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VOL. XIV. to PHILADELPHIA. JUNE 1, 1886. NO. 191
On Apr. 18, 1728, the Committee re-|Chapel was opened, the small pox
3/28, i a pre- OUR YOUNG MEN. who had ‘iven us the reason why he and
toh I. J. f., t. TOUR, portal a considerable pumber had pee vailed in Philadelphia; Lis. Phila. p, . tes had voted against socinties ad-
* paying for he Twelfth Convention of the Ca- vising | young men not to trequent saloons
HED SEMLMONTHL’ fends taken up, but that others, coming T he winter 1732-3, was very severe the|THOLIC .YouNG MEN’s NATIONAL {and to fs iscountena nce the drinking cus-
MARTIN LJ. GRIFFIN, rom York, took up lands unlawfully: | river being frozen across. ‘ Union was held in Philadelphia May | toms o ieties. The newspaper report
711 Sansom STREET,
PHILADELPHIA,
voted to the advancement of
THE IRISHCATHOLIC BENEVOLENT UNION
OF THE UNITED STATES.
TERMS:
ts a Year in advance
GATHOLICITY
PHILADELPHIA.
[CopYRIGHTED, 1883.)
By Martin L. J. GRIFFIN.
SECOND SERIES.
We have such a pile of historical notes
that we have no expectation of ever being
able to write them up fully: M
to which date we had brought it down.
This would. entail a constant work in | Keas
verification and condensation. Besides
additional matter is constantly, being ac-
mulated and so if we ever do publish
this, period it will be more full and exact.
Our inclinations run to work up the ante
Revolutionary period. This is the moat
misunderst and misrepresent
historically known the most inaccurate.
We are content to merely present the
points and Tet others dress th
1088. Letter ‘from ‘Father La Chaise con-
fessor of Father Peters, confessor to
King of England; in whieh i iscontained
that faction
Chaise, printed in the city of Philadel-
phia, in the Land of Promise, by order
of Father Penn, 1688, 4to.
This work. was evidently printed in
London and fabricated by Penn’s enemies
tosupport the charge that he was a Roman
Cath holies
~ ‘HOLICS IN OFFICE,
ag “1690. Sept Minutes of Council, vol.
1, p, 262.
A Declaration drawn by the Governor
also declaring that commis:
sioned or empowered by this Government
do stand : abide and remayne in: the sam‘
stati employments as they
were petore the ‘lute hereof anid so remain
and continue until f urther orders (Roman
~ Catholiques only excepted.)
\RIGHTS OF CON SCIEN
’s Charter of privileges | (i701) de-
glared that the first Article guaranteeing
rty of Conscience ‘‘shall be kept and
remain without any alteration, inviolably
‘ore
‘rom the time of Penn’ssecond return
to England (1701) until the time of
Braddock’s detest and the riot of. the
Paxto: on boys, they (the Quakers) had
practically control of the domestic affairs
of the province and they kept Philadel-
phia, as it was intended it should be, the
Qualker City (S. & W. Hist. Phila. vol. 1
all this time show one act of
fringing the Liberty of Conscience, pre-
venting Catholics, enjoying these Tights
publically 0 or imprisoning their mission-
aries (pri
TRANS TO OPPRESSION.
Wn. Penn writing from London Apr.
27th 1710, to “Dear Friends”
“You are strangers to oppression ang
know nothing but the name.” [Cop
caiieria F in Fisher Collection i in nee ae
‘AS IN 1720,
« That: Chri ist! mas m was celebrated in Phila-
delphia, years before 1720, is evident from
a
, to Father Ta | Dl
A Committee was appointed to consider
the importation of foreigners, subjects of
rele Brinces and speaking a different
lang
oats. Assembly Petitioned Lieut. Gov.
ordon, ta discou nce the further
fraporttion of foreigners. He replied,
y depend upon my concur-
nee.
Dee. 17, 1728, Lieut. Gov. Patrick
Gordon, to the Representatives of the
Freemen of Province of Pennsylvania
and Three Lower Counties.
