without fear of losing his character in the eyes of the nation to which, by parentage more than by merit, he belongs, what do you imagine he would do with me?  Should I not have to undergo some death more terrible than ordinary?  Would not a council be held with the reverend fathers of the company of Loyola, the same who have suggested the abominable calumnies above alluded to, in order to invent some refined method of putting me out of the world?  I feel persuaded that if I were condemned by the Inquisition to be burned alive, my calumniator would have great pleasure in building my funeral pile, and setting fire to it with his own hands; or should strangulation be preferred, that he would, with equal readiness, arrange the cord around my neck; and all for the honor and glory of the Inquisition, of which, according to his oath, he is a true and faithful servant.”

This, then, according to Dr. Achilli is the spirit of Romanism!  Can we doubt that it would lead to results as frightful as anything described in the foregoing story?

But let us listen to his further remarks on the present state of the Inquisition.  On page 75 he says, “What, then, is the Inquisition of the nineteenth century?  The same system of intolerance which prevailed in the barbarous ages.  That which raised the Crusade and roused all Europe to arms at the voice of a monk [Footnote:  Bernard of Chiaravalle.] and of a hermit, [Footnote:  Peter the Hermit.] That which—­in the name of a God of peace, manifested on earth by Christ, who, through love for sinners, gave himself to be crucified—­brought slaughter on the Albigenses and the Waldenses; filled France with desolation, under Domenico di Guzman; raised in Spain the funeral pile and the scaffold, devastating the fair kingdoms of Granada and Castile, through the assistance of those detestable monks, Raimond de Pennefort, Peter Arbues, and Cardinal Forquemorda.  That, which, to its eternal infamy, registers in the annals of France the fatal 24th of August, and the 5th of November in those of England.”

That same system which at this moment flourishes at Rome, which has never yet been either worn out or modified, and which at this present time, in the jargon of the priests, is called a “the holy, Roman, universal, apostolic Inquisition.  Holy, as the place where Christ was crucified is holy; apostolic, because Judas Iscariot was the first inquisitor; Roman and universal, because from Rome it extends over all the world.  It is denied by some that the Inquisition which exists in Rome as its centre, is extended throughout the world by means of the missionaries.  The Roman Inquisition and the Roman Propaganda are in close connection with each other.  Every bishop who is sent in partibus infidelium, is an inquisitor charged to discover, through the means of his missionaries, whatever is said or done by others in reference to Rome, with the obligation to make his report secretly.