After this decisive victory, and last dreadful catastrophe, Jacobinism, considered as a pure and unmixed party, can scarce be said to have again raised its head in France, although its leaven has gone to qualify and characterize, in some degree, more than one of the different parties which have succeeded them. As a political sect, the Jacobins can be compared to none that ever existed, for none but themselves ever thought of an organized, regular, and continued system of murdering and plundering the rich, that they might debauch the poor by the distribution of their spoils. They bear, however, some resemblance to the frantic followers of John of Leyden and Knipperdoling, who occupied Munster in the seventeenth century, and committed, in the name of religion, the same frantic horrors which the French Jacobins did in that of freedom. In both cases, the courses adopted by these parties were most foreign to, and inconsistent with, the alleged motives of their conduct. The Anabaptists practised every species of vice and cruelty, by the dictates, they said, of inspiration--the Jacobins imprisoned three hundred thousand of their countrymen in the name of liberty, and put to death more than half the number, under the sanction of fraternity.
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Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired except where noted below.
Page vi, "Vallie's" changed to "valleys" (the valleys of Piedmont)
Page vii, "stupifies" changed to "stupefies (first stupefies the)
Page xi, "Hawkes" changed to "Haukes" (Ardeley, Haukes, and)
Page 18, "Icunum" changed to "Iconium" (Jerusalem, Iconium, Lystra)
Page 23, "northen" changed to "northern" (restless northern nations)
Page 26, "catechhmun" changed to "catechumen" (catechumen of Carthage)
Page 33, "i ine" changed to "in fine" (in fine, he was)
Page 39, "batoons" changed to "batons" (with batons, and)
Page 42, "martrydom" changed to "martyrdom" (conclusion of her martyrdom)
Page 51, "dioceas" changed to "diocese" (in the diocese)
Page 51, "remand" changed to "remanded" (They remanded him)
Page 60, "cardina" changed to "cardinal" (crowns of the cardinal)
Page 64, "no" changed to "not" (reached not to)
Page 73, "nflicted" changed to "inflicted" (inflicted twice without)
Page 73, "quiety" changed to "quietly" (peaceably and quietly)
Page 73, "hreatening" changed to "threatening" (threatening words to)
Page 75, "erwise" changed to "otherwise" (far otherwise than)
Page 77, "contributious" changed to "contributions" (last contributions to)
Page 77, word "a" was inferred and placed in text do to spacing and context (such a procedure)
Page 80, inconsistent quotation marks were retained as original intent could not be assertained.
Page 91, "iner" changed to "Gardiner" (Gardiner was drawn)
Page 91, "ne" changed to "near" (near the fire)
Page 125, "Vilaro" changed to "Villaro" (of Villaro and Bobbio)
Page 126, "apprended" changed to "apprehended" (Michialm, was apprehended)
Page 132, "dorpped" changed to "dropped" (till they dropped)
Page 134, "stil kep" changed to "still kept" (and still kept)
Page 136, "s" changed to "his" (completed his regiment)
Page 136, "retron" changed to "return" (and return thanks)
Page 137, "Vilaro" changed to "Villaro" (rocks of Villaro)
Page 137, word "to" inserted into text (put to death)
Page 138, "that" changed to "than" (than their suffering)
Page 158, "tr s" changed to "troops" (of his troops)
Page 158, "un ook" changed to "undertook" (princes undertook the)
Page 158, "wel" changed to "well" (were all well)
Page 159, "w s" changed to "was" (Zisca was solicited)
Page 175, "possesion" changed to "possession" (his possession.)
Page 179, "ban- s hour" changed to "banish our" (banish our preachers)
Page 180, "enj ned" changed to "enjoined" (strictly enjoined his)
Page 204, "see" changed to "she" (whom she forgave)
Page 206, "queen" changed to "Queen" (in Queen Mary's)
Page 207, "Northhampton" changed to "Northampton" (preached at Northampton)
Page 214, "halbered" changed to "halberd" (halberd struck him)
Page 222, "Osmand" changed to "Osmond" (Thomas Watts, Thomas Osmond)
Page 223, "Was" changed to "was" (he was brought)
Page 224, "sherif" changed to "sheriff" (of the sheriff)
Page 232, "passsed" changed to "passed" (he passed Bocardo)