serves wherever and
| whatsoever thing he who holds 1t pieases
to use it,
| Espi0nage- Jesuitism is to those
] without, corps of observation, a watch
| tower bristlng with arms, within, il is an
| organized police. Each has his eye upon
his fellow DIstrust Is its conservative
principle. A frank and unsuspectine
temper would be the ruin Of the fraternity
| No more skiful anatomists of the human
heart, or accurate registrar of the defec-
| tions of others or trustworthy reporter
| to higher quarters, can there be, than a
Jesuit superior To denounce, is an act
to which Loyola's subtle policy appeuds
! the premium of merit; whilst every menl-
Der is soemnly bound by his rule to fur.
nish instant information OF aught unlesult.
/
ther
FizitY.-"Senper edoena'' is the motto
| of the institute, as 1t plants Itself as a
barrier against all that is progressive IN
/ the onward march of human society
When you speak of Jesuitisln, you cal
up the spirit of the past. the dull, dark
past, with all its antquated yet freshen
H. H.
at school for ages, but it has yet learned
nothing. It has grown hoary under q
pnpilage which has left it uninstructed
/ Science, philosophy, national, social in.
/ stitutions, have all been on the advance
But three centuries ago the mould o
Jesuitsm was cast, and the last from that
4 mould came forth with all the exactness
and sharpness, in outline aud detail of a
first impression Its mission is not tc
take the world onward, but to drag the
| world backward to get it again amidst
that rickety infancy of intellect and those
dim shadows which are Rome's best hope
Unlty.-Jesuitism is emphatically one
from the centre to the circumference
I Everywhere the same rules, the same
] discipline, the same spirit, the same aim
/ Tt NAV, to those without, evince fex
| ible elasticity, that shall render 1t al
things to all men, that it may bette
! proselyte or deceive some. But within, i
presents the flatness of an even surface
the uniqueness of an unvarying unlforml
tv. the kindred motions of body whose
heart is at Rome, and the pulsations 0
which are felt all through, TO the mos
distant extremisies. 1t is no empty boas
| of a Jesnir when he says, '.We are one,
for in singleness of mind, combination o
1 purpose, and the simultaneonsness OF ac
| ton, his Order knows no rival.
! .Ezpedaency-With Jesuitism arose