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“IMMACULATE WIRGIN, PRAY FOR US.”
VOL. XTV.
PHIL!
ADELPHIA, APRIL 15, 1886.
NO, 1883
LLL
MARTIN I. J. GRIFFIN,
711 Sansoxt : STREET,
woted to the advancement 0
THE TRISH OATHOLIO 'SENEVOLENT UNION
OF THE UNITED STATES.
TERMS:
a Year in advance.
CATHOLICITY
PHILADELPHIA.
" [COPYRIGHTED, 1883.}
50 Cen
Br Martin L. J. Gurerin.
SECOND SERIES.
THE FIRST CALL
Dr. John Gilmary Shea. in his Catho- |!
lics in the Revolution, declares that ** the
first_call for troops after the battle of
Lexington drew Maryland and Pennsyl-
ents, in whieh Catholics
yania regiments,
a part.’?
Perhaps so in Marylani But it
be questioned wh ether | Protestants who
wouldnt let Catholics have public Mass | j
would allow e arms,
Maryland is beyond
had denounced the Quebec B
certainty that Catholics could not have
“formed a large part ” of that militia,
Pennsylvania had no militia law until
April, 1756, and under that law * Pa-
pists or reputed Papists”? were not
Mlowel to do military duty, or to have
arms in their houses, and if any were
found they were to be taken from them.
But ‘‘ Papists”? were taxed {iwenty shil-
lings fr support of the militia.
1, Associators existed prior to
rotestans:
hibition
cs was in force at the
time of ‘*the first call for troops after
nm”? we have not been able as
yet to discover, but the many new militia
acts makes it probable that the Papists’
portion was was omitted, as the circumstances
a
bye following information i is given us
y The ae Westeott, Esq., historian
y Philad To preserve it and
make it wean to others we publish it:
* In Miller’s Laws the title of the act of
“April 15, 1756, for regulating officers and
soldiers, ‘ete., it gives the declara-
tion, * Repealed and ‘Expired. 7” Miller
was printed in 1762.
Sami
British mutiny acts to Pennsylvania,
Aug. 15, 1755, and for regulating asso-
ciations for military purposes, Nov. 25th,
1755,both repented by the King in Coun-
cil, July 7th,
i
Nov. 4th,
Act for Henioting officers and soldiers,
Jan, 18th, 1757. Expired.
Act for: quartering soldiers, Mar. 17th,
1757.
ct a draw ‘out, and march 1,000 men,
Aug. 19th, 1757. Expired.
Act for regulating ottgers and soldiers,
Arr bth, 1758, Expire
f Apr, 29, ee 20th and Sept.
aot ‘a ‘58, mutiny, carriages for army,
regulating officers, etc, Expired.
Ac pril iit th, 1759, for raising
for His Majesty’s service—ap-
Propriations for troops.
Mutiny act, carrlaze ache ohers and
soldiers, Apr. "2st , 1759, Expired.
ising: supplies for king's service,
June 20th, 1759. Expired.
Raising’ supplies, Sept. 19th, 1759,
Miller, although printed 1762, has no
acts Inter than 175!
Hall and Sellers Laws, a
ft
lating Officers and soldiers,
6.
one of u
it the protest of the Associators
against the Quebec Bill proves that the
Anti-Catholic ‘spirit prevailed in 1775.
They called a State Convention in 1776.
is i s the overthrow of the Royal} y,
authorit
ON TO CANADA.
But there were four Pennsylvania
regiments in the service of Congress in
in the invasion of Canada in the fall and
Winter of 1775, Namea Catholic officer?
