The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-11-03
a. NEW ORLEANS SUNDAY MORNING., NOVEMBER 5, 1878


RNING, NOVEMBER 8, 1879. ..
There was no copy ever found in Rome I Z
All! it was we'll known how he and the like ]
of him could eaeily manufacture docu.l q
nsent add sign mans name. And SO when ,
Pope Adrian was In his grave they then
produced It,. ! say, without ventnring alb {
do.umeat u say this "a an Irishman and . Z
Priest who has studied little history-It .
do not ybeIisre one cord Of it.ssf believe It
ssas thsnsping English He from beginning
to end. l,s># /.
It has also been asserted that our people
lived in great misery, that they d" burrowed
in the earth like rabbits" That is true
Remember, 800 years Of war passed over
degradation and ruin 4; remember that ell
the Christian influences Of the land weso
almost utterly destroyed by the Dances the
converts and monasteries that were
bones for hundreds and thousands Of monks !
| were levelled to the ground. IT is true
asserted that no evidence of their ancient
Christian civilization existed, except
| few Cyclopian churches aud Round Tow
ers." l. would only AJAX for one! II there
were only one ruin OF q church-one Round
Tower-n could trace that church back
| to the early days Of Irish Christianity,
] wenld lay my band on thst one evidence
and cay: i"Wherever this was raised,
there existed people capable Of the high
lareof Isrchitecknre. What nonsense to aay
THAT there were only few Round IoTsrs
u they did not knosc hoU. If they were igA
norant savages, they never would have
been able to build any thing of the kind.
Aud when they were burrowing In the
. eartb, how were their English neighbors
4 L. e. 70
e most ancient evidence, going back nearly
y to Patrick's own time, that the Hill! of Tara
was actually covered with fair and magut-
" ficens. thong rude buildings. On the south
e slope of the hill was the Queens Palace.
10 ON the browning summit you have the
y Great Hail of the Banquet. Within the
q enclosure was the Palace of King Cormac.
IF -Four magnificent roads led down the hill
~ sides to the four provinces OF Ireland oe-
8. cause Tara was the central seat OF her DO
y minions Two hundred years later when
n St. Augustine came to preach the Gospel to
8 the baTbarous Pagan savages in England
10 how did lie find their king iivingf We
o. have a little record of history that tells as
D. We are told that the king was sitting in
Us bis dining hall; he was one OF the Saxof
no Heptarchy kings. One OF bis noble man, OF
ee barda, or priests, said to him. Your Ma
Mt iesty. mass life is short IN this world IT i
at like the bird that comes into the hail q
PIT one end and goes cut by the other,
~ Were there no ral's! Sarely # it was
ne grand house, decent hoase-if 1t was
as frame house-even tue birds could not &
he into one eud of the dining room aud out q
he the other! All these things look beauti
re- full until we come to put OIL our speeta
y eles and look at them. 1t is true, that IN
snu Irish, in their 300 years OF war, were Oil
= organized and demorafized, and "burrowe
inc in the earth like rabbitR.' All! TO the etern
lrhi disgrace of England, where has the lrishms
es- in his native land o-day better chan'
me than he had tben7 What kind of hous
ar did they leave our peoplef A little mu
be cabin, with matched roof, scarcely ht
lnu t,e burrow for rabbits! For century ait
'e,s century the people that ruled the land TO
ms bed, prosecuted and cou6scnted oil the
~ property; aud they were hunted like game
1t their own land. To-day the Irish peasa
1T At has scarcely q better house than that d
scribed ia the old days by this English b
hat toriau Whose faul0 was III We are to
h q moreover, at least 1t "a reporteu An cue
and pers, THAT for nearly 500 years the Engll
hon had not more than about 1850 soldiers
was Ireland; that they were able to keep DO
q to the irish with 1900 men. There are so
ing things that sound go comIcai ,t Snae Az y.
Is Of have to do is to hear them. When hu
d 40 @ Neil was at the Yellow Ford, and
raid English Field Marshal was adyanc
that against him, was it 1900 men he had a
Eng II 1900 men, how comes 1t that the Vel!
pack Fold was clicked up with tho eoFpsea
had Saxon eoldiersT Our history teiS US
the Queen Elizabeth had 20oOo Hfen ia Asei'
fish and they found work for them. fneIe
ope's Catholic blood enough in the land TO I
mo- pIoy the 20, 900 butchers to sized it. Ne
him. over, we are told that the Catholics OF
and land, at tho time of the glorious Amer
aid n Revolution, were all opposed 20 tue An
O st lean effort to achieve their lnoePe1uel
,g of and that the PLotestants OF lrelano \,
When those only that helped America. \
rant. listen to this one fact. The King OF
d in land demanded 1900 lrishmen I'D go
dad aud fight against the 'ADeFicane' a aou
al oi Irish Parliament gave MN Tue 41uo
Adri There ,cas not single Catholic IN that !
o any lament! No; they were d't EIotes"
icted. " hen these men returned 10 Ireland