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THE AMERICAN. A f ASSASSINATION OF PRES. LINCOLN Every Person Implicated the Diabolical Plot a Ro man Catholic. In Standpoint Occupied by Ex Priest Chiniquy, Who was the Pres. Ident'5 Close Friend. - . .t Father Chiniquy, the apostate Cath olic priest, who has been lecturing In Baltimore, in conversation with a Uornlng Herald reporter, made a number ot statements regarding the assassination of President Lincoln, which are not to be found In the hls tvriea of the period, and accounts tor Chat lamentable tragedy: f "1 am a French Canadian by birth," aid he to the reporter, "and was born tn Kamovaska, Canada, in 1809. Both C my parents were Catholics, and I was. of course, brought up In that IsJth. From a very early age I was destined for the priesthood, and my dication was conducted with that end always la view. Having been ordain ed, I arose very rapidly In the esti mation 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 Irom all over North America met in aecret conclave at Buffalo, N. Y., and there the question was discussed, and tt was decided to seize the cities of North America for the Catholic church. The plan adopted was to bring Catholic emigrants from Europe la sufficient numbers to gain control ef the city governments by popular Tt. The attempt was carried out to erne extent, and was successful at least In New York. It was particu 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 f the Bible from the public schools lit Cincinnati In 1870 was the out growth of the action of the conclave in 1851. "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 France, and early in 1862 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 ot study 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 ana told my congregation of the step I was about to take, and my reasons. After talking to thern for two hours I put the matter to a vote, and all but Ifteen 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 assaslnate Mr. Lin coln. He told me that the plot was first laid in 1861. I went at once to Washington, and In a confeience 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. I 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, tdentical'y the same account of the plot In the order against the president. While I was seeking information 1n 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, 1865, 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 was 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 tatement to both his guests. "This was not later than 6:30 p. m., and the assassination of Lincoln did ot occur till about 10 p. m. Allow ing for the difference in time between St. Joseph and Washington the news reached St oseph at least two hours bafora It occurred. "Ths two men make affidavit of ths test, sworn to September 6, and Octo ber 18, 1883. Landlord Linneman, fwrcyer for the priesU, refuses to wear, but make a written declara tion. October M. ls3, duly signal, saying that he told Oonell and Mr. Ileunett that 'he had heard this rumor in his store from people who tame in and out; but he taurmt remember from whom." That lapse of memory probably saved the landlord a life. The priest of St. Joseph were cognizant of the plot to assassinate Lincoln and Seward. "Without a single exception the con spirators were Roman Catholics. It is true that Atzeroth, Payne and Har old asked for Protestant ministers when they wei to be hung, but they bad been coru; ljred Catholics till then. John V : Ikes Booth waa a proselyte to (Vl.ctlU-Ism, and so were Atxeroth, Payne and Harold. But had their fj:!ir confessor appeared with them or. ( ie scaffold that would have opened tiie eye of the American people to clearly aee that the assassin ation of Lincoln and Seward were planned and executed by Jesuit priests. The murderer were instructed to con ceal thetr religion. Such I the doe trine of the Catholic church. St Liguorl says: ""It is often more to the glory of God and the good of our neighbor to conceal our rellgtou 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 ot the tyrant' Liguorl Theologia. 11. 3.) "Dr. Mudd, at whose place Booth stopped in bis flight was a Catholic and so' was Garrett, in whose barn Booth was killed. "After the murder Father Chiniquy 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 the mili 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 ot 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 them that the pope had railed 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 ot 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 horrible tortures on the rack, with Booth, who, with an unset broken leg. the bone al most puncturing the flesh, writes in his daily 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 im migration 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 York, as well as the arguments advanced tn 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 vl ciousness and incapacity, and indulge in irrelevant emotional 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 can and will do still more is equally beyond dispute. That an edu cational test If applied a hividred or even fifty years ago, 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 perfect 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 Yes, we have plenty of this issue. Ws can fill your order. Ten for 10 cnts; fifty for $1.25; 100 tor $3.00; .00 tor $7.60; 1.000 tor $10.00. a. p. a. rut nci rt.r.a. The followir are the declarations of ptliu-tplt-s adapted by in N ittii4l Coun cil of the A. I'. A. at 1 Monies !