Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-19
Her Catholic Faith in the Early
~AgeS--Amefica Discovered
by Her Mariners.
The South Called Great Ire
Iand" Qrland 1t Mikla] in
982---The Land Of
the White Men."
The Memories Which St. Pat
Fick'S Day RecallS---The Sun
shine and the Shadow.
Celebrations by the Hibernian
Society and Friendly Sens
Of st. Patrick.
Religious Ceremonies and Gala
FestiTitieS---the 18th and
18Th Combined. q

d TRACES OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATION.
d Ireland, more than any other country
in Europe, still contains traces Of the
8 Phunician traders who, in the days of
}, Solomon, had traversed the Indian and
1 African coasts into the waters of the
= Mediterranean building in their pro-
' gress the cities of Tarsus and Tyre,
1 Memphis and Carthage, and after
wards extended their expeditions
to the opposite shores of Europe,
: ~populating those peninsulas on which
Eastern arts 1ourished and ripened into
grandeur and sublimity under The culture
| of the Greeks and Romans. She pos
sesses ruins Of those Round Towers
which served the Phonicians in their
~ire-worship of Baal, and which they
built in all their trading towns, from
Tyre to Tartessus, from the Persian Gulf
to the Bay of Biscay; n Of her prov
inces speak the language invented
by Cadmus, which differs from the old
Egyptian in that it is syllable instead of
symbolic, having the advantage Of re-
cording great deeds in books by the sim
pie method Of writing, in place of repre-
senting them on slabs and monuments
through the difficult art Of h~ierogiyphics;
and as the Hebrews who were e branch
0fthe Semitic family as we'll as the
Ph0nicians) had their Bard in David,
and the Greeks in Homer, so the Irish
had their Bard In OssiaD, and the singu-
larity Of the circumstance is hat those
ancient Ministries used the Cadmic
sounds, and tuned them to harmony
with the Harp.
THE CI8LBRI N PHGNICI.
Historians who relied on fables for in
formation have asserted that the Mile
slams We're the first settlers of Ireland. |
If they had reflected on the fact that
the Milesians were OF the Cimbric
branch of the Semitic family, |
and worshipped on affairs instead of in
temples, they would nave arrived at
a different conclusion, and been sus-
tanned by the absence of such a place of
Duridic rites in Ireland as that Of Stone
henge in Wales. When we take away
the fable of jason and the Golden Fleece
from the expedition of the ATgonauts,
and look upon 1t as the opening of the
Euxine Sea, around which the Milesians
I Abu RdileTSug duu the lTsl htlSHlpb 10 |
penetrate beyond the "Pillars of Her
culean through the straits of Gibraltar
into the broad ocean, we can easily see
how the Cimbri Of the Euxine and the
PhUnici settled IN the coasts of Spain
and Portugal came together, and formed
an alliance uDde the title of Gauls, a
name given them on account of their
experiences in the construction and man.
agement of ships, and which is preserved
to the present day in Frame by the cor
rupt term galley. But it should not be
forgotten that although leagued for de-
fence against the Remains, they still kept
their pagan creeds distinct; and where
ever scattered by the conquest of Julius
Caesar, the Cimbri raised their alters aud
the Ph0nici erected their temples, the
former, as described by Caesar in his
Commentaries" being " huge stones"
like those in Wales, and the latter
round towers" like those in Ireland.
MONUMENTS OF HI MIDDLE AGES.
Whatever difference of opinion ms
exist regarding the original settlers of
Ireland, no one can doubt of the early
excursions Of the Danes and Normans
to the island, for they have left in mas
sive walls and castles and ivy-mantled
abbeys monuments that tell Of their
power and glory. Strange to say, the
ifSee Kings" always hated the Ssxons;
and we read Of an Irish and Danish eX-
petition in 937 against Athelstan and
Edmund, which was defeated on account
Of 9 storm st sea. But stranger still is
the fact, that while the Normans so
CONQUERED the SaxOns as to leave no
trace of Saxon nationality in language
or avs in England, in Ireland the
Normans assumed Irish manner and
customs, and even spoke the Gallo
f,nrsra ThOoa Whn ora in the hft Of /
calling the Irish Cells forget that in Ire
land there are four races of people with
different pecUiiarities. In G~onnaught
are the descendants OF the PhRnieians, :
who still speak the Semitic language; in :
Munster the Danes, with their light hair
aud sandy whiskers in Leinster the {
Normans, with dark hair and proud $
bearing ; in Ulster the Norman-Saxons {
Of the time of Henry VII, distinguished ,
for their thrift and industrial habits. !
