Does "as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions" mean ...?

Does "as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions" mean "as despotic as religious intolerance , as wicked as religious intolerance, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions caused by the religious intolerance"?

Context:

And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty, it was not wonderful that the agitation of the billows should reach even this distant and peaceful shore; that this should be more felt and feared by some and less by others, and should divide opinions as to measures of safety. But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.