Name a Catholic private in the four
regiments? — Rev. W:
Bade Chaplain, was not a Catholic,
Catholic who answered the first call for
me volume act for extending the Cl
troops, didn’t have, in our opinion, mihch
active faith or love for his Church. 4 If
any were allowed to join they are t
regarded as Irishmen who hated Eng-
land, and not as Catholics. In our befief
the “ first eall for troops * would have
Dee feebly responded to had no
anti-Catholic | hatred © Popery o
aroused the [rish Presbyterians of Penn-
sylvania and the Congregationalisis of
North. Num nnsylvania
semen prove e thie aS to our State, and
Father Barber’s History of My Own
Times, and numbers of other authorities,
attest it as to New Eng The
bec Bill was pate nie neces says
Henry Armitt
Why should Paldetpia patholies
ave answered ‘*t!
meetings were hel ca. there “Jenouncing
King George or “establishing Popery
in Canada,” gress had declares
telssa religion that eaispensed impiety,
rsecution, murder and r
lion throughout every part of the. world, ”
religi ion fraught with san-
guinary and impious tenets.”
The [rish Pennsylvanians were bitter
a
‘anada u
they feared that King George would use
these French Catholics to introduce
Popery into the Colonies, though,
course the official Teasons were m:
and po
'y haters were glad to
Catholic soldiers to assist them before
long. The Irish soldier who led that
Popery hating army, Gen. Montgomery,
lost his life. His bones liein a Broadw:
Protestant graveyard, while his sister's
mould in St. Augustine’s Catholic grave-
yard, where the Popery haters of 1844
trampled over the remains of the sister
of him who led their fathers.
Americans opened the contest for
their liberty by a war of jnvasion, and
the intended subjugation of a people
ad no cause of complaint against fhe
British Ministry. thous ‘h they went a:
invaders, the people (‘‘ peasantry ”’) ree
ceived them as friends, assisted them,
and even became. volunteers in large
numbers. How were o they treated? They
and their clergy were oil used,”? is the
oficial report of Aenean Com-
mander at Sontreal, Gol. Haze
CONGRESS WOOS THE CANADIANS.
After Montgomery tay been killed,
after the American Atmy was dise:
by small pox, and the soldiers could only
save themselves from starvation by seiz-
ing food for the inhabitants, and Gon.
gress had been officially | informed of the
deplorable state of a , then it was
that Congress concluded that as it could
not subjugate these French Catholic Ca-
nadians (there being only 360 Protestants
in the Provines of Quebec), that an effort
shou alli-
ance ol to @ neutrality. ‘There “wasn't
a Catholic in Congress, So it appointed
harles Carroll of Carrollton, who was
in Philadelphia at the time, and asked
him to urge ** Mr. n Carroll” to go
with the Commissioners,
Congress became very liberal towards
Catholicity. de gous then tell the Ca-
nadians that was ‘* too well ac-
quainted with thel liberality of sentiment,
distingnishing your nation to imay
ne
that difference of religion will Prejudice th
that they would have full and free exer-
cise of their religion, and ‘everythin;
relative to their creed” and clergy should
be left in the hands of the good clergy of
the provinee 8,7?
** good clergy ” simply told Father
Carroll that they had all these rights
now, and that the Catholics in the re-
yolted colonies had not, and never had
had, and that the promises of these ad-
vantages to people wl 0 didn’t need them
ought to havegiven rho to those among
them who were debarred from political
and religious rights, simply because they
were Catholics. They might, and n
did, ask Father ‘Carroll to tell
them where, outside of Philadelphia, in
the colonies, Catholies had ** the freeand
undisturbed exercise of their religion *
the very thing they were offering the Ca. 1
nadians who already possessed this, and
the granting of which to them was ‘‘ the
last straw,’? which drove the colonies
into revolt, and was the cause of that
rel
hose who n ought i
them after a disastrous attempt to subju-
gate them.
any wonder the Canadians
Charles Carroll of Carrollton was put
a e83,
Congress got very liberal when it
wanted Catholic help. It failed to con-
quer Canada to prevent its people from
being organized as‘an army to impo:
. Popery ”” on them. It tr ‘ed then to
win these same people to ‘amity.
e-} the patriotism: of their fathers, who
el- | same
ased ington
. |The. Parnell Branch, of Philadelphia,
f
Then it haa no other alternatives save
submission or independence, Asa threat.
and a defiance, though God directed, it
issued the Declaration. Then Liberty
was born and Catholics were free. Then
Congress sought and obtained help from
France and Spain and Ireland. Eng-
land got he Protestant Tlessians. © Yet
we hear Prot rating about Pro-
testantism, ‘the champion of Freedom.
