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Show Daniel O'Connell Presided. The ether day we picked up the June Records of the American Catholic Historical His-torical society and patiently plodded through a chronicle of German Catholic Catho-lic maturity in the United States from 1839 to 1S41. It was a series excerpted from the pages of the defunct "Wah-reitsfreund" "Wah-reitsfreund" of Cincinnati, and suddenly sud-denly it became intensely interesting. Here is the note that made it so: "In March. 1340, there was a 'meeting in London, England, to start a school fund for the support of German Catholic Catho-lic schools in that city, Daniel O'Connell O'Con-nell presiding.' " The Germans of America should make a note of the fact that Daniel O'Connell was a friend of their race. He was Catholic to the core, and his Catholicity was not bounded by race, as it ought not to be. He was anxious that the poor German Catholics of London should have German Catholic schools. He lent his influence so they miht have them. New World. |