The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-02-11
MISCELLANEOUS IRISH NEWS.
THE EDUCATION QUESTION.

10000 people of the diocese of Dublin, ar
immense meeting in favor of denominationa
education was held in the Cathedral, Dub
lin, on the 18th ult. In the numbers and
influence of those present, and the enthu-
siasm which marked the proceedings. it
formed one of the most imposing and sig
nificant demonstrations ever held in that
city.
His Grace, the Observation-Disclosures, pre-
! sided, and opened the proceedings with an
address, in which he reviewed at length the
grievances of the Irish people on this sub
ject, and the injustice which had been done
them for ages past.
Amongst the resolutions adopted were
the following:
Ihat 1t is our conscientious conviction that
education, to be fruitful of good, must be based
on religion, and that it is the duty of Catholic
parents TO impart to their children all educa-
| ton in accordance with the principles of their
religion.
That for the State to interfere with Catholic
parents in the discharge OF their conscientious
duty, and to grant privileges only to educa-
tional systems from which Catholics are con-
scientiousiy deharred, is to violate their con
gifts to inilct civil disabilities for
religious opinions, and to refuse to Catholics
citizens.
That the distribution of public aid for secu-
lar education, to be just, should be free from
the odious faint of exclusivencss on the score
OF religious profession, and dependent solely
on the capabllty of educational institutions
10 produce results satisfactory to society. That
the Catholics of this country desire to be
Judged 10y no other standard; and hence we
regard as sophistical, calculated to ,nislead the
pubic, aud adopted for the purpose Of mask
ing hostility to all religious influences the out
cry OF the Srcuralists and Sonconformists
against the ALLEGATION of State aid for secular
results when these happen to be associated
with reli Sions methods of instruction.
mat those National Schools, so numerous in
great part of Ireland, which are frequented
only, or almost exclusively by Catholics, are
by hctlono. the Nation'.l Board, treated as
mixed schools: and that in other National
schools, placed under uon-Catholc managers
ana teachers Catholic children are exposed to
receive Impressions, and imbibe doctrines con-
trary to their faith. Wherefore, we call for
s"eh citanSes i'll the rules of the National Board
as Wlii allow practices of piety and sanction
Cithoic teaching in schools practically Catho-
nc, and we demand that if, i'll particular Cir
cumstances, mixed schools canuot be avoided, |
measures shall be adopted to save Catholic
chiuren from the dangers of prosclytislu
mat whilst Trinity College has bccu CT
r!thed with 100000 acres of land and other
ruhiic endowincnts, and the Queen's Colleges !
and the Queens University enjoy :. rcvennn
rom the State of 100000 per lnnum the Ca. !
tho!ics of Ireland, c"nscientiously ohiectinr to
th'S. institutions on religious grounds. receive
IL
cation on an equality with their Protestant !
tcllow-countrymen; and this hardship is az
%ravated by TIL: fact that owing to the coutis- !
cations aud penal laws Of past times the ca,
holes are, OF all sections of the popuation !
the least able to support educational establish
nents ont of their own resources
nat we wish hereby to record our union
with the rcvered bishops OF Church. and
indl Gnantiy reputiiate tiic iuvdious allegation
OK nos press that in th. matter of eAuca-
the sentiments of their c!ergy.
An address, cmbo.lying the resolution is
to be forwarded to Mr.. Gladstone, by Car
dinal Cullen, in the nume of the Catholics
Of the diocese.
Immense and enthusiastic meetings, with
.hc same object, have been held in other
parts of Ireland during the past month.
:EANp RECEPTION or ISAAC rrrr IN LINZ
EElCK.
On Wednesday,. IOtl. u!t, Il great demon
,ttation III tavorot Home Rule took pack in
on the occasion of rcception and
banquet to M. Isaac Butt. MIR. Butt, who
travelled from Dublin by mail train, was
met at the railway station by his leading
supporters, and by a vast crowd, and was,
On ms appearance, cheered Justify. a
procession was then formed and passed
through the leading thoroughfares of the
city, which were crowded by thousands of
persons, many of whom had travelled long
distances to be present. MIR. Butt was en-
Enthusiastically cleered, aud a halt having
been made opposite O'Connelrs statue IN
George street, he addressed the vast as
sembly. Mr.. Butt expressed the satistac-
tion he felt at being returned on Home
Rule principles by So large and independ-
ent constituency; and he pointed out the
strides which the national movement was
making not only in Ireland but in England
also. He said lie had recently addressed
the democracy on the other side of the
Channel, and he was glad to find that they
would be the first to support Irish indie
peudence, Irish liberty, and Home Rule.
The English aristocracy were, however,
just as bitter against it. Abiding to the
tate speech of the Marquis Harrington,
he pointed out that he, as the representa-
tive of the Government and the Chief Sec
letary for Ireland, had used expressions
which tended to show that they in Ireland
were to be dictated to as to the education
they should give their children. At the
banquet given him in the evening, Mr..
Butt, referring to the difficulties attending
an advocacy of Home Rule, said There