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Coi'Nt from tills rate.
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rates to anyone, ami ail vcrllslnit atfi'iita will
rnvern llieniM-lvra aiViirdtnKly. Auilrenaall
orders to A M Klilt'AN l l'ltl.lHIIINU CO.,
liilS Howard Ht.,
vkhtisino lur'T. Omaha. Ni'b.
tWTnt AaiKii'ta la thi champion or all
I'amtiotic Uhiirkh Th Ohuan orNoNl
MARCH 1, 18!5.
FOR YOUR INFORMATION.
Tho American I'miusiiiNa Com
pany Id a corporation.
It was organized uiulor the laws of
tho state of Nebraska.
Itseapltal stock I $15,000, which is
divided InUi 150 shares.
Kach sharo U worth $100.00.
Of the l.'iO shares, but twelve remain
unsold.
Thoso twelve shares will be offered
for sale.
Wo will sell one share or twelve at
option of purchaser.
Tho prleo asked will bo 1100,00 jkt
share.
Terms will bo easy, $10.00 down and
$10.00 per month on each shRe.
If there are twelve American!) read
ing this paper, members of tho A. P.
A., Orangemen, or Protestants who
would like to associate with us In busi
ness, they should take advantuge of
this offer. It will be their ht opxr
tunlty. If not sold by March 10, 1805,
the otTor will bo withdrawn, and stuck
sold to prosent memlnirs of the com
pany. Do you want t put $100.00 of
your money Into this fight for your lib
erties and jour country?
Address
American I uhmshinu Co.,
Itil.) Howard Street
Geqfge A. Bennett, who has been
quite sick for several months, Is re
ported In a fair wav to fully recover.
This will be goods news to hi thous
ands of friends In this citv.
THE mayor of Savannah, (.!., Is a
Hebrsw. ills name is Meyers, and
Meyers is made of tho right material.
Ho detorves unstinted praise for his
prompt and determined stand for free
speech.
Judge Scott has the Kople with
him. The people believe, if they can
not prove it, that c rtain members of
the grand jury are corrupt, and their
failure to indict certain city officials
tends to prove that they are corrupt.
Thk contest for the posession of
church p -operty which has Iwon going
on in Omaha between the Uoman Bish
op and the Independent Poles, has been
decided by Judge Ambrose In favor of
the bishop. The decision surprised
nearly everyone but the judge.
Cot,. Henry S. Hilton, who as-
eisted Rev. J. Q. A. IL-nry and the A.
P. A, to wrest San Francisco from
Rome, is stopping in Omaha and will
be pleased to answer all calls to lecture
upon the evils attendant upon Roman
nsceudancy. Write him for terms, in
care of this office. He tan do your
order good.
Thk one hundred and sixty-third an
niversary of George Washington's birth
was fittingly celebrated in this city,
with speeches, music, recitations and
dancing, last Friday evening. The
Juniors deserve gteat praise for the
manner in which they awoke and fos
tered patriotism in the hearts of our
.people.
The fulsome flattery bestowed upon
John Ireland by the daily press of
Chicago, on account of the windy plati
tudes and Jesuitical sophistries which
he delivered in the Auditorium last
Friday afternoon, ought to convince
any sane person that Rome has a death
grip on the editorial writers of the
daily press.
Rev. Jos. Slatteky is a gentleman
in every sense of the word, but when
Rome thinks she can scare him off the
field, she has not carefully estimated
his prowess. Slattery would lecture
After billing a town if he had to stay
iuntil he had organized enough A. P.
A. councils to protect him. Long live
Slattery, a fearless, but temperate
talker.
CIRTAINLY.
llARIUNK. Neh . February 2 ly.V
Kdlior Thk Amkhu-ax: S uu men to
whom th "Jeauil a Kxtn me Oath." a
glvt-n in ur paper, have read It, a
well a o'her o;h, but ), ' It la a
lie." or ' How do y'U know that It it
ooriK-t;" " how ii it ot'Uiro-d? etc
For the imhhI of the raua", and to help
u In gaining ni mb r, will you, if m
a Idle t iplalu where theao oath are ob
tained? Voura lor Aniericanm,
t ink Twenty-Six.
