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THE AMERICAN. ASSASSINATION OF PRES. LINCOLN Every Person Implicated In the Diabolical Plot a Ro man Catholic. Standpoint Occupied by Ex Priest Chlniquy, Who was the Pres ident's Close f ricnJ. Father Chin'.quy, the apostate Cath olic priest, who has been lecturing in Baltimore, In conversation with Morning Herald reporter, made number of statements regarding the assassination of President Lincoln which are not to be found In the his tories of the period, and accounts for that lamentable tragedy: ' "I am a French Canadian by birth, aid he to the reporter, "and was born In Kamovaska, Canada, in 1809. Both of my parents were Catholics, and I was, of course, brought up in that faith. From a very early age I was destined for the priesthood, and my education was conducted with that end always In view. Having been ordain ed, I arose very rapidly in the estl matlon of my religious superiors as well as in popular favor, and was soon looked upon as one of the most prom ising members of the Canadian priest hood. My work In the cause of tem perance brought me into special prom inence, and I became widely known all over Canada, and, indeed, in the Catholic church everywhere. ' "In 1851 Catholic bishops and clergy from all over North America met in secret conclave at Buffalo, N. V., and there the question was discussed, and It was decided to seize the cities of North America for the Catholic church. The plan adopted was to bring Cathplic emigrants from Europe In sufficient numbers to gain control of the city governments by popular Tote. The attempt was carried out to some extent, and was successful at least in New York. It was partlcu larly the desire of the church to get possession of the school fund in the various cities in order to use it for the benefit of Catholicism. The well remembered struggle for the expulsion of the Bible from the public schools in Cincinnati in 1S70 was the out growth of the action of the conclave In 1S51. "At this same conclave I was assign ed to go to Illinois with a band of French Canadian Catholics and to found a colony or coionies. Colonists also came from Fiance, and early in 1852 I founded my colony at St. Anne Kankakee county, 111. A chapel or church was built, and we had a con gregation of about 500 souls. "In 1858. after several years of tudy and many trials, I determined to leave the Church of Rome, whose doctrines I no longer believed. It was on Saturday evening that I reached my final determination, and the next morning I went into the pulpit and told my congregation of the step I was about to take, and my reasons After talking to them for two hours I put the matter to a vote, and all but fifteen of my 300 parishioners ex pressed their Intention of following me. This action, when it became known, created no little excitement all over the country. About a year later we joined the Chicago Presbytery, and afterward the Canadian , Presbytery to which we still belong. "Previous to this Abraham Lincoln bad defended me when I was prose cuted by the church, and when, some time after our withdrawal from the . church our colony was theatened with destruction from famine, he came for ward and for our benefit delivered a lecture, In which he denounced the or der of the Jesuits with the greatest boldness. This made our former friendship all the stronger. "In 1862 a Canadian Jesuit priest was converted through my teaching, and from him I first learned of a plot of that order to assasinate Mr. Lin coin. He told me that the plot was first laid in 1S6H- I went at once to Washington, and in a conference with Mr. Lincoln warned him of what I had learned. He told me that he was al ready informed of the matter by Mr. Samuel F. B. Morse, the telegraph in ventor, who had heard it by chance while In Rome. Mr. Morse was not a Catholic. "About a year afterward I convert ed another Jesuit priest, who had ab solutely no knowledge of any other convert, and by him I was told the same story. 