“Thave now positive orders from Britain
to provide by a proper Law against these
Crowds of Foreigners who are yearly
powr’d in upon us ot which the Assémbly
took notice to me on Apr. 18th. last it
seems principally i intended. to prevent an
English Plan‘ n from bein; rned
into a colony at "Aliens. It may also
require thoughts to. prevent the importa.
tion of ts and convicts of
who some of the most notorious, 1 am
credibly informed have of laté been
landed in this River.
Jas, Langhorne, “Fos Kirkbride, John
ely, Wm. Monington, Samuel Hol-
Hogsast, John Carter, Committee to
Be; ply of Representatives Dec. 20, 1728.
We: do likewise conceive it to be of the
greatest consequents to the Preservation
both of the Religious and Civil Rights of
e wanting and we earnestly Requestthe
Governor to recommend the same to the
Consideration of the Assembly of the
Three Lower Counties, to make the like
Provisions against the wth o!
pernicious an Evil in that Government
hich, if not timely prevented,
affect the People of this Province,
BY onder of the House. David Lloyd.
From Fisher Collection in
looped Society.]
the black spot—the Pennsyl-
vane Nassem! —‘conceiving it to be
pe the greatest Porents ott to the Ro-
ligions and Civil ri f the People of
this Province to Bes sn the importation
of Irish Papists, >> Perhaps. it was,
this importation was not a voluntary
immigration but largely consisted of
kidnapped ‘Irish Papists.””
and women were in Ireland taken forcibly
from their’ homes and transported t
America just as the negroes were captured
on the sands of Africa and put o1
slave traders and brought to America.
That was probably ‘‘the importation of
Trish . Hapists” that the Assembly w:
oppo:
‘But no ote how when the Assembly came
to legislate upon the very matter the
bigoted Gordon had brought to their at-
tention, and they had thought well of,
how the professions of religious equality
were maintaine pists”
were not discriminated ag:
1729, Mar. 1, Condon requests Assembly
to discourage by Law the vast“ importa
tion of foreigners and Irish servants into
this Province, Thos Tres and Andrew
By.
a duty on foreigners, Irish servants and
Persons of Redemption.
‘They reported. Pe caembly adopted 2
shillings tax on Irish servants, 40 shi
ings on Aliens, So the Lrish were taxe
onl half that imposed upon “‘foreigners””
is those “speaking a different lan-
ge
BG
wa
1135, t. 16, Committee appainted to
raw a Bil repealing the above la
1729-30, (Mar. 14.) Law altered 50 as
to tax the importation of persons of
crime ‘and poor and impotent persons.
By these proceedings it appears that
f| though the Assembly concurred jn the
Governor’s suggestion as to a law against
Trish Papists, that they omitted Papists
nen making tl law and only taxed
Trish servants from 3mo,_ 1729, [May] to
Ast. mo. [March 1729-30. 0.) while proceed-
eeoounts of frolies which the staid| ing to its repeal, eonist,
uake . is, however,
2 tee oudemned Here i of pera, That St. Joseph’s residence (still re-
Philadelphia’s first Poet, Aquila an is ely te astand we
la Rose,
‘Which ought appropriately tobe reprinted
in this H
> The happy “ta "Dee r Six appears ai
When yng De ature lodyed a aa within
The angel now was iieard among the swal
. a ‘athe aistane plainss
O'trjoyed they haste and left thelr feecy e cae.
Found the blest Child and knew the Ged
[p. 226. His, SEM
ie
Here is sthe. only black wouibe record
We have been able to find on Pennsyl-
Yania’s official aeons during Quaker
ascendency. But observe how the re-
ligious liberty principles of these people
prevailed after al
Jan. 27, 1728, a committee of the
Assem was appointed to examine and
Teport concert the behaviour of the
Palatin rge numbers of these
people t had been coming to the Province,
built of bricks brought f from England we
offer this testimony. tin 1683, Wm.
enn mentions ers ‘iniekery” 's going
on—many cellars already stoned or
bricked and some brick houses going up”
and he names “bricklayers” among | the
“useful tradesmen”? [Penna, Mag. Apr.
