The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-09-28

IFS sacred rites in the recesses of the mountains and
hills And their clergythe authorized instructors of
the faith of their fahers-when denied suitable educa
ton at home betook themselves to France and to the
other Catholic countries of continental Europe.
This went on till the time of the great French Revo-
luton of 1899 Then change came. English tyrants
had by this time discovered that they could neither con-
ouer nor eradicate the love of the Irish people for their
national religion. And in addition to this, they found
out very much to their discomfort that the old rotten
dogmas of the divine right of kings had been swept
away by the irresistible tide of revolutionary TRUTH and
that French colleges as well French conaUe were
and saturated with the new doctrines
of popular right and republican equality.
This would never do Let the Irish people imbibe
these new IDEAS especially from the lips Of their be-
loved spiritual teachers and farewell to English rule in
Ireland.
The priest must consequently be educated at home.
Such was the resolution of our English rulers And so
the Catholic bishops at earwigged and induced
to accept the proered boom An annual vote money,
to moderate extent ismade by the English Parliament,
and Maynooth College is inaugurated
But the SYSTEM however cunningly devised, does not
work as smoothly or successfully its authors desired
and intended AT every annual vote Protestant fanatics
fan the country into blaze of bigory which is en-
barrassng to the schemng statesmen of England And
which is far more embarrassing-the young Irish
clergy being left free to follow their convictions of
duty to their and country, proving quite too
patriotic to be safely trusted Both evils" must be
abaed So resolve the rulers of England and robbers
of Ireland.
The late Sir Robert Peel took the matter in hand.
He passed law to make the grant Maynooh charge
on what is called the consolidated fund.-" This made
perpetual and placed beyond the reach of popular
discussion Soth fanatics gagged He also raised the
grant the little of about hundred thousand
dollars year. He introduced and enforcedan OATH which
has since attained to an infamous worldwide celebrity.
This oath binds to allegiance to the reigning English
sovereign and to his her successors-to the mainte
of the present arrangement of landed property In
reand-and to a strict abstinence from all attempts to
upset the government or religion of England in Ireland
This up Irish clerical patriotism by the very roots
For years this atrocous compact lay concealed But
it was very far indeed from being imperative. AS the
water rises slowly and surely in the deeply dug we'll SO
did this malignant influence accumulate, until, to the
establishment Of the Irish people, the clergy who up till
lately had been the champions of their national cause
became it's boldest defamers and denouncers.
The deporable evil was hen slowly and sadly traced
back to it's wretched cause and the Maynooth Oath"
dragged before the eyes of betrayed and outraged
people.
England having done her unhallowed work we'll in
Ireland that she has little to fear there her atten
ton to America, where she has everything to fear from
the just vengeance of the Irish people. And here, in
this free Republic her educated and trained emssares
commence and to large extent carry out the vile work
of denouncing and communicating the friends and
advocates of Irish liberty. Public feeling is once more
aroused and excited and yielding opressure from every
part of the country are again compelled to drag the