KEEP THE TIGER CHAINED.
By George Elliot
IN Italy, the country from which the red hat came not long since, Protestant preachers are almost daily threatened by mobs led and incited by priests. It is the same in every land where the Roman Church has preeminence. Italy, Spain, Austria, and many of the South American republics have no conception of real liberty of mind and conscience. It will be the same in America if the Papacy should ever win here its coveted supremacy. If the freemen of America wish to maintain their rights, there must be "no peace with the Papacy, and no compromise with Rome." Romanists, keep your red hat at home in the priest-ridden city from which it came. We do not want it in America. We have no room in the temple of liberty for that badge of a foreign and alien allegiance. Stand guard, Americans, before your threatened rights. Be not deceived by the plausibilities of Jesuit sophistry. Rome is the same old tiger still. Unsatisfied by the blood of martyrs, she waits when with gleaming fangs and unsheathed claws, she may tear to atoms the achievements of the present and the hopes of the future, and bring back the mediaeval darkness of her day of supreme power. Keep that tiger chained!—Rev. Geo. Elliot.