The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-10-13

MING STAR AND CATHOLIC MI
the Irish character. All, how deeptt
was the shadow that that vice, that terri q
BILE sin, cast upon Ireland in the day when q
the gallant men fought for honor and glory, I
the men of Wexford and Wicklow, the q
upon the side of the hin which is called !
and not without reason, Vinegar Hill.
Goaded into rebellion, driven into revo'u. I
ton they arose, only two counties, ana
these two the very smallest in Ireland Wex.
ford and Wicklow. they arose in '9s, and it
took 36, 600 English soldiers to subdue
them. II Ireland had arisen as Wexford
and Wicklow arose, the pawer OF Engano
would have been cIushed aud broken In
'9S. When these men arose, unarmed as
they swept the English before them as hay
before the breeze, and, elated with their
success as long as they kept their heads
clear from drink, so long their arms were
victorious: The night before the battle OF
us there happenedi The English soldiers
came, surrounded them, the artillery took
its positions, the infantry was properly
posted, q terrible force was around the ati
ye. all was silent as the grave. The poor
night in jovial conviviality aud in drinking.
, We know what the next days tale was:
0 The English attacked them. Severed and
distracted they were unequal to the work:
= and the river flowed down into Wexdoro
: town red with the blood of Irishmen. How
b deep was the shadow in that day which the
y vice Of drunkenness cast upon our blood
!" They speak truly when they say It's
l. great sin. It is q sin Mt our door Bat,
Is again, who caused it, Surely the best way
I to drive a man to drunkenness is to drive
" him to despair. Keep the screw on him,
W roo him, plgnder him, give him nothing to
= live for, nothing to hope for and it Is one
% man out of q hundred that will escape the
I temptation of drowning his sorroWs IN
8, drink. ----=
Id revengeful; and the English newspaper
I'd are constantly crying out: ooh, q nation o
at murderers! You can't walk the roads o
Sc the country, but some fellow will come on
ut from behind hedge and shoot you. Their
!rt ia no safety for life" 1t was out tne otn as
Tipperary man and his blunderbuss, AM
ng the idea Of reasoning with him. Well now
e. nv friends, God forbid that should jastif
ID sin in any form. Heaven forbid that
re- should attempt to justify the terrible eeim
eu Of revenge or murder. But will lay dow
er, Two facts-hrst that there is more nurdt
ny committed in England in one month tina
by there is in Ireland in seven years. Secont
len ly, that there never was people 30 uriVe
we and SD exasperated to take the WIG "a"
revenge
let the men who have been murdered Ito OF
TVS bitter regret, indeed, that they have bee
murdered. they were the men VINO we
of extermiuating tho people; the men W,
ok would enter n poor mans door and say:
lie; am your landlord, you owe me no rent,ys
.or- have paid me every farthing of your deo
me; YOU father and grandfather who lived lie
get before you paid me all they owed me, y
and have worked for me faithfully and la
'pie grown rich upon your looor-get oue
ess, that house, out with the wife, ou0 Win
srs shildren, out in the cold bleak road on Il
own winters day, out in the storm, beg, go
wn, the poor house, or lay down ana Ole
eeps These we're the men that were murders
nust Just make the case your owp. remem'
9 is. an elderly English gentleman whom l q
rave travelling in q railway car, and he SAID
nder me: "YOu Irish are desperate lou.
It he are slaugitering every man OF properly
how the country. just said to him: "A
You days ago a man came to me ana 1 "asca
ava full to 90 to his house and to make out
III to truth Of what he told me. He told me !
that he held q piece of bog land, he helo
lue from bankrupt landlord Mt q rack rem
f his and it was a rack rent. He drained t
from bog and he made garden ana ~
ever farm out of it by putting into it every p
omes nv that he could earn He made it q sn
what English garden, and it was now worth
Mt in Donuds an acre. Whilst he was at tha1
Our landlord would occasionally visit him
were say you are working well, go on WIN
our drainage, / Will never OiSSu.0 -
, and soon as ever he got his farm Ia oToet
otest got his house built upon IL, eae iane
d by came and said: 81 want that lanM'
eilk that house = The farmer said raven
/, but paid you the rent r Y es, SAID the iahu,
those but want ito" When had nnisneu
d the old gentleman asked. .'And did your fri
re re- 20 out Z" sob, yes" replied, ne
n one ont he took his wife ana cnhoten
cture went ost, and he went OUT y peSe
said "Aud didn't your friend SHOOT tnaS IL
this, lord 2" the old gentleman askso' .,S'
.e tax / said, che didn't shoot him" MY
been heavens, would have shoe MIN, reE
a tax the Englishman.
the Tho press of England accuses the
to go mamie IF being deceisful aud a lying
sipess plIs They saw that it is hard to trust
upon Tord 7 depy it, But even if it were
ecuri ayan If we were liars, who made liza