The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-04-19
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The lats mob h Dublin, an account OF
Which appeAred In our Wednesdays issue,
wss one q those sruptions which show thai
irslanA 4 not yet an extinct volcano, aua
shaa ~ hostility q her people to England
10 oftAe NEST radical and implacaele char
actee. 4 brief recital Of only one class OF
Wrongs whisA she has suffered ut the bands
q ~ Ds.slsA Government may afford some
~xpaanat,on of the profound auimosity %
that nation which neither the lapse OF '''ne
ros he change OF circumstances see" "
saimlnbh.
The psnal laws enacted against the itlsn
Catholics for the peace OF Limef'eA' IN INC
sslga q King william, wcre enough %
tAenDolves 10 transmit Legacy OF imper'sn-
able hate 70 the Irish people. Limerick was
uurrendered upon express treaty stipulations
thas the Ietnh verc 70 be restored to their
esaAtes. immunities, and the same privileges
In the exeecise Of their religion "a they en-.
Soyed in the time Of Charles the Second
The King promised upon the meeting OF
Parliament s'to endeAvor to procure for
them each f,wther security in that particular
- may preserve them from any distarbanct
on account Of their said religion" These
articles King Willim ratifles for him self, his
helm and his successor, - far as in him
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How Was the treaty fulfilled9 In less than
three weeks the Euglish Parliament ex-
GUIDED CAtholics from the Irish House of
Lords aud Commons. 10 sour years there
aft1 the Catholic population was disarmcd,
I'll the priests banished, parents deprived
of I'll means Of educating their children at
home q abroad. and even Of being guardians
% thsir own or other persons children
King William never recon mended the at
tention OF Parliament to the religious liber
ties Of Irishmen, as he had promised. Par
lament, however, gave Its attention to the
matter after fashion of its own. 1t enacted,
in addition to the above measures, that any
son Of Catholic who would turn Protest
ant, should succeed to the family estate. and
Hyoung should be delivered to the custody
eta Protestant relation; no Catholic to hold
any ONCE, civil or military; nor to purchase
land, nor make lease of land for more than
thirty-one years; and If the profits OF the
land % leased amounted to above a certain
ratio settled BY the act, the farm to belong
to tho drst Protestant who made the dis
covegyi No Catholic was permitted to vote
q elections, orto be high or petty constables,
but In towns to provide Protestant watch
men In var with . Catholic prince, per
soma robbed by privateer to be Unidentified
by money levied on Catholics only. Catho.
1ic wives, upon their conversion, to have an
increase Of jointure; Catholics keeping
school to be prosecuted as convicts. No.
body permitted to hold property in trust for
. Catholic. Rewards given of ESQ for dis 1
covering . Catholic bishop, $50 for o
priest, and 9l0 for teacher No Cath
Ole to take more than two apprentices,
except In the linen trade. No Catholic to
marry . Protestant, and any priest cele-
orating such marriage to be hanged! Such
were aome of the barbarous enaclments
1hich gradually gave way before the oppo-
sit.on aroused by the first American and
-snch Revolutions. Even then, more than
= quarter Of century elapsed before the
C2iholic Emancipation bill, after the most
/ yoeed and furious opposition, released the !
:ish from the most Of their shackles. |
To appreciate the enormity of England's |!
Justice 1t must be mentioned that Ireland ;
~as ~ universally Catholic as England a |
Protestant country, and We must tryto im-
agine what our own feelings would be If
Catholic government in the North should
enact such penal code for the Protestant
3outh a. that which England, in defiance Of
sdsnn treaty stipulations, so long forced
upon Ireland.
1t 10 true these things have passed away,
INT the grievous wrongs of centuries are not
fofgotten In few years. 1t is because the
4a&lish Government understands this truth
that It conniyes at the villainous efforts Of |
Federal agents to drain Ireland of its fight
ING population. As long ago as 1927 the |
advocates OF Catholic emancipation in Eng |
land urged that the disafected state OF Ire
land was standing premium for war with
eyeU cabinet In Europe which had the most
0'stant Intention Of quarrclling with Great
Britain. Nor was it European enemies alone
who Eeys believed to be ready to take adj
vantage Of Irish discomfort. ''Does any
one imagine" said the Edinburgh Aev'e'o,
10 las7, shat 20 plain and obvious princi-
pie has not been repeatedly urged in the
French Cabinet ?-that the eyes Of the Ame-
ricans are shut upon the state OF Ireland
aud that that great and ambitious republic
Win not, In case Of war, aim deadly blow
Il this most sensitive part of the British
Emplrse We should really say that England
aas fully = much to fear from Irish frater.
niastion with America a. with France. The
anguaes = tho same; the Americans have
precsded them In the struggle; the number
y emigant and rebel Irish is very great
n America We ere sstonished at the mad |
49, and folly Of Rngiishmen, who do not |
perceive that both France and America are |
only waiting for . convenient opportunity |
. 60 TO war with this country; and that
o,s Of the tint blows aimed at our indie
pssdenee would b the invasion of Ireland.
l3hoald yoa like to zee six or seven thousand
French or Americans landed In Ireland, and
slded b universal instruction of the
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