CATHOLIC FAITH IN IRELAND. '
While the incursions Of the Danes I
made the Irish a warlike people, the set !
Element of the Normans spread through |
out It's limits the Catholic faith and !
the monks which they brought over |
from Normandy, by their piety and in J
telligence, soon made it a seat Of learn .
ing. HumboldtiR his Cosmos" quoting ;
from " De Mepsura Cribs Terra,U COM G
posed by the Irish monk Dicuil centuries j.
before Pope Adrian granted his " bull" !
to Henry IL, shows that Irish missiona- {
ries had in the year 795 visited Ireland .
and the Farroa Islands for the propags- =
ton of Christianity and Letronne, the I
commentator of Dicuil, says that when T
Mortimer first reached Ireland, they 7
" found Irish books, mes bells and other Z
objects by the paps" priests The i.
Reformation which revolutiOnized Ger .
many never disturbed Ireland, for the I
simple reason that at the time Henry I
VIII. rebelled against Rome he was at 8
war with the Irish, and that people nat s
urally refused to sanction anything he q
favored, but the more stsadfastly adj Y
hered to the faith of their fathers. Hence .
up to the present day in many parts of 7
Ireland the Anglican church is called I
" the church of Henry VIII
DISCOVERY OF AMERICA BY THE IRISH. y
-Four hundred years before the birth of ii
Columbus the Irish had made their way
into America and settled in the South. o.
1.-THE Skralinger Esquimaux related to 81
the Mortimer, - says Humboldt, set e
tied in Vinland lMassRchusetts1 that Ii
further southwark, beyond the Chesa- Al
peake Bay, there awelt white men, who
clothed themselves in long, white gar r,
ments, carried before them poles TO u
which cloths were attached, and called ],
with a loud voice. This account was q
interpreted by the Christian Northmen o,
to indicate professions, in which ban "
ners were borne accompanied by sing q
In the oldest sagas, the historical d,
variations of Thorfinn Karlsefne, and re
the Icelandic LaDdnama book, these b
southern coasts, lying between Virginia Ii
and Florida, are designated under the VI
name OF the Land Of the White Men. M
They are expressly called Great Ireland a,
fh1dnd Il Mk2d1, and it is maintained
they were peopled by the Irish" m
These early settlers were proba- th
bly, a portion Of the expedition I'll
Athelstan and Edmund. Being
put out of their way homeward by the ca
storm. They followed the. course OF the bl
sun until they found themselves CT
on the southern seaboard of America. SD
What became Of them is not known +; tr
but the probability is that, being all
malas-saiiors, soldiers and monks-they 70
fingered in the land until, one by one, 81
heir lives departed and the dust OF their la
mingled with the fallen leaves OF
he forest.
MEMORIES OF ST. PATRIcK's DAY. su
Among the many festivities of ireland =
none draws to the Irish heart such golden \.
as that of st. Patrickis. It ua1
makes the Hibernian look back to his ~
with a glow OF delight, for every III
hillside ia that green isle has its tale Of -
,hfvalry and its legend oflove. The wild -
and oak, the rivulet and ril. ~
he glade and glen, the cave and cove, y y
IN have histories In the Irish heart, ~
raditions that may seem cold TO ue
but to a "child Of the sod y sp
bev are like dew that gives perfume to
ha rose. like sunlight that e~nlivens the "a
.oni OF nature. But there are shadows 20
q this golden lining-shadows that ~