Bickerton (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ...her more open enemies. A dozen such Catholics as M'Messin would relieve us of very great trouble and much expense, by taking all our dirty work off our hands." "Well, though many of the foreigners who come here are adherents to what you call this foreign religion, all Catholics are not foreigners. Indeed, some of our oldest and best American families--American in feeling as well as by birth--are Catholics. Are they, too, to be proscribed?" "They are all in the same boat," said Snipson, shrugging his shoulders, "and must float or sink together. No one, be he foreigner, or be he native, who owes allegiance to a foreign power can expect any mercy at our hands." "But Catholics deny that they owe allegiance to any foreign power, or that any is claimed of them by the Pope beyond what is due to him as the head of their Church in spirituals. And this denial does not come merely from individuals, or those who would like to be thought 'liberal Catholics, ' but the highest ecclesiastical authority. Here," continued Fred, taking up the Meteor of that morning, "is a Pastoral Letter, signed by an Archbishop and six Bishops, to the very same effect." "My dear Hubbard," said Snipson, rising to depart, "I do not doubt in the least the sincerity of the gentlemen who signed that letter; though others may and have always regarded the charge against Catholics, of disloyalty to this government, as utterly unfounded, yet, while it serves our interests Pastoral Letter of the First Provincial Council of Cincinnati. to keep up the outcry against them, I, for one, will not seek to silence it." "Good heavens JSnipson," exclaimed Fred, "can you, believing a charge to be untrue, for the sake of any interest, whether of an individual or a party, suffer it to continue...