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Baldwin, Dr. M.F. Flint, Mich(igan)

to (James Alphonsus McMaster) (New York, New York)

Baldwin is a recent convert to Roman Catholicism who wishes to see every member of the faith keep his promises. McMaster has promised to ventilate the suffrage question, and thousands of his readers are anxious for instruction. He wishes McMaster the blessing of solving the problem speedily.

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Baraga, Bishop Frederic

Clippings (incomplete but mounted) of a biographical article on Bishop Baraga. (Duplicate).

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Baroux, Father L(ouis) (______)

to Dear Friend (Notre Dame, Indiana?)

Dear Friend might not see the propriety of Baroux's sending him the names of the places where the money was collected but Baroux means to prove the truthfulness of his statements. Among those who have devoted some years of their lives for that community (Congregation of Holy Cross), can many bring a record such as Baroux's? Money collected 22827 francs, over $4000, 100 chasubles besides 400 volumes Baroux left for Notre Dame when he went to Bengal. Has anyone who has done so much in 3 years, been treated so scornfully as Dear Friend has treated Baroux. (On the same paper was enclosed): Amount of money received for the orphans of N(otre) D(ame) in 1850,51. (Names and amounts given by each donor).

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Barry, Mrs. Edmund New York, (New York)

to (James Alphonsus) McMaster (New York, New York)

Mrs. Edmund gave a gentleman in McMaster's office $15.00 on Friday, April 10. This sum, the greater part of which she collected from girls who work for her, has not yet been acknowledged. If the girls do not find their names in print, they may think she did not give the money for the purpose for which it was collected. She knows, however, that McMaster will correct the omission. Sometime in January she game $5.00 to the St. Michaels Association which have not yet been reported. She thanks McMaster for affording her the privilege of writing the Holy Father.

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(______) Dec. 29

Barry, M.D., John Mount Pleasant, I(ndian)a

to Orestes a. Brownson Boston, Mass(achusetts)

Dr. Barry writes to Brownson and suggests that he (Brownson) and all contributors to the Review make their articles in the Review with initials as signatures so that the readers may know who is the author. He (Barry) wanted to know in particular, which were Brownson's writings.

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Bayley, Bishop James Roosevelt (______)

The library of the Reverend Dr. (Samuel Farmar) Jarvis is perhaps the most valuable private collection in this country. It contains about 10,000 volumes most of which were obtained during Jarvis' long residence abroad. Though collected in regard to that which is his particular study, namely ecclesiastical history and antiquities yet it contains many important works in general science and literature. The collection of the Latin and Greek Fathers is complete and of the choicest editions. Bayley then names some of the more valuable and more important books in the library.

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(Beers), J(ulia) Convent of Mercy (______)

to Father J(ames) Roosevelt Bayley (New York, New York

She asks Bayley to take charge of the enclosed note for her. (Beers) was written to to come down today. (Beers) has said she would go on Tuesday. (P.S.) This note was detained but Mother says to send it and tell Bayley not to engage himself anywhere tomorrow but to stay with them.

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Benson, Father R(obert) Hugh Cambridge, (England)

to Father (Daniel E. Hudson, C.S.C.) (Notre Dame, Indiana)

Can Hudson give Benson an idea of the length of the story required; its character; the remuneration per 1000 words. He is sorry to ask about the last, but he is working hard for a particular object.

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(______) Dec.28

Benson, Father R(obert) Hugh Tremans, (England)

to Father (Daniel E.) Hudson, C.S.C. Notre Dame, Ind(iana)

It is a lecture Benson gives frequently in England. He fears it ought not to appear in print until he has delivered it a good many more times.

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Berhaus, E. (New York, New York)

to (James Alphonsus) McMaster New York, (New York)

Berghaus's brother, Julius, sends regards and begs McMaster to print a short notice about the death of his wife Eleonore Berghaus, who died on April 19 after a long a painful illness. having confessed and being absolved by Father Stentrup of Innsbruck, Tyrol. She is survived by her husband and five children, 7 to 18 years behind. Berghaus would like a statement of his brother, Julius's debt to McMaster's paper. Several letters of his in which he made this same request must have failed to reach McMaster. He encloses his brother's address. The enclosure: A calling card bearing the name of J.M.Berghaus, Doctor, and his address in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria.

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Bird, F.W. Boston, (Massachusetts)

to O(restes) A. Brownson (Boston, Massachusetts)

Bird intended to invite Brownson last evening to dine at the Parker House on Saturday. There will be present a small group of gentlemen who will be glad to meet Brownson, and, Bird thinks, he them.

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Bliss, Mrs. George (New York, New York)

The funeral of Mrs. Bliss took place from St. Xavier's church. At least 50 priests were in the chancel including Archbishop Corrigan and Monsignors Capel, Preston, and Quin. Father Pardow preached the sermon. President (Chester A.) Arthur and other officials attended.

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Borgess, C(aspar) H(enry), Bishop of Detroit, Michigan

Printed summary with quotation from a Lenten pastoral entitled "Marriage."

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Borgess, Bishop (Caspar Henry)

3 photographs; 2 by A.N.Tomlinson, Detroit, one by Millard, Detroit.

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Boyce, S.J., (Father) P. Chicago, (Illinois)

to (James Alphonsus McMaster) (New York, New York)

Boyce writes that the enclosed is correct. He will write the word "correct" over his initials. The enclosure: An account of Jesuit missions. At a mission given in Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago, during the latter part of Lent, ten thousand confessions were heard, nineteen converts were received. On April 4 another missionary group began a mission in the Church of St. Charles Borromeo in Brooklyn.