Tho gentlemen who pronouneo the
oaths li a would ho atxvp ablu on any
jury, a it la generally eoneedi d that
the iguorant only make good and wife
jurora. Hut their oaylng that thews
oath am untruths due uot prove any
thing. Tho fact of the mutter it every
oath published is aui-e-ptil'lo of pruo.
True, trarslations may differ in minor
iHiln'.i. hut they all entail) the essential
point that (he HoiuitnUt, from the
laity to the cardinals, are bound to (he
church the pj by lrrevtvahle vows,
showing that hit will Is tne wi.l of mil-
liona of people, and that there Is no lib
erty outside of the word obi dleneo.
To those gentlemen who ask "how do
you know thut it is correct," and how
wa It obtained," wo will say that we
know they are correct because they
have stood tho test of time, have been
repeatedly quoted in debates with lead
ing Roman Catholics and have never
been disproved.
You can find the bishop's oath quoted
on pages 500 and 5ii7 of "Tho l'apal
Controversy," by Rev. L). li. Ray, a
Baptist minister of St. Louis, Mo. Rev.
Ray says that Dowllng's "History of
Romanism," pages 015 and 018, contain
tho same oath. On pagi s 588 0 70 1,
Rov. Ray quotes the priest's oath and
tho oatli of private members. The
former ho has taken from A. J. Grover's
book, "Romanism, the Danger Ahead,"
and the latter from Llguorl's Mission
hook, pages 272 275. Ho also quotes on
pages 571 2 3 tho ordinary Jesuit's oath
as published in Dowllng's History o,'
Romanism, page (105 That oath cor
resjMUids tj the Jesuit's oath published
In our paper until you reach paragraph
six. Paragraphs 0, 7, 8, and 0, aro not
given by Howling and are not given by
Rov. Ray. Those four paragraphs con
stitute tho "Extreme Oath." Tho "Ex
treme Oath of tho Jesuits" is published
on pages 119-20 12 of "The F.i.glneor
Corps of Hell," by Col. Edwin A. Sher
man. Tho Uhited American also pub
lishes these oaths and says:
"These oaths can bo found In Rov.
John Dowling's 'History of Romanism,'
edition of 1 H 15, pages 185-8-7; also in
Text B wk of Poihtv,' published by
Griffin & Stmon, Philadulphia; also
Hurrow'a 'Supremacy of tho Pope,'
pages 42 55; al.-o In 'Foxes ana Fire
brands,' one of the many books by Rov
James Usher, archbishop of Armagh
The form of tho bishop's oath you can
hnd In tho works of Cardinal IS.ironius,
'Ecclesiastical Annals,' vol. 10, page
imh, and vol U, page lotu
Tho editor of The American realizes
that many good men, loyal chizens.and
tried patriots, who have had little ex
IKJrienco with the world outside of their
little town, who have never lived in
these, large cities since lying.hypocrisy,
boodllng and official corruption became
the rule and the practice under the
guidance of the Socit ty of Jesus, regard
the statements made and capable of
proof as wild exaggerations, the emana
tions of bigoted minds, intent on stirring
up religious strife. From all such we
only a-k the opportunity of being heard.
If we cannot convinco them that what
we publish is tho truth, that Rorno is
assiduously and Insidiously working to
model the laws of this country after her
laws; if we cannot prove that she is
true to tb.060 oaths; that she sub
vert iiber'y of speech; wais upon
our public schools; teaches and
practices tho maxim "the end justi
fies the means:" that she brands all
Protestant wives as concubines and all
Protestant children as bastards, we will
most humbly apologize for misrepre
sonting or maligniDg Romanism.
Those oaths are true.
