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Such was the CURSE pronounced on the Rev Wan, (a converted Roman Catholic priest) a few years since, in Philadelphia

As a further proof of the cruel, persecuting spirit of Catholicislance at a few extracts from their own publications

”Children,” they say, ”are obliged to denounce their parents or relations who are guilty of heresy; ALTHOUGH THEY KNOW THAT THEY WILL BE BURNT They may refuse theer; or they hts of hu Moral, vol 4, lib 31, sec 2, precept 4, prop 5, p 239”

”A man condemned by the Pope, may be killed wherever he is found”--La Croix, vol 1, p 294

”Children may kill their parents, if they would turn their children froe decide contrary to law, the injured person undez Precept Decal, vol 1, lib 4, chap 2, p 501, 655, and vol 2, lib 8, chap

32; p 390

”To secretly kill your calumniator, to avoid scandal, is justifiable”--Ayrault, Cens p 319

”You may kill before hand, any person who may put you to death, not EXCEPTING THE JUDGE, AND WITNESSES, because it is self-defence”--Emanuel Sa Aphor, p 178

”A priestpossession of any Ecclesiastical office”--Arnicus, Nue your opponent with false crime to take away his credit, as well as kill him”--Guimenius, prop, 8, p 86

”Priests oods”--Nolina, vol 3, disput 16, p 1786

”You may kill any man to save a crown”--Taberna, Synop Theol Tract, pars 2, chap 27, p 256

”BY THE COMMAND OF God IT IS LAWFUL TO MURDER THE INNOCENT, TO ROB, AND TO COMMIT ALL KIND OF WICKEDNESS, BECAUSE HE IS THE LORD OF LIFE AND DEATH, AND ALL THINGS; AND THUS TO FULFILL HIS MANDATE IS OUR DUTY”--Alagona, Thorn Aquin, Suain, in the Romish Creed found in the pocket of Priest Murphy, as killed in the battle of Arklow, 1798, we find the following articles

”We acknowledge that the priests canto their pleasure

”We are bound to believe that the holy ainst Protestants, and likewise WE ARE TO CONTINUE THE SAME, PROVIDED WITH SAFETY TO OUR LIVES!

”We are bound not to keep our oaths with heretics, though bound by the most sacred ties We are bound not to believe their oaths; for their principles are damnation We are bound to drive heretics with fire, sword, faggot, and confusion, out of the land; as our holy fathers say, if their heresies prevail ill become their slaves We are bound to absolve without money or price, those who imbrue their hands in the blood of a heretic!” Do not these extracts show very clearly that Ro narrative?

APPENDIX VI

ROMANISM OF THE PRESENT DAY

Whenever we refer to the relentless cruelties of the Romanists, we are told, and that, too, by the influential, the intelligent, those who are well-informed on other subjects, that ”these horrid scenes transpired only in the 'dark ages;'” that ”the civilization and refinee has so modified human society, so increased the milk of human kindness, that even Rome would not dare, if indeed she had the heart, to repeat the cruelties of by-gone days”

For the honor of humanity we could hope that this opinion was correct; but facts of recent date compel us to believe that it is as false as it is ruinous to the best interests of our country and the souls of athered from unquestionable sources, and some of them related by the actors and sufferers themselves, we place before the reader

In November, 1854, Ubaldus Borzinski, a monk of the Brothers of Mercy, addressed an earnest petition to the Pope, setting forth the shocking immoralities practised in the convents of his order in Bohemia

He specifies nearly forty cri ti the Pope to interpose his power, and correct those horrible abuses

For sending this petition, he was thrown into a ue, where he still languishes in dreary confineh the onlythat the Pope would interfere with the pleasures of the monks