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"poDtiBED SEM son thu bY.
MARTIN I. J. GRIFFIN,
711 SANsoM STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
voted to the advancement of
THE IRISH HoATHOLIC BENEVOLENT UNION
HE UNITED STATES
TERMS:
50 Cents a Year in advance.
CATHOLICITY
SHILADEEPEEA.
[CopyRicHTED, 1883.)
By Martin I, J. GRIFFIN.
“The first law of history 13 not to dare to tell
alles the second, not to fear to tell the th ‘uh;
besides, let the historian be beyond all suspleion
of of favoring or of hating any one whomsoev:
In 1824 Rev. Samuel S. Cova visited
the Holy Land. Here is the co)
letter he wrote to Miss Maria Sores, of
this city :
Leauorn, October 22, 1824.
Tarrived at this ity, afew days ago. from my
the summer months, is bad, and in
many places pestiferous. The wandering Arabs
and the war which 13 don with so much
animosity detween eeks and T
creases the danger tor travelers a
judea and Gulllee ; those countries
y dre now alinut desolate, and
jesson to the human mind. 1
inand near the eCity of Jel rusalem.
From this city 1 me ‘to Bethlehem. This now
Aumall village, but the ‘able Catholic
Chureh and Gonvent built on th re the
Divine Saviour was born and la he Manger
Here Talso had the happiness to say Mass, From
Bethlehem 1 went, ‘where St. John
ie Baptist was, born, and to the desert, where he
Pifaeed. to the people who caine out to see him,
‘wise Visi ited A Nazareth of G alilee, There is a
tue house of the Blessed Virgin
and where the Angel announced that
to de the Mother of the Redeemer of the
led i 1 Gospel of
whteh erected
is truly beauti-
always triuiig betre Ir, and
ih rete the Blessed Virgin stood is marked
oy. { gold engraved in white marble. At
tvatar Thad the happiness, though unworthy,
om vm a Novaret
ton I went to the river Jordan, and
tethe Sea ot ‘Galileo and Tiberide. There’ is a
al churel n Dullt here, hear to the water's, edge,
Where ae Divine
ane
§
E
ge
BE
2.
ag
ich wer to Rovern
tured, as related by St. Johu, evapter 2ist.
“at a the pious custom for all, travellers who
is spot to eat fish caught from this same
ie
de seen, a ne! largest Tever beheld that were
14
ot ha
Desert, ve pt hamiatin Treturned
2
Be
zie
g
t yet det ,
toamenen’ rk scat whether I shall re.
hin
rea funerica iy the course of the next year or
cr 824, to
ynuton Brute, then at Mount st
tia, 8, Emmittsburg, Md. It substan.
the Y Telates the account of his visit to
letter’ oly nd,as given in the above |}
with Rev, John Grassi, J., who (in
ab had been pastor ston St! Joseph’s
(untit perior of Georgetown College
Row i when he had returned to
ru eae and became rector of the Propa-
‘uring a public ception Father
Cont met in the crowd George Tick-
fe of Boston, then r of | 5
oP They Became intimate. In “The
©, Letters
@ day broug!
ith him t to dine with Mtr,
man ather Grassi, it is declared, was
beet “ talent and cultivation’; 3 had
and used to talk much
fh 8 antiquities and their
@ Roman Churel \° is
tor masta after atime, but Mr. Tick-
an of s told afterward that it had. been
‘ort to convert him.”
ity op tholie will sinile at the sim-
Pin Isthaing est or of that alleged
he wag armed to this country. In 1827
ing ton, Richmond, Virginia, accord-
m.A. M, Keiley’s “Memoranda
Grassi wi
ar.
i
ed | the director of his Rom:
poverty, L hay
s. Some pI
sy naRoRuS ave yet | a
be
While in Rome he met and associated
© | ceased.
bt Pather then.
SIMMACULATE WIRGIN, PRAY FOR US.”
PHILADELPHIA. APRIL J, 1885.
of the History 0 of the Churen, ” In Octo:
bei er, 1828, he was in Philadelphia (as the
. Lloyd, in possession of
Mrs, Maria Shea ‘ords the death of
Jonatls ian Carson, on October: 22d, 1829,
into the
Chueh ‘by Father Cooper and interred
at Bush Hill St. Augustine’s_burial-
Mi Sh Sixteenth and Wallace streets. )
Mrs, Shea informs me that F ‘ather Sooper’
ld St. Noseph's
He remained in this ean, until 1832,
when he returned to Eur
For many years he labored asan hum-
ble and zealous priest in Bordeaux, where
be Permanently Jocated, at the invitation
Cheverus, who 36)
ai fea in hisarms, | Father Cooper ‘was the
instrument for converting many promi-
neut persous, George Strobel was the
United States Consul at that port (Bor-
deaux), They became intimate friends.
