The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-08-06

ately and most seriously apply themselves
to the task of exterminating the Catholics.
There is quite as little doubt that this
shocking society was encouraged by the
government and by most Of the magistrates
and country gentlemen to keep alive reli-
gious animOsity, and prevent the spread of
the United Irish organization. An union
of IrishmeD, upon the just, liberal and fra
terpal basis of this organization, would
have rendered impossible that other
(" Union :" on which Mr.. Pitt had set his
heart-the Union of ireland with England.
The recall of Lord Fitzwilliam and arrival
of Lord Camden gave the signal for the
bloody anarchy, through which Ireland
was doomed to pass for the next four years,
and which, it was deliberately calculated,
was to end in her extinction as q nation.
OPERATIONS OF FIRST CAMPAIGN.
The chief object of the government and
its agents was now to invent and dissemin-
ate fearful rumors of intended massacres
of all the Protestant people by the Catho-
lies. Dr.. Madden says: Efforts were
made to infuse into the mind of the Pro-
testant feelings of distrust to his Catholic
fellow country Popish plots and con-
spiracies were fabricated with a practical
conceived it no degradation to stoop to
and alarming reports of these dark confed-
erations were circulated with restless as
siduity." The effects were soon apparent
in the atrocities committed by the Orange
men in Armagh, and by the magistrates
and military in other counties. The per-
secuted ''Defenders" of Armagh made
some feeble attempts to protect themselves,
though almost without arms. This resist
ance led to the transaction called Battle
of the Diamond" near the village of that
name, on the 2ist of September, 1895.
Several writer's have alleged that the Ca
tholics invited this conflict by challenge
sent to the orangemen. Of course, the
latter having abundance of arms and being
sure of the protection of the magistrates,
were not slow to accept such an invitation;
but nothing can be more absurd than to
term the affair battle. Not one of the
Orange party was killed or wounded.
Four or five Defenders were killed and a
propOrtionate number wounded; and this
is the glorious battle that has been toasted
at Orange banquets from that day to the
present. Mr.. Emmett, in his pieces of Irish
History, thus describes the transaction
The Defenders were speedily defeated
with the loss of some few killed and left
on the field of battle, besides the wounded,
whom they carried away.
"To HELL OR coNNAUGHT."
"The Catholics, after this, never attempt
ed to make a stand, but the Orangemen
dye. They would no longer permit Catho-
lie to exist in the country. They posted
up on the cabins of these unfortunate vic
Tins this pithy notice, Ito He'll or Con-
naught;' and appointed limited time in
which the necessary removal of persons
and property was to be made. If after the
expiration of that period, the notice had
not been complied with, the Orangemen
assembled, destroyed the furniture, burned
the habitations, and forced the ruined
families to fly elsewhere for shelter" Mr..
Emmett adds, "While these outrages were
going on, the resident magistrates were
not found to resist them, and in some in
tators." DR.. Madden has preserved and
printed number of the 4snotices," ill
spelled, but sufficiently ineligible, which
were posted on the cabin doors But the
Orangemen by no means confined them
selves to mere forcible ejectment of their
enemies. Many, fearful murders were
committed on the unresisting people and
what gives perhaps the clearest idea of the
persecution is the fact that seren thousand
pei sons were estimated in the next year to
have been either killed or driven from their
homes in that one small county alone.
But the unhappy outcasts, even when they
escaped with their lives, had no shelter to
fly to. In most cases they could only wander
on the mountains until either death relieved
them, or they were arrested and imprison-
ed; while the younger men were sent
without ceremony, to one of the "tenders,"
tnen IylEgln various seapOrts, ana thence
transferred on board British men of war.
This was the device originally of Lord
Carhampton, then commahdin in Ireland.
1t was called a vigol beyond the law :" a
delicate phrase which has since come very
much into use to describe outrages commit
ted by magistrates against the law. Dur
ing all the rest of this year the greater
part of Leinster, with portions of Ulster
aud Munster, we're in the utmost terror and
agony; the Orange magistrates, aided by
the troops, arresting and imprisoning, with
out any charge, multitudes of nnoffending
people, under one pretext or another. 1t
is right to present a sample of the story as
told by "loyal men," Thus, then, the
matter is represented by Sir Richard Mus
grave, p. las; "Lord Carhampton, finding
that the laws were silent and imperative
in the counties which he visited, and that
they did not afford protection to the loyal
aud peaceahle subjects, aoho in most places
acre obliged to fly from their habitdtions,
resolved [" restore them to their usual en-
ergy, by the following salutary system of
severity Sin each county he assem- bied the
most respectable gentlemen and landhold-
ers in it, and having, in concert with them,
examined the charges against the leaders