 | Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - 1922 - 740 pages
...themselves as worthy members of the community, are equally entitled to the protection of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality. From the address to the Roman Catholics in the United States. I rejoice, that a spirit of liberality... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1932 - 220 pages
...Washington's reply to the address made to him in December, 1789. In that reply Washington expresses the hope "ever to see America among the foremost nations...examples of justice and liberality. And I presume," he wrote, "that your fellow citizens will not forget the patriotic part which you took in the accomplishment... | |
 | American-Irish Historical Society - 1911 - 530 pages
...Washington plainly pointed out the duty of Americans towards Irishmen and Catholics "I hope" he said "to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality. Your fellow citizens will not forget the part you took in the accomplishment of their revolution or... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 770 pages
...and liberality; and I presume my fellowcitizens will never forget the patriotic part which Catholics took in the accomplishment of their revolution and...the important assistance -which they received from France, in which the Catholic religion is professed." Therefore, if persecution is any proof of the... | |
 | John Tracy Ellis - 1969 - 340 pages
...and in this respect he hoped to see America among the foremost nations of the world. He then stated: "And I presume that your fellowcitizens will not forget...Revolution, and the establishment of their government; nor the important assistance which they received from a nation in which the Roman Catholic religion... | |
 | William Oland Bourne - 1870 - 834 pages
...themselves as worthy members of the community, are equally entitled to the protection of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations...liberality ; and I presume that your fellow-citizens will never forget the patriotic part which you took in the accomplishment of their revolution and the establishment... | |
 | Philip Greven - 1988 - 449 pages
...themselves as worthy members of the community, are equally entitled to the protection of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality."-13 The genteel shared a dislike of bigotry in all its manifestations and were always profoundly... | |
 | Fabian Bruskewitz, Fabian W. Bruskewitz - 1997 - 438 pages
...Catholics of the United States: "I presume that your fellow citizens will not forget the patriotic part you took in the accomplishment of their revolution and the establishment of our government or the important assistance they received from a nation (France) where the Roman Catholic... | |
 | George Washington - 1999 - 142 pages
...themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protection of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality. To the Roman Catholics in the United States, New York, March 1 790 Treason No punishment, in my opinion,... | |
 | John C. Linehan - 2009 - 138 pages
...Again : In reply to an address of the Catholics of the United States in 1789, Washington said, — "I presume that your fellow-citizens will not forget...revolution and the establishment of their government." This is strong testimony to the plea that not only were there Catholic Irish here before the Revolution,... | |
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I presume that your fellow citizens will not forget the patriotic part which you took in the accomplishment of their Revolution and the establishment of their Government, or the important assistance which they received from a nation in which the Roman... 
