Eugene Sue on the "Jesuit Plot"

A Response to the "Protocols"?

This will be examined in a series looking into the origin of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. I believe that Sue, a liberal, wrote this fictionalized document as a response to the already existing Protocols. More on this later.

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Father Rothaan, General of the Holy Society of Jesus, to the Reverend Father Rodin. Dear and Reverend Father,

We thank you for the important communications contained in the last memorandum you sent us on the affairs of our holy society, for the details you give us on the descendants of the Lebrenn and Rennepont families. We ask you to continue your research, while, for our part, we gather information to ensure whether, in 1832, our holy society was not the dupe of a deception by the Jew Samuel, who allegedly burned in your presence false debt securities from the Rennepont inheritance to deceive you, while the genuine ones were safe. Please conduct the most meticulous research in this regard and gather the most precise information. We believe that the heirs of the Jew Samuel now live in New York; for it is of the greatest importance for us to get our hands on this immense inheritance, which has already escaped us twice. We have read with great care, studied with great attention the part of your memoir concerning our august son Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, and despite the somewhat harsh judgment, we believe, that you have made of him, the submission and devotion that he has shown to this day to the orders of the holy society of Jesus, make us conceive the greatest hopes for the future and fill our hearts with the greatest joy; also, we have not forgotten that it is to you, reverend father, that we owe the affiliation of Prince Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte to our holy society; that it was you who discovered the precious qualities with which he is endowed, during the retreat you made to Fribourg (Switzerland) in 1832, to cure yourself completely of the poisoning of which you were about to be a victim; for it was at that time that you brought the prince to Switzerland and had him affiliated to our order; It is therefore to you, Reverend Father, that we owe in part the precious advantages we have derived from

Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte; your intelligent and enlightened zeal has been of the greatest use to us in this circumstance; we recommend that you redouble your solicitude, activity and devotion today, for the circumstances become more important and more serious every day. It is especially now that your advice and direction are of the greatest, most indispensable use to the spirit of the prince, to continue to guide him in the pious path he has followed with so much success until now, to the greater glory of God and of our holy mother the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church; It will still be to your intelligence, your devotion, your zeal, and the happy influence you exercise over the mind of the President of the Republic that we will owe the achievement of our goal of universal domination, pursued for several centuries through all difficulties and obstacles by our holy society. Since the ninth of Thermidor, we have been seeking a man who, by his name, his position, his popularity, his character, his spirit, and above all his submission and devotion to our order, could serve it effectively and place at its disposal the sovereign power with which we would vest it; To succeed in our projects, we needed to find

a prince with a popular name, whose prestige could easily command the confidence of the masses, but none of the heads of power who succeeded one another in France from the Directory until 1824 seemed to offer the conditions we demanded of them;

Charles X, who was later chosen by us for his devotion and sincere attachment to our holy society, unfortunately failed in the pious mission he had undertaken,

the disastrous revolution of 1830 came to postpone our hopes;

it was a few years later that, on your advice, we set our eyes on Prince Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, who was affiliated with us in

4834, we knew his ambition, his stubbornness, his Corsican perseverance; we knew that for him, as for us, the end justifies the means. The skillful and far-sighted manner in which he got rid of his elder brother in 1831, at Forli, during the Romagna uprising, in anticipation of the imperial inheritance he wanted to reserve for himself alone, gave us a high idea of the inflexibility of his will, the inexorability of his means, his profound contempt for blood ties and for human life, eminent qualities that alone ensure success. Since then,

Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte has completely justified our hopes,

he has openly repudiated ancient doctrines which he had used

as a deceptive mask to attract the sympathy of the revolutionaries he needed at the time; he has broken off his demagogic connections with Young Italy, of whose machinations

he kept us informed for a long time; thanks to our advice,

he has always conspired against the government of Louis-Philippe,

which has done us so much harm; Then, with the fall of this government of atheists, whose most influential advisor, Mr. Guizot, was a heretic, a Huguenot, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, always following our wise advice, our salutary inspirations, presented himself in 1848 to the voters of several French departments as a sincere, devoted, and grateful republican, to whom the February Revolution had reopened the doors of France; finally, through our powerful influence on the masses and the popularity attached to his name, we ensured his triumph in the presidential elections of December 10, 1848. Since then, new pledges of devotion have confirmed the good opinion we had of him; It is thanks to his goodwill that we were able to obtain the support of the French army to destroy the Roman Republic, drive out Mazzini and his supporters, imprison or shoot 40,000 demagogues, and restore our Holy Father the Pope to the papal throne; it is to him that we owe the order and tranquility that allow us to resume our work, briefly interrupted by the revolutions of 4. A thick veil has always covered the mysterious end of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's elder brother; the gravest suspicions have always weighed on the latter. His brother was not wounded in combat, he succumbed quickly to an unknown illness. Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte alone assisted him in his final moments. Several historians have accused him of having poisoned his brother out of ambition, to become Napoleon I's heir in his place.

