The Revolutionary War: How America Became A Jesuit Enclave
A most colossal conspiracy against the United States. I do not like the resurrection of the Jesuits. — Former US President John Adams, in 1816
Vatican Secret Societies Jesuits and the New World Order
By P. D. Stuart
We now come to another highly interesting portion of American history, which you would be hard pressed to find in the history books: the part played by the Jesuits in the American Revolutionary War-the War of Independence, 1776-1783.
We have seen the role of the Jesuits in the American Civil War. But what part,, if any, did they play in the earlier war that transformed America from a collection of independent States to the United States of America? The uninformed or partisan historians will tell us that this War was mainly, if not entirely, due to the arbitrary and “intolerable acts” of the British government, leading to the American Colonists desire to break with British rule. I will now venture to shed some light on this dimly reported aspect of American history–and offer you a very different, and we hope more correct view.
That religion played a major role in the American Revolution is beyond dispute. In 1776, at the time of the Declaration of Independence, there were little over twenty–three priests in all, and the next highest authority was the vicar apostolic in London, who had jurisdiction over the British colonies and satellites in America. The American Revolutionary War of Independence soon changed that.
The reason there were so few Catholics and so many more Protestants was because of the foundation of the great democracy that is today called the United States of America was laid when millions of European Protestants fled the oppression of the Catholic Church in Europe to seek freedom of conscience and religion in the mostly uninhabited wilderness of North America. In the main, the settlers were resolved not to duplicate in the New World what they had fled from on the old continent. These settlers felt that the pope, as a foreign ruler. Should not be allowed to meddle in the politics or laws of America as they suspected that would render it difficult for immigrants, especially Catholics, to be fully loyal to the new country and to its fledgling republican values.
Naturally, there was a fear of Roman Catholics–not unlike the fear many Americans today have of Muslim fundamentalists. After all, these early Protestant pilgrims had recently escaped the hands of their Catholic compatriots. In those days people took their Catholicism seriously! So much so that several states passed laws regulating the activities of Roman Catholics. For example, in 1647 a Massachusetts statute declared that every priest was an: “incendiary and disturber of the public peace and safety and an enemy of…true Christian religion…”
The early American settlers suspected that the Pope was seeking to meddle in the affairs of the United States—to undermine its republican values—which they said was evidenced by the oath that every Catholic Bishop was required to take: “I will to the utmost of my power see out and oppose schismatics, heretics, and the enemies of our Sovereign Lord (the pope) and his successors.” However, the period following the restoration of the Jesuits in 1814 saw a tremendous growth in their numbers and influence in America, as evidenced by a large number of Jesuit colleges and universities established on that continent in that century–twenty–two of the Society’s twenty–eight universities.
“In those days,” says historian Rene Fulop Miller, “one of Benjamin Franklin’s friend was a Jesuit; this was John Carroll, who had been brought up in Maryland of Irish parentage…He would later become the Archbishop of Baltimore, and go on to establish the Jesuit University of Georgetown, in “a suburb of the city of Washington, the federal capital…the first Catholic educational institution in the United States. According to Robert Emmett Curran, in his The Bicentennial History of Georgetown University, the Society of Jesus “resolved in 1786 to found Georgetown (to supply for Catholics in the new republic the clergy whom the Society had provided previously).
John Carroll was born in 1735, at Upper Marlboro, Maryland. After receiving a Jesuit education at Bohemia in Cecil County, Maryland, Carroll studied abroad at Jesuit colleges in Europe. He was forced to flee Europe when the Jesuits were expelled from Sweden under the decree of Pope Clement, in 1773. And on August 15, 1790, Reverend John Carroll was appointed the first Catholic bishop in the United States of America, being consecrated on the feast of the assumption.
Next, the British Parliament passed the Stamps Act, considered by the American colonists as another “intolerable act.” But by far the worst and most notable of these “intolerable acts” was the Quebec Act (passed on May 20, 1774, it received the Royal Assent on June 22, 1774), which attempted to cede all of the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains and north of the Ohio River to Canada (which at the time was essentially Catholic Quebec). In particular, the legislation purported to extend the Catholic province of Quebec south and west to the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and into western colonies of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Virginia-taking land that many Protestant colonists had already claimed.
That this was a deliberately provocative Act–the legislative extension of the province of Quebec into so large an area of what was to become the United States is seen from the fact that Quebec, Canada’s largest province, is three times the size of France and seven times the size of Great Britain. Thus, the Catholics of Quebec had more than ample land to expand within Quebec, plus the vast expanse that is Canada.
