take up arms to take by
force what is denied him by the people, then we face a Civil War, *
* * * * * and that he who wilfully invites war deserves death. We
would then be compelled to wash out the sin of violating the Third
Term with the blood of our sons. Yet this is not the gravest danger
we are facing. We have allowed an adventurer to circumtravel the
Union with military escort with the torch of revolution in his
hands to burn down the very house we live in."

"Have we learned no lesson about a one man's rule experienced in
France with such disastrous results as the end of the reign of
Napoleon I and Napoleon III."

"Are we trying to establish here a system like our ancestors have
done in Europe, which all revolutions of a thousand years could not
abolish."

"Are we overthrowing our Republic, while the heroes of the French
revolutions, and the martyrs of 1848 gladly gave their lives to
establish Republican institutions."

"The abolition of the Third Term tradition is the abolition of the
Monroe doctrine also."

"Hardly any revolution has started without pretending that their
movement was progressive."

"The prudence of our forefathers has delivered to us an equally
sacred unwritten law which reads that no president should embrace
another creed than Protestant, if possible, a sect of the English
Church. I am a Roman Catholic. I love my religion but I hate my
church as long as the Roman parish is not independent from Rome, as
long as Catholic priests are prevented from getting married, as
long as Rome is still more engaged in politics and accumulation of
money contrary to the teachings of the Lord. The Roman Catholic
Church is not the religion for a president of the United States."

"The Fourth unwritten law, which is practically supplementary to
the second, we find in George Washington's Farewell Address, where
he advises us to live in peace with your neighbor. We have no right
to start a war of conquest."

In his examination in this connection he stated as follows:
"Four-fifths of the United States would take up arms to defend the
Third Term tradition. Trying to get perpetual power and dictatorship
would justify killing."

He also said he would be justified to the same extent, that is, by
killing, a man who would seek the presidency and was a Roman Catholic;
and also for a