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4830 and 1848; it is thanks to him and the prestige of his name that we

have executive power in France, that we are more

powerful there than we have ever been, that every day we

see our power grow and increase, and that soon, I

hope, we will see our projects realized, our dearest hope fulfilled; and that we will achieve our goal: universal domination. But, for this, we must continue our work, continue to work in the Lord's vineyard, not stop on such a beautiful path, and definitively consolidate the power of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, avoiding the elections of May 1852, which would inevitably give the majority to our most mortal enemies, the socialists, the revolutionaries, the philosophers, the atheists, to all those infamous reasoners who proclaim the sovereignty of reason, free inquiry, religious, political, and social liberty, who place science above faith, law above religion and the law, and the sovereignty of the people above the sovereignty of God. We must therefore, if we do not want to see our holy society proscribed and our holy mother the Church persecuted, continue our work with renewed courage, without respite or peace. Among all the liberticidal measures that Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, at our suggestion, perfidiously advised and had adopted by the majority of the Legislative Assembly that he wants to destroy, one of the most skillful, without doubt, is the odious law of May 31; by mutilating universal suffrage through this law, the National Assembly has completely discredited itself in the minds of the people and completely depopularized itself; it has thus provided Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte with a most dangerous weapon against it, with the aid of which it will be easy for him to overthrow it. Also, to gain popularity, the President of the Republic, in his last message, dated November 4, proposed to the Assembly the repeal of this law, while recommending that his followers vote against its repeal, and that his ministry weakly defend the bill he was presenting so that it would be rejected; for he wanted to have the full benefit of his proposed repeal in public opinion, which he unfortunately still needs, and for the law of May 31 to be maintained by the majority of the Assembly, which would further depopularize itself by refusing to repeal this odious law, which he hopes to later use against the Assembly to dissolve it. It will therefore be necessary, after having seduced the army with favors, promises, decorations, dreams of glory, etc.: 1. Repeal the law of May 31 and restore the suffrage

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universal; onlookers will shout bravo; 2. Dissolve by force

the Legislative Assembly, which will be easy, since it has completely lost its way and become unpopular through the numerous liberticidal measures it has adopted, the most compromising of which is certainly the law of May 31; 3. Arrest, under the pretext of

conspiracy against the security of the State, the representatives of the people

and senior army officers whose influence could be

formidable; 4. Also arrest and imprison men

of action and influence, former leaders of clubs, secret societies,

of barricades, in Paris and in the departments; 5. Decree a state of siege in Paris and in the departments that offer resistance; 6. Dissolve the Council of State composed of men hostile to the president; 7. Summon the people to their assembly to extend the powers of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte for ten years, by having them vote YES OR NO, thus not leaving the choice of another president; this vote must be held within a very short time, in order to take advantage of the salutary terror inspired by the coup d'état and the favorable impression that the restoration of universal suffrage will inevitably produce; 8. Terrify the intelligent part of the people and the bourgeoisie by the organized massacre of all those who dare to protest, even if only by their presence or their cries against the coup d'état; 9th

Shoot without trial those caught with weapons in hand or building barricades; 10th

Sentence to death, to the galleys, or to prison, by courts-martial, those fortunate enough to have escaped the shooting; 11th

Skillfully take advantage of this favorable opportunity to arrest throughout France those

known for their republican opinions, whether or not they resisted the coup d'état; 12th

Transport without trial, by category, those individuals deemed the most dangerous, to Cayenne, Lambessa, throughout French Africa, or expel them abroad; as for the less dangerous, intern them in the departments under police surveillance; 13th

Immediately suppress all freedoms: freedom of the press, of the public forum, of assembly, of association, etc. The suppression of religious freedom will be reserved for later; 14° Have all printing presses occupied by the police and armed forces, seal all printing presses; prohibit, under penalty of death, the printing or publication of any writings, newspapers, or proclamations hostile to the coup d'état; 45° Confine all troops to their barracks, have them occupy houses at the corners of all streets, churches,

bell towers and public buildings, encourage their zeal with promises of advancement, high pay; with generous distributions of wine, brandy, and tobacco; 16° Give their command in chief to a corrupt man, well paid and already compromised in advance so that he cannot back down, and make him the most seductive promises in the future, act in the same way with all the officers, not sparing gold and promises; 16° And, to anticipate everything, in the event of vigorous resistance or

a defeat, which is unlikely, withdraw the army to

the forts and from there bombard the capital, cover it with iron and fire,

reduce it to ashes, destroy this refuge of revolutionaries, leave

not a stone upon a stone, thus bringing about the triumph of our holy

mother, the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Church, and restoring order

on the ruins of modern Babylon.