1 again went to Wash ington and warned - the president. After the assassination, while I was in San Francisco, another Jesuit priest gave me, for a third time, identically the same account of the plot In the order against the president. While 1 was seeking information in regard to the crime I met the Rev. F. A. Con well, of Chicago, who related the fol lowing: "Ninety miles northwest of St Pajil, Minn., is the little village of St. Joseph, settled by Roman Catholics, and with a college for the education of priests. On the 14th of April, 18G5, at 6 o'clock In the afternoon, two men drove up to the village hotel; one was the Rev. F. A. Conwell, chaplain of the first Minnesota regiment and the other was Horace P. Bennett, of St. Cloud about ten miles eastward. While Mr. Bennett was attending to the horse in the barn the landlord, J. H. LInneman .who has charge of the friary, and wae purveyor for the priests, told Chaplain Conwell that President Lincoln and Secretary Sew ard were assassinated. And when Mr. Bennett returned from the barn to the tavern the landlord reiterated the statement to both his guests. "This was not later than 6:30 p. m., and the assassination of Lincoln did sot occur till about 10 p. m. Allow ing for the difference In time between St Joseph and Washington the news reached St. Joseph ai least two hours before It occurred. The two men make affidavit of the stoat, sworn to September 6, and Octo ber 18, 1883. Landlord LInneman, twmyer (or the priests, refuses to swear, but make a wr)'"n tleclara tion. October -i). !. (i.i ) signed, ayiug thiii he ii.l Coi.i. i, a:ui Mr. B?nnt'tt thai li had !. itiis rumor in liis s ore fiuai pi ;!e wiij came In and out; but lie n.u.oi rtuten;tx-r from whor.:." H al uf nieci.try probably saved the landlords lif1. The piles; tf St. J ispa we.-e c j;nlant of (he p'oi to Lcia9iua.e o.n and Seward. "Without a si::ele end rtim the ooa !ira:.rs wc:e Kotv.a.t i j'.h'iAi It :s true that Alzerota. Payie a: .4 llar oij u.'-ktj fur Proust..at i::;:iistrs when they v . t- be luir.it. but thv had been c: si !.'.ed Cath He, till then. John V iikes Booth was a proso'yte to .l.Iioiicism, and so were Atzeroth, I'ane and Harol '.. l'.:t had their fatii-r confessors apea.ed with them on the scaffold thai would have opened the eyes of the American people to clearly see that the a (supin ation of Lincoln and Seward wore planned and executed by Jtsuit p ics-s. The murderers were Instructed to coii' ceal their religion. Such Is ths doc trine , of the Catholic church. SL LIguorl says: " "It Is often more to the glory of God and the good of our neighbor to conceal our religious faith, a when we live among heretics we can more easily do them good In that way; or if by declaring our religion, we cause some disturbance or deaths, or even wratn of the tyrant.' LIguorl Theologia, II. 3.) "Dr. Mudd, at whose place Booth stopped in his fl'ght, wa3 a Catholic and so was Garrett, in whose barn Booth was killed. "After the murder Father Cliinlquy went to Washington In disguise. He found that the influence of Rome at the capital was almost supreme. The only statesman who dared to face the nefarious influence of Rome was Gen. Baker. But several other statesmen confessed that without doubt the Jes uits were at the bottom of the plot; and sometime this would appear so clearly In evidence before She mill tary tribunal that It was feared it could not be kept from the public. Mrs Surratt was a Catholic, and her house was the common rendezvous of the priests. "Booth, the assassin himself, was confirmed in this very city of Balti more. He was but the tool of the Jesuits. He was taught by thein that the pope had called Jeff Davis his dear son, and had taken the southern confederacy under his protection. He was taught that Lincoln was an apos tate, that he had been baptized In the Catholic religion, had rebelled against It and broken his oath of allegiance to the pope. He was taught that It was his religious duty to slay this infa mous enemy of his church. "Compare other murders known to have been plotted and executed by Jesuits with this one and you will find that they resemble each other as one drop of water resembles another. Compare the last hours of the Jesuit, Ravalllac, the assassin of Henry IV., who absolutely refused to repent, though suffering the most horriffle tortures on the rack, with Booth, who, with an unset broken leg. the bone al most puncturing the flesh, writes In his dally memorandum: "I can never repent, though we hated to kill. Our country owed all its troubles to him (Lincoln), and God simply made me the Instrument of his punishment.' "I found that the influence of Rome was almost supreme in Washington. Several of the government men with whom I conversed told me that they had not the least doubt that the Jesu its were at the bottom of the crime They were afraid to let the crime come out lest the priests should be implicated, and in the event of their execution they knew that riots, blood, fire and devastations must follow, and these the country, In its then divided state could not sustain." Evading Real Issues. The weakness of the case of those who are vigorously opposing the lm- mijtration restriction bill is shown by their persistent refusal to meet fairly and squarely the real and es sential issue involved In the proposal of an educational test for new arrivals The protest of the German societies