Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-22
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cell.
The DUTY OF SUSTAINING THE GOVERNMENT.
The following noble letter from the Ro-
man Catholic Archbishop of Cincinnati
appears in the Catholic Ttlsgrgph of that
city, its counsels are patriotic and wise:
1.-THE President of the United States and
the Governor of the State of Ohio, having
in conformity with most proper and time
honored practice, appointed the tourtn
Thursday in November as day OF deYont
Thanksgiving to the Almighty God for His
msrcies; of humiliation for our SIMS and
Of duplication for peace; we hereby Or
dain that the Catholic congregations OF
this diocese be earnestly exhorted by their
pastors to meet in their respective church,
es on the day above specified, and assist In
becoming sentiments of gratitude, PEN
itence and prayer, at the great Eucharistic,
expiatory and impetratory Sacrifice OF the
New Law.
= 1--WE confess that it has greatly
panied us to hear that certain rash, irreV-
erent and thoughtless men of our commu-
Mon have denounced and cursed the gov
eminent, the administration and their abet.
tors. Now God commands us to bless and
curse not. And when bad men cursed the
supporters of thu government, did they not
reflect that they cursed the more than
hundreds of thousands OF Catholic voters,
and Catholic soldiers Of our army who de.
fend that government in the field Did
they not reflect that its downfall would be
hailed with exclamation by our own he.
rsditary oppressors across the ocean p
Did they not reflect that If political saliva
ton is ever to reach far distant and be.
loved island, it must come TO it from these
United States which they would severe?
"There is no justifyiug cause or reason
to curse the government or the admins
tration. They did not commence this var.
They could scarcely bring themselye to
believe that it was seriously 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 re.
PEELED by force, when armies had to be
raised, and, therefore, troops to be drafted
TO raise the blockade of our river and
stem the tide of aggression, what more
did our government do than was done in
the SOUTH Where in the North was the
draft, the CONSUMPTION, enforced as ruth
lessly and as Unfortunately as in the
South2 Where was the citizen's property
confscated, without compensation, for the
alleged uses of the government, as 1t was
in the Sonth2 We have conversed with
the Irish Catholic refugees from Georgia,
from Arkansas, from Alabama and other
Southern States, and we know how they
were stripped of their money and their
clothes, and cast into prison when they
refused to go into the ranks of the Con-
federate army. Many an Irish laborer
told us in the hospitals, here and else~
where, that when the war broke out in the
South, and the public works were sus-
pended, they were either violently con-
/ ed ho1 ~ SoR nv
ave do not adduce these facts to excite
unkind feelings against the South, but to
put to shame the journalists of the North,
especially the; Freeman's journal and Metro.
politQn Record of New York, who instigated
our too confding people to evil words and
deeds. and the people themselves who pa:
tronized such Journalists and were duped
and deceived by their malignity.
SIT is time, therefore, now that the cleo
ton is past, that all should return to their
sober second thought, and that we should
rally round the constituted authorities, the
powers which the apostle commands us to
obey, and thus presenting an undivided
front to the enemy, re. establish the Union,
without which there can be no panacea
present or prospective, for the ills we suf-
fer. The South beholding US thus of one
mind, will, we devoutly trust, hasten to
make peace, and we, on our side, will show
them that We are ready and willing to make
greater sacrifices for peace and union with
them than ever we made for war.
"The reverend clergy will please recite
the Litany of the Saints, in union with their
beloved flock, before mass, repeating three
times the two prayers for peace and the
prayer 20 God, who by sin art offended,
and by repentance pasiGed," &c.
JOHN B. PuoELL,
Archbishop of Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, 18th November"