Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-02
which this sooieix Of United Irish

men was FORMED, were as fOli0WS:
First-English influences upon legis-
lation in our country is so great and 50
| injurious as to demand a union. of ali
Irishmen for the common good, ire
spective Of religion or prejudices.
| SecOnd-Every constitutional means
should be used to oppose such English
influence, and Of such, first and fore
most, is demanded a radical reform OF
Parliament. Wh
| Third-No reform Is just or satisfac-
/ tory that does not include every Irish
man, of whatever religion or sect.
Is there anything treasonable, repre-
hensible, deserving of imprisonment or
death in those principles? Who opposed
| this proposed reform of the Irish
Parliament? Who said that ireland
must remain divided, distracted and
ground down? The government of
England. When MIR. Blood in the new
Parliament proposed @ 10
PLAN OF REFORM,
he was opposed by Yelverton, the gov
ernment's attorney for Ireland, and his
bill was thrown out by a vote of one
hundred and fifty-nine to seventy-seven,
the one hundred and fifty-nine each one
of them with bribe ia his pocket. MIR.
Froude is a good philosopher. He sits
down and draws conclusions that he
thinks ought to result from bis premises,
and if the premises and conclusions are
good heis a good philosopher. But that
does not make him a good historian.
Indeed, think Mr.. Froude has shown
himself to be too good philosopher to
be good historian, and too good am his
torian to be a good philosopher. Pitt
had determined tOE crush Ireland,
and for that purpose he resolved upon
three measures. He disarmed the vol
unteers, and the Gay they laid down
their arms Ireland laid down for a time
her hopes. He forced the United Irish
men to secret meetings and thence to
conspiracy. In 1913 they held public
meeting TO protest against the enforce
ment of s.-.. .---..
THE GUNPOwDER BILL,
by which certain minions of the gov
ernment We're empowered to enter houses
and Tansack them under the plea that
they were looking for gunpowder. This
was public meeting, mind you, but the
president and secretary of it were arrest
ed and imprisoned. The society took
refuge and became a conspiracy. Its
open Oljett twas greater terror to
England than its secret one could be.
The English government had no reason
to be afraid of Irish treason, but it has
every reason to fear Irish uaion. There
was no dislOyalty, no treason, in
THE OATH OF THE UNITED IRIsHMEN;
no sentiment that any man who loved
his country could not applaud. pro-
test, priest as l am, that had that oath
been presented to me in 1898 l would
have taken it, sworn to it and clung to
it. Prolonged applause.
Pitts object of crushing Ireland was
secured by forcing her into revolution,
aud he plunged the kingdom into blood
shed that he might carry out his own
internal state policy. How easy it
would have been to conciliate this
broken country.
Two short months OF the reign Of Earl
Fitzwilliam in Ireland were enough to
show the peaceful, orderly temperament
of the people. He was just and good,
and when he was recalled the nation
shed tears. The chief citizens of Dublin
took his horses from his carriage and
pulled it to the dock. 1t was easy to
cOnciliate such people, but they chose
to turn the
HONEY OF HUMAN NATURE
into the gall and bitterness of hatred.
Father Burke then reviewed Hugh
O'Neilrs rebellion, the penal laws en-
forced by Queen Elizabeth-in regard
to which he claims Mr.. Froude is forty
years out of the way in his chronology
the oppression of Catholics, the cause
Of Queen EliZabeth's hatred, her illegit-
imacy, her mother, as he deIicately
tor aa1 hain har fnf 10 20
the increase of Ireland's Indebtedness
after the act of the Union, the bargain
and sale in the passage of that act, and
the rise of Daniel OiConnell.
CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION
was finally secured by O'Connell be-
cause of the political agitation by which
he threatened a civil war. 1t was ac-
corded by England with such consent
as man gives up a>bad tooth to the dem
tist. O'ConneIl put the forceps into the
false old mouth while the bigoted old
tyrant groaned, and the face that had
never changed color over evil deeds
grew pale as to $3.50
TIL FUTURE OF IRELAND.
Said Father Burke, theverdict to be rem
dered is not wholly one of absOlution.
Mr.. Froude has come like a man GO
ing to confession. He cries out, ave
have sinned, we have sinned;" but he
promises no improvement in the future.
Surely he cannot ask verdict justifying
the roll of iniquity that we have been
contemplating. Our verdict, my Amer
lean grand jury, must also have refer
ence 10 the future. There is
NO USE APPEALING TO THEswoRD.
That will succeed only when the Irish
have two things-which Mr. Froude
thinks they have not now-union as
one man, and a determination not to
sheathe the sword until they gain
their freedom. l do not believe
in insurrectiona'y movements in so
divided country as Ireland. The glo-
rious future of Ireland lies in the more
peaceful paths. Let her sons develop
her resources, and let her sons in Amer
lea who have grown wealthy use their
influence to effect that blessed union,
without which there is no hope for her.
ENGLAND Is AN ENPIRE1N DECAY.
She has almost run her cycle. She is
giving up her colonial dependencies and
buying off her enemies. The day of the
New ZeaIander on London Bridge is not
far ahead, and if that day comes-Lord |
Macaulay says it may come-Ireland, in
her independence, will find a rest In |
your own mighty confederation of States,
in which she may be an equal among the !
best.
AT the conclusion of Father Burke's !
lecture immense cheering greeted him,
and Vicar General Stars proposed vote |
of thanks, which was heartily accorded. |
TUTpCUIDuTc Nrouro