Political Quotes

“Monsignor Peter Vaghi is a member of the Senate family. He served here some years ago as the assistant to our esteemed and beloved brother, Pete Domenici. He is now the pastor of old St. Patrick's, or St. Patrick's Church on 10th Street, in the city, which is the oldest denominational church in the Federal city. It was founded in 1794 to provide for the religious needs, in the main, of Irish construction workers building the White House and the Capitol. Then came the Italians who were recruited for Jefferson's Marine Band, which was the principal source of culture and enthusiasm in the city in those days. When the British arrived with their horrendous purposes--corresponding exactly, I have to say, as a New Yorker, to the New York forces, which rode across Lake Ontario and burned the city of York, then their capital, what we now know as Toronto--in the manner of the military of those days, they responded. There were a sufficient number of British troops in town for a period that they, too, went to St. Patrick's.”