History of the Inquisiﬁ On

H I S T O R Y 01 m HO LY CATH O LIC IN QUIS ITIO N , “ The In uisitlon, model most complete O fper ect wickedness, where deeds were ' — eds l let them ne er be named and set and planned ggliberatel and with most musin ins y, g pa , How ‘ to extremest thri of a on , ll g y’ hlo The flesh, the od, and souls ol ho men, H er victims ml li e wrou ht when she saw , t h g 0 N ew tortures her labouring fanc born, S he lee ed for j 0 and made great to to r d i Thel tgree woliplessed to hear e deep er gage . The supplicstin hand of innocence, That made the t or mild, and in its wrath ' u o fl rln o The lion pa se, t e gr ans of su e m st h e S evere, were mu ht to er ; sh h ug ed at groans, N o music pleased or more ; and !no repeat 8 0 sweet to her as blood o fmen redeemed Ambition' u h e By blood of Christ. 11; tho g m d, h er com are And nursed in uman gore, wl p d, ” was merclthl. W TH AN I N ’B ‘IO DUCTIO N I , R E V U S M S O N BY T H E . C Y R A , I M d M M M New YorL PHILADE LPHIA x m s N O . 1 59 C H E STN UT T. H E N RY p nx , J AT C INC INN I, —J Gou t rm m x m uum . m m 00. 1 8 35. Entered a cord n to the act of Con ress in the ear 18 35 b c i g g , y , y Haunt PER!INS, ’ in the Clerk s Office of the District Court of the Easte rn District of Pennsylv ania. P R E F A C E . Tan pope of R‘ ome has recently honoured the U e Sta of m in nit d tes A erica, and shown the deep ce f t ter t he eels in this country, by the appoin ment f al d e o an ecclesiastic ambassa or, a legat with ple nary powers to manage the cause of Romanism in r of the new world . This high ofiice the church nd of a state Rome, has expressed his gratitude and b f u af faiti loyalty by app earing e ore the p blic, ( l n ' the a ol ist f of rn uisi more,) as p og and de ender the q tion. of sui s f The order the Je t is restored, and, so ar o n u as we know, with ut any cha ge in its constit tion a s and character. The Romish mission ries to thi country are mostly of the order of Jesuits ; for it is saidby American citizens who hay e wintered at the s for com Rome, that Jesuit who come there t e are i ambitions of mission and pa ronag , spec ally appointments to this country . They regard our an O fi country as pen eld, where they may pursue a n and re their schemes without molest tio , with enti 1 v P E E vi R F A C . success ; where they may profit by the toleration enjoyed under our mild and free institutions. H r e the r of esu s e e, then, w have o der the J it ' rising and spreading over the fair face of our coun s a of as try, encouraged by va t import tions the le t desirable classes of Roman Catholics from the old of kingdoms Europe, and supported by the j oint patronage of the So ciety de Propaganda and the f n Catholic monarchs o the old world. These swor servants of a foreign potentate have as a leader an f avowed de ender of the inquisition . These emissaries are true to their patrons and ei o h th fign t er church . They defend her infallibi l ri of ai in re l ty, a d course, must m nta her sup macy, and promote (in a prudent way,) all her doctrines and institutions. They believe that her intolerance of fa for of all modes ith but her own , is the glory f “ of God and the good o the whole world ; and, f i of . o holding her in allibil ty, they must, c urse, de f b f m end the machinery y, which she has, in or er a out i of i ages, c rried her sp rit ntolerance against those who have dared to think and speak for them s in i of r selve the interpretat on the Sc iptures. This is the cap italfeature of the Romish church : she is bou d i n n conscience, not only to establish Iter C P RE F A E . vii sel but din to her bilit a : l} also, (accor g a y nd op p ortunitygato drive every othe r mode of faith a s i tl f from the e rth. This result d rec y rom her claim of infallibility ; and her infallibility is the - key stone of the arch on which she rests. ' The eflects of practical the Catholic religion , in of s of the hands these agent the pope , will be the ” same . n t i our country as hey are in the old world, and only they must be more slowly disclosed, de f . The i v ended with caution t me, howe er, has l ma a ready come, when a citizen, even a senator, y be knocked down in the street of Cincinnati as b of ak oldly as in the street Rome, unless he t es ’ off his hat to the bishop s procession of the host ; only it must be done by a volunteer member of ’ v l of d the bishop s ci i procession , instead an arme It soldier of the pope . is better to begin with our citizens by a civil kno cking down , and then they it will the more patiently receive when it comes, of n f m a of in the name religio , rom a ilit ry corps o honour. There is n thing like a gradual initiation f to a new order of things. Our new legate, be ore t his n - office he was clothed wi h prese t , is supposed at ar cash l le to have commenced, Ch leston , the p of Catholic priests becoming honorary ! members viii P R E F A C E. of mi tar m the ex er ment li y co panies. Recently, p i has been made of connecting military evolutions arad se of d r h the and p e, and a little u gunpow e wit ceremonies and worship of the Catholic church ; and the ofiiciating priest supposed it to work well . It is an easy way of bringing the people to acqui ” esce in the true old idea of a church militant We do not complain of these things : they are if i as they should be, we must have the exper ment of Romanism made in our country. They put the issue between these foreign priests and the Pro a of test nt citizens America on the right ground . The question to be settled is this : Is the Romish intolerance, with the machinery by which it has e been and must be p ropagat d, a desirable gift from the old to the new world These foreign gentle men think it is . What do the American people think In of View this question, the present is the right for of time a popular history the inquisition , one of the favourite instruments of the Romish church for the preservation of the faith by the destruction of heretics. Such a history is contained in the c f manus ript now be ore the . It will be found d a mirably adapte d to the capacity of the youthful P E R F A CE. ix realms of th s tr . u i coun y The a thor, or compiler, as m i s f h f he odestly styles h m el , as been avourably known to the public in numerous small volumes and a dr ss papers d e ed to our youth, while he has if f n n un ormly re used to be know by ame. Whether this concealment arises from a modest distrust of his a tie i bili s, (in whch view of himself he must be a ne aft the icat n of lo er publ io this volume,) or whe ther he is preparing to give his name to the world in connex ion with some larger fruit of his literary la ours are st w b , q ue ions in hich the public are not e a n sp ci lly i tereste d. But to us it is well known that few men hav e enjoyed better opportunities for making a fair estimate .of the institution described in his glowing and p atriotic pages. Nurtured in of l f e the air civi and religious re dom, and educated of in the schools his own country, he has traversed the s a and Ca broade t oce ns, dwelt long in Roman of tholic countries, where his minute observations th and fl of e civil moral in uences Romanism , satis fied him that liberty and happiness could never be the portion of the people who had yielded them n so con selves to its influe ce.

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