1885, pp. 66-7.] The,bricks ‘ot the State
Touse, 2nd and Walnut, begun in 1731,
were made by Jas. Stoops and Benjamin
Fairman, We wonder if they supplied
those for Father Greaton’s house. e
bricks in it are like those in Letitia
Penn’s house now in West Fairmount
Park to which it was removed a few
years ago.
Other evidence can be cited to show
that it was totally unnecessary to import
bricks as late as 1732,
nthis year, 1732, when St, Joseph’s
Hamilton appointed to draw a bill levying | j
A description of Philadelphia, in 1732,
may be found in ‘‘The Philadelphia Book
er 1936.” It was written by ithe | late
Peter S. ‘Duponcean, who ough}‘to
lived and died a Catholic but did ig
though Father Finnotti, names him in
Bibliogra; aphia Americana | Caiholica,
E HAPPY LAND. |
Charge of. “James Logan ‘chief justice been
tothe Grand Inquest at‘ Phi 3adelphia,
Sept. 24, 1733.
“This Government has in somemeasure
n even the envy of its neigi bors, for
its Constitution and the Pecuhar Privi-
leges the People of it enjoy. “And ac-
cordingly we see it daily more; resorted
to by crowds that transport themselves
into it from abroad than any of the other
British Colonies in America, ” [Fis
Collection. ]
urors returned him thant, ae gh
Hannis, one of the Jurors. Hé di
1749, and bequeathed £10 tote saber
Grayton,” He was a Catholic but when
he became such we have not, yet dis-
covered. ‘eran away with and married
adaughter of Martyn Jervis, 8 Quaker
and a family of the highest respectability
and mot re in usual education, Her
sister m: andwith,'a Quaker
of Philadelphia, Charles Jervis an emi-
nent portrait painter of who
died 3
thank William John Potts, Esq. of Cam-
m, N. J., for this information derived
byl him from a Me of 1 pp. now in
possession of Miss A!
$ HE x PRIEST,
John Ury, arrived ‘in Piatt,
June 18th he w:
‘eb,
teaching school at Burlington, N. 3
ained 1 year. In 1741, he was hung
at New York for alleged complicity in
the Negro Plot to burn the: City.
was charged with being apriest. W hether
is Was so or not is lebatable point,
The evidence given in Horamanden 3 Ac-
0 us, look very much
like a priest if the evidence be true, But
he did not acknowledge being a priest.
While not actually denying it endeavored
to destro’
lics will think that had he riest,
he would gladly have proclaimed his
ge
©
en | character and faith but perhaps he wished
to save frien otis speech against the
charge i is sup] have been printed
in Philadelphia, atter his execution.
is not among any of the rare collections
we have had access to nor is it known to
be in existence or if ever printed.
URALIZATION.
n 1740, we note the paturatization of
many foreigners who gave
law, required, that they had “taken the
Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper in some
Protestant Reformed Congregation in
this. Province within three months,’*
[Pa. Archives 2d Sec. vol. 2, p. 347.
This would
Catholics were not natural
E ROMAN CATHOLICS.
1743. Daniel Horsmanden, of New
zoe the Judge in the Ury ease, in giv-
assing a law ‘against
alowing the Moravians to reside among
he Indians said that Count Zinzendorp,
a]
a
their Bishop, brought many of his coun-| was put
oy the charge that he 4.38...Catho- | the
been
indicate that German it
19th and 20th, in the Academy of Music,
Prior to the convention, tbe delegates
attended Mass at the Catl Th
e
ave | Archbishop addressed eae ea Goming:
encouraging and blessing them. At the
ball Mayor Smith welcomed al
er the usual committees were
pointed and reports fram societies had
the President, Father
Mitchell, nie * Brooklyn, made his report,
which pi resented a gratifying condition
of the tn
During “the ¢ year considerable
past
work has been ane by the ofticers of the
Union, with the result, it is hoped, of
having added to the strength and. stand-
ing of our organization. . The object of
our Union is to make us genuine Sth:
lice, in whom manliness
‘0 the dignity of a virtue by the sublime
indlucnes of true religi
Thomas I. Byrnes, ‘Of. New York, the
National Secretary and Treasurer, in his
annual report, said that at the last con-
vention the indebtedness of the Union,
amounting to 2144.68, was liquidated.