- iUy to true Americium, hich kmD neither birth, place. ra e. crl, nor party. the nrt r-tulrenie ni lr membership in the American i'rutective Ak iatitm. "The American Protective Asoiation la nut a political rty. and d - not con trol lha political atf.hatiun of It mem bers; liut It te. tics them t.i t lut -i.a t y a. me in the liliir-e ot their political duties in or out of party line. Wau- It believes th.it all problems c-infrontina; our people will Ih bound solid by a cn Si ientious dlhai:e uf tKe duties of cili sensritp by every individu.il. "While tolerant of all creeds. It holla that subjection and support t.i any politi cal power not controlled by Am rlcaii cit laena. and which clxima tHjuai it not greater sovereignty triail the itovernmeiit of the I'nited 6tate. la Irreconcilable with American ntuenship. It I, there fore oppoaed to the holding of offices In atate or national government bv any subject or supporter of such eccls-ilaatica.1 power. "We uphold the constitution of the I'nited States of America and no portion of it more than its gunrantee ot rellg.oua liberty, but we hold this rel:i ua liberty to be guaranteed t the Iml.vidual. and not to mean that under Its protection any un-American ecclesiastical power can claim any absolute control over the edu cation of children, growing up under the stars and stripes. We consider the non-sectarian free public school the bulwark of American Institutions, the best place for the edu cation of American children. To keep them such, we protest against the em ployment of subjects, of any un-American ecclesiastical power as officer or teachers of our public schools. "W condemn, the jupport out Ql the public treasury by direct appropriation or by contract of any sectarian school, reformatory or other Institution not own ed and controlled by public authority. "Believing that exemption from taxa tion is equivalent to a grant of public funds, we demand that no real or person al property be exempt from taxation, the title to which is not vestel In the n.itional or state governments, or In any of their sub-divisions. -We protest against the enlistment In the I'nited States army, navy, or the militia of any state, of any person not an actual citizen of the I'nited Htates. "We demand for the protection of our citizen laborers the prohibition of the Im portation of pauper labor, and the re striction of ail Immigration to persons who cannot show their ability nnd honest intention to becoma self-supporting Amer ican citizens. "We demand the change of the nntural thorlzlng the naturalization of minors, without a previous declaration of Inten tion, and by providing that no alien shall be naturalized or permitted to vote In any state In the union who cannot speak the language of the land, and who can not prove seven years' consecutive resi dence in this country from the date of his declaration of Intention. "We protest against the gross negli gence and laxity with which the Judici ary of our land administer the present naturalization laws, and against the practice of naturalizing 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 Is not lawful for an emperor to exact anything opposed to the apostolic rules. 4. It Is not lawful for klnsrs to usurp the things that belong to priests. 5. No custom of anyone can thwart the statutes of the popes, i 6. Let no resistance be offered to the apostolic (cannon) precepts, but let them be salutiferlously fulfilled. 7. The yoke Imposed by the holv see Is to be borne, though It appear intolerable and Insupportable. 8. The font iff can neither be loosed nor bound by the secular power. 9. That the Pontiff was called Ood by the pious Prince Constantino, and that as God he cannot be judged as man. 10. That as God he Is far above the reach of all human law and judgment. 11. That all laws contrary to the can ons and decrees of the Roman prelates are of no force. 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-communlcated. 14. Priests 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. 16. A heretic, holding or teaching false doctrine concerning the sacraments. Is excommunicated and degraded, and hand ed over to the seculiar 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. 19. 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 otllce. 20. The secular cowers, whether perma nent or temporary, are bound to swear that they will exterminate, according to their power, all heretics condemned by the church; and a temporal lorl not purg ing his land of heretics. Is excommuni cated. 21. Those signed with the cross for the extermination of heretics, re.ioice tn the privilege granted to the crusaders for the help of the holy land. 22. They are absolved from all obliga tions who are In anywise bound to here tics. 23 Whoever dies In battle against the unbelieving, merits the kingdom of heav en. 24. We do not esteem those homicides to whom It may have happened In their real for their mother church against the excommunicated, to kill some of them. 25. The Catholic princes are bound, both by civil and common law, not to receive or tolerate heretics, and much more are not to permit their rites, or other exercise of thetr religion, or rather, their false sect, but are most solemnly bound everywhere, to repel and expel them. , , . 