Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-11-23
Thansgiving, Humiliation and
Prayer.
recommendation from she Most Revex.
emit Archbishop.
Ifrvtn the cathcIic Telegraph. Nov. %

4 PtoHSI- ditu HCfCllCtp dP-I
pointed the fourth Thursday OF No-I
vemhcr AS Il day of ,ievout thahksgiv-
ing 10 Almighty God for His mcrcies;
of humiliation for our sins; and OF sup
plicatiOn for peace; we hereby ordain
that the Catholic congregations oil
this diocese be earnestly exhOrted by
their PASTORS To meet in their respect
i've churches on the day above speci-
fed, and assist IN becoming senti-
meats Of gratitude, %penitence and
prayer, at the great Eucharistic, expi-
story aud impetraiOry Sacrifice of the
New Law.
We, Catholics, have largely shared
in the blessings of health, abundant
harvests and exemption from the
ravages OF war which God has grant
ed to the people of the North Our
sins have as largely msrited the chas-
tisemebt which has overtaken our
errihg brothers Of the South, aud
which has cost the !ifs-blooj of 80
many thousands If cur own brave
soldiers who left their pleasant homes
to check tie advance Of The foe and
conine the deadly strife to the battle
fields on which it readily originated.
Oar hopes of future happiness On earth
are vain if the peace, the prosperity,
the progress in r. sciences and Be-
ligion which have distinguished as
among the nations nj the earth for
tour score and eight ears, and which
under. the divine blessing. are mainly
attributable TO our Constitution and
Union, be not continued by the main
tenance of that Union aud the eIimiu-
alton of those defects which Christian
civilization and Your own experience
have shown US the Constitution con-
! tanned. 1t therefore becomes our
solemn duty TO observe with no Or
binary fervor the National holiday;
and as we cannot enjoy, and should
not desire, peace, happiness and indo-
tendance except in the society of our
fellow citizens, we should pray for
and promote, by every means III our
power, their welfare as well as our
own.
We confess thai it has greatly pained
tus to hear that certain rash, ~irreyerent
and thought!ess 70 tour communion
have denounced and cursed the Gov
leraiuent, the administration, aud their
labettors. Now God commands as 10
bless AMI curse not. And when bad
men cursed the supporters OF the Gov
ernment, lid they not reflect that they
cursed 9the more than hundreds OF
thousandso OF Catholic voters, and Cath
ole soldiers vi or ar ny who defend
that Government 10 the telds Did
Ithey not reflect that its downfall
would be hailed with acclamation by
our Gown hereditary opprsssors, across
the ocean? Did they not relect that
if ever political salvation is to reach q
far distant and beloved island, il must
come 10 it from these United States
which they would sever?
There is no justifying cause or reason
to curse the Government or the Ad.
ministration. They did not commence
this war. They could scarcely bring
themselves 10 believe that il was Sc
riousiy commenced, even when forts
had fallen and the blood of our people
was shed by the hands OF the South.
And when force had to be repealed By
force, when armies had to be raised
land, therefore, troops to be drafted, to
raise the blockade OF our Tivors and
stem the tide ofaggression what moro
did our government do than was done
in the South? Where in the North was
the draft, the CONSUMPTION, enforced as
ruthlessly and indiscriminately rs in
1.-THE South? Where was the citizens
property ~coniscated, without compen-
s~ation, for the alleged uses ofthe Gov
eminent, as it was in che South? We
have conrersed with Irish Catholic ref
usees from Georgia, from Arkansas.
from Alabama, aud other Southern
States, and We know how they were
stripped of their monay and their
clothes, and cast into prison when
they refused to 90 into the ranks of
the Confederate army. Many an Irish
laborer told US in the Hospitals, here
> and elsewhere, that when tho var
broke out in the South, and the public
works were suspended, they were Ell
Their violently ~conscripted, or had TO
enlist, or starye.
We do not adduce these facts to ex-
cite unkind feelings against the South
but to put TO shame the journalists of
ne North, especially the Rrsemdh'S
Journal and Metropolitan Record Of
New York, who instigated oar too
confiding people to evil words aud
deeds, and the people themselves who
patronizsd such journalists and were
duped and deceived by their maliy-
nifty.
Il is time, therefore,, now that the
election is past. that all should return
to their sober second thought, and
that we should rally round tho con.
stituted authorities, tho powers"
which the apostle commands US to
obey, and thus presenting an indiVi-
ded front to the enemy, re-establish
the Union, without which there can
be no p~anacea, present or prospective
fer ills we suffer. The south behold
ing us thus of one mind will, We.
devoutly trust, hasten to make peace
and we. on u side, will show them
that we are ready and willing to make
greater acri6ces for peace and Union
with them than ever we made for
war. a-o'
The Reverend Clergy will please re-
cite the Litany of the Saints, in union
with their beloved flock, before Mass,
repeating three times the two prayers
for pe-ee and the prayer; 0 God,
who by >in art offended, and by re
psntance paeiied, Sc,
a JOHN B PURCELL,
Archbishop oil Cineiuusti.
Cincinnati, 18th NoU.