 He was enraged, seeing it not only as a religious threat but a political concern.On 16 February 1850, the Saturday edition of "The Buffalo Morning Express" published an anonymous letter to the editor condemning the state legislature for providing public funding for Sisters of Charity Hospital "without securing the rights of the public therein or requiring any of the usual guarantees of the appropriation of that money.Much dissatisfaction has been felt and expressed in regard to the actions of the legislature."