Henni, John M., Bishop of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1864 October 20

It was Henni's suggestion that Father J. Smeddinck wrote to the Archbishop of Baltimore Martin J. Spalding to appoint another editor for the Romana. Henni advised Smeddinck to leave the diocese if he continued as editor. This sheet was first published at Cincinnati under another title. Henni refused his patronage from the beginning as it was published out of Wisconsin. It has scarcely a subscription in Wisconsin since its attacks on good Father R.M. Heiss, the editor of the Four Gospels. Smeddinck is disappointed because he could not get a chair in Henni's seminary though he held one in Belgium. The mischief done by the Romana is not half as bad as that done by the Baltimore Kirchenblatt or Freeman's Journal. Let Archbishop Spalding disapprove of the Romana and it will be discontinued. :: II-5-b A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.