26. The following temporal punish ments are to be enforced on heretics: 1st Infamv, and the consequent disqualifi cations for all civil acts. 2nd Intestabili ty, as well active ns passive Uhat Is, they can neither make nor will Inherit what is left to them by others). 3rd Ioss of parental power over children. 4th Loss of dowry, and other privileges granted to women. 6th Confiscation of all goods. 6th That vassals and slaves and others are from all, even sworn obligations due to their lord, or another. 7th Capital corporal punishment, es pecially death, and perpetual lmprison- "n? The canon law forbids all toleration- .. , t, 28. That metropolitans and bishops are to ex-conimunlcate him who grants lib erty of conscience. 9. No oath Is to be kept toward here tic princes, lords or others. 80. Heretics are to be deprived of all civil and paternal rights. II. The Pope can absolve from all 32. 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 deputes by the a;atnlle see Tverr Mshop In hts dtoeese la thought to be, and In reality Is. a natural in iuii. .,r. UinT.tliv loin intjule iiori. v as to hate the son power with hose alrra l mentioned in a cause uf heresy. U. In every romlrr oath, although absolutely tHkeii, tneie are -vrlln con ditions tarlliy undeiKiood. amongot which are: l-li i can, .'ml To ae the right ami authority of a superior; St.lV hen the oath suppoi.e the honor of (he apos tolic - tii te Illicit. Si. That the council of Trent, (the last and greut authority of li.-mei. decrees and commiitidk that the red canons and all general councils, also the other apostolic enact menis Issued In fsvnr of ectieslasth id persons of ecclesiastical liberty, and hk iinxt Its violators, all of which by this preent decree It renews, and must lie exactly observed by all. EXTREME OATH OF THE JKSl'IT. t. , now tn the presence of Al mighty God. the blessed Virgin Mary, (lie bleesed Michael the Archangel, the bl 'se ed Ht. John the liupttt, the holy Apost les 8t Peter and tit. Paul and the Saint and Haered II. wt of heaven, and to you, my ghostly father, the superior general of the society of Jesus, founded by Hunt Ignatus Loyola la the pontificatlon of Paul the Third, and continued to the present, do, by the womb of the virgin, the matrix of God. and the rod of Jesus Christ declare and swear that his holi ness, the pnpe. Is Christ's vlce-gerent. and la the true and only bead of the Catholic or universal church throughout the earth; and that by virtue of the kes of binding and loosing given to his holi ness by my Saviour. Jesus Christ, he hsth power to depose heretical king, princes, states, commonwealths and gov eninienti, all being Illegal without hi sacred confirmation, anft they tnhf ce safely destroyed. Therefore, to the ut most of my power, I will defend this doctrine and his holiness' right and cus tom against all usurpers of the heretical or Protestant authority whatsoever, es pecially the Lutheran church of Ger many, Holland. Denmark, rlweden and Norway, and the now pretended authori ties and churches of Kngland and Scot land, and branches of the sme now es tablished In Ireland, and on the conti nent of America, and elsewhere, and all adherents in regard that (hey be usurped and heretical, opposing the sacred church of Rome. "I do now denounce and disown any al legiance as due to any heretical king, prince or state named l'rotestnnt or Lib erals or obedience to any of their laws, magistrates or officers. "I do further declare that the doctrine of the churches of Kngland and Scotland, of the Calvlnists, Huguenots and others of the name of Protestant or Liberals to be damnable, and they themselves to be damned who will not forsake the same. "I 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, Hweden, Norway, Kng land, Iceland or America, or In any other kingdom or teirltory, I shall come to, and do my utmost to extirpate the heretical Protestant or Liberal doctrines, and to destroy all their peetended powers, legal or otherwise. "I do further promise nnd dec'ate 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 divulge, 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 red convent. "I do further promise and declare that I will have no opinion or will of my own or any mental reservation whatsoever, even as a corpse or cadaver (perlnde ac cadaveri, but will unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may re ceive from my superiors In the militia of the pope and of Jesus Christ. That I will go to any part of the world whithersoever I may be sent, to the frozen reiflons of the north, the burn ing sands of the desert of Africa, or the plngles of India, to the centers of civili zation of Europe, 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, and that I will sn-re neith er age. sex or condition, and that I will hang, burn, waste, boll, flay, st:ai;gle anil 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 rank, dignity or authority of the person or per sons, whatever may be their condit on In life, either public or private, as I at any time may be 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 of which I hereby dedi cate my life, my soul and all corporal powers, and with this dagger which I now receive, I will subscribe 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 mllltla of the pope cut off my hands and my feet, and my throat from ear to ear, my belly openel and sulphur burned therein, with all the punishment that