The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-13
ARCHBISHOP HUGHES LECTURE.

mense Crowd 1T toc Academy Of husae.
Over re thouss ad per, seubei LAST even
at the Academy |. Musi o le.r the iecnrs Of Arch
bishop Hughes the Life 400 Services osDanei D Con-
nell" me stage was occupied by large nbe' Of the
Catholic clergy. and few me n ,srs Of the lity
At egh, O'Clock precissy the reverend prelse made
bis apreaIsrcs, accompanied by Bishop oLocb IN, OF
Brooklyn; Very Rev. Drs Stars No srrcn, and ether
distinguished dvnes Of the Catholic Church. Tbs Arsn
bishop greeted wi. tbs st enthusiastic applause,
and when silence restored he spoke ~ ioilows:-
LECTURE.
The life and times of Daniel oCopnen furnish thsrs
for the grouping into subject OF the most remark
able and i'm ooftant public which history has
corded a. Occurring At any nc between the birth aud
the death Of . puo,c man regret that the task OF
those events In copd bsed and yes luminous
form, has not oevoved oompetent 10 ful6l
il In manner satisfactory 70 numerous and
dress. 1--WE begin BY speaking OF trses Of OOonnel
how wor dsrfu are The public events Whion ocorsd under
For sxsmp 1t his BIZ tn The Catholic population Of ire
land we're under the ctons che pena code which hal
ocnt ned for Ieary nipe years and had exercised Its
bsneful and degrading il fuence three successive
generations. IL mbtnso IN lis msignAn oldings over
every portion 80 to speak, O. hs mind and body Of the
Catholics ef ireland, Tho srops coil OF the anaconda
with the sub 10 ing of he scorpion. 1t denied them
rights Of property rights Of done- 10 order rights Of sda
cation, rights of sion hvrt it denied them every
right except that which amt be called right, but
Necessary, namely l. aimed ~ making them paupers
regarded properly barosrisns IN reference TO science
and general educaten and either spos,ates frou, the
Catholic faith, Adnerents thereto IN Ter the dsAd-
vEn'sses both OF paupsrsm aud o. ignorance
Details specific this subject would Do ont
cfpace in lecture necessarily brief this r.uss BE-.
Bur may express the result in words Of Ed
muLd Burke, who Frotss tant alth ,ugh he never
ceIssd TO he love. OF his Ism countrymsn. he says
ssm Of aa csnsssns, ws a.
gssied and we'll esposed IN all rs pats q Sas machine Of
precision mpo'er hmenI apa aegradatlon q peeoe asd
ceeded from he nervered niger univ OF man.
unaer the operation OF such wbi:h mad been
frrr h.,tu
born in l175 The sword Of Ins American colonies
unahesthsd in resistance sea,rst tue expressions OF
Great Biten IN that same year. OConneA all bic
occasions sscrioed the miga ION Ct tue code
lee and to the successful resistance of the Anericsn
patriots In TIT British in lis pride ot place,
surrendered IT sarat 20 20 TIE once despsed iasuissd
and calumna;sd prnvincias rae penal code relax
ed IL 17i8 This esxaii ion not the rkirg of OF
Lsands fette,s, bu. simply leng hening ey linz
two OF the chain which, Ia is stringent rvedgs, hal
crushed her l. gave the Catholics power and
dominion over sucn nnsns of pr perry OF Wn,c, they
had not been legally pun1eren dnrng the three previous
generations. But still hey uld not acquire by
this axation, the right to purchase, tenants
hold any freen old in crest.
In 1882 England involved 10 war With other enc
miles, whose hees rode aud unopposed in the
BRUSH Channel She r~qui 70 900 ssamsn and Asive
lantsmen for her military sprvtse; aud In order 10 OBJ
them Ireland the rigor OF the penal
second time. BY this relaxation she permitted
the Catholics Of Ireland to open for the education
Of their youth in hterAt ure and reAgion-AAving
made IL crime, by her penal laws, during the previous
eighty or Catholic 20 teach or to be taught In
Ireland elsewhere. want Of iucsson b arspRsssh
to Tho Irish in later times this historical fact will SUI
hcent to Ign the II revsrsss into sad and
literal senre, far tbs Irish concerned the hollow
Of The British people, wnrn procaiDg the progress Of
education he announced that the "schoomastsr was
abrr ad-the had bsen literally broad from
Ireland during years. HIS attempt keep school
teach any person IN Iceland, Protestant Catholic
With ointment and he :. mr.. Cd after bsusSmsnt b.
subject TO be hal - Under these csHeum-
stances was certainly the In crest TO b
"aorcad" But any Catholic cniid however young,
sent to any foreign country iOI education such in
FAINT child incurred CORES pnncng pen a'ty-that H.
In 1892 the Fienoh srmss deiea cd their enemies 1t
every point The Nethera Ids conquered the
non Of the battle Gsmappe hssrd st. James,
and the wisdom If English statesmen induced them, BY
way OF concilattng The Irish relax the chain OF tho
penal code oy an addition three links
diminished bondage By tbs sxson of the bsrbAious
code, Catholics for the frat tie in century, might be-
come barristers attorneys aud soctors they coad be
freeren Of the lay he Grand Jury box aud
magistracy open 10 them and thsy permitted
to attain rank as high that Of colonel il the army
nay, OF them aowei the elective franchise in
voting for members of Parliament.
Up to this time Concessions to the great body Of the
danger to the British empire from the States with which
she was 1t O'COnnel not yet Of Ase, but al
70 oa @
had seem and part OF this he But besides, what
tonishing events passed before his eyes, on the
stage Of European POLITICAL civil and commercial
vicissitudes curing his lie! In his times
there the French revolution, with ell it's wide
spread and terrific consequences of bioodshed, t
umphs and defeats He stli in France as student,
when Louis WI. was executed on the scAfod. He wit
messed some of the horrors OF the revolution he saw
priesthood OF church slaughtered by the saugu
nary multitude and the disordered uncls Of the State
He witnessed If not the spot, the attempt abolish
Christianity to de,hrone God by denying bis existence
and TO substitute for the worship Of the Supreme Being
aymbolica divinity called g Human Reason, An at
tempt the folly and stupidity Of which
than its blasphemy. He the Corsican aoventurer
rush into this chaos and to partial dsr-re
gon renovated-the existence and worship OF God re-
nAugursted-order established amidst what had been
anarchy-snd this a6venturer, as he might at first
have been called rising by of genius the
power OF his sword, but above all the permission cod
undispnted sovereignty, only over France but
almost overscontnena al Europe.
O'Conne was q sincere Catholic and the buTe.inRs to
which the church of God during that awful period
vas exposed, must have Affected him deeply. The De.
! ism and political in6dslry which had animated
| most OF The cabinets OF Europe for halt . cenu-
previous to the outbreak Of the French Revolution,