Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-05-19
Address and Presentation
Cazenovia, n. Y.

To the Rev. JOHN CONROY, by the
Congregation of ST. MARKS, Kenosha,
Wis, May lst, 1854.
REv'D AND DEAR SIR:
The Catholics of st. Marks Parish on
hearing of your intended departure for
Ireland, having assembled at st. Marks
Church, and chosen the Committee before
you, requested us to present you with the
following address and . ,companying pre-
sent, a token of their respect and ven
Grafton for your person and of their ac-
acknowledgement of the many great services
YOU have rendered to the cause of reli-
gion and morality, since yourappointmcnt
to this parish:
We, the Catholics of st. Marks Parish,
approach you, Rey'd Sir, with the most
lively sentiments of respect and attach
ment. We cannot withhold the express
sion of our deep regret at your departure
and Of the great loss we will sustain du-
ring your absence. How shall we ex-
press our admiration of your laborS and
>acraficeS since YOU came amongst uS}
You have sacrificed your health for your
people no matter whether it was hot
or cold, in sickness or in health, you were
always ready to attend to the spiritual
wants of your Congregation. BY your
eXertion and zeal you have organized a
good Choir-you have erected a steeple
on ST. Marks Church. which is credit
not only to you, but to the city at large.
Your laborS have been many and ardu-
GUS BY your councils and instructions
you have brought back to the one fold of
the one Shepherd many who had strayed
from the path of virtue and religion; and
others. who were for years the victims of
vice and intemperance, to knowledge of
their impending danger, and of their du-
ties to their God and to themselves. By
your urbanity and kindness you have en-
deared yourself to all and by your Ia
bors and lectures we have become uni
ted, temperate and religious people. In
a word, you have made yourself all things
to all men, in order to gain all to Christ.
Though your intended departure for the
land of your nativity has filled us all with
feelings of grief and sorrow, yet we enter
tain the hope that we will, ere long. have
the great happiness of again seeing you
amongst US, with improved health, re-
newed energy. and terminated zeal; and
that, though absent. you will never forget
that splendid monument of your zeal, the
spire of St Marks church which yon have
erected for us and our children, and which
will transmit your name to the latest pos
terity, in language more eloquent than
we can express.
Permit us then Rev'd Sir, to offer you
the acknowledgement of our sincere and
ahectionate attachment, and by your ac-
ceptance of the accompanying present as
a testimony of our lasting gratitude and
the high esteem in which we all hold you.
May it enable you to defray part of the
expenses of your contemplated journey,
and although unequal to the extent of our
wishes, we trust that 1t will not be the
4 less acceptable, when we assure you that
it is accompanied with the hearts and af-
| fections of the Catholics of kenosha.
EDWARD BAILEY, Chm.
THoS. Moore, Sec'y.
In consequence of the above being pre-
scented about an hour before his depar-
ture, he was unable to make a reply in