of Chicago and of the league recently organized In New lork, as well as the arguments advanced in congress by such men as Senator Caffrey, deal with but one aspect of the problem. They harp upon the obvious and ad mitted fact that illiteracy is not al ways and necessarily a sign of vi- ciousncss and incapacity, and Indulge in irrelevant, emotioral appeals to principles which no friend of the edu cational test dreams of surrendering. That immigration has done much for the development of the country is not questioned by any sane man. That It tan and will do still more is equally beyond dispute. That an edu cational test If applied a hundred or even fifty years aeo, would have barred out thousands of worthy, use ful and desirable citizens, to the great detriment of the country, is also readily and cheerfully conceded. Why, then, urge considerations that have absolutely no bearing upon the ques tion we are called upon to settle here and now? What Is this essential question? Simply this, whether or not the coun try needs a rest from the work of ab sorption and assimilation Imposed by a practically unrestricted immigra tion. Today we only exclude paupers, criminals, diseased persons and con tract laborers. If we need no further restriction in the interest of the American standard of wages and liv ing, the educational test is indeed un necessary and improper; but those who admit that present restrictive measures are inadequate are bound to supply a better and fairer test than that of ability to read and write, a test so psrfect as to exclude all un worthy applicants and admit all worthy ones. The champions of the immigration bill recognize that here and there injustice would result, but they most emphatically deny that any great number of desirable immigrants would be shut out or that the law would stop immigration. Are not the labor organizations better authorities on the need of further restriction than the societies now fighting the Lodge bill? Chicago Evening Post Tee, we have plenty of this issue. We can fill your order. Ten for SO cents; fifty for $1.25; 100 for $100; 100 tor $7.60; 1,000 tor $10.00. j A. P. A. PIUNCIPI.E3. Th fallowing- ar the de. Uratlms of fi in. iples adopted by the National Coun cil nf i he A. I". A. at lk-s Mun.-s. "Loyally la true Amerii tniin. which kn neither i-uth. place, r'-e. crwl , nor p.trty. la th lirl 1-.-11111 etnent for vrembershlp In the American Protective ' A. Matlon. 'I'll American Protective Association Is rut a ii.illtl.nl psrtv. nnd dues nut ci ' tritl tha political aitiliattons of It mem- brrs; hut It teaches them to be Ml-nn'.y acme In tha iIim hii of their political duties in or out cf party line. U'caiie u believes (hut all problems c.ntr.ntin our people mill be boo ml solid ly a eon- -tendons dtschutre of the .Julio of citl Xt-iiKhiu by vry individual. " hlle tolerant of all need. It hol Is that Mihjeclioii ami Mipport to anv politi cal power not controlled by Am ricmi c.i izetis, and whxli cl.iini.-t tuual tf not nuatcr sovereignty tliaii the kov eminent of tint I'nited St.ue. la li reconcilable wilh American cltUenliii. It Is there f ne opposed to the holiltiig of ottlces In !:ite. or national no ,-i i.menl hv any Mih.'ect or auiiponer of such eccleiiastlcal nower. "We uphold the constitution of the I'ntted Slate of America anl no portion of u more u...n Its guarantee of rellg Oil I liberty, but we hold I Ins rol kI.iU.i liueity to be guaranteed 10 the Imiiviiliutl, and not to mean that under II protei tiou any un-American ecclc.naatti'Hl power can claim any absolute control over the edu cutlon of children, growing up unoer Ihd slarx and airipes. "We consider the non-aeotarlan free public acliool the bulwark of American Institutions, the best place for the edu cation of American children. To keep them auch. we protest against the em ployment of Htibiecls, of any un-American ecclesiastical power as otllcera or teacher of our public kchools. "We condemn the aupport out of the public treasury by direct appropriation or by contrail of any ectailan school, reformatory or other Institution n t own ed and controlled by public authority. "Kelievlnir that exemption from taxa tion Is equivalent to a Kiant of public funds, we demand that no real or person al property be exempt trom taxation, the title to which is not veste.l In the n.tional or state governments, or In any of their sub-divisions. "We protest against the enlistment In the I'nited Slates army, navy, or the militia of any stale, of any person not an actual citizen of the I'nited States. "We demand for the protection of our citizen laboiers the prohibition of the Im portation of pauper labor, and the re striction of all Immigration to