Worcester daily spy., 1861-10-24
ROMAN CATHOLICS IN THE UNITED STATES

ROMAN CATHOLICS IN THE UNITED STATES
The New York Tablet ofthis week has some
interesting statements on the preponderance
OF Roman Catholics in the north over the south
together with some considerations of impor.
tance to all of that denomination in foreign
countries. We copy portion of the Tablets
article, which is directed to the Roman Catho.
lies in Canada, whO it seems, are inclined to
take sides with onr insurgents against the
Union. The Tablet shows them very clearly
the mistake they moke.
Gas for southerners being more friendly to.
wards the Irish than the people of the north,
there is abundant proof that such is not the
case. witness, amongst other things what
Mr.. Russell was told by Il very intelligent
man, an eX-editor of southern paper'-to the
effect that it the southerners succeeded in
gaining their independence 1--WE beg pardon
in seeding from the Union) they would put
things on a different footing and first of ALL
they would be sure to exclude those id
Irish and Germans from all Offices Again,
do our friends forget that the present incum
bentS OF know nothing honors, the famous
knights Of the golden circle, one OF whose first
rules is the exclusion Of the same obnoxious
Irish and Germans had their origin-not in
the north, but in the south Facts are stub
born things, and one fact is worth bushe of
suppos;tions and speculations.
We know the Irish in Canada are deeply
interested in whatever concerns their country
men here, and if they can only be convinced
that no class of our citizens are more interest
ed in the preservation OF the Union than they,
we thinS their sympatliies will run in an op-
posite direction from what they now do That
the great body OF the Irish people in the I'm.
lied states are III TavOr OF the Union,
willing to fight for its preservation, no one ac.
quainted with the country will pretend To de
ny. And why should it be otherwise what
have they TO gain by the dismen'berment of
this great republic which has SO long extend
ed its protection to the oppressed of every
country--to none more than their own ! Let
secession once succeed, and no one knows
where it will end, and any case ii would ne
cessafiIy lessen the power, and the wealth a. d
the glory of the United States, one Of the
greatest bulwarks of human freedom that the
world has yet seen. Who, then, should they
wish to see it rent asunder by political intrigue
and selfish ambition perhaps sly foreign con-
nivance. Shame on them if they did, Tor SO
sure as God is in Heaven, they wouldibe play
ing into the hands of their ancient enemy at
home in lending hand to destroy the power
of her acknowledged commercial rival And
moreover we maintain that the interest Of the
C't'''t'
The north being the seat Of manufactures, and the
aoeSt of agriculture, both largely engaged N CONF
merce Of course employ the greatest part Of the free
,chte labor Of the country, riich IS necessarily but
lille required in the south, tchere the Uork is chiefly
done By negro StdUeS
To prove ths-viz that the vast majority
of the Catholics OF these states are at the north,
we have only to give a few facts from the
Catholic Almanac OF the current year =
In the diocese of Charleston, which comprs-
es the two Carolinas, the Catholic popula-
In the diocese of Richmond and Wheeling,
comprising the whole Of Virginia, there
nearly zz,OOU
In the diocese of Savannah comprising the
state OF Georgia. 5000
In the diocese OF Florida, 4OOO
sas, 1900
And that in an area of $4,000 square miles.
In the diocese of Natchez comprising the
state of Mississippi, 10000
In the diocese of Natchitoches, comprisinga
part OF Louisiana, 5O0O0
In the diocese OF New Orleans, 100000
In the diocese of Galveston, comprising ooo
In the diocese of Nashville $1,000
nall the southern dioceses 244.5OO
We will now give few statistics regarding
some of the dioceses in the northern and west
ern states =
Baltimore tprobaby), 2l9,ooo
1,eI 1,eportedl fN'' 225, 900
Pittsburg-only part of Pennsylvania ire
El;e 10000
Cincinnati-part of Ohio, 10000
Cleveand-part of Ohio, 60.OOO
Fort Wayne, Indiana. 0UUOO
Vmcennes Indiana, 00UOO
New York (probablyb 100000
Brooklyn lprobably) l0000O
Albany, 200,OOO
Boston, ZUO,UOO
Buffalo (reportedG 100000
fordf frenorfpdl loo UOO