The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-11-23

our independendence, than thus TO be in
suited on oul own soil. by foreign knayes,
who, to escape the gibbet, or the prison, in
theirown native land have soughtrefuge be-
meath the wide spread folds Of the stars and
stripes.
While the Ohio Eagle is loud and bitter
in its denunciatiOns Of body of native
born Americans, and stigmatises them as
"oath bound towards, /" will it please furn-
ish its readers with It's opinions Of that Sc
crct order ofJesuits who are bound to-
gether by the following oath:
II, A. B., now in the presence Of AL.
mighty God, the blessed Virgin Mary, the
blessed Michael, the archangel, the bless
ed st. John Baptist, the holy apostles, St.
Peter and st. Paul, and the saints and sa-
cred host of heaven, and TO you, ghostly
father, do declare from my heart, without
mental reservation, that his holiness, Pope
Plus TX, is Christ's Vicar general, and is
the true and only head of tho Catholic or
universal church throughout the earlh;and
that by the virtue of the keys of binding
and loosing, given ID his holiness by my
Saviour Jesus Christ, he hath power to
depose heretical kings, princes, states, COM
mon,CeolAs and governments, all being illegal,
aUifhOut his sacred confirmation, and that
they may sqtsiy6e destroyed, therefore, to
the utmost of my power shall and will de-
fend this doctrine, and his holiness's rights
and customs, against all usurpers of the
heretical Tor Protestant, authority what.
soever: especially against the now pre-
tended authority and Church of England,
and all adherents, inregard that they aud
she be usurpal and heretieal, opposing the
sacred mother church of Rome. l do re-
nounce and disown any allegiance as due
to any heretical king, prince or state, nam
ed Protestants, or obedience to any of their
inferior magistrates or officers. ] do fur
ther declare that the doctrine Of the Church
of England, Of the Calvanists, Huguenots,
and other.of the name Protestants, to be
damnable, and they themselves are damned,
and to be damned, that will not forsake the
same. / do further declare that l will
help, assist, and advise all, or any of his
holiness's agents in any place, wherever
shall be. in England, Scotland and Ireland.
or in any other territory Or kingdomI shall
come to; and do my utmost TO extirpate
the heretical Protestant's doctrine, and to
destroy all their pretended powers, regalor
otherwise. | do further promise and de-
clare, that Notwithstanding am dispensed
with to assume any religion heretical for
the propagating ofthe mother chdrch's in
terest, to keep secret and private all her a
gents counsels from time to time, as they
entrust me, and not to divulge, directly or
indirectly, by word, writing, or circum-
stances whatsoever: but to execute all that
shall be proposed, given in charge, or dis
covered unto me, by you, my ghostly faith
er, or by any ofhis sacred convent. All
which l, A. B.,'do by the blessed
Trinity and the blessed sacrament, which l
now am to receive, toperform, ,&onmy partto
keep involaly:- q do call all the heavenly and
glorious host of heaven, to witness these my
realintentions to keep this my oath. In
testimony hereof, | take this most holy and
blessed sacrament of the eucharist; and
witness the same further with my hand
and seel in the face of this holy convent,
this-----day of---An. Dom, &c"
Such, reader, is the oathof that secret
order fhe Ohio Eagle is afraid 10 condemn
for fear ofloosing its patronage and infu-
ence at the ballot-box, What confidence
can the American people place in the
boasted pretonsions of men who wink at
aforeign religious political order bound to-
gether by such an oath and yet bitterly an
athematise American citizens for banding
themselves together for their country S
good?
Let the American people judge Of their
merits.