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against the War most decidedly &
Emphatically - The Pope has instruc-
ted Archbishops & Bishops to oppose
it in every way & that Church, a
mighty power to have, has just
kept a Novana, in which increasing
prayer has been offered for peace- this
must produce a very great effect upon
the Irish, who have constituted a
large share of a fighting population
of the Northern armies.

In a second place, it is very
event that Lincoln is finding it
very hard to enlarge his armies-
The necessity of reinforcing Rosecrans
from Meade on, a very significant
fact- their inability to advance in
every direction is another meaningful
fact - the failure of their draft,
the enrolment of Negroes, their