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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
PAGE.
Juvenile Reformation—Opposition to Catholic Reformatories—The two Systems Illustrated—Christianity Meek and Loving—The Work of the Enemy—Solemn Appeals to Catholic Duty |
510 |
CHAPTER XXIX.
The Second Plenary Council of Baltimore—Protestant Tribute to the Catholic Church—Progress of Catholicity—Instances of its Progress—The Past and the Present—The Church in Chicago and New York—Catholicity in Boston—Anticipations not Realised—Number of Catholics in the States—Circumstances of Protestant and
Catholic Emigrant Different—Loss of Faith and Indifferentism |
522 |
CHAPTER XXX.
The Irish in the War—Irish faithful to either Side—Thomas Francis Meagher—Why the Irish joined distinct Organisations—Irish Chivalry—More Irish Chivalry—The Religious Influence—Not knowing what he preached on—Cleanliness of the Irish Soldier—Respect for the Laws of War—A Non-combatant defending his Castle—Defended with Brick-bats—'Noblesse Oblige'—Pat's Little Game—Irish Devotedness—The Love of Fight—Testimonies to the Irish Soldier—The Handsomest Thing of the War—Patrick Ronayne Cleburne—General Cleburne and his Opinions—In Memoriam—After the War—The Grandest of all Spectacles |
545 |
CHAPTER XXXI.
Feeling of the Irish in America towards England—A Fatal Mistake—Not Scamps and Rowdies—Who they really are—Sympathy conquering Irritation—Indifference to Danger—Down in the Mine—One of the Causes of Anti-English Feeling—More of the Cause of Bad Feeling—What Grave and Quiet Men think—If they only could 'see their way'—A Grievance redressed is a Weapon broken—The Irish Element—Belief in England's Decay—War with England—Why most Injurious to England—Why less Injurious to America—The only Possible Remedy |
590 |
South Carolina—Bishop Lynch's Letter |
625 |
Essential Importance of the Foreign Element to the United States |
636 |
Biographical Sketch of Major-General P. R. Cleburne |
642 |
