The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-05-22

against Calhollc5 IN the tower. l. liz
common rack, in which the limbs wer
stretched Ly levers. 2. The Scacen
gers Daughter, so called, being like
hoop. in which the body was bent unit
the head ard feet met together. 5. Tb'
chamber,ScalIed Little Ease, being hole
SO small that person could neither stand
sit, nor lie straight in it. 4. The T0'
Gauntieis. 5. Needles were thrust un'
der the nails. 6. II the offenders wer,
youag ladies, that is would not go Il
church, they were merely scourged-
cruelty sometimes.
Under Charles l., if the Roman Ca
lhoics could not give good accoun, o
themselves TO commissioners appointed fol
that purpose, they we've hanged up undeI
martial law. There were hundreds o
such cases. Under this reign the altar:
ofthe Roman Ca!olc churches were strip
ped the images of their saints hewed down
numerous chapes were seized for the
Kings use, Catholics were crowded into
loalhsome prisons, and scores of priests
and friars murdered.
Under Cromwell the thing waxed
worse and worse. Oflhis period Prot.
estant clerg yman-the historian Leland
says, 'the tarOrite object was the utter
determination of all Catholic inhabitants
OF ireland. Their estates were marked
out and allotted TO The conquerors, and
their posterity consigned TO inevitable ru'
in"
Another Protestant clergyman, Dr..
Warner, says, "they hoped for an extir>
patton. not OF mere Irish only, but of all
The English families that were Roman
Catholics"
Lord Clarendon says that Parliament
had sworn 10 e,ttirpale the whole race OF
Irish Catholics.
Brent says, "Ex!irpatiou was preached
FIR Gospel"
Carte says, THE Lord JUSTICES sought
the ruin and expulsion of all the old Eng
lish and natives that we're Roman Cath
olics."
Leger says, "The determination was
to e1Arpate the Irish and Papacy out of
the kingdom"
Men and women, during this period,
were execrably executed. A woman, en-
ciente, was ripped up, from whose womb
three babes were taken out; through
whose little bodies the soldiers had thrust
their weapons.
In the county of Wicklow, most of the
commonally were murdered. Five hund
red in one massacre. Onc man was
roasted alive
In the county OF Dublin not only men,
but nursing infants were butchered; the
soldiers in their expeditions slew all per-
sons promiscuousIy. The people, be-
coming alarmed, took shelter in "great
strai ght Of furze."
This was set on fire on all sides, and
the congregated mass were all burned or
killed. This same thing was done in
severa! other instances. Being pursued:
the Catholics took shelter in the thickels,
which were SC! on fire, consuming the
sufferers.
Leland, Protestant historian, speak.
ing of This county, says, STARVED and
famished, whose goods were seized on by
the regiment, sccen thousand"
In the county Of Meath, blind woman
aged eighty years, was encompassed by
straw, 10 which fire was set, and the poor
woman burned. An old farmer, OF one
hundred years. was tied about with light
ed matches, and thus tortured 10 DEATH
A young woman was put into the stock
of tuckmiI, and so ground to DEATH
In one parish two hundred persons were
killed. In three others, 440.
In the county of DONEGAL, 220 wo-
men and child rem were smothered in two
caves. o. one Sunday morning, So poor
people, mostly women aud children, were
thrown off bridge into the river, and
drowned. The breasts Of several females
were cut of with the sword. Seven
thousand were slain in this county. A
Protestant reminded one Of the soldiers
that the children were innocent, and
should not be buchered. The reply was,
"Nils will be lice"-goung Catholics be-
come old ones.
Ia the county OF Cork, children were
taken, by soldiers. by the legs, who knock
ed out their brains against the wall. Ma.
ny were fastened in their houses, and the
buildings then burned. Three hundred
females who had gathered around cross,
were slain with the sword. Not less
than l2,0 900 were bulchered in this coun-
ty. Cromwell himself stated that in one
parish 1000 had been murdered. Speaks
ing Of his success in this work of death,
he says, 81 wish that all honest hearts
may give the glory Of this TO God a,
lone.'
But these cruetics were not confined 10
the land. Whenever an Irish frigale was
seized, the seamen were bound back 10
back, and thrown overheard into The sea,
if they we're Irish.
But We have already protrOcted our re-
marks to WEAKNESS. We will but notice
few things, showing that this anti cath