Mr. Strobel became convinced
truths of gatholicity by reading. princi.
pally, Car 1 Wiseman’s works, given
him by Pat th Cooper. On sy return
to this country he became holic.
He was received into the Cine at Old
St. Joseph's | in 1842, by ‘elix J.
Barbelin, S . J. Mr. Sreotel, io, like
looper, desired so study for the
Fe iesthood. He, in January, 1843, went
to Rome, at once entered the En, Nglish
College, and in the Spring of 1845 was
ordained priest.
While at the English College he be-
came acquainted with James Frederick
Wood, a pupil at the oan College.
One. became the pas' of Mary’s
(1848 to 1877), the ther became the first
Archbishop of Philadelphia, and thus
man associate,
Thus Father Hurley’s Sood words bore
fruit acro: ycean, and they returned
to benefit the Church in Philadelphia.
DEATH OF FATHER COOPER.
The annexed _ letters have been Hndly
q
given me by
Philadelphia :
ConsuLat pEs Erats UNt3,
BORDEAUX, le 28, Dec., 1843.
ay Dus eral
suffering. some consolation fo your
family to know that be was. surrounde
yored iniends during his briet Liness and "ttiat
ng was done to veliewe him whieh science
could sue caught a severe cold,
which sete ‘on his chest and whlch he neglected
too ing. as you know, averse to taking.
medicine, When yielding to ‘the persuasion of
iis friends to call in a phystelan, he appeared to
grow nd we all thought ‘dan “compara,
fively outot danger: but he fell back and
sunk rapidly, though thon suftering
ofléial capacity 1 have exi ‘amined his
and find that he
died intestate.
else ert that
effect, which, will nab ‘any prop-
elect. nay have lettin ihe United Sates:
‘Amongst the few letters (the only DapersT find)
the ouly business ones are from
Eider, a Catholic hs at's, Mary's Coltegs.who
he ee oliection ‘of his ground
ak e hi
litt al effects, which
Fe ree fnceonformity with his vow of
had distributed to the poor of the
parish in wite had long lived, Ido so b
ch would trave been his wishes, and
uy will approve, of what L have
‘in ‘al
Lots
sur plus of from seventy to elgiity dotlars, whitch T
Tam, my dear may
Surobediet "servant,
WARREN GRIGEBT,
U.S. Consul.
Mrs, Law, Philadelphia.
PurLapELputa, Feb. 7, 1844.
DEAR Sin
Your letter of the
dressed to my wife, sits
h of December, last, a
¥ Law ingen
in
tne d manner Lu which ¥ou have communicated
melancholy tntellixence.
a veare much oblhs ed to you | for having fulfilled
what doubtless would have been his, ee iu | 8
ake the
ebts, suggest, to the saying
eontormnity. “with the prints of of Ie Fal th in
which he died, aud the residue, the
per left other nieces gra nen nephews, the
"di vor his sister, “Mrs. McElroy, 3 di
an inne ave no donbt that sneh tispositog of
factory to
a
fis trititing assets will be equally satista
jou may su
wi {he favor to om.
munteate them :
. E, Law.
J. wanes GRiGsB’
S. Consul, Bordeaux, France.
The ev. Mr. Elder, mentioned in the
Consul’s letter, was Rev. Alexus Elder
who died fifteen years ago,
Archbishop, Elder relates. on the au-
thority of the Sisters of Emmittsburg,
that Father Cooper, for mortification,
drank water that he kept near the fire,
e he | genial aid of bis brilliant per
At
Tion. A. M.“KEILEy, President of the
ful duty to.announee to | I: C. BU., has been appotated by the
feu the dea deat of i ing Kin friend. and sour, innele. President of the wie Spates the i ‘
the Rev, Mr. Coop parte ife on
the 16th instant ee ee cehiiness and without | Minister. to Ital The a iceme
as s given great Aly stastion to Catholics.
jeas ed.
ms Mr. Keiley was born September 13th,
1832, at son, N. J.,
parents, a vee married in ate ae
His father was born in Cork, his mother,
a Crowley, in Wexfor His * grand-
mother carried a pike at Vinegar Hill.