During the year over $300 was
and the number of societies was increased
expended, | muc!
of the affait was that “there was con-
giderable opposition to the resolution,
ped.” lared
aoe ie is our amendmé
in the morning of “ihe second da:
Archbishop | Ryan visited. fhe convention
and addre: the delegates,
Other Papers were read by appo'
members, An address to the Penal
young men of the country was adopter
Mitchell wouldn’t have the
izabethport, J
was chosen ; Vice-President, Rev.
P. J. Mellon, of ‘philadelphia John
Leahy, of Boston, Second Vice-President;
Thomas H. Byrnes, of New
‘reasurer ; and a list of Pesvincal
Vice. Presidents and Secretari
‘n the evening a public demonstration
was s held i in the Academy. H. St. John
Brady, Esq., of Philadelphia, called it to
order, Monsignor Doane presided and ~
“made a few remarks, »? as public speak-
ers, when inexperienced, couldn’t say
enough, and when older usually said too
he
Father Mitchell spoke of the Union’s
over 60 per cent. Ie called attention to} purpose and success,
the fact that many of the officers were] Somebody called on the programme.
clergymen, who find it impossible to} Charles gen, of Philadelphia,
attend to the duties, owing to the more
pressing claims of their sacred office. He,
therefore, advised that only those be
elected to official position who could and | evenin:
were willing to devote the time and at-
tention requi ‘nion. .
A cablegram to the Pope asking Tis | m:
blessing was ordered to
A tof zesolutions were then
introduced—one ill-balanced and
knowledge-lacking Philadelphian, endors-
ing the action of Archbis! ishop Ryan. in
appointing Chaplains for the
n Day ceremonies, and request
ing the ‘itierarehy of the country to follow
his example.
Of course the Archbishop hadn’t done
that, and it would have been audacious
to ‘e ‘approved ” of: any of bis
actions. The resolution was reported by
the associated press as having ‘* passed.””
ais mortified Monsignor Doane, who,
ext morning, offered a. resolution
setting forth that—
“ Whereas, By mistake it was stated
in the New York Herald, that a series of
resolutions relative to the Grand Arm
of the Republic, introduced in the con-
Merored yesterday, had nm passed b;
tl
“e Resolved, That while the convention | >
desires to see every possible recognition
to the brave men who died for their
country, at the same time it does not
presume to offer any advice with regard
to the matter to the) venerable Uierarchy
of the Church. wish to act o1
such uncatholie te ae The Areh-
appointed guides a course of action for
them to follow in this or any other
matter.””
Francis Tracy Tobin, who had offered
the resolution, tried to get the floor
“to explain,”” but the previous question
in operation—and his mouth
trymen for several years and imported | shut.
them intoand settled in Pennsylvania,
Roman Catholics as well as Protestants
without distinction, where it seems by the
indulgence of the Crown, their Constitu:
ter, all persuasions,
others, a
tolerated the free exercise of their re-
ligion.’
eal along the line of the centuries from
Pennsylvania’s foundation may be picked
up evidences that this Religious Liberty
to Catholics was the one thing peculiar
to our Province and wnade it worthy of
remark, so antagonistic was such ‘‘tolera-
tion” to the spirit of England and her
other provinces, Yet even in this blessed
1886 Catholics are taught by “‘historians”’
was
e
o
that ‘Colonial Pennsylvania
harbor of ‘hatred and persecution” while | out a
nowhere else in the British Provinces
did Catholics dare stand in God’s sunshine
and publically worship God according to
the rites of His Church,
We have mentioned the death of John
lichael Brown, the alleged priest of,
icetown near Philadelphia,
a3 an apostate Branciscan
from the West Indies, which we have n
evidence even for suggesting, he was not
apriest and certainly Rercised no priestly
functions with a wife and child living
with him. On Scull and Heaps’ map of
1750, [copy in A, C. ne S.] you may see
where the lands of George Meade and
rown joined. The Phila, Mag.
vol. 1V, p. 423, says that in “the clump
of trees to the north the priest’s chapel
stood.” But that’s an old woman’s tale.
