The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-24
CHICAGO, ILL, AUGUST "a, 1867.
The Maynooth Oath.

ment Let your first PRAYER ascend for the "Queen and
the royal family with long and extensive continuation
of the same" and the balance of your prisons can be
offered up to any divinity and before any shrine you
choose Indeed, the preservation of English supremacy
is the first requisite for any creed After the safety of
that is assured Heaven take of itself, for Eng
land don't much care what god is up down.
Many of our people believe, unsophistcated simple
tons they are that England is terribly hostile to the
Catholic worship and that her persecution of Ireland
owing to the Catholic creed being profssed by major
ity of the Irish people Alas good friends, if you go
back to the times when England was Catholic you will
find the Irshman strongly hated and prosecuted
going to say the Catholic of to-day, until we
thought of Bishops Moriarty and Cullen the pets and
favorites of the English Government IF our simple
minded contrymen who believe that England persecutes
the Irish for being Catholic, will take the trouble to
refer to the letter of Donald ONei King of Ulster to
Pope John, they will there learn That the English
monks thought little of going out of morning, and
shooting down Ishmen then returning and celebrating
Mass with their hands red with the blood of their vic
Tins" They will learn that ireland has been, is, and
will be prosecuted for daring to dispute with England
her rights to life, liberty, and happiness" and not for
but secondary consideration with England
Let the Catholic Irish people forget their history and
their God far to follow the political teachings of
Morarty of Kerry and adore the British Constitution
being spotess the sun"-let the Protestants,
the other hand become rebels to English supremacy
and we will soon see how little the civzer for
spiritual affairs when they interfere with her material
prosperity Indeed the secret of Englands greatness
lies in the simple fact that she acoud mever aoa0 Eng
land to be sacrificed at any altar, nor ollow any altar to
the land that coud not help to eraH herself above
aUbehes On the other hand may not trace Ireands
misery to her willingness to be sacrificed that other
nations might be saved ?
But of all these matters some other time Our bust
with the cause of Fenian denuncations by
the paid and sworn servants of England the Catholic
priests from Maynooth College, Ireland At the request
of several correspondents publish in this issue, in
our Answers to Correspondents" the Maynooth Oath
We have refrained from doing heretofore hoping that
might be able to Ireland and Christianity from
the disgrace Of giving publicity to the blacklist and
basest treachery practced suffering people, the
selling of their country and race, of their lands and
lives, for paltry pttance.
When O'Connell gained the Catholic Emancipation
the English Government saw at the necessity of
securing the loyalty of the Catholic priests who were
in days gone by the leaders in rebellions and they
granted Ito the Catholic College of Maynooth some
100000 per annum with other privileges and in
return required that all Students entering the College,
should subscribe to the oath-hnown as the Maynooth
Oah
At the commencement of each term, the President Of
the College, accompanied bya British Magisrote
into the Hall of the College, and the President calls
out two three at time, and the British Magistrate
administers the oath that binds then, forever to England
Should any student object hesitate he is hustled out
without any ceremony
We beg of all readers to weigh every word and