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"involves more benefit , and more of hope for the human race than any other cause which now engages the attention ofthe civilised world , except one , "—and that is , Negro Emancipation . On the latter point , Dr . Hughes " is not altogether in harmony with Mr . Seward . Although not prepared to go so far as John Mitchellwho is a thoroug-hgoing Pro-slavery

advo-, cate , the Eomanist Archbishop is strongly opposed to Abolitionism , from a conviction that it would lessen the power of the Union for aggressive as well as defensive purposes . The watchword of his followers would therefore be—Union in America , and Eepeal of the Union in Ireland .

"As TJltramontanism in the Northern States has for many years been a politico-relig ious confederacy of the same dangerous and demoralising character as it is in Italy and Erance , various attempts have been made , through the agency of Ereemasonry , Knownothingism , and other secret associations , to work against it , in local as well as in Eederal politics . But the disciples of Loyola , who have had three centuries

of practice in Machiavellism , have been far too cunning to be outwitted in any game of that kind . The only way by which they can be effectually opposed , is by open warfare , and that is what no powerful religious body in the whole Eederal Union has the courage to undertake . Perfect religious equalifcj affords the best possible field for the secret

machinations and plausible professions of the Jesuit Brotherhood ; and the rapid progress which the cause of Eome is making in all the large towns in America shows how Avell that field has heen worked by " The Congregation , " which threatens , at no distant period , to wield the destinies of American civilisation .

"Had American Ereemasonry not been identified with infidelity , it mi g ht have served , in some degree , to counteract the enslaving tendencies of Jesuitism , against which the Ereemasons of Europe have waged the most determined Avar for the last two or three centuries . The origin of this deadly fend is fully exp lained in the following quotation from the article on Ereemasonry in the last edition of ths Encyclopedia Briiannica . - —

" Freemasonry can scarely be said to havo attracted general attention till the beginning of the 17 th century . There being now no scarcity of architects , tho veryreason which prompted the Church to protect the fraternity ceased to exist , they , therefore , withdrew from them the patronage which they had shortly before preferred , and denied them even the liberty of holding their secret

assemblies . But these were not the only causes which produced such a striking change in the conduct of tho Church towards the Masonic Order . The spirit of Freemasonry was hostile to the principles of the Church of Eome . The intention of the one was to enlighten the mind , the object and policy of tho other wore to retain it in ignorance . When Freemasonry flourished , the power

of the Church must have decayed : the jealousy of the latter was therefore aroused , and as tho civil poiver in England and Scotland was always in the hands of the ecclesiastics , the Church and the State were combined against the principles and the practice of Freemasonry . " " In the United States Ereemasonry was in hi gh repute at the close of last century . Washington

, Jeiferson , Adams , and most of the other leading statesmen and politicians , were members of the mystic fraternity . Since that period , however , it has become very unpopular , owing partly to the political intrignes in which it has engaged , and partly to the inveterate

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hostility of the Jesuits , who entertain a natural hatred of all secret associations except those which are affiliated with Eome . " Towards the close of the great European war , a double current of emigration set in from the Old World to the United States . Men dissatisfied with

the existing state of society , and anxious to create a New Moral World on the Utopian basis of Eousseau , fancied that America would g ive them an excellent field for so grand an experiment . Other men , better acquainted with the weaknesses of human nature , and who foresaw how great an influence for good or evil the

Western Eepublic must exercise on European civilisation went there to lay the foundations of that A . merican Church of theEuture which is now growing up so rapidly under the able management of Dr . Hughes and his confederates . In May , 1814 , about the time when Napoleon was banished to ElbaJohn Adamswriting

, , to Thomas Jefferson on the state of affairs in Europe , called the attention of the Virginian statesmen to the evils likely to ensue from the introduction of Jesuitism into the United States , UOAV that so powerful a reaction in favour of Obscurantism had set in from

the North . " I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits , " said Mr . Adams ; " they have a general now in Bussia in correspondence with the Jesuits in the United States , ivho are more numerous than everybody knoivs . Shall AA e not have swarms of them here , in as many shapes as Bamfylde Moore Carew , the lung of the gypsiesever assumed ? In the shape

, of printers , editors , writers , schoolmasters , & c . ! I have lately read Pascal's Letters over again , and four volumes of the History of the Jesuits . If eA er any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth and in hell , according to these historiansthough true Christians like Pascal—it is this

company . Our system of religious liberty , however , must afford them an asylum . But if they do not put the purity of our elections to a sei ere trial , it will be a wonder . " John Adams did not rely quite so much upon the efficacy of the ballot-box for the preservation of political virtue , as our English Democrats still

profess to do ; and certainly he would have placed no reliance at all upon that poor old sham had he lived to see the cunning way in which it is worked by the Ultramontanists and their tools in the New York

Corporation at the present day . " Of the manner in which Austrian , Italian , and American Jesuitisms have played into each others ' hands , at various periods during the last forty years , we shall have something to say on a future occasion . MeaniAdiile it may be useful to note the interesting

fact that the Eoman Catholic students from North and South who are sent to Eome to complete their education , have lately had a new college erected for their special use . The crafty old managers of the Bropaganda have no doubt begun to see that Young America , with its revolutionary ideas , is not a very

safe companion for Young Italy , Young Erance , or Young Spain ; and , therefore , it is now to be brought up on the separate system , with a special view to that great work which Ultramontanistn has chalked out for herself in the Western Eepublic . The new American College is capable of holding 100 students , ivho must require an extraordinary amount of Jesuit discii ^ line to keep them from quarrelling , when they begin to discuss American politics . "