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DANGER IN THE DARK. 241
care of the Jesuits. About twelve months after she
visited her son, and was surprised and exceedingly
troubled when she ascertained that he had been
already received into the Romish church. She im-
.mediately removed him from the college, and placed
him under my care. I afterward published the facts
as she stated them to me. The President of St.
Joseph's College, situated at Bardstown, made a
publication in reply, in which he asserted that the
boy's mother was a Roman Catholic, whose dying
request to his adopted mother was, to have him
trained in that faith; that he had learned this from
the adopted mother herself; and that her SOD, a
~entleman of high standing, had so directed the
professors of St. Mary's college; and he even obtained
from one of those Jesuits a certificate to this
effect. Providentially it so happened, that while the
subject was exciting public attention, the gentleman
who was said to have directed the boy to be taught
the Romish faith, reached the town (Bardstown),
and immediately gave me a certificate that he had
given no such direction; that the boy's mother was
not known to have been a Roman Catholic, and had
never made such a request as the President of St.
Joseph's had pretended. Thus did those Rev. gentlemen
abuse the confidence placed in them, and then
fabricate stories to shield themselves from merited
reproach.' "
"After all, Mr. Carleton, you will admit, that such
instances, while they prove that bad men have crept