The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-24


be only used for buyng the copses of those whom should
have saved alive
OPINIONS OF NATIONAL PRIESTS.
CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION NATIONAL DISASTER.
To the Rev. jeremiah Vaughan, P. P.
MY DEAR FATHER VAUGHAN: Ifyou feel surprised at my
applying Lord Mas to to the of famine
stricken people by imperial intervention l. the
other hand wonder somewhat that have not better apre
ciated my motives
wrote to the Irish Chief Secretary not confess with
any hope success for had the slightest doubt but the
fact my application would be the secret of prevent
ing relief such contempated-bu to leave on
record another and instance of the neglect contempt
and complete disregard with which unhappy people
always treated by alien masters.
distinctly notified to his lordshp that did apply IN
rmo pauper-ha applied as for strict right and that
the Government would be wanting in its primary duty if it
did interpose This you will next week, when
publish the correspondence In the meantime would not
heartess masters have often declared and repeat
my declarations that from praying and pettonng from
unhappy country. The American war it that wrested
the concession for centuries not from her of justice
but from her fears. The eighty thousand volunteers with
their cannon bearing the motto, Free Trade OBJ
tanned independence The French Revolution suggested fur
Their concessions STILL The fear Of imminent civil and
not the moaorce agitation of OConnel disastrouy
effected what called Catholic Emancipation but what has
proved national disaster Ever since have been
knees whining and pray1g and our %ost humble P
of unmanly slaves ever deserves
With this knowledge and the convictions resulting there
upon in my mnd to repeat it addressed myself to Lord
Mas not the hope of being avoaby heard but in the
certainty which is realized of obtaining further illustration
for our eow-counrymen and the world of how Irshmen
are treated in their native SOIL Yours my dear Father
Vaughan truly, PATRICK LAyELLE.
FREEDOM THE HANDMADE OF TRUE RELIGION
Father Vaughan to Father Lavelle.
My DEAR FATHER LAvEII.E During the four years of
famine Ireland exported four quarters of grain for every
quarter imported and with spectators profits to the helpless
starving consumers.
Recoect during the whole time this heartless basphe
Gus policy of the government in nachng food from the
hungry mouth going the people breathing the
odor of grave and falling the earth like autumn leaves
Now dear Father Lave in the face of such things how
you l. any man with heart and honest convc-
tions, be quiescent?
It was not considered crime for the great Augusn of Ire
land and j. K L. and his noble prototype the Bishop of
H So" and m1s s epms We e
derison by certain parties and those men are deserved
held the admiration of mankind that equal
in their wake but bold to say, earnest
in the Of the brokenhearted poor.
God knows at this hour had been satisfied that the poor
afflicted people of Ireland were well fed and clothed and
secured from the iron heel of OPPRESSION would be
known outside the limits of my parish nationalist or
patriot priest
Iadvoca you do nationality and freedom because Tbeiere
there be social happiness lasting prosperity where there
not J " on , GO me- 2 os, % r S sea oa
Freedom mparts relionce ene and consequential s,sten-
dnce to people, ehen Slavery shrou them rags ignorance and
c for mind there engendered By grinding poverty
than all the combined evib affecting humanity.
As proof of this see Father Vcents report OF the Liver
pool prisoners where it came that of 227 committed
to prison from the LIST January Both of September 1864
1857 were poverty Irish The picture drawn by the
eloquent panthropic Bishop of Toronto is revolt
ing when laying the statistical details OF their lmrls-
in the Canadian ais he concludes by saying that
muttudes of the exed brokenhearted children of Erinn
from Quebec New Orleans the pariahs of society,"
In the face then, of such continuous revolving mlsue
evidenced by such facts is it sckenng to hear with
religion their lips tell the poor afflicted people of ireland
not protest against ntoerabe evils that are not wied but
condemned by God?
Such the teaching Of Doyle Magnn, and your
great patriarch of the West,