>> Once the bulk of the work is done: the irreconcilable enemies

of order, the Church, and power, the defenders of the republic and the constitution exterminated or imprisoned, we have

everything approved by universal suffrage; The good, honest people of the countryside, so enthusiastic about imperial glories, fascinated

by the name of Napoleon, faithful to the voice of his venerable priests,

guided by them, by the courageous gendarmes, those zealous defenders

of order, advised by all good people, subject to the influence

of a salutary fear, will place in the ballot box the favorable ballots

distributed to them by the mayors, the rural policemen, and all the friends of order. As for the people of the cities, disorganized by the absence of their friends and leaders, killed, imprisoned, or proscribed, without orders, without advice, without any influence other than that exercised on them by the authorities and the clergy, and under the favorable impression of fear and terror, they will be forced to deposit in the ballot box, under the eye of the administration, which can easily control them, the ballots of approval that will have been given to them; if in some localities, despite all precautions, the ballot seemed to leave something to be desired, it would be necessary to employ the ultimate means; 4 The ultimate means is the substitution of ballot boxes; We have ballot boxes similar to those in which we vote, we prepare them in advance by putting

inside a sufficient number of favorable ballots and a few negative ballots for the sake of appearances, we affix seals on them and after the vote we skillfully substitute these ballot boxes thus prepared for the real ones and the trick is done; or we use ballot boxes with false bottoms.

By means of which we are certain of obtaining an overwhelming majority

in favor of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte; that we have the nation's elected official proclaimed with six or eight million votes, with a ten-year extension of his presidential power; then, a little later, when the ten-year presidency is well established and we can safely suppress even the name of the republic, which until then has been retained for form's sake, we will, still

by means of this good universal suffrage, proclaim the hereditary empire with ten or twelve million votes; we will thus consolidate and ensure for the future the power of our elected official, we will found a dynasty that will owe us everything, we will establish on strong and broad foundations the sovereign power of the throne and the altar, we will definitively consolidate the reign of order and of our holy mother the Church; It will then be time, according to the august words of the Prince-President, "for the wicked to tremble and the good to be reassured." The people, freed forever, we hope at least, from the fatal influence of the revolutionaries, those eternal enemies of the throne and the altar; freed from the odious yoke of demagogy, will be able to profit fully from all the benefits of a strong and powerful power, supported by religion, by faith, and inspired by our holy society; they will preserve the most precious of liberty's conquests, universal suffrage, which, well directed, with wisdom and prudence, is the most powerful support, the most useful means of a strong power. Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte will be both the people's chosen one and the envoy of Providence, Emperor of the French by the grace of God and the national will; His government will be a blessing from heaven and a wish of the people, vox populi, vox Dei! The prestige of his name serves us admirably in this work of social reconstruction and regeneration of the faith; the necessary means that we are very reluctantly obliged to recommend to achieve this sacred goal will soon be forgotten before the grandeur of the result and the sanctity of the purpose; and our holy mother the Church, who, in the most difficult and critical circumstances, has always known how to spread a beneficial balm on the wounds that she has often been forced to inflict despite herself, will know how to heal the wounds she has inflicted, covering them with the mantle of Christian charity, by pouring out upon them the treasures of her indulgence and the graces of her love and mercy! » She will know how to admit to repentance all those who wish to abjure

their pernicious opinions; she will grant them the graces of her

indulgence and mercy. Is it not written that "whatever she forgives will be forgiven; whatever she pardons will be pardoned?" But as for those who persist in their impenitence, they will have no forgiveness to hope for, "there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

>> Thanks to the execution of the wise and energetic measures we advise him to take, Prince Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte will be the Lord's anointed, he will reign by the grace of God and the national will; we will intone for him the same Te Deum as for the absolute monarchy, the constitutional monarchy, or the republic, except for a slight change in the fac regem.

>> So much for the present! >> As for the future, we will always pursue our goal without peace or truce, by instructing new generations in our holy company, which will lead them in the way of the Lord, inspire in them from an early age the love of God, respect for religion, the deepest veneration for His holy ministers, and the most absolute obedience to emperors and kings, God's chosen ones on earth, and the most complete submission to our holy father the pope, the representative of Almighty God. >> Our holy society will instill in them from an early age a deep hatred, an invincible repugnance for the spirit of discussion and free examination, and a holy horror for philosophers, free thinkers, reformers, Protestants, Huguenots, unbelievers, atheists, Freemasons, liberals, radicals, revolutionaries, republicans, socialists; for their actions, their doctrines, and their writings; for religious reform, philosophy, and revolution.

>> It will preach to them continence, abstinence, poverty, contempt for wealth, resignation; She will tell them: "that the kingdom of heaven is not of this world," - "that the earth is a place of exile, a valley of mourning, tears, and misery," - "that it is easier to make a camel pass through the eye of a needle than to make a rich man enter heaven." And she will thus destroy the ideas so harmful, so pernicious, and above all so dangerous, of universal well-being, of the emancipation of workers, of the abolition of the proletariat, of pauperism, of misery, and of exploitation, with which the socialists, those minions of Satan, have seduced the people, especially since the February Revolution, and for which they fought in June 1848. By all these means, by thus making the good princes triumph,

principles, sound doctrines, our holy society will reestablish the reign of Christian charity, faith, love of God, and order; Public tranquility and prosperity will be restored, power will be consolidated, it will become strong and lasting; our holy mother the Church will see her prosperity, her wealth, and her influence increase every day, and, consequently, security will be reborn everywhere; we will see that private wealth grows at the same time as public wealth. The bourgeoisie, the bosses, the industrialists, the merchants, the lenders, the bankers, the stockbrokers, all the privileged people who live and speculate on the labor of the proletarians, will also see their wealth increase every day and their business prosper; They will therefore all be directly interested in supporting

an order of things that is so profitable to them and in defending the government that will have courageously inaugurated this era of prosperity that socialists outrageously call the reign of the exploitation of man by man. The profits taken by employers from workers, by capital from labor, under the names

of rents or interest, are, however, ultimately only the just reward, the equitable remuneration, and the legal privilege of the most intelligent, the most economical, the most moral part of the people; of

those who nourish and cultivate industry, commerce, and labor.

