He has read McMaster's remarks in the freeman's Journal regarding the Fenian Brotherhood. He believes McMaster favors the Catholic side of the question, although the Fenian's believe otherwise. They have been condemned by two Bishops here and by a Council of Bishops in Ireland and by Catholic sentiment in both countries. By persisting in their mad course, they are only imitating the Jacobine Clubs of France. He did not see what they were at until he read the closing remarks in the Journal, which he found to be the key to their whole proceedings. They called attention of the government to the fact that it was the stand taken by Irishmen at home that kept the English government from acknowledging the independence of the South. They knew that was false, as did McMaster, but they had an object in view which did not reach Ireland, but came home to themselves. Their politics are any the government desires; they will support the establishment of despotism here and then go to Ireland to free it from English despotism. How McMaster, knowing the true facts, can have faith in these men is a mystery to all. Hay does not see how a man can be a villain here and a saint in Ireland, or how an Irish abolitionist is any better than any other abolitionist. He notices McMaster's remarks in respect to Bishop James F. Wood having his name removed from the Herald or Universe. The Bishop had ordered his name taken from the issue, but this was not done until Wood had threatened the man from the altar. Wood has sold himself over to the abolitionists, and has a picture of Lincoln over his bed, while in every paper he has a picture of a Bishop or priest. He has seen two articles in the Freeman's Journal taken from a Dublin paper which no true Irish Catholic can approve. They attack the Catholic church and Daniel O'Connell's moral force principles. They are "young Irelandism" revived in a secret form without shame, honor, gratitude. O'Connell's moral force principles raised them from inferiors to equals, placed most of the cities of Ireland in their hands, opened Parliament to them, and brought about respect for the Catholic Church in England, Ireland, and Scotland, which was the dearest object he had in view. The liberty of Ireland will not be achieved by the tools of despotism here. Many have been made to believe that the United States would aid Ireland, but this is false, since this country has never been anything other than English in sentiment and has opposed the liberty of Ireland. The burnings of Church and convent and the refusal of some states to allow an Irishman or a Catholic to become a citizen are proof of that. ` P.S. -- He did not write for publication, but McMaster can do so if he likes. :: I-1-m A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.