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19th century game carries over to 21st. More players to deal with 21st century.

• Foreign Conspiracy against the Liberties of the United States (BRUTUS).

Anonymous: "You are part of history. Never, in our history, has this been attempted."

New York Journal of Commerce: "The author of a little volume just published in this city, entitled Foreign Conspiracy against the Liberties of the United States, is a gentleman personally known to us and universally esteemed. We commend this volume to the serious attention of all Americans who love liberty and mean to maintain it. The author undertakes to show that a conspiracy against the liberties of this Republic is now in full action, under the direction of wily Prince Metternich of Austria, who, knowing the impossibility of obliterating the troublesome example of a great and free nation by force of arms, is attempting to accomplish his object through the agency of an army of Jesuits. The array of facts and argument going to prove the existence of such a conspiracy will astonish any man who opens the book with the same incredulity as we did. The author has traveled extensively in Europe–has resided many months, if not years, in Italy–and understands full well the kind of machinery which the politico-religious despots of the Old World would be likely to put in motion for the subversion of our liberties. He has taken hold of the subject with a strong hand, and if he has not proved the existence of a conspiracy, he has certainly proved the immense accumulation of foreign despotic influence among us, particularly in the West, by means of priests and money sent here from despotic countries. And he has further proved that the personal influence and pecuniary aid of the Emperor of Austria and his principal Minister, as well as many of his subjects, is directed with unceasing assiduity to maintain the foothold they have gained, and to spread the contagion of their doctrines throughout this fair Republic."