The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-09-08

-. -. NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER g. 1S72

went elsewhere to do 3d. and as they were going
sway without doing anything to annoy any
human being, were actually fred at by their
way to the place Of their meeting, as we'll as
on their way home, they We're assailed in q
similar manner and with similar wantonness;
black guard intolerance the Orange mob, while
the Catholic processionists were absent from
Belfast, roamed about the Catholic quarters Of
ing the houses and striking down their female
occu pants. In face of such facts it would re-
quire an unusual amount of hardihood to deny
that the Orange party provoked the riots. But
them; and IT was not till their outfages were
becoming perfectly intolerable that the Catho-
lies lost their. self-control. 1t is quite certain
haYe nipped the disturbances in the bud. But
the authorities in Belfast never do that Their
sympathiesSs are generally pro. Orange, or at any
ratio anti Catholic. and what they do Is this
when Orangemen determine to have demon.
stration, they take the most elaborate care
that the demonstration shall be held without
interruption-they surround it with horse, foot
moR6tration they either let it alone or, if the
Orangemen oppose it's being held, they prevent
1t; and when disturbances arise in consequence,
lies make it plain that they wont stand being
outraged and insulted. This has been the case
in these present riots. At first and for several
days they allowed the two, parties to fight
cils, efforts to restrain them but when the Ca
tholics held p meetfnR, and passed resolutions
declaratory of their resolve not To- DO governed
public houses, and, % aconseq1ense, produced
peace. Peace now prevails in Belfast, and the
latest piece Of .news Is that the loyal aud
decided themselves to prevent any more riot
ing. Had they, taken this step several days
age, they might have been, held in higher.
esteem than they are to:dsy now the taking
by the conviction that they. have sfonnd she
contest to go against them. -.Whether this is
30 or not, it is certain at any raterthat they
fsature'is eobcerned. The truth, j.. that thes
fancied Ulster ought to be peoPled by Protest.
say a the idsS ss eas s
| should have the same civil rights them
selves; they never expected to see monster
Catholic procession in the streets of their
favorite town, Saf5irG bannsrsS VIII suel'
notices as God save Ireland and : Kemsm-
I nell Aboo ~ and 'Gaffyowen." and when they
did see such n thing, they avenged themselves
in n manner which even the more respectable
and heartily condemn. They fsney they are
stiN the predominant party in Ulster, whereas
the fact ia shat the Catholics because OF their
purer morality have completely outrun them
in the race, and are now both more numerous
richer, and moro respectable. This last opt
butst of theirs 10 their expiring kick. They
aie fast dying ont as q rotten race, 4nd Will
Not the least.! ianentable' consequence o.
these disgraceful riots is this, that the English
press have been afforded through them the op'
portnnity of. writing about Ireland in a con
| temptuous strain, and Of running down the CITY
for Home Rule We are called !" poor simple
tons" and such like names, and surely the tapni
is Just, Though bi ttersf But WREN the English
press come to say that these riots are speci
Iuen of what wonld occur all through Ireland
if Ireland were self-goveTned, their assertion
I become absurd. Was it not they Themselves
eordi Was It not they themselves who plant
ed Ulster with Orangeunen sworn to eterna
hostility with the native Catholic popu
lationf And do not these riots oecu'
surd and illogical to jump from the single
instance of Belfast rioting to a universe
! conclusion that there would be riotinl
throughout the rest of the country if it gov
erned itselff But perhaps the coolest ant
most impertinent observation of all was thi
of the London Ifmes-tbatif the English fenc'
was removed the Protestants of Ireland wht
number 100000, would drive cut to Americ;
} the Catholic population. who number At mil
:, liaDs! How sorry the English would be, to b.
sure. to see such 4 thing done: Right wei
and right we'll the Orangemen know it too.
they did not, how very soon they would becom
, Home RulerS Why, they are not nome knter
: auo,cedly because they are afraid that the!
!. themselves would be exterminated.
8 THE other events of the week muEt be brief.
=. diemissed- We have had q bakers strike her
t in Dublin which has caused much inconyeni
= ence. Another ex-pOlitical pEisoner-Ar Brya
n Dillon, of Cork,-has died of illness contracte
9 in an English prison, and his funeral, which
# to come OF on Sunday next 10 to be grea
i national demonstration and MI MitS e.
g Henry, NJ. P, for Galway, has had most ia,
% teTinS address presented to him by the peopl
>. Of Westport for the part taken by him in re
If gard to the Galway Judgment. j. j. I.
a Go to Father Ryan's Lecture, this evening
8, at ST. Joseph's Church.
ri Attention ia directed to our special motto