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VOL. XIV.
PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER 15, 1386.
No, 204
UGH f, 0. 8, 9, FOURNAE,
LISHED SEMI-MONTHLY
MARTIN LJ. GRIFFIN,
711 Sansom STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
voted to the advancement of
THE TRISH CATHOLIC BENEVOLENT UNION
HE UNITED STATES.
TERMS:
CATHOLICITY:
. PHILADELPHIA.
ICoPyRIGHTED, 1883.]
By Manrtin I. J. Guierin. ‘
SECOND SERIES.
MINISTER GERARD.
‘he Pennsylvania Packet, of July 14,
ris thus records theen' trance of Gerard
to Philadelphia ten days before
jeacly last. Sunday his Excellency M.
mbassador from His Most
Christian Majesty, arrived in this city.
He was accompanied from Chester to an
apartment provided for him on Market
Street, by a Committee of Congress, ap-
pointed for that purpose. On his e!
Proctor’s artillery. ma
describe the joy that appeared on every
man’s countenance upon this auspicious
ging lawyer in the IIouse of Commons,
and eyery cobbler in the, beer houses of
t of their property,
should in the course of a three years war
with Great Britain, receive an Ambas-
sador from ‘the most powerful monarchy
of Europe.
“Who can tell us whether Gerard had a
- chaplain with him, or the name of the one
serving him during his residence here?
Was it Abbe Bandol, who s¢
rard’s successor, ‘Lunzere We want.
the proo! e suppose Bandol, was
the chaplain, but have not found the
e
roo!
dn March 1780 anew emission of pa-
i money was issued.. Among the
merchants who agreed to accept it asthe
Catholic died in this year, the Quaker in
uly 1787,
, PATRICK'S DAY.
‘St. Patricks Day was celebrated in
those days, as now. On that day, 1780.
TIamilton Purdies, Captain Doyle and |p
Thos. Cuthbert ‘‘were bound over for
assaulting a German that would not
ney wegss St. Patrick. {Marshall
p. 228.] Wonder iethis ieee Capt.
Do; ove, of Lancaster, Pa. The next year
on the same day, Marshall records “view
near upon 30 of what is called St. Pat-
tick’s men with ettigy, “drums, ete., pa-
Tading the streets.’
This looks to us as if this was a bur-
lesque parade of idlers with ‘a _itufted
- Paddy,”
FOR me ARMY.
To Summer of 1780, a subscription by |“
the Indies of Philadelphia, in aw of the
American Army w:
per of C of ‘Catiolie ladies contributed, as ‘the
ist, .
CONGRESS AT MASS.
‘n JOURNAL of February 1st, 1834, an
- accoint of the celebration of 4th July,
1779, at St. Mary’s, was giv:
n’ the letters of Papiniin (Rev. J.
Dati) written that year in New
“The Congress and Rebel Legis: | 6
lature of Pennsylvania, have lately given
the most public dnd unequivocal oa bi to of
Pov aomntenance and
TT et aan ‘ample
woteiin they unquestionably ‘wish Others
Then b he e gives the newspaper. accounts
of the celebration and adds “I Shall leave
You to make your own reflections on this
Chatles I was
called a Papist for permitting his Queen,
Who was bred a Catholic, to attend Mass,
What are we to think of the American
Rulers, whe not only permit their wives S
.to attend Mass, but attend it themselves
er up their devout
guage, services and
Worship of Rome. Whatever may be the
pinion of some to the contrary, | it is ab-
Solutely certain on the part of many that
he 6 present i &s a Religious War
On Saturday, August 25th, 8h tha
aniversary of the birth of
Was celebrated. “The day was 8 he Tet
in” says the Pennsylvania Gazcte, Sept,
2s
m-| olic work we know of,
Sth, “by the ringing of bells, and a royal
salute was fired d from the arillery. The
officers uf the military ot ity and
Liberties arrived in their uniforms with
his excellency the President and Council
of ‘ommonwealth at their head,
waited on his Excellency the Minister of
France and complimented him on the coc
casion.” The festivities were held al
Spring Garden, The twelfth toast was
“may mutual good officers render per-
tual the friendship and union of|a
France and America.’’
as ‘*no
The thirteenth
a rica ever remember the
injuries received from Britain and_her
eternal enmity be the just return,”” .
