The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

confiscations it involved.[4]
To Isabella’s honor be it spoken, frequent
importunities on the part of the clergy were
necessary before she yielded her consent to having
the Inquisition established in her dominions. But at
last she gave way.
“Sixtus the Fourth, who at that time filled the
pontifical chair, easily discerning the sources of
wealth and influence which this measure [the
establishment of the Inquisition in Spain] opened to
the court of Rome, readily complied with the
petitions of the sovereigns, and expedited a bull,
bearing date Nov. 1, 1478, authorizing them to
appoint two or three ecclesiastics, inquisitors for
the detection and suppression of heresy throughout
their dominions.”[5]
Ferdinand and Isabella, in 1492, issued a decree
expelling from Spain every Jew who did not deny
his faith, so that the soil of Spain might be no
longer polluted by the presence of unbelievers. To
make them Christians, or failing in this, to
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