The Shasta courier., 1864-12-31
Good Counsel from Arehsishsp Psrseii.

The following noble letter from tbs Roman
Catholic Archbishop Of Cincinnati appears
in the Catholic Telegraph Of that city its
counsels are patriotic and wises i
The President of the United States and the
Governor of the State Of Ohio havin8 p Con
formity with most proper and a time bon
ored practice, appointed the fourth Tbufsday
of November as a day ofdevout thankagl yiHg
to the Almighty God for His mercies ofhu
initiation for our sins and of suppiicatiop
for peace; we hereby ordain that the Gasho.
lie congregations of this diocese be earnestly
exhorted by their pastors to meet 10 their
respective churches on the day above specl-
fed, and assist in becoming sentiments Of
gratitude, penitence and prayer. at the great
Eucharistic, expiatory and impetratorJ Sac.
rifce of the New Law.
We confess that it has greatly panied us to
hear that certain rash, irreverent and th0ught
less men of of our communion have denaun-
eed and cursed the Government, t.1o<A dnlin
stration and their abettors. Nov COM
mands US to bless and curse not. Ahd when
bad men cursed the supporters of tbs Gov
ernment, did they not reflect that they cursed
the more than hundreds of thousands of
Catholic voters. and Catholic soldiers ofour
army who defend that Government in the
field Did they not reflect that its downfall
would be hailed with accismation BY cur own
hereditary oppressors across the 0ceail2 Did
they rot reflect that if political salvation is
ever to reach far distant and beioyed isiand
it must come to it from these United States
which they would sever?
There is no justifying cause or reason 70
curse the Government or the A administration.
They did not commence this war. They
could scarcely bring themselves to believe
that it was seriously commenced. even xlen
forts had fallen and heNp.ood of cur people
was shed By the handssf 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when force had to be repealed by force.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 blockads Of oar
rivers ard stem the tide of agressioa, what
more did our Government do than vas done
in the South 3? Where in the North vas the
draft, the conscription enforced as ruthiessly
and indiscriminately as in the South? Where
was the citizens property confscated With
out 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 hog
they were stripped of their money and taeir
clothes and cast into prison when they rcfuss
ed to go into the ranks of the. Confederate
army. Many an Irish laborer told as ia the
hospitals, here and elsewhere, that when the
war broke out in the South, and the public
works were suspended, they were either VIC
lently conscripted, or had to enlist or ssarsc
We do not adduce these facts to excite unS
kind feelings against the South, but to pat
to shame the journalists of the North, espe-
cially the Freeman S Journal and Metopolitaa
Record of New York. who instIgated our ten
confding people to evil ,Tords and deeds, and
the people themselves w,.o patroni2ed such
journalists and were duped and deceived BY
their n,alignity.
1t is time, therefore, now that the election
is past that all should return to their sober
second thought, and that we should rally
round the constituted authorities, the pow
ers" which the apostle commands us TO obey.
and thus presenting on undivided front to
the enemy re-establish the Union, without
which there can be no panaeea, present or
p-o -pective, for the ills we suffer. The South
pehelding Us thus ofone mind, will, we de-
voutedly 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 Ne
made for war.
The reverend clergy will please recite the
Litany of the Saiats, in union With their be-
loved flock, before mass, repeating three
times the two prayers for peace and the pray
er " o God, who by sin art offended, and by
repentance pacifed," etc.
JouN 3. PURCELL,
Archbishop of Cinc;nnsti.
Cincinnati 18th November