The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-03-27

day and night of the 3Oth Of October in hi
prison. On the following evening he was ie
out TO execution, and. as Father .Hanrahan re
feast. His coatsmporary. De Marinis, relate at
nie execution Thus: He went with ioy to tn
place OF execution, and then, with o seren
c0upsenance, turning to his Catholic friends
ing. he said to them, HHoId firmly by YOU
faith, and observe it's precepts, murmur no
against the arrangements of Gods providence
ana thns you will save your souls. Weep no
trial of death may, by firmness and con
etancy, attain my heavenly reward" TIL,
head OF the martyr was struck off and placed
die Of the BRIDGE. Rosario), and long afte,
seemed to drop fresh blood, and nncorrupted
and unchanged in aspect, flesh or hair--a trib
ute, IS may be thought, to that virginia. purity
to tte end.' Thus he went to his reward, or
the Vigil of All Saints, 1851. De Marinis and
A. Rosario relate that the holy Bishop sum-
moned Ireton to the judgment-seat Of God
to answer for his crimes, and on the eigh teenth
day afterward that bloody prosecutor was
seized with the plague, and, after sixteen days,
expired in great torments. DR.; Moran men,
martyred is yet pointed out and venerated by
the Catholics of Limerick"
Another Dominican martyr of this scene,
preacher-general, who. had before been q long
time in prison for the faith, and in this last
persecution was q wall against the enemies
of the faith. He was taken in Limerick while
Offering the mass, and in q few hours after
wards was sentenced to be hung, and brought
ont into the market square, where he made
public profession of his faith, and exhorted
the Catholics to constancy in the religion OF
their ancestors, and that with so much ardor
that it moved his very enemies. Standing on
the top step of the ladder, and about to be
swung off, he joyonsly exclaimed, We are
IN nj IN IF vf
of men, Having said this, he was hung, and so
went to his crown"
1t is strange fact, and one that we must
regret, that England should owe the final con-
quest of Canada to one who should have hon
ored this martyr of his family, but who was
really intensely English, and rivaled Ireton by
Ing priests at theiT own ohuToh-doors with as
little conjunction as Ireton felt for Father
James Wolf That martyr had brother
George, An officer in the Irish army. Although
England, finally settled in Yorkshire. His
grandson Edward fought under Marlborough,
and rose to the rank of general. His son, a
namesake Of the Limerick martyr, was Gen.
James Wolfe, who died in the arms of victory
a4Quebec, having struck the bow that seemed
to crush forever Catholicity in Canada.
Another Bishop, Arthur Magennis, q Cister-
clan, Bishop of Down and Connor, was, in spite
of his infrmities and years, dragged on ship
board, to be carried to some other land. Death
was, however, the object of his tormentors, not
exile; and, as he fingered too long to please
their impatience, they dragged one of the |
ships cannon beside his berth, and, firing it, |
caused such u shock to the invalid that he ex- |
PRED. i
form. Some perished of starvation in the
like the Rev. John Carolan some
were starved to death in prison, like the Do
ninican father, John OLaighlin; some, track
,aves, like the Franciscan father, Francis Sui
wang some were stoned to death, and flung
nto rivers, like the Do,aicau father, John Fla
7erty; many cut down by the roadside, or shot
Dominican fathers, Peter Costello, Dominic
ssags, taYrenee oFerral; others more de-
iberatelt kahged on.sea or land, like the Fran
iscan fathers, FefgaI Ward, Denis Nelan, Rev
'eter Higgins, the Dominican Bonaventure de
,urgo, and many more; or drowned at sea, like
he Tripnarian fathers O'Conor and DAILY; or
led estakes and shot, like the Jesuit Father
lathe, and his brother at Drogheda.
"Of the many thousands of Irish, men, wo-
len, and children, who We're sold into slavery
II the West Indies, the names of very few have [
id Roche, Dominican. Full details of this in
amous traffic d, are given by Prcndergast.
Crommcttian .SefiIemen.0 Thus, a government
rider, published On March 5th, 1865, states that
II the four preceding years, 640O Irish, men
md women, boys and naidens, had been dis
osed of to the English slave dealers. On the |
18th September 1858, two English merchants
FAMED Selleck and Leader, signed contract |
supply was granted to them of 80 women |
md 300 men of the Irish nation, to be found |
within twenty miles of Cork, Ynnghal, Kinsale. |
and Wexford. Roger Boyle Lord
'roghill (afterward Earl of Orrcry) deemed it
to take such trouble in visiting
parts of the Kingdom, and undertook.
% supply the whole number from the county of
Cork alone; hence he received order EN- |
covering him to search for and seize upon that |
lumber; 'and no person, being once appre- |
lendcd, was to be released but by special order |
n writing under the hand of Lord Broghill.
N the month eff November 1865, all the Irish
IF the townland of Lackagh,. county of Kill
iare, were seized on by the agents of the gov |
They were only forty-one in mum
)er and of these four We're hanged by sentence |
If court-martial; the remaining thirty-scven |
including two priests, were handed over to Mr.. |
Norton, Bristol merchant, to be sold as bond |
slaves to the sugar planters Mt the Barbadoes.' |
4 satn, on the Sth December, 1865, find 4 let |
er from the commissioners to the Governor of |
Barbados. advising him of the approach of a
'hip with cargo of proprietors, deprived of
heir lands, and seized for not transplanting.' |
They add that among them were three priests, |
ma the commissioners particularly desire that |,
hese may be 80 employed that they may not !
eturn again where that sort of people are able |
% do so much mischief, having SO great an in |
iuence over the Popish Irish"
OF their sutferingo at sea our author gives no |
ecord but Anderson, in his History of the Col |
Riat Church iii. PIP. 81, 53), describes, from a |
petition to Parliament the sufferings OF Eng
ish prisoners crowded into close holds amid |
lorses," sold, on arriving, to the most nhu-
nan persons" and treated worse than beasts z;
sleeping in sites worse than hogs in England |
md many other ways made most miserable be-
1ond expression of Christian imagination"
\nd nothing in the annals of history will JUS |
ify the supposition than the Irish Jared better. !
During long examinations of early records |
md manuscript matter relating to the colonies |
which formed the American Union, no allusion |