persons who cannot show their ability nnd honest intention to become self-supporting' Amer ican citizens. "We demand the change of the natural thorlzing the naturalization of minors, without a previous declaration of Inten tion, and by providing lhat no alien shall be naturalized or permitted to vote In any state In the union whu cannot speak the language of the land, and who can not prove seven years' consecutive resi dence In this country from tho date of his declaration of Intention. "We protest ngalnsl the gross negli gence and laxity with which tho Judici ary of our land administer (he present naturalization laws, and against the practice of naturalising aliens at the ex pense of committees or candidates as the most proline source of the present prostitution of American citizenship to the basest uses. "We demand that hospitals, asylums, reformatories, or other Institutions In which people are under restraint, be at all times subject to public Inspection, whether they are maintained by the pub lic or by private corporations or Individ uals. "We demand that all national or state legislation affecting financial, commer cial or Industrial Interests be general In character and In no Instance In favor of any one section of the country, or any one class of the people." CANNON LAW. 1. The constitutions of princes are not superior, but subordinate to ecclesiasti cal constitutions. 2. The laws of the emperor cannot dis solve the ecclesiastical or cannon laws. 3. It la not lawful for an emperor (o exact anything opposed to the apostolic rules. 4. It Is not lawful for kings to usurp the things that belong to priests. 5. No custom of anyone can thwart the statutes of the popes. S. Let no resistance be offered to the apostolic (cannon) pre epts, but let them be saiutirerlously rultllled. 7. The yoke Imposed by the holv gee Is to be borne, though It appear Intolerable and Insupportable. s. The FontllT can neither be loosed nor bound by the secular power. 9. That the Pontiff was called God by the pious Prince Constantino, and that as God he cannot be Judged as man. 10. That as Ood he is rar above the reach of all human law and Judgment. 11. That all laws contrary to the can ons and deiy-ees of the Roman prelates are or no rorce. 12. That all of the ordinances of the Pope are unhesitatingly to be obeyed. 13. We ought not even to speak to one whom. the Pope has ex-communicated. . 14. Prtests are fathers and masters, even of princes. 15. The civil law is derived from man. but the ecclesiastical or canon law Is de rived directly from God. by which the Pontiff can. In connection with his pre lates, make constitutions for the whole Christian world, In matters spiritual, con cerning the salvation of souls, and the right government of the church; and If necessary judge and dispose of all the temporal goods of all Christians. Hi. A heretic, holding or teaching raise doctrine concerning the sacraments. Is excommunicated Hnd degraded, and hand ed over to the peculiar court. 17. Secular princes unwilling to swear to defend the church against heretics are excommunicated, and they are laid under an Interdict. IS. The goods of hertlcs are to be con fiscated and applied to the church. IS. Advocates or notaries, favoring heretics, or their defenders, or pleading for them in law suits, or writing docu ments for them, are Infamous and sus pended from olflce. 20. The secular rowers, whether perma nent or temporary, are bound to swear that they will exterminate, according to their nower. all heretics condemned by the church: and a temporal lor l not purg ing his land of heretics, is excommuni cated. 21. Those signed with the cross for the extermination of heretics, reloiee in the privilege granted to the crusaders for the help or tne noiy iana. 22. Thev are absolved from all obliga tions who are In anywise bound to here tics. 23 Whoever dies in nattie against tne unbelieving, merits the kingdom of heav en. 24. We do not esteem those homicides to whom It may have happened In their leal for their mother church against the excommunicated, to Kin some of tnem. 25. The Catholic princes are bound, both by civil end common law. not to receive or tolerate heretics, and much mora are not to permit their rites, or other exercise of their religion, or rather. their false sect, out are most solemnly bound everywhere, to repel and expel them. . sk The following temporal punish- mont ore to be enforced on heretics: let Infamy, and the consequent disqualifi cations for all civil acts. 2nd Intestabili ty, as well active as passive ttnat is, they can neither make nor will Inherit what Is left to them by others!. 3rd Loss of parental power over children. 