The canon law is true.
And Romanism is the man oi sin de
scribed in the Bible.
Read, think, act, vote but In tho end
keep Romanists out of office. They are
"Rtman Catholics first, and citizens
afterward." That is their boast.
THE JESUITS.
Through the courtesy of Col. Edwin
A. Sherman, a 32nd degree Mason, we
are enabled to give to our readers the
secret monitor or Monita Sccreta of tho
Jesuits, together with an account as to
how it came into his possession.
To attempt to properly designate
creatures that would practice, that
would teach, the diabolical things prac
ticed by the members of the Society of
Jesus, and taught by the same agents,
as they do practice and do teach, as re
vealed by a perusal of Col. Sherman's
work, would be a task no man would
like to undertake, and we shrink from
applying to them any other name than
that chosen by themselves, which has
become the synonym for trickery, de
ceit, cunning, lying, double-dealing and
murder.
Therefore friends, brothers, Ameri
cans, we urge you to read carefully, and
to ponder well, the doctrines of the Jes
uits as published in these columns and
as translated by Col. Sherman.
The Jesuits have undertaken to re
establish the claim of the pope to tern'
poral power over the whole world.
The re-establishment of the temporal
power of the pope of Rome would wipe
out every vestige of liberty, overthrow
every republican institution and erect
un their ruini an tccliatlcl des
potism baekrd by the Inquisition with
all iu l.orrors and all Ha ava?r ry. TbU
the Amerlean people am not prt red
to accept; yet the work of these agent
has l'en done so quietly and at the
time time o effectively, that today we
are not the freemen wo have long
boasU'd of b- inir, for they have in
sinuated thetiiM'lvea into so many confi
dential posltiors that tl.ey aissfs not
only the pjiilk-.il secret, but, In many
Instances, tho business and family se
crets of tl.o eople, to such an extent
that they are able to turn a freeman
into a slave whenever tho policy of the
church demand such a transformation.
For that reason it behoove Ameri
can to give heed to tho word of Col.
Sherman,.
For our self and )ur reader we thank
him for his courtesy in allowing us to
puhliih tho first chapter of hi book.
No doubt it will do much goxd.
WHAT IS THE MATTER?
It looks very much to us as though
a plan had been jierfocted for the de
feat of the firo and police commission
bill which was Introduced by Allan. It
has now been nearly three weeks since
it was rcorted back to the house for
passage, yet it has not been taken up.
If it is not passed soon it will never bo
come a law, for there are few days re
maining of the regular session, and if it
is not sent to the governor before the eve
of adjournment, he will veto it without
any fear of having it passed over his
veto If our friends do not want to be
accused of things they are not guilty of,
they had bettor give the people of
Omaha needed relief. Rosewator and
the Romans have owned the city long
onough. Give us a change.
