The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-08-18

AUTIFUL ARE THE FEET OF THEM T
NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY. M
met determine "a to prosecute the persons
have ! named and the announcement
of their intentions has come upon ns all by
surprise. and lashed MS into a fury of iDdigua-
tion and resentment For it looks as If the
penal days had come again. Fancy in this age
q most eminent Catholic. prelate and. twenty
one exemplary Catholic clergymen put in tue
charge which, even if well founded, implies no
moral guilt whateyer-{for all these gentlemen
did was to urge, in more or Less Vehement and
earnes language, the electors of Galway to do
their duty By their God and their country ~
but the legal sustaining of which carries with
1t punishment as great that which is;
awarded to q convicted bigaa,ist, torger, per-
here now in Ireland. 1t is true that the Bish-
op of .Clonfert. together with the other, two
bishops incriminated with him has asked to be
prosecuted, and that neither he nor the Others
conviction; vet the blame that must be at
taohed to the Government for their action can.
not be less great on that account. This event
sa0asa f aeaHh s1e S s Z. nud oIsps smas
mant on any English statesman rather than On
the honest people of their country, and that
theiS best policy is to join the Increment for
1ome RnlA-aThis Lesson Ia derived from 1t by
miserable organ - the Dubfin Ersaisg Pest.
This rag has always reflected q great, indeed
an overw helming regard for tho interests of
the Church, but ct the same time has invar,.
and In. all kinds of weather the interests of
the Gladstone Government Those who pene-
trated moro than the surface of things know
pal i.on with what it cared for the Govern
ment, and now they are proved to have been
right. The Post is now abusing the freemans
Journal for attacking Mr.. Gladstone, and in the
same breath it has the audacity to set itself up
as q defender of the clergy
think told you, in my last letter, that
believed Lord Granard would be forced to resign
the Lord Lieutenancy of Leitrim or would be
dismissed from that Office for his letter in refer
you. On Tuesday my words were verified. On
that day that noble Lord himselfannonnced that
he had resigned his Office in the Queens service
rather than embarrass the Governments, and
added that, after reading the Galway election
evidence, he was unable to retract or modify
single expression he had used in reference to
Keogh. This was manly and courageous, GER
tainly, and the noble Lords influence in this
country, and the affection in which he is held
by the Irish people have both been much in
creased by it.. The Government, however, will
not profit by the fact that they have accepted,
if they did not suggest, his resignation. That
fact, along with their intended prosecution
of the clergy, has simply rendered it impos-
aible for any candidate protesting. to be a
even the ghost of a,ohanee of being elected.
Exit Baron Hughes--enter Baron .Dowse.
Baron Hughes, the bird Judge of the County
Exchequer died GU Monday. As o Judge he
his place by political subserviency like almost
all the rest of his class. He was q Catholic
and nseduently received the last rites OF his
church, and, his funeral was numerously and
respectfully attended. He was the father-in-
law of Judge Morris who is now engaged at
tho Cork Assizes and who was obliged on
Monday last to adjourn his court to be able to
come up here to attend the funeral. The very
same paragraph in the daily papers which an
nounced the death of Baron Hughes contained
speculations as to his probable successor. All,
of course, said that the Attorney General, Mr.
Dowse, would claim and would get the vacant
seat on the bench for, although in England,
where no man becomes Attorney General un-
less he occupies . foremost place at the bar,
that oficef would think II iatrs Dig to take,
Lord Chancellorsbip; yet, here in Ireland,
where promotion 10 granted in political ser
vices only and where, Therefore, the Worst
very often do find themselves at the nominal
head of the profession, the person occuPyiDg
the post Of Attorney General always takes
whatever Judgeship he can get. As 1t has
And SO every one rushed at once to the couclu-
sion that Baron Hughes place would be filled
] by Mr.. Dowse. believe no one who comes to
this conclusion will be disappOinted Mr..
Dowse will take the vacant seat in the EKehe-
| duer, but perhaps not at once. The govern
! nent want him in the House of Commons just
| now. No other law officer from Ireland occu-
pies o seat in that assembly. Perhaps they
| will also ask him to conduct the Galway pro
! secutions. If he did not do it, Mr.. Palles, the
Solicitor-General, woald-haye to do the dirty
! work. and it would, no doubt, be distastefn
task to that gentleman who is q Catholic and
! an intimate friend of Cardinal Cullen, and il
looking forward, doubtless, to an Irish seat Il
| parliannent, But Dir. Dowse will do the worl
if he is asked and if the Judgeshp meanYhils
is kept.vacant fOT him. MIR. Dowse never ye
refused to do any work however base which
his masters asked him to do. he is q copspicu
Gus sample of that base class of men-the pro
Rigate political barrister. He began life as
Nationalist, aud Nationalist 100 of so pro
knonnced Q type that when in 1913 the Snliti
Il O,F8rien. insurreetion broke. ont and be was
, scholar Of Trinity College, he aotu0liy bengh
apike, Intending 10 take the field sslth IT
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