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

giving them Christian names. He must have found
it difficult to have extricated himself from the
horns of this dilemma. Such are a few of the
circumstances, some of them purely accidental in
their nature, others the result of early habit, which
might well have continued after a sincere
conversion to Christianity, and all of them trivial,
on which capital accusations were to be alleged,
and even satisfactorily established.”[6]
I give this quotation from Llorente, as he is a
writer most competent to unveil the hidden
mysteries of the Inquisition. He was secretary to
that tribunal in Madrid from 1790-1792. He
devoted several years to a thorough investigation of
the records of the tribunals, as well as of other
original documents contained in their archives.
It will therefore be now in place to relate some
of those secret workings, and to relate how its
victims were accused, condemned, and tortured.
To presume the innocence of the prisoner until
his guilt has been established, is an axiom of
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