Mullon, Father James Ignatius, New Orleans, Louisiana, to Bishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1845 June 24

The contents of the Jeffersonian, on the occasion alluded to by Blanc, should not surprise him when he found in its columns of the 16th, on the arrival of the news of General Andrew Jackson's death, that all the Catholic churches were hung in black and the priests engaged in saying Masses all day for his soul. The article of Monday last is of the same ridiculous character. There were no black drapes, no injunction to pray for Jackson but as able a defense as Mullon was capable of making of the propriety with which Blanc refused all religious participation, that if a religious ceremony were considered necessary it belonged to the Presbyterians to make it as he selected their creed as his religious guide. It was to remove a false impression from the minds of many that induced Mullon to treat the subject. He thinks the idle reports of the Jeffersonian so absurd that they are undeserving of notice. Mullon will be the last to infringe on the doctrine of discipline of the Church. :: V-5-c A.L.S. 3pp. 4to.