“To Destroy Popery and Everything Appertinent Thereto”: William Chaney, the Jesuit John Bapst, and the Know-Nothings in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Maine

For the Jesuit priest John Bapst and newspaper editor William Chaney, the populist impulse that marked American politics in the turbulent decade of the 1850s offered opportunities. For Bapst, it meant engaging Catholics and Protestants throughout Maine in an effort to spread the Catholic faith. For...

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Main Author: Dzurec, David (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2017
In: The catholic historical review
Year: 2017, Volume: 103, Issue: 1, Pages: 73-98
Further subjects:B Know-Nothings
B Society of Jesus
B Anti-Catholicism
B Populism
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