. A. Jordi an, S. J. in Woodstock Letters,
says the was celebrated at St.
Joseph’s and. that the French Minister
was present ; that his musicians accom-
panied the organ and some gentlemen of
the household sang, that Father Moly-
at Abbe Bandoll
. ‘o mention of
is appears in the papers of the day. It
is more likely to have occurred however,
on the following day—26th, It is not at
all likely that the civic celebration was
he only commemoration of the day.
religious one was surely appropriate, and
if it did not take place in St.
church we would like some one te ‘tol
ps why that Church was built as early
is 1763. On the following Thursday
re
S
Ea
‘August 30, Washington and Rochambeat | this
The God of | it?
arrived in Philadelphia.
Armies had them eeping at this
time—for the Yorktown victory came
before two months had passed.
FOR THE POOR.
In an old St. Joseph’s register, where
entity of names in August 1783 appears,
is the following: ‘Received of Rev.
Me Farmer for the poor, 518 Con. Gave| #
to Mr, Hussey, 70.”? Perhaps this Feoord
was by Father Molineux. “Con’
Continental m It would buy | tits
‘for the poor” at that time It was
likely given to Mr. Hussey for distribu-
a William ILussey
held pew No. 28 in St. ‘Marys! in 1787.
Oa July 15th, 1782 the birth of a Dau-
phin, of Franee, was celebrated in Phila-
delphia. As at nine in the morning his
excellency the French Minister invited
to his appartments all French residents
in Philadelphia, to return thanks to the
Supreme Being tor the late blessing he
has bestowed on tbe nation,’ we ma:
safely conclude that this meant that they
went to Mass,
In Rivington’s Royal Gazette Published
in New York, December 14th, 1782,
a communication from Fishkill
dated December 1st, 1782, signed. Nat.
It says ‘‘Many grow very jealous of the
French, and it is strange what pains
e take to reconcile peoples tempers to
the French manoper, and even to their
religion. What a noise was made but a
‘ew years ago about Popery being toler-
ated 2 | Canada by the British Govern:
* And what a fuss and bothei
has seen made on the news of the birth
of a Daup hin of France; if a promised
king of America had been born, there
could not have been greater outward
rejoicings.
&
OLD BOOKs.
Georgetown College has ‘A Manual of | ag
Catholic Prayers” published i in Philadel-
pin, by Robt. Bell in 1774,'
Bell was not a Catholic but probably
published the work at the desire of
Father Molineux and Farmer, and be-
use of the increasing determination to
“buy no .
It is the only ante- Revolutionary Cath-
. CIL S.
of Philadelphia ought to have a copy—
even the one at Georgetown might be in
its charge. However, in 1784 the Histo-
wy of the Old and New Testament by J.
3, was printed by M. Steiner in
Race st. for C. ralbot, late of Dublin,
printer and book: The opinion of
Be
&
‘ork, john Gilmary Shea ‘s that this ‘is the
ook issued in this country by a
Catholic bookseller, but that he knew of
no other book with his imprint.” We
don’t know that Talbot was a Catholic.
Have found nothing to prove it. In
Carey in publishing the Columbian Maga-
zine und Monthly Miscellany.
In 1786, Talbott then on Front St.,””
printed the Funeral Sermon on death of
Rev, Ferd. Farmer by Father Molyneux.
qt is a 24 mo. | of 8 pp. , Rev, P, A, Jor-
dan, S. J., hi copy we hope some day
may be in the treasures ofthe A. C. H.
UP IN A BALLOON.
July 4th, was celebrated in 1 1784, A
Committe of citizens collected money to
secure a balloon ascension by a Mr.
