"_Are your free institutions infallible?_ Are they founded on _Divine right_? This you deny. Is not the proper question for you to discuss, then, _not_ whether the Papacy be or be not compatible with republican government, but whether _it be or be not founded in Divine right_? If the Papacy be founded in Divine right, it is supreme over whatever is founded only in human right, and then your institutions should be made to harmonize with it: not it with your institutions!!! The real question, then, is not the compatibility or the incompatibility of the Catholic Church with _democratic institutions_, but, Is the _Catholic Church the Church of God_? "Settle this question first. But in point of fact, _democracy is a mischievous dream, wherever the Catholic Church does not predominate_, to inspire the people with reverence, and to teach and accustom them to obedience to authority." Here is still plainer language from the Roman Catholic Bishop of St. Louis: "Heresy and unbelief are crimes; and in Christian countries, as in Italy and Spain, for instance, where all the people are Catholics, and where the Catholic religion is an essential part of the law of the land, they are punished as other crimes." Here is what the _Boston Pilot_ says, a Catholic paper of high standing: "_No good government can exist_ without religion, and there can be no religion without an _inquisition_, which is wisely designed for the promotion and protection of the _true faith_." Here is the _Shepherd of the Valley_, published under the eye and with the approbation of the Bishop of St. Louis: "The Church is, of necessity, intolerant. Heresy she endures when and where she _must_; but she hates it, and directs all her energies to its destruction. If Catholics ever gain an immense numerical majority, religious freedom in this country is _at an end_: so say our enemies--_so say we_." And here is what the _Rambler_ says, a devoted Catholic periodical, high in the confidence of the Bishops and Priests of that Church: "You ask if he (the Pope) were lord in the land, and you were in the minority, if not in numbers, yet in power, what would he do to you? That, we say, would entirely depend on circumstances. If it would benefit the cause of Catholicism, he would tolerate you--if expedient, he would imprison you, banish you, fine you, probably he might even hang you; but, be assured of one thing, he would never tolerate you for the sake of the 'glorious principles' of civil and religious liberty." I could give other quotations of this character, which have met your eye long since, but I forbear, as they would extend my letter beyond the limit I have prescribed for myself. These are the publications which, in part at least, have given rise to the Know-Nothing organization, so cordially hated by you.