The New York herald., 1872-10-19
aupoD1ng snsralisations and vividly
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- mwellHsown acrosss the Atlantic - It washere,i
aud whose aspeeches he had read with great
pleasure and iAstrucsion, had spoken Of the abnll
u Pope Adrian asa thamping English lies
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Norman lie and he was SURE that Father Basks
must have made that remark wien ereae dtstress to
nlnselg because he washimsslf o6 tks very purest
Norman descent II Father Burke woula have the
6Qodhees 70 look ct volume Of papers taken from
~ V6tlean, and edited ina arranged BY Dr.Tyier,
~ would nnd . letter from Pope Abrams success
~ - Henry the Third, IN which that bun was
awsltron q the only basls Of the authority which
ne English exercised n Ireland 9al savo hsglaslq
N. Froude proceeded to say that In his hrst
lecture he had described the Norman conquest OF
Ireland. He now proposed to direct their atten-
ton to an English prince whom he had been &C
olsed Of trying to whitewash--Henry VIII, the
English Bluebeard. . Fortunately he would not have
any occasion to revert to Henrys matrimonial
difcultes but simply to his EFFORTS to restore Law
and order y Ireland. Henry did not seek TO con-
1soate the lands oof Irish noblemen nor to impose
8uGlish laws upon them a He simply desired to
bring order ont, Of, anarchy. !, One Of his
naeasures was in reference to- the system
Of sbsenteeism, which was then, as 1t had
been ever since, the great evil in Ireland,
but he had not met with, very great success AS
~
peasantry was at that time an Industrious and
orderly class, and that functionary recommended
But this = pOs not
adopted. Henry instesd attempted Q sort Of home
Sae, md ent5us!ed the government OF Ireland to
eame as other people white in London. became
selves, and kept ON. In the bad old way Of
letting everybody DO as they liked and
abandoning the weak to the tender mercies Of all
In lam
and and S wiss se sa dss Iesdon M
cuted for the crime. About this time there oc-
sst ss q aas1ps o
some interest which side. lrshmen would espOnse.
asligion, up to that time, had sat lightly
iSiss clessy, Of whose bisSops had % indulsea
g large families. But .. change was coming in
OF Henry VIII The chiefs Of the Geradines seemed med
inclined TO be- on good terms with Henry,
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the Reformation the. Pope had really been
y ssn snd only
Parliament now revoked this state OF things and
declared Individual allegiance to England, and the
indeed great syorise With the irish, and "a
S he ss SrsS Of Ss
,: sss SSsspfs s's
- far las J the question OF the Papal
Es hv05BsS 5ss.r.d Hs pnsSss SS
IS mass and s ritual IN use "sa iOr many Many
centuries was abolished with stroke Of the pen.
Then the Purttans began o crusade OF the most
laad for tine future arraysd herself against English
Pnrtteni.m and began to seek Tor allies among the
an vivid ccSors the irish policy Of 's EsaSetH'
saSss5 1etos the osthoc bishops TO % dscsae sass al
passed through the irish Parliament establishing
The English Church. and adopting the Liturgy and
order thai the Snas Catholics should Iss not &c
then and Irish Gstholics: But the law was not en-
d!1 not he Iriah rise and rebel The army
and badly armed and mob o irish irish peasantS With
Ialee and sticks, could have driven Il into the sea
az ws e e q
among the Irish themselves When an Irish. chief
l6esa@e ,dangeroua ahe bribed his nelghborss 70
i.fa.s ne iofty.avs splsndd years o. ElisaOstas
six sss would sS i9s S1 aDSsuaed sys' risns %sa
agetnst 9 sovereign tlat so terribly abused
Tss sns snsRs and ns% SatcSssss Of Ike WS
ytne clans answer. AZ last the Pope interfered
cent over ssts sr WITH Italian and spsnsn
great houses made head against English rule.
gus then the Burkes, Of Galway, and the Buffers,
them, and aided by few hundred English soldiers,
drove the epaniards and the Italians into the sea-
che mountains. It was then war OF irishmen men
aGainst Irshmen, and mercy was an unknown
word. Brother brought in the dripping head OF
oeotnor, son OF father, cOmrade OF Comrade. Rank
and sex and age passed unrespected, and the land
was wholly given up to rapine, boodshed and
cruelty. At last BY these means whole provinces
TSss lasted for u
strength Of ell the Catholics. This time the war
was waged after . more civilized fashien; but the
expedient now remained to be tried In Ireland
colonization BY an orderly and industrious race.
bsshs dsstS The irish had s looked @ afs' on James %
I as one Of themselves; but nnding that
isy SSa @ sss E: n:r e
snSs were Settled by Ensshnsn snd % scots Only
re masses o. the working people found that the
settlers gave them employment and protection, and
able 70 enjoy the fruits Of their toll This % U"ter
1ettlement gave Ireland thirty years OF peace
asbelOn had been played out, and the Irish race
sxSSanssd coSrtesiss with them and inter.
q Ireland again appeared: The great Church
questions appeared In Ireland and the sch!sm
+ lmOu8 the frOCcAL0nJS ulv10o0 the cOI0pl6t&. MI.
Er0ude then skctchcd the condition OF parties in
Ireland at the time Of the English Roundhead and
Cavalier wars-dlvided into Normans and old Irish
ana Protestants. In 16l1 Ireland was again thrown
INTO anarchy BY the massacre Of the Protestants
III tNe Cathoncs AZ drst murder was not in
0nnd 20 be surrounded by armed bands. Men,
women and children were seized and stripped
20 make their way In that condition to the nearest
port Neighb0r turned against neighbor; servant
2gntn1t master. The valet who had unlressed hje
master overnight was at his bedside in the morn.
Ing WITH pike. Houses were burned, crops
wore DESTROYED, the cattle killed and left
ana scots, and there followed q terrible
massacre. Some contemporary acc0unts1 put
the number OF the victims at 10000 but
ehis was certainly beyond the truth. Thirty.eight
thousand was nearer the mark. Ireland was then