The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-10-08

l nounce to have been one of "the worat fol
lies OF the French reception" You obtain
ed somehow false version of the littl,
story. you accepted it for true, affecting tu
CONSIDER the conduct it attributed to me
as among the Inconsistencies of my character
as you have studied aud learnt IL. 'Tia toe
much trouble you take to study nv charac.
Ter at all But it would save trouble 20
others, it You were to take care in iudainu
deeds. ''--
As to my loyalty to the Throne, am not
aware that have at any time made auy
professions" on the subject. desire that
the constitution Of King, Lords and Com
mons should be restored in Ireland by the
removal Of the English usurpation OF the
| Act OF Union. ! desire to see the Queen
exercieing her constitutional function In
IRELAND, and governing my country through
a free Irish Parliament. I try to do nv
duty as an Irish subject, and I desire that
the Queen should beEiu to do hers IA a
Sovereign Of Ireland. The. ia what I nm
derstand by my loyalty to the Throne. But
iet no English commentator flatter himself
that by loyalty to the Throne mean allie
glance and subsection to him and his coun.
trymen. And be assured, sir, that in nv
Judgment the charge of disloyalty, in this
unhappy national quarrel, lies against YOU
ana your conntrymen, who prevent the
Qneen's authority in her Kingdom of ire
land, and not against Irish patriots like
me, who strive TO restore the constitutional
rights of our nation.
Let me add few words upon other topics
OF Your article. l think it is simple loss of
time Tor you to lecture us Irish us to the
wish OF certain parties in England for q
poiicy OF coercion alone, and the struggles
OF another English party Ito which you in
innate that yourself belong) for better
things" We have made up our minds in |
Ireland thas your policy towards us is
adopted aud regulated entirely from con-
siderations of your own selfish interest and
convenience. Whether you take measures
to strike terror or to soothe aud conciIiate
whether you keep US in obedience" by
brute force, or coax US with "better things,n
(by which yon mean partial redress of some
of the wrongs you have inflicted on ns)-
We believe that you consider exclusively
your own material profit, Your own
national reputation In Europe, your own
temporary convenience. 1t is your own
affair how yon shall hold my country. 1t
l Is not Question, in my opinion, Of any
principally brute force may hang. imprison
and Danish q few more of the Irish than the
policy of better things !" but :le latter
policy will corrupt and derno,u'ize MS
worse than the former. The eyil, the
grievance, that the Irish people iay to your
we declare it end y"n affect 10; t" Il. ~ 3
not the measures, cruel as they gentrai,y
are, ny which y0n keep ms in subsection.
but the subsection itself You refuse to let
us he your equals, free as you are, owners
and rulers Of our own country, as you are
remain your subjects. Consider whether it
is wise for you to persist in holding us sub
ject to you against our will. Alas! Won
talk of our hatred to you. What have we
done against England How have we
shown hatred to the English Can you
Have we pretended to rule you, make laws
for you, to tax you, to spend your taxes, to
disarm you, to treat you as our subjects,
and to revile you because you think proper
to rule ,yourselves9 Which people is it,
the Irish or the English, whose acts are acts
Of hatred to the other?
Sir, the attack by some of the people
upon the police in Dublin last Sunday was
lamentable; but who is to blame for that
unhappy riotf Not altogether, think, the
sorely tried people, but in part, also, the
authorities who despotically set the police
snort time before to break the peoples
heads The Irish police behave generally
with gentleness and forbearance, at which
am amazed when / consider the means
taken by TIE government to mako them
hostile to the people aud the Irish people,
On their side, behave more squietly under
~, PUSI I&io so winch yon SUBJECT them
than Englishmen or Frenchmen, or any
other people that know, would behave If
experimental upon.
Inc reception of the French deputation
delighted me. I am proud to belong to a
people like the Irish, among whom the ira
1ltion Of friendship is SO faithfully pre-
'erved, who are so loyal in adversely, whose
hearts are so deeply stirred by generous
sentiment and SO little swayed by consid-
sFati0ns of material interest. Il was q
purely disinterested expression of the SYM
.athy of the Irish people for France-for
no nation, and not for any party Of
FEenehmen. II you and your e0untrymen