Cappon received $32 for the seminary from Niles and Bertrand congregation. He expects to bring the money sometime in January. He understands Lefevere has received a petition from Niles for an Irish assistant priest. Cappon feels proud that Lefevere did not answer it. The petition contains many a lie to get subscribers. With some well-disposed, it was to get Father John DeNeve back; some others to get an Irish priest. They intended to send the petition to the Archbishop of Cincinnati John Baptist Purcell, they number only 2 or 3; the rest know that Lefevere, Cappon and DeNeve respect the good Irish priest, that they do not consider nationality but the virtues and talents of a priest. Since they are going to have another priest, he might just as well be Irish and let us try to get one, was the plea that own most of the petitioners. When Cappon explained to them that sending their petition to the Archbishop would be an insult to Lefevere, since he knew Cappon's mission to be of Irish, German and French, and that all Irish could confess in English, they all would have withdrawn their names, except 5 or 6. The 2 leaders, Edmond Power and Daniel O'Flynn persist in sending the petition to Purcell since Lefevere is not Irish. They are not worthy of an answer. They would explain a refusal as national even if Lefevere stated he was unable to give them a priest now. :: III-2-j A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.