The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-03-01

ARTICLE 6AyS On LUlA tDAUycSts
The name Of Arnold, who vas type, both
of English gentleman 9hss not lost IT'S suthor1.
ty. No othefnam in our time, except that OF
Newman, has attracted such universal respect:
It ought not therefore, to be an Indifferent fact
in the Judgment of educated Englishmen that
Arnold utterly reprobated the Irish Established
Church. "The Protestant clergy he wrote to
Whately, though the latter WAS one OF their
chiefs, ought not to have their present reve-
nues in Ireland" But Arnold was not content
with stripping the intruders Of their revenues
He considered that a . ncvv .nt.n
ly, as if sure of his acqulescence, the slmP!e,
lust and Christian measure of establishing the
Roman Catholic Church in three,hiths OF re-
would be " the last" of his order in CathOhc
Ireland, it was not because he differed from the
latter in thinking that he ought to be the last
but solely because, as he observed in one OF his
letters to him, My great fear is that the Eng
lish indifferent to Justice, '0hc" st Is not o"
their ioirn side"
It is not necessary to possess the exact knowl-
edge of our history which distinguished DR..
Arnold to recognize the unpleasant truth, that
no triumph has ever been gained over English
bigotry which was not extorted from English
fears. When Edmund Burke pleaded for JUS
tice to Ireland, and reminded the House OF
Commons that they had established the Catho,
lie Church in Canada because they dared not
oppress the Catholics of that colony for fear of
q rebellion, the great orator showed how ex-
| actly he appreciated his countrymen. He knew,
| like Arnold, that justice has little werth In
| their eyes, "when it is not on their own side. ="
| Our W hole history, since the so-called Reforma-
ton, is proof of this fact. When England
was in peril, and hostile fleet menaced< her
Catholic population, eager to defend their
| country, even against a Catholic INVASION
| When the peril was past, the first thought OF
Elizabeth and her council was to invent new
fortunes for the loyal Catholics whose aid was
no longer necessary. 1t has always been thus
England has dealt even with her Protestant
force her Parliamentary Church upon Scotland,
the Scots, afugged race, sternly replied, "We'll
| fight YOU for it," The threat was enough, and
the docile Episcopalians of England made q
| covenant with the Presbyterians of Scotland.
1.-THE kirk owes it's endowment to English fears.
In like manner, if England has slowly and
| grudgingly relaxed her penal code against Cath
olics, it was not her justice, but her Fears which
net council was held "on French affairs" 1t
was as Windham relates in his Diary, Up: s6o,
stormy and agitated, and lasted till past mid
night. Pitt was present, and Liverpool, and
the Duke of Portland, and Spencer, and Gren-
vile. They. were quaking with fear, for there
was a rumor that French troops, haiL landed in
Ireland Tho usual result followed Lord
Spencer, and Granville" says Windham, bott
seem to be for taking the first moment Of con
) and Arnold knew their countrymenl Thirty
two years later, the Duke Of Wellington in
f sisted on passing the bill for Catholic emanci
patton, which he had vehementiy opposed, but
, only because, as he naively observed, sit wal
better to appease the Catholics than to provok.
civil war" 5Litse Pharaoh, the English PEG
!, pie would not H1ex the children of Israel CO.
: tilLhis fears oyefmastered his bigotry. Onc'
more, in our own day, further instalment o
I her rights is about to be conceded to Ireland
not because the English are suddenly enam
ored of Justice, but because a new panic alright
/ them. They have SO brutally maltreated Ire
, land that nation has grown up On the othe
= side of the Atlantic, sworn to ayenge he
l wrongs If Ireland should one day become tn
destruction of England, it would oniTT be n new
I example of retributive Justice. There Is NJ
f instance" saws -aft-riiustrious Englishman
, .seven i'm the ten prosecutions of such severit,
/, as that which the Protestants OF Ireland haT
exercised against the Catholics" THESE ar
!, words of Samuel johnson, aud no one cal
blame the Americans if they agree with such
, witness. Already they threaten Canada, whlcl
they would overrun in a month If the Catholl
Canadians ceased to support Enghsh rule
u They have even ventured to shed blood ON Eng
e lish soil; and though they are few as yet, VIII
b knows how soon their number may be increased
y And so, Englishmen are beginning to say ono
a | more, ''Eet rs be just to lreland;' and as TIN
g Irish establishment, which they affected to cal
sentimental grievance" is the most lmpr
5 dent outrage ever inflicted even upon pers.
" cuted Ireland, they talk at last of sweeping
II away. Wait till next session, they tell us, an
n the abomination shall be removed.
u The February number of st. PdufS Mag
II a-ine, edited by Anthony Trollope, contain
= a mastery article on the Church III IRELAND
Il of which the following is an extract:
d The Irish establishments, as now maintaine
c by the State, Isl rdiculously overmanned. !
II give an instance: The suppressed See of KILT
II nora now included in the Diocese of killalo
= still contains the diocesan staff appropriate
it's former dignity. There are within it's bouI
- DIARIES forty.nine Protestant families-in al
:. = two hundred and ffty-one souls-the popull
u ton of hamlet handful of people that coul
u probably supply congregation of at most or
n hundred and ffty hearers; that is, they coul
i be packed into an ordinary drawing room, {
l. would, perhaps, fill one gallery in well-size
church. How many Protestant clerRymen o.