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Father Foy On Secret Societies.
the ends of the earth , steps would be taken to carry out this sentence against him . He would read them an extract from the " Life of Mazzini , " written by himself . " I was desired , " he says , "to be on the Ponte della Mercansi at midni ght . There
I found some of the young men I had enrolled . They had been ordered there , like me , without knowing wherefore . After we had waited there a long time , Doria appeared , accompanied by two otherswhom he did not knowand who
, , remained wrapped up to the eyes in their cloaks , and as mute as spectres . Our hearts bounded within us at the thought and hope of action . Having arranged us in a circle , Doria began a discourse directed at meabout the culpability of certain
, words of blame of the order , uttered by inexpert and imprudent young men , and , pointing to the two cloaked individuals , he told us that they were about to start on the morrow for Bologna , in order to stab a Carbonaro there for having spoken
against the chiefs ; for that the order no sooner discovered rebels than it crushed them . " A similar incident is related by lluffini . About twenty of the Carbonari
were assembled at midnight , in one of the smaller squares of Genoa , aud there one of the leaders told them to pray for the soul of a comrade condemned to death by the Alta Vendita , and who would die b y the dagger as the clock struck twelve . That was taken from a translation of his life b
y Mr . O'Clery , a soldier and a member of the Parliament of this country , and a gentleman to whose honour he could trust . Pie would now give them a quotation from an article on the proceedings of secret societies which appeared in that great
Italian review , the " Civilla Cattoica , " from the pen of Bresciani . " They whose position made it a duty to form the conflagration which would follow at the first gleamiugs of those furnaces , fed by the secret societies , were stupified at the
result . Then they exclaimed , 'Ah , the felons ! Ah , the assassins ! Ah , the worst , depraved of men ! ' Yet it is well known those men only follow their natural trade , and they follow it with profound artfulness and the utmost refinement of subtlety . They deceive none but the inattentive , for they proclaim in a thousand ways that they will have no Christ , no Church , no
Kings , no Governments , but that they will pursue their designs until they have overturned the thrones of kings and the altar of God . And when they had accomplished their threats we hear exclamations ! " Even after the triumph of
Drucy and his partisans in the overthrow of the legitimate Government of Lausanne , they stupidly continued to wonder , after they had heard their yells of " Down with God ! Death to Christ ! Death to all that pray ! Death to the Methodist pastors , ^ to the Momiers , to the ministers of the Reformed Church ! " At Echallens the doors
of the Protestant deaconesses were burst open , their furniture broken and reduced to fragments , all that was precious plundered , and the Bible was torn up and trampled under foot . The Protestant ministers were hunted as Jesuits , and took
refuge among the Catholics of the Vallese . The rabble shouted through the streets , " Death to the rich ! Death to all that have domestics ! " Treichler , Fournier and Considerant preached in Lausanne the Communism of the Phalanx , which
Proudhon himself pronounced " bestial " and "infamous , " such is its ferocity and and the horrible deformity of its villainy . Berne , in the Constitution of July , 184 fi , threw down the impious Neauhaus to replace him with the impious and still more inhuman Ochsenbein , who called to the theological chair of Berne the Atheist Zeller , of Tubingen , which even the
journals of Berne styled , " Antichrist descended in disguise into the University of Berne under the mask of the disciple of Strauss . " But the great den of every iniquity was behind the Lungara . There , in those concealed and solitary vaults , they held mighty conventiclesthey
, hatched plots and planned revolts and assassinations ; there they cast lots to determine their murderer of their next victim , there it was said to the incendiaries , " Go you and set fire to such a hayloft , you set fire to this granary , or that
warehouse , which belongs to the infamous wretches whom our brethren of Switzerland have enjoined us to punish . " Some were appointed to poison those females of their society whom they feared as being too communicative , others to drop a dose of morphia into the wine of certain poor unfortunate girls , who , rendered insensible
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Father Foy On Secret Societies.
the ends of the earth , steps would be taken to carry out this sentence against him . He would read them an extract from the " Life of Mazzini , " written by himself . " I was desired , " he says , "to be on the Ponte della Mercansi at midni ght . There
I found some of the young men I had enrolled . They had been ordered there , like me , without knowing wherefore . After we had waited there a long time , Doria appeared , accompanied by two otherswhom he did not knowand who
, , remained wrapped up to the eyes in their cloaks , and as mute as spectres . Our hearts bounded within us at the thought and hope of action . Having arranged us in a circle , Doria began a discourse directed at meabout the culpability of certain
, words of blame of the order , uttered by inexpert and imprudent young men , and , pointing to the two cloaked individuals , he told us that they were about to start on the morrow for Bologna , in order to stab a Carbonaro there for having spoken
against the chiefs ; for that the order no sooner discovered rebels than it crushed them . " A similar incident is related by lluffini . About twenty of the Carbonari
were assembled at midnight , in one of the smaller squares of Genoa , aud there one of the leaders told them to pray for the soul of a comrade condemned to death by the Alta Vendita , and who would die b y the dagger as the clock struck twelve . That was taken from a translation of his life b
y Mr . O'Clery , a soldier and a member of the Parliament of this country , and a gentleman to whose honour he could trust . Pie would now give them a quotation from an article on the proceedings of secret societies which appeared in that great
Italian review , the " Civilla Cattoica , " from the pen of Bresciani . " They whose position made it a duty to form the conflagration which would follow at the first gleamiugs of those furnaces , fed by the secret societies , were stupified at the
result . Then they exclaimed , 'Ah , the felons ! Ah , the assassins ! Ah , the worst , depraved of men ! ' Yet it is well known those men only follow their natural trade , and they follow it with profound artfulness and the utmost refinement of subtlety . They deceive none but the inattentive , for they proclaim in a thousand ways that they will have no Christ , no Church , no
Kings , no Governments , but that they will pursue their designs until they have overturned the thrones of kings and the altar of God . And when they had accomplished their threats we hear exclamations ! " Even after the triumph of
Drucy and his partisans in the overthrow of the legitimate Government of Lausanne , they stupidly continued to wonder , after they had heard their yells of " Down with God ! Death to Christ ! Death to all that pray ! Death to the Methodist pastors , ^ to the Momiers , to the ministers of the Reformed Church ! " At Echallens the doors
of the Protestant deaconesses were burst open , their furniture broken and reduced to fragments , all that was precious plundered , and the Bible was torn up and trampled under foot . The Protestant ministers were hunted as Jesuits , and took
refuge among the Catholics of the Vallese . The rabble shouted through the streets , " Death to the rich ! Death to all that have domestics ! " Treichler , Fournier and Considerant preached in Lausanne the Communism of the Phalanx , which
Proudhon himself pronounced " bestial " and "infamous , " such is its ferocity and and the horrible deformity of its villainy . Berne , in the Constitution of July , 184 fi , threw down the impious Neauhaus to replace him with the impious and still more inhuman Ochsenbein , who called to the theological chair of Berne the Atheist Zeller , of Tubingen , which even the
journals of Berne styled , " Antichrist descended in disguise into the University of Berne under the mask of the disciple of Strauss . " But the great den of every iniquity was behind the Lungara . There , in those concealed and solitary vaults , they held mighty conventiclesthey
, hatched plots and planned revolts and assassinations ; there they cast lots to determine their murderer of their next victim , there it was said to the incendiaries , " Go you and set fire to such a hayloft , you set fire to this granary , or that
warehouse , which belongs to the infamous wretches whom our brethren of Switzerland have enjoined us to punish . " Some were appointed to poison those females of their society whom they feared as being too communicative , others to drop a dose of morphia into the wine of certain poor unfortunate girls , who , rendered insensible