These are the very principles that worked among the people, as the exciting cause, just prior to the terrible French revolution of 1789-1800.

Human nature is the same in all ages, and like causes will surely produce like results.

These causes are now all in active operation; and how soon they will culminate in a state of anarchy, and a reign of terror as much more frightful than the French revolution as they are now more widely extended, no man can say.
Such are some of the elements already at work; such the direction in which events are moving.

And how much further is it necessary that they should progress in this manner, before an open war-cry of persecution from the masses, against those whose simple adherence to the Bible shall put to shame their man-made theology, and whose godly lives shall condemn their wicked practices, would seem in nowise startling or incongruous?
But some may say, through an all-absorbing faith in the increasing virtue of the American people, that they do not believe that the United States will ever raise the hand of persecution against any class.

Very well.