POPERY.

AN ENEMY TO

CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS

LIBERTY;

AND

DANGEROUS TO OUR REPUBLIC.

BY W C. BROWNLEE, D. D.

Of the Collegiate Protestant Reformed Dutch Church, N. Y.

10-10-6LIND

6-27-33

TO THE

AMERICAN YOUNG MEN,,

THE

FUTURE CITIZENS, AND MAGISTRATES, AND MINISTERS

OF THE

UNITED STATES.

YOUNG GENTLEMEN:-I come before you not as a sectarian; nor as a polemic. I come before you to beg a hearing on a subject, not only of the deepest interest to our holy religion, but involving, as I verily believe, the very existence of our liberties, and the perpetuity of our Republic.

In the Roman Catholic religion, we have detected an invading enemy, audaciously conspiring, under the mask of holy religion, against the liberties of our country: we have dragged it forward into the light; we have stripped the vizor off its face; and have brought it up to YOUR tribunal, for public judgment in the case.

It is a system of mere human policy; altogether of foreign origin; foreign in its support; importing foreign vassals; and sending a most baneful foreign influence over us. Its pope, and his priests, are politicians; men of the world, and mere men of pleasure. It is, as a system, in the hands of a foreign despotism, precisely what the Koran is in the hands of the