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Brady, Josephine (______)

to H(enry) F. Brownson (Detroit, Michigan

The ladies of the Catholic Study Club wish to express their thanks for Brownson's assistance in preparing the program for 1903-04 and previous occasions. Brownson is invited to attend a future meeting and to meet the members

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(______) Mar. 31

Bright, Marshal H. Tarrytown, (______)

to (Henry F.) Brownson (Detroit, Michigan)

He thanks Brownson for the volume on Columbus. He has two friendly criticisms: 1. On better paper it should sell better for $3. instead of $2; if Wisnor is worth $4. Brownson's is worth more. 2. The work needs an exhaustive topical index.

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Brownson, Henry

Manuscripts: Women (4 pages in handwriting of Orestes A. Brownson, 34 pp.; Philosophical Notes, 18pp.; Mysteries and Dogmas (28 pages of Orestes A. Brownson), 42 pp.; Faith and Science; Appendix.

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Brownson, Henry F.

Manuscripts: Faith and Science (2 pages in handwriting of Orestes A. Brownson), 201 pp. Freemasonry, 44pp.; Mysteries and Dogmas (27 pages by Orestes A. Brownson), 43pp.; Extracts on Philosophy from Orestes A. Brownson's Works, 23 pp.; Philosophical Notes, 13pp.; Women ( 3 pages by Orestes A. Brownson), 37pp.; Miscellaneous notes, 9pp.

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Brownson, H(enry) F.

Manuscript copy of "The Right of Property" by Brownson.

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Brownson, Henry F. Detroit, Mich(igan)

Printed advertisement describing the "Works of Orestes a. Brownson". All communications concerning the volumes should be addressed to Henry F. Brownson. (On reverse side: a quotation in Latin from St. Thomas, in handwriting.)

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Brownson, Henry F., Papers of

Evidently a first draft describing circumstances of Orestes A. Brownson's letter to the Pittsburgh Catholic.

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Brownson, Henry F., Papers of,

Evidently first drafts of articles or letters by Brownson on three subjects: advantages and disadvantages of college education; discussion of women; defense of the right to discontinue a subscription to a newspaper.

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Brownson, Henry F., Papers of

List of Documents concerning the Country of the Ecuador in South America. Among the Henry F. Brownson papers.

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Brownson, Henry F., Papers of

Page 12 (other pages missing) of a poem signed by M.

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to (Henry F. Brownson Detroit, Michigan)

A note stating the writer would like to hear from Brownson? before he leaves for London and Paris. The writer will be at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York until Wednesday noon. (Evidently part of a letter.)

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to Henry (F.) Bro(w)nson (Detroit, Michigan)

He is informed that Brownson is the son of Orestes (A.) Brownson, and can therefore tell him who the father of Obadiah Delano was. Orestes Brownson made a study of the family. He discusses members of the family and his efforts to find an answer to the question. (The letter is incomplete.)

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(Brownson, Josephine) (Keane, New Hampshire)

Relief Metcalf Brownson left with large family on death of Sylvester Brownson. (Copy): "Summon Release Brownson and her children to depart Windsor County on July 7, 1803, then served the within warrant in the hearing of Release B. and her children and this is my return thereon. Paul Whitcomb, Constable; Recorded July 12, 1803 by M. Rufus Lyon, Town Clerk."

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(Brownson) Oran (______), Ohio

to Orestes (A. Brownson) (______)

Oran asks his brother, Orestes, to write to him and tell him how he and his family are. At the present Oran's family is not well; there are but three of them remaining at home, the others went out to better their condition but have done poorly. Oran extends an invitation to his brother to visit him at any time.

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Brownson, Orestes A.

Drafts not identified with any published article, which bear titles supplied by Brownson:

Affairs Abroad, Answers to a Correspondent, The Atlantic Cable, Carnal Judaism or Gentilism, Catholicity and Despotism, Catholicity and Revolutionism-Popular Government-the Temporal Authority of the Pope, The Catholic World, the Christian Intelligencer and Infallibility, The Christian Intelligencer on the Bible, The Christian Intelligencer on Heresy, The Christian Review-Oct. 1855, The Church Defended, The Constitution of the United States, Art. IV: Democratic pacifique. Journal des Interets des Gouvernments et des Peuples-Aug. 1, 1843, Devotion to Mary, Essays on the Papacy and the Supremacy of the Spiritual Order 1872, Etudes de Theologie Philosophie et l'Histoire 1857, European Revolutions and Popular Liberty, Evenings with Two Friends, From the Christian (Methodist) Advocate, A General History of Modern Europe by John G. Shea 1854, Die Grundfragen der Degenwart by Dr. Fr. A. Stundenmaier 1851, The Hidden Life of the Soul 1871, Histoire Universelle de l'Eglise Catholique par l'Abbe Rohrbacker 1850-1853, Hopeful Tendencies, The Imperialist, Infallibility in Section, The Infallibility of the Church, Intellect and Piety, The International, The Irish Church Estab(lishment), Knowledge and Piety, The Labor Question, The Latin and the Anglo-Saxon Races, Leibnitz and Bossuet, Lesson on the Piot, Monastic Obedience, More Catholic than Catholicity, Municipal Affairs, The N.Y. Observer on the Inquisition, The New York Review, No. III January 1838. Article III Origin and Progress of Popular Liberty.

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Brownson, Orestes A.

