Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CATHOLIC MISSIONS THE INSTRUMENT. 49 r. in this design, for it is only necessary that snc should succeed in her avowed object to have her utmost wishes accomplished. She need avow no other aim. If she gains this, she gains all. If she succeeds in fastening upon us the chains of Papal bondage, she has a people as fit for any yoke she pleases to grace our necks withal, as any slaves over whom she now holds her despotic rod. She has selected a fitting instrument for her purpose. Her armies can avail her nothing against us, for the ocean intervenes. Her diplomacy gives her no hold, for there are scarcely any political relations between us. The only instrument by which she can gain the least influence in these" States, is that precisely which she has chosen. Its perfect fitness to accomplish any political design against the liberties of this country and of the world, I shall next consider. CHAPTER III. Popery, in Ms political, not its religious character, the object of tK present examination—The fitness of the instrument to accompli the political designs of despotism considered—The principles of a despotic and free government briefly contrasted—Despotic principles fundamental in Popery—Proved by infallible testimony— Papal claims of divine right and plenitude of power — Abjet principles of Popery illustrated from the Russian catechism— Protestantism from its birth in favor of liberty—Luther on th 4th of July attacked the presumptuous claim of divine right— Despotism and Popery hand in hand against the liberty of con ecience, liberty of opinion, and liberty of the press—The antW republican declarations of the present Pope Gregory XVL Before commencing the examination of th perfect fitness of the instrument, Catholic missions, to accomplish the political designs, upon this co...