28 pp. (8vo) 20x11.5 cm (8x5") bound in plain modern wrappers.
John Joseph Hughes was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. He was the fourth Bishop and first Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York, serving between 1842 and his death in 1864. This address, to his largely Irish-American Philadelphia congregation celebrates the British parliament's recent removal of some of the most oppressive provisions of the odious Test Acts, granting fuller civil rights and responsibilities to Roman Catholics in the Anglican body politic.