[598] _Ibid._, pp. 493–551. Barruel found no difficulty in making the conspiracy broad enough in Prussia to take in Immanuel Kant. _Cf. ibid._, pp. 523 _et seq._ The _Professor of Königsberg_ and the _Professor of Ingolstadt_ developed systems which ultimately lead to the same end (!). _Cf. ibid._, p. 526. [599] _Ibid._, pp. 493 _et seq._ [600] The reference is to the United Irishmen, an organization whose affairs got somewhat mixed with the discussion of the Illuminati in America. _Cf. infra_, pp. 271 _et seq._ [601] A foot-note connects the French minister, Adet, with the Illuminati campaign in North America. _Cf. ibid._, p. 494. [602] Robison, _op. cit._, p. 535. [603] _Ibid._, p. 537. [604] _Ibid._, p. 538. [605] Barruel, _op. cit._, vol. iii, p. xiv. [606] Barruel, _op. cit._, vol. iii, p. xiv. [607] _Ibid._, p. xv. [608] _Ibid._, pp. xv, xvi. [609] _Ibid._, p. xviii. CHAPTER IV THE ILLUMINATI AGITATION IN NEW ENGLAND 1. MORSE PRECIPITATES THE CONTROVERSY The fast day proclamation of President John Adams, issued March 23, 1798, expressed unusual solemnity and concern. Therein the United States was represented as “at present placed in a hazardous and afflictive position.”[610] The necessity of sounding a loud call to repentance and reformation was declared to be imperative, and the people were fervently urged to implore Heaven’s mercy and benediction on the imperiled nation. On the day appointed, the 9th of May, among the multitude of pastors who appeared before their assembled flocks and addressed them on topics of national and personal self-examination, was the Reverend Jedediah Morse. The deliverance which he made to his people[611] was destined to have far more than a passing interest and effect. He took for his text fragments of the language that King Hezekiah addressed to the prophet Isaiah, as found in II Kings 19: 3, 4: “This is a day of trouble, and of rebuke (or reviling), and blasphemy.... Wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.” Then the well-known minister of Charlestown proceeded to suggest a parallel between the desperate state of affairs within the little kingdom of Judah when the Assyrians, fresh from their triumph over the armies of Egypt, renewed their insolent and terrifying campaign against the city of Jerusalem, and the unhappy and perilous condition of affairs within the United States.[612]