To assert that the excesses were only commited by one party would be untrue, and that some of our race were allied to angels ; but we hazard nothing in saying that the reformed, in almost every instance, resorted to arms from motives of self-preservation."

" Upon Sunday, August the 24th, 1572, was perpetrated the massacre of St. Bartholomew. De Thou, a popish historian, relates that thirty thousand perished on this terrible occasion. Another estimates one hundred thousand. In Paris alone, they amounted to ten thousand; and, among the number, five hundred Huguenot lords, knights, and military officers, with several thousand gentlemen.

" This massacre, which was perpetrated on St. Bartholomew's day, in the year of our Lord 1 5 7 2 -- a year most aptly designated as infamous by

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Lord Clarendon, may be pronounced the foulest and the bloodiest of ancient or modern times. The black deed has handed down the names of Catherine de Medicis and her son, Charles IX., to the universal detestation of after ages.

"Charles, by a public edict, proclaimed himself the author of it, pretending that he was forced to the measure by the Admiral Coligny and his friends. In honor of it, high mass was performed by the pope; salvoes of artillery thundered from the ramparts of St. Angelo ; a Te Dev.m was sung to celebrate the atrocious event, and a medal was struck for the same purpose. If every Protestant account of this terrible trans-