The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . ult-finding was one of his weaknesses. He spared no one,high or Icjw, who differed from him, and his invectivewas as bitter as an unlimited vocabulary could makeit. He quarrelled almost immediately with BishopHughes on the Irish question and with Bro^vnson onhis philosoph>-. In |iolitics he was a States RightsDemocrat and .ti-.\bolitionist and tooka very activeand influential part in the great national controversiesthat raged before the Civi
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . ult-finding was one of his weaknesses. He spared no one,high or Icjw, who differed from him, and his invectivewas as bitter as an unlimited vocabulary could makeit. He quarrelled almost immediately with BishopHughes on the Irish question and with Bro^vnson onhis philosoph>-. In |iolitics he was a States RightsDemocrat and .ti-.\bolitionist and tooka very activeand influential part in the great national controversiesthat raged before the Civil ^\ar. .\fter the conflictbegan, his editorial assaults on Presile remained. In European politics Louis Veuillotand his Tnivers were the constant models of TheFreemans Journal There is record of his saying of. James A. . the pope on the outlook in European politics in a letterto Brownson 12 June, 1848: He may yet in goo(iearnest be imprisoned, but it will not take a whit fromhis moral power—it will add to it; but after theevents of INTO, in season and out there was no strongeror more valiant champion of the rights of the Holy behalf of Catholic education he was er|ually stren-uous and uncompromising, and waged a long warfareagainst the attendance of Catholic children at thepublic schools. ^\?ith the advent of modern newspaper methods andthe decline of the old-fashioned personal journalism,a new generation with new ideals tired of McMastersliterary violence, and his once wide-spread prestigeand influence waned. The whims and idiosyncrasiesof the old man, who grew more and more diffi-cult to manage as the end of his curious and stormycareer drew to a close, still cramped and hampered thepaper, and when he died it had little influence andscant circulation. Of his three ch
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