Drafts not identified with any published article, which bear titles supplied by Brownson:

The Orange Riot of the 12th -(1871), Chaprter IV: Origin of the Belief in God, Papal Infallibility, Pere Hyacinth Again, Pious Paganism and This Enlightened Age, Political Parties and the Presidential Canvass in 1860 - The Political People, The Pope and Civilization, Popular Objections to the Church, Positivism, The President and Congress, President Grant and His Cabinet, The President's Message (1869), The Primacy of the Apostolic See Vindicated by Francis Patrick Kenrick 1853, Prospects of Catholicity, Protestant Fears of the Church, Protestantism and Liberty, Protestantism and Religious Liberty, The Radicals and the President, Religion and Politics, A Remonstrance of the Most Gracious King, James the First, Ricasoli and the Italian Bishops, Robert Stanley or North and South, Le Roman Religieux en Angleterre par M. Emile Montegut - Revue Des Deux Mendes 15 Aout 1855, Romance of the Charter Oak by William Seton 1871, State Subsidies to Sectarian Institutions, The States that Seceded, Storia di Bonafazio VIII per D. Luigi Tosti 1846 and Histoire de la Papaute pendant le XIV Siecle par J.B. Christophe 1853, A Treatise on Religion and the Church: Origin and Ground of Religion, The Truth about the School Question, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Unity and Catholicity of the Faith 1876, Worship of Relics.

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Brownson, Orestes A.

Drafts not identified with any published article, arranged according to subject headings:

Adam, Americanism, Americans, Anglicanism, AntiCatholic Activities, Atheism, Atonement, Austria, Authority, Baptism, Beatific Vision, Nicolas Sylvestre Bertier, The Bible, The Boston Pilot, Orestes A. Brownson, Brownson: his beliefs, Brownson: his consistency, Brownson: Reply to criticism, Brownson: Reply to criticism of his Review, Brownson: Reply to criticism of his American Republic, Brownson: The Tablet v. Freeman's Journal, John D. Bryant.

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Brownson, Orestes A.

Drafts not identified with any published article, arranged according to subject headings:

Capital and Labor, The Catholic World: a criticism, Catholicism, Catholics, Censorship, Characters, Charity, Catholic Children, Christ, The Church, The Church and Liberty, Church and State, The Churchman on Salvation, The Churchman on the Church, Citizens, Civilization, R. W. Clark, Confederate States, Confession, Congress, Conversion, Le Correspondant, Victor Cousin, Creation, Duties of a Critic, Cuba, Davis, Death, Descartes, Mrs. Anna Dorsey, Economists, Education, Election of 1844: VanBuren, England, Ethics, Eucharist, Evangelical Alliance, Dr. Ewer, Existence, Existence of God, Faith, Federalists, Feudalism, Fichte, Founding Fathers, France, Freedom, Religious Freedom, Freedom of Opinion, Gallicanism, Gioberti, God, Government, Grammar, Pere Gratry, Horace Greeley, Heathen World at the Birth of Christ, Hell, Catholic History, Philosophical History, World History, Archbishop John Hughes, Human Rights, Impeachment, Incarnation, Infallibility, Irish.

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Brownson, Orestes A.

Drafts not identified with any published article, arranged according to subject headings:

Jansenism, Jesuits, Justice, Know-Nothings, The Labor Question: The New York Tribune and Cooperative Societies, Mary Langdon, Language, Law, European Liberalism, Liberty, Literature, Catholic Literature, Modern Literature, Love, Loyalty, Count de Maistre, Mary, Massachusetts, Mazzini, Mercersburg Review and Obedience, Miracles, Missionary Work, Monarch, Moral ity, Napoleon III, Nationalities, Nations, Natural and Supernatural, The Negro Population, Negro Suffrage, John Henry Newman, New York Freeman's Journal, The New York Observer on the Supremacy of the Secular Order, Non-Catholics, Obedience, Obedience to the Church, Origin of Government, Origin of the Human Race, Pantheism, Papacy, Parental Rights, Persecution, Philanthropy, Philosophy, Political and Social Transformation, Political Power, Politics: Domestic Politics: Foreign, Positivism, Poverty, Pride, Progress, Proofs for the Existence of God, Protestantism, Protoplasm, Public Opinion, Races, Radicals Reason, Reason and Authority, Reason and Revelation, Rebellion in the South, Reconstruction, Redemption, Reformation, Religion, Religious Organizations, Religious Unity, Review of the Edinburgh Review (Jan. 1870), the Westminster Review (Jan.1870), and Blackwood's Magazine (Jan.1870), Revolution, European Revolutions, Rights, Ritualism, Rome, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Russia.

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Brownson, Orestes A.

Drafts not identified with any published article, arranged according to subject headings:

Saints, Salvation, Sardinia, Great Western Schism, Schools, Shakespeare, Sin, Slavery, Socialism, Society, The Soul, Spirit of Christ, Spiritual Order, State Supremacy, States, States' Rights, Charles Sumner, Temper and Passion, Temporal and Spiritual, Territories, Theology, Traditionalism, Transcendentalism, Translating "amabilis", Transubstantiation, The True Woman, Truth, Union, Unitarians, United States Constitution, Unity of Church, L'Univers, Universe, Vatican Council, Louis Veuillot, Wage System, Daniel Webster, Virginia West, William Wordsworth.

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(Brownson, Orestes A.)

Evidently a proof sheet of a published letter of Brownson, incomplete. Among the Henry F. Brownson papers.

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Brownson, Orestes A.

The following manuscripts, some of which were apparently intended for the Boston Quarterly Review and some for Brownson's Quarterly Review, were found among Brownson's own drafts for these Reviews.

Alcott, A. Bronson, "Orphic Sayings," Boston Quarterly Review, IV (Oct.1841), 492-494. (Incomplete) (2pp.)

