The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-01-20
REGENT OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY
Politically Identified with the
Republican Party.
HIS STRONG ANTI-SLAyERY VIEWS
Assisted in Making the History
Of this Free Land.

Of this Free Land.
| No American had more deep-seated
patriotism than the late Father Sylves-
ter Malone. When the news reached
Brooklyn that Fort Sumter had been
fired upon, his was the first Catholic
church in the land to fly from its stee-
pie the flag that had been fired upon by
the enemies OF the Union
Early travellers that Sunday morn
ing saw with astonishment the Stars
and Stripes flying from the very cross
itself, $50 feet from the pavement, and
no sermon preached that day was more
eloquent OF patriotism and loyalty than
the flashing folds of the starry banner
which silently but effectually identified
Father Malone and his church with the
Union cause.
| Throughout the four years OF the war
the flag continued to fly from its place
on this church. On the 18TH of April,
1865, the day following the assassina-
ton of President Lincoln, it was taken
down, heavily draped with black and
returned to its place on the steeple. i.
| The Brooklyn Times OF April II.
1866, said: s'That yesterday could have
passed without proper notice by Father
Malone of its solemnity in relation to
the American people was, of course.
impossible. That he would fttingly
denounce this newest expression of re-
bellion, the assassination of Abraham
Lincoln, we knew. That the members
Of his congregation would be stimulated
by him to a more profound appreciation
OF their duties as citizens, in view of
this most calamitous dispensation, we
knew also. Our space will not admit OF
more than the merest synopsis of his
two discourses yesterday, discourses
worthy OF his head and heart, worthy OF
and flowing naturally from his man.
hood and his exacted estimate of his
citizenship"
We give but few paragraphs from
the reports that followed. At the g
o'clock mass he concluded his remarks
thus:
II ask you to mark we'll the man
who, calling himself Catholic, shall
dare to speak approvingly of this as
sassination, lest he shall bring disgrace
upon lis all. l ask you to mark we'll
the man who to-day has no voice for
mourning. Pray that the life
and integrity of the nation be pre-
served; pray that the constituted au-
thority Of the nation may pass through
this trying ordeal unharmed and that
this rebellion may speedily be de-
stroyed."
At the grand high mass, Father Ma
lone said: "It is not that Abraham
Lincoln has thus been murdercd; it is
more-it is the president of the United
States-the representative of nation
of freemen, the head and chosen of the
people. We mourn to-day for the Chris
tian patriot gone from us, but we stand
appalled, and horror-stricken at the
murder,of a magistrate whose heart was
SO filled with Christian charity and for
giveness for those who had, forgetting
their allegiance, taken arms against the
most humane government on EARTH"
On the 9th Of April, 1889, an 18-year-
old boy having crossed the Irish sea
from Kingston to Liverpool, wrote to
his mother in the town of Trim, county
Meath Ireland: II preserve as good
courage now as I had on leaving Kings
ton, and will, I hope, until I arrive at
that goal for which my heart so ar
IDENTIFY glows."
The goal was America, and the fol-
lowing day he started for Philadelphia
aboard the packet ship Susquehanna.
This boy, Sylvester Malone, is hon
ored and respected to-day in thousands
of homes. says writer recently in
speaking of the great Brooklyn priest,
both Protestant and Catholic, not
merely as the venerable parish priest
of SITS. Peter and Paul in Brooklyn,
where his long life of manly Christian
ity is so we'll known, but in wider
circle of friends scattered over the
whole United States, whose love and
admiration he has won by his faithful
ness to American ideas and national
honor.
Prior to his departure from Ireland
young Malone was educated at the
classical academy of two Protestant
brothers named Carroll, one of whom