Lafargue, L., New Orleans, Louisiana, to Archbishop Napoleon Joseph Perché, Rome, Italy, 1880 February 16

Lafargue's letters of January 22 and 27 no doubt reached Perché several days ago. He hopes it has been possible to make a remittance to Mr. Brièrre . Otherwise, the latter will not delay taking extreme measures which will entail the saddest consequences for Lafargue. If he is not able to help, Lafargue asks him to obtain from Rome a formal invitation to Bishop Francis Xavier Leray and the corporation to pay the sum due him without delay. In order to facilitate such steps he is sending no enclosure copies of two accounts, one approved by the members of the old council and the second by the committee which Perché had charged with the publication of the journal after the expiration of the society. Perché had considered the publication of the Propagateur Catholique as an urgent diocessan expense which ought to be paid before all other debts. He should use his prestige to get Rome to oblige the administrators of the diocese to respect those engagements. Until Brièrre deprives him of all means of action by having him judicially expelled from the bookstore, he will continue to publish the Propagateur which Perché founded and which for 38 years has been the energetic defender of religion. The Morning Star, which has already absorbed the chief subscribers, is also on the point of suspending publication, which proves that the English language is not as preponderant an element in the diocese as certain interested persons would have it believed. Father Joseph Anstaett tells him … :: VI-3-b A.L. French, Incomplete 4pp. 12mo.