Excerpt from Political Romanism: A Pocket Manual
Believing that, whether you are men of native or foreign birth, whether you are Roman Catholics or Protestants, whether you are capitalists or laborers, the great majority of you sincerely desire the permanence of our Republican institutions, we, on behalf of great principles and important political measures address you. You surely do not desire that free institutions shall be destroyed or subverted even to give political power and pecuniary emolument to the party to which you belong, or the church to which you are attached.
When you see clearly the issues presented, you will prefer the civil and religious liberty of your children and of your children's children, to all shams of party or religion. There is no doubt that you would willingly shed your blood in defence of free institutions, if they were openly or directly assailed, but there is danger that many of you may be led to think it a good thing to crush out the civil and religious liberty of those who do not think as you do. Be assured that this would be the destruction of free institutions. It would result in the slavery of your children as well as those of others.
If you are friends of civil and religious liberty you should not wish to force any one to be or not to be Roman Catholic, Protestant, Infidel or Hebrew.
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