Blanc, Bishop Anthony, New Orleans, Louisiana, to Father Matthew Bernard Anduze, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1842 October 26

Surely it must be painful for a priest ordained 22 years not to be able to participate as a priest in the religious services. But whose fault is it? Anduze should reread Blanc's letters and if he recalls the interview he had with Bishop Michael Portier at the time of Portier's last visit, he cannot fail to agree that Blanc could expect only a pompous show of all the services Anduze pretends to have given religion, the apparent aim of which was to prove that the pain he had suffered had not been merited. It is no longer simply the publishing of his unfortunate letter, which was the determining factor in the withdrawal of faculties for the city and Parish of Orleans, it is a question of his conduct since then. By an unexplainable condescension, Blanc has left Anduze his faculties for the other side of the Lake. Anduze renounced them by coming to New Orleans to accept from the trustees the office of superintendent of a school for little girls with the modest salary of $133 a month! There was a time when Anduze's conscience would have reproached him. A. Copy French