Cames of Baltimore, Jas, Cauffman
and James Uellers, Catto, were on
ittee. Cames did not appear on
the path, On 17th he ascended from the
Prison yard, 6th and Walnut. He went
a few feet—tell out—up went the
balloon, It took fire. 8 L
MORE TREAOY HISTORY. )
There is going the rounds of the Catho-
ic Press a ance in the Treacy style
of, historical writing showing how *‘Rome
Saved America” through the influence of
Father Carroll, 1t purports to be written
by John Pope Hodnett, a brother ofa
{| Chieago priest. It amazes us that Catho-
lic editors know so little of the history of
their own country as. Me insert such an
icle,
Here isa letter from a priest about it.
Being a JouRNAL reader he don’t believe
all the “Catholic “history” he sees going
the rounds of our papers.
“Mr. Griffin,—I enclose aclivping from
the new Catholic News, of New ¥ rk, it
tells its. orn story. I am a loss to
know wi may be thought of it, Ido
not really Know what authority there is is
for it... I would like to believe all it con-
tains.
at is here re-
lated? 1 confess I neve: rsa anything of
this character in all my teaching of U. S.
history. Iremember coming over a scrap
history in one of the: Almanacs pub-
fener by the Catholic Publication Society
Constitution. I could find no verification
for that fact and am inclined to disbelieve
ser ap—what do FON know about
Here is what we know about it.
There are a number of statements in it
that are at variance with, -all we ever
learned of American history. We wrote
Mr. Ilodnett asking his authority for his
statements, No answer has come after
two weeks. We asked the Historian of
¢ Revolution, ssing, for
his one Tere it is: o
‘he Ridge, Dover Plains, N.Y.
“Dear § Sir— You ask my opinion of a
newspaper paragraph, headed, ‘Rome
Saved America” which “you. have sent
ame better | me.
r. John Carroll Brent's Biography of
Archbishop Carroll will convince you
that the excellent prelate. never per-
formed any of the serviex imputed to
him by the uninformed or reckless writer
of this paragraph.
Jarroll was a professor i ina College
at Liege, when in 1773, that, St. Om
and other Jesuit institutions of earning
ye ur Castle, he
with the last vessel that left England for
the Potomac before the breaking out of
the Gevolution j in 1775, and was ever on
the Continent of Europe afterw
d he been there han our
a Jesuit priest and professor ina
Jesuit College could not have had any
influence with a Pontiff (or his Nuncio)
who had expelled the Jesuitsfrom France
in broken up their institutions of Jearn-
ing. herefore the claim of his influence | ad
at Rome may be dismissed as mere fable.
Of course you know enough of the
character 1, Franklin not to give the
least credence to the e story of the dramatic
scene with the Nu
The Baron Von Steuben and De Kalb,
rere Protestants, not ‘Catholic Generals. 5
Indeed Steuben resigned his Marshalship
apetty German Count, whi hat
hela for ten years, because of a theologi-
cal dispute ‘he being? says his biographer,
a Protestant ata Roman Court.’
an unwarrantable assumption to say tint er
Kosciusko and Pulaski, were ‘Catholic
Generals,’ for 1 know of no hint in history
or biography that gives a warrant for an
assertion that they were either Catholic | ™
or Protestant, ‘The former dying in a
Roman Catholic Canton, in Switzerland,
was buried in a Roman Catholic.ceme-
tery. The latter was buried in the truly
Catholic Ocean, near the ‘American
coast.
The expression, ‘the rebel bishop’ im-
‘rom the nature of things,
be purely an invention, of the writer, Mr,
Carroll was made ar General three
years after the independence of the colony
the King; and he
was consecrated bishopin17%, seven y
after the Treaty of Peace.
left his country after his return in 1775,
until he went to England for consecration
in1790, in the chapel of Lulworth Castle,
the seat, ,of his personal friend, Mr. Weld,
by Bishop Walmsley, He did not then
o to the Continent, but returned to his
country and his See immediately after his
consecration, I regard the statemen'
concerning the (evidently) younger P’ itt,
as equally fictitious with those of othe
of the , paraeraph. I. wonder that any
Edit
sucha paragraph in his paper unchallenged.
