Has America nothing to fear from the inquisitors—­from the Jesuits?  Is it true that the “Inquisition still exists in Rome—­that its code is unchanged—­that its emissaries are sent over all the world—­that every nuncio and bishop is an Inquisitor,” and is it improbable that, even now, torture rooms like those described in the foregoing story, may be found in Roman Catholic establishments in this country?  Yes, even here, in Protestant, enlightened America!  Have we then nothing to fear from Romanism?  But a few days since a gentleman of learning and intelligence when speaking of this subject, exclaimed, “What have we to do with the Jesuits? and what is the Inquisition to us?  The idea that we have aught to fear from Romanism, is simply ridiculous!” In reply to this, allow me to quote the language of the Rev. Manuel J. Gonsalves, leader of the Madeira Exiles.

“The time will come when the American people will arise as one man, and not only abolish the confessional, but will follow the example of many of the European nations, who had no peace, or rest, till they banished the Jesuits.  These are the men, who bask in the sunbeams of popery, to whom the pope has entrusted the vast interests of the king of Rome, in this great Republic.  Nine tenths of the Romish priests, now working hard for their Master the pope, in this country, are full blooded Jesuits.  The man of sin who is the head of the mystery of iniquity —­through the advice of the popish bishops now in this country, has selected the Jesuitical order of priests, to carry on his great and gigantic operations in the United States of America.  Those Jesuits who distinguish themselves the most in the destruction of Protestant Bible religion, and who gain the largest number of protestant scholars for popish schools and seminaries; who win most American converts to their sect are offered great rewards in the shape of high offices in the church.  John Hughes, the Jesuit Bishop of the New York Romanists, was rewarded by Pope Pius 9th, with an Archbishop’s mitre, for his great, zeal and success, in removing God’s Holy Bible from thirty-eight public schools in New York, and for procuring a papal school committee, to examine every book in the hands of American children in the public schools, that every passage of truth, in those books of history unpalatable to the pope might be blotted out.”  Has America then nothing to do with Romanism?

But another gentleman exclaims, “What if Romanism be on the increase in the United States!  Is not their religion as dear to them, as ours is to us?” To this the Rev. M. J. Gonsalves would reply as follows.  “The American people have been deceived, in believing that popery was A religion, not a very good one to be sure, but some kind of one.  This has been their great mistake.  We might as well call the Archbishop of the fallen angels, and his crew, a religious body of intelligent beings, because they believe in an Almighty God, and tremble,