The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-30
Roman Catholic
 Clergy's Letter

Quoting from the Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily Advertiser of Philadelphia, Wednesday, March 24, 179O.
 '"The Address of the Roman Catholics to George Washington, President of the United States.
 sEir:-
 sYou encourage respect for re- ligion and inculcate by words and actions, that principle, on which the welfare of nations 50 much dcpends-that a experimenting Providence governs the events Of tlae world, and watches over the conduct of men.
 "Your exalted maxirns, and un- Wearied attention to the moral and physical improvement of our country have produced already the happiest effects. Under your ad- ministration, America is animated with zeal for the attainment and encouragement of useful literature, she improves her agriculture, ex- tends her commerce. and acquires with foreign nations 8 dignity ul- known to her before =.
 "From these happy events, in which none can feel warmer tn- terest than ourselves, we derive additional pleasure by recollecting that you, Sir, have been the prin- cipal instrument to effect so rapid a change in our political situation.
 'This prospect of national pros- perity is peculiarly pleasing to us on another account; because whilst our country preserves her freedom and independence, we have a well-founded title to claim from her justice the equal rights Of citizenship as the price of our blood split under your eyes, and of our common exertions for her de- fense under your suspicious con. duct: rights rendered more dear to us by the remembrance of for- mer hardships.
 "When we pray for the preser- vatiOn of them, where they have been granted; and expect the full extension of them from the justice of those of those states, which still restrict them; when we solicit the protection of Heaven over our common country we neither omit, or can omit recommending your preservation to the singular care of Divine Providence; because we conceive that no human means are SO available to promote the well fare of the United States. as the prolongation of your health and life, in which are included the erl- ergy of your example, the wisdom of your counsels. and the persua. siye eloquence of your virtues.
 (Signed)
 "J. CARROLL
 .'In behalf Of the Roman
 Catholic Clergy; Charles Carroll
 of Carrollton; Daniel Carroll
 Dominick Lynch, Thomas Fitz-
 ailnmons; in behalf of the Ro-
 man Catholic Laity."
 ITO which President George Washington replied in part:
 '.Vo the Roman Catholic in the United States of America:
 T presume that your fellow. citizens will not forget the patri- otic part which you took in the accomplishment of the Revolution and the establishment of their koyernment; or the important as- distance which they received from q nation in which the Roman Catholic faith Is professed.
 ''And may the members of your society in America, animated alone by the pure spirit of Christianity. and still conducting themselves as the faithful subjects ot our gov.s ernment, enjoy every temporal and spiritual felicity"
 sWashington.s reply to the Ad. dress of the New Church at Bal- tilnore:
 ITO the Members of the New
 Church at Baltimore.
 ''Gentlemen: ITO the manifest interpretation of an overriding Providence and to the patriotic exertions of united America, are to be ascribed those events which have given us . respectable rank among the nations of the earth.
 we have abundant reason to rai0ice, that in this land the light of truth and reason have tri- unuhed over the powers of bigotry