4th T.n of dowrv. and other privileges granted to women. 5th Confiscation of all goods. Btn inai vassais ana staves nil others are from all. even sworn obligations due to their lord, or another. 7th Capital corporal punishment, es pecially death, and perpetual Imprison ment. . 27. The canon law roroias an tolera tion. 23. That metropolitans and bishops are to ex-communicate him who grants lib erty of conscience. 29. No oath is to be kept toward here tic princes, lords or others. SO. Heretics are to be deprived of all civil and paternal rights. 51. The Pope can aOFoive rrom all tha. 52. Every bishop Is ordinary Judge In a cause of heresy. The reason is because the bishops can ex-offlclo, and ought to extirpate heretics, and Inflict upon them the due punishments, and to this are bound on pain of deposition. Besides are the Inquisitors especially deputed by the apostolic e. Kverv I.Uvp In hl dliveiw Is thousht to be. and In reality 1. a natural in. ivili.it. .r. i i,r.,uv l.oi n iniiU- Korl. ini as to have (he me Mr with thos already mentioned in a cause of heresy. Xi. In everv promissory oath, although ahcolutely taken, there are Main con dition tacitly understool, amongot which are: lt-f ) ran. Iii.l To ave the right and authority of a tiierlor; Snt When the oath suppose tho honor of the apos tolic ee to be Illicit. St. "lht the council of Trent, (the last and great authority of Komni, decree and command that the sacred canon and all general councils, also the other apostolic enactment Issued In favor of ecclesiastical person of ecclesiastical liberty, and aiialnsl It violators, all of which by this present decree It renew, and must be exactly observed by all. EXTUKME OATH OF THK JKSt'JT. v. . now in the oresero e of Al mighty Cod, the blessed Virgin Miry, the blessed Mi. hael the Ari bansel tne hi ed St. John the Hnptit. the holy Apost les St. Peter nnd St Paul and the Saints nnd Sacred Host of heaven, and to you. my ghostly father, the superior general of the socioly of Jesus, founde I hv S.litlt Ignalus l.ool In the pnntirWtlon of Paul the Third, and continued to the present, do, by the w omb ot I lie virgin. Ihe matrix of Cod. and the rod of Jeans Christ declare and swear that his holi ness, the pope, is Christ's vlce-geretit. and Is the true nnd only head of the Catholic or universal church throughout Ihe eaith: and thai liv vimi, r iIia iie.a of Minting and loosing given to bis holi ness by my Saviour. Jesus Christ, he nam power to depose heretical kings, princes, states, comnionw e.iltha and gov ernments, all being lilevul without til sacred contirmatlon. and they may be safely destroyed. Therefore, to the ut most or my power, ! will defend this doctrine and his holiness' right and cus tom Hgiiinst all usurpers of the heretical or Protestant authority whatsoever, es pecially the Lutheran church of tier many. Holland. Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and the now ptelemled authori ties and churches of h'ngland and Scot- lanu, nnq branches of the same now es tablished In Ireland, and on the conti nent of America, and elsewhere, and all adherents In regard that they be usurped and heretical, opposing thesacied church of Home. 'I do now denounce and disown any al legiance as due to any heretical king, prince or stale named Protestant or Lib erals or obedience to any of their taws, magistrates or oflicers. "I ilo further declare that the doctrine of the churches of Kngland and Scotland, of the Calvlnlsts. Huguenots ami others of the name of Protestant or Liberals to be (J. unliable, and they themselves to be damned who will not forsake the same. "1 do further declare that I will help, assist and advise all or any of his holi ness' agents. In any place wherever I shall be. In Switzerland. Germany, Hol land. Denmark, Sweden. Norway, Kng land, Iceland or America, or in any other kingdom or tetntory. I shall come 10, and do my utmost to extirpate Ihe heietlcal Protestant or Liberal doctrines, and to destroy all their psetondeil poweis, legal or otherwise. "I do further promise and dec'a'e that, notwithstanding I am dispensed with to assume any religion heretical for the propagation of the mother church's In terest, to keep secret and private all her agents' councils from time to time, as they entrust me. and not to divide. directly or Indirectly, by word, writing or circumstances whatever, but to exe cute all that shall be proposed, given In charge, or discovered unto me. by you or my ghostly father, or any of his sac- reu convent. 