Brisbane, Albert, "Association: or Plan for a Reorganization of Society, Second Article." The first article appeared in Boston Quarterly Review, V (April 1842), 183-198. (24pp.) Brisbane, Albert, "Mr. Fourier's Social System," Boston Quarterly Review, IV (Oct. 1841), 494-512. (Incomplete) (10pp.) Brownson, J(ohn) H., "Packachoag:" (Incomplete) (3pp.) (Cummings, Father Jeremiah W.), "Religion in Society," Brownson's Quarterly Review, VII (Jan. 1850), 105-127. (Incomplete) (14pp.)

Huntington, Jedediah V.: Reviews of Italy and the War of 1859 by Julie de Marguerittes (1859), and The Art of Extempore Speaking by M.Bautain (1859) note by O.A. Brownson. (3pp.) (Ives, Dr. Levi Silliman), "Bishop John Hopkins' The End of Controversy, Controverted", Brownson's Quarterly Review, XIII (Jan.1856), 26-62. (Incomplete) (35pp.) (Kenrick, Francis Patrick, Archbishop of Baltimore), Review of Juan Donoso Cortes' Essay on Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism. (Incomplete) (7pp.)

(Monroe, J., Jr.), "The Army and Navy," Brownson's Quarterly Review, XIII (April 1856), 213-225. (Incomplete) (26pp.) P(ise, Father Charles Constantine), "The Effects of the Reformation," Brownson's Quarterly Review, XIII (July 1856), 307-325. (Incomplete) (7pp.) Sleeper, John S., and John Flint: An Essay on Phrenology, April 1, 1836. (15pp.) (Thompson, George W.), "The Citizen Soldier," Boston Quarterly Review, IV (Oct. 1841), 475-491. (Incomplete) (8pp.) Thompson, George W., "The Oyster, the Tortoise and the Eagle." (Two manuscripts) (48pp.) (Thompson, George W.), fragment of a manuscript dealing with popular sovereignty. (2pp.)

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Brownson, Orestes A.

The following manuscripts, some of which may have been intended for Brownson's Quarterly Review were found among Brownson's drafts for that Review. They do not appear to have been published and the authors are not known.

"A Lecture on the Roman Revolution from 1846-1849." (Incomplete) (4pp.) "Abolitionism." By a Northern Mechanic. (3pp.) "Agrarianism." (20pp.) "Americains, Peuple de freres: Nouvelle chanson dediee aux amis de la liberte." (2pp.) "An address Delivered before the Senior Class, Divinity College, Cambridge. Sunday, 15 July 1838. By Ralph Waldo Emerson." (This is not the article in the Boston Quarterly Review, I (Oct. 1938), 500-514. (11pp.) "An Eternity with God." (3pp.) J.B., "Banks and Banking, with a Project for a Public Specie Bank" (1835),+ an Introduction by O.A. Brownson for the (Boston) Reformer. (34pp.) "Cantiques francais." (7pp.) "Is Money a Marketable Commodity: and is the Trafic of lending it for Profit in accordance with Natural or Divine Law?" (6pp.) Meditations. (Incomplete) (100pp.) "Modern Slavery" by F. Lamennais. Translated from the French. (28pp.) Notes on Josiah Clark Nott's and George R. Giddon's Types of Mankind (1854) and Indigenous Races of the Earth (1857). "On Charity" July 1865. (8pp.) "On Natural Science in General." An Essay on Goethe's Posthumous Works, Vol. X. (24pp.) Prayer to Jesus Christ (1p.) Review of Christian Believing and Living. Sermons by F.D. Huntington, 1860. (Incomplete) (1p.) Review of Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben (1858). (2pp.) Review of Peter Bayne's Essays in Biography and Criticism. (12pp.) "The Clergy." (Incomplete) (4pp.)

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Brownson, Orestes A.

The following manuscripts for various essays, lectures and sermons were written by Brownson:

"New Views of Christianity" (1836). (An incomplete version which differs greatly from Brownson's published work of the same title.) (62pp.) On the reverse sides of the manuscript are pasted clippins from The Boston Investigator of a discussion between Brownson and Abner Kneeland entitled, "A Discussion on the Question, Can all the phenomena of Consciousness be traced back to Sensation." (22pp.) "Social evils and their Remedies" (c.1842?). (42pp.) "Systems not men: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood." "The Kingdom of God - not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." (Published in an altered form in the Boston Quarterly Review, II (July 1839), 326-350. (18pp.) "Unitarianism and Trinitarianism. Art. V: Unitarianism vindicated against the Charge of Skeptical Tendencies. By James Walker. Boston: James Munroe & Co. 1839." Published in an altered form in the Boston Quarterly Review, II (July 1839), 378-385.

Lectures

"A Lecture before the Trades Union." ("What are the Principles by which we should be governed in our efforts to effect the future progress of society?") (28pp.) "Fourth of July." (Oration on the mission of American democracy, marked "Vol. XV" by Henry F. Brownson. (24pp.) "Lecture on Reading." (8pp.) "Means and End of Knowledge." (Marked "Vol. 19" by Henry F. Brownson (28pp.) "Means of Effecting a Reform." (16pp.) "Men's obligation to labor for a Reform." (16pp.) "On National Greatness." (Published in a slightly altered form in Brownson's Quarterly Review, III (Jan. 1846), 40-61, and reprinted in works, XV, 523-545.) (28pp.) "Pretensions of Phrenology." (Published later as an article reviewing George Combe's A System of Phrenology (1835), in the Boston Quarterly Review, II (April 1839), 205-229, and reprinted in Works, IX, 235-254. The lecture does not conform completely with the published article.) (44pp.) "The Relation of the Government to Religion." (32pp.) "The Scholar's Mission." A lecture delivered before the Gamma Sigma Society of Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., July 26, 1843, and subsequently published in Works, XIX, 65-87. (The manuscript differs in some respects from the published lecture.) (25pp.) "The True Catholic Spirit." (Marked "Vol. V" by Henry F. Brownson (28pp.) "The True Method of Social Progress." (24pp.)

