The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-07-05

From tho Ezeenaps journal.

From tho Ezeenaps JournarI
The Right Rev. DR.. sGross, Bishon.
Savannah, arrived In New Yorksiast weeI
He comes, in part, to advance certain per
manent interests of his Diocese and. i,
part, to recuperate Lis ply steal eiIeroiss
which he has, for a year past, been spend
ing in total disregard Of the coutions .
excellent physicians, who told him Of th
repose, and INTERIM ssions of labor, reouirei
by the exigencies of the climate in Wtiel
bis See ia placed. We have heard il from
several that Bishop Gross did not wapt -
be Bishop, and he does not mean To hs
Bishop long. He is going to kill himself bv
over. work. me ~ y
The Bishop, indeed, looks like one that
had been working too hard-but,, we mus
say, no is ga very lively corpse q, Hs
elbows the very same inexhau stible fund Of
good humor, and of disposition to ,rors
without ceasing, that he did when on tba
Mission as Redemptorist. sAis ,s,,,
He has been all over his Diocese. "a
peatedly, and has looked after the hest
interests of all his flock. His lines have
fallen to him in pleasant places, in one
respect, that there prevails In Georgia, In
remarkable degree, that genial and
unprejudiced disposition, ON the part Of
Catholics towards Catholics, that useS
to be the mark of all cultivated Americana
Bishop Gross is eingulsrly winning in his
manners, while he is uncompromisinp In
his principles, and open in the expression
of them. This wins the respect of people
like the Georgians. Georgia, more than
any other of the States that seeded. eI.
cept, perhaps, Virginia, is in a prosperous
condition since the war. Carpet baggery
cannot live in Georgia. The negroes would
/" boot" them ont. There is the best DOS
sible feeling between the newly emanei.
pated slaves and their late masters.
The latter, like wise men, have recog.
nized the, situation, aud made the best Of
1t, by showing themselves, sincerely, the
best friends of the darkeys. The Door
freedmen. on their part, have, by a Kind of
instincts felt that they may better trust the
white men. that they have been brought up
amongS than the "carpet baggers," who
belong to the same race that, In times of
slavery, when one of them Lit ON planta.
ton, was recognized as an iuexorable and
cruel master. ;rii a.a -tsr s...9.n,e
There is one thing noticeable in Georgia
and, no doubt, in most of the other
Southern States. 1t is that the negroes
lately emancipate6, have learned that Ca.
tholic priests are their best friends. In
regions away off from where any Catholic
priest is, they know it perfectly we'll.
Bishop Gross has made grand impression
on them in this way. A tract of nearly a
thousand acres, down on the Atlantic
coast, having been put at his disposition,
he secured colony of the grand old Bene.
lifetime Order, from Italy, with an Ameri-
,an at their head who became q Benedic-
inc at their grand home in Italy-Father
Wissell-to occupy this tract of land, for
he special benefit of the negroes. Thus
he grand old Order of st. Benedics, that
rained the serfs of the Goths and Vandals
INTO being freemen, renews its youth, in
in the work of evangeiizihg the
negroes of the South, and training them
or the condition of freedmen go unpre-
'sredly thrust on them by political dema-
'ogues. -''
Bishop Gross, recognizing the duty of a
;atholic Bishop towards the poor negroes,
3 not unmindful of the needs of the domi-
ant race. He has, already, found levites,
prepared by his sanity predecessor, Bishop
'ersico, whom he has advanced to the
PRIESTHOOD. He has, besides, obtained
rom the Je6hits foundation in Augusta
be principal city Of the north of Georgia.
md he is now at work for the better
dvancement Of a Catholic College for the
tate of Georgia, in which undertaking he
as been generously aided by the frst men
+ Georgia, both Catholic and non Catholic.
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