Scott Foster
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Indeed, his principal object in printing these lectures at all, and his chief hope has been to direct the attention of those whom it most concerns to the question of secret organizations as a whole, to point out the fact that there exists an able, vigilant body of men trained for years in the work of conspiracy who never cease to plot for the destruction of Christianity, and of Christian social order amongst mankind.
And that the success of these men has hitherto arisen mainly from their astute and ceaseless efforts to remain concealed.
The world in all its past history has never been accustomed to deal with such a body.
The sworn secret society anywhere is what Mr.
A.
M.
Sullivan tells us it is, in his admirable description of its action in Dublin in his time.
Its policy then was to stifle every form of Irish public opinion except that which supported its own views, and
Every other expression was to be prevented by emissaries who found their way into every popular gathering, and by secret concert known to themselves alone, and not even so much as suspected by others, were able to make public opinion seem to be in favor of the policy of their chiefs.
If these emissaries failed, others of the secret brotherhood menaced the adverse popular leaders with loss of business and character, with violence and even death.
With every one of these emissions
of these evils the secret society men of the time threatened Mr Sullivan.
He, however, foiled their astuteness and braved their menaces.
He succeeded in escaping, but it was much more owing to the conscience remaining amongst some of the Irish Fenians than to the mercy of the organization itself.
This incident, which is related at length in Mr Sullivan's New Ireland, gives a true idea of the action of every secret society organization working under many apparent public pretenses for the ends of its chiefs.
The ruses of a bird to draw away attention from the nest of its young is but a faint resemblance of what every secret society does to avoid detection, either of itself or of its intentions or doings.
It scruples to commit no crime, not even murder, to divert suspicion, and to remain concealed.
Concealment is and has been from the beginning the very essence of its inward organism and of its outward policy.
It is vain therefore to suppose that because no visible manifestation of its presence appears, or because some evidences, always suspicious when they are shown, of its dying out or becoming ridiculous, impotent, or dead, appear, that there is no further danger to be dreaded from its attempts.
It has the cunning of the serpent and the patience too.
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