To the President and people of the United States: I here present to you what I deem important political disclosures of a standing foreign policy, designed to prostrate the power of these United States

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TO THE PRESIDENT AND PEOPLE
OF THE
UNITED STATES:
I here present to you what I deem Important Political Disclosures of a Standing Foreign Policy,
DESIGNED TO PROSTRATE THE POWER OF THESE UNITED STATES

No. 2.
[
Note
—“No. 1,” was published on the 17th of August, 1850.]
AUGUSTA, GA.,
January
1
st
, 1860.
I enclose in this circular to you “THE SHADE OF WASHINGTON, No. 1,” as the lapse of time since its publication may have obliterated its contents from your mind, and also to the better understanding of this, “No. 2,” written in haste; but “No. 3” will contain all the particulars to a complete understanding of the Secret Ecclesiastical Council of England's actions and modes of acting heretofore in other countries. I will present them, as more samples of their doings, only to preserve us from their baneful influences, hoping, that by its re-publication at this time, in some of the Washington papers, and also in circular form, and distributed, that it may have some, if not as much beneficial effect, as it had in 1850—(which indicates that a majority of the then Abolition Members of Congress were patriotic, intelligent. Union-loving men, although a majority of their constituents have surreptitiously been embued by foreign agency, with a sentiment that leads to disunion and ruin.) In 1850 it was published in the “New York Democratic Review,” and in the latter part of August, or the first of September, 1850, many of these Circulars were sent to members of Congress. It enlightened some on the subject it treats of. Many of the most independent members from the North remained to form a quorum, the rest absented themselves from the House, and left the Southern members to pass such Acts as conciliated the South—viz: the Territorial and Fugitive Slave Acts, &c.
But the design of the Secret Department of England being ever intent on the dissolution of this Union, and consequent prostration of the prospective power of these United States, has its emissaries and hired presses to act with increased efforts, and success, to continue deluding the mass of voters. To prevent which, in a measure, the North ought to enlighten the masses, as well as their Representatives were in 1850, on the insidious foreign design to transform them into tools for their own destruction—viz: to destroy the Union is the first step towards destroying the Northern shipping, commercial and manufacturing interests, and every interest that now makes the North rich and powerful; for the North is the only rival that England has on this continent. She looks upon the South, without apprehension of rivalry, only as part of a whole nation that contributes to make the North strong and powerful.
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And her institution of slavery is made use of, by means of secret emissaries, and hired presses, to put down her rival interests at the North. The North is her rival in all the elements of national greatness; for, besides piety, intelligence, industry and wealth, which she possesses, in common with the rest of the United States, she has her manufacturing, commercial and shipping interests, which are peculiar to herself, and these are the rival interests which her emisaries and hired presses are intent ultimately to destroy.
Their emisaries and presses have stole a long march on the minds of the Northern population; they have forestalled the public opinion of the masses by agitations on false
ex parte
views of the slavery question; they have got the ear of the masses of the voters of the North, to the exclusion of all others, so that it is very difficult for the voice of the conservative orators and presses to reach their ears, or make any impression on their minds, that is not immediately counteracted by the ever watchful emissaries, and presses of foreign influence.
Notwithstanding all these formidable impediments to the preservation of this Union, the patriots of the North must rise up to the emergency of the times. They may find some ways and means to reach the ears of the masses of voters, on the foreign design, to divide them; which would render these United States as poor and impotent as are the derided South American Republics. The masses of the population can be enlightened by the great patriotic orators and presses of the North. If they try strenuously they are sure to succeed, for the people are intelligent. They will have to contend, and counteract many insidious and adverse devices, for the emissaries and presses are of transcendant abilities in management and secret tactics, but I hope this will not deter the conservatives of the United States. There should be meetings, publications, and modes of putting those conservative publications into the hands of all the voters of the United States, North, South, East and West, so as to preserve the Union and save this happy country from civil wars, anarchy, ruin and consequent impotence, is the hope of the
SHADE OF WASHINGTON.