It reflects upon the intelligence and con-
scienciousness of the Roman Catholic
Communion, as laying claimsto an influ-
ence on the part of archbishop (then only
Father), Canroll, which the good prelate
if alive, would indignantly disown,
: ,
; | thor.
That Bisho, carroll was a true patriot
and did much, as a priest and citizen for
the cause of tihe t patriots in the struggle
for no well informed
American may
r these services and others for the
cause of learning and Christianity and
for his irreproachable life, I hold his
memory in profound esteem, I therefore
regret that there should be'an occasion
for Writing this lett
fore me an interesting private
autograph letter written by u 1@ arch-
bishop in 1806 to York;
alsoa note to Dr. Frankia from Montreal
Janada,in 1776, Both letters are written
in a clear, small band, suggestive of that
of Thomas Je!
What I have “written will indicate my
‘opinion’ of the paragraph in question.”
Yours ery truly,
J. Lossing.
[Ko: osolusko was a Catholic and on his
second visi erica frequently at-
tended St. ae °s in this city.
With regard to the claim that Bishop
Carroll brought about the prohibition
against Congress making any Religious
Law the JourNAL destroyed that claim
long ago. We Catholics only bring odiam
on ourselves by making such absurd
historical claims. ED. JOURNAL. ]
BROWNSON MEMORIAL.
The move ment to perpetuate in some
form the memory of Dr. Orestes Brown-
son, is one well worthy of commendation
and practical encouragement,
sent generation of Catholics
are partakers of he good results accru-
ing to the intellectual and social progress
of our brethren consequ ent. upon the
writings of Dr.
- His publie character and the brilliant
mind, 1 Hlumined after years ef seeking the
Truth, by the light of our Faith, which
he Drought to the consideration of public
aucation in relation to the Church, im-
sed itself on its position in the coun-
trysand tindoubtedty attracted wanderers
and doubters to the Truth, and made the
Chureh be regarded more in accord with
American atte and policy, thar
prejudice had nown.
He was an Mamerican Catholic—not
less of one than the other, gonsidering
the true relation of State and Church.
We are but the recipients and enjoyers
of the wisdom is the efforts of
others.
vancement or
admirers of mind devoted
welfare, should
w being made to
rpet the memory and seryices of
this indeed illustrious convert. - Bishop
Gilmour is to be honored
of the movement. The Catholic Universe
has given its co-operation, the C. Y, 3
U. U. appointed a committee to advance
the work; a general committee is
selected and at an early day will meet to
jopt measuresto secure the early com-
pletion of the memorial.
A LINGUISTIO wanvat. V
The Philo-Celtic Society of Philadel-
e
phia, has in a linguistic
marvel. It isa manuscript Dictionary
| of Languages compiled Ae the early part
of this century, by Mat as J, O'Conway,
an Trish | Catholic of ‘Puladehia Was
n Court Interpreter and Teach-
o Languages There is a whole
trunkful of the manuscript. We count-
ed nineteen languages in it.
compilation to prove the
words in these and perhaps other
languages derived from the Hiberno-
Irish language.
publisber to bear the cost of issuing this
work and of course one so devoted to
study couldn't have money to
mass of manuscript is S worthy
of scholarly linguistic examination.
Prof. Rvehig, the German-American,
proficient in The Irish language, would
find this a valuable work to make known
to learned men, We have been compil-
ing a sketch of the life of O’Conway and
hisfamily, He is buried at St. John’s.
An article usually headed ‘Rome
Saved America’’ is going the rounds of
the Catholic press. hese are days of | 4
historical researches
discoveries, at
is written on the ‘claim everything’ prin-
ciple. For our part we believe it to be|*
nee, Jol jin Hope Hodnett, a
brother of a priest in Chicago is the au-
Hie give no authorities for his
statement of the interest Rome took in
sustaining the American Revolution.
