Hyde, John, Detroit, Michigan, to William J. Onahan, 1889 November 15

Hyde apologizes for writing to Onahan about the Congress, now that it's over. He sends an editorial from the Detroit Evening News of Nov. 13, which he asks Onahan to read. Hyde wonders where Dee got the impression that Judge Dunne's paper was repudiated by the Congress, since Hyde points out that it was acclaimed. Dee's allusion to the resolution on the Papacy has some justification. Hyde wonders what happened to the Committee on Resolutions when they came to consider independence of the Holy See. Hyde believes the politicians of Tammany Hall might have had a hand in the feeblest sentiment that ever came forth from a Catholic Congress;— instead of the strong declaration that the Pope had rightfully anticipated. Hyde fears that there are more things wrong than just that. He asks whether Onahan read the editorial in the Baltimore Mirror entitled "The Papacy and the Catholic World." If the writer of the editorial just had said the same thing as the report of the Committee, how encouraging it would be to the Pope and European Catholics such as Count de Mun. As to Onahan's work in the Congress, Onahan should read Hyde's editorial in this weeks Michigan Catholic, headed, "An Era in American Progress." :: IX-1-a A.L.S. 5pp. 8vo.