To those who fondly dream that the republic of America has nothing to fear from the pretensions of the Pope of Rome, and his loyal subjects, we submit the following extracts: "Heresy (Protestantism) and Infidelity have not, and never had, and never can have any right, being, as they undoubtedly are, contrary to the law of God."--_Bronson's Rev., Jan_., 1852. "Heresy (Protestantism) and unbelief are crimes, and in Christian countries, as in Italy and Spain for instance, where the Catholic religion is the essential law of the land, they are punished as other crimes."--_Bishop Kendrich_. "Protestantism of every form has not, and never can have any right, where Catholicism is triumphant; and therefore we lose all the breath we expend in declaiming against bigotry and intolerance, and in favor of religious liberty, or the right of any one to be of any religion, or of no religion, as best pleases him."--_Catholic Rev., Jan_., 1852. "Religious liberty is merely endured until the opposite can be carried into effect without peril to the Catholic world."--_Bishop O'Connor; of Pittsburg_. "If the Catholics ever gain, which they surely will, an immense numerical majority, religious freedom in this country will be at an end."--_Archbishop of St. Louis_. "Catholicity will one day rule America, and religious freedom will be at an end."--_Bishop of St. Louis_. "The Catholic church numbers one-third of the American population; and if its membership shall increase for the next thirty years as it has for the thirty years past, in 1900 Rome will have a majority, and be bound to take the country and keep it."--_Seeker_. "Should the said church go on increasing for the next twenty years, the papists will be in a majority of the people of the United States."--_William Hogan_. "St. Thomas Aquinas, in his second book, chapter 3, page 58, says: 'Heretics (non-Catholics) may justly be Killed.' But you will answer, there is no danger of this. They can never acquire them power in this country to sanction that doctrine. How sadly mistaken are you! How lamentably unacquainted with the secret springs or machinery of popery."--_William Hogan_. Quoting from an author Hogan writes: "America is the promised land of the Jesuists. To obtain the ascendency they have no need of Swiss guards, or the assistance of the holy alliance, but a majority of votes, which can easily be obtained by the importation of Catholic voters from Ireland, Austria, and Bavaria.... I am not a politician, but knowing the active spirit of Jesuitism, and the indifference of the generality of Protestants, I have no doubt that in ten years the Jesuists will have a mighty influence over the ballot box, and in twenty will direct it according to pleasure. Now they fawn, in ten years they will menace, in twenty command."--_Synopsis, p_. 106.