The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-03-26

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TING Skilf osSIeSksF q the 1sss4 hssti6g in
DH6aiA Aas M OplasiIl lanNnsiAo ArssAcd.
- che, right hesd Of 0fCeeNNahv with, Hntir-
ipg energy all through the RApeal agitation
which com iaenced IN 1s4O. We are Especial
~ pleased to notice the reappeAraDce OF
this g.ntieman, because liAi at once suts
away the ground from ithose. who; pretend
that the disciples Of O'Connell are averse
to the resuscitation Of the demand for q
home Parliament for Ireland: Mr.. aDaunt'
went over the history Of the yarious meye-S
meats for the repeal of the Act Of Union,
and proved the folly and ignorance Of those
who cloak their want OF patriOtism by the
excuse that Home Rule is . novel idea, o.
mere whim of the day. The truth is that
the agitation for repeal commenced almost
Immediately after the Act Of Union was
passed. In 1905 it was mooted, and again
in islO. One Of the greatest speeches ever
year, at meeting at the Royal Exchange
In Dublin, in favor Of the restoration Of the
Irish Parliament. In 1913 the old Corpo-
ration of Dublin (thea Protestant body)
supPorsed the question by large majority.
In 1924 it was warmly advocated by the
nent men, and in 1880 (the year after Ca
thoiic emancipation) O'ConneM applied his
great powers to the task Of bringing the
subject prominently before the British
empire. At the general election in 1882
nesrly forty members were returned to
peal, the majority of them being Protest.
ants. The motion failed in the House Of
Commons in 1884, but ministers were
driven by the agitation Of the question to
endeavor to pacify Ireland by improved
legislation, and, in order to test their sim
cerity, O'Connell gave them some years of
trial. 1t became plain, however, in 1910,
that England would not do justice to Ire
land. The Repeal Association was founded
in that year, and soon rallied round it the
support of many millions of Irishmen at
home and abroad. In 1872 the Dublin Cor
poration supported the demand by very
large majority, and in 1913 took place those
assemblies known as the monster meet
ings," at many of which hundreds of thou
sands proclaimed to the world that the peo-
kple of Ireland intensely desired the restora-
bon of their legislative rights. The death
O'Connell in lS47 and the movement of
ISiS (Which aimed at greater change)
cdpsed the Repeal agitation to subside for
q fime. It has been, however, forced
again upon the consideration of British
statesmen, and it has at present this adj
vantage, that NO man can connect it with
anything sectariau; for Catholic and Pro-
testaut clergymen now meet on the same
platform in Dublin and join as brothers in
the demand for the rights Of Ireland. Thus
do both show best las Mr.. Daunt we'll OBJ
served) that they feel their national inter-
ests to be identical, and that their thorough
state is essential to the national well-being.
They know that ever since 1900 Ireland
has been struggling against a strong head
wind. Some indeed talk of the progress
of Ireland during that time, but they find
it convenient to forget that she would
under the fostering influence of home
legislation. The gigantic financial juggle
by which Ireland (Which only owed f2S,-
w, 900 in 1900, when England owed $780,
QU, 000;t wxr1 drawu-6y 0cSroc, froU a fsItuf
lartnership in national debt, has often
been exposed and its fraudulent character
laid bare. The story is too we'll known to
require to be told again.
1t is good omen that the speaker who
followed MI. Dannt was Professor Gal
braith, q fellow of Trinity College, and a
Protestant. He spoke out boldly and man
the Lord Lieutenant recently made on the
Home Government Association, and he
was especially happy in his exposure of the
Yiceroy's weak logicin arguing that because
Dubiin possesses several fine buildings the
restoration of the national legislature is
npt required. /" Who" said lie "raised
these buildings9 Was it the English Parlia-
4entf Certainly not. They were raised
b grants made by an Irish Parliament"
Father Lavelle, the well-known patriotic
peiest, followed, and in telling language
Ppinted out that if o plebiscite were allowed
y be taken in Ireland, ninety out of
every hundred would record their votes in
favor of Home Rule. He dwelt upon the
historical fact That although in, 1882 the
Nng, Lord, and Commons of England made
al solemn treaty with Ireland, by which
they contracted that she should have "for
eyer" the right to manage her own affairs,
yet that eighteen years afterwards Eng
land broke the treaty, and robbed Ireland
Of her Parliament. Next after the priest
come a Presbyterian, honest John Martin,
id whose person Meath has declared for
Home Rule. Again he struck 8 good blow
fof the cause, and called upon every Irish
Nationalist to rally round the association,
sd that it might be entitled to speak out on
behalf of all Ireland. :-fe- sd ~EH
The rulers of Ireland will make great
mistake if they ignore the Importance of
such meetings as that to which we refer.
! They indicate much more than at first
! meets the eye. They prove to all, except
! tliose who are resolved not to be convinced,
t!Rt men differing widely in religion and
| nithe details of many political questions,
| can he brought to work in harmony to-