Oh, it’s a wowderful story, this of our
Revolution, and Catholics should stu
but they
leep and sincere was
it. ‘y can be proud of it,
ought to learn how
were denied c'vil or religious rights,
et when the hour of need ¢:
who had maligned and o them
were God directed to Liberty’s side, and
did valiant duty. hey should know
that the bigotry of John Jay and asso-
ciates cost ou: untry rly, and they
should know that the descendants of that
igot are now preventing Libert:
of Conscience to Catholics in New York,
and that in the very city founded on Re-
igious Liberty, the city of American
Independence, Catholics are eae, de-
nied Religious om, and forced to
attend Protestant service oe
In September, 76, Pen nsylvania
adopted tts Constitution, requiring a
belief in God the divine inspiration
of the Seriptures. Ast
‘the enemies of. Christ into > the Assem-
bly,” objection: was ma: as ‘ta
ficiber establistiment of anti-Chiist and
all_ damnable errors than the Quebee
Bill for Popery.”
So there wasn’t much suppression of
anti-“ Popery ” feeling even immediately | ¥
after the Declaration,
ss at once adopted Laws for
enrollment of the militia, and there was
no restriction, you may depend, against
enrolling Catholics. Sphitadelphia, on
July 18th, accepted ‘the regulations of
Congress relative to the militia. In De-
cember, 1776, the Assembly appointed a
committee to draft 'a new Militia Law,
They were so eager to make this known
that hand-bills were printed and dis-
tributed announcing, the fact. One is
now ab Ridgway Library. The Law was
passed, In March, 1777, Thomas Bitz:
faowt was. apy manted amember of t!
joard, Ie is the first Philadel-
phia Catholic we know to have held an;
official position, fanless Moylan on Wash-
aff.
3 waa a signer of the reso-
lution of the freemen of Philadelphia,
alopted June 28th, 1774, expressing
sympathy with the Bostonians on the
elosing of the port.’ In the egampaigo in
ew Jersey, winter 7, com-
manded a company of the rH) Ben
of Pennsylvania Militia, On A
‘89, he was elected a trustee of the oot
lege of Philadelphia, now University of
Pennsylva:
We think tins Tepresentative Catholic
was, prior to
that he had two m’s in bis name.
spelled it in 1756, when he kept ‘* shop
corner house of Chestnut and Secon
streets, opposite to Mr. Thos, Stretch,
watchmake:
But until early in 1777, we do not| ¢
think Catholics were specially rec
ni
hb
prior to the Declaration,
Declaration is the charter of
Freedom to Catholics, as it is of Liberty
to our country.
Such appears to be the state of affairs
in Pennsylvania in the early days of the
Revolution, not the usual story
told, but as we find things to be we so
stat
To our mind, this account as we relate
it seems more creditable to the Catholics
of the ‘first call’? days. It don’t seem
natural that a maligned and a low caste
ople, as they were considered, shoul
have eagerly rushed to join the very men
been denouncing their religion
and condemning its toleration.
an’s nature in “every age revolts
against doing that, and there’s as muc!
human nature about Catholics as other
people, As well tell us that Irish Catho-
lics joined the Native American clubs of
‘44. There were some who aided them,
nevertheless, but who would be justifie ied
in uniting Catholics and natives in the
riots. We think our view of the Cat
lies in the early days of the Revolution4
is more honorable to them than to make4
‘h| them out poltroons who had no spirit of ere
honor,
—Non. A. M. Keiley lectures on Home
Rule ia Toronto, Canada, April 27th.
| requests him to convey to the people of
Canada, an expression of their grateful:
ess to the Dominion Government for its
request to the English Government to
grant Home Rule to Ireland.
—The crusaders of St. Paul made $300
on St. Patrick’s night by a play. It
went to the support of the school of the
1S!
ne| the Bente 1. C. B. U.
“ite s0 Arms:
ho- | %
THEI. 0. BU.
—There is an extra demand for travel-
ing and withdrawal cards lately, so many
members changing their abode:
—All the members of St. Joseph’s,No.
