The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-10-18
mo1wH VANITY AND KxaIIsH vERAcTrx.

No rhetoric can convince him OF,
or eradicate his prcjudices. No wat, now
aver keen. can shame him into hRerA
views. IS SfcSsfn, let it be ever 80 incif
ssenhas awe = penetrate the hf6S bspnA 4
snpeicilSh 6sss1 which he wraR Hn 4
uSlfa@ AsscJeSh paper, the Weekly 'Ns'os'
thus essays the~Aopeless task, goaded oy
the following complacent statement
1 ThS3p SeoSpAs ST Ireland are rude and say
are in their nature, and the Scottlsn people
s Risny yss s6d esIesa Srsshrsa
England.
The Scotchppn rejoins: ssi:s Z, IS 90 -. -.
So our Cockpey friends perpetuaAly anlsn
in the London dailies They Point 20 ECU
ianism 40 something awful and mAhgnsn y
and fsE STUPID error PEI g. . pa'eeA
ireland Is oYerTun with a race OF rnmans,
who defy the law. break, into Peaceaois
mems houses, pillage them Of arms and
frightcn the inmates. This is, untortn1
nately, trne to Q very limited, eAtei., ouc
| these irregularit ties have pOlltlch aspecS'
the aim is to, secure arms, and nsi'ne l VA
tai murder or incendiary fires add aeepeI
quilt to their folly. Still, Ireland with al
| It's irregularities, its. Fenian ire Drahas anu
political agitation, is happily ana slngu,,
larly free from the awful crimes anu y. h;.iiu
|
civilized and highly cultivated Englana. =.
| OF the three races, the English seem
STEPPED to the very lips in gross, brutal
cruelty. Their papers absolutely oi,ssle
with horrid murders, perpetfa.eu ~
bsastly fashion Their Mi1d ya1.9 fsoil HELPLESS
| and incapable of defending themselves
from the ferocity of these animals In human
| form. 5 49,,
Small occasion, indeed, have these
would-be witty and spasmodlc Journals,
4 Punch, Judy and Fun, to presen1 " .me ~
i readers the usual stereotyped carlcatufe OF
the Irish people in the form OF Fenian,
! with gorilln-like countenance, breathing
u havoc and murder, when the fact stares them
daily in the face that one-haif, aye, one
fourth of the brutal crimes committed IN ,
u England, if perpetr&ted in Ireland, Wou!d
make them shout out that the social fabric
had tumbled to pieces in the Green Isle
The EXHIBITS of Miles Wethereli, II perpe-
trated in Connaught, would nave set up
: the entire English press with texts 1or nve
! years at least, from when theS,- wouIu
preach on the awful depravlty and savage
; nature of Irishmen. But our English jour
t nalists are dreadfully long -sighted, for they
t can point out the doings OF an Irish priesO
o or the drunkenness. of D Scotch parson, ane
r spin q long homily on the absence VI :e.a
+ zion and morality in the two countries
Q while cruel murderers, men dancing on III
8 bodies of their wives till they are dead
il parents killing or strangling their chlidrel
b by twos and threes--crimes almost unnear'
= Eof in Scotland OF Ieland-are OF uA1i..
r, occurrence, under the very noses OF tines
e lmoralizers in the English press. 1t Is
d startling fact that for crimes of fearful an
Is brutal atrocity and of almost unlmaginaoi
Is cruelty, England-highly cultivated Eng
sr Iland-stands out in black, repuislye Pre-
er eminence.
loses his manhood altogether; his energ
i, may find vent on some dOctrinal point
- the Confession of Faith; if he fights, 1T .
s F., with men, seldom with women; or !
,d undertakes to regulate his household,
A. may break a chair or two, out not Citt
Ia does he break the head OF his better nal
ch So. also, with light-hearted at when
~ lionor-he NAV break the head of frlei
or so, all for love, but it, never strikes Hi
10 to dance a Jig on the top of his malm
IN and PROSTATE Biddy. But an Engilshm'
~ u in his cups is transformed INTO nehu, q
he his destructive frenzy vents III smasni
ey his wife with poker, and ends wltL
rs, death dance on her insepsible body. :
hy ~ if in love, and his addresses dechned, W
mo- lie shoots the object of his regards, OF sta
mt mt her with carving knife or hangs INNS, lin 81
NJ. leaving letter to his false Mary Ann u
no.. ooa his ghost will 't'aunt her." 80
' .ne Judging Euglishmen from the records
20 Soi their own press, they are essent .anS
Hover type of humanity than either
vas Scotch or Irish J, and we often wonder u
of some philosophic sarant does not prep
aiu, paper, ON the intense brutality OF u
was crimes committed in England, compa
ted with those of Scotland and Ireland.
Missionary enterprise is s strong nss ao'
as and vigorous in Scotiandj anu we VIC
8 of suggest that instead OF sending missi
,of; aries to christianize the Niger, the ind'
to or even the Malay, a strong body sho
en- be sent to christianize and Fhnmanlze
man savages that live in England. No coa s
his stands in greater need of some such Ell
lin, The Niger is merry and inoftensive;
rom Indian HARMLESS; the Malay, even, mas
was oood points; but a drunken, empru
,nce Englishmani from such Heaven pres'
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