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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 38
To this letter the following replies were received:—
To this letter the following replies were received:—
The Most Rev. Daniel M'Gettigan, Primate of All Ireland, wrote:—
2nd February, 1880.
"My Dear Lord Mayor,
"The Mansion House Committee for the Relief of the Distress in Ireland is engaged in the noblest work under the sun. The amount of good already done by it is marvellous. Everyone must have confidence in the integrity, honour, impartiality, and benevolent motive of its members. It is cruel to throw discredit on it. To bring that committee under suspicion is a crime akin to poisoning the wells that supply a beseiged city with pure water. It is idle for me to add that I have a firm trust in the fairness of your excellent Committee.
"Believe me to remain, my dear Lord Mayor, your faithful servant,
"✠Daniel M'Gettigan."
His grace the Archbishop of Tuam wrote:—
January, 31, 1880.
"My Dear Lord Mayor,
"Very willingly I bear testimony to the efficiency with which the Mansion House Committee has hitherto laboured in mitigating the distress of our sorely afflicted people, and in averting for the present, in certain localities, the horrors of the famine of thirty years ago.
"I remain, my dear Lord Mayor, your faithful servant,
"John,
Archbishop of Tuam."The Most Rev. Dr. Croke, Archbishop of Cashel, wrote:—
February 2nd, 1880.
"My Dear Lord Mayor,
"I am in receipt of your circular, and beg to say in reply that I have no reason to think that the moneys placed at the disposal of the Mansion House Committee have not been judiciously applied. It is true, indeed, that I have no special fancy for certain members of the Committee, whose sympathies with our people I would be strongly disposed to question. But your name and other names are ample guarantee to me that no substantial wrong can be done our people in the distribution of the Mansion House fund
"I have the honour to be, my dear Lord Mayor,
"Your faithful servant,
"✠T. W. Croke, Abp."