Further, and curiously, the Quebec Act of 1774 “established” Catholicism as the official religion in what was at the time “the British Colony of Canada.” And, in conformity with the practice in Catholic countries of the day, it provided for trials without a jury: denied representative assembly. The simultaneous passage of the Quebec Act and the Coercive Acts by the British Parliament led the colonists to angrily declare that the Quebec Act an immoral pact between Britain and popery.
What is surprising about this is that the British, who were supposed to be Protestants, included a provision in the Act expressly providing for Canada to remain under the exclusive control of the Roman Catholic Religion and this provision was to apply to the newly ceded territory (i.e. all of the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains and north of the Ohio River). The terms included the stipulation that: “the exercise of the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman religion shall be maintained.” This was most curious coming from a supposedly Protestant power!
The British-American colonist, mostly Protestants, were naturally outrage, declaring the law to be one of the most “Intolerable Acts” of the British Parliament. Historian Martin Griffin writes that it caused a good deal of patriotic indignation, and was widely considered, by people on both sides of the Atlantic, to have contributed in no small part to the Revolution of 1776.”
The American colonists lambasted the Quebec Act; denouncing it and the attendant French Alliance as a dagger aimed at the heart; as a betrayal of their religious heritage; and a Trojan horse. The colonists issued an “Address Written to the People of England,” in which they expressed: “our astonishment that a British Parliament should ever consent to establish in that country (Canada) a religion that has deluged your island in blood, and disbursed impiety, bigotry, persecution, murder, and rebellion through every part of the world.”
Indeed, we must question and regard as very suspicious indeed, the eagerness shown by a Protestant king (George III) to thus favor the Catholic faith, in one of its Protestant colonies, with so gracious a grant of American territory to Roman Catholics.
Another of the Intolerable Acts was the earlier Quartering Act of March 24, 1765, under which the King sent large numbers of British troops to Boston and then demanded that colonists must house them: in private homes if necessary, and feed them too; and if they did not do so they would get shot. The reader will recognize that these Acts served no useful purpose to the Crown and were clearly inflammatory acts; meant to provoke a radical response from the colonists, as the certainly did. It has been said that these “Intolerable Acts” were orchestrated by the agency of the Jesuits in England who had the ear of the King. Do you doubt this? Read again this part Jesuit Oath of Induction (see again Chap 7, ante):
At the time, the papacy not only had to deal with the concerns of Americans that these revolutionary Jesuit outcasts were migrating to America, it also had to quell the fears of the American people that the Catholic Church in America was itself no more than a Trojan horse for the installation of a foreign ruler-the pope. To overcome these suspicions, the Jesuit John Carroll, advised the pope to have the portion of the oath, which required allegiance to the pope, above all others, removed from the American Bishop’s pledge. This was done to avoid giving offense to the principles of the Constitution and to the calm fears that the Catholic Bishops were merely puppets of the pope, on American soil.
“THE INTOLERABLE ACTS”
In order to achieve the objectives of the Roman Pontiff, the Jesuits aided by their Illuminated-Masonic vassals in America instigated the American War of Independence. Leading Masonic authors openly claim that Freemasonry had a preponderant role in the movement for independence. The “Masonic Review” of 1893 goes as far as to state that Freemasonry was the driving force in the formation of the American Union in 1776, claiming that at least fifty-two out of the filthy-six of the “signers of the Declaration of Independence as members” of the Lodge. Charles Carroll, John Carroll’s cousin, was a signer.
By encouraging Britain to effect into legislation a series of unreasonable and “intolerable acts” (the name given by American patriots to five laws adopted by the British Parliament in 1774), the secret operatives helped create a state of deep resentment and rebellion in the hearts of the American colonist.
One such “intolerable act” was a new government tax scheme on imports of tea. This is what happened behind the scenes. Two Scottish Rite Freemasons, Paul Revere, and another Masonic brother, Joesph Warren–one of George Washington’s generals were members of the oldest Lodge in America, St Andrew in Boston. George Washington himself was initiated into the Fredericksburg lodge in 1752. This Boston lodge was based in the Green Dragon Tavern-remembered by some as the “headquarters” of the American Revolution. The Boston Tea Party operated from the Lodge. The Boston Tea Party opposed the new tax on tea imports and employed various means of civil and criminal disobedience, including the blocking of non –British ships to port.
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