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JESUITISM AND RE-ACTION.1G3of the dungeon and the scaffold.Popery is the soul of thatre-action that is now in progress on the Continent, though,with her usual cunning, she puts the State in the foreground.It was the Jesuits who instigated and planned the expeditionto Rome. It was the Jesuits who plotted the dreadfulmassacres in Sicily, who have filledthe dungeons of Napleswith thousands of innocent citizens, who drove into exileevery Roman favourable to liberty and opposed to the Pope,who closed the clubs and fettered the press of France,Tuscany, Germany, and Austria; and, in fine, it was theJesuits of Vienna who crushed thenationalities and counselledthe judicial murders of Hungary. History will layall this blood to the door of the Papacy. It has all beenshed in pursuance of a plan concocted by the Church,—nowunder the government of Jesuitism,—to recover her formerascendancy. The common danger which in the late revolutionthreatened both Church and State, has made the twocling closely together. " I alone,"—so, in effect, said theChurch to the State,— " can save you. In me, and nowhereelse, are to be found the principles of order and the centreof union. The spiritual weapons which it is mine to wieldare alone able to combat and subdue the infidel and atheisticprinciples which have produced the revolution. Lend meyour aid now, and promise me your submission in time tocome, and I will reduce the masses to your authority."Thisreasoning was omnipotent, and the bargain was struck.Accordingly there is not a court of Catholic Europe Mherethe Jesuit influence is not at this moment supreme. Andit ishappening at present, as it has happened at all formerperiods of confusion, that in proportion as the State losesthe Church acquires strength. Although its companion introuble, the Church is acting at this moment as the State'ssuperior. She extends to the civil powers the benefit of hermatchless policy and her universal organization.So standsthe case, then. It must force itself upon the conviction ofall, that this relation of the Church to the State is fraughtwith tremendous danger to the independence of the secular