—New L.C.B.U. Societieties will short-
ly be organized in St. Thomas and St.
Malachy's Parishes; Phildelpbia,
ell a
Catholics of “intellectual ad-| the
as the projector | —;
Phoenician language—the root of the wil
‘conway never could have found a ‘
@ whole thing reads to us very ¥
INSURANCE FACTS.
There has been much said about Life
Insurance, as it is called, in the L. C.
U. The truth is that though thoughtful
ones have since 1870 been pressing the
question upon ‘the Union, and thet Union
npon its members, the members have not
grasped the importance of the subject,
Our members are workingmen, They
are dependent uy their days labor,
‘hey think they have enough to do. now
instead of paying assessments upon
death of other members, for eae ae not
going to die for many,
y say this iatter 2 Joolistt talk;
their very y condition is jusi the r
why they should, in view of the uncer-
tainty nd life, join Funds that will enable
them to secure some help for their fami-
lies, . e
k to them seriously guietly and get
their reason working, and they will ac-
knowledge it to be true—But they ya
not give you the assessment. the:
hand out the first call, they will one by
one drop out of the succeeding ones
if they were disappointed at being still
alive, and not dead so their widows could
get the Fund after they had paid in a few
assessments. Fact hats the history
of eight years of the W. & O, Fund.
Most of them lave little and they don’t
as I did,” is the heartless response
js have rsonally given us and
which ‘all have heard often,
man own anything and you have
a basis for Insurance. men
who have the most insurance. “Can
afford it’? poor men say. No better than
the man working ata dollar a day for
the amouat each may insure for. There
is not a member of the I. C. B. U. who
ould not carry an insurance o!
ir he will only be willing to pay Avecents
a day for it.
don't want it.
five cents for present use
widows’ and orphans’ get the help of the
charitable.
In Germany, Bismark by his compul-
sory Insurance law has forced working:
men to pecome insured. Here the great
mass of workingmen. will sot
ents & day to immediately lave for their
families $1,000, just as good as though it
were deposited for thon in a bat
Our people who are thri rifty t Ty to save
after they become insured they have that
much for their families right at once just
as surely as for
many years saving which their families
get at death just as they willthe insurance
insurance a man in a day secures
as much as it will take yéars to get and
when he dies his sayings are no greater
after years than his insurance of a day.
—— 0
SOCIETIES AT RICHMOND.
The Catholic Visitor republishes our
OmmMents 1 ‘icle relating to the
Catholic Societies of that City, it says:
“This may be true of some places but.
it cannot b be yeaid of this city, for we can
say without contradiction that the men
who constitute the Catholic Societies of
this city have never waited for the mstors
ii istants, or any one connected w
the Chureh to do 0 any of their work. Mt
there were laint it arose from
the fact that the c Giey took little or no
interest al And it is fact
when they took under their special c:
and protection auy organization, that it it
succeed no r than when they took
the opposite course.
few years ago the ¢ Catholic Beneficial
Society numbered x
ould be humiliating to
write it, and with no money.
Gill Lyceum, which at one time seemed
on the march to rankas one of the Catho-
lic organizations of the country,
Pp out of existence,
St. Joseph, which was a pride to all its
Tor its charity
and good works, has not been able to have
a respectable meeting for a year, and the
last, the McGill Catholic Union, has not
proposed ia the slightest. manner in pro-
portion to the expense and care besto’
the Bishop himse!
the other hand in the Knights of
Labor the leading men and the repre-
at one time were the most active workers
in our Catholic Societies, the same is to
be .found In the Royal Arcanum the
Junior Order of Mechanics, and many
other non-Catholic organizations, It is
surprising then that we s!
ul” about our Catholic organizations?
00 that the condition is not much better
when greatest pains
secure thelr success,”?
has
The Knights of -
not only by all the clergy, but ©
sentative men are the very Catholics who *
hould ‘ba dole- ©