American Catholicism?: John England and "the republic in danger"

Catholic Historical Review

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 240-257

  Hill, Harvey ^a  

^a BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 33744995696     PISSN: 00088080     EISSN: 15340708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cat.2003.0118     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. On England's adaptation to circumstances in the United States, see Patrick Carey, An Immigrant Bishop: John England's Adaptation of Irish Catholicism to American Republicanism (Yonkers, New York, 1982);
2. R. Frank Saunders, Jr., and George A. Rogers, "Bishop John England of Charleston: Catholic Spokesperson and Southern Intellectual, 1820-1842," Journal of the Early Republic, 13 (1993), 301-322;
3. Peter Clarke, A Free Church in a Free Society: The Ecclesiology of John England, Bishop of Charleston, 1820-1842 (Hartsville, South Carolina, 1982),
4. "John England: Missionary to America, Then and Now" in Gerald P. Fogarty (ed.), Patterns of Episcopal Leadership (New York, 1989), pp. 68-84;
5. Virginia Lee Kaib, "The Ecclesiology of John England, The First Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina (1821-1842)" (Ph.D. dissertation, Marquette University, 1968).
6. For more general biographical information, see Peter Guilday, The Life and Times of John England, First Bishop of Charleston (1786-1842) (2 vols.; New York, 1927);
7. Dorothy Fremont Grant, John England, American Christopher (Milwaukee, 1949);
8. Joseph L. O'Brien, John England - Bishop of Charleston (New York, 1934).
9. Guilday discusses "The Republic in Danger" in Life and Times, II, 458-463.
10. "The Republic in Danger!," in Sebastian Messmer (ed.), The Works of the Right Reverend John England, First Bishop of Charleston (7 vols.; Cleveland, Ohio, 1908), IV, 412-415.
11. England, "The Republic in Danger," IV, 430.
12. There is a large body of literature on the nullification crisis. See, for example, William W. Freehling, Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836 (New York, 1965, 1966);
13. Richard E. Ellis, The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy, States' Rights, and the Nullification Crisis (New York, 1987);
14. and, more generally, Lacy K. Ford, Jr., Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry 1800-1860 (New York, 1988).
15. "England, "The Republic in Danger," IV, 454.
16. David Morgan, Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production (New York, 1999), p. 221.
17. See also Anne Boylan, Sunday School: The Formation of an American Institution, 1790-1880 (New Haven, Connecticut, 1988). England surely had in mind not only the specific proposals of the tract to which he responded, but also the slightly earlier efforts of Ezra Stiles Ely to create a "Christian Party" in politics.
18. Clarke, Free Church in a Free Society, pp. 389-413.
19. Clarke, "John England: Missionary," pp. 77-83,
20. Free Church in a Free Society, pp. 227-290.
21. England, "The Republic in Danger," IV 489, n. 16.