church!" cried that timid friend of the reformer :"You cannot think in what a trouble you will involve yourself! You had infinitely better be quiet and silent!" Luther replied to his kind, but timorous friend, by his writings against the Pope, and by preaching, and by his glorious defence before the Diet of Worms; and by burning the papal bulls! And hence," the ever blessed Reformation!" Half Protestants, and timorous friends, may hang on by the bishop of Brandenburgh's skirts and apron strings; and strive to hold us back, and frighten us with the renewal of papal threatenings of assassination! But we will write, and preach, and declaim against popery, and burn the papal bulls, as heretofore! Sustained by GoD, and the whole body of the native AmERICAN YOUTH, the word fear we do not know! Let them fear who will, ere long, feel a nation's wrath; and the terrors of an eternal world! The Protestant's rallying word was uttered in the Diet of Worms,-" HERE STAND I: I CANNOT DO OTHERWISE: MAY GOD HELP ME; AMEN!" And it is re-echoed from Maine to Georgia, from New York to St. Louis, by every good man!

W. C. B.

New York, November, 1835.

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POPERY,

THE ENEMY OF CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.

PART FIRST.

CHAP. I.

Popery ever the same evil-This denied by Jesuits, and half Protestants Our duty to expose this evil-It is no persecution-Popery a dangerous evil to our Country, as well as to Religion-Popish intolerance is immutable-Cry of no danger A question proposed respecting half Protestants in our land.

"I shall go to Worms, should I encounter, there, as many devils as there are tiles on the houses."-LUTHER.

POPERY is the same, this day, in America, that it was in Europe in the Dark Ages. It does, indeed, want, as yet, the power to execute its sanguinary dogmas. But its fiery genius, and uncompromising intolerance has, in no respect, been changed, or even modified, for the better, by the growing light and improvements of the age. The returns of its power would, therefore, be the return of the savage condition and barbarism of the Dark Ages.

This truth I am anxious to impress on the youth of our country. And it is a truth to which every Christian, and every American citizen, will open their eyes soon. There are some Protestants, it is true, whose interests and habits, immoveable

by age, will not permit them to yield on this point. These take the same ground in this, which many others did formerly to the great and benevolent institutions of the day, when the church began to move in them. And had they lived in the days of Luther, they would have assailed, and opposed his innovations; and lauded Holy Mother, and remained, with great complacence, zealous supporters of immutable old errors!

In the present national impulse we can succeed without them. We shall pursue the same course towards them, which missionaries do towards certain adult and aged Indians. Incapable of moving them from their incurable habits of former thought and action, we shall drop our tears of regret over their unreasonable prejudices, and betake ourselves with prayer, and dependance on God, to gain over all the rest, especially the youth.

Already, indeed, does the great body of our ingenuous young men go decidedly with us. And we shall not rest contented until every youth, male and female, throughout the breadth and length of the land, be won over to the holy cause. And we here give the solemn warning, that before the present young generation be old, the grand moral and political conflict shall have to be fought between them, and the household troops of the foreign despotism, that is pouring in its legions by hundreds of thousands, upon our shores!

And, sons of your gallant fathers, let me tell you, that the issue of the approaching conflict will be most eventful. These questions will soon have to be answered and determined, young republicans of America; and that, too, at no remote day. Is

this glorious Republic to be perpetuated, with all our civil and religious liberties, unimpaired? Or, will you succumb, and tamely submit to become slaves and vassals, on your own soil, to the foreign despotism that is now invading us, and undermining our free institutions, under the mask of the Roman Catholic religion?

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Our ingenuous youth, we are confident, will not permit themselves to be turned aside from the defence of their country by the imposing cry of "Persecution for religion." "It is an affair of religion; a mere question of polemics; a trial of strength between priests of different sects: it is not a question of politics," cry these foreign partisans, "and all religions are here allowed to have an equal and unbounded limitation. Every discreet citizen is bound, therefore, to let the Roman Catholics alone!"

This ludicrous outcry seems to assume that we have actually commenced butchering the innocent Roman Catholics, as these did the Waldenses! Why, we are "letting the Roman Catholics alone." What Jesuit's wit, I pray you, has contrived to make people believe that an attack on dangerous principles, is an attack on a man's body and soul! It is a singular fact in the history of all impostors and false religionists, that this has always been ingeniously resorted to. If you attack a man's folly with wit, or argue to reclaim him from a false religion, "he bellows as he'd burst the heavens;" and cries out upon you, for an assault and battery! Soberly, we do say it, that the history, or logical demolition of a man's errors and heresy, is by no means a bodily assault. And no man resorts to this outcry