[643] Wolcott Papers, viii, 23.
[644] A Discourse, Delivered at the Roman Catholic Church in Boston on the 9th of May, 1798. … By the Reverend John Thayer, Catholic Missioner, Boston, 1798.
[645] Ibid., p. 23.
[646] Op. cit.
[647] Independent Chronicle, May 31, 1798.
[648] Ibid. The “observations” referred to really threw no new light upon the situation. They amounted to nothing more than proof of the fact that the editor of the New York Spectator had accepted the idea of the Illuminati conspiracy. This being the case he was anxious to warn his readers that if they would escape from the designs of the French government they must make their choice, and that speedily, between “INDEPENDENCE and SUBMISSION.”
[649] Independent Chronicle, June 14, 1798.
[650] The extracts in question boldly championed Robison’s cause, and while admitting that all the tenets and secret manoeuvers of the Illuminati could not be said to have been fully brought to light, Morse did not hesitate to draw the following summary conclusion: “There is however sufficient known to call forth the indignation of every person who professes to be a friend to religion or virtue, and to put every one on their guard who knows and respects the rights of private property, and of good government.” (Ibid.)
[651] Ibid.
[652] A Discourse delivered in the Chapel of Harvard College, June 19, 1798, Occasioned by the Approaching Departure of the Senior Class from the University. By David Tappan, D. D., Hollis Professor of Divinity in said College, Boston, 1798.