Sermons

"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lie; that they all might be damned who believe not the truth but have pleasure in unrighteousness." 2 Thess. ii.11, 12. Walpole, Oct. 7, 1834. (12pp.)

"And he said, ye have taken away my Gods which I Made and the priest, and ye are gone away, and what have I more? And what is this ye say, unto me, What aileth thee? Judges xviii.24. (8pp.) "And I draw in the right hand of Him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the back side, sealed with Seven Seals." (49pp.) "And it was told him by certain which said Thy Mother and thy brethren stand without desiring to see thee. And he answered and said unto them, My Mother and my brethren are those which have the word of God and do it." Luke viii.19.10. (18pp.)

"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned." I Cor. II:14. For the 3rd Sunday in Jan. 1835. (12pp.) "Except a man be born again, he shall not see the Kingdom of God." John 3:3; and "When Christ who is our Life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." Colossians 3:4. (12pp.) "For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body." I Cor. 11:29. (12pp.) "For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting." Galatians VI:8. (16pp.) "He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city." Proverbs 18:32. (12pp.) "Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life." Prov. IV.23. (46pp.) "Labor not for the meat that nourisheth." (28pp.) "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus." Phil. 2:5 (16pp.) "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world." I John ii.15. (13pp.) On the death of Jesus on the Cross and its connection with the redemption and final sanctification of man. (12pp.) On the influence of the Holy Ghost, in the work of our regeneration, and growth in a holy life. (16pp.) "The Wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek after God; God is not in all his thoughts." Psalm x.4. (50pp.)

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Brownson, Orestes A.

Notes from a letter of Rev. C. Francis to Rev. Theodore Parker, Dec. 30, 1843. Jan 31, 1844 April 20, 1844 April 28, 1844 Consult: Parker Papers, Mass. Hist. Soc.

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Notes on Brownson from Theodore Parker's Journal. Arch. Unitarian Hist. Soc. Sept. 25, 1839 April, 1840 July 5, 1842

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(Brownson, Orestes A.)

For a time he erroneously thought that as a publicist it was the wisest policy to present his faith not falsely but inadequately. This policy caused distrust among his friends and an impression among Protestants that he had grown dissatisfied with the Church. But his experience has led him back to the policy taught to him by the bishop who was his director, of speaking the truth, kindly, but in its strongest and most inoffensive points.

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(Brownson, Orestes A.)

It says (Brownson) was at one period a Deist which is false. At various times he held principles which involved pantheism, but when he discovered it he rejected them. (Rufus W.?) Griswold accuses him of plagiar(iz)ing his philosophy from Auguste Comte. (Brownson) has never read Comte's works. A newspaper in a neighboring city accuses him of borrowing some of his early radicalism from (William) Godwin's "Political Justice," his philosophy from (Victor) Cousin and the French eclectics, and his ultramontanism from Count Joseph de Maistre. The fact is (Brownson) never claimed to be an original thinker. He did undoubtedly borrow much from Godwin. It is true he labored for some years to explain and defend the eclectic philosophy of Cousin and his school, but never as his own. De Maistre's "The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions" he has read, agreeing with it in some respects and disagreeing in others. He has glanced through De Maistre's "Du Pape" but cannot say he has ever read it.

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(Brownson, Orestes A.) (______)

to (______) (______)

...Church has got a strong foothold here and the opposition which she has encountered in the last two years and still encounters will prove of immense advantage in bringing the Church prominently before the public, in stimulating the faith and zeal of Catholics, and in enabling American Catholics who know and love their country to exert some influence in diminishing the Irishism introduced by the immigrants who neither know nor love the country. Brownson loves the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are defficient in good sense, sound judgment and manly character. They lack honesty and truthfulness, and are unreliable; they can do nothing in a straightforward, manly way; they are slaves or tyrants and do not understand what is is to be free men; and the only freedom they can understand is their freedom to make you conform to them. Yet they are the minority of the Catholic body in this country and have all the important sees and parishes. Their effort is to make the Church an Irish Church and the American an Irish nationality. The Know Nothing movements enable us to defeat them and to consult the welfare of the young, who almost all grow up Americans--hitherto at the expense of their Catholicity. More Catholics have emigrated to this country than are now in it by at least 50%, owing to the effort of the Irish to keep the Church a foreign church here, and the opinion they have done their best to foster that to foster that to Americanize is to protestantize.

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(Brownson, Orestes A.)

to (______) (______)

The people have undoubtedly the right to make the constitution, but once made they are bound by it and can change it only in the manner prescribed by the constitution. To deny this would be to deny constitutional government itself. To suffer the whim of the party in power is to divest it of its character as a constitution.

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(Brownson, Orestes A. )

to (______) (______)

They know very well that Brownson's Review is substantially orthodox and that the matters for which a certain number of Catholic organs have been in the habit almost from the first of regularly renouncing him once in three months have no relation to faith and are matters on which it is possible that he is right. But outsiders are scandalized and the clamors raised against him have deprived his Review of all the might it might otherwise have had outside of the Church.

