The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-08-20

peachable competence, q few general testi-
monies Of the fact that the Irish were pur-
posely and deliberately goaded and tor
Earl Fitzwilliam, who, in the letter to
Lord Carlisle already referred to, states
that he had warned the Duke of Portland
that Pitts policy would, il persevered in,
raise fame in Ireland that'nothiug short
of arms could be able to keep down. He
might have spared the warning !; for to
of bloodshed, was just what Pitt intended,
as q necessary preparation to the measure
of Union. My next witness is Lord HOl-
land, who, in his book entitled Memoirs
of the Wing party during my Time" says,
"My appreciation of Lord Edward Fitz-
gerald's actions remains unaltered and un-
shaken. His country was bleeding under
one Of the hardest tyrannies that our times
have Witnessed" Again, I have the testi-
mony of Henry Grattan, who published, in
1872, an Address to his Fellow Citizens, of
which I possess an original copy, and in it
ing the following outrages and crime:
"The order to the military to act without
waiting for the civil power--the imprisonment
of the middle orders without law-the detain-
ing them in prison without bringing them to
trial-the transporting them without law
numbering them crimes, many of which
are public and many committed which are
concealed by the suppression of q free press
meetings Of counties to petition his Majesty,
by orders acknowledged to be given to the
military to dispense them subverting the
subiects right to petition-and finally, the in
law, but unknown to civilised and Christian
countries"
Those are the words Of Grattan in 1897
and ask if there ever were greater pains
taken to drive people into rebellion.
LpoU that tho MArcuis Corn l1ic
was sent over as Viceroy to carry the
Union. 1t appears by the CORVALLIS Cor
lespondence, published few years since,
that the Marquis had some qualms of hu-
mainly; and was, in fact, Mortified at the
atrocious lengths to which the government
and their satellites had gone. In q letter
to General Ross, written on the 10th of
November, 1899, he distinctly admits that
the people had been driven to rebel. Here
are his words:
"You will have seen by the addresses both
in the north and the south that my attempt to
once driccn, and which, if tolerated, must again
soon drive this wretched country into rebel
lion, is not reprobated by the voice of the
country; although it has appeared so culpable
in the eyes of the absentees."
p You see that his Exceilency ascribes the
rebellion to the violence and cruelty with
which the people had been treated. One
other witness is Lord J.: Russell, who, in
his preface to Moore's Diary" speaks of
the insurrection of 98 as $50 wickedly
provoked, so rashly begun, and SO cruelty
crushed" If any farther proof were need
ed to d < the guilt of the rebellion on the
government, it is supplied by the evidence
given before the Secret Committee of the
House of Lords. By this it appears that
person named Maguan, one of the mem ers
of the EXECUTIVE Directory of the insure,
gents, was a spy in the employment Of the
hat fNrt RI
previouslyto the outbreak-tbat is, from
April, 1897, till May, 1898, this Maguan
gave the Rev. Mr.. Celland, who was an
agent of Lord Casslereagll's family. minute
and constant information of all the pro-
jects and proceedings of the insurgent
party. So that the government could at
any moment during The thirteen months
have prevented the rebellion by the simple
act of arresting the leaders. But this
would not have suited their views. For if
Ireland was left at peace, and in possession
of the strength derived from peace, no
power upon earth could have forced the
Union on her. Truly, when Mr.. Goodwin
Smith said that Pitt had sunk knee-deep in
pollution in order to carry the Union, he
bestowed a very mild censure on that
statesman. 1t is scarcely possible to con-
ceive any thing more utterly diabolical than
the cold, calculating policy with WHICH the
Catholics were first encouraged and then
exasperated by the deception practised on
them, and the words of treacherous prom
ise followed up by the fiendish persecution
which at last stung the maddened, tortured
people to rebel. The popular strength was
paralysed; and at this moment of national
prostration and weakness-this moment so
carefully prepared by the policy of Pitt and
his Irish agent, Castlefeagh, when the
country was under martial law, and occu-
pied by an army of 1877 900 strong-at this
moment the time was deemed ripe for the
introduction of the Union into tue Irish
House of Commons. Brides were as plenty
as blackberries. There were high prices
offered for votes, cash down; promotion in
the army, the law, the navy, the Church.
Castlereagh was the high priest of corrup-
ton, and admirably qualified for that of
Ace; yet, Notwithstanding the gigantic ex-
ertiOns of the government, the measure
was defeated in 1899 by small majority.
In the following year it was renewed, the
government having occupied the interval
bylredoubled exertions to corrupt and over
awe. They contrived to pack the Parlia-
ment so as to secure the success of Their
measure. O'Connell, whose statue now
looks down on US, made his first public
speech against it in this hall where we are
| aosamhle6 Grattan who had nuittad mar.