His grand: -uncle, Dan. McCarthy, was an
Sou » of JS ay and baa a price set
tipon his head.
Mr. Kelley: soon after ‘his birth re-
to Virginia, and there he has
ever since lived in the respect and admi-
ration of her citizens. | Mr. Keiley
BS
i
: graduated at the University of Virginia
His first public act was to de-| vice:
n 1854,
fend the Jesuits against a fierce and un-
rounded assault of The Southern Literary
Senenner the leading literary magazine
of the South. - Mr. Keiley’s vindication
sa | 80 conclusively corrected the assailant’s
ignorance of istory, especially of Con-
e | hold, sublect 0 Yon oraied a Catholtest tinental Europe in the seventeenth cen-
portion hould in eonformity with the usages | tury, that thet article was retu ned, the
of that Chureh, be applied to the say tg or Mnay [editor refusing to publish an article re-
r i ]
be witty to Sstribute the rest to the poor of his | flecting so severe! pon his correspon-
arish., OF this, however, you wat oe th Gent, wdistinguished Protestant minister
judge. J will apply It Oia may dire Mr. Keiley sent it to The Metrypolitan
Piagazine, of Balti ‘more, in which it ap-
nd was republished in several
Catholie papers. Know Nothingism was
then rampart. Mr. Keiley was eesistant
editor of the Democratic paper at Peters-
burg, where he lived. In it he published
the first article published in Virginia
against the un-. -American movement.
When Henry A. Wise was a candidate
for Governor Mr. Katey gave the con-
e LC. B. U. banquet in Philadel-
| phian in 1872, when Mr. Keiley first be-
came known to our Union, he. referred
these anti-Catholie days in Virginia,
Ha y saying: ‘+I claim the privilege, which
tl} all Inshmen claim, of indulging in that
feeling called love of country, and claim
a deeper love, a reverential love, a pecu-
liar love. for my own dear State. ' I chal-
lenge every Insbman here to share in
that love, for she is a State where no
Irishman’s cabin was ever burned be-
cause of his faith or his nationality. She
is a State, Irishmen, which you should
remem, and send that remembrance
to post verity a a rich legacy ; when
perecation rul is lard she was the
8 which, although she had not five
thousand Irishmen within her borders to
control her sentiments, raised her hand
and flag against that persecution, and
said as our great Saviour said
stor waves of the lake, ‘Peace be
still > and stayed on the shores that tide
of persecution, of calumny and of out-
rage which threatened to engulph you
and your faith in the horrid oppression
of Know Nothingism.”
members are especialiy well | sion
ie he remained i
Mr. Keiley was a , aclegatet to the Vir-
ginia Convention that ratified the nomi-
nation of Stephen A Douglass He
edited the Dou: rin Petersburg
on the pe Dona Ot opposition to Seces-
urg was one of e few
cities in the South that gave Douglass a
majority, and that city sent anti-seces-
sion delegates to the State Convention
which finally passed the Ordinance of
Secession.
At that time he was President of the
Hibernian Societ: rsburg, an:
the last Irish gathering in that city be-
fore elebration of St.
Patrick’s Day, 1861, at his residence.
he next month Virginia seceded,
Mr. Keiley regarded Secession as lawful,
but not justifiable or expedient. But he
held that, irrespeotive of his views, the
State had a right to command see
8. ‘Accordingly, the dey after the
Secession ordinance’ passed, he volun-
teered as a private, left his home, musket.
on shoulder, for Norfolk. afters
wards the ordinance of Secession was
submitted to the people, army included,
for ratification: Mr. Keiley held that
a soldier cannot in time of war exercise
afree choice on such a question, and re-
fused to vote, declining to be a party to
afarce. This caused him to be much
censured by his comrades, He was the
only one of twelve hundred in bis com-
mand wre did not vote in favor of the
appr He remained in the army
until the war closed, except when serving
a
elected while in the field,
wounded at Malvern Hill, and captured
by General Butler: at Petersb rg; im-
prisoned at Point Lookout, in Maryland,
and at Elmira, N. Y. He was exchanged
in November, 1864, and those who have
eard him tell how he got ame on
the list of the “‘unfit for duty who were
to be exchanged have enjoyed one of the|
best war latices possible t told, H
reache to serve in the
Tast Legislature that met under the Con-
federate flag in Richmond. Hepublished
an account of his prison life under the
title of “Zn Vinculis.” In the burning
of Richmond most of the edition was
destroyed. Saved copies have since sold
snother edition was
Ee
&
gotten out in New
ay, 1865, ee "Keiley began the
publication of The Petersburg News, Sec-
retary of War Stanton gurppressed it be-
fore it was a month and put Mr,
eiJey in Castle "Thunder. We witnessed
thes destruction of that prison by Gre in
uly, 18
On Me Keiley’ 's release, he established
The Peter: bury Index. and edited it while
etty. he
as chosen a& thember of the House of
Delegates. Congress dissolved that body.
