Historical Records and Studies, Volume 18United States Catholic Historical Society, 1928 |
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Page 146 - Sir : I am sure you will pardon me if in my ignorance I do not address you with technical correctness. I find no law authorizing the appointment of chaplains for our hospitals ; and yet the services of chaplains are more needed, perhaps, in the hospitals than with the healthy soldiers in the field.
Page 141 - To the men of New York, who are now called in many of the papers rioters. MEN! I am not able, owing to rheumatism in my limbs, to visit you, but that is not a reason why you should not pay me a visit in your whole strength. Come, then, tomorrow (Friday) at two o'clock, to my residence, northwest corner of Madison Avenue and Thirty-sixth street.
Page 116 - I have been absent at Lafargeville, where I was induced to accept a tempting offer of a tempting place, viz., a plantation highly improved, of 460 acres, excellent limestone land, with buildings in quality superior, and in extent not much inferior, to Mount St. Mary's at Emmitsburg. The buildings were put up in 1834 and 1835, and cost $30,000. The land itself would sell for 35 to...
Page 116 - ... dollars per annum, for those who can pay; and if possible none but Catholic boys will be received. Rev. Mr. Guth, whose mission is in the neighborhood, will take charge of the premises for the present, but it will not be entirely organized for some time. The farm and farmhouse with barns, etc., are rented, except forty acres, the most improved, which is attached to the mansion. This was built and arranged by Mr. Lafarge for his own residence but he is grown so rich that he wishes to come to the...
Page 157 - Ireland, and especially in the middle states, has, upon this occasion, arranged themselves on the side of the malcontents. I ought to except from this remark most of the enlightened and well-educated Irishmen who reside among us, and, with a few exceptions, I might confine it to the indigent and illiterate, who, entertaining an attachment to freedom, are unable to appreciate those salutary restraints without which it degenerates into anarchy.
Page 146 - I find no law authorizing the appointment of chaplains for our hospitals; and yet the services of chaplains are more needed, perhaps, in the hospitals than with the healthy soldiers in the field. With this view, I have given a sort of quasi appointment (a copy of which I enclose) to each of three Protestant ministers who have accepted and entered upon the duties. "If you perceive no objection, I will thank you to give me the name or names, of one or more suitable persons of the Catholic Church to...
Page 157 - Irishmen who reside among us, and, with a few exceptions, I might confine it to the indigent and illiterate, who, entertaining an attachment to freedom, are unable to appreciate those salutary restraints, without which it degenerates into anarchy. It would be injustice to say, that the Irish emigrants are more national than those of other countries, yet, being a numerous though Very minor portion of our population, they are capable, from causes it is needless now to explain, of being generally brought...
Page 190 - We owe no religious allegiance to any State in this Union, nor to its general government. No one of them claims any supremacy or dominion over us in our spiritual or ecclesiastical concerns...
Page 156 - I really have no authority t» give or refuse permission to you or any other foreigner to go to the United States; the admission and residence of strangers in that country being a matter that, by a late law, exclusively belongs to the president. It is true that the government of this country in the course of the last year, in consequence of my interference, gave me...
Page 129 - I hold a finger-glass at the conclusion of my dinner a requisite to comfort. After dinner we had coffee, but no tea, whereat my English taste was in high dudgeon. The gentlemen did not sit long, and when they joined us, Mr. , as I said before, uttered sweet sounds. By the by, I was not a little amused at Mrs. asking me whether I had heard of his singing, or their musical soirees, and seeming all but surprised that I had no revelations of either across the Atlantic.