1856

Carroll, Anna Ella. The Great American Battle, or, The Contest between Christianity and Political Romanism. New York, 1856. 27, 239-40. "There is an eternal hostility between the principles of Washington and the principles of Popery," Carroll says, "between the spirit of Romish priests and prelates, and that of the fathers of our Republic. . . . There were no surpliced traitors, no perfidious prelates in that great Convention which formed the eternal code of our liberties." Rousing American women to fight against Catholicism, she invokes Pocahontas: "Where is the spirit of Pocahontas, who saved Virginia by her heavenly heroism?" And in a lush description of her saving of Smith, we find that "linking her noble race with the children of God, the bosom of this American woman became the first sanctuary of American liberty."
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