The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-10-16
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
NEW okLEANs. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10. Is7o.
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received yesterday morning, says the Tsmee
OF Thursday, by the Central Committee for
the relief OF the wounded soldiers Of
France. Two members Of the COMMITTEES
proceeded to France on Sunday last to ar
range with the French government authori-
ties all details as to the Ambulance Corps,
and to obtain distinct assurance as to sev-
eral arrangements deemed necessary. A
telegram has been received in reply by the
central committee with the following highly
important announcement: France accepts
with gratitude" the Irish Ambulance
Corps; will take it into her service and un-
der her especial protection Instantly on it's
arrival. The French government will
maintain the Irish Ambulance Corps az a
distinctively Irish body, subject to the ne
"France thanks Ireland" Such is the
official answer Of the French authorities,
stelegraphed to the Irish Ambulance Com
mittee. It is message that will stir the
heart of ireland! The committee received
the following cheering telegram from their
representatives in France: "We were re-
ceived with enthusiasm. Cries of sYive
TIrlande.' Hasten the Ambulance We
start for Tours.n
Every sensible and thoughtful English
man was sorely disguised when, in 1893,
the Duke of York, returning from dis
graced and Eepalsed expedition to Flan-
ders, was created Field Marshal, and
placed in command of all the forces of the
United Kingdom. He went to expel the
French from Holland, and performed his
task so well that, in less than month, he
and his army, 41,0OO strong, capitulated to
q French general at. the head of $4,000
ragged conscripts. But what is all this
about About this, the Naral aud Military
Gasette announces that the Prince of Wales
will be shortly created Field Marshal; and
it adds, every properly too. in our opin-
ion." Very properly Very good. But
surely the English people, and the people of
Ireland and Scotland as we'll, have'a plain
right to know by whose authority the
country is to be saddled with the cost of
thiA superfuous lump of majolica. England
has already a field-marshal, who is &tter to
be corporal than general officer. His
services to his country are comprised in an
occasional sPluttering from the Horse
or sham fights, per annun, at Alder
shot, at Dooer, or in the outrageous cir
cuits of Hyde Park. Of what possible use,
other than to draw an enormous salary for
playing at soldiers-is this man to the
country7 He served in the Crimea, to be
sure, but so did Private Hogan and Ser
geant O'Grady, whose only batons are their
wooden legs. Are we to be blessed with
another marshal, with mental and mill
tary calibre even inferior to his Z The best
friends of H. r. H. will do well to ponder
over the ignominious collapse of the ill
1hLCU UIOCucI VI OCOISc-1S., OSAOkC-thSy
finally and blindly commit their prOtegc ];
and common sense warns them to ignore
the Confucian maxim, Happy are they
who do not depart from the wisdom of
their ancestors! "-Nation.
Protestant Patriotism.-The admirable
lecture on Henry Grattan and the Irish Par
lament, delivered in Limerick some time
ago by the Rev. Mr.. M'Cutcheon, Rector of
Kenmare, has produced q response ven in
far Australia. The lecture was reproduced
in the pages of the Melbourne Adrocate
and in q succeeding number the subject
was referred to by ga Protestant Irish
NAM in q patriotic letter, from which we
take the following passages: =
"Sir-I was greatly pleased to read the
lecture on Henry Grattan and the Irish
Parliament which your last issue contain
to every Protestant Irishman, not AFRAID or
ashamed of loving his country, to see one
of her clergy boldly state her case and as
{ ert her right to self-government. When
we know that a man like the Rev. Mr..
McCutcheoh speaks to this effect, and that
profession, it is a conclusive evidence that
change is taking place in the views of
Irish Protestants. They are beginning to
find out that they actually have country
to love, and a cOuntry's wrongs to right
and right them they certainly will, by cast
ing ASIDE all r61glOuS ulHeTeuccS rs QUICK
ly as the English government cast aside
their Church, by joining their fellow coun-
trymen in the best cause on earth-the cause
of native land. Let them mark the words
of the Rev. lecturer, who says, and says
truly, that the only time 1rishmen were
successful in q national cause was when
they were unanimous Yes, and this day
they would have a nation to call their own
had not the vile pest of Orangeism crep'
in, and by styling itself Protestant, lowered
the true Protestant in the eyes of many
Roman Catholics, who were unaware of the
east difference between the two. The mis-
chief worked by Orangeism is beyond cal.
culation, but their days are numbered and
the evil they have done is passing swiftly
away. Let my Roman Catholic fellow
countrymen remember that thousands o
Protestauts are above the suspicious o
Orapgeism, and would, hope, suffer dealt
sooner than join its banner, and fall or
their knees to worship the memory of {
Dutch prince. am well aware that many
Protestants secretly admit the mlsrule o
Ireland, and admit also that Roman Ca
tholics have been the chief sufferers. Bn
why not boldly admit 1t, and bring honol
to themselves by demanding that their tel
low-countrymen shall be placed on ar
equal footing with those who have SO LONG
basked in the sunshine of English patron
age. 1 am plain, unedu
Gated man, sir, but love sold Ireland,
and would like to draw my Protestant ans
Roman Catholic countrymen closer togethe
in the bonds of brotherly love. l am awar
nv pen is unequal to the task, but If 1t b'