The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1872-09-15
now BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET THAT BRING GLAD NGs GOOD
NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER Is,

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off scot free even when they were manifestly
guilty. They may do the same now; but if
they do can tell you the Catholics will not
stand it longer, but will certainly rise in re-
volt against the nefarious system.
Tho true purpose of Orangeism, it's heiish
maliciousness and the implacability of its
than by story originated and circulated at
the end of last week by the Orange press in
reference to the Catholics of Drogheda. Now,
before tell yon what the story was, let me
tell you that Drogheda is one of the most
peaceable communities in Ireland that al
most every assize is maiden ono that the
Protestant and Catholic inhabitants haze ever
lived together on tho most friendly terms :;
that so peaceable and quiet was it during the
rioting at Belfast that full half of its usually
| small force of police was drafted away to that
city to put down the Oraugemen. In fact the
last thing in the world you would expect to
hear about is that it is likely to be the theatre
of sectarian disturbances. Nevertheless-not-
| withstanding these notorious facts-the Orange
port that it was feared the Catholics of
Drogheda would turn out on st. Bartholemew's
| Day and take vengeance for Cromwell's
| butchery of their foIefathers by a wholesale
massacre of their Protestant fellow-country-
men and, to make matters worse, the Govern
ment authorities, as if they were in league with
the concoctors, actually lend countenance to
the rumor by dispatchng in hot haste to
Drogheda an overwhelming force of military
| and police. Of course there was not the
slightest need for such action; Bartholemew's
But many idiotic or simple Protestants-not
! in Drogheda indeed, but hero in Dublin and
elsewhere-reluctantly felt timd for mo-
ment. and, no doubt, had generated in them a
suspicion and distrust of their Catholic fellow
countrymen and this result was exactly what
was aimed at by the Orange concoctors of the
infamous story, and probably by the Govern
ment. By this time, however, the base and in
| trick has been fhorOuUh1v founi ont
and exposed and honest, patriotic people of all
creeds are now asking the Government to dis
close the name naIses of the person or per-
sons on whose informatioDs they acted when
they sent down their forces to Drogheda. The
Government, Of course, will not comply with
the demand.
Derry will now probably be, for some time to
come the centre of political interest here. Five
candidates are already aspiring to represent
it. l think have told you the names of three
of these already-namely, Mr. John ltea, Mr.
Lewis, London attorney-both of whom are
! Orange Conservatives, and Dr.. Evorp kenne-
: dy, a Dublin ply scian, who has soft word Tor
Home Rule but is unmitigated Whig, going 4
, in for and prepared to accept, whenever oherea,
q Government appointment. The other two
, candidates are Alderman McCorkell, local
, merchant and regular trne blue Tory, and
| Mr. Joseph G. Biggar, one of the richest mer-
r chants in Belfast and thorough Home Ruler
Indeed, he is President of the Belfast Bran 'h
of the Home Rule Association. The contest
will, am all hut certain, lie bet wcen these two
men, anu ncte predict IEut hT blHRaE VIII
win. lie is supported hy the vast mnj"rity OF
the Liberal ELECTORS and ly not few C"aser
vatives. If he does win. it will be by far the
most significant event of the year and Will al
most decide the Home Rule question. Just
3 imagine one of the great strongholds O.
O-angeisu for generations at last decl claiinl
for Irish independence. The prospect is almos
: too cheering ever to Ie realized.
A meeting of the Home Government Associ
alton took place here this evening, at which
r was present. The topics discussed were th'
D withdrawal of the Hon. Lawrence King -liar
4 man from the Association because some mem
S bers had outside expressed opinions adverse Il
t the Infamous KeoGh the late riots i'll Belfas
, and the admirable conduct Of the Derry
3 OranEcuien Lady Day: and the great pro
t gress the Association had recently made in nj
j Quarters. On the aforementioned ii point it wa
t pointed ont in long and able speech by PRO
n fessor Galbraith, of Trinity College, that one
n of their fundamental rules was that, while nj
Z the members we're TO lie agreed on the nationa
$ question, they might hold and express ditferen
s opinions on every other subject, and that
= therefore, Mr.. King -Harmans secession " as I'M
Y iustitable. lie, however, did not make mucn n o
that secession, pointing ont, i'll an admirabl
C manner, that the strength of the national move
z ment lay not in one man or two men, howeve
i respectable and Influential, but in the fact tha
IS the yearning which gave it birth lay down II
If the hearts Of the people at large and was ine
radicable. The other matters we're spoken P%,ko oS
l. of this city, who may be called the father
r Irish Federalism, and Father Quaid, the OF or
i but fiery aud patriotic parish priest of CalIi
,e phau's Mills, county Clare. One 2f the rest
A. iutions passed was one of thanks to the Crang'
lie men who kept quiet on Lady Day, and whs
IS was especially insisted on in the varlou
IN speeches was that the Belfast Iiots, being III
" direct p, oduct If foreign rule, a proc
{, not, as English journals urge, that Home Ru
10 sholld not be granted, but that it was an abs
h lutv necessity. Before part from this subJec
~ let me iust mention fact noticed by Pr
at fcssor Lialbrath, as an illustration of the III
a. ference in the treatment tneted out to Eng AN
h, and Ireland respectively. Last yea- aua pa
Is of this We had here severe "'s.ta..,
at in the shape CT epdcm.: %: -!"nI
lie pox, with VII ch EugtaoG Wa ai-" an {
ey ed. Vow thc only real Safeguard again
tI this nlayr,e ia vaccination: and one of thc III