'I do further promise and declare that I will have no opinion or will of mv own or any menial reservation whatsoever, even as a corpse or cadaver (perlnde ac cadaverl. but will unhesitatingly obey each and every command that 1 may re ceive from my superiors In the militia of the pope and of Jesus Christ. "1 hat I will go to anv Dart of tha world whithersoever I may be sent, to the frozen regions of the north, the burn ing sands of the desert of Africa, or the pingles of India, to the centers of civili zation of Kurope. or to the wild haunts of the barbarous savages of America, without murmuring or repining and will be submissive in all things whatsoever. communicated to me. "I do furthermore promise and declare that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretely or openly, against all heretics. Protest ants and Liberals as I am directed to do, to extirpate them from the face of the whole earth, end thnt I will s'"re oelth. er age. sex or condition, and that I will hang, burn, waste, boll, flay, sti angle and burn alive these infamous heretics; rip up the stomach and wombs of their wo men and crush their Infants' heads against the walls In order to annihilate their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly, I will se cretly use the poisonous cup. the strang ulating cord, the steal of the polnard. or the leaden bullet, regardless of the lank, dignity or authority of the person or per sons, whatever may be their condlt on In life, either public or private, as I at any time maybe directed so to do by any agent of the pope or superior of the brotherhood of the holy father, of the society of Jesus. In confirmation or which I hereby dedi cate my life, my aoul and all corporal powers, and with this dagger which 1 now receive, 1 will eubscrine my name, written In my blood. In testimony there of; and should I prove false or weaken In my determination, may my brethern and fellow soldiers of the militia of the pope cut off my hands and my feet, and my throat from ear to ear, my belly opene 1 and sulphur burned therein, with all th punishment that can be mulcted upon me on earth and my soul be tortured by demons In an eternal hell forever. All of which I do swear by the blessed trinity, and blessed sacra ment which 1 am now to receive, to per form, and on my part to keep Inviolably; and do call all the heavenly and glorious host of heaven to witness these, my real Intentions, to keep this my oath. In testimony hereof I take this most holy and blessed sacrament of the eu rharlst. and witness the same further, with my name written with the point of this dagger, dipped in mv own blood, and seal in the face of this holy convent. He receives the wafer from the super ior and writs his name with the point of his dagger, dipped in his own blood, tak en from over the heart. CARDINAL'S OATH. I, , cardinal of the Holy Ro man church, do promise and swear that, from this time to the end of my life I will be faithful and obedient unto St. Peter, the holy apostolic Roman church, and onr most holy lord, the pope of Rome, and his successors, canonlcally and lawfully elected; that I will give no advice, consent or assistance against the pontifical majesty and person: that I will never knowingly and advisedly, to their Injury or disgrace, make public the coun cils entrusted to me by themselves, or by messengers or letters: also that T will give them any assistance In retaining, defending and recovering the Roman papacy and the regalia of Peter, with all my might and endeavor, so far as tho rights and privileges of my order will allow It, and will defend them against all their honor and state, and I will direct and defend, with due form and honor, the legates and nuncious of the apostolic see. In the territories, churches, monas teries and other benefices committed to my keeping; and I will cordially co-operate with them and treat them with honor in their coming, abiding nd re turning, and that I will resist unto blood all persons whatsoever who shall attempt anything against them. That I will by every way and by every means strive to preserve, augment and advance the rights, honors, privileges, the authority of the Holy Roman bishop, our lord the pope and his before mentioned succes sors, and that, at whatever time anything shall be decided to their prejudice, which Is out of my power to hinder, as soon as I shall know that any steps or measures have been taken In the matter. I will make It known to the same, our lord or his successors, or some other person by whose means It may be brought to their knowledge. That I will keep and carry out and cause others to keep and carry out the rules of the holy father, the decrees, ordinances, dispensations, reservation, provisions, apostolic man dates and constitution of the Holy Father Bextu. of happy memory, as to visiting the thresholds of the apostles at certain rreserih! time, accord n t the tenor of that which 