can be inflicted upon me on earth and my soul be tortured by demons in an eternal hell forever. All of which 1 do swear by the blessed trinity, and blessed sacra ment which I am now to receive, to per form, and on my part to kee Invlolaiily; 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 1 take this most holv and blessed sacrament of the eu cha'rlst, and witness the same further, with my name written with the point of this dagger, (lipped 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 dugger, 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 our most holy lord, the pope of Rome, and his successors, eanonleally and lawfully elected; that I will give no advice, consent or assistance against the pontifical majesty snd person: that I will never knowingly and advisedly, to their Intury or disgrace, make public the coun cils entrusted to me by themselves, or by messengers or letters; also that I 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 the rights and privileges of my order will allow It. nnd 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 and re turning, and that I will resist unto blood all persons whatsoever who shall attempt anything against them. Tliat I will by everv way and by every means strive to preserve, augment and advance the rights, honors, privileges, the authority of the Holv 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 mv power to hinder, as soon as I shall know that any fteps or measures have been taken In the matter. 1 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, reservations, provisions, apostolic man dates and constitutions of the Holy Father Begtus, of happy memory, as to visiting the thresholds of the apostles at certain rreecrlbe.1 times, accord nf te the tenor ef that a hieti I have just read through. That I will se-k out and ip e. prosecute and tight Ion. til eonalti 1-ert.i'uturum rt Impugiiatui uiui m.t heretics or htni4ti. who ipo our lord, the p... of K..me. and his belwie mentioned u.cei.or. and (his 1 will li with every poswble rft rt." (Mgnturej incti sent to (he pep. UlSHOp 8 OATH. "I. elect of the - (IbK-ese, from hencrfoi w are will le faithful and obedient to Hi Peter the Apoalle and to I he Holy Roman church, and to our lord, the holy pope of Home, and to his succesa-jrs, eanonleally enter ing, 1 will neither advice, ruiiMut nor d i thing that they may lose Hie or mem ber or that their peisona may be seised, or hand In anywise laid upon them, or any Injuries ottered to them, un.ler any pretence whatsoever Th counsel with which they h,tll Intrust me by them selves, their inesnehtters or letter. I will not knowingly reveal to any, to (heir prejudice, I will help them to d.fnd and ktwp the Roman papacy and tha rovaltlea of 8t. Peter against all men. The re gate of (he apostolic see. going and com ing, I will honorably treat and heln in hla necessities. The riahta. honors privi leges and authority of the Holy Roman church of our lord, the pope, and Ins aforesaid successors, 1 will endejver te preserve, defend. Increase and advance. I will not be In any counsel, action or treaty. In which shall be plotted against our said lord and Roman church, any thing to (he hurt or prejudice of their persona, null La. honor, state or power, and. If I shall know any such thing te be treated or agitated by any whatso ever. I will hinder It to my utmost, and as soon as I can, I will signify It to our lord. Ihe ordinance and mandates of (He pope. 1 will observe with all my might and cause to be observed by others, "Heretics, schismatics and rebels te sur said lord or his successors, I will te af utmost persecute and oppose. "Heretics, schlsmaticos et tebellea eld em Domino nostro vel successorlbus pre dicts pro posse pereuar et oppugnabo." "I will come to a council when l am called, 1 will visit the threshold of the THE FENIAN'S OATH. "I swear by almighty God, by all In heaven and earth, by the holy prayer book of my holy church, by the bletsed Virgin Mary mother of God. by her sor row and grief at the cross, by her tears and waitings, by the holy apostles 81 Peter and Paul, by the glorious apostle of Ireland St. Patrick by the blessed and holy church of all ages, by the holy national martyrs, to tight upon the Irish soli, to fight for the Independence of lie land to tight until 1 die, wading tn the red gore of the Sassenach (Protestant) for the glorious cause ot nationality; to tight until not a single vestige, track or footstep, la left to tell that the holy soil ot Ireland was ever trodden by the Sass enach tyrants and murderers; and. more over, when the Protestant robbers ant brutes In Ireland shall be murdered and driven Into tha sea like the swine our Lord Jesus Christ caused to ha drowned, then we shall embark for, and take Kng land, and root out every vestige of tne accursed blood of the heretic adulterer, Henry VIII., and 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 the blood of Orangemen and heretics i Pro testants) who do not join us and become ourselves. Scotland too, having given aid and suc cor to the beast, we shull live In h 'r gore. We shall not give up until we have re- f tared our holy faith all over the Br t sli ales. To all of this I sincerely and eonsden tously swear with my eves blin led. not knowing who to me administers nil oath, apostles every three years and give an account of our lord of ail my pastor.il office and of the things belonging to my diocese, to