The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1855-02-09


Without duly considering tie magnitude d
tho task we rather unWittnglY promised ffien.
to compile for our columns short history q
the origin and principles q wen u the designs
of De Jesniis - the esociesy 8 Jesus IS Il.
members prefer being styled.
Since commits ourself @ that task. Sc
have eolIeefed all accessible authorities Oh TIC
subject. and from solefably borough examina.
ton, we are induced % believe. thatwe could
have subserved, far more efficiently, the pur.
poses Of our friend, By simple reference to the
sources Of our Information, than III any attemp.
ted compendious account of "a order, the very
existence Of which in a free country Is suiIici-
emily portentions Of evil to arouse the most sefi-
Gus approximations il the breast Of the patriot,
and to prompt him % solid, solemn. I'VE had
almost said d prayerflI investigation.
In what we have to shy in this matter how
ever, we do not wish to be misunderstood We
are protestant, it il true. and very naturally
deprecate and deplore the errors as we deem
them) Of the Roman Church; yet finding among
its communicates in the United States, high
toned, chivalrous and talented gentlemen, as
well as amiable. accomplished and interesting
laeiies---who to know is but to aanire---we fain
would hope, and do actually believe prompted
BY the high estimation we place upon them
that they never have fully informed themselves
Of the full intent Of these chameleon religionists,
who now control the sunshine as well Is the
athunders 81 the Vatican For surely, If they
knew as facts, what NE conscientiously believe
as truths. they would, as lovers Of their eoun-
Try, demand their suppression, by papal edict,
las ii 1879 Of otherwise; failing in which, their
course Of duty would be, we humbly conceive,
plain and 1nrnfs leable---a solemn remuneration
Of all allegiance 70 Pro NoNo, either ecclesiasti-
cally Or civil. And if it be true, as has been
asserted, that His Holiness is himself Jesuit.
we are not prepared to say, that this latter is not
their duty any how
This celebrated monastic order was founded
BY Ignatius Lydia, near the middle Of the six
teenth century, with constitution and code of
laws and maxims, which he affirmed were writ
ten by the immediate inspiration Of heaven. The
order was sanctioned and affirmed BY the Pope,
with the full conviction that in such an organs
cation with It's machiaye1ian principles and g
plomacy he had found happy instrument
effect the two during hiects q LIS ambition,
to-@it: the total eradication Of professionalism
if not of haretics, and the establishment of the
supremacy of the ecclesiastic over all civil au-
thority. Such portions of their rules and regu-
lations as were calculated to disarm opposition
were promuIged, it is true, but those that const-
tuted the main pillar of their foundation, and
the secret unity of the order, in fact, the sole
objects of their association, involving their true
principles and aims, were shrouded in cryptic
darkness. Thus it was, that from the acts and
deeds alone, of the members of the society, the
uninitiated could form any conception of their
aims and objects; yet, judged, as they were, by
their fruits alone, the reactive energy of an OPP
pressed but an awaking people demanded their
This was tardiily (but in fact only
granted to them, about the time our
forefathers began seriously to think Of becom-
ing the guardians Of their own liberties, and 1t
a period when the human mind was unusually
active, and its force appreciated and feared, if
not respected.
We repeat, that the order only ceased to ex-
list openly in secret, we have every reason to be-
lieve, ex-Jesuts still maintained a close cores
pondenee with the Wanted s'vicar Of Goda and .
among themselves, and never once tagged in
their labors for the restoration Of their order,
nor in their efforts for the extension of their
auence; in evidence of which, we need only
cite the fact, that when restored to their ancient
privileges---in I8l4--after lapse of near half
4 century---their number was, co Instant, formi-
liable and astounding.
Another significant fact, and one that goes far
10 prove US correct, when we assert that Jesuit
SIN has continued an uninterrupted and an or
ganized existence, notwithstanding the sloso of
9apal suppression, for season, is to be found
d the very language of the bull (solieitudo ON
nun, Aug. z, 1914 BY which the order was
restored permanently and urepealaJly. The act
s termed a representation. thereby intimating las
learned friend informs usl that the order should
appear again in the same vigor and proportions
With which it disappeared. Now we ask, in al
,andor, how could the Pope 50 announce unless
le knew that the society still lived in secret, in
IL its pristine force and power!
Another thing, going to sustain this view, e
he fact, that, maugre their non-existcnce from
s773 to I8I 4---as their friends would have us be-
ieve--THE MoSIrA SEcREGz the mysterious
rolumes Of their institute were during AZ that
ime secretly and religiously pursued as was il
8I5, abundantIy proven BY the merest imagina-
lie accident, and BY which their secret code and