The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-08-13

versaries Of the Let and 10th of July come
round, either bar themselves up in tbeiI
houses and put out all lights, or else pre-
pare for defensive battle.
The foregoing incident is related in de.
tail, because it IL characteristic example
of many similar cases; save, indeed, that
the local magistrates, instead of seeking to
bring offenders to justice, as in this case,
have generally sought to screen them. Ii
an atrocity like this had been at any time
done by Catholics, troops would immedi-
ately have been sent down to quarter them
selves upon their houses, and special
commission would have been issued to
hang at least eighteen, guilty or innocent.
| CoNcIL1AroRY vIcERoY."
When the Duke of Richmond was Lord
Lieutenant OF Ireland, he had it in COM
mard to discourage "religious feuds," and
even to dissuade the Orangemen from their
| offensive parades. We give another ex-
tract, under date 1910:
! In the meantime, the daily aud continual
expressions and humiliaEiOns which were
| inflicted upou the Catholics not only by
Orange magistrates and yeomen, bat by the
Government itself, were too notorious and
| too Calling to be soothed away by the fair
| words OF q conciliatory Viceroy. The
treatment of Catholic soldiers in the army
(of which they already constituted nearly
ore half) excited the strongest and bitter
est feeling of discomfort. At Enniskillen,
! Lieutenant Walsh turned soldiers coat,
IN order to disgrace him, for refusing to
attend the Protestant service others were
efectually prevented from attending the
service of their own Church, by an order
not to quit the barracks till two o'clock on
Sunday, when the Catholic service was
over, US at Newry. The case which ac-
quired the most publicity, and produced
OF Patrick Spence, private in the County
Dupiin militia, who had been required
though known to be Catholic) to attend
the divine service of the Established
church, and upon refusal was thrown into
the Black Hole. During his imprisonment
he wrote letter to Major White, his COM
manding ofhcer, urging that in obeying the
paramount dictates of conscience, he had
IN no manner broken in upon military dis
cipline He was shortly after brought to
ourt-martial, upon charge that his letter
was dlsrespectful, and had mutinons ten
dency. He was con victed, and sentenced
to receive nine hundred and ninety mine
lasbes. Upon being brought out to under
80 that punishment, an offer was made to
him to commute it for an engagement to
enlist in corps constantly serving abroad;
eais ne accepted, and was transmitted to
the Isle Of Wight, in order to be sent out of
the kingdom. The case having been repre-
scented to the Lord Lieutenant by Doctor
Troy, the titular Archbishop of Dublin,
Mr.. w. Pole wrote him a letter which
stated that the sentence had been passed
upon Spence for writing the disrespectful
letter not denying therefore admitting)
that the committal to the Black HoleH
was for the refusal to attend the Protestant
Church; but that, under all the circum-
stances, the Chief had con-
sldered the punishment excessive, and had
ordered the man to be liberated and to join
his regiment When Spence arrived in
Dublin, he was confined several days, and
then dllcharua6 oil r ha
The copy of Spence's letter, which he
vouched to be authentic, contained nothing
in it either disrespectful or mutinous. The
original letter was often called for, aud al
ways refused by those who had it in their
possession, and might, consequently, by its
determine the justice of the
sentence of nine hundred and ninety nine
lashes.
Many other examples of this kind of petty
tyranny occurred about the same time; and
as no officer was ever punished or repri- |
manded for any of them, they are sufficient
ment, and how much sincerity there was in |
the after dinner liberality of the Duke of
Richmond. In short, it was the settled |
design of the British government, not only |
to break the promises made for carrying |
the Union las it had formerly broken the |
Catholics feel in their daily life the whole
bitterness Of their degradation.
REORGANIZATION OF oRANGEMEN.
When the Catholic Committee, an asso-
citation of Catholic gentlemen for the pur-
pose of urging their rights aud claims,
grew strong and extorted the respect of
their adversaries, we find that the Orange
men felt themselves obliged to take a "new
departure:" they reorganized. The original
principle of the party and the original oath
Of the members bound them to do all in
their power for the extirpation of Catho-
lies j; and we have seen that they lived up
to this great principle for many year; but
when their noxious proceedings had been
exposed to execration in the speeches of
such men as Grattan and Curran, the aris-
tooratic members of the Lodges fund it
necessary to alter their formulas u little.
The Catholic Committee was growing
strong:
OF course, this circumstance alarmed and
nfuriated the Orangemen; who are gener-
lily believed to have at the same time re-
modelled and improved their societies. 1t
8 not easy to arrive at the exact truth re-
yarding all the secret tests and oaths and
degrees" of this mischievous body-the