The Dr. Brown lands are now Miss Sally
Dickinson’
Francis B. Parker, of the De Sales
Association, rend the first afternoon an
essay on e Saloon considered as
danger to young men,” It was referred
to a committee,
The committee reported recommending
&
societies to impress upon their members | requt
the dangers of frequenting saloons and
urging them - discountenance the
drinking customs of society.
Maay delegates could Tot hear he
report. It was read again. As it wi
question we were interested in, we moved
our position close by sthe New York
delegation. . When the question was put
on the adoption of the report the noes
were decidedly the majority. Without
showing the least discomfiture, and with-
ment’s hesitation, Father Mit-
chell at once put the question again.
Again the noes were the majority, ‘‘ The
report is adopted ” was, nevertheless, the
cision.
During all this not a word was spoken
for or against the resolutio:
We asked one of the ‘New-Yorkers,
from ‘whom, perhaps, came nearly all the
nay votes, what was amiss in the report
that they bad voted | against it. ‘We were
told that there was no use of adopting
such a resolution, that if young men
wanted to frequent saloons they would do
so and the recommendation wouldn’t be
ed
g
pointed out to us at the ball-door as one
who had been a member of ie New
York Legislature, but havi rior ote red a
BY] in the interest of the liquor dealers
was not re-elected. It was the gentleman
‘
After the convention a young man was | Dé
La,
next spoke, and made a fool of himse!
John ane Boston wer
young man, made the best address of the
ge was well delivered, and of
that thoughtful, elevating character that
mi ight not be e expected from any young
Prof. A.J. Faust, Ph.D., of Washing-
nm, D. C., delivered , the address that
most interested us—on Ilistory. It gave
us much information, and made us con-
sider even higher the value of the sub-
ject. It did good teo for the Catholic
historical movement, by. extending a
knowledge of the usefulness, importance
and dignity of history, especially i in rela-
tion to the Church and the See of me
the sad days o! r of
zo, and of his faaigne at his first visit to
Philadelphia and the North,
6 third day the Philadelphians care
riegorided the visitors to the public
institutions, Fairmount Parked them at
oon, and dined them at Belmont, and
brought all home safely, well and pleased.
It was what New Yorkers term a * Phila-
delphia racket,” which, of course, every-
a g ime”
in a quaker-like manner—quiet, easy-
going, enjoyable way, with no nonsense
or sreadaches.
0) the delegates visited the
meriean, fonts Historical Soziety’s
hall and inspected the library and cabinet.
y all said they were surpr rised at the
ress made in collecting ; were pleased
8
e
be | at the exhibition made and promised to
send additions. We will see that these
promises are kept.
n the ‘whole, the C.Y.M.N.U, con-
vention was & satisfactory one, Next
year N ew York has the convention. We
ho match
going aw to attract the Philadelphians,
as pave ve ten years ago,
eC. Y. M. N. UL Father Mit-
chal President, reported that many sub-
ordinate officers had been “* forgetful ”
of their duty. Tom. Byrnes, the Secre-
tar ‘y-Treasurer, spoke right ‘out in his
. the delinquents were
ciergyinen, and that their clerical duties
red their time and attention, and
that laymen ought to hold their places,
oul critical a thing as we
know Catholic conventions to do is this
making officers of clergymen.
a|tarely any sincerity in it as regards the
welfare of the Unions in which it is done.
1t looks so Catholic, it proves the attach-
ment of priest and ple, and a lot of
other sentimental religious gush. Now
member knows that, as a
‘to be
‘ornamental, not useful.” Few have
the time, ill give attention that
must go to the duties of thei cir sac
ing they are appointed to da
Besides it is to the “aisadvantage of
curate gives attention to society affairs -
beyond his own parish, or even in it, he
is not devoting that attention to Church
affairs spiritual or temporal, that could
given, Hence he is retarding his
ownadvancement. We can cite cases to
illustrate this if it were proper to use
lowship with them are loath to disagree.
hus the wisdom that comes from the
many is secur