The Crimes of Alexander Borgia. Anonymous

patriots, must eventually rule the United States ; and the time has come when it is a question for serious consideration whether it shall be ruled by us or them.

      I am not one who has a penchant for prophesying evil, nor for creating an alarm when there is not any danger. I have drawn my conclusions on this subject from a critical analyzation of the motives and principles that have been the life of the Romish church since the days of the Borgias. Wherever it has acquired even a moderate degree of power, it has left a track of blood. Wherever its supremacy has been such as to warrant the experiment, it has been a harbinger of destruction, death and desolation, to all who have ventured to oppose it by word or deed. And such it will ever be, such it will finally be in America, should its strength ever be so over- whelming as to make this end one easy of accomplishment, which God forbid !

      It is believed that Americans are not sufficiently aware of the nature of the church of Rome to treat its modern developments with a proper seriousness ; and hence this work is written. It is believed that its claim to be considered the church, and the only legitimate church of the Messiah, has not been considered in a manner that does justice to its pretensions. It is believed that the mysteries and iniquities of its secret tribunals have not been explained as elaborately as is desirable for the advancement of humanity and Protestantism. It is also believed that the character of the men who. have filled the Papal chair, and are now worshipped as saints, and as the successors of St. Peter in the legitimate order of apostolic succession, has never been revealed to the world in a style as distinct and highly-colored as the subject is worthy of ; and hence I have taken one name, one career, from the list, for the material of this story, that of the notorious and infamous robber, assassin, seducer, incestuous libertine, AND POPE Alexander Borgia !

      From his career of crime and infamy it is my purpose to show what corruption and pollution lies festering at the heart of the Catholic church. Alexander Borgia is boasted, by " all good Catholics," as one of those it is their delight to consider noble leaders of their church ; but never was earth polluted by the existence of a more depraved and crime-stained monster in the shape of man. His name was written iinperishably on the age in which he lived, in characters of blood. History has set him down as a mark for the execration and loathing of all mankind ; and yet we are told, by the most sapient disciples of the church of Rome, that this man ranks as one of the apostolic successors of St. Peter !

      The chief object of this work will be to show his claims to that honor, and to reveal the general evils that were then, and are now, incorporated in the religion (? ?) of which he was, and is, a loudly-vaunted representative ! If the reader finds him painted, not as a man, but as a fiend in human semblance, breeding vice and crime in a half-benighted world, they will remember that this feature is a matter of history!