Does  he  doubt  the  feelings  of  the
Baptist  Church:  or  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church?  surely  the
*'  Catholic  Herald"  does  not  exchange  with  the  "  Christian  Advo-
cate," or  the  "  Christian  Watchman."  If  the  gentleman  will
bring  me  the  certificate  of  one  Baptist  or  one  Methodist  minister
of  Christ,  in  the  Utiited  States,  who  believes  that  the  Roman
Catholic  doctrines,  as  a  system,  are  favourable  to  civil  or  religi-
ous liberty,  I  will  then  own  that,  out  of  many  thousands,  I  have
mistaken  one. The  gentleman  will  remember  Wesley !  His
views  are  strong,  but  they  have  never  been  answered. In  letter
No. 15,  of  our  late  Controversy,  the  gentleman  charged  that  cele-
brated man  with  intolerance,  and  tried  to  prove  it,  by  a  garbled
extract,  plucked  out  of  its  connexions. In  a  subsequent  letter,  I
cited  the  whole  paragraph,  it  is  as  follows  :

"  With  persecution  I  have  nothing  to  do  ;  I  persecute  no  man
for  his  religious  principles. Let  there  be  as  boundless  a  freedom
in  religion  as  any  man  can  conceive. But  this  does  not  touch  the
point ;  I  will  set  religion,  true  or  false,  out  of  the  question. Yet  I
insist  upon  it  that  no  government,  not  Roman  Catholic,  ought  to
tolerate  men  of  the  Roman  Catholic  persuasion. I  prove  this  by  a
plain  argument,  let  him  answer  it  that  can:  that  no  Roman  Ca-
tholic does,  or  can  give  security  for  his  allegiance  or  peaceable  be-
haviour, I  prove  thus  :  It  is  a  Roman  Catholic  maxim  established
not  by  private  men,  but  by  a  public  council,  that  '  no  faith  is  to
be  kept  with  heretics.''  This  has  been  openly  avowed  by  the
Council  of  Constance ;  but  it  never  was  openly  disclaimed. Whe-
ther private  persons  avow  or  disavow  it,  it  is  a  fixed  maxim  of  the
Church  of  Rome. But  as  long  as  it  is  so,  nothing  can  be  more
plain  than  that  the  members  of  that  church,  can  give  no  reasona-
ble security  to  any  government,  for  their  allegiance  or  peaceable
behaviour. (Here  follow  the  words  quoted  by  Mr. Hughes.)
Therefore  they  ought  not  to  be  tolerated  by  any  government^
Protestant,  Mahometan,  or  Pagan. 