1 hav juat read through Thet 1 will e. k out and up. .oe. prosecute and figlK (o.iml ronatil peiseciMuiutn et liupugiiatui uiiii against heretic or schismatic who o.i... our loi.l. the p,,,,. f Rome, and u.s ttefor mentioned succe.t. and this 1 will du with, everr possible effort." (Signature then sent la the pop. I1ISIIOP B OATH. " . leet of the - diocese, from hem-Wor arS will o faithful and obedient to St. peter th.i ApoMie and to the n,. (mn church, and to our I. .id. the hiy p,,e of Koine, and to his succeor, canotitcally enter ing, wiii neither a, l i,e. consent nor d ) thing that i hey ,) , ,. ,,,. bcr or lhat their pet,,n Hiav be s...i-,. or band in aniwise laid upon lhm, or any inn, lies neted to l loin, un.ier anv pretence whatsoever In ..xin.ol Wltii which they thall intrust ma ,y them selves, (heir n..s.i,k. is r i.-iteis. i vvol not knowingly reveal to any, ti their preiudn e, 1 will ,..lp i(,em t ,, (,i -nj keop the Roman papacy mid th rovaltb- of St. I'eler against all men. The re gate of the aposio.lc see. going anl com ing, 1 will honorably neat and help in hi necessities. 'I lie rtltt. honois privi lege and authority of the Holy Hoimui church of our lorl. Ihe pope, ami hi atoresald successors. I will endeivor to preset ve, defend, increase and adv ance. 1 will not be in any counsel, action or treaty, In which shad be plotted against our said lord and Roman church, anv Ihlug lo the hurt or prejudice of their person, right, honor, state or power, and, If I shall know any uch thin to be treated or agitated by any whutio ever. I will hinder It to my utmost, and as soon as 1 rati, I will signify It to our lord. 'I he ordinance and mandate of the pope, I will observe with all my might and cause to be observed by other. "Heretics, schismatics and rebel to our said lord or his successors. I will to my utmost persecute and oppose. "Heretic, scblsiuutlco el lehelle eld em Domino nosiro vel suci essoribu pre dlclls pro posse pereiUar et optiugnabo." "I will come to council when 1 am called, 1 will visit the threshold or th THE FENIAN'S OATH. "I swear by almighty Ood, by all In heaven and eurlh. by the holy prayer book of my holy church, by the blessed Virgin Mary mother of dud, by her sor row and grief at the cross, by her tear and waitings, by the holy apostles St. Peter and Paul, by the glorious aimatle of Ireland St. Patrick by th blessed and holy church of all ages, by the holy national martyrs, to huht upon the Irish soil, to fight fur the Independence of li iand to light until 1 die, wading In Ihe red gore uf the Sassenach (Protestant) for the glorious muse, of nationality; to light until not a single vestige, track or footstep, Is left to tell that the holy soil of lreluud was ever trodden by the Suss en.ich tyrants and murd-rers; and. more over, when (he Protestant robbers anl brutes In Ireland shall be murdered and driven Into the sea like the swine our Lord Jesus Christ caused to be drowned, then we shall embark for, and take Eng land, and root out every vesllge uf too accursed blood of the heretic adulterer, Henry VIII., nnd possess ourselves of the beasts who have so long kept our Island of saints Old Ireland In the chains of bondage, driven us from her shores, ex iles into foreign lands. 1 will wade in th blood of Orangemen and herejlc i Pro testants) who do not Join us and become ourselves. Scotland too, having given aid nnd suc cor to the beast, we shall live In h -r gor. we snail not give up until we liavo re stored our holy faith all over the Br.t sh Isles. To all of this I sincerely and consclen tously swear with my eyes blinded, not knowing who to me administers thli oath. apostles every three years and give an account of our lord of all my pastoral office and of the things belonging to my diocese, to the discipline of my cleig and people. I will in like manner humbly receive and diligently execute the apost olic commands, if I am detained by a lawful impediment. 1 will perform the aforesaid by a member of my i hapter or a priest of my diocese, fully nstrui ted In all things above mentioned. The posses sions belonging to my table. I will neither sell nor otherwise alienate without con sulting the ivoman pootiit. ar ueip in God and these holy gospels of Ood." iHlgnatute). Sent to th Romish Manager. PRIEBT'B OATH. "I , now In the presence of Almighty Cod, the blessed V (i Kin Mary, the blessed Michael the Archangel, the blessed rit, John the Haptlst. lh Holy Apostles 8t. I'eter and Hi. I'uul and the Saints and the rtacre.i hosts ul Heaven. and to you, my lord, 1 do declare from my heart, without mental reservation that the oope Is Christ's vlcar-general and Is the true and only head of the unl- I versal