The memorial of Herr Cahensly. who is not a prelatehe is a layman. a member of the Prussian Diet. intimate with Dr. Windthorst. whose letter he adoptedin his memorial presented to the Vatican said: 6. The want of representatives of the different nationalities of emigrants in the episcopate. As every nationality has its own characteristics. its own habits and customs. it is important. also. that the priests should not only speak the language of the emigrants. but that they should be of the very same nation. Hence it is desirable that every different national group of emigrants should be organized into a distinct parish. with a priest of its own nationality. Some are of the opinion that the language can not be kept beyond the second generation. and that the grandchildren of the immigrants will certainly speak nothing but English. The facts of experience offer triumphant objections to this opinion. It is part of this scheme that the various foreign languages shall be perpetuated in this country by this segregation of people according to their nationalities.
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