The acquittal of Bishop McNamara
at Liberty, on the 25th lnst., on the
trumped-up charges of slander against
Fathers Lillis, Dalton and Bishop
Hogan, goes to show that there still
live men In this country who are above
sectarianism, nnd who will see justice
moled out to those who aro persecuted
for a cause. Long llvo Judge Broadus,
of Liberty, Clay county, Missouri, for
the manly stand he has taken in the
alKjve cause. His action has shown
hlin to bo a typical American one
above sectarian feeling, ono without
prejudice, a broad-minded man, and
last but not ltast, a fearless and just
man, who neither fears "Rome or tho
devil." Such men should bo appre
ciated, such men wo want in our halls
of congress, and such men we must
have. He Is an American for America,
entertaining purely American prin
ciples, and will at all times and in all
places, be recognized as a true patriot,
ono that can be trusted, and ono that
cannot be bought by Rome. Such a
man is Judge Broadus, of Liberty,
Clay county, Mo. '
The Rt. Rev. John A. Watterson, of
Columbus, Ohio, cousin of our noted
journalist, Henry Watterson, of the
Vourier-Juurnul, Louisville, Kentucky,
and a Roman Catholic bishop, delivered
a lecture before the Young Men's
Christian Association, in Columbus, on
tho 25th inst. Tho idea of Protestants
inviting an apostate and pervert to
come and lecture to them is preposter
ous. It is needless to tay our citizens
are on tho verge of insanity, that ere
long they will condescend to kiss the
poje's toe. What say you, true Amer
icans? The time has come for action,
it is ripe for Protestants to declare
their principles, and it is time that
they come to a realization oi where
they are, and upon what kind of ground
they are standing. It is time to stop
catering to Rome. Don't invite a lec
turer who has left your faith and be
lieves not in it to sjHiak in your Prot
estant buildings. When did a Roman
ever open his church to a Protestant
lecturer5
It is said that W. S. McComas will
be an Independent candidate for mayor
of Chicago. Mr. McComas should wait
and see who the Democrats name, be
fore expressing the belief that the pa
triotic Americans will rush to his sup
port. If Hopkins or one of his gang is
nominated Mr. McComas can best sub
serve tho Interests of the true Ameri
cans by getting his friends to support
Geo. B. Swift. A vote for McComas
would be a vote for Hopkins. We ask
Americans to go slow. Don't put any
clubs in Rome's hands!
Our friend Hile, who has run tho
Kansas City Eagle, the organ of the A.
P. A. of Kansas, for several years, has
never received the support his efforts
would entitle him to. For that reason
we urge upon the friends of true Amer
icanism in this city tho propriety of
giving him all the assistance they can.
His paper stands up in the front rank
of patriotic journalism, and if he does
not get the support of Protestants, he
certainly will notgetthat of Romanists.
It was our intention to show some of
the inside history of Alexander Sulli
van's life this week, but we find it will
occupy more space than we can devote
to It. We advise you to read next
week's paper. Learn who the politi
cians place in charge o' their commit
tees. Sullivan is central committeeman
for the Republican party in the Twenty
fourth ward of Chicago.
The sale of the Chicago Herald by
John R. Walsh and his reported pur
chase of a majority of the ttock In the
InUr Dctan, when considered in con
nection with the wholesale revolt of
Roman Catholics from tho Democratic
(arty, ought to be all tke evidence that
the public should dslre to couvinee
them that Rome Uhevc Republican
ism lain tho ascendancy. She I git
ting on that tide so a to get as many
appointment a ptsslblc. She wants
to rule Chicago for the next two yearn.
Rkv. H. I). Brown, the eloquent
divine who so effectually answered
Jesuit Sherman in Omaha eonie two
years ago, has prepared several new
lecture ou the all-absorbing suhji-ct of
Roman aggression and priestly inter
ference in politico, and 1 ready to an
swer ca!N in either Iliino's, Iowa, Kan
sas, Missouri, Colorado or Nebia-ka.
You can address him in care of The
America, Omaha.
THAT lady teacher in an Omaha pub
lic school w ho an had unruly boy in her
deMtrtiuent, and called the parish priest
in to make him mind, need not be sur
prised if her services are not needed
after thii year. Tho people do not ex
ect priest to bo called into the public
schools to preserve order.
The Roman Catnolic.O'Shaugnessey,
told a friend of ours that "we have one
good friend whom wo can tie to when
that fire and police bill comes up. It is
Tom Crane." We didn't think Tom
was that smooth.
WE have received $1 00 from C. B.
Maxwell, of Uoutzdale, l'enn., to bo
exiH'uded for the relief of the drouth
sufferers. Thanks.
Who will the Democrats nominate
for mayor of Chicago? Will ho be one
of the gang?
MR. (iUOYKK'S POSITION.
It Is So Neurly the Correct One That We
Kmlorse It Fully.
