The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-03-18

ware veat 70 Jock She lost the land the revenues apd
which confortsd the agsd and nArn, which sustained
the widow, and which Lovingly honorAby and intelligent
~ the scessiasta orders Alone but suotion With every
other calumny which our resistance brought upon the
Land. involved all classes Of the population The nob
from the homes Of their fathers for their attachment to
holy religion and compelled with the Of the
and increases their native country ages
deearred Of every privilege Of freedom and citizenship
ana placed under the ban OF human society; Md the
could answer in the afirmatve But you know to the
contrary-and who has not read the HISTORY Of our
physical and moral tortures The laws OF humanity OF
honor and of civilization suspended throughout our
region Of the world to weary defy deprive every
means Of carrying out Of religion and every instru-
and perseverance, in order to obtain consent
least our silence And yet legislative acts and educa.
nna systems the mercess hostties Of the press the
persevering caumnes of the tribune and the pulpit
employed in order to out patience and the in.
former the rack and the gibbet kept in action
for ages; and then came not merely the bloody and
Wholesale determination of Cromwell, but the slower,
wider and surer process of starvation And yet all these
means did net Brighten from their conscientousness
population whose only crime was to be faith.
full to their baptism and their God. Every in
strument broke in the hands Of the prosecutors
and every means that his policy his anatcism could
devise, proved Intellectual to him and glorious to u.s.
Every means, that of starvation for not at one
period only did famine in all its horrors visit Ireland
coming in the wake of civil religious strife ii
not only in the sixteenth seventeenth and
centuries that that dreadful plague stalking through
our land, which regarded wholesome to the land
lords embarrassments, or to the partizan system of
political economy. But my brethren, may not talk
to you upon those terrible cpochs of persecution for
the present time can only glance at them but
ber from the first tyrannica measures Of the eighth
Henry to times not single generation of Irish
men has ever refused to accept the desperate but
glosious struggle in defence of holy religion.
They were heirs to martyrdom, and they claimed and
they and the hereditary honors And yet let
us not imagine that the men of those days
to sense of personal degradation national
age. In the reign of Elizabeth well in that of the
monarch whose happy Obstinacy gave the signal for
American Independence young hearts beat high with in
dgnaton at seeing their native land thus degraded and
laid waste-at seeing closed to their talents
and merits; and old men, with foot in the grave
after long life of exertions and sacrifices to raise up
their country and their religion to another position and
the better to provide for their families behed that they
left their children and to their country only darker
future and heavier chains but yet, Notwithstanding
this these old men, upon the brink Of the grave with
the past behind them and the dread future before hem
unathfu to the creed and the homes of their
youth. Nor do find that young men, although they
had hearts feel and to think discontinued from
And We of the present day-we surely have fallen
upon days of rest We of the present generation need all
the energy of our fathers, the generous sympathy
of forefathers. The martyrdom of Ireland
day that every Catholic throughout the whole
world was commanded by the sovereign Ponti to bend
his knee and to offer up to Heaven his prayers. And
she PROSTATE in the dust and because the enemy had
seized upon that moment to make her abjure her faith
and yet there was such result At the next moment
the entire civilized world repeated with admiration the
words addressed by Saint Cypran to the martyrs in the
BY what words l extol your faith You have en-
dured the most excrucatng tortures until your glory is
perfect You have not yielded to totures for torurss
have yielded to But only does Ireland display
sublime Christian charity in the very midst of her
Church. and even to those whose countrymen her
prosecutors and butchers but appeal you Christian
BRETHREN whether during that long period of boedshed
and famine you should mpute to her the crimes Of
isolated individuals whom no one condems more emerge
ticahy than she. You do not blame the patient under
the knife Of the the victim extended under
the hand of the executioner the rack of his limbs
ants Surely you will not blame the Church of Ireland
for individual crimes Of bloedheo by the assassin when
walton, and his children cast from their homes
the midst Of utter hopelessness by his landlord.
In this nineteenth century claim for Ireland the glory
Of marty rdom and admire beseech you the greatness
Of this prerOgatve-the purity of this glory Think all
the battles fought in the memory Of 1t would be
terror to those nations who foremost in mill
tsry renown oil the men whom they sacrificed in
their contests for their ambition to start and
them. Oh France France 30 dear to us-what would
Buscao TO the plains Of Fredland to rise up and
accuse thes all the victims of mad but heroic frenzy
immortal souss There is not single British posses
sion in which the Irish not to he found and in which
wi h to aid the progress independence and their holy
religion. Christian brethren, gather the moral
that you should bear home with you from this ssered
spot, it is that you young and old parent and child,
should make in the presence Of God and the Cross firm
resolve to be than faithful to religion and
endeavor by voice and pie to follow and to propa
gate henceforth the virtues and the faith OF Saint
Patrick. Do atogsther-do with united energy
do so during the year. and can prophecy What
win be the benefit to the American Church from your
generosity and perseverance know that ST. Patricks
day may to be day Of religious celebration
in this land know it; but well understand day
may come, and may it soon come for Ireland's happ
and seek their fortunes or liberty upon these Shores
but trust that the day will come when the fest
val Of St Patrick win not awaken pleasant and grateful
feelings throughout the land know that the American
Church can, and will, forget what she
to the dutifu trustworthy and faithful children of St.
Patrick They say that the Swiss mountaineer, when
poverty compels him to venture away from his native
mountains, he arrives on the banks Of the broad
tic river be recoects that it takes its source in his
mountains. and near his own little cabin, and i'm
medixtey his eyes filed with tears and his whole
soul convulsed with unaccountable emotion and he
bends him down to drink the pure and cooling
water he magines that it is still fragrant with
the odor of his Alpine meadows, and of the
green hills he left about his mountain home and
be thinks that every breeze that plays upon his DO
som brings him tidngs oft wife and children he left at
home, and who anxiousy expect his return Let
but do duty In this generation, and q century
hence what spectacle will the American Church present
to the traveller from Ireland He will her from
to aourshng and spreading in the city, and
growing in the country. while every where time viii have
pro ved her the truest friend of liberty She viii then be
looked upon with dread ard hatred by none and with a
lection by all The traveller viii visit railways and
canals and upon the spot where the poor aborers gene
Iosity first erected tim church will then stand many
stately piles Many proud villages and towns will then
have raised themselves the soil first consecrated by
the emrants foot but the cross from his grave viii be
many spire pointing in triumph to Heaven
Thus fro the Canadian waters to the Atlantic shores
will the pilgrim of Ireland find many consolng traces of
the spirit OF former age II may be that will
upon St Patrcks day to thank that God whose proyi
whence has been mercful unaccountably myster
GUS over our father land He viii come to some gIor
Gus temple of which this will not be,even shadow and
his guide showing him. round will TO MIN, This too
l. another monument left by that noble hearted ge
neraton"
The then concluded, and the Archbishopie.
vered solemn benediction after which the congrega
ton separated The Sisters of Charity with the children
attending their schools occupied seats under and upon
each side Of the pulpit during the services
LECTURE BY MIR. DOHENY.
large body of Irish citizen soldiery and a CON
siderable number Of others assembled in the Tabernacle
at half past three o'clock to hear n lecture from Mr.