Unscrupulously employing every method conducive to the grand end of disseminating Romish dogmas, the fagot, the wheel, and all the secret horrors of the Inquisition, were speedily brought to bear upon all who dared to assume the privilege of worshiping God according to the dictates of an unfettered conscience.
If the bloody tragedies of the Middle Ages are no longer enacted upon the theater of a more enlightened world, it is because the power so awfully abused has been wrested from the scarlet-robed tenants of the Vatican, The same fierce, intolerable tyranny is still exercised where their jurisdiction is unquestioned.

From the administration of the pontifical states of Italy to the regulation of convent discipline, we trace the workings of the same iron rule.

No barriers are too mighty to be overborne, no distinctions too delicate to to be thrust rudely aside.

Even the sweet sacredness of the home circle is not exempt from the crushing, withering influence.

Ah! how many fair young members of the household band have been decoyed from the hearthstone and immured in gloomy cells.