The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-03-20
THE MORNNG STAR AND CATHOLIC SUNDAY MARCH o. 1874

The MI
y. as 1t applied to their country, in accord
ance with their wishes. Tho Irish peopl
n oelne disposed to believe, even in the fac
II OF the history of centuries, that declare
lions so publicly made would be carried
out, held meetings in nearly every count,
In ireland, got up petitions for the releas.
I. VI 1nose unhappy men whom English Law
had turned into felons. Every body knew
q tnat those men had committed no crime
q unless It is a crime to love ones country
. ana to oppose the injustice of foreiga
+ government. Every body knew that those
. men never had fair trial, and that the
tfial before a packed jury, and before
Judges, who in such cases are the mere
tools OF the government, was an open,
, shameless caricature of Justice. And it
was equally we'll known that those edu-
Gated and respectable men were chained to
inc most Ignorant and the vilest English
cohvlcts, and made to work with them,
that they were half fed on mean diet, their
under-clothing taken from them in the
winter, and the vilest indignities that could
DC invented by the malignant brutality of
'heif ignorant and prejudieed jailors in
h'c'eo upon them, every word and look
showing the spirit or. feeling of a man be-
ing punished with solitary confinement.
naif-starvlng or the lash, until about ten
OF them became insane, two committed
suicide, some more were released in order
that they might die outside, and those that
still survive will carry to their graves the
scars on their backs which have been
carved in their flesh by the lash of a brutal
and relentless people. ALI attempt at in
curry was rejected in the English Parlia-
ment, the clearest proof that could be that
:ae English minister knew too we'll the
treatment inflicted on the Irish patriots in
MS English prisons to desire to have it ex-
posed. In full accordance with all expert
ence OF English government in Ireland. Mr..
Gladstone refused to fulfil the promises he
had made, and falsifed his word of honor {
TO whole people, showing that he had {
never intended to keep those promises, and
that he had made them merely for the pur- {
pose of deceiving. t
With these evidences before us we were c
noS disposed to be very sanguine on the C
SUBJECT OF the land bill. We felt convinced
6hat however fair the promises, however C
pretentlous the wording of the bill might t.
De- 1t would not give the Irish what they o
wanted, it would not in reality to any USE o
III extent curtail the power of the land n
ord, and whatever privileges or fayors it e,
night appear to give the tenant, that thew 81
would be surrounded with provisoes and IT
EXCEPTIONS that would enable the landlords b
o eVade them, and leave the tenant az b,
much a serf in the future as he has been in I'll
he past. re
we have not seen the bill in all its de. 10
alis yet. We have seen synopsis of it. til
nd as far as we can judge from what we W,
ave seen, it will afford very little protec- ris
on II any at all, to the tenant who has a tn
rasping landlord to deal with. It is ep
lmbrous and complicated bill, difficult to of
fully understood by any but lawyers, a
I'd must tend to interminable litigation. to
the tenant has no right against the con- art
Mt OF the landlord that he can secure int
thout going to law. 1t will be a good 7
Il for the lawyers, for it makes it neces- ma
~ for the tenant to apply to court to imI
'intain any right or claim the landlord out
y choose to dispute. 1t is rather Door tru.
'de of protecting the poor man from the viii
ssping avarice of the rich, and that, too. exis
ore set of judges whose prejudices are enc
in favor Of the landlords dou
The injustice and partiality of the bill he Il
'ws glaringiy in the clause legalizing the pay
ter tenant-right- custom for the benefit One
the Protestant tenantry of that pro- re1e
ce, and subjecting to the operations of will
J bill any tenant-right custom existing true
'ng the Catholic peasantry of the pro- latio
ces OF Leinster, Munster and Connaupht. fund
Is is right confirmed to the Protestant are
antry of Ulster, which is refused to the and
hoiic tenantry of the three other pro- stud
,es. are
he hypocrisy of the bill may be seen in dept
clause declaring that loans of the pub all j
money will be given to tenants to enable of fl
n to purchase the cultivated lands in STUN
r actual occupation, provided the land revel
be willing to sell his rights" Mr.. acceI
istOne knows well that-no man in Ire reyel
is willing to sell land. The sale of miro
in Ireland, except under the pressure out f;
w, is of rare occurrence. Every land throw
would rather increase the quantity he to be
han diminish it. He knows also that the o.