ca anticipates all the blessings of justice, peace,
plenty, good order, and civil and religious liberty."

Only among the few was the spirit of intolerance still rampant, and
among these might be numbered Colonel Forrest.

III

"See now who's t' blame, don't ye? The likes o' ye an' that poltroon,
Jay, up there in New York. See who started this affair, don't ye?"

"That's what you say. Egad, I could say all that an' save half the
breath. I've got my 'pinion, though, and that'll do fur me."

"Ye're so narrow, Forrest, ye've only one side."

"Is that so? Well, so is the Governor."

"Is that his opinion, too?" impatiently asked Mr. Allison.

"What?"

"Does he view matters in that light?"

"Did I say he did."

"Yes."

There was no further response.

Stephen had, by this time, become thoroughly exasperated with this man,
and was about to eject him forcibly from the room. His better judgment,
however, bade him restrain himself. A tilt in a public drinking house
would only noise his name abroad and perhaps give rise to much
unpleasantness.

"How can a man consistently be subject to any civil ruler when he
already has pledged his allegiance, both in soul and in body, to another
potentate?"

This from the man in black, the fourth member of the party, who
heretofore had maintained an impartial and respectful silence, not so
much from choice perhaps as through necessity. His name proved to be
John Anderson.

"You mean an alien?" Stephen inquired.

"If you are pleased so to term it. The Pope is a temporal lord, you
understand, and as such is due allegiance from every one of his
subjects."

And then Stephen took pains to explain, clearly and concisely, the great
difference between the two authorities--the civil and the religious. The
Prince of Peace had said, "Render unto Caeesar the things that are
Caeesar's, and to God the things that are God's," which declaration
admitted of an interpretation at once comprehensive and exclusive. He
explained how the Catholic found himself a member of two distinct and
perfect societies, each independent and absolute within its own sphere,
the one deriving its charter from the natural law, the other directly
from God. He then pointed out how these societies lived in perfect
harmony, although armed with two swords, the one spiritual, the other
temporal, weapons which were intended never to clash but to fight side
by side for the promotion of man's happiness, temporal and et