86 Contemporary Evolution. 



To attempt to impede excommunication, is to deny 

 to citizens the right to exclude from a voluntary society 

 members who do not conform to freely chosen rules. 



To violate the freedom of person and property of 

 citizens without trial, without even one distinct definite 

 accusation even though such citizens call themselves 

 Jesuits is a glaring injustice ; but greater, though less 

 glaring, is the tyranny thereby inflicted on thousands of 

 citizens whose rights of choice and election are violated 

 by such acts, and whose most earnest desires and wishes 

 as to themselves, and their children and friends, are 

 thereby trampled on. 



The citizens calling themselves Jesuits have gross 

 wrong done them ; their parents, brothers, sisters, and 

 personal friends suffer hardships hardly less patent ; but 

 unnoticed and apparently unthought of are the wrongs 

 of the thousands who have been deprived of their 

 greatest comfort thousands of the most innocent and 

 most helpless citizens of the State. Who can tell the 

 hundreds of fond mothers, faithful wives, and tender 

 sisters who have bitterly wept the forced departure of 

 the guardians and supporters in virtue of wayward sons, 

 errant husbands, and erring brothers. These and cognate 

 considerations will reveal a mass of silent suffering, 

 suffering perhaps greater than that produced by many a 

 bloody battlefield. 



The effect of bias, so strongly put forward by Mr. 



