ABSTRACT
FROM An Appeal to the Reason and Good Feeling of the English People on the subject of the Catholic Hierarchy, London, 1850. Composed and published in November, 1850 in reply to the popular agitations and the Durham Letter, this long pamphlet covered most of the heads of controversy raised in the national press, and, as Wiseman pointed out explicitly, in the pulpits of the State Church. This extract contains a reference to the Mansion House speech of Lord Chancellor Cottenham, who had declared his intention of crushing Wiseman’s red hat underfoot.
