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Excerpt from Archbishop Hughes in Reply to General Cass, and in Self-Vindication
That my name, or any views of mine in an incidental letter should have attracted such serious attention on the part of General Cass, or any other Senator, is to me rather a humiliation than a pride. The circumstance brings me, as a citizen, into an apparent collision with a Senator. I am not disposed to waive either my rights as a citizen, or sacrifice my principles as a patriot and a man, simply be cause the tide of American public oplnlon may be turned against me. Neither am I prepared, on the other hand, to say one word in maintaining my position, which, con sidering my age and rank in the church, might give ap parent sanction to that growmg 1rreverence which is becoming so prevalent in this age, whether as it relates to pre-eminence, civil, ecclesiastical, social, domestic or senatorial.
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