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Carney; Isaac and William Collins, Susanna Cook; Joseph Cunningham; Thomas Dison; Fairmont and Palatine Bridge Co.; Peter Flinn; Thomas Fowler; Abraham \u0026 Jacob S. Hayden; W. C. Haymond; Jeremiah Highfield; Martin Hurley; Basil Patterson; George W. Paris; Joseph and Charles Peach; Benjamin Reader; Margaret Reeves; Richard Smith; Thomas G. Steele; James Eliazor; and Azariah, Zachariah, Elizabeth, Sarah, James, Ann, Dent, Thomas, Henry, and Louisa Watson.","Subjects include: Travel -- Wheeling, VA [now WV] to Keokuk, IA by boat, Keokuk to Burlington, IA by stage; traveling conditions; comment on Cinn. [Cincinnati], OH and St. Louis, MO; description of cathedral in St. Louis; mention of St. Patrick's church; comment on Keokuk; disturbance at Nauvoo and comment on the temple; comparison of Iowa to Virginia; and family news and friends.","Subjects include: Travel -- Wheeling, VA [now WV] to Burlington, IA by boat (name of steamboat given); Cincinnati, OH (comment on Catholic churches, museum); Andrew Jackson (comment on A.J.'s role in the Battle of New Orleans, LA); Louisville, KY (comparison to Cincinnati); St. Louis, MO (comment on business as compared to Cincinnati); stage coach travel; Nauvoo (comment on the Mormon temple); Burlington, IA (comment on size in comparison to Morgantown, VA [now WV]); description of farm (wheat growing on prairie land, description of soil); and family news (Harrison and James mentioned regarding their business).","Subjects include: travel -- comment on members of party going to California; number of miles traveled per day; camp and traveling routine; comment on sickness of wagon train people; number of wagons; estimate of time it will take to reach California; and prices of supplies.","Subjects include: the church -- NY vice (answer to letter from Watson calling the Bishop's attention to the vice prevailing in New York City); suggests pecuniary aid to the church to combat the problem would be welcome; comment on large number of immigrants arriving in city daily and difficulty \"to preserve them intact, poverty and many other causes conspiring to their destruction;\" and hope to remedy this condition in part by erection of Magdalen Asylum.","Subjects include: politics; \"Know Nothings\" -- the Irish in America -- Catholic Church; intolerance of Americans for the Irish as a class; opinion of the conduct of Irishmen; opinion on the platform of the Know Nothings; comment on hostility of political parties to Catholics; dislike of Brownson's action on the Know Nothings, his extremes in upholding the Catholic Church; and intention of not supporting the Whigs if they identify with the Know Nothings: \"...the American people as a Nation are the most entensely [sic] intolerant of all people under the sun...\"","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.\""],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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