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PAGE 2— 1 THE BULLETIN, August 20, 1960
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I The Catholic In America
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By Rev. Peter J. Rahill, Ph.D.
This is one of a series of
articles reviewing the position
and experience of the practicing
Catholic in the life of the Arneri-
can community from Colonial
times. The author holds a doc
torate in American Church His
tory; has been a seminary pro
fessor, and is presently Historian
of the Archdiocese of St. Louis.
ENGLISH REVOLUTION
INTENSIFIED COLONIAL
ANTI-CATHOLICISM
No all-pervading light—none
theless, one more star of liberty
gleamed amid the gloom of
colonial anti-Catholicism. While
this instance is to the credit of
all Americans, Catholics may
take pride that the religious
freedom was granted by a Cath
olic colonial governor.
Moreover, the freedom of con
science was extended to every
one. A brief tribute is deserved
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by Colonel Thomas Dongan,
Governor of the Province of
New York from 1682 to 1688.
THOMAS DONGAN
Born in Ireland the same year
that the colony of Maryland
was founded (1634), Thomas
Dongan was related to the Cal
verts by marriage. When King
Charles I was beheaded by the
Puritans, the Dongan family
left England for France.
Thomas rose to the rank of
colonel in a regiment of Irish
exiles fighting for France. Not
withstanding, he obeyed an or
der issued by Charles II for all
Englishmen to return home.
The Duke of York, brother
of Charles II, was proprietor of
the colony which had been nam
ed after him, As is well known,
the original settlement on Man
hattan Island had been made by
the Dutch.
In turmoil from the time of
its seizures by the English, New
York quickly responded to Don-
gan’s wise rule. The action
which rendered his administra
tion completely distinctive was
taken almost as soon as he as
sumed control.
In 1683 Dongan convoked the
first representative assembly in
the history of New York Prov
ince. “A Charter of Liberties”
was adopted at the instigation
of the Governor. The title of the
legislation was fully merited by
its provisions.
Patrick Henry’s rallying call
was anticipated in the stipula-
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tion that there was to be no tax
ation without representation.
Equally unique and more apro
pos to our discussion, religious
liberty was given to all resi
dents. On receiving the docu
ment in London, the Board of
Trade and Plantations vetoed
the legislation. Notwithstanding,
toleration continued during
Dongan’s term of office.
Bankruptcy and persecution
were ' the Governor’s personal
return for his advanced legisla
tion. With the accession of Wil
liam and Mary to the English
throne, Dongan was in complete
disfavor as a Catholic and a
favorite of the Stuarts. Though
he became Sari of Limerick on
the death of his brother, Thomas
died in obscure poverty.
WILLIAM OF ORANGE
Dongan’s charter has been
called the “Magna Charta of
American Constitutional Liber
ties.” How surprising it is to
find some historians almost
ignoring it.
With the Protestant ascendan
cy complete in the mother
country, the New York Assem
bly promptly nullified all of
Dongan’s liberality. Once again
the Catholic Church was out
lawed and legislators fulminat
ed against “the diabolical de
signs of the wicked and cruel
Papists.”
Over and over again during
the 18th Century many of the
provisions of Dongan’s charter
were petitioned for from the
mother country. But religious
liberty for Catholics was not one
of them. The American Revolu-
eion came and succeeded, but
rights were not restored to
Catholics until 1806.
It would be misleading to
leave the impression that the
reversal of policy in New York
was peculiar to that province
alone. All of the colonies had
been markedly affected by a
revolution in the mother coun
try.
The Catholic James II had
been replaced by William and
Mary, the latter a Protestant
daughter of the departing sov
ereign. The new King, William
of Orange, has been called the
“idol of 17th Century Protestant
ism.” He readily dropped the
Calvinism of the Netherlands
for the Established Church of
England.
Parliament, now supreme ra
ther than the King, passed the
“Toleration Act of 1689,” where
by freedom was granted to all
of the dissenting Protestant
sects. Catholics, however, were
specifically excluded from the
indulgence. Further legislation
in 1701 stipulated that no Cath
olic could succeed to the Eng
lish throne, a prohibition which
endures to this day.
In the American colonies as
in the mother country, dissent
ers no longer had any reason of
self-preservation for making
common cause with Catholics.
Thus was halted the trend,
minor though it had been, of
the faithful enjoying, any better
treatment in the colonies than
in England.
Until the revolution in Eng
land in 1689 the substantial
number of Catholics in Mary
land, as well as the attempts of
Roger Williams, Williams Penn,
and Thomas Dongan to give
freedom of conscience to all
seemed to indicate that the hos
tility to the Church in the Old
World would be abated in the
New.
