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 The undersigned, with the approbation of His Lordship, the Administrator of the 
 Diocese, begs to appeal to the Charity and sympathy of his coreligionists, in Quebec, 
 under the following circumstances : 
 
 It is a fact, probably unknown or unnoticed by the Parishioners of Quebec, that 
 there exists no Catholic School, between the Christian Brothers' School in Diamond 
 Harbour upwards, to the cove of Messrs. Wood, Petry and Poitras, a distance of at 
 least three miles ; the intervening space, especially between the toll-gate and the 
 extremity of Messrs. Gilmour's Cove, is settled by a dense population of Irish and 
 French Canadians, furnishing, I should say, a <jfuo/a of between 150 to 200 children of 
 school age, who, hitherto, owing to distance, poverty and other causes, have been 
 debarred from the facilities and blessings of Christian Schools, with which their more 
 favoured brethren have been so munificently supplied, both in the City and in the 
 remainder of my Parish. 
 
 It is true that a mixed school (Catholic and Protestant) lias been founded here, years 
 ago, under tlie joint auspices of the late lamenlod Rever-'nd Mr. McMahon and the late 
 large hearted and noble minded David Gilmour, Esq., with, (as I gathered from the lips 
 of Mr. McMahon himself), the expressed stijiulalion of total abstenlioii from Prosylelism, 
 in every shape and form, and also with promised facilities of giving to the Catholic 
 youth, (apart from school hours), that religiolm^s^•||clion which by (he very essence of 
 the mixed system, they could not^jor s-honld m™ in the school. 
 
 But for several years past, the i,;,)eatec1yet covert and insidious aggressions on the 
 faith of the children attending the school, the deleterious ellects of the workiiis of this 
 mixed system on their morals and manners, became to me so palpable, so puiidully 
 glaring, that I deemed it a duty incumbent on me to endeavour (o discover some remedy 
 in order to counteract these growing evils ; out of respect for the memory of the vene- f-aZ^^ 
 vbUa founders of the school, before coming to an open rtipliue with llie present Patron, 
 I made application, with all due courtesy, for permission fo hold, in the vacant and 
 untenanted school rooms, on Simday afternoons, a Christian Doctrine School, which 
 I should organize and superintend in person : this just and reasonable request met'with 
 a blunt and positive refusal ! ! My duty then, as pastor, became cl -arly and sharply 
 defined ; I resolved, coCite que coute, to hurst asunder the shackles and trammels of 
 bigotted vassalage, under which a portion of my fiock has so long groaned, to escape, 
 at all risks, from the fata! results of a position so anomalous, so anli- catholic, to pro- 
 vide for them a christian school where their morals should be preserved from uidioly 
 contamination and their principles shielded from the onslaughts of bigotry and fana- 
 ticism. 
 
 I set to work at once, I obtained, gratuitously from one of my spirited goiieroiis 
 parishioners, a site for the projected school, to be located in the parish of Quebec, 
 Adjoining the di\ision lint! between the two parishes. 
 
I deem it expedient to observe here, that this parish is already overburlhened «vith 
 fQxalion for school purposes, that we have at present six flourishing schools, resorted 
 to, by, between 350 to 400 scholars, that the seven eights of the proprietors of this 
 parish are protestants, and cannot be reached by taxes for catholic schools, on account 
 of their having established a separate school. Uence the urgent necessity of my appeal 
 to my friends, both here and in Quebec : I felt emboldened to address myself to 
 Quebeccers, from the fact, that the benefits to be derived from the opening of this 
 school will accrue and be shared, in a proportion of two thirds, by the children of the 
 parish of Quebec, and I will add that in this school, French and English will be taught 
 as in all the schools of St. Columba. 
 
 From the parents of the poor abandoned children, as well here as in Quebec, 
 whose cause I advocate and in whose behalf I appeal, I have no aid to expect ; 
 they are, for the most part, so wretchodly poor ! ! From the inexhaustible fund of 
 catholic sympathy, benevolence and charity in Quebec, to which no one (not even a 
 stranger under similar straits and diflicullies) has appealed in vain, I would fain hope 
 for a liberal and generous response. 
 
 I should deem myself insensible and dead to all feelings of honour, justice and 
 
 gratitude, did i not, while stigmatizing one solitary exception of bigotry, avail myself of 
 
 the same occasion to record in the same frank open manner my grateful acknowledg- 
 
 .'Txlc'^tJL'^tt^^ ments and heart felt appreciation for the^ i B aj H omoraW e acts of kindness, generosity, 
 
 charity and benevolence, which my parishioners, and I, have received at the hands of 
 every other Protestant firm or Individual in this Parish. I would also willingly and 
 cheerfully bear my humble testimony to the harmony, good will, christian charity and 
 mutual forbearance wiiich have subsisted hero, notwithstanding the diversities of race 
 and creed, during the seventeen years I have been connected with this Parish. 
 
 It was not without great reluctance and hesitation that I decided to appeal to the 
 public, but the sacred interests inv Ived, the imminent dangers of perversion, the res- 
 ponsibilities of my position as Pastor of this Catholic Parish, over-rid, in my mind, all 
 p(jrsonal feelings and minor considerations and compelled me to appear before you 
 either in person or by kind friends who have charitably consented to appeal for the good 
 work herebv announced. 
 
 P. H. HARKIN, P. P. 
 
 Presbytery of St. Columba, 
 
 24th December, 1864. 
 
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