Life and times of the Most RevJohn Carroll, bishop and first archibishop of Baltimore . the political ques-tions were not as clear or intelligible, there was probablyless activity. The hostile feeling evoked by the Quebec Act was evanes-cent. The childish fear of imaginary dangers soon gaveplace to the practical questions before them. The newspapers in the colonies, which before 1763 teemedwith articles and passages full of hostility to the Church, as- Pennsylvania Packet, June 12, 1775. ?^ The Letter was printed in the Pennsylvania Packet, September 7,1772, in which also appeared the notice o
Life and times of the Most RevJohn Carroll, bishop and first archibishop of Baltimore . the political ques-tions were not as clear or intelligible, there was probablyless activity. The hostile feeling evoked by the Quebec Act was evanes-cent. The childish fear of imaginary dangers soon gaveplace to the practical questions before them. The newspapers in the colonies, which before 1763 teemedwith articles and passages full of hostility to the Church, as- Pennsylvania Packet, June 12, 1775. ?^ The Letter was printed in the Pennsylvania Packet, September 7,1772, in which also appeared the notice of Father Hardings death. 84 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP CARROLL. sumed a different tone after the conquest of Canada, andanti-Catholic items became rare. Eeligious liberty became a theme for popular discussion,and when once treated could not be restricted to the oldnarrow limits.^ People began to doubt whether Popery was such an implacable enemy to the general liberties ofmankind : and the discussions of the Quebec Act after thefirst outburst of the old virulence, led to more kindly feel-. CHURCH OF ST. IGNATIUS, ST. INIGOES, MD. ings. The best token is seen in the open way in whichCatholics erected churches, and extended their only were the houses of the clergy restored in County, a residence at St. Inigoes, and a new chapel See Extracts from Colonial Papers in U. S. Catholic Hist. Mag.,vol. i., N. Y., 1887. ^ See The Palladium of Conscience ; or, the Foundation of ReligiousLiberty, Displayed, Asserted, and Established. Philadelphia, ii., pp. 27, 47, 69, 105. CARROLL AT ROCK CREEK. 85 erected at Newtown by Father Aslibej ; a new residence atSt. Thomas by Father George Hunter, the Frederick churchand house enlarged, the church at Baltimore, begun in appar-ent defiance of the law, was attended through the period ofthe Revolution by Rev. Bernard Diderick. In Pennsylva-nia also, at Lancaster and Philadelphia, even greater progresswas made. Such was the con
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