Poverty, which revolutionaries attribute to the vices of society and to privileges, is only the just punishment inflicted on sins and one of the trials through which God makes humanity pass in order to punish and purify it; It is relieved by Christian charity, that divine grace, source of benefits and gratitude, which binds the beneficiary to his benefactor by the noblest and sweetest of all feelings, gratitude, and thus establishes the dominion of generous people and assures them the obedience of the unfortunate people they have obliged; charity therefore serves as a moderator of bad passions, of the vices engendered by suffering and misery; it consoles and softens the unfortunate and the poor who, without it, would always be ready to rebel and revolt. Let us all bow before the admirable wisdom of Providence, which, in Christian charity, has placed a check on a benefit; and a chain on an act of love! >>> To cement the new power even more indissoluble, to extend its roots more deeply among the people, so that the work of the Lord that we wish to make triumph may be indestructible, it is not enough to submit the poor to the rich through charity and gratitude and to inspire in them

early feelings of self-denial and Christian submission; it is still necessary to interest the common people more directly,

in a purely pecuniary manner, in the maintenance of the power that we will have established, and for this, it will be necessary to give more development,

a greater extension to speculation; to create a mass of negotiable representative values, to make them accessible to the common people; to initiate the latter into the mysteries of the backstage, to stock market speculations; to introduce them to the path of stock-market speculation; to make them

buy coupons for annuities and loans at a premium; to make them

speculate, to play on the rise or fall; in such a way as to make them

invest their savings and to interest them directly, materially in the maintenance of the government and to oblige them to support the State,

to vote for it, to defend their pecuniary interests, to ensure the

value and payment of their securities and their debts to the State. By this means, the love of income will replace the love of liberty.

>> The Orleans dynasty, which has allied itself with heresy and has shown itself too much of an enemy of the clergy by protecting the university against the Holy Society of Jesus, by founding and developing secular primary education to the detriment of the brothers of Christian doctrine, must be punished by the confiscation of its immense assets, the majority of which will be given to the Church to be used in pious works, for the religious instruction of the new generation, or to endow congregations and relieve old soldiers.

>> These are the principal measures that must be taken by our beloved brother Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte to ensure the triumph of ORDER within France.

>>> Let us now turn our attention to the exterior; for, let us not forget, what we want to establish is universal authority in dogma and in the State; it is the most absolute triumph of Catholicism in the broadest sense of the word. But there exists a powerful obstacle to the accomplishment of our projects; there is in Europe a heretical race, persevering, courageous, strong, proud, living off commerce and industry; which, by its spirit of adventure and enterprise, its skill and courage, has conquered the empire of the seas; whose formidable fleets sail the oceans from pole to pole; which holds in its hands the keys to the straits and the scepter of the seas, and which reigns supreme over the Indies and over immense colonies in America, Oceania and in all parts of the globe, where it numbers its subjects by the hundreds of millions. Now, as long as this formidable power, as long as this

powerful obstacle, as long as England remains standing we will never be able to completely realize our projects and achieve our goal; but, as it is a strong and formidable nation, we must first manage it, even flatter it, make advances and concessions to it, and seek to isolate it in Europe before attacking it; it is therefore necessary to create alliances with the new power of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, to have it accepted by the European monarchies, and to do this, to revise the treaties of 1815 and erase the article that forever excludes the Bonaparte family from the throne of France, as incompatible with the peace of Europe; the plan is simple and the means are easy. The Emperor Nicholas of Russia, who will certainly not understand the importance and scope of the work we wish to accomplish, will want to take advantage of the establishment of the new power in France to carry out his plans for conquest in the East and continue the execution of Peter I's will; England, which will, as always, view Russia's aggrandizement with jealousy, will ask nothing better than to ally itself with France to maintain the European balance, the independence of Turkey, and the protection of Eastern Christians; Piedmont could even be drawn into this crusade, this time in favor of the Turks and the Christians of Mohammed and Christ, against schismatic Russia; If the latter persists in its plans, which we have every reason to hope based on our information, it will be infallibly defeated, because Austria, on which it believes it can count, because of the important service it rendered in Hungary in 1848, by reestablishing the authority of the Hapsburgs over that unfortunate country, Austria, we say, is prepared to maintain the strictest neutrality to ensure its influence in the Danubian Principalities and its authority in Italy; it will leave Russia isolated and left to its own resources; now, Russia alone will not be able to resist the united forces of France, England, and Piedmont; it will succumb; then we will impose peace on it in a congress where, thanks to the victory, we will dictate the conditions; The first will be the acceptance of the imperial dynasty of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte on the throne of France, as a condition of order and security in Europe, and the removal of the article in the 1815 treaties that excludes the Bonaparte family from the throne of France; the second condition will be the protection of the Christians of the East, a sure means of intervening later to our advantage in Constantinople, Jerusalem, or Egypt, under this specious pretext. But first, it will be necessary, through generosity and

