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Excerpt from Startling Facts for Native Americans Called Knownothings, or a Vivid Presentation of the Dangers to American Liberty, to Be Apprehended From Foreign Influence They declared themselves the authorized vicegerents of Heaven, as the successors of St. Peter in the episcopal chair, founding their claim upon the words of Christ to that apostle, On this rock will I build my church, and hence asserting that the Church of Rome is the only true church, though they could not produce a tittle of evidence that Peter had ever set foot in that city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.