Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

52 DANGER IN THE DARK.
the hidden motives that actuate the clergy, we shall
regard.them in a very different light from what we
now do; but it may then be too late to disentangle
our feet from the snare."
" If Romanism be indeed all you imagine- antirepublican,
intolerant and proscriptive - I see not
what can be done toward rendering our institutions
and liberties more secure than they are."
" We should achieve much by calling forth a bold
and decided expression of public sentiment in this
country against foreign interference in our domestic
institutions. The immortal Washington said: 'Agaiust
the insidious wiles of foreign interference, the jeslousyof
a free people ought to be constantly awake.' "
Though a good deal discouraged in his first attempt,
Carleton eventually succeeded in effecting an organization,
the chief object of which was, to encourage
the building up and improvement of female schools
and seminaries - convinced that the great want
among Protestants of the right kind of institutions
for the education of young ladies, was the chief cause
of nunneries being patronized.