Weekly Trinity journal., 1866-02-03

Among the papers found by the police in ex-
aiming the lodgings of Mr. Donovan, who calls
himself Colonel and Deputy Assistant Adjutant
General of the Fenian Army was paper from
the pen of His Excsllency the Count Milo NJ
Caskey. dated Piazza de Spagna, Rome, Octo-
Der" From this document, which is printed in
the November, 1865, number of Blackroods Ed
inJiugh Magazine we make the following extract
1t is proper to state here tina. Count NJ Caskey
had been solicited by Donovan to take command
of the Fenian Army
To begin, sir you somewhat boastfuly de-
clare, that this is revolution of the people
that there is not q man of station property
concerned in it, ond that it is to all intents and
purposes great popular CONFUSION. Why, sir,
pauperism has as much pretension to turn Bank
err as Politician. The first element of all rising,
as the first test of all honesty and loyalty to the
cause, is, to have something to lose. Even at
Baden-Baden they won't let you bet without sta
king your money. When the ragged man shouts
Erin 90 bragh : his cry, being translated sig
niiies want beef instead of potatoes, broad
cloth rers,ts rags and although these very
laudable desires, they won't do for revolutiona-
ry.doctrines and yet it is out of these ignorant,
brutalized materials You purpose to derive the
men to lead armies, to form commlssaratS, to
maintain discipline, and organize feverses. You
might as well stock jewellers shop with pay
ng-stones and tell him to make rings and brace
lets of them.
You talk of the small amount of the regular
army in. Ireland, and tell you that five thous-
and soldiers will rout fifty of your undsciplined
rabble, if you should chance, which greatly
doubt, ever to meet them. know what it is to
lead rregulars. Their very noise and Glamour
render command impossible; and except against
Neapolitan troops, who always first, these
Z haya arc
splendid in pursuit They perfect devils to
| follow flying foe, and they make short work OF
! the wounded but do not expect the English to
! behave like Neapolitans Do you imagine that
! the Line regiments, whose numbers you have so
accur ately given me, will be more afraid of the
Ramshackachery fencibes than they were of the
Russians? or will yield to the Ballingarry legion
what they denied to the 6erces troops of Bengal?
\ mob may begin revolution. The smallest
urchin in the street get up row; but to
guide ito direct, control, and profit by Ire
qures gifts very different from those likely to be
possessed by the ma Ster-taiIor and the two linen
diapers clerks you mention.
Tell me, if you can, what popular rising ever
made even a decent stand where the men of sta
ton held aloof and refused their assistance to it2
In Poland the mobiles took their share, and more
than their share so, too, in Hungary where the
highest names in the land stood foremost Even
in Italy, men Of family served in the ranks in the
campaign Of Lombardy and if You look to the
late war in America you will find that it was the
property of the South that threw itself into the
struggle Take the converse of all these; as we
it here. The Pope's cause is deemed the
righteous and the sacred one by tens of thou
sands, not of whom will fight for it, but they
leave the work to set of mScreant hrigands,
whose atrocities revolt human nature. Take my
word for it, blackguards can no more regcnerate
Il country than stable straw will make n nosegay.
\ ou want men of means, men of intelligence,
men of skill, and men of resource and with these
to lead, the blackguards can be extremely useful.
You talk of an Irish Republic Why, since
the day when Mr.. keogh promised to make Ath-
lone port for the Atlantic trade there has been
nothing equal to this. Irish Republicans are
you aware that there is not so feudal people in
Europe? Do you not know that class dstinc-
tons and respect for rank. but more especially
for the rank that's associated with ancient blood,
are amongst the most cherished feelings of all
Irshmen? Irish Republicans why, Pat is the
monarchist, par eccciience Of all Europe. Your
Irish Republicanism is only the back-water of
Irish EN- gration. 1t comes home again with the
swagger and insolence and braggart pretenson
of the fellow who has felt all the Importance of
the Irish ticket in election, and wants to
play a conspicuous part in the country which he
left as a cowboy. Strange associates these, sir
/ for a man like myself. Your Irish Republican
reminds me of what Barney Gale called his OPP
ponent in n CONTROVERSIAL internal Orange
/ Papst''
You are mighty boastful that there is nothing
religious in the present project and thatthe Cler-
gy are adverse to you rather than friendly. Of
all your confessions. this is the very weakest and
poorest Why, don't you know that the failure
/ of Humberts expedition the democratic dec
+ laration of the French, that they wantedno help
+ from the Church, and would try and conquer
without the Virgin Mary? From that hour Pat
held back he wasn't going to be killed here, and
roasted hereafter.
Id rather, if | was given the choice, fight the
English without powder than without the Priest.
The Church is the only cry that you have in
ireland and if YOU exclude the Church and its
wrongs, where your grievances I'm not
fool enough to SAY that grievances are at all nec
essary-begin the fight, and there will soon be
plenty of them but | mean that, in ignoring
the Church you are throwing ont the best trump
in your hand Who is the best recruiting
geant the world ever saw? Who gloss over
a bad cause and make the best of a good one?
Who has such advantages in the way of secrecy
and rapid intelligence? Who appeals to the
common man with the same knowledge of his
desires here and his hopes hereafter? Who
knows the vocabulary Of the people so well that
he can insinuate the very thing he seems to con-
denim, and dictate the very step he denounces
from the altar? The Priest. And this is the
man you say you don't want This is the man
you purpose to replace by a gin-juleper from
New York, or a master-tailor from Dame Street
You want enthusiasm, and you turn away
from the great fountain of all enthusiasm You
want union, and you reject the great bonds of
union You want that rash fanaticism by which
Western people supply the fatalsm of Eastern
nations, and you ignore what supplies it to this
world ont Of the illimitable hopes of the next
onel
Now, if Ireland were rich in ecclesiastical
establishments,-had she splendid churches like
Spain or Italy. great converts and fine monas-
teries-I would understand why you severed
yourself from the clergy. The pillage might be
more profitable than the priest. But what have
you in Ireland? Tie little wayside chaple, poor
and bare as barn. Where is the plate of gold
and silver? Where the pictures by Murillo and
Raphael? Where the saints with emeralds for
eyes. and diamonds for toe-nais? | wouldn t
give fifty mounds fnr all the rnhheries of TIM