279, ft Locust Gap, Pa., are members of
the . L. branch there.
0. 321, Knights of St. Patrick’s,
of Rochester, has 23 members and $410,
It is well on financially.
495, the Rev. Francis J. Quinn
Society, of Philadelphia, admitted
Cc. Ie U. April Sth, was organized
Tulse , 1885. . P. J. Whitty is Presi-
dent. tt Arthur Donnelly Secretary.
—St. Michael’s Catholic Benevolent
Society, of Philadelphia, organized by
At its March meeting it admitted 19
members, and now has nearly
—No. 195 LC.B.U., St. Peter’ 's, of
Allegheny City, Pa., has the centennial
quota of 100 members. They hold $694
in cash and $170 in property, Thus it is
in a good financial condition.
Fisher i is President and C, C. Rece See's
—No. 175, of Rondout, N. Y., has 90
ee and $1, bat’s a very “good
It paid "$538 for benefits, of | A
rata,
Which $281 was for two deaths. ‘ter
Donnelly, one of the deceased members,
was in Class B of W. and O. Fund, and
his family got $25.
e 1.C.B.U.’s lone sentinel on the
Pacific slope, the Catholic, of Santa Cruz,
Cal. , bas 28 members and $997. So it is
as Pastern idea considers all
Californians. Its officers are : President,
Daniel Williams; Viee-Pres ident, James
M. Neary; Sec’y, W. D. Tait; Treasurer,
James Neary.
—Knights of St. Patrick, of Steuben-
I ii ing. Its officers are
nos. Co-
i no. O Cor. Sec.,
Frank MeDonough; ‘Treasurer, M. Kane;
Chaplain, Rev. Hartnedy; Conductor, P
Kilmartib. The Jourwat subscribers
there miss the paper | oo, often. Wil the
postmaster see to
a tug of war a Toronto between
nd West End
Rowing Club, of Buffalo, the LC.B.U.
of Toronto, for the sec ond time, won,
Capt. Kennedy was in command of the
victors. This 1s the fourth’ gold medal
they have won. Now they are ‘‘ anxious
to tackle the police,” it is stated.
8 we understand it, a tug of war is a
rope-pulling contest, It has been of late
introduced
Philadelphia,
he Hibernian Society, No. 69 I.
B.U. +, 0f Nashville, Tenn., elected ‘the
following ofticers : James Killelea, Presi-
. A, Consodine, Vice- President;
1. J. Dates, Recording Secretary;
& ‘ar ney, Financial Secretary; M. Songun,
Treasurer; Lewis
responded briefly.
telea fifth election as President of the so-
jiety, and quite a compliment to his
ability in the position, - Arrangements
are being niade for a concert, to be given
April 26th, for the benefit of the society.
—The Union Society, at Kingston,
Sanada, had a grand time on St. Pat
rick’s night. A banquet, the like of
which was never beforeseen i in that city.
The reunion was one of the best and
most pleasing that bad ever taken place
there. Among the toasts on the occasion
was one to the President and Secretary
of the L.C.B.U. So, kind thoughts of us
were where we knew it not, and this we
the more gratefully appreciate.
tanadian Freeman says of the society :
‘** Well might the members of this truly
Trish and Catholic society feel pi
their fine society. 3 the fneans of
keeping the Irish sentiment alive and
arm in every true Irish heart on this
and all occasions, To Mr. Behan is the
credit due for having worked with
well known energy and ability, in placing
this excellent organization in suc’
state t it now is—the pride of the
Irish Gatholie people of this part of Can-
ada. g, long may it continue so is
earnest wish.
Tae PHILopaTRiANs. — St.
Church, Philadelphia, would have been
‘ected on the lot where is now the Phi-
lopatrian Institute
strictions. In 1831 t
was worth 12,000, mm Piitopatiand
got the lot and fine building for $25,00
tis worth now not less than Si0'000.
