This address, singned by more than five hundred men, all
heads of families, and reproduced by almost the whole press in
the United States, fell as a thunderclap on the head of the heartless
destroyer of our people. But it did not change his destructive
plans. It had just the contrary effect. As a tiger, mortally
wounded by the sure shots of the hunters, he filled the country
with his roaring, hoping to frighten us by his new denunciations.
He published the most lying stories to explain his conduct, and
to show the world that he had good reasons for destroying the
French congregation of Chicago, and trying the same experiment
on St. Anne.
In order to refute his false statements, and to show more
clearly to the whole world the reason I had, as a Catholic priest,
to resist him, I addressed the following letter to his lordship:
