The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-01-16

will still have to inspire themsthe God that
| they have never deserted, aud who does not
abandon those who place their trust In Him.
They will still have before them and above
| them the bright " star" of their national des-
] tiny, beaming from the heavens-which they
are resolved to follow whitherspever it may
hleadE' Men of Longford, we Irishmen--in
whatever country our lot for the moment may
| be- cast--expect that you will do your duty,
and inspire as, to perform our own. There is
no Irishman that holds that expectation more
! anxiously, and yet more confidently, than your
friend and servant q. IL. MOORE. =.
I The Increment on Clogheen-The operations
which took place near Dublin were, however,
but trifle to those of which the central por-
ton of the county Tipperary were the theatre.
The Free Press thusGdescribes them: " On Sat
aFday last mounted men rode with dispatches
through the southern portions of our county
the telegraph was in requisition-the work of
busy preparation was Observation-Disclosures the
T1pperary railway station on Saturday, passen-
IGers by the evening train were- startled at see
ing long array of police, fully armed. What
could it portend asked they. The ominous
answer was, unprecedented disturbance in Clio
gheep.' The military, two companies OF the
9th, under command of Capt Lindsay and
Lieut. Golden, and q number of the constabu-
larry, marched from .Clonmel at gray, bleak
dawn, amidst rain and puddle, Sunday
morning. squadron of the 1st Irish ORA
gooEs proceeded from Cahir, and over 200 of
the constabulary were drafted in from the out
stations, all for Clogheen. The Lieutenant of
the County; Vscount Lismore, and the resident
magistrate of the district, the Hon. Shaplapd
+. Carew, were at the scene of anticipated
action. Police patrols Paraded the town, en-
countering nothing half as Notwithstanding
as each other and the forces were away from
sight but under under arms ready for T. the fray at
Another attack on the west wind-nothing
more. e-<
The Lonaford Election. The candidature on
behalf of MIR. Martin has been carried on vigor-
ously during the week in the county Longford.
Meetings in favor of it were held in Long
ford, Granard and Edgeworthstown,- which
were very successful, notwithstanding the ex-
traordinary efforts made by the clergy for their
suppression. At sEdgeworthstown the Rev.
Peter Farrelly, P. p, and his curate, the Rev.
Mr.. Murray, exerted themselves to the utmost
to get Mr.. Martins supporters hooted, abused
and ili-used, but with only very scanty de-
gree of success. The hearts of the people were
evidently with the Martin candidature, and it
mined efforts of the priests that few persons,
mostly women, could be got to offer moments
disturbance to it. While Mr.. Martins friends
were speaking, the Rev. Mr.. Farrelly, carrying
a switch-in his hand, kept moving through the
crowd melting them to opposition, and endea-
voring to induce them to disperse. The people,
every man. woman and child of whom respect
ed him as priest, found 1t hard to Withstand
his active endeayoTs to rout them from the
place, but still he unable to effect his OBJ
fJect, and the people heard and cheered the
speakers behalf of Mr.. Martin. Far more
energetic, however, were the acts of his cuEate,
the Rev. Mr. Murray, gentleman who on the
previous Sunday, had distinguished himself by
u personal assault ON one of Mr.. Martins
friends. On the present occasion his conduct
was scarcely less vigorous. While Mr.. Mar
tins friends, attended by a considerable crowd,
were moving through the town, one of Them
carrying a small green flag pinned to an UNI
brella, the Rev. Mr.. Murray violently snatched
the flag and waved it rs a trophy in the air.
momentary struggle for the possession of it
then took place, and had not Mr.. Martins
friends displayed much self-control and good
temper, serious riot might have arisen. Their
good sense and good temper, however, averted
the danger.
The ContcsL-The date for the contest in
Longford is not yet fixed. Mr.. Greyile's papa
is beginniagto recognize the fact that his boy
is not to have walk over, and is consequently
beginning to try what money may do to secure
the coveted seat for him. Mr.. Martins party
viii not attempt to compete with the CSrevil-
itesn that manner Their appeal wiz be not
to the weakness, but to the virtue, the patriot
ism, the courage of the people ;/and we shall
be much mistaken if virtue and Erin" be not
ahead of money in the end
The Tenant LcGgWc.-Two important meetings
of the Tenant League, under the presidency of
Mr.. Butt, were held in DubIin-onc being a
conference consisting of members of the Farm
ers' Clubs, and the. other, held at later hour
the same evening, being a great public meet
ing of friends of the tenant cause. The pro-
ceedings at both cminently satisfactory.
The speakers were spirited, practical and ma
tional, and they clearly proved that there
could not possibly be any antagonism between
the cause of the Irish tenantry and the cause
of the nation.
The Irish Natioa.-Quite recently Sire Gray,
X. G. b., has issued most interesting PAM
phet entitled, The Irish Land Question
Having eloquently sketched ITelands sufferings
from English injustice, Sir George proceeds:
" Yet these people are the race who possess the
faculties of legislation and administration in
an equal degree with any other nation on
Garth. they are the people who, removed to a
new sphere, ip colonies or elsewhere, where
fair scope is given to their talents, have yield
ed many men who haze governed the outlying
portions of the empire with dignity and sue
cess, who hare produced from their own body
ministers and statesmen who have founded and
are consolidating new nations, and legislators
who have devised, framed and introduced laws
which Great Britain herself is beginning to
copy" Sir George concludes his pamphlet by
proposing that State Legislature, composed of
two elective houses, should he established in
Dublin. On his last page is a sketch of IAN
act to grant a Provisional Parliament to the
Kingdom of Ireland" Sir G. Gray quotes from
a splendid passage in one of Mr.. Disraeis
speeches the following sentences "There is
no nation III the world leading such monoton-
GUS lives as the Irish, because they hare only the
culticdtion Of the soil before them. Men are dis
contented when they are not occupied. But