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the colonial governments im
posed the pattern of animosity
which had been revived in Eng
land. In some colonies, such as
the Carolinas, no fresh legal
invectives were incorporated
into the statutes. The reason
was that Catholics were few
and certainly no attempt was
made to hold services.
Previously attention was call
ed to Queen Anne having forced
Pennsylvania to revise her laws
that they might include the pro
scriptions against Catholics,
From the beginning of the 18th
Century, then, there was no
place in the American colonies
in which a Catholic was legally
equal to his fellowmen.
Regardless of the locality, the
imposition of stricter and in
creasingly severe regulation
limited the growth of Catholic
population. Even for those for
whom it was possible, immigra
tion to the New World offered
no advantage in. the practice of
religion.
Both in the mother country
and in the colonies undoubtedly
many weak Catholics lapsed
from the Faith rather than suf
fer harsh penalties. Already
lamentation has been uttered
over the loss of Maryland as a
Catholic refuge. A like reversal
took place in the Calverts, who
had labored so manfully to es
tablish Maryland.
On the death of his father in
1715 the fourth Lord Baltimore
was confronted with the choice
of losing his proprietorship in
America or his Catholicity. He
chose to apostatize. That he was
termed “a degenerate scion of
a noble Roman Catholic house”
would have had little value had
it not been written by the Prot
estant historian, Sanford H.
Cobb.
To cite the penalties imposed
in various colonies on Catholics
and more especially on priests
actually would be a distortion
of history. This was an age ac
customed to harshness. Minor
civil infractions often were sub
ject to dire punishment. For a
sensitive or cultured person the
social ostracism which accom
panied his Catholicism inflicted
wounds more difficult to bear
than the lash.
Catholic practices of no pos
sible harm to others were first
ridiculed and then banned by
law. In Massachuetts Bay, for
instance, the celebration of
Christmas was forbidden because
it was said to smack of “Pop
ery.” Nor was “guilt by associa
tion” unknown. As late as 1741
John Ury was hanged in New
York on the suspicion that he
was a priest. As far as can he
determined the charge was
without foundation, but none
theless Ury suffered an igno
minious death.
SURVIVAL A MYSTERY
Events far distant and over
which absolutely no control
could be exercised aroused dor
mant colonial anti-Catholicism.
From the accession of William
and Mary four wars were
fought by England against
Catholic nations, chiefly France
and Spain.
Not only were the colonies
drawn into the struggles but the
lurid flames of intolerance were
rekindled. Ministers lashed at
the Church from the pulpit;
civil officials grasped the oppor
tunity for fresh enactments
against the faithful. Laws were
passed for disarming “Papists,”
and it is easy to conceive the
social adium which accompanied
such summary action.
Apparently even militant pa
triotism could not dispel the
suspicion engendered by hatred
of a misunderstood Faith. The
records of Pennsylvania show
that trader George Crogan had
won the confidence of the In
dians on the frontier.
When war broke out he com
mended his redskin friends un
der General Braddock. But his
valor could not offset his known
Catholicism! The governors of
three provinces had him under
surveillance solely because of
his religion.
Thus belabored by clubs and
impoverished by taxes, Catho
lics in the colonies managed to
avert extermination until the
middle of the 18th Century.
Their survival to that point still
is a mystery.
Even more severe attacks
were to he endured before the
American Revolution itself
brought some toleration. From
the Old Testament to these
staunch upholders of the Faith
may be transferred the tribute:
“Giants were upon the earth in
those days” (Gen., 6:4). .
Next issue: THE QUEBEC
ACT A CAUSE OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
OBITUARIES
Mrs. John A. Davis
Services In Atlanta
ATLANTA—Funeral services
for Mrs. John A. Davis were
held July 29th at St. Anthony’s
Church, Rev. J. J. Beltran offi
ciating.
Survivors are six daughters,
Mrs. Mary Altson, East Point,
Ga.; Mrs. J. W. Hester, Mrs.
Grady Pye, and Mrs. L. G. Mc-
Burnett, Atlanta; Mrs. M. F.
Parrott, College Park, Ga; and
Mrs. K. K. Hibbs, San Francisco,
California; sons, Johnny Davis,
Toccoa, Ga.; E. F. Davis, Ashe
ville, N. C.; Ellis, John A. and
T. W. Davis, all of Atlanta.
Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Annie
Hightower of Sarasota, Florida;
and Mrs. John Murray of New
Orleans, Louisiana; two brothers,
Charles Ramsey and Paul Ram
sey, both of Seattle, Washing
ton; one sister, Mrs. Agnes Swan
of Atlanta; 22 grandchildren,
and 22 great-grandchildren.