of courtesy, we must conciliate Russian sympathies in order to obtain

later the alliance of this power; if Czar Nicholas refuses,

we will reserve for him the fate of Paul I; his son Alexander, whom we

have skillfully sounded out, has the best dispositions towards

France; moreover, his youth and inexperience will serve us well; we will also have to skillfully exploit the discontent that Austria's neutrality, during the Eastern War,

will have caused at the court of St. Petersburg, to excite Russian resentment,

so that later, when Austria needs its support,

Russia will return the favor and leave it also alone, isolated; Tell

Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte that his entire foreign policy must consist of forming alliances and isolating the enemies he will have to fight, that he should not forget the most important of Machiavelli's maxims: "Divide and rule."

" Once assured of Russia's alliance, or simply its neutrality, he will push Piedmont further and further along the path of attacks and incitement that he is pursuing against Austria, so as to bring about a rupture between these two powers; King Victor Emmanuel has an adventurous and chivalrous spirit, he dreams of the royalty of all Italy; His minister, M. de Cavour, a skillful and dangerous man, sworn enemy of Rome, the clergy, and our holy religion, still encourages and excites the ambitious ambitions of his sovereign, to whom he has promised the kingship of the Peninsula; he pursues with devouring activity the goal he has set for himself: to drive Austria from Italy, to restore this beautiful country to itself, and to destroy the temporal power of our Holy Father the Pope; such is the impious, execrable project pursued by our most formidable enemies, Victor Emmanuel, and his prime minister; to accomplish their perfidious designs, they will naturally seek support in France; this is why it will be easy to draw them first into the East against Russia, by promising them our alliance against Austria. Sure of our support to drive out the Austrians, Piedmont will no longer have peace until it has engaged in a struggle with what it calls the oppressors of Italy; it will then be offered a secret treaty in which it will promise France, in exchange for its support against Austria, to cede Savoy and Nice, and despite the reluctance that the King of Sardinia will certainly feel to cede Savoy, which is the cradle of his family, he will consent in the hope of becoming King of Italy. The possession of Savoy is essential for the realization of our projects, because it will give us the main passages through the Alps and

the keys to Italy. Once Louis Bonaparte is firmly established on the Alps, he will also be able to claim the left bank of the Rhine; he will demand these two strategic positions as the former limits of France under the Revolution and its natural borders.

>>> Once Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte has obtained from Piedmont the promise of the cession of Savoy, he will vigorously support him with his arms against Austria, which, despite the valor of its troops, the size of its army, and the positions it occupies in Italy, will not be able to resist, isolated in an enemy country, against the united forces of France and Piedmont and against the permanent threats of insurrections in its rear, in the Tyrol, Hungary, Bohemia, Poland, etc. It will be defeated; It is then that Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte will be able to play a role

triplely useful to our future projects: 1° To conciliate the sympathies of Austria, an eminently Catholic power, after

having defeated it by generously negotiating peace with it; by

seducing it, with advantageous conditions, as he will have already

done with Russia; 2° To ensure in a given time his decisive influence

in Italy for the benefit of our holy society, by the creation

of separate kingdoms in the center and south of the Peninsula, for

his cousins, Murat and Napoleon Bonaparte, sons of the former King Jerome; by these means we will maintain the age-old divisions of Italy

which alone constitute its weakness and our strength; Austria and the Bourbons of Naples being today powerless to maintain themselves any longer

in Italy and to perpetuate its division; 3. Crush the revolution, lower and subordinate Piedmont by subjecting it to a kind of suzerainty, treating it as a vassal, opposing its expansion by all means, and always keeping it at its discretion; first by the army occupying Rome and by the one that will have been there to help it against Austria, and then by the conquest of Savoy, which, by giving us the Alpine passes, will allow us to constantly threaten it and keep it in absolute dependence; in this position, Piedmont will no longer be formidable. >> To achieve this triple result, it will be enough to win two or three battles against Austria, while taking care to make England, which will still be our ally, act strongly against Prussia and the German Confederation, so that they remain neutral and do not come to Austria's aid; for this, we will promise to localize the war in Italy and threaten all of Europe with revolution.

in the event that Germany intervenes. With the help of the Italian patriots, the volunteers, and Piedmont, who will be promised a free Italy from the Alps to the Adriatic, Austria will necessarily succumb; then, at the first opportunity, peace will be negotiated with Austria, without consulting Victor Emmanuel or M. de Cavour, advantageous conditions will be offered to secure its goodwill; Venice, Peschiera, Mantua, Verona, etc. will be left to it, only Lombardy will be ceded to it, which will be returned to Victor Emmanuel to compensate him for Savoy and Nice; Austria will be promised to convene a conference between itself, Piedmont, and France to sign and ratify the peace treaty; We will give her a glimpse of the formation of an Italian confederation into which she will enter, guaranteeing her the preservation of the remainder of her possessions in Italy; we will promise our Holy Father the Pope the presidency of this confederation, of which all the Italian states will be part, so that Piedmont, the only liberal government on the Peninsula, will be completely neutralized by the majority of its confederates, all Austrians and Catholics; by this means, the power of the Pope will become powerful and strong and his moral influence will grow considerably, and the power of Austria in Italy will be incontestable.

