Page 20. Pages 1-19 are missing. P.S. Demers asks McMaster to have patience with him. There are so many things he must give utterance to, now that he has the opportunity to tell the truth. He has seen in the Baltimore Mirror an article calling the Archbishop of Halifax Thomas L. Connolly, O.M.Cay. the best orator and discourser among the Fathers of the Vatican Council. Demers hopes Connolly laughed at this, for nobody believes it. Connolly, however, is among the first of the opposition, who held a meeting the other day Cardinal de Reuscher's of Vienna as to what they should do, the general discussion on the Schema having been closed according to the majority rule of February 1870. In America it is not realized that the greatest of the "Fathers" ? has been writing to the Governor and to other Protestant friends such things about the clergy, the Religious communities, and about the question of Infallibility as would be had if they were true. He is doing incalculable harm, for his friends spread these "secrets". The people are right in their indignation and anxiety; they do not know the attitude or position of their archbishop in Rome, and do not know whether he is going against the Pope. This same question can be asked regarding some American Bishops a and Archbishops. It might be asked also if one out of the 150 opponents will accept the Dogma. McMaster by now has the names of the inopportunists. Lately two have withdrawn their names from that list, McMaster's Archbishop John McCloskey, of New York and Bishop John Michael Henni of Milwaukee. Of the four American prelates who have so far spoken on the Schema, only one Archbishop Martin John Spalding of Baltimore, has been for it. The others were Archbishop John B. Purcell of Cincinnati, and Bishops Michael Domenec of Pittsburg, and Augustin Verot of St. Augustine, the latter two of whom were called to order. Demers thinks this a poor show of American episcopal arrogance. Others opposing definition are, from England, Biship William Clifford of Clifton and Archbishop George Errington of Bath; and from Ireland, Bishop David Moriarty of Kerry and the Patriarch of Ireland, by age, Archbishop John Mac Hale of Tuam. But all the prelates from the British provinces are sound in their faith. Demers is afraid from some German Bishops, especially the Hungarians, who are influenced by Johannes Nicodaus von Hontheim Bishop of Trier, who did a great deal of harm during the last century. The Holy Father was not aware that the evil in the church was so great, but the greater it has turned out to be, the more thankful he is for having called the Council, as he knows the Councils of Lyons and of Florence did not succeed. The doctrine of Infallibility had always been put down plainly enough, but, the word "Infallibility" being missing, the Gallicans, like the Jansenists, found a way of escape. It will be written this time, however. Demers wishes it had been done by the Council of Trent, for then the Archbishop of Paris would not have bowed to Louis XIV, admitting the King's power to examine and reject Bulls and Judgements made in Rome, and would not have presided at the Assembly of 1682, which passed the "four articles". Demers grants McMaster the right to use as much of this letter as he wishes, but does not want his name mentioned. :: I-1-m A.L.incompletes. 4pp. 12mo.