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ATLANTA—Funeral services
for Sgt. Pierre Everett Pohl
were held July 29th at the Sa
cred Heart Church, Rev. John
Emmerth officiating.
Survivors are Mr. and Mrs.
E. J. Pohl, Mrs. Roy L. Bubb,
Mrs. Pierre Anneix, Paris,
France.
Atlanta Services
Mrs. Beulterman
ATLANTA—Funeral services
for Mrs. G. A. (Mary) Beulter
man of Phoenix, Arizona, for
merly of Atlanta, were held Au
gust 6th at the Sacred Heart
Church, Atlanta, Rev. John Em
merth officiating.
Services For
M. F. Amorous, Jr.
ATLANTA—Funeral services
for Mr. Martin F. Amorous were
held July 28th at the Cathedral
of Christ the King, Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Joseph G. Cassidy, P.A.,
officiating.
Survivors are two sisters, Mrs.
Isabal Nunnally, Charlottesville,
Va.; and Mrs. Roselyn Allen,
Swathmore, Pa.; brother, Wil
liam M. Amorous, Albuquerque,
New Mexico, and several nieces
and nephews.
Decatur Services
E. M. Fetherton, Jr.
DECATUR—Funeral services
for Edward M. Fetherton, Jr,,
were held July 29th at St. Tho
mas More Church, Rev. Fred
erick Girard officiating.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
E. M. Fetherton, Jr., daughter,
Mrs. Joseph Racklif, Brooks-
ville, Wis.; son, Edward M.
Fetherton of Panama Canal
Zone; and three grandchildren.
Atlanta Services
For M iss Erskine
ATLANTA—Funeral services
for Miss Vincentia M. Erskine
were held August 6th at the Ca
thedral of Christ the King, Rev.
A. M. Dillman officiating.
Survivors are a brother, John
V. Erskine, Weaverville, N. C.;
and a sister, Miss Elizabeth M.
Erskine, Atlanta.
Savannah Services
Mrs. Leona Fraps
SAVANNAH—Funeral serv
ices for Mrs. Leona Michel
Fraps were held at the Sacred
Heart Church, August 2nd.
Survivors are two daughters,
Mrs. R. W. Leech and Miss Ann
Fraps; a son, Arthur G. Fraps,
Jr., three sisters, Mrs. John J.
O’Connor, Mrs. J. W. Ligon and
Mrs. P. B. Kavanaugh, three
brothers, Leon J. Michel, Jr.,
Brother Richard Aloysius of the
Marist Order of Brownsville,
Texas; and R. H. Michel of
Brooklyn, N. Y.; three grand
children, several nieces and
nephews.
Services For
H. J. Johnson
SAVANNAH—Funeral serv
ices for Henry Joseph Johnson
were held August 2nd at the
Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Zettie Tuten Johnson, a step
daughter, Mrs. John Barton; a
step son, W. E. Tuten, six
brothers, John F. Johnson, J.
Herbert Johnson, Leo A. John
son, James J. Johnson. William
F. Johnson, Fred P. Johnson, all
of Savannah: four sisters, Mrs.
Marv J. Roche of Dunellen, N.
J.; Mrs. Margaret J. Gerken,
Mrs. Helen Lariscy and Mrs.
Catherine J. Flood, six grand
children and several nieces
and nephews.
Services For
A. M. Langford
ATLANTA—Funeral services
for Arthur M. Langford were
held August 4th at St. An
thony’s Church, Rev. Joseph D.
Beltran officiating.
Survivors are his wife, the
former Louise Arnold, sons, Er-
mon L. Langford Atlanta; and
Curtis Langford of California;
a sister, Mrs. Rena Franklin,
Columbus; and a step daughter,
Mrs. Francis E. Wilson, Newark,
Ohio.
Services For
Mrs. Carolan
SAVANNAH—Funeral serv
ices for Miss Julia Carolan were
held July 29th at the Cathedral
of St. John the Baptist.
Survivors are two nieces,
Miss Marie S. Carolan, Savan
nah; and Mrs. Eunice V. Par-
slow, Orlando, Florida; two
nephews, M. J. Dooner and Eu
gene C. Dooner, both of Tampa,
Florida.
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AUGUSTA—Funeral services
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July 28th at St. Patrick’s
Church, Rev. John Doyle offi
ciating.
Survivors are his wife Mrs.
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ta; Mrs. Frank White of Atlan
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