church throughout the earth, and that, by virtue of tne keys of binding and loosing given to his ho lues by Jesus Christ he has Dower to depose he-etlcal kings, princes, states, common! a thsand governments, all being lhexai without nl sacred connrmatlon, and tnat they may safely be destroyed. Therelore, to the utmost of my power. I will defend this doctrine and his holiness' r.ghts unl cus toms against all usurpers of the r'n. ten ant authority whatsoever, especially gainst the now pretended autnor.iy ann church In Knitland and all adherents. In regsrd that they be usurpaland hereticals, opposing the sacred mother of tha cburcn or Hume. "I do denounce and disown any allegi ance as due to any Protestant king, piince or state or obedience to any of their inferior officers. I do further de- lure ihe doctrine of the church ot Kng- land. of Ihe Calvanlsts. Huguenots and other rrotestants. to be damnable and those to be damned who will not for sake the same. i do further declare that I win n'-in. assist and ndvlse all or any of his holi ness' litems In any place wherever I shall be, and to do my utmost to extir pate the I'rotestant doctrine and to des troy all their pretended power, regal or otherwise. I do further promise and de clare that, notwithstanding 1 may be per mitted hv dlsnensatlon to assume any heretical religion (Protestant denomina tions) for the propagation of the mother church's interest, to keep cecrct and pri vate all her agents' counsels hs they en trust me. and not to divulge, directly or Indirectly, by owrd, writing or circum stances whatsoever, but to execute all which shall be proposed, given In charge or discovered unto me by you, my most reverend lord and bishop. "All of which 1, . do swear by the blessed Trinity and blessed Sacra ment which I am about to receive, to nwtnrwn on mv nart to keen Inviolably. and do call on itlt the Hcavemy and Glori ous Host of Heaven to witness my rea Intentions to keep tnis my pain, .in lAdtimonv whereof 1 take this most holy and blessed Sacrament of the Euch arist, and witness the same further with my consecrated hand, in tne presence ui my holy bishop and all the priests who assist him In my ordination to the priest hood." OATH OF THB CLAN-NA-OAEU vw - uu-,ln I- IK. A.ih taken hv thai members of that famous Romish Catho lic society: "I (name In full) do solemnly swear In . v. . A iwiffi.iv r: a.( that T will labor while life is left in me to establish and derend a repunncan iorm 01 guvurn ment in Ireland; that I will keep secret the names and everything connected with the Irish brotherhood from all not en titled to know such secrets; that I will obey and comply with the constitution and laws of the same, that I will pre serve the funds of this order for the cause of Irish revolution alone, as speci fied In the constitution; that I will deem It my special duty and mission to pro mote and foster sentiments of the union, brotherlv love, nationality, among all Irish. I'take this obligation without any mental reservation, holding the same for ever binding upon me. and that any vio lation thereof, or desertion of my duty to the brotherhood Is infamous, and merits the severest punishment, so help me God." This oath the candidate is abjured to keep at the haxnrd of his life. It was printed In the Chicago inter Ocean and was sworn to be correct at the Cronln trial. It was reported by said paper No vember 17, 1SH. Priests and bishops act as chaplJa (or this boly (T) order. 5WII United 4-AR1S. Jan. :i. During th d In the Chamber of Deputies today th estimates of the department public worship M. llerard denoui the danfrs of clericalism." The premier. M. Mellne, deolaj4 there was no ground for such fear, Continuing, he denied the Kovsmtaesst ws composed of clericals, or that si was under pontlflcla) direction, sddtaf that the so-called clerical peril wfsi nmy put forward to divert attention from th socialist and revolutloaAff peril. Kx-Mlnlster Goblet then moved tte sopnMtlon of the church and state which was oefeated by o9 to 192 votatv Several niemliers denounced the Inter ferencof Chief Italibl Zaddocksnaa ta i..e Ksierhnxr affair, whereiipoa A M-liarJ replied that if the chief rssM hml ncted Improperly lie could be 4e prived of his salary. M de Muhy called attention to tt propaganda of English and Geros pastors In various parts of France, ae pouncing them amid applause M "spies" and as being a veritable perU to the existence of th fatherland." The estimates were then adopted. M. Dutrlfi moved the dentinc1atea of me cournruat (or understanding fce twen the French Rovernment and thej Vatican). The motion was defeat, by a tote of 316 to 171. 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