" By means of all these promises, which we will reserve the right to elude depending on the circumstances, we will succeed in securing Austria's goodwill in the future; we will even promise to leave her Lombardy and Milan if she wants to allow Louis Bonaparte to seize the Rhine provinces. Victor Emmanuel will undoubtedly be hurt by such a procedure and such an arrangement, but he will be given a part of Lombardy as compensation to console him. M. de Cavour, seeing himself outwitted, will be forced to withdraw; the Italian patriots and revolutionaries will cry treason, but the French army in Italy will silence them; if the petty sovereigns of the center, of Parma, Modena, or Tuscany, were to lose their crowns, their rights would be reserved for the future and their provinces would be made into a separate state placed under the patronage of France, to ensure its decisive influence over the affairs of Italy and perpetuate its division; it will be necessary above all to strive to oppose all kinds of obstacles to the unification of Italy under the scepter of Victor Emmanuel; this is a great danger to be averted. Victor Emmanuel was only to be a temporary instrument that would later be broken during a second Italian campaign, which would take place when France held the Alps and the Rhine,

and whose aim will be to make Italy an annex of France,

the King of Piedmont will then be sacrificed like so many others who must successively suffer the same fate; Italy must be absorbed, as well as Switzerland and a large part of Europe, and

sacrificed in the very near future, as Austria will be

later, as well as Prussia, Germany, England, etc.

But, to begin with, we must be content to divide them.

>> Austria will not forgive Germany and Prussia for

having abandoned her during the Italian War; we will still have to skillfully exploit this enmity, because it will serve to carry out our

projects on the Rhine; Since the inaction of all of Germany will have allowed us to carry out our projects on the Alps, we will promise Prussia to allow it to expand in Germany and we will offer England some commercial advantages while Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte seizes the Rhine line, and will continue to show the greatest consideration for Russia, supporting it more than ever in the hope of the accomplishment of its projects in the East, which it will be promised to share after the subjugation of England. The latter will eventually guess our projects and will understand part of the plan followed by Emperor Napoleon III, for we can already give him this title today, so certain are we of the success of our enterprise; but it will matter little then if heretic Albion finally realizes that our plans are directed against it, that what we want to bring down is its colossal power, its liberties, which are a permanent obstacle, hitherto invincible, to the accomplishment of our projects; then the empire will be in a position formidable enough to defy it; moreover, England will from then on be isolated in Europe; estranged with Russia since the Eastern War, where it will have fought against it; with Austria since the Italian War, since it will have prevented Germany from coming to its aid; it will therefore have no other hope than in Prussia, whose alliance it will covet to find a foothold on the continent against its formidable and former ally Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte; but Prussia and the small states of the

German Confederation are, like all confederate states,

difficult to move, they always lack one thing indispensable for action, unity; divisions can be skillfully created between the various states of the German Confederation, their rivalries maintained in such a way as to neutralize their forces; one must also not forget to secretly encourage and nurture

Prussia's ambitious projects for Germany and the confederation

Germanic nation that it would like to strongly establish under a democratic central power and thus form a vast and powerful confederation of all the German peoples so disunited under their current constitution, Prussia will therefore be promised help in reconstituting German nationality, and this will certainly be enough to make it abandon the English alliance and dispose it favorably in favor of France's plans on the Rhine, and it will thus allow the annexation to France of the provinces located on the left bank of this river to be accomplished.

> French Switzerland will also be seized to gain access to the Simplon road; passage through the Valais will first be requested for a French army, by virtue of the right that Piedmont had to cross this canton to reach Italy, a right that France will have held since the cession of Savoy; Once the French army is in Valais, it will occupy it definitively, as well as the cantons of Geneva, Vaud, Neuchâtel, Fribourg, etc., etc.

