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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 4 0 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 2: early political action and military training. (search)
ix months in a Convent. The superior of the school unwisely permitted herself to reply to it. That evoked a rejoinder filled with the vilest and uncleanest of accusations: It purported to be written by the young woman, under the sobriquet of Maria Monk. This pamphlet, for it was little more than that, had a large circulation among a certain class of people in that vicinity. On the flats below Mount Benedict, and not far from it, there were extensive brickyards where large numbers of men, earliest days, no Catholic was permitted to hold any office by its constitution, and whose traditions run back to the Catholic persecutions of the Irish Presbyterians in the north of Ireland, they were ready, through prejudice, to welcome this Maria Monk pamphlet, and take it home with them for winter reading. They came back to their employment at the brickyards in the spring, with their prejudices and passions inflamed against the convent, the supposed misdemeanors in which had formed the lar
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
holicism. I will pass over similarly remote events, and ask you: Who kindled the persecutions fires of 1844, and fostered Nature Americanism? Who were the Iconoclasts of that reign of terror? Who put the burning torch into the hand of the incendiary? Who laid in ashes or ruins the convent at Chulestown, Massachusetts? Who attacked the Catholic Churches of Philadelphia? Who made a street bonfire of Dr. Morlarty's library? Who were the disciples of Fanny Wright and the apostles of Maria Monk? Who stoned the late Bishop Powell on his bed of death? Who called into life Know-Nothingism? Who sought to disfranchise the Catholic and the adopted citizen? Who sicked, pi ed and burned the humble ments of the Irish and the Germans in Cin nat, and other Western cities? I answer, your present Puritanical allies and us c And they have recently ex led the students from the Catholic Collage at Georgetown, and converted it into a military barracks, to which d ration they contemplate r