. Three Catholic Afro-American congresses [electronic resource]: a short resume of the work that has been done since the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, letters of the hierarchy, clergy and prominent laymen to the congresses, the sermons of Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Elder, Archbishop Ryan and Father Mackey, speeches and portraits of prominent colored Catholics, their friends and institutions, the public addresses of the three most remarkable gatherings of Negroes in America : all nicely bound in cloth. mplished his great mission, howdeep, and entire, and lasting was the affection which,
. Three Catholic Afro-American congresses [electronic resource]: a short resume of the work that has been done since the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, letters of the hierarchy, clergy and prominent laymen to the congresses, the sermons of Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Elder, Archbishop Ryan and Father Mackey, speeches and portraits of prominent colored Catholics, their friends and institutions, the public addresses of the three most remarkable gatherings of Negroes in America : all nicely bound in cloth. mplished his great mission, howdeep, and entire, and lasting was the affection which,till his last breath, he bore to that people, henceforththe sole object of his lab irs by day, of his prayersand preoccupations by night. After detailing the work accomplished since 1841;by these devoted missionaries upon the deadly climateof Western and Eastern Africa, and assuring themthat they Avould hear further interesting details andstatist;cs from his colleag1, the R !v. Father Healy, heconcluded by congratulating them on their courage,their manhood, their prudence and their unity; and bypromising them in common with the hundreds of hisbrother missionaries dispersed upon this continentupon the great African land, and throughout theWest Indian Islands, he would consecrate his energyhis health, and his 1 ifo to the work of the regenera-tion of the Colored race. 45 ADBRESS OF FATHER SLATTERY. The Rev. Father Slattery was called upon and de-livered a strong address. He spoke in substance asfollows:. BEV JOHN R. , MARYIAKD. Fellow Catholics and fellow citizens! These Iconsider the best titles any man can boast of. Firsta Catholic then a citizen. We are all Catholics andcitizens of America. We possess that civil liberty of 46 which the Cardinal spoke yesterday,and above all,mor-al liberty. But my remarks are going to be confinedto ray individual work. A few years ago I bad tosend a Colored boy to Canada to be educated: manysaid it was foolish. That boy is with rue now
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