The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-04-17
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Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY, APRILis 1870.
1nsCEILAHE0us IR1sH NEWS.
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Our Irish exchanges this week are filed
almost to the exclusion Of everything else, with
the text of the coercion bill, speeches on the
same, aud comments of tho press. 1t is natural
that q matter which so nearly affects Irish
rights should absorb the public mind. To give
pages Of our sheet. On this all important
measure the Freeman's Journal says:
Our contemporaries have great influence in
the country, and are bufthened with proper
tionate responsibility. Though naturally irri-
tated at the unlimited power over their action
which tie law confsrs on the Executive, pru-
tunity will be afforded to extinguish or sus-
pend single Irish journal. They cry out in
England for merciless rigor They make no
distinction They would sec with delight every
/" Nationalist journal suppressed. No part of
the bill gives such satisfaction as the clauses
which aim at their extinction. To defeat the
more is necessary than temperate discussion
Of public topics. The sacrifice will not be
great. When the country is threatened with
9 great calamity we should all make some sas
confidence of the people, and to whom they
look for advice in their temporal as we'll as
spiritual interests, will impress on the
Of averting it. The orderly in every district
if united, are too numerous to apprehend any
thing from the disorderly. A few foolish OF
violent men can involve district in the pen
alties Of the Act, but the peaceable may show
cause against it's introduction by illustrating
in their conduct their adherence OF the crime
and the criminal. 1t is only where they sym,
pathize with both and district is I" infested"
If we may use the word, that the Act will be
put in operation. Never had the Irish people
q grander opportunity of falsifying the expec-
It will be the source of future pleasure to re-
feet that one of the severest measures ever
enacted by the British Parliament fell still
born IN presence Of their calm and orderly at..-
ton. Not o journal solicited the Intervention
Of the police. We hope that as agrarian
offences are now fewer than they have been,
go they may cease altogether, and the only
crime which distinguishes our national char
acter from that of any other country in Europe
DO erased from the calendars.
The Political P,isoners.-The following touch
ing letter has been received by an Irish gentle
man in London from Mr.. Charles Underwood
OConnell, one of the political prisoners now
undergoing penal seryitude in Chatham con-
suspense in which he is placed by the depriva-
ton of news from home and friends wrings
from his heart cry of anguish which no mere
bodily sufferings could ever extract from that
Dear friend--I have not yet been able to
explain to you one-half of what would say;
in fact, it is impossible to tell all that wish,
and, even if had every facility, could not
utter in words the sntferings, mental and cor
poral, have endured for five long years.
have not heard from my parents, and know
not at this moment whether they are alive or
dead. This agony of suspense is most eXIuis-
tic torture, enough &c SEsaa man to mad ness
but, thank God, am still sane in mind, though
weak in body. We have lost our little Irish
ind hmm fpft
martinez in discipline, and 1t was like biting a
file to try and get anything out of him. Now,
in Gods name, do try and let me know it my
Yours, truly, CT OCoNxEL1."
One of the strongest denunciations of the
Coercion Bill that. we have seen in print does
not come from an Irish paper, or from an Irish
member, but from o leading journal in an Eng
the chief editorial article of the Liverpool
Daily Post. The Post quotes the saying OF
Rochefoucauld, I'VE never forgive those we
have injured" and by it explains the course OF
Legislation pursued by Englshmen in dealing
with this country. They carry q Church Bill,
no doubt after exciting divisions, and they
q Coercion Bill is offered, they rush to it with
an appetite growing ont of twelve months alb
stinence, and pass it without real division or
Disagreement. Wise eradication of causes is
broadly put in contrast with this unwise sup
preston of symptoms. The Post comments on
the wonderful indebtedness" Of the attempt
to "Stine opinion, TO enact more nagrant
press law thar" exists even in France, to make
Ireland in certain districts country of mere
serfs under q curfew law, and to give to petty
justices the power of locking up for contempt
any one who does not answer their questions
Our contemporary declares that this lament
able degeneracy will perpetuate Irish discon
tent, and it solemnly warns the people of Eng
land to beware lest their turn may be next
Nation-
Il Lord Lioatendnfs Le,ter!-By way of get.
ting into training tor the regulation loyalty
which we must assume under the new Coercion
Bill, we beg to suggest that sour amable and
popular Viceroys" ought to be put under police
surveillance, and their correspondence (espe-
cially with Protestant Blshop>) opened and
searched for sedit inus iuvectives hsainst our
beloved and gent IL land oTtls. Ii anyone think
we, as loyal subjects, have not grounds for be-
lieVing in the possibility of all ''an,n able and
popular Viceroy" indtius atroci"us s''n timents
paternal rulers, shall viud,rate our.
selves. With hair "n end we call attention to
the subjoined letter. written by Lord Chester
field, once Lord Lieutenant of ireland, to the
Protestant Bishop of WATERFORD:
October 1st 1764.-I see that you are in
fear again from your Whiteboys, and have de-
stroyed good many of them; but believe
that if the military force had killed half as
many landlords it would have contributed
more eFectually TO restore quiet. The poor
people in Ireland arr used worse than negroes
of deputies of deputies. For there is a senti-
ment in every human breast that asserts mans
natural right to liberty and good usage, and
that WILL and ought to, rebel when provoked
to ceII ain degree"
There is what one Lord Lieutenant wrote to