By means of the plan outlined above, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte will therefore succeed in extending France's borders to the Alps and the Rhine; in having Piedmont as an ally and almost as a vassal; in securing Russia's neutrality through promises or a few concessions in the East; in detaching Prussia from the English alliance by encouraging its policy of German unity; and in neutralizing Austria, through Piedmont and Italy, and through its old rivalry with Prussia. With the ground thus prepared and the positions taken by France, England will be alone in Europe, at the discretion of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, who will have nothing left to do but consummate its ruin. >> It is unnecessary to elaborate here on all the means that must be employed to defeat and ruin England; to destroy its maritime power and annihilate its naval forces, and to go as far as London to overthrow its government, its constitution, its proud and heretical aristocracy, and ensure the empire of Catholicism on the ruins of modern Carthage; let it suffice for us to draw the attention of the President of the Republic to Cherbourg as the port where he can prepare his expedition well in advance, and to recommend that he foment an insurrection in the Indies, in order to weaken the power of England, for to strike it in India is to strike it in the heart; This will not be impossible, because our house in Pondicherry and our correspondent Josué Vandaël in Batavia, who sent us information on this subject, both assure us that the sepoys, native troops in the service of

vice of England in the Indies, can be driven to revolt under the most futile religious pretext; they partly profess Islam and are very fanatical; Russia could help France to stir up this rebellion, for it already has a foothold in Asia on the Amur River, and from there it could bribe an insurrection in the English Indies. It will also be necessary to have the island of Sardinia ceded to it by Piedmont, in order to more easily seize Malta by driving the English out, and thus become, without sharing, the masters of the Mediterranean. The piercing of the Isthmus of Suez

should not be neglected either, because by joining the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, the shortest and most direct route to India would be opened, which would be all the more useful for our projects

because of the position taken by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy, by

French Africa, and Egypt, which he would seize in the partition

of the Turkish empire, by the possession of the islands of Sardinia and Malta,

the Mediterranean would become a French lake and the key to India

would then be in his hands; he could continually threaten

England in its immense Asian colonies.

" It would also be easy to incite Catholic Ireland to revolt

against Protestant England, by promising it the support of

France, by sending it aid, and by preparing a raid

on its territory. In a word, nothing should be neglected to weaken England and prepare for the expedition that must absolutely be attempted against her. In France, the old national hatred, still very popular against England, will be resurrected; the people and the army will be made to believe that they want to avenge the defeat at Waterloo and the martyrdom of Saint Helena; there will then be only a cry of extermination against perfidious Albion. With England defeated and its power destroyed, Russia will be offered the division of Europe into two great empires, the Eastern Empire for the Czar and the Western Empire for Bonaparte. Germany would have the same destiny as England; war against the Prussians and the Austrians would be no less popular in France than war against the English; With the question of nationalities, Poland, Hungary, Bohemia, Croatia, the Danubian provinces, etc., would be raised, and, in this great conflagration of peoples, it would not be difficult for Bonaparte to conquer all of Germany and seize it under the pretext of freeing the peoples from the governments that oppress them. Louis Napoleon could thus push back the limits of his empire to the Niemen and the Pruth; all the other small states of Europe would be successively absorbed in the same way; while

Russia would seek to accomplish its projects in the East, France would lend it a hand to help it drive the Turks back into Asia and would take advantage of the situation to occupy Constantinople and seize Egypt, the Dardanelles, and the Bosphorus, in order to prevent Russia from entering the Mediterranean; it would be completely impossible for the latter power to fight against the colossal Western empire that would have just been formed; Bonaparte would pursue his work of conquest even in the empire of the czars, and, like his uncle, he would seize Moscow and further enlarge his empire as far as the Urals and the Caspian Sea by driving the czars into Siberia in Asiatic Russia; Master of the vast territory between the Atlantic Ocean, the North Seas, and the Caspian Sea, Spain would still have to be conquered in order to possess Gibraltar and thus hold the last key to the Mediterranean, which would become a French lake. Spain would first have been pushed into ruinous wars in Morocco and Portugal; once weakened by this double struggle and left alone and without support, it would be forced to submit to the stronger and suffer the fate common to the other European states. We mention Sweden and Norway only for the record, because once Europe was conquered, these two secondary states could not escape the general invasion. The rest of Switzerland would suffer the same fate, and all of Europe would form a single empire under Bonaparte's scepter, to which all the peoples of the world would become tributaries, and the idea of universal domination pursued for centuries by our holy society and dreamed of by Napoleon I would have triumphed; it would then be realized Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's favorite maxim: "To reign over France is to reign over Europe, and to reign over Europe is to reign over the world." »

>>> We could then firmly and definitively establish the absolute power of our holy mother, the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Church, by placing the throne of this great empire on the altar, and work effectively for the regeneration of the peoples of Europe and save from perdition and eternal damnation all heretics, schismatics, excommunicated persons, unbelievers, freethinkers, philosophers, Freemasons, liberals, radicals, revolutionaries, and socialist republicans. We could then recommence on a larger scale the holy work of salvation accomplished by Louis XIV, inspired by our venerable brother in Jesus, Father Lachaise, and Madame de Maintenon, of holy and pious memory; when the means of gentleness inst-

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If, however, the charity and mercy of our Holy Mother the Church will not be enough, we will be, to our great regret, forced to use the secular arm, the sword, iron, and fire to accomplish the great mission we have received from God, to work tirelessly to save peoples from eternal damnation, and we repeat here, with deep conviction, convinced that we will soon see them fulfilled, the now famous words we spoke at the Chieri conference. "... Do you think that the ashes of the pyres are completely extinguished? That not the smallest ember remains to light a single torch! The fools! By calling us Jesuits, they believe they are covering us with shame! But the

