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5 as a Roman Catholic Christian of the highest and purest type, and occupied such intimate relations to Monseigneur Dupanloup, the great and good Bishop of Orleans, and to the Grallican Clergy of France, that his words must carry much weight with his kinsmen by race and religion in Canada. He says in writing to Dr. Von Dollinger praying him to attend the Vatican Council, and oppose the Ultramontane party:

The sense of coming evil must have been overwhelming in the mind of this eminent man, when he