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under the tyrannical and damnable rule of the Pope.

A minister informs us that on three occasions lately, children have
come to him and told him that an Irish public school teacher in
Boston had forbidden them to attend Protestant services, as their
parents were at one time Roman Catholics, and that this talk from
this Romish school teacher was had during school hours.

What we need in this country is a "vigilance committee," and we need
it badly, and we need it right away, and this committee should be
instructed to impeach every public official who endeavors to usurp
the law in favor of Roman Catholicism.

The brightest minds of the past, and the brightest minds of the
present have pointed out to Protestant America the dangers of
Romanism, but it seems as though we will not heed their warning, when
we see upon every side evidences of moral decay and national
degeneracy by permitting this "Romish hag" to supervise and
superintend the affairs of this nation.

Protestant European nations have for many years beheld the despotic
march of Catholicism in America, and this country for a number of
years has been the laughing stock of Protestant European countries
for permitting this brazen demon to tread up and down the avenues of
our liberties without molestation.

A few years before Bismarck of Germany died, he, in a public speech
delivered in the German parliament, pointed out that the Roman
Catholic Church was only free in America, and for the benefit of the
reader we will quote a part of this great statesman's speech:

"The Pope being purely a religious chief, there is no occasion to
keep a permanent political representative at his port. Things,
indeed, might have been left _in status quo_ had not the present Pope
thought it fit to revive the ancient struggle of the papacy with the
temporal power, and more especially with the German empire. The
spirit emanating the papacy in this campaign is too well known to
require comment; still we would tell the house a story, which has
long been kept a secret, but which had better be made public. In
1869, when the Wurtemberg government had occasion to complain of the
action of the papacy, the Wurtemberg envoy at Munich was instructed
to make representations, and in a conversation which passed between
the envoy and the nuncio; the latter said, 'The Roman Church is free
only in America.'"

This nuncio further stated that the Roman Catholic Church in all
other countries had