Editor American Dear Sir: 1 am
just in receipt of Senate File No. 115,
being an act to amend charters of met
ropolitan cities. While I much prefer
keeping out of these questions and leav
ing their discussion to those of more
mature years and of lurger property in
terests, still I feel it a duty to turn my
strength and thought, humble though
It may bo, to throwing some light onto
the formation of the organic law of
Omaha, where all my possessions have
been made and are.
Even with these thoughts in mind I
would, I think, shrink from the public
gazo which will turn on me by tho pub
lication of this epistle, were it not for
the fact that from the early age of
seven years I have loved the profession
of civil engineering. It has been my
hope, if not capable o adding lustre to
that profession at least to maintain it
in its elementary purity. In my judge
ment, after thirteen years of public
service, it is not conducive of pure en
gineering skill to combine tho office of
city engineer and chairman of the
board of public works. Why?
Because, first, an attorney at the bar
ought certainly not set at the same
time as judge on tho case.
Second, the duty of an engineer in
his official capacity to the citizens is
ministerial and not executive.
His duty it is to say scientifically and
mathematically how much
It is his duty in cold calm deductions
to draw out and tabulate, not only the
size of the irou in the bridge, the diam
eter of sewers, with their grades and
various ramifactions and tanks under
ground; tho crown, grades, width,
stops and ma'.erials of street pavements,
etc., etc., but knowit g all these things,
to easily, methodically and accurately
determine the true adjustment under
the contract between the employer and
employed. Does anyone for a moment
suppose that ho can be the same dis n
terested calculator of facts if he is
one of the contracting parties the
party of the first part the chairman
of the board of public works?
With much more propriety could the
locomotive engineer be the conductor,
but practical men have decreed that
his place is at the throttle.
What competent superintendent of a
railroad wishes at the same time to be
his own engineer, although ever so
competent and accomplished a civil
engineer himself, he has, and of neces
sity must, have his unbiased advising
engineer to report to him the cold facts
and conditions.
But you ask, do you think best to go
on with our monkey and parrot dual
government between the board of pub
lic works and city engineer? Most
emphatically, no! The city engineer
should not be city engineer, but engi
neer to the board of public works.
As the locomotive engineers, even
though far superior to the conductor in
mechanical skill, runs tho cargo of liv
ing freight to the beck of the conductor;
or as the railroad civil enginer, far
superior in professional lore to the
superintendent, is still under his direc
tion, so would I have the city engineer
under the direction of the board of
public works.
Make the offices as they should be
first, and select the men afterwards.
Tho day was when public offices had
to be adjusted to fit royal descendants:
such conditions and governments still
exist, but have not in this country since
1779. Yours truly,
Alva J. Grover,
For eleven years assistant and deputy
city engineer of Omaha.
BANISH THE JESUITS.
That Will Furnish the Only Per
manent Remedy Against
That Form of Corruption and Misrule
Hbit h Is Incident to the Spoil
tern In Polities.
THE JESUIT LOH11Y.
Let u examine thl-"ubj ctcarcfully,
for it affoid a clew to the solution of
many vexatious problems.
In this paper I shall use the word
lobby to signify ersous, not members
of a legislative tx dy, who make it their
business to Influence legislation by per
sonal agency. And when I assert that
there is in the capital of tho United
States n Jesuit lobby, I mean that an
order of monks, founded by Ignatius
Loyola in the Sixteenth century, and
acknowlt dgirg allegiance solely to
their foreign master who res iles at
Rome, huvesti althily intrenched them
selves here, and have been for years ex
erting an illicit and corrupt influence
over congress in the interest of the Ro
man Catholic church.