the discipline ot my cie.gy and people. I will In like manner humUy receive and diligently execute the apost olic commands. If 1 am detained by a lawful Impediment. I will perfo: m (he aforesaid by a member of my ha, iter or a priest of my diocese, fully Instrm tel In all things above mentioned. The p .ses sions belonging to my table. I will neither sell nor otherwise alienate without con sulting the human poiiutt. bo ..e.p me God and these holy gospels of God." (Hlgn ituie), Bent to the Romish M.umgor. PRIEST'S OATH. '"I . now In the presence of Almighty God, the blessed Virgin Mary, j the blessed Michael the Archangel, tne , blessed St. John the Haptlst. lh H-dy Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul and the Saints and the Sacred Hosts ol lli-.ivin, and to you, my lord, I do declare from ' my heart, without menial reservation , that the pope is Christ's vlc.ir-tfiner.il and Is the true and only head bf the uni versal church throughout the eartu, and that, by virtue of the keys of binding and loosing given to his ho. lues by Jesus Chris( he has power to dep is he- tlcal kings, princes, states, commonwi a thsand governments, all being lliexu, without uU i sacred confirmation, and that they may I safely be destroyed. Therefore, to the utmost of my power. I will defend this doctrine and his holiness' rights an I ca- j toms against all usurpers of the Pr ten ant authority whatsoever, especially against the now pretended author.ty anl church in Kngland and all adherents, in regard that they be usurpalandhereticals, opposing the sacred mother of lha churcn of Home. , "I do denounce and disown any allegi ance as due to any Protestant king, prince or slate or obedience to any of their Inferior officers. I do further de clare the doctrine of the church ot Eng land, of the Calvanlsts. Hi.guenots und other Protestants, to be damnable und those to be damned who will not for sake the same. "I do further declare that I will help, assist and advise all or any of his holi ness' UKenls in any place wherever I shall be, and to do my utmost to extir pate the Protestant 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 by dispensation to assume any heretical religion (Protestant denomina tions) for the propagation of the mother church's Interest, to keep secret and pri vate all her agents' counsels as they en trust me, and not to divulire, 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 I. . do swear by the blessed Trinity and hlesi-ed bacra ment which 1 am about to receive to perform on my part to keep Invlo'abiy, and do call on all the H' aveniy ai.a Glori ous Host of Heaven to witness my real Intentions to keep this my path. "In testimony whereof I take this most holy and blessed Sacrament of the Euch arist and witness the same further with my consecrated hand, in the presence of my holy bishop and all the priests who assist him in my ordination to the priest hood." OATH OF THE CLAN-NA-OAEL. The folllowlng Is the oath taken by ths members oi mat iamuus lunuiau lie society: 'I (name In full) do solemnly swear In - , I 4 r V. t - C.r.. that I w.ll tne presence o n"'""1.' - the laDor wniie is n-,. ,.i and defend a republican form of govern ment In Ireland: that I will keen secret the names and everything connected with the Irish brotherhood from all not en titled to know such secrets; that I will obey and complv with the constitution and laws of the same, that 1 will pre serve the funds of this order for the cause of Irish revolution nlone. as speci fied In the constitution: that I will deem It my special duty and mission to pro- ... 4 , ..it mo" ( j rtf ths im on mole BIIU .-v... - . -. , brotherly love, nationality, among all , Irlh. I take this obligation without any mental reservation, holding the same for ever binding upon me. and that any vio lation thereof, or neseruon oi my uuiy iu the brotherhood Is Infamous, and merits the severest punishment, so help tne GThls oath the candidate Is ahlured ts keep at the hasard 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 IT. ISM. Priests and bishops aot a chaplsJwa for this boly (T) order. 5UII I'nited. t'ARIS, Jan. :i During the (ikH In the Chamber of Deputies today a the estimates of the depart meat S)f public worship M. Ilerard denoUMS4 the dangers ot clericalism.' The premier. M. Mellne. deed art! there was no ground for such fear, Continuing, he denied the govsrBmsai was composed of clericals, or that at wa under pontlflclal direction, add!) that tha so-called clerical peril wast only put forward to divert attsatlssk from tha socialist and revolutlotMfff peril. Ei-Mlnlster Goblet then moved tfc separation of the church and statsx which was uefealed by 9 to 19$ TOtstV Several members denounced the tatst ferenreof Chief Rabbi Zaddnrkanaa tB lu iCaterhsxy affair, w hnreupo aft. Mallard replied that If the chief raMI had acted Improperly he could be) to prlved of his salary. M. ds Many railed attention t tl propaganda of English and OersaaaS pastors in various parts of Frano. 4s nounclng them amid applause M "spies" and as being a veritable psril to the extsUnre of the fatherland." The estimate were then adopted. M. Dutrlex moved the denunciations of chs coucorust (or understanding tween the French government and tat) Vatican). The motion was dafssAai by a Tote of 31 to 17L The World's Great Blood Purifier is Hood's Sarsaparilla, . 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