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(Brownson, Orestes A. )

to (______)

...there was more in the gentile mind on which the Christian could rely in constructing his argument than there is in the protestant mind. This fact their controversialists overlook. He has been able to do nothing for the conversion of protestants because he has had the majority of the Catholic community interposing between them and him. The Catholic laity have pronounced him ultra and the protestant says his Catholicity is not that of Catholics. He is also struck with the almost universal ignorance of Catholics in all countries as to the application of their religion to the secular order, or culture. When Protestantism broke out, nobody was prepared for it. Had it not been for the civil authority, he does not see that would have saved a single European state to the Church. When infidelity broke out in the (eighteenth) century, it again took the whole world by surprise. So it is now with Socialism. He wonders what Catholic bishops and priests have been about and how so many of them support the worst socialism in principle, as in Ireland, Italy and Germany, and formerly in France. He believes the cause is in the schism which obtains between the secular order and the religious in the minds and hearts of Catholics. On the religious side their culture is monastic, and (on) the secular side it is independent of religion. The Jesuits in their schools encouraged both religious and secular culture but as two separate cultures, and hence under their instruction all Europe became infidel. Voltaire was their pupil. Diderot was one of their novices as he is not mistaken.

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B(rownson), O(restes) A.

to (______) (______)

Next week he will submit a reply to the "Observer." He thinks he can make two or three good points against it.

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(Brownson, Orestes A.) (______)

to (______) (______)

. . . Analysis of thought, from the end to the analysis of the object; then to the analysis of the ideas; from the text to the fact of Creation, to existence or creativeness, God as final cause, obligation to worship. He closes with a chapter on tradition. If he has done what he thinks he was, he has set forth the rational element of Christian theology, or the preamble to Christian faith, and the moral duty of every man to choose knowledge it is brought to accept it and obey it. As requested, he has read Father (John B.) Dalgairn's "Holy Communion" and does not think him a philosopher. If Dalgairn understands St. Thomas, (Brownson) does not, which indeed may well be. That he is no philosopher is pretty evident from the (fact) that Father (Augustine F.) Hewit in the Catholic World calls upon (him) to write a textbook of philosophy for the higher schools and academies, precisely what (______) is doing. Hewit has fallen back on Butler's "Analogy" and (John Henry) Newman's "Grammar of Assent." An Englishman should never be expected to get beyond psychologism or the Egoism of Fichte. Dalgairn belongs to the Scottish school. (Brownson) is willing to admit that the senses take recognizance only of the sensible proportions of substances, just as the intellect can apprehend only the intelligible; but he does not admit that it is by our nature or even an intuition or instinct of the soul that we refer these properties to a substance or that it is the substance prescinded from the properties that produces the sensations. We assert that the substance exists by virtue of the intuition of the creative act, and because it would be a contradiction in terms to assert propositions without a subject in which they inhere, or of which they are properties. The property or quality demands for its apprehension the substance and may be said to connote it.

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(Brownson, Orestes A.)

to (______) (______)

There is truth in the charge Protestants make against Catholics. The great body of Catholics are alien in feeling and do not identify themselves with the interests of the state. There is in them a want of freedom and independence of citizens.

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(Brownson, Orestes A. )

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(Brownson) thinks his correspondent's prejudice against miracles arises from the demand to extract a higher degree of certainty from them than reason demands in the ordinary conduct of life. The subject has been obscured by protestantism making the faith itself depend on the assent given to miracles. Since they see that the historical testimony does not suffice for this, they are apt to conclude that it suffices for less than it really does.

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Brownson, Orestes A. (______)

to (______) (______)

Brownson sends the above, (not present) because he is satisfied that the decision against the Unitarians is strictly legal.

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(Brownson,) Orestes (A. Jr.) (Dubuque, Iowa)

to (Henry F. Brownson Detroit, Michigan)

(First and third pages of letter missing) If Henry will send him a problem on chess he may be able to get it published. His family is well though they all had colds. Should there be any more of their father's (Orestes A. Brownson) estate, he hopes Henry will send him his one-third. He asks for a photograph of Henry's family. He understood from the papers that Henry was fully insured and lost nothing by the recent fire. (Attached is a Chess Journal leaflet with problems by General S.D. Sturgis of Henry Brownson's old command.)

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(Brownson), Orestes (A.Jr.) Rockdale, (Iowa?)

to Henry F. Brownson Detroit, Michigan)

He received the Ave Maria which published Brownson's paper read at the Lay Congress and read and reread it with interest and admiration. He hopes Henry's family are well. His Rosa and Charley are at home. Maggie sends her best; she missed Henry very much and hopes he will visit again. Sarah (Brownson) (Ziegler) is still on her honeymoon. All of Orestes' children and grandchildren are well.

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(Brownson, Orestes A.Jr. Dubuque, Iowa)

to (Henry F. Brownson Detroit, Michigan)

(This is page three of a letter that is otherwise missing.) He has read Henry's book on masonry. He thinks it is horrible, and he wishes Brownson had not meddled with such filth. He is disposed to dispute that masonry was naturalism. His idea of naturalism is nothing like such doctrines, for natural reason condems excesses. He sees no solution of the mystery of existence except faith, which in one sense is no solution.

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(Brownson, Orestes A.) (Elizabeth, New Jersey)

to (Sarah M. Brownson) (______)

Brownson is sorry that he showed so much resistance to the plan that Sarah and Henry thought the best. Brownson is perfectly satisfied that they were right. She must have a change of scene and air, and the sooner the better. Brownson is anxious only for her. He will not be unhappy and she need not feel any uneasiness on his account.

