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

English legislation, has lost nearly three
millions of her population in little over
twenty years. The plan which the British,
government has persistently followed for
three centuries has never been SO succ-ssa
full in it's operation as when carried on
under the form of laws made for the better
government of the Irish people, and, no
doubt, Mr.. Gladstone thinks it can be sue
tcessfully completed under his bill, so inge-
NOUS development of British benevolence
and British Justice. But the same God that
prevented their determination by the sword
| or by penal laws, will not cOuntenance the
demon like devices of British state-craft.
Great Britain, chiefly owing to her insu-
merce, acquired in the past great material
wealth and prosperity, and by fortuitous
circumstances was enabled to secure pow
| er and prestige abroad to which intrinsic
ally she was not entitled. Fifty five years
ago her name ON the continent of Europe
from Torres Vedras to Borodino was worth
100000 men-to-day tits but an empty
sound. Then the Mediterranean was a
British lake, and she held the outlet. Since
then Frenchman has made another outlet,
and, through Egypt, France holds it, while
the iron-clads of Cherbourg keep watch
upon her coast. Past prosperity has inf1at-
ed her with pride and arrogance. QUEEN
Deus cult perdere, prius densentat- whom
God wishes to destroy, he first deprives of
reason. She has lost the power and pres
tige she held and enjoyed fifty years ago,
and she is not conscious of it. The hand
writing is upon the wall, but she has no
Daniel to interpret it for her. Gods law
requires that His justice shall be vindicat-
ed, and nations are always punished in
this world for the crimes they commit.
For the desolation which she has inflict-
ed upon Ireland for seven centuries, for the
blood of the martyrs who fell victims to
her Internal penal code during the last three
centuries, for the repeated slaughter of the
children of Ireland and the bitter lamenta
tions of her exiles, for her persistent at
tempt to exterminate, and her denial of all
justice to whole people, as well as her
sowing the seeds of infidelity and revolu
ton everywhere, the day of retribution is
at hand. With the measure that she melted
unto others shall it be meted unto her.
She shall be visited with d ssensions among
her children, and revolution, civil war and
anarchy shall waste her strength. Her
wealth shall be scattered to the winds, de-
ISOLATION shall blight her fields and starva-
ton shall stalk abroad through the empty
streets of her now crowded cities. The blood
of the weak that she has shed in every part
of the earth will rise against her, her pow
er shall be taken from her never to return,
and her name will be pointed at as a
moral to illustrate the vengeance of
just God upon the iniquities of
nation. That day, we believe is
nearer than many think, and it is not
at all unlikely that in the days of our
grandchildren, the public journals may an
nounce to their many readers that some
distinguished historian of this Western
continent is about to publish the first vol
ume of new work entitled, The Decline
and Fall of the British Empire. w.