Jesuits reserve for them censorship, a gag, and fire... and one

day they will be the masters of their masters.¹ Yes, one day

we will be the masters of our masters, and that day of justice and

atonement is approaching with the speed of lightning; may our

dear brother and beloved son, Prince Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, seize the flaming sword, the exterminating sword that we offer him, and he will be the archangel charged with the execution of divine vengeance and social regeneration; may he strike down the guilty without pity, for as on the day of the last judgment, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth; the good, those who have walked in the way of the Lord, will rejoice, and the wicked, the impious, the profaners and blasphemers of his holy name will tremble; but it will be too late, because for the measure to be

salutary, for the hydra of evil not to be reborn, it will be necessary

to cut off all its heads at once and make disappear even the last trace of its accursed power; let us not forget that the revolution is the daughter of religious reformation, that both are

manifestations of the spirit of free examination, discussion and liberty, the enemy of faith; that John Huss, Wickleff, Hutten, Munzer, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, are the precursors of Danton, Saint-Just, Robespierre, Marat, Babeuf, Proudhon, Blanqui and Mazzini; that conservative Protestants, Anglicans, and Lutherans are just as much enemies of our holy mother the Catholic Church, of our holy father the Pope, and of our holy society as the most advanced socialists and the most hardened atheists; it will therefore be necessary to work for their conversion with the same zeal as for that of the revolutionaries; religious reformation must completely disappear. 4 Textual; the passages in quotation marks are always quotations reproduced word for word.

tre, just like the revolution, its followers, all the Reformed, Protestants, Lutherans, Calvinists, Anglicans, etc., etc., must recant, be converted, make amends and submit, just like the revolutionaries; otherwise we will be, with great regret, forced to use force to extirpate their heresy, destroy their fatal errors, by reestablishing the tribunal of the Most Holy Inquisition, which will work effectively to extinguish evil by converting, amending, punishing, or exterminating the guilty. All the books of the reformers, philosophers, and revolutionaries will be burned by the executioner's hand; their newspapers suppressed, their platforms and temples demolished,

their children baptized and raised in the Catholic faith, the exercise

or public or secret practice of any other faith will be punished

by death; presses and private printing presses will be destroyed,

the Church and the State alone will be able to print; the rights of assembly

and association will be abolished, except for the faithful who

will gather under their venerable curates and their holy bishops to

feed on the word of God; the sacred pulpit will replace the platform and the so-called evangelical pulpit of the reformed churches; the practice

of religious duties will become a holy obligation, a pious

duty from which no one will be able to shirk; Emperors and kings, those directors of nations, to whom God has given power and strength to guide them on the right path, will be placed so high in the admiration and adoration of the people that, after our holy father the Pope, they will be the most venerated representatives of God on earth. Public education will be given entirely to our most holy Society of Jesus, which will inculcate early in new generations the love of God, obedience to our holy religion, respect for its worthy ministers, the most absolute submission to the sovereigns of the earth, blessed and consecrated by them; contempt for riches, resignation to the evils and miseries with which God tests humanity. Not half a century will have passed before, through these salutary and effective measures, men will no longer be recognizable. They will have become as humble, as submissive, as pious, as they are now proud, rebellious, and impious.

>>Let Prince-President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte think about it.

We offer him the largest empire in the world, universal domination, if he wishes to ensure the triumph of our order; but let him hasten to accept, for time is pressing, the moment to act has come,

every day of delay is a danger, there is no longer any hesitation.

have. The Quaestors' proposal, which aims to give the President of the Legislative Assembly the right to directly request armed force; the bill on presidential responsibility, whose commission responsible for drafting it, out of fifteen members, includes fourteen who are enemies of the President of the Republic; must sufficiently make it clear to the latter that the Assembly wishes to take precautions against him and that it is high time to take a decisive stand.

>> Let the President also not forget that interpellations must be made in the Assembly on the Mediterranean liner affair and on the management of the gold bullion lottery; that these interpellations will lead to scandalous revelations about the bribes his advisors received, and about the embezzlement and misappropriation of funds from the gold bullion lottery of which he is accused; It is being asserted and loudly said in the corridors of the Assembly that a representative of the people has material proof

of these misdeeds and that he will produce them at the rostrum; that Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte should not forget the scandals that preceded the fall

of Louis-Philippe and the fate of Teste and Pellaprat, which the Assembly reserves for him; for if he does not hurry with his coup d'état,

soon it will be too late, in eight days he will be in Vincennes and

in three months in Clairvaux; he must choose between the throne

and the galleys, between the purple and the jacket, between sovereign honors and infamous shame! >> We believe the Prince-President to be too intelligent to suppose him capable of hesitating for a single instant, and we are convinced that he will follow the wise and useful advice we give him and that he will continue to work with us "ad majorem Dei gloriam" according to the motto of our illustrious patron Saint Ignatius of Loyola, our master and his own.

• Receive, reverend priest, with our blessing, the best wishes we express for the success of your holy mission, which you will accomplish in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen!

" The General of the Order,

" ROOTHAAN."