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 citizens of the whole Union, and especially to the working portion of them, on account of their piety, their liberality, their patriotism, and their steady loyalty to the virtues symbolized by the "Cross and the Shamrock,"—on account of their attachment to the land of St. Patrick, and to the religion of her patriot princes and martyrs,—this work, written for their encouragement and instruction, is respectfully inscribed by
Their humble servant,
And devoted friend and fellow-citizen,
THE AUTHOR.
September, 1853.