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228 Vatican AssassinsChapter 17The Jesuits – 1775 - 1815Allied with King George III Against Am<strong>eric</strong>a’s Calvinist RevolutionThe Revolution Succeeds, Constitution Established, Washington as PresidentAssassination of George WashingtonThe War of 1812: Andrew Jackson Maintains Am<strong>eric</strong>a’s Protestant Liberty“With the fall of the Hurons [1650], fell the best hope of the [Jesuit]Canadian mission. They, and the stable and populous communities aroundthem, had been the rude material from which the Jesuit would have formedhis Christian empire in the wilderness . . . The Jesuits saw their hopes struckdown . . . Liberty may thank the Iroquois, that, <strong>by</strong> their insensate fury, theplans of her adversary [the Jesuit Order] were brought to nought . . . from thestandpoint of Liberty . . . Providence is clear as the sun at noon.” {1}Francis Parkman, 1902Am<strong>eric</strong>an HistorianThe Jesuits in North Am<strong>eric</strong>a“ . . . much more is to be dreaded from the growth of Popery in Am<strong>eric</strong>a thanthe Stamp Act.” {2} Samuel Adams, 1768Am<strong>eric</strong>an PatriotBoston Gazette“English Protestantism brought forth a perfect masterpiece. They gave to theworld what has been considered <strong>by</strong> hosts of scholars, the greatest versionever produced in any language — the King James Bible, [its greatestpresent-day defense being William P. Grady’s Final Authority, (1993)] called‘The miracle of English Prose.’ . . . But no men of to-day ever went throughthe same experiences as the framers of the Constitution. Those pioneers wereyet witnesses of the vicious principles of the Dark Ages and their cruelresults. They were called upon to suffer, to endure, to fight, that principles ofa different nature might be established.” {3} [Emphasis added]Benjamin G. Wilkinson, 1930Am<strong>eric</strong>an Protestant TheologianOur Authorized Bible VindicatedThe Jesuits – 1775 - 1815

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