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Brownson, O(restes) A. (______)

to Mr. Editor (______)

The supposition is unjust to Brownson and to his Irish Catholic fellow Christians and citizens.

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Brownson, O(restes) A. (Elizabeth, New Jersey)

to Father (Isaac T.) Hecker (New York City, New York)

Brownson returns the proof and copy. Brownson would like Hecker to return his articles when they do not suit the latter with the objectionable papers marked. The readers of the Catholic World recognize Brownson's articles and he has to share with Hecker the responsibility. If Brownson is to write for the magazine, Hecker must allow him a reasonable freedom. If Brownson is to aid Hecker the latter must let him feel that he is at home in the Catholic World, and welcome. As soon as his eyes permit, Brownson will attack (J.W.) Draper.

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Brownson, O(restes) A. (Elizabeth, New Jersey)

to Father (Isaac T.) Hecker (New York, New York)

Brownson sends the article on the "Reason and Revelation." Within it was the one on "Papal Infallibility." He by necessity had to touch on the effects of original sin, but he hopes he has steered clear of my collision with Father (Augustine F.) Hewit. He sent the article on "Ontologism" but he forgot to send Father (Joseph) Kleutgen's book from which extracts are to be made. Brownson sent the two books which Hecker requested.

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B(rownson), O(restes) A. Philadelphia, (Pennsylvania)

to (Father Isaac T. Hecker) (New York, New York)

Brownson's address will be on Tuesday. He shall be in New York Thursday. He would like to meet Hecker in Baltimore on Monday.

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(______) (______) Brownson, O(restes) A.

to L(awrence) Kehoe (New York City, New York)

Two notes are enclosed which Brownson wants Kehoe to attend. Kehoe should send a receipt to Mr. Cullan and Father George McCloskey. Brownson wants the contents of his box sent to him by express. Brownson was unable to call the previous day.

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Brunner, C.P.P.S.) Father (Francis De Sales) (Cincinnati, Ohio)

to Archbishop (John Baptist Purcell) (of Cincinnati, Ohio)

Regarding the question of Mr. (______) Haunhorft, he knows that Purcell has promised him $200 a year, exclusive of the monthly payment of the children.

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(Brute, Father Simon William Gabriel) (______)

to (______) (______)

....of the good effect a cross and have there now........mountain church to show the religious character..........show so well along the lane from the very road.........along coming up.......in place of the present dead gable end the cross of the mountain church.... if it is thus it shows with religious effect from the Frederick road.

A sketch of the Church appears with this letter.

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(Photostatic copy from the Archives of the College of Mt. St. Joseph, Delhi, Ohio.)


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(Brute, (Father) Simon)

Note on Regulars

In matters concerning observance in any of their foundations, regulars were never known to be subject to bishops, but are dependent only on their own superiors. But in matters pertaining to the care of souls and even their own morals and life they are properly subject to bishops and other ordinaries and can be judged and corrected by them and their deputies as well as by their superiors in religion. Legally the opinion of the ordinary has prevailence over the judgements of a superior when the two disagree and it must be carried out. The whole of the above is a quotation from Benedict XIVth's constitution of 1753, Cum Alias, on diocesan synods. The quotation is taken from Liguori, tract XX, De Privilegiis.

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(Brute, Father Simon Gabriel) (______)

Speaking of anecdotes, (Brute) came across a letter of the famous (Paul) Pelisson (Fontanier), Protestant convert, who in carrying out the orders of Louis XIV for the new converts made a shipment of books in which the first item was 1500 New Testaments, then 1500 translations of the prayers at Mass, etc. This recalls to (Brute) the letter of (Abbe Francois de Salignac de la Mothe) Fenelon at Poitou with (Claude) Fleury in which he asked that they send many New Testaments. Since childhood (Brute) studied the Bible, learning all the stories by heart and in Latin classes they had to learn verses.

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(Brute, Father Simon) (Emmitsburg, Maryland)

to Sister Jane (Gartland) Emmitsburg, Maryland

The letter is headed with a pen drawing of an eye and the words "My Jesus sees me!" The address is to "My dear sister....Love and peace!" If she loves the Lord, and He loves her so much as to be crucified for her, now is the time of love, hers and His. Her suffering, patience, mental agony, and bitter chalice are to be united with His, her her little to His infinite merits, her hopes to His Ascension and glory. Brute wants to help her with fatherly advice since she is entrusted to him by providence. It is his duty to protect her "against nature". She must remember the presence of God. She coughs, sweats, etc., and He sees her. She should ask him to be delivered of impatience and to observe poverty. She should not seek much care for her "vile carcasse". She must yield less to nature. She must account for everything in frequent talks with her Lord and not lose occasions of merit.

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Burke, C.M. Brooklyn, (New York)

to (James Alphonsus) McMaster (New York, New York)

Burke brings a pamphlet to McMaster's notice. He hopes McMaster will deal leniently with it since it is only a first effort.

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(Brute, Father Simon Gabriel):

Notes on the acceptability of the Christian religion. 1) Because it is true 2) Because it fulfills the conditions for certitude 3) Many facts exhibit the condition of certitude but not as strong as those of Christian facts 4) The Christian facts can withstand the severest critical examination compared to those who attack these truths such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Helvetiusm Mirabaud etc.

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Brute Father S(imon) Gabriel): (Mt. St. Mary's Emmitsburg, Maryland)
 to  Father (John Baptist Purcell): Cincinnati?