The Institute made
ion. It gives Shetale to charity.
the society had a ibrarian its depart-
m id be complete. For yea
this *t Literary”? society has had no one
to attend to the management of its
library. It is in confusion, not much
used, and gets no attention, It should
a
be removed to the » second story and a
NX librarian employed. 4A
a“
ie La Salle College, | 80
NX
John's
TOTAL ABSTINENCE.
ie Catholic Visitor, of Richmond,
don’t roca in local option, but it says: t
** We hazard the assertion that but few
papers published in this country have
dared to express their opinion in clearer
tones or in a more vigorous manner than
re have. We have lost subscribers, we
bave lost advertisers, and yet we have
never swerved upon, never will swerve
from what we consider our duty in fight-
ing one of the, i if not the greatest, curse
on earth—inte!
There are haws that are not now en-
forced. Local option wouldn’t be.
ligion alone ear conquer intemperance,”
it isto see the well-disposed
going astray. Religion is the remedy
for eve evil on earth, If people were
religious there would be no evi
0
telling People to be ae
ped by the
That is
ts a
S
o
natural law—natural justice.
principle recognized by religion | that evil
must be stopped. It must be sto} opped by
the evil duer or by authority. J
under God, the people are the authority,
bsolute unanimity is impossible. If
all in a given locality were in favor of
suppressing the source of an evil, their
stopping the practice would stop the
re not; hence the majority
ast tule; hence their authority
cree the suppression of the source of great
evil in their midst, and which is bur-
dening them with taxation ‘rithout thelr
consent, or to their advantage. If there
is not a public opinion and determination
ack of the resolve of the people in favor
of local option, that not a matter
concerning the sorrectness of the general
principle. Have the law enforce
—The decree of the Council of Balti-
more relating to the subject of temper-
ance says .
“There isno doubt but that among
he evils we especially deplore in this
country the abuse of intoxicating drinks
is to be numbered, r this excess is
the constant source of ain and the fruit-
ful origin of misery; utter ruin has
thereby come upon innumerable jndi-
viduals and whole families, and it bh:
ragged many souls headlong to eternal
destruction, And since this vice | pas
spread not a little even among Catholics,
scandal is thus given to non- Cathetes
and a great obstacle is set up against the’
spread of religion, ‘ Both love of religion
untry, therefore, urges all
Christians to use every effort to stamp
out this pestiterous evil.
Following in the footsteps of the Fath-
ers, the other Councils of Baltimore and
supported by the teaching ef the Angelic
Doctor, we approve and heartilly com-
mend the praiseworthy custom of many ~
who in our day abstain entirely from the
use of intoxieuting liquors, thus to over-
nly the vice intem-
perance eithe! cr Ny removing from them-
selves the occasions thereof or by present-
ing to others a splendid example of the
virtue of ‘rance, whose zeal we
willingly admit is according to knowledge
and has already brought forth abundant
fruit and promises still greaterin the
ul
We recognize the socicties pamed ‘The
Catholic Union for ing Tota)
Abstinence’ and ‘ The Seered Thirst? to
be worthy of great prai ey al
directed by a truly Catholic spirit and
seek the necessary strength, not so much
in the firmness of self-will as in the power
of prayer and of the Sacraments. More-
over, it is known that the head of the
whole Chureb and Christ's Vicar on earth
has more than once enriched them with
his apostolic benediction and with the
indulgences of the Church wherefore we
present to themthe signs of our good-
will and we commen oO the
paternal care of all our priests that they
may flourish more and more ; that they
his] May not only add souls to their ranks,
but also show to them the Catholic path
a|in which they should walk,
st] warn our faithful people
who sell intoxicating liquors to consider
seriously Ww many and how serious
Ts and occasions of sin their busi-
ness—although not unlawful in itself—is
Nrrounded. If they can, let them choose
aYmore honorable way of making a living
but if they cannot, Tet them study by all
means to remove from themselves and
thers the occasion of sin. Let them
not sell drink to the young, that is to
who are not of age nor to those
who they foresee will abuse drink,
t them keep their saloons close
Sunday and at no time let them allow
blisphemy, cursing or obscene language
within the walls of their taverns. If
through their culpable neglect or co-
operation religion is brought inte con-
tempt and souls ruined they must know
that in heaven there ts an Avenger who
mit raset the severest punishment from
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