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THE

CROSS AND THE SHAMROCK,

OR,

HOW TO DEFEND THE FAITH.

AN

IRISH-AMERICAN CATHOLIC TALE

OF REAL LIFE,

DESCRIPTIVE OF THE

TEMPTATIONS, SUFFERINGS, TRIALS, AND TRIUMPHS

OF THE

CHILDREN OF ST. PATRICK

IN THE

GREAT REPUBLIC OF WASHINGTON.

A BOOK

FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT AND SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS OF

THE CATHOLIC MALE AND FEMALE SERVANTS OF THEUNITED STATES.

WRITTEN BY

A MISSIONARY PRIEST.

[Transcriber's Note: a pseudonym for Hugh Quigley.]

BOSTON:

PATRICK DONAHOE,

3 FRANKLIN STREET.

1853.


Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by

PATRICK DONAHOE,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

DEDICATION.

To the faithful Irish-American Catholic citizensof the whole Union, and especially to the workingportion of them, on account of their piety,their liberality, their patriotism, and their steadyloyalty to the virtues symbolized by the "Crossand the Shamrock,"—on account of their attachmentto the land of St. Patrick, and to thereligion of her patriot princes and martyrs,—thiswork, written for their encouragement and instruction,is respectfully inscribed by

Their humble servant,
And devoted friend and fellow-citizen,

THE AUTHOR.

September, 1853.

PREFACE.

"There are moments when every citizen who feels that he can saysomething promotive of the welfare of his countrymen and of advantage tohis country is authorized to give public utterance to his sentiments,how humble soever he may be."—Letter of Archbishop Hughes on theMadiai, February, 1853.

"There may be, in public opinion, an Inquisition a thousand times more