O'Regan has just received Facile's letter of October 24, 1856; its tone and statements astonish him very much, and he thinks it deplorable that Facile has been so deceived, and his history of Father Charles Chiniguy is false; no one can manage him and the French Canadians in the Chicago Diocese. O'Regan bore with him until it was almost a crime, as many fine men of Canada and France told him. Yet he did not suspend Chiniquy but sent him to Cahokia, a French Mission far from St. Anne's but he refused to go. O'Regan suspended Chiniquy and St. Anne's, Bourbonnais and Lerable were notified, Facile's Brothers knew about it, but not withstanding they attended his Mass and received the Sacraments from him. O'Regan excommunicated Chiniquy, through Father G. J. Ostlangenberg, a Chicago priest, whom Chiniquy accused of being a hideous drunken priest, as he did of Bishop James O. Vandevelde . O'Regan relates his troubles with the French Canadians in Chicago and with Chiniguy and how the French Canadians sent a petition to the council in St. Louis against him. Although Facile claims the excommunication was not signed, O'Regan says it was, that it was read, and fixed to the church door of St. Anne's but was soon torn down. The Christian Brothers have been sadly deceived. In their ignorance and prejudice, the Canadians stop at nothing; they do not support their churches and priests, O'Regan finds a long example of this. Facile knows these facts and yet wishes to send more Brothers to work with Chiniquy. O'Regan tells Facile to take away his Brothers. A.L.S. 8pp. 12mo. :: III-2-i A.L.S. 9pp. 12mo.