The Church of Rome declares all who are not its members to be heretics. It is painful, in view of all these things, to see an old Protestant minister, whose head has been withered by the frosts of seventy winters, openly in the field advocating a Church whose Bishops, Priests, and members are "drunken with the blood of saints." There is but one remaining feature of your singular address to Know Nothing Methodist Preachers to be replied to, and I am through. You assail the new party on the score of its _secrecy_, and of its _concealment_ of its acts from the public. Had this objection come from any one but a Methodist Preacher, and a known advocate of _Class-meetings being held with closed doors_, I would now dispose of it without occupying as much space as I shall do in my concluding remarks! Notwithstanding all the _secrecy_ in the new Order of Know Nothings has been set aside by the act of the National Council which created it; and notwithstanding our members tell all about their Councils, where and when they meet, and our orators read out and publish to the world our obligations, rules, and principles, it is still objected that ours is a secret Order, liable to be used for bad purposes; that we travel about with dark lanterns; that our proceedings are not restrained by the wholesome check of public opinion! Now, this, the great objection to our Order, comes from men who belong to Lodges of Free Masons and Odd Fellows, and who have taken all the _binding_ oaths attached to the different _degrees_ of these respective Orders! The same objection is urged against the American party, by men who belong to the Order of Sons of Temperance, who have deemed a _rigid secret organization_ necessary to combat successfully a _domestic_ evil! It is urged in bitterness against the Order, by demagogues and partisans, who have acted for years with the _secret political conclaves_ of their respective parties, who have held their meetings with _closed doors_--kept their _places_ of meeting a profound secret--and when they have adjourned, they have enjoined _secrecy_ upon all present! Last, but not least, this _secret feature_ is urged against the American organization by the vile apologists for the Catholic Church, and its corrupt Priesthood and membership, in this country. These demagogues know that the Roman Catholic Church is a _secret society_, directed by a talented, designing, and villainous HIERARCHY--absolutely controlled by an _anti_-Republican Priesthood, to a degree which has never been exercised by any political party in the known world! The _Confessional_ is a secret tribunal, before which every member of that Church is required to make known, not only _immoral_ actions, but every thought and purpose of the heart, and upon pain of incurring the anathema of the Church, which is equivalent to a sentence of eternal damnation! The corrupt order of JESUITS, the infamous society of SAN FEDESTI, and the infinitely infernal society of IRISH RIBBON