New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-27
IRELAND MISGOVERNED.
FATHER BURKE's CLOSING LECTURE.


LIBERkTELY OPPOSED TO HARMONY IN IRE
LAND-PITT's TREACHERoUs PROMIsEs-FAR-
CICAL KINDNESS TO ROMAN CATHOLICS NO
CONCESSIONS WILLINGLY MADR-THE PAR
LAMENT OF 1852 A PROTESTANT AND NOT A
REPRESENTATIVE BODY--ENGLAED's DECA-
DENCE TO BE IRELANDS OPPORTUNITY.
Notwithstanding the very inclement state OF
the weather last evening, the Academy OF Music was
thronged TO s utmost capacity Father Burke delivering
the last of Of lectures In reply TO MI Froude
IN less than fifteen minutes after the opening OF the
doors standing room was unattainabe within the build
ing and hundreds OF persons compelled to leave
without even gaining admission large number OF
clergymen and prominent citizens occupied the stage
behind the lecturer who spoke as follows:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: On this day paragraph ina
newspaper, THE NEwYoRK TRIBUNE, was brought under
my notice and the reading of it caused me very great
pain and anguish Of mind for 10 recorded an act OF as
courtesy offered my learned antagonist Mr. Froude'
supposed to be offered by Irsbmen In Boston In the
name Of the rshmen OF America tender to the learned
gentleman my best apologies beg to assure nm
for my Irish feow-counryman in this country that We
are only happy offer 10 him the courtesy ana the
hospitality which Ireland has never refused even to her
enemies lAppauseJ Mr.. Froude does not come
among enemy Of Ireland but he processes that
he loves the Irish people and am willing TO believe
him; and when read in the report OF his last lecture
which l am about 10 answer tonight that nc
said that lie "woud yield 10 no no man
in his love for the Irish people" 1 was re-
minded OF what O'Connen said 10 Lord Derby on
similar OCCASION when the noble Lord stated in the
House OF Lords that he would yield to no man IN his love
for Ireland The great Tribune rose and said: " Any
man that loves Ireland cannot De my enemy. Let our
hearts shake hands" Applausel lam sure, therefore
that speak the sentiments OF every true lrshnah ih
America when this learned English gentleman
that as long as he IS in this cOurty he will
receive at the hands Of the Irish citizens OF
America nothing but the same courtesy the same poe
hospitality and attention which he boasts that he has
received from the Irish people IN their native land
tApplausel beg 70 assure him that we lrishmen IN
America wen thar II Is not by dscourtesy or any
thing approaching to rudeness violence that the clti
zeus of America expect to make their appeal 10
this great nation. Appause II ever the reign OF in
telect and OF mind practically established In TINS
world IL Is in glorious America. Every man who seeks
the truth, every who breaches the truth whether
it be religious truth historical TRUTH viii find an audi
ence America; and hope he never will find an irish
man to stand up and offer him discouresy and violence
because he speaks what he imagnes to be the truth
LApplause.l
So much being said in reference 10 this paragraph 10
which I have alluded, now come 70 the Lac; OF Mr..
Froudes lectures and to the last of own The learned
gentleman in his fourth lecture, told the American peol
pie his view of the 1872 and OF the subsequent
Irish rebellion of 1893 According TO Mr.. Froude the
Irish made great mistake in 1852 by asserting the indie
pendence Of the Irish Parliament They abandoned
says this learned gentleman, the pathsOi potcaf re-
FORM aud they clamored for political agitation Now
political agitation is thing aud political reform IS
another thing Political reform, my friends means the
correcting OF great abuses, The repeating OF bad
laws and the passing OF good measures, salutary
and useful for the welfare and welEbelng
Of the people. According TO this learned
gentleman. England taught by her bitter American
experience that coercion would not answer with the
people aud that il was Impossible to thrust unjust laws
land was mil
too willing too happy in the year 1850 TO repeal al the
had laws that bad been passed in the blind and ogoted
ages gone by and to grant ireland real redress Of all
her grievances. but the Irish people, says Mr.
Froude "instead Of demanding from England the re-
dress Of this grievance, insisted on their national
aud parliamentary independence Ana they were
fools In thsp he said. for that very independence
led to interior contention from contention 10 conspiracy
conspiracy to rebellion, aud rebellion TO tyranny
now PAR POLITICAL AGITATION IL JUsIfFfABLE
Now am as great an enemy OF political agitation as
Mr. Froude or any other man. hold ana hod u pS
experience, that political agitation dstracts mon
minds from more svrons and more necessary aYoeaons
of life that political agitation abstracts mems minus
away fron their business and from the safer pursuit OF
industry. that IL creates anmosity and bad blood
between citizens that affords an easy ana pronaole
employment 10 worthless demagosne', ana that u DhsS
very often 10 the surface the vlest and meanest ee
ments OF society. All this grant. tApplauseI But at
the came time hold that political agitation Is me only
resource left 10 people who endeagorng TO extract
good laws from unwilling and tyranuical govern
mont IApplausel May ] ask the learned historian
what we're the wars OF the seventeenth century In
France in Germany, aud In the Netherlands the wars
that Mr. Froude admires much, for which he ox-
presses much sympathy
What were they but political agitation taking the form
of armed rebellion, In order 10 eXtor from the Govern
ment Of the time what the people believed to be Just
measures of liberation and liberty OF conscience lap
/ plausel With these wars that waged by the
people in armed rebellion against France against Spain
and the Netherlands against the Emperor Charles the
Fifth, Mr. Froude has the deepest sympathy, because
they are wars made by Protestants against Catholic
Governments. The men who made these wars were
inuoyators they revoutonsts in every sense of
the word they wanted to overturn not only the altar
but also the established form OF government Bur when
the Irish who only stood in defense OF their ancient re-
ligon OF their affairs, lives, and property and not OF
their freedOm-for that was long gone-when the
Irish do this the learned gentleman has not word ex
cept expressions Of disdan and dsapprobation Hlsses
And now we come to consider, my friends whether Mr.
Froude is right when he says that the Irish only clam
ored for political citation 1870 when they might have
obtained political reform"
Now mark in the Irish people, and more especial
y the Protestant portion OF the Irish people demanded
OF the English Government the repeal Of certain laws
that restricted and almost annlhlated the trade and
commerce Of Ireland These laws had been passed under
william ILL.,; they we're leveled at the Irish wooden
trade they forbid the expectation OF manufactured
cloth from ireland except under duty that was equiya-
lent 20 a prohibition tariff They went 80 far as to.pro-
hibt the Irish people from selling the very heece-ther
wOOlseing 10 any foreign power except England En-
gland then fixed her price, and Mr. Froude himself said,
although the French might be Offering for Irish wool,
the Irish merchant could not sell to them, but he
Obliged to sell TO the English merchant at his own price,
When the Irish people demanded this just measure.
ask was England willing 10 grant 10 ] Was England, as
Mr. Froudo says only anxious to discover unjust laws in
order repeal tem ana 10 discover grievances In order
IN i
ooiors the mast She said never viii grant re-
peal OF restriction duties on Irish trade Ireland j. down
aud will keep her down" lHisses.l
The proof lies here. The English Government resisted
Gratans demand for the emancipation OF Irish indus
HaurY Graltau brought 10000 vOmnLeeTs and The