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Excerpt from Life of the Most Reverend John Hughes, D.D., First Archbishop of New York: With Extracts From His Private Correspondence The School question - Injudicious efforts of the Catholics to obtain a portion of the school fund - The Bishop enters the lists - Petition to the Board of Alder men - Debate before the Common Council - Memorial to the Legislature - The Secretary of State preposes a plan of school reform - The Bishop supports it - The question postponed-candidates for the Legislature pledged to op pose any change - The Bishop advises the Catholics to nominate an indepen dent ticket - Mr. Maclay's school-bill passed - The Bishop's house attacked by a mob - Establishment of Catholic schools - St. John's College opened. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.