This order of monks, called the So
ciety of Jesus, is the most extraordinary
body of men ever organized for any
purpose at any time anywhere in the
whole world. Its members are sworn
to oerpetual poverty and celibacy, and
to implicit obedience to the general of
theirordor Its original and paramount
object is to re-establish throughout
Christendom the sovereignty of the Ro
man pontiff. The underlying principle
of their philosophy is that tho end jus
tifies tho means; and hence expediency
and inconsistency have, from the begin
ning, been such conspicuous features in
Jesuitical conduct, that the very word
Jesuitical has become a synonym of
perfidy, atd a term of reproach. So
that to say of a man that he has a Jes
uitical conscience is equivalent to the
grossest intuit. Thesa men unite tho
functions of scholars, statesmen, dip
lomatists, teachers, philosophers, and
priests. To be Dr. Jekylland Mr. Hyde
at one and the same time has been ac
counted a rare stroke of perverted gen
ius; but the Jesuit is all sorts of men in
ono. All in all. he is the rankest weed
that ever grew in the jungle of Knave's
Acre meaner in spirit than Shake
speare's Calibon, more contemptible in
his total lack of consistency than
Proteus, and yet more dangerous than
Macbeth, who murdered his own guest
while asleep at midnight. Under cover
of a devout exterior, ho is forever
striving after power and dominion; and
when he has attained these, he invari
ably applies them to promote the de
testable intriguing schemes of his order.
It has been said, and it is true, that
the dogmas of tho Jesuits break all
bounds of civil society; authorize theft,
perjury, falsehood, tho most Inordinate
ana criminal impiety, and, in general,
all passions and wickedness; teaching
the nefarious principle of secret com
pensation, equivocation, and mental
reservation; extirpating every senti
ment of humanity in their sanction of
homicide and parrioide; subverting the
authority of government, and, in fine,
overthrowing the practice and founda
tion of religion, and substituting in
their stead all sorts of superstition, with
magic, blasphemy and adultery.
It is hard for tho mind to grasp the
full and terrible signification of such a
statement as this, especially when it is
applied to a bedy of men whom most
people in this country have, through
inattention to their history, past and
current, been accustomed to regard as
a common religious order, devoid of
political purposes, and actuated only by
an esprit du corps compatible alike w'th
private charity and public policy. It
seems utterly incredible. If I had not
myself studied the provincial letters of
Blaize Pascal, and the writings of Von
Ranke, Macauley, Froude fnd D'Au
bigne, I should hesitate to accept it as
historic truth. If I had not read the
decrees expelling them from all the
civilized countries of the world, except
our own, I should have doubted the
fairness of such a statement. Read the
history of the Jesuits and judge for
yourselves. In the end you will agree
with me, and will confess that the
American Protective Association has
not too soon commenced the work of
bringing the people to a knowledge of
the dangers which menace our institu
tions from this strange source of pesti
lential doctrines.
So far, I have cited only those au
thorities which are opposed to the Jes
uits. It might be better to submit the
written testimony of some distinguished
member of their own society: and hence
I shall reproduce a letter whose au
thenticity is vouched for by Sir liar
court Lees, an English nobleman, who
found the m nuscript in the library of
the Earl of Oxford. This letter was
written in 1088, soon after the Hugue
not persecution in France, by Father
Lachaise, a Jesuit, and the corfessor of
Louis XIV, to Father Peter, another
Jesuit, who was at the same time con
fessor of James II, of England. It is a
lucid and succiuct manual of Jesuitical
procedure, and when it has been care
fully studied, the situation at this capi
tal may be understood. Though it is
precisely such a letter as ono devil
might write to another, yet it outlines
the policy of the Society of Jesus, as I
have ooserved in Wa hington. In tpite
of it length, therefore, I shall ask you
to read It all:
"WORTHY Friend: I received your
of tho 20 th Juno last, and am
g!al to hear of your good success,
and that our party gain ground 1
so fast in England; but concerning
the question you have put to me,
that is: 'What is the b.-st course to
take to root out all heretic;-?' I an
swer, there are divers way to do that,
but we must consider which Is tho best
to make use of in England. 1 am sure
you are cot ignorant of how many
thousand heretics we have in France,
by the power of our dragoons, converted
in the space of one year; and by tho
