COMPLETE WORKS OF THE MOST REV. JOHN HUGHES, D.D., ARCHBISHOP OF NEW YORK. COMPRISING, HIS SERMONS, LETTERS, LECTURES, Carefully Compiled from the best Sources, AND EDITED BY LAWRENCE KEHOE. VOL. I. NEW YORK: THE CATHOLIC PUBLICATION HOUSE, 9 WARREN STREET. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. PREFACE. HAVING heard many persons, admirers of the late Archbishop HUGHES, express a wish that his public lectures, letters and speeches might be collected and published in book form, the compiler of this volume has, after some deliberation, undertaken the task, which, he trusts, will prove acceptable to the Catholic community in general. The following pages are the first installment, and will be immediately followed by another volume of about the same size, which will complete the work. The biographical sketch merely touches upon the principal events in His Grace's career, but is the most complete one yet published. The speeches of His Grace on the SCHOOL QUESTION-a question which first brought him prominently before the New York public-will, no doubt, be read with pleasure as well as profit by thousands who have heard of these great efforts of Dr. HUGHES, but who have had no chance heretofore of reading them. His speeches before the Board of Aldermen, as well as his great THREE DAYS' SPEECH IN CARROLL HALL on this question, will be found in this volume in full. Other important documents are also given entire. The concluding volume will also contain important writings of Archbishop HUGHES, which should be read by every Catholic in the land. NEW YORK, September, 1864. THE EDITOR. |