The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-11-24
THE PATRIOTIC and LOYAL CATHOLIC !
{ Jon ARCHBISHOP or OHIO. r. H. ~ '
A String Proclamation TO his peonl,

~" iil4 I5lb9I.Il r--- .iasaa ID 49,
Stiring Proclamation to his People,,
| /. The President of the United States and
the governor of the State of Ohio having. in
conformity with a most proper and time
n nc practice, appointed the fourth
thursday OF November as day of devont
thanksgiving to the Almighty God for His
| Mercles; OF humiliation for our sins I. and
| Of supplication for peace ! we hereby ordain
that the Catholic congregations of this d;o-
cese be earnestly exhorted by their pastors .u
| to meet in their respective churches ON tba
gay ABOVE specified, and assist in becomin o
sentiments of gratitude, penitence and pray :
er, at the great Eucharistic, cxpiatory and
limpetratory Sacrifice of the New Law, ~
We, Catholics, have largely shared in
the blessings Of health, abundant harvest
and exemptions from the ravages of war
which God has granted to the people of the,
North. Our sins have as largely merited
the chastisement lwhichhas oveItaken orr
erring brethren of the South, and which
has cost the life blood of SO many thousands
OF our own brave soldiers who left their
pleasant homes to check tie advance of
the foe and contine the deadly strife to
the battle-helds on which it madly origina-
ted Our hopes of future happiness on
earth are vain if the peace, the prosperity.
the progress In arts, sciences and religion
which have distinguished us among the ma
lions of the earth for four score and eiobt
years, and which under the divine BLESSING.
are mainly attributable to our Constitution
and the Union, be not continued by the
maintenance Of that Union and the elimina-
ton Of those defects which Christian civili-
cation and our own experience have shown
us the Constitution contained. 1t therefore
becomes our solemn duty to observe, with
no ordinary fervor, the national holiday:
aud as we cannot enjoy, and should not de-
sire, peace, happiness and independence, ex-
cept i'll the society of our fellow-citizens we
should pray for and promote, by every
means in our power, their welfare as well as
our own. oi8 tlT& 30 7b8nfRJ
We confess that it has greatly panied us
to hear that certain rash, irreverent and
thoughtless men of our communion have
denounced and cursed the Government, the
Administration and their abettors Now
God commands us to bless and curse not
And when bad men cursed the supporters
of the Government did they not reflect that
they cursed the more than hundreds of
thousands of Catholic voters, and Catholic
soldiers of our army who defend that Gov
ernmeut in the field? Did they not reflect
that it's downfall would be hailed with ac-
clamation by our own hereditary oppressors
across the ocean? Did they not reflect that
that if political salvation is ever to reach a
far distant and beloved Island, it must come
to it from these United States which they
would sever? 9I Gg8
There is no justifying cause or reason to
curse the Government or the Administra-
tion. They did not commence this war;
They could scarcely bring themselves to be-
lieve 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 repealed by force,
when armies had to be raised and, therefore,
troops to be drafted to raise the blockade of
our rivers 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, en-
forced as ruthlessy and as unfortunately
as in the South? Where was the citizens
con6scated, without compensation,
for the alleged uses of the Government, as
it was in the South ? We have conversed
with 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
and cast into prison when they re-
fused to go into the ranks of the Confed
crate army. Many an Irish laborer told US
in the hospitals, here and elsewhere, that
when the war borke out in the South and
the public works were suspended, they were
either violently conscripted, or hal to en-
list, or starve. 5 s.rra. set
We do not adduce these facts to excite
unkind feelings against the South, but to
put to shame the Journalists of the North,
especially the FreemanS Journal and Met
Record of New York, who instiga-
ted our too confding people to evil words
and deeds, and the people themselves who
pstronized such Journalists and were duped
and deceived by their malignity.
II is time therefore, now that the cleo
ton is passed, that all should return to their
sober second thought and that We should
rally round the constituted authorities, the
stpowersn which the apostle commands us
TO obey and thus presenting all undivided
front to the enemy, re-establish the Union,
without which there can be no panacea, pres
ent or prospective, lot the llls we eune., iho
South beholding us of one mind will, We
devoutlv 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. a % hrsd rs
The reverend clergy will please recite the
Litany of the Saints, in union with their be-
loved flock, before Mass, repeating three
times the two prayers for peace, aud the
PRAYER 30, God, who, by sir art offended,
and by Tepantence pacified, : etc
1900 50 r. g95d JOHN B. PURCELL,
sg3 ,s Archbishop of Cincinnati.
CixClSsA 18th November.
The Liverpool fair for wounded rebels
yielded $4,000
Ohio has made 6,7s5, ne pounds of maple