The record-union., 1896-06-19

ed and er-to-be-forgotten Bishop
Manogue. He left us but too soon; yet
dying made this occasion possible.
You, right reverend sir, take MS
place / lack expression with which TO
tell Of the joy each and all OF US re-
ceived the information, and each heart
burst into a joyous exclamation OF lie
Deum Laudamus as we greeted the IN
telligence.
Yes. YOU have been raised to the
episcopacy of the church in America.
You are to take a position in that hier-
archy of American Bishops that gave
to the church and to the country some
of the brightest intellects, the pro-
foundest minds that have illustrated
the pages of sacred and profane his
tory. Churchmen whose Christian
genius shot, meteor-like, over the
armament of our national existence,
and lent to its success the glory or
their wise counsel as we'll as the ex-
ample of their virtuous and retiring and
disinterested lives. That hierarchy
that presented to the United States a
John Carroll of Maryland, the personal
friend of George Washington and his
CCmpatriots of the Revolution; a John
England of South Carolina, honOred
and admired by Webster, Calhoun,
Clay and other statesmen of that most
learned period of our national career; !;
Reynolds of the same State; a Nc
Closkey and a John Hughes of New
York, the latter a trusted and tried
friend of President Lincoln, Governor
Seward of New York and bluff old
Ben Wade; a Spaulding of Kentucky,
afterward of Baltimore; a Ryan of
Philadelphia; a Kenrick of st. Louis; a
Woods Of Virginia; a Waterson of Ohio;
another Spaulding of Illinois; an Ire
land of st. Paul. Kane of Washing
ton City; Reardon of San Francisco; a
Montgomery of Los Angeles; Scanlan
of Salt Lake; a Manogue of Sacra-
mento, and scores of others, Catholic
Bishops all, and all proud to call them
selves true American citizens.
We know you, sir, and we do not hes
1tate when we affirm that you, too, will
add another page to the glorious his
tory of our country by the perfect per-
formance of the illustrious work COM
mitted to your keeping. We are aware
that your duties are many, that your
labor is onerous. But we have the
criterion Of your past by which we es-
innate your coming career. Judged by
that, we have nothing to fear for your
every success in all things. You enjoy
IN an unusual degree the satisfying re-
1ection that you possess the exalted
regard and sincere friendship of all
good men whose privilege it is to know
you.
We delight to know that yours is to
be an onward and upward course; we
are proud of being permitted to pre-
sent our pastor to the church as one
of her prelates; we glory in the privi-
lege. This country is vast in territory,
numerous in population and its wealth
IS far beyond mathematical calcula-
ton The Bishops and priests have a
vast work in hand in the preparation
Of the youth of that population to as
Sume the responsibilities of good
Christian citizenship that they may
act we'll their part when called on to
discharge the obligations of true Amer
leans.
To become good American citizen,
70 love his country, to defend her honor
ratible with being a good Catho-
lie; to be Catholic and
love, cherish and defend her tenets and
doctrines is not and cannot be antago-
ristic to the sworn duties and require
rnents of patriotic American citizen
Indeed, to be sincere in both presumes
sincerity and certainty in each.
But church and State, by the wise
foresight of our law givers in the prim-
tive history of our Government, are
forever separate and distinct and apart
and no pygmy power can ever unite
them aMoTeover, no true American
will ever make the attempt, and he
who does is not a good citizen of this
Government and forfeits all right to
the respect and consideration of all
liberal-minded men,
Under a constitutional form Of gov
ernment like ours the cornerstone of
our political institutions is founded on
the virtue, intelligence and integrity of
the people. In it each individual is
called upon to exercise, in the highest
degree, those qualifications which are
so necessary in self government And
who, in all this broad land, my fellow
citizens, by precept and by practice,
have, from the foundation of the Gov
ernment more nobly inculcated the
highest essentials of good citizenship
than that sacrificing body of no
bic men-the Archbishops, Bishops and
priests of the Catholic Church? Their
lives have been and continue to be liv-
ing examples worthy of imitation, not
only to lead man to life eternal, but
to prepare him for the recognition and
assertion by individual force of charac-
ter of those highest principles of vir-
tue which maintain and perpetuate the
guarantee of constitutional liberty for
all, irrespective of creed, race, color or
condition.
But / must say good might. Parting
from us take with you the assurance
of our great love for you; you have our
promise that come veal, come woe, our
hearts, our hands, our lives. our honor,
are staked and promised in your be-
half as our guide director and Bishop.
IT will be our anxious effort to Tighten
your burthen if we are only taught the
way in which we can fulfill the prom
ise. In the pleasures of your life and