The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-03-15

lofg two or three hours the audience sat as
though spell bound, except when some I'M
usually, good point of humor OF feeling
would caase an explosion of applause
I Mr.. Mullaly, otter o graceful introduction
4 by NJ B. Brady, ESQ president Of the COM
mittee, entered at once upon his subject:
:" The Condition and Prospects of the Co,ln-
try" In the course of his remarks he made
some happy illusions to the abuse Of the
word '1loyalty pa loyalty which spurns
the s.ccea2ess os 60 oath, and sets aside
the Constitution in favor of higher law
imposed and interpreted in the interest Of a
faction; bold, canting Hypocrisy which,
under the impudent pretense of loyalty,
perpetrated every infamous excess and in
Inundated all opposition, or silenced it
under lock and key.-He- said-that the
loyalty of the present day was something
like that of the Revolution, when the hired
minions of George III were loyal, and the
brave compatriots of George Washington
were rebels when loyal Hessians were
encouraged to devastate the land with fire
and sword, and deck their loyal wives with
jewelry torn from fair, but rebellious Ameri-
can womea.
The lecturer then gave some revelations
as to the reaction that has taken place at
the North in this matter. The people were
at first overreached by the specious Plausi-
bility of this loyal cry, or frightened by it's
fierceness; now, however, whenever they
hear it, they Immediately suspect a new
contract or job to be imminent, and button
their pockets closer. In fact, Mr.. Mullaly
says that the Radical party will be unknown
by the first of January next that it's own
policy toward the South has finally killed
it. The people see the results of that policy
in the universal pressure and distress. The
South, which formerly was SO important a
customer for Northern commerce, is reduced
to such poverty as to be a mere blank on
of a Freedmen's Bureau has saddled the
Northern taxpayers with the support of an
immense negro poor-house. The military .
misrule of these five satrapies is another
costly experiment added to the burdens OF
Northern taxation, while the immense
bonded interest of Radical capitalists is a
mortgage upon the blood and sweat of
Northern labor.
The speaker thought that under continued
Radical rule this state-Of things would
grow worse and worse, and the nation
become more and more heavily in debt. He
stated that Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Kentucky, and California were now
Democratic, representing population of
fifteen millions, leaving but ten millions in
the remaining Northern States, and he was
confident that no action that the Radicals
might take, of any nature whatever, could
check the wave of destruction which was
sweeping unrelentingly over them.
Mr.. Mullaly made some illusions to re-
pudiation which elected a hearty expression
OF approval from the audience. Asto. the
interest on bonds, he was decidedly in favor
OF payments in greenbacks, and as to the
general indebtedness, it involved such an
amount of rascality jim the collection of the
revenue, and fostered so general and SO
ruinous spirit of immortality and perjury
the land, that reputation might
become the only refuge from destruction.
In the course of his lecture the eloquent
speaker paid a beautiful tribute to chivalry.
1t was the combination of rare virtues, of
dauntless courage, and Christian charity, of
heightened honor and gentle courtesy, of
daring and woman,s purity. 1t
was as vital now as it had been in the
twelfth century it had manifested itself rs
yloriously In the Confederate cause as in the
crusades, as nobly under coats of grey as
within the mailed armor of yore. The scott
md the gibe which. attempted to treat
genuine chivalry as romantic folly OF an
sentiment, only showed the
and dearaHitu of that .,a.=..a