Defence of Catholic Principles in a Letter to a Protestant Minister.

• imprint_number: 1818.113
• title: A defence of Catholic principles, in a letter to a Protestant minister. By Demetrius A. Gallitzin.
• sequence_number: 113
• year: 1818
• place_issued: Winchester
• issuing_press: John Heiskell
• author: Gallitzin, Demetrius Augustine (1770-1840).
• notes: The "Protestant Minister" addressed was John Johnston (1750-1823), pastor of Presbyterian church at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Gallitzin, a Russian Catholic immigrant, had established the first Catholic parish in the Alleghenies about 1799; this pamphlet, first published in 1816 in Pittsburgh, was his response to an anti-Catholic sermon delivered by Johnston on the day of fasting and humiliation decreed by President Madison at the end of the War of 1812.
  
  
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