He thanks McMaster for the copy of the Ballad, Sentinels, and expresses his deep emotions on seeing it. He asks God's blessing for Father Abram Ryan for placing immortal sentinels around the unmarked graves of Confederate dead, who died for a principle which yet may live after the monuments of their victors have crumbled. He thanks the editor for copies of the Freeman's Journal and the Catholic Register. It is a great comfort to him that justice and constitutional right is and can be so boldly vindicated as it is in the periodicals. Lafayette sent the Key of the Bastille to Washington thinking that it would thus be placed in the hands of a people among whom such instruments would never be used. If so, McMaster's case shows the fallacy of the expectation. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.