Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-02-20
INCREASE OFROMANIsN

Archbishop Hughes recently delivered q Loo
ture before the Young Catholic Friends, Soc;.
ety. IN Baltimore, digest of which we find in
the New Bedford Mercury. According to this
prelate, people have indulged in specuIations
| upon the power and endurance of the Catholic
oharch IN the United States, this church new
er having been, before the Declaration of In
dependence, connected with any government
| except as its favorite or it's foe. The ar,t
ois1iop derives the Catholics in tho q. States
from three sources-the primitive stock of the
mary land colony, immigration and convers;o,
In the year l1S5, John Carroll, a Jesuit woe
appointed by the Holy See as the Superior of
the clergy in this country. In MARYLAND a.
that GATE, there were between sixtoen .nd
twenty thousand catholics; in PennsvIvo,;,
eight thousand; in New York there were two
hundred "These,'' he says, ssare the three |
sources from which, as will name them. the |
native, hereditary and American Catholics ara
10 oe derived" AT this date, 1855. there ,re-o
Tour Catholic churches in the States Int No
oatnoiic SCHOOLS, colleges, hospitals or orphan
'"s' from subsequent accessions of ter
itory' the Archbishop does not consider that
'e nave gained many original Catholics, Next
'omes immigration, and this, according to the
cc'urer' mas been too highly rated. Tn TO |
NC year 1919, the immigration from the Rrit- |
sh empire amounts to a little over 800 900. &
Ut the tide OF Catholic immigrants did NOT Il
ct in towards this country till after tbe c,oso c
the revolutionary war, and great part of h
lls even was Protestant, that is, the north Il
ouhtry people, who settled in New JERSEY and N
es'ern fennsylvania. From the year 1928
inc year 1ooO, period of twenty-five wears te
ere arrived from Great Britain and Ireland cl
.oo'o-o Immigrants, and from the year 1850 ca
1876, In the city of New York alone 31e di
0 immigrants, and in all from these .o,,
es, since 1870, we may call the ;mm;cr,.;o,
Ou. o'aoo'ooo. For the last fifteen years, the wa
ohoishop considers that four-fifths of the an
lh'gration has been Catholic, and that one ce
'hrec OF tne immigrants die soon after their sic
isai' as they arc especially exposed to the 'ES
ioehts OF lie, to sickness, hardship of ey- am
Aihd, ana toiisome poverty. Hundreds of ssN
usands OF the descendants of the Catholic mo
Migrants, have fallen away from their relf- 1 al
u but 1t is equally true that they hardly job
ed anything to any other denomination of her
istians fro,
tho census of 1850 there were in the IT. stoc
States 19,553,065 white Inhabitants of hair
m Z,24o,535 were of foreign birth. With last
exception OF $4,000, which was the num-
Of Irish according to the census. the re- a
lder of those of foreign birth came from a ba
len, Norway, the German States. Greo. OF IL
'in' &C., mostly Protestants according To ed t.
ecturer. By the closest exam;n,.;o,, obje
glng tho results according to the best as- the
ined authority within roach :. co,,o narr,
'proximate calculation that At the r,,s.e. ing /
mere are in the United States, say, eleven per-
red thousand q JOG, ,0Oo) Catholics horn pin |
eign lands; over eight hundred Thousand tney
ana three hundred thousand Germans pene'
se of the German immigration there ara But
orotestants for ona c..t,on- aio kinde
ccordlng to the Catholic Almanac for r.,
That the Catholic population of the Uni.
ates is 1887 500, eleren husdrea fhousond .lre
n born Catholics, and the balance, twelve ,vo,,,s
ed and ninety-seyen thousand five hun. in -;
must be of the primitive stock or have
cquired. Conversion, then, must be ta. Ysp
one OF the chief means to which we
tribute the increase of the Cathol;c -
4. We have already given the tote,
ic population the number of priests in r,r.II.
as 20; now there are l76l priests; at esnna,