as the Minsk nuns were proved to have been killed, before he terrified these unhappy millions into a submission against which their consciences revolted.  Yet with this man, red with Catholic blood, and damned with the million curses of their co-religionists, the Rev. Father Jesuits are in alliance; and why?  Because it is a characteristic of that Order, to be ambitious to rule the world.  To achieve this, they have now made the Pope the obedient satrap of the Czar.  Into the enormity of this, enlightened Catholics see clearly.  Roman Catholics of Hungary, of Poland, of Italy, Germany, and France have understood this.  Is it possible that those of this republic should less understand it?  Why, in Italy and Rome itself, a majority of the Catholic clergy are hostile to the temporal authority of the Pope, and sympathize with Mazzini so generally, that of seventeen conspirators recently arrested for conspiring in favour of the Republic against Austria, sixteen were priests belonging to the humbler orders of the clergy.

Gentlemen, I am sorry to have to argue such a question in the United States.  If it be indeed true, that amongst the Roman Catholics here an opposition is got up against our cause, let them remember that in opposing me, they oppose the independence and freedom of millions of Hungarian Catholics,—­of Catholic Italy,—­of the Catholic half of Germany, and of Catholic France; they are supporting the Czar, the most bloody enemy of their religion.  Yet I am glad to be able to say, that not all the Roman Catholics here are opposed to me.  I have warm friends and kind protectors among them.  The gallant General Shields,—­Mr. Downs, the Senator from Louisiana,—­the warm-hearted Governor of Maryland,—­Judge Le Grand at Baltimore, and many other of my kindest friends, are Roman Catholics.  From New York onward, multitudes of Roman Catholics have shared the general sympathy.  And why not? surely freedom is a treasure to every religious denomination whatsoever.[*]

[Footnote *:  Some sentences have been added from the Pittsburg speech, at the end of which the same subject was treated.]

So much for the charge that the cause which I plead—­the cause of millions of Roman Catholics—­is hostile to the Roman Catholic religion.  Should I be forced to enter upon this topic once more, I will take the heart-revolting history of those who have thus calumniated our cause, into my hands, and recall to the memory of public opinion the terrible pages of blood, ambition, countless crimes, and intolerance; but I hope there will be no occasion for it.

II.  Now as to Ireland.  Where is a man on earth, with uncorrupted soul and with liberal instincts in his heart, who would not sympathize with poor, unfortunate Ireland?  Where is a man, loving freedom and right, in whom the wrongs of Green Erin would not stir the heart?  Who could forbear warmly to feel for the fatherland of the Grattans, of O’Connells, and of Wolfe Tones?  I indeed am such, that wherever is oppression and a people, there is my love.