Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: B.H. Watson to "Mack" [William Macdonnell], Thomas G. Steele; Places: Wheeling, VA [now WV], 1854

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Subjects include: Catholic Church and the Know Nothings; comment on Steele being refused membership by the Know Nothings in Fairmont, VA [now WV]; opinion on Catholicism and Protestantism and persecution of the Catholic Church; opinion on Brownson's article; comment on the foreign populations, the industrious labor class, and wish they would come as fast as steamers can bring them; the American people who are ruled by their prejudices maltreating and abusing the privileges of the foreigner; prejudice against the Catholic Church adversely affecting the business affairs of the Catholic; and advises silence rather [than] ineffectual efforts to remedy the situation, trusting that the "Church must and will triumph as she has ever done."

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