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VOL. XXII.
PHILADELPHIA OCTOBER, 18094.
NO 389
OMPRTIPS }O0REAL
PUBLISHED BEMI-MONTHLY BY
MARTIN I. J. GRIFFIN,
: 711 Sansom STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
, Devoted to
“Church and Country.
TERMS:
-$0Centsa Year in advance.
WANTS TO BE A PRIEST,
My sop Martin has, by Archbishop
Ireland, been received as a student in
the new theological seminary of the
Archdiocese of St. Pant.
“A SPIRIT OF HATRED.”
A delegate writes me:
« I turned away from York with a heavy
heart and deep sorrow—tot because a
any personal Gisappointment of my 0}
| or over the disappointment of your failure
_ tosecwse reefection so much asthe ab-
spirit of hatred and unforgiveness, that
for the first time in my hfe seemed to
shake to the very foundation the faith
of my. Fathers that isin me—I thanked
- God many a time since that he gent
Fathers O'Reilly, McGarvey and Nas!
to typify the true representative of ae
mek aud torgiv!ng Saviour, else irrepar-
able oe to the faith ot many might
hit back and it may be a little too severe
—but you made the manly and courag-
eous reparation ofa Christian when you
» publicly apologized for the feelings you
ounded—Dougherty of Pittsburgh, a
layman and nalpve alla manly man, the
principally aggrieved layman, acted the
art of a an when he met you ina spirit
of reconeiliation—I admired him for it
but when it came to the man who vowed
Saviour in the holy ministry—there was:
neither the man nor the priest in him.
or obliged to sue tor his mercy.
would as lief make terms with the wild
beast of the forest as with him until his
» hate was first satiated.”
a
BISHOP WATTERSON.
“On my recent trip Westward I spect
saveral hours . with Bishop Watterson.
Of course I approved of all he had done.
» “So no doubt the good and brave Bishop
now feels’ much more encouraged to go
on in the endeavor he has undertaken to
brighten the face of the Church in bis
Diocese,
Ihave hopes that the Bishop of Col-
umbus willere long be as advanced in the
_ Warfare against Rum ay Tam,
After while he will get to see that the,
~ Catholic who seils Rum is not more cen-
surable for the same and scandal of the
Church than the Prelate or Priest or
Layman who patronizes him, that the
man who sells Rum is ft company for the
man who drinks, that to exclude the
seller from approved societies, not com”
posed of abstainers is, to an extent, to
punish the seller ior supplying what
the drinking mem ers of approved Socie-
ties demand.
So there’ must be a great movement
made in Columbus Diocese to make Ab-
stainets—to make non users. The ap-
Proved Societies ought now to be moved
on, Lf
‘There are 75 priests in that Diocese
and 30 are Abstainers. ‘The others ought
to be induced to become such since those
* who sell them Rum cannot join one of the
Sucieties they approve. Think of
8 pastor, after ordering a case of wine,
debarring the seller from a Society be-
» Cause he isa Rumseller.
«ject to.
held up their reas nabl
|. freedom, independence or safety of the state;—but as the Bishop of Rome
. York, convened 6th January, 1808,
PETITION OF THE OATHOLIOS OF NEW YORK IN 1806 AGAINST
A RELIGIOUS TEST FOR OFFICE, 7 -
The subjoined petition of the Roman Catholic Church, which embraces
a great number of respec: able citizens is published to show that their claim,
which Las been recently agitated in the legislature of this state with suc-
cess is just and such asno man exempt from religious prejudices, can ob-
We congratulate the Church on the relief whic: has been granted,
Religion is most prosperous where it is most free. In all countries reli-
gious distinctions are odious but in none are they more so than in this,
Our city representation deserve credit for the zeal and anil which
they have manifested on this occassion.
To the honorable the Legislature of the State of New York in Senate
and Assembly conyened. o
+ The memorial of certain Citizens resident in the City of} New York, -
professing the Roman Cathvlic Religion Respectfully Represeitts,
. That your Memorialists, ‘who compose a considerable . portion of the
population of this City while conscious of possessing sentiments of the
purest and the most steadfast allegiance and loyal attachment to the consti-
tution and government of the United States in general and of this State in
particular, and of discharging their social and civil duties with a Gdelity —
inferior to that of no other class of their fellow-citizens, feel with deepest
eoncern that they are deprived of the benefits of the free and equal partici-
pation of all the rights and privileges of Citizens, granted by the enlighten-
ed framers of the Constitution of the United States, (of which it forms one
of the most admirable features) and by the 38th section of the Constitution
of this state to all denominations of Christians, of what religious profession |
or worship, scever without discrimination or preference, In direct eontra-\
diction to this liberal principle, the forra of oath preseribed to ke taken®
previously on entering on any office civil or military in this State, “by sub-
jecting them toa religious test, to which their corsciences are: ° oppose
operates upon them as an absolute disqualification, | ..~.-..- :
., Less injurious to the feelings and degrading to the character of yout
memorialisis, ‘would have been if the Constitution had not by that Section,
a fair of the. as tags
ffs well as the burdens of citizensbip, than to have the cup of equalized
rights dashed from their lips, by a subseqaent. determination, and an invi-
dious barrier, surmountable only by perjury or apostacy, placed between
them and those rights, tho’ yielding, to none of their fellow- citizens in
attackment to the prosperity and independenee of the State. °
You memorialists cannot persuade themselves that the framers of the
Constitution in 1777, or the revisers of the laws in 1801, intended that the
form of oath, above referred to, should leave them, and their descendants,
no alternative between a total exclusion from every office of honour, profit-
or trast. in the state and a virtual atjuration of the religious principles of
their forefathers and themselvés, They are willing (consistently) with J
these principles solemnly and without equivocation or mental reservation to
swear thal they renounce and abjuce all allegiance and subjection to every
foreign power however titled in all matters not only civil but also ecclesias-
tical, as far as they may interfere with, or in the smallest degree aflect the
isthe acknowledged supreme head of the profession of whicn they are
members they cannot renounce and abjure all subjection to the decrees of
the Roman Catholic Church as promulgated by him in matters purely and ©
solely, spiritual, and which cannot interfere either with the civil cr reli-
gious rights of their brethern of other denominations, without a total dere-
liction of the religious principles they profess which inculcate an abhorr-
ence of perjury, as well as of all the other crimes and vices that can injure
or disturb society.. None of thuse States which adopted the liberal and
just principle of the Constitution of the United States, can exhibit an in,
stance of any datger or inconvenience having resulted from non existence
of a religious teat. Your Memorialists relying on the justice of their clain,
and the unprejudiced liberality of chis honcrable Legislatare, flatter them-
selves, the obnoxious part.of the law will be repealed, or that it may be
modified or explained in a way that may be consonant tu the spirit of this
memorial so tbat they and numerous other citizens of the same profession
resident in the various districts of the State may have cause to unite with
their fellow-citizens in general, in self-gratulation for the unshackled en
joyment of the invaluable blessing of living under a liberal government
andthe influence of benign laws exempt from the unjust and oppressive .
