The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-09-25
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
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- O4LxANs, SUNDAY, sEPTEMBER s. 1870

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\ * NusczLLANEous IRISH NEWS.
p0ur Summary Of Irish news Is made up from the No.
os and all ireland n interested In the terrible strug
between France and Prussia that local subjects are
lgscsedl-
The Right Req. DR.. Gibbons in Headford-
On "Wednesday last the Bishop of North
Carolina, United States of America, the
Right Rev. DR.. Gibbons, arrived at St.
MaEgs, Headford, the residence of the Rev.
=. Conway, PIP. HIS lordship visited the
Irish American Church. After kneeling
before the Blessed Sacrament for some
time, he congratulated Father Conway on
ling the instrument, in the hands of God,
Tor building such q temple, and exclaimed,
May God bless America and the noble,
generous residents thereof (both living and
deadly who contributed towards thSNerec-
ton of this church. No wonder that his
Grace the Archbishop of Tuam should feel
grateful, and give expression of his graft
tude, even whilst in Rome, TO the Ameri-
can bishops who had received Father Con-
way, and that his Grace should request of
him ADf. Gibbons) to convey to DR.. Wood,
bell Of the church was rung, and put forth
peads of joy and welcome, because an
American bishop came to see the Headford
church. His lordship visited the Abbey OF
19s4s and the proposed site for the bridge
and caeeeway across the ferry at Kilbeg.
and being told that to get across, il the
day were rough or the boat unrepaired las
j. often the CASEY, his lordship should cir
scumnavigate the entire lakeby Maams0r
Galway, u distance of fifty miles, and that
s-direot communication by bridge would
Y only cost GA 600, he said it was shame
Nn34 disgrace tho work was not long since
completed; and, if such q necessary work
were to be- done in America, it would be
executed in o month: Everywhere his
l0rdship went through the parish he re-
-csived cead mile Jailthe from the young
.Rnd the old.
q. Repatriation evidently suits the Irish
genius" With this astounding political
maxim the Spectator last Saturday begins
labored article ON Federation in Aus
tralia." Between the subject and the max
i'm there appears at the first glance no very
close relation, but it happens that this
philosophically calm Spectator, in the
course of a general preliminary flourish,
incidentally culls up the work done by the
Lawtehces in India, and by MCGEE in Can
ada, as we'll as the work that is now being
done by Mr.. Gavan Duffy in Australia. 1t
justly remarks that " all these men are but
specimens of much larger group" and it
fairly credits them with having shown
"political imagination of higher cast" in
their designs. This, in itself, is very we'll
indeed, but then it is not all, by way of
contrast, the Specta tor says that "the Irish
hardly furnish statesman in generation
expatriation evidently suits the Irish
genius" Hero pausing to inquire whether
sEngldnd can always furnish it's Parliament
with SO much as one statesman in genera
ton, and to ask if incomparably her great
est Statesmen were not Irish, we come in
front of the conclusion. To say that tex
patriation evidently suits the Irish genius"
is much the same as to impeach the Provi
lience that orders the destiny of men. 1t
is to say "God wills and DEGREES that men
vNaIn md Hr.l
wills and DEGREES likewise that Ire
land should be the only country in the
world unsuitable to theE genius. In their
home alone it is his will that they shall not
live in fame and honor" This is both alb
surd and blasphemous. Not Almighty
God but the Government of England, has
robbed Ireland of her greatest sons, by |
robbing them of the choice of home ca
reer not unworthy of mans ambition.
Did McGee, or Gavan Duffy, or any of the
leave Ireland of their own free motion 2
Did. they go to the ends of the earth be-
cause Repatriation was evidently suitable
to their genius z" Far from 1T. In one !
shape or another, by sheer despair or un-
controllable anger, or by force OF positive
compulsion, repatriation was forced upon
them. They had no real choice but to go,
and, being gone, the chance they never
could get at home was given them, and
they proved their worth Exile did not
is that exile could not put out its fire. If
it had been the lot of such men as these to
spend their days in Ireland, they might,
'beipg honest men, have eaten their hearts |
away in anger and despair or, being dis
honest, have skilfully sold themselves, and
been guerdoned with little post in the |
Pacific. A province, conquered, impover-
ished end despoiled is not the home for
genius, and England need not charge on
heaven, or on the Celt, her own stupendous
crime.
Tie Federal Meeting.-The public meet
ing which took place lasts Thursday in the
Round Room of the Rotundo will be re-
membered for many and many a year, and
chronicled in sober history hereafter, as an
event OF great and happy influence upon
the history of Ireland. 1t was the first
public meeting of the Home Government
Association. which has been laboring
modestly and quietly for several months
past to ascertain and concentrate the
public feeling of the country. 1t was the
first occasion on which the promoters
of tkis movement, and the public whose
welfare it SO deeply concerns, met each
other face to face. The result is equal to
our naest sangnine hopes, and with graft
&1de and joy we-Aail it loudly as the au-
curry of n brighter future. What Irishman
could permit himself to be any more de-
peHdent2 What student of political forces
could any longer doubt of the promise that
dR mr. cauSa- when be saw what |