The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-04-09
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In the following year, 1909, Thomas
Earl of Wharton. was Lord Lheutenal.,
and the gentle Addison, whose papers sr ~
spirit of benevolence, was his secretary,
in other words, he was an agent-W!e9e WI.
hope an unwilling agent-in skiiiuly
devised and comprehensive system OF re-
fined cruelty. By q fresh outrage on hu.
manity, Papists were declared incapable OF
enjoying an annuity for life; estates. real
and personal were secured to such children
among them as might apostatize, and JOIN
lures were secured likewise to wives who
became renegades from their husbands
faith. They were prohibited from being
tutors, ushers, or even assistants to Pro-
testant schoolmasters; and reward OF f5O
was offered for the discovery of every per-
son exercising the functions Of bishop,
archbishop or vicar-general. Priest-hunt-
ing became q trade; nay, sometimes even
sport. ego was the tempting bait for dis
covering . monk, friar or secular priest not
duly registered, and 6 10 was given as the
schoolmaster or tutor. Thus the kind and
paternal Government of England made it
profitable to cultivate Protestant piety by
betraying and running inJHensive Catho.
lies. BlOodhounds in human form dogged
the steps of venerable clergymen in various
in the darkness of the night, they ventured
to baptize an infant, or to carry the viati-
cum to the cabin of dying Christian. The
captured priests were sometimes brought
in by patches of three, four or five, and the
laws of which we have spoken in former
number were vigorously put in force. 1t is
important to bear this in mind, because
penal laws against Catholics have some
times, through their very severity, had
been held in allegiance, and, sometimes, az
in the case of the Ecclesiastical Titles bill,
have not been carried into operation at all.
~ l~,k ~fEa al W
were transported, and the Bishop who,
having once been transported, returned
again 20 Ireland, was hanged.
/ The Earl of Wharton, under whom this
new act of oppression became law, was one
of the most prohigate and odious Viceroys
scribed him as Presbyterian in politics,
and an Atheist in religions one who
sunk his fortune in endeavoring TO ruin
one kingdom, and raised it by going far in
in the ruin of another. Though his ad-
ministration of Ireland" he said, "was
impeach him, at least for high crimes and
misdemeanors, yet he gained by the gov
eminent of that kingdom, in two years,
E45, 600, by the most favorable computa
ton, half in the regular way, and half -,
tile prudential" But it was not on account
erpment crime Of persecuting Catholics
that Swift spoke of his Excellency in such
singing terms. He is called an Irish
patriot, and deserves to be so called, but in
q very limited and imperfect sense. He
INDICATED the claim of the English colony
to rule the nation, but that was all. ne
never dreamed of giving Catholics voice
in the Legislature; nor do his writIng'
contain one protest against the barbarous
treatment which they endured at the handt
of Protestant task-masters. Swift never
indeed, spoke Of himself as Irish, though
t,< ole ~Sn .
the name of Englishman; and even "
Delany, his intimate friend, speaks OF hi
"invincible patriotism, even to country
which he did not love-" Like others, wht
were called patriots, he exerted himself II
behalf of Ireland, without one particle O
sympathy for the sufferings and privatlon
of those whom, in q letter to Pope, he de
j scribes as "the vulgar-the savage ole
Irish" If he hated Lord Wharton, it wa
because Wharton was a Dissenter and
Wing.
The year 1909 was marked by anothe
ingenious measure adopted by the EngHsl
J Government for the purpose of eradicatinl
Catholicism from the Irish soil. Protestan
Palatine families, to the number of 81
were brought over from Germany, and up
wards of f24,0O0 were applied to thei
, maintenance out of the revenue, in orde
that being settled in ireland as tenants ant
) laborers, they might dsplace the poore
3 Catholics and constrain them at last to qui
the island. This object was effected to
great extent; but in the opinion of Dea
? Swift, and other writer's of the Tory schoo
? England did not gain much by the impor
:, tation. The Palatines, though naturalize
at the cost of one shilling, did not NANTES
n great loyalty towards their new Severely
8 they neither enlisted in her Majesty's arm
:. nor believed in her Majesty's ecclesiastic'
e supremacy. In short, they only sweiie
y the ranks of Disseuters; and this, in Dea
d as augmenting the number of Papists g.
6 appeared" he said, chat the public was
J, loser by every individual amongst then
If and that kingdom can no more be rich
), for such an Importation, than man ,S can
Q fatter by wen" They wee Above I'VE
b Catholics who happened to have emigrate
d were, in the year before the Queens deaf
re- prohibited from planting their feet aga
e on their native shore.
s. So minute and vexatious were the detal
IS of English laws against Catholies in IL
j, reign, that in the same year, 17l3, an ORD
g was made in the House of Commons TN
.r "the sergeant-at-a should take IN
n I hot or.