disqualifications on the score of religion, whish disfigme the polities of
several European nations.
‘And your Memorialists will ever pray.
Signed at a general meeting of the Roman Catholics of the City of New
ANDREW MORRIS,
. Chairman,
JNO, BYRNE,
Secretary. .
‘| We Inclose a copy of the memorial.
New Yore.
Mr Cooper, one of our city representatives, took his seatin the
Assembly the 7th inst., so we presume that the Cutholic bill bad, on or be-
fore that day received the sanction of the Council of Revision, and beeome
a law.
From American Citizen. |
‘ Vestry of St. Peter’s Church.
pa” New York, 13th Feb, 1806.
. Extract, from letter to Bishop Carroll.”
Warmly interested as you feel in whatever concernsthe Catholies
throughout the union you will be gratified at hearing that our memorial
has been triumphantly successful in spite of a good deal of the old hackni-
ed declamation against the Pope and Popery by some liberal members of
the lower house; in the Senate it was carried with only oae dissenting voice.
We beg your benediction and remain.
Right Rev’d Sir,
Your Most Respectful
Obed’t Serv’ts,
THOMAS STOUGHTON,
ANDW, MORRIS,
JOH A HINTON,
** JOHN TOES,
Trustees of St. Peter’s Church,
_N.B. Metsr Dom’k. Lynch, and Corn’s, Heeney, (the other two
" Trustees) are absent from this City.
In Letters of Mother Seton, Reseancuzs Jaly 1894, there ig mention
“Conewago | establishment. ~ | Is there anything nore known about it?
In same letters Mother Seton says “our Superior is so taken with her
cousin Caty Dello, that her recommendation obtained his quick assent. 7
~Who was the Superior, and was Caty Dello the Superior's cousin? - fcr
Catharine Dellone was daughter of Frederick Dellone and Polly Kuhn -
of Conewago, (Paradise Congregation.) She was received at Emmitts-
burg and died at Milwaukee. Her grandfather was Michael Dellone-
(spelt Deleon, Dellon, Deiloni and Dellone the common and proper way)
Her greatgrandfather was Nicholas Dejlone. The Longs, Dellones,
Noels and Bieremours camefrom France together, and landed at Philadel-
phia, probably about 1750,-as they used to say that Phila, had not over 50
houses at that time. Nicholas Dellone was a general in the Frenemarmy
but on account of civil and religious troubles, he with his companions man.
aged to sail for America, / He brought his uniform along and his grand
children (“‘Caty Dello” among them) often saw him wear it. On the
vessel with them-was a priest, who advised Mr. Dellone to marry a girl on
board who came from his parish, saying he knew she wasa good girl, and
as they were both Catholics and alone, they would be lost in the new
country and lose their faith, whereas if they married they could help each
other, This he did and got a good wife, but unfortunately’ her maiden
name is not recorded.” After be was in america some time his parents
died, and he returned to France to ssttle the estate and receive his share.
He remained several years, and his wife’s neighbors( Pennsylvania Germans)
‘used to tell her ‘Sie wara een woblin de present gestecht hovva’’—They
most likely put him in prison; others said he deserted her, but she was true
and hopeful, and he came back safely, His descendants are numerous
and widely scattered. He had one son Frederick (who also raised us, his
wife being a sister to our maternal grandfather, John Kuhn;) Frederick had
Francis, Frederick and Alex in Omaha; Gregory in Abbottstown, Pa. Wm,
in Balto.; Rose Biermour at Conewago; Sarah Clunk and Sister Catharine
dee’d.
them up to the 5th or 6th generation.
Some of these children are marrie? and have children. bringing
Kitty Marshall of Conewago, in
her 83rd. year, ard still active enough to walk two or three miles witha
clear, memory, is our informant. Her mother was Margaret Dellone. and’
daughter of Michael Dellone, and granddaughter of Nicolaus (so spelt en
the death record at the age of 84) Her father was Jacob Marsall anda
among her cousins and nephews were several priests, one brother and Bey-
eral sisters. The Marshalis were also of French descent. Kitty was a
beauty in her day acd had a fine voice that many a time charmed and edi-
fied the Conewago Congregations of old.
She was the first of Ler father's
children and now almost the last ofa once numerous family, She kept
house for ber nephew, Rev, F. X. Marsball, when ke was pastor at Lanoas-
ter, Pa. and from him most likely she got means enough to build a smal}
brick house near Couewago Chapel where she has been living alone for
nearly half a century,
JOUN T, REILY, -