[POSTSCRIPT.]
I intend publishing a Circular, No. 3, to explain the origin and doings of the Secret Department in England, and suggest friendly and honorable remedies for all the evils incident to this, and all Republican Governments; to the end, that England and the United States may ever be at peace, and on the most friendly terms. I will only cursorily speak of the origin of the Secret Department in England. It originated thus: In 1558 it was an ecclesiastical request of Queen Elizabeth to some of the High Clergy “to notiee, and report in Council, if any predicators did not conform to the ritual of the Church of England.”
The revenues of the Bishoprics, and Archbishoprics, alloted to them for that and other purposes, were small to what they are now. Land rented then (in 1558) for a few shillings per acre; since then rents of lands have risen considerably, and now land rents for more pounds per acre than they did shillings at that time, (in 1558), which has given to the High Clergy of England very large revenues, and a strong interest in the supremacy and permanency of the Government. Their ideas and labors for a century or so was altogether Ecclesiastical, and never was a Political Department of the British Government, or rather are not at this time a Political Department. But at the time of Louis the XIVth's great victories by land and sea, this Ecclesiastical Council used the transcendant Ecclesiastical abilities and influence, they had to insidiously meddle in politics, to preserve the supremacy of England, and as a sequence, their own large revenues, also.
They affiliated secretly with some of the High Clergy of France to induce the King, Louis the XIVth, to revoke the
Edict of Nantes
, an Edict which was issued in 1589 by King Henry, IVth of France, the only protestant King France ever had, which Edict tolerated all denominations of Christians. After the revocation of this Edict of Nantes, in 1686, by Louis XIVth, the Protestants were persecuted so that about one eighth of the whole, and best, population left France, with their wealth, talents and industry. This crippled the resources and power of France. After that France lost all the battles, by land and sea, and her power was prostrate. From that time the Secret Ecclesiastical Council of Queen Elizabeth, of 1558, became, in 1686, a Secret Political Department; but not established by the Government of England.

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The Ecclesiastic Council of 1558, has by her subsequent acts and doings, having great influence on secret politics, and organizing, chosen men and things for that purpose, insensibly became a Secret Political Department; the population of England knows nothing of its existence; the Government of England at this time knows nothing of its organization, details nor doings, the high clergy is only known to the Government of England, as the obsolete Ecclesiastical Council of Queen Elizabeth, from whom the sovereigns of England sometimes take counsel. For brevity I must skip nearly a century of their political doings, and come down to the period of the French Revolution, to exhibit briefly samples of their insidious doings as warnings to us.
This powerful and well organized Secret Department began by agitations and otherwise to generate the French Revolution, ever since 1777, and prior to that period. All you see of riots, ruffianism, violence, murders, and other hideous crimes, committed during the French Revolution, were engendered by emissaries of this secret department, and all those abominable atrocities committed in France during the French Revolution, are not a proper sample of the morality of the French People: No! not more than the ruffianism, outrages and murders committed in Kansas and at Harper's Ferry, are samples of the habits, morals, social bearing and character of the American Population.
But, if the intelligent population of the United States remains in ignorance of the existence of this all powerful foreign influence on them, we will all become their victims; intestine wars, hideous immoralities, violence, blood shed and all the catalogue of crimes will overspread the land, and Kansas and Harper's Ferry incidents, will be forgotten in the multiplicity and magnitude of the atrocities that would succeed them; and poverty and national impotency (the natural consequences of divisions and civil wars,) will be the portion of this prosperous and happy country, which may heaven avert, is the hope of the
SHADE OF WASHINGTON.
N. B.—Most of the population of the United States and elsewhere, labor under the erroneous impression, that the abolition sentiment is of spontaneous growth—viz: that it spontaneously sprung up into the bosoms of the benevolent; and know not that this benevolent peculiarity of our nature was by design, insidiously developed in their bosoms for the purpose of insensibly converting its recipients into political engines for the destruction of their own country, which may heaven avert, is the hope of the
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