It strikes Brute after his Mass that their main disposition should be of boundless gratitude and full confidence after what God has done upon this Mountain and in that Valley and its 84 Sisters of (Mt. St. Joseph) last St. Joseph's day. Brute urges Purcell to be extremly stead to keep everything tight and see as Father (Jean) Dubois what can be accomplished by punctuality over the years. What can be his destiny through 10,15,20 years to 50 years. He can be sure of his in most affection and respect and docility, even though they have minor differences. Brute is happy when he see (Purcell) acting with a strong heart. He cannot be infallible but he should trust to his grace. Brute respects authority (Purcell) should not fear to displease when he feels something should be done or said. Brute may have groubled at times but he has yielded. Note in handwriting of Purcell "Worth a dozen", not because it falters but because it explains.

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Brute, Father S(imon) Gabriel: ( )
 to  Father (John Baptist Purcell): ( )

He received yesterday (Purcell's) letter of the 14th. He had wrapped ready for the next occasion the interesting book the very day that he received back his story of St. Bartholomew which showed that the intended bartering was not accepted. He may have some future offer more tempting that the terrible subject though more tempting that the fatal preludes at Geneva whose Calvin will have more to answer for than Gregory XIII of such refined scientific accomplishments which little agree with what Protestants attribute to him. (Purcell's) little book could have for very few the occasional interest which the naviete of the narrative who had seen so much of like detestable and ridiculous mixtures of his notes laugh for their importance. Brute had written that (Purcell) might find some use of them. Mr. Smith wrote that he would return them to him soon. For Rosenmueller, Brute suggestes that (Purcell) send them by some safe opportunity. He will take great care of the volumes.

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(Brute, Simon William Gabriel) (______)

to (Bishop John Baptist Purcell) (Cincinnati, Ohio)

(Purcell's) visit after prayers fatal light: "read dear friend, I Timothy 3; 11th" it confirms what Brute told him and Purcell. 1. What end if please to preserve here such things? 2. What vocation is that to St. Joseph's? 3. What other disposing? Yet surely disposing you must; if by any means Sigillum sacrum remaneat....... nam debit, etc. Talked this morning with Father (John) Hickey since he knows all] Talked with the Archbishop, he know it too] Nay Father (Lewis) Delnol] Nay Father (Honoratus) Xaupi. What Sigillum is that] Since others so very likely know V.G. the person who heard such a talk]]]] Brute willing to help Purcell choose property. Since law has it with Purcell from his own hand writing and seal delivered and now acted upon fully, Brute must except that point to which Purcell remembers that Brute had agreed which Father McGerry only as an extremity and necessity.....for otherwise all reasons were for Brute against it, as they were for Purcell pro... ..but Brute had said for us jam. Brute changed, you know how and why! "Uti possiditi" Let Brute serve but poor service his! This last trait is a finishing! How he lost all confidence of these women, not one comes......but even Miss Heney. Brute wonders! Now Brute knows nothing even as counsellor from anyone in the house, the priests excepted partially.....not the prefect, not the strangers, a brother Bishop Henni, an old pupil Charles T. White, a poor visitor Father (James) Wisemann, but see yonder his oldest friend Father John Hickey, his novice Sister now Mother Augustine here too Benediction. Yes a sad wonder for as much there must be faults maybe. How crippled or rather wholly disabled Brute is except as "directeur du" and as such how extremely crippled too and limited......Advise the Archbishop, relieve responsibilities as Purcell sees fit. But finance! Take care......engage not in buildings!! Egan 1000, McGerry 1000, White 2000. 300 more building and for what? Another evil church 1500 etc.

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(Brute, Father Simon) (______)

to (Catherine) Seton (______)

A home-made holy card of prose interspersed with drawings of the Sacred Heart, Cross, and Chalice and Host:"Adoration, Self-abasement, Love. In him we live, move and are. I live now not I, my Jesus lives in me." As Christ is on his cross for Brute so Brute is on his for Christ. His heart is satsified. He asks that he and others may remain on their cross. Christ's body, blood, soul and divinity are Brute's in communion. He asks what he can give in return, and answers that he must give his all, love and life, the love, happiness and joy of his eternity. Jesus is his life, eternity, all in all. "Amen".

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(Brute, Father Simon) (Emmitsburg, Maryland)

to (Richard Seton?)

Brute appeals to the Father and the eloquent man who is so impressed with true virtues not directed towards vain glory to recall his son (William Seton) to his senses and to himself. Brute asks why in the light of the Gospel and in sight of the glory of heaven and the price paid for it on the Cross and re-presented in the Mass and received in Communion, he would fail to show his son that there are duties higher than these secondary ones imposed on some in the defense of others in time of war. These latter will always find numbers willing to discharge them. They are easier to discharge than the duties proper to man as such, social, moral, and heaven-destined man. These military duties are easier even when they require contempt of death. Even a coward can feign that when necessary. He addresses Cicero commending him for ideas worthy of a Christian. He quotes a passage from him on national law, its universality and external character, which commands a man to do his duty and refrain from crime and which yet does not compel. But if man does not obey, he flies his own nature. Brute continues, asking what he (Seton) would think of a good young man whom it took so many careful years to raise and educate making no better out of it than to turn to the army. He acquires only a family, social, christian, and heavenly debt and all for vain glory. In the margin of the second page is a continuation in French, Latin, and English. It begins "that military one!" and continues, "poor father, mother speak of your fall. Horrible war detested by mothers. Washington, Monroe, and Jackson were militia men, not professional soldiers, when necessity required. But Alexander!?"

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Bunch, (Sir Robert Henry New York, New York)

to Bishop (James Roosevelt) Bayley (Newark, New Jersey)

Calling card of Her Britannic Majesty's Consular Agent at Lima.

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