In 1869 he took an active part in the
movement to wrest the State government.
from the Northern adventurers. Ile was
chosen a member of the first Assembly
der Reconstruction. Tle was the
author of that part of the Enabling Act
which _ overturned the military appoint-
he floor gave way and many
e lost. Though the autbor of
the law, and intending to be present
vb be day should appointed for
the Teckton it provigentally happened
for him that the day set wa: n which
he had engaged to go berging. for the
Cathedral paroch’ I. ILis deci-
sion to labor for Catholic education may
have saved ‘his hfe or himself from in-
jury, as over two hundred were killed
and injured in the paccident he et
e
dral, at the invitation of Bishop McGill,
in condemnation of that infamy. Now
he is the Minister of the country that
said to the dispoiler of the Tove, “Touch
not the Ae Colleg
Mr, Keil one erm as Mayor
of Richmond, wand has been for several
for many years a member
C.B.U,, the Catholic Bene-
ficial Society pf Riclimond. He first ap-
B.U. Convention as one
five representatives to the Phila-
delphia Convention of 1872. The fol-
lowing year, at St. Louis, he was elec’
President, Since then the Union has
held to him, and would not let him go
from its chief office. All considered that
he bestowed honor on the Union, Its
members have had an affection for him
that las been deep and strong and sin-
cere, The customary expression of re-
spect, esteem and admiration do not
convey to others the heart-hold the LL. Cc.
e
dent. Even with the
ferred upon him which has given them
such pleasure, is
thought that now they must.
3 President. Others with our outey
honors on them will go the Nations of
world, but not one go with more love of
his friends and with sincerer affection
than A. M. Keiley with the love of his
1, C. B. U. brethren,
Said Archbishop Gibbons when Bishop
of Richmond: “ Our city is doubly hon-
ored by you—that you have so repeateslly
manifested your cunfidence in
ley in re-electing him your
e is known to us for civie virtues justly
honored in State and ¢ city. While he
neglects no civic duty, he pays attention
to that Religion of tien he is an honor,
To him the ohureh in Richmond is in-
debted for ices, and to him is
due the credit ‘ot taking the tirst steps to
erect the parochia) sehool.”?
48 not an applicant for
he high position assigned him. . His ap-
pointinent was a surprise to him, The
Pilot announced that F. O, Prince, of
Boston, was to Minister to Rome,
while Ex. -Congressman Hopkins, of Penn-
sylvania, was er serpent and
seeker strongly endorsed,
ley’s abilities and snerits were Know nto
Seoretary Bayard, who certainly has ‘done
#« wise act in securing the appointment
to Mr, Keiley. Wh ile no
as ii
an appointment thy t will strengthen the
administration with our Irish Catholic
on ne Philadelphia Times says : “Antony
M. Keiley, of Virginia, will be equally a
creditable representative cot the country
at Rome, and beyond his personal quali-
fieations his appointment has especial
significance in that as been one of
the ablest and most earnest opponents of
repudiation
ley said to the I. CG. B.OU.:
“Catholic ‘ay men you have your duty to
the Catholic Church in these Uni
States to fulGll, ua this duty 3 is to speak
ike men’ whenever occasion offers for
your Religion and for your Church and
r your Priest in the presence of your
e hon. -Catholic fellow-citizens ; not seeking
the {oecasion, they thrast. it
upon you give them to understand that
no snc thing is possible as a distinction
between the clergy and laity.””
“The word ‘Irish.’
tation of it brings a glow to the heart, a
flush to the cheek, and fills us with pleas-
ant and happy memories, and some
memories that are neither pleasant nor
happy. 1t implies ties that are neither
of birth nor descent, but which are of a
reverence in the name
The 1. C. B. U. mmerabers at Philadel-
phia will manifest their friendship for
Mr. Keijey, so as to testify how they
honor hin.
e are in receipt of numbers of com-
munications expressing the aratifeation
felt by 1, C. B, U. members at the high
position assigned our Wrosttent But
all declare that he honors the office or any
position to which he could be called,
The mere presen-~