doctrine of those booted apostles,turned
more in one month than Christ and His
apostles could in ten years. This is a
most excellent method, and farexcells
those of the great preachers and teach
ers that lived since Christ's time. But
I have spoken with divers fathers of
our society who do think that your king
is not strong enough to accomplish his
design by such kind of force; so that we
cannot expect to have our work done in
that manner, for the heretics are too
strong in tho three kingdoms; and
therefore wo must seek to convert them
by fair means, before we fall upon them
with fire, sword, halters, goals and
other such like punishments; and
therefore, I can give you no better ad
vice than to begin with soft, easy
means. Wheedle therm by promises of
profit and places of honor, till you have
made them dip-themselves in treason
able actions against the laws estab
lished, and then they are bound to serve
for fear. When they have ;done thus,
turn them out and serve others so by
putting them in their places; and by
this way gain as many as youican; and
for the heretics that arein places of
profit and honor, turn them out or sus
pend them on pretense of misbehavior,
by which their places aro forfeited, and
they subject to what judgment you may
please to give upon. Thea you must
form a camp that must consist of none
but Catholics, this will make the here
tics heartless, and conclude all means of
relief, then recovery is gone. And
lastly, take the short anditao best way,
which is to surprise the heretics on a
sudden; and to encourage,, the zealous
Catholics, let them sacrifice all and
wash their hands in their blood, which
will be au acceptable offeringto God.
And this was tho method I '.took in
France, which hath well, you'see, suc
ceeded; but it cost me manyltthreats
and promises before I could bring it
thus far, oui" king being'a long time
unwilling. But finally I got him on the
hip; for he had lain with his daughter-in-law,
for which I would, by nomeans,
give him absolution till he had given
me an instrument, under his ,own hand
and seal, to sacrifice all the heretics or
Protestants in one day. Now, as soon
as I had my desired commission, I ap
pointed the day when this should be
done; and, in the meantime, mace
ready some thousands of letters, to bo
sent into all parts of France in one
fortnight. I was never better pleased
than at that time, but the king was af
fected with compassion for the Hugue
nots, because they had been a means to
bring him to his crown and throne; and
the longer he was under it the more
sorrowful he was, often complaining and
desiring me to give him his commission
again; but that I would -by no per
suasion do, advising him to repent of
that heinous sin, and also telling him
that the trouble and horror of his spirit
did not proceed from any thing of evil
in those things that were t j be done,
but from that wickedness that he
had done, and that he must resolve to
undergo the severe burden"of troubled
mind for one of them or the other; and
if he would remain satisfied as it was,
his sin being forgiven, there-would, in
a few days, be a perfect atonement
made for it, and be perfectly reconciled
to God again. But all this would not
pacify him, for, the longer the more
restless, and I therefore ordered him to
retire in his closet, and spend his timo
constantly in prayer, wiihout permit
ting any one to interrupt him; and this
was in the morning early, when, the
evening following, I was to send away
ail my letters. I did, indeed, make tho
more haste, for fear he should disclose
it to anybody; yet I had given him a
strict charge to keep it to himself; and
the very things I most feared, to my
sorrow, came to pass; for, just in the
nick of time, the devil, who hath at all
times his instruments at work, sent the
prince of Conde to the court and asked
for the king; he was told tbat-hewas
in his closet and would speak with no
one. He impudently answered 'that
he must and would speak ,with him,'
and so went directly to his closet; he,
being a great peer, no man durst hinder
him. And being come to the king, h
soon perceived by his countenance thut,
he was under some great trouble, of
micd, for he looked as If he had been
going into the other world. 'Sir,' said
he, 'what is the matter with you?'
The king at first refused to toll him,
but he, pressing hard upon him, at lest
the king, with a sorrowful complaint,
burst out, and said: 'I have given
Father Lachaise a commission, under
my hand, to murder all the Huguenots
in one day, and this evening will tho
letters be dispatched to all parts, by
the post, for the performing of It, so
that there is but email timo left for any
Huguenot subjects to live, who havo
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