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Show ITS FIRST uuERNOR. New Yorkers are looking up their governors. They find their first one was a Catholic and gave the people a charter on which latter-day Gothamites base their civic rights. Says a reputable repu-table authority: "Governor Dongan of the English colony of New York, which he left upon the accession of William and Mary, was a Roman Catholic, and had in his house a private chapel, where the first mass in Manhattan's history was i-celebrated. The charter which he gave to the people is the basis of the civic rights of New Yorkers York-ers today, and it is but justice to say-that say-that he-was broader-minded than some of his reactionary Protestant successors. success-ors. A full century was to pass before the barriers to Roman Catholic worship, wor-ship, which became especially statutory statu-tory in 1700. were fully removed." |