The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-12-08
THE MORNING sTR MESSENGER SUNDAY DECEMBER 1917


r "Justices of the Peace, and Sheriff.,
and other Magistrates, preshining on their
power In the country, did in an illegal
manner diepossess several of their Males.
ty's subjects, not only Of their very goods
and chattels, but of their land and tene-
ments, to the great disturbance of the
peace, the subversion of the law, and the
Of their Majesty's Government"
We find those Lords Justices themselves
IN a letter of the 10Th November, six weeks
after the treaty was signed, -complainin
that their lordships had received COM
plants from all parts of Ireland of the
Ill. treatment of the people who had
submitted to their Majesty's protection,
and were included in the articles of that
treaty. And the consequence was that,
actually, the men who refused to embark
with Sars6eld, to go to Spain and France
with him, came in thousands to beg of the
English Lords Justices to give them leave
to let them 60 and join Sarsfeld in exile,
to let them 60 to fight the battles Of
France, Spain and ris,-because there
was no room in Ireland for Catholic and
an 1rishmen, nor eyen'fo an honest man.
Now began time the most lamentable
for Ireland. William himself was anxious
to keep his royal word, and would have
kept it, if they had allowed him. But the
same pressure was put upon him as was
brought to bear ON Charles the First. The
Irish Protestant faction would not allow
Catholic to live in the land. The English
Parliament would not allow Catholic to
breathe in, the land and William was CO.
creed to comply with their reQaests and a
series Of the most terrible laws that. can be
imagined were passed in the very teeth of
the articles that were signed at Limerick.
Three years after the seige of Limerick
the two Parliaments were urged by the
grievances of the Protestants Of ireland.
The poor fellows complained that the
Catholics would not give. them leave to
live"-they poured in their petitions to the
House Commons. We find petition from
the Protestant Mayor and. Aldermen of
Limerick, complaining, In tiseir own words
that they were "greatly damaged in their
trade by the great number of papists resid-
them. We find the local porters" of Dub
lin sending petition to Parliament, and it
was as follows
ga petition of one Edward Spragg"-
another nice name" and others, in be-
half of themselves and other Protestant
porters, in and about the city of Dublin,
complaining that one Darby Ryan, q pa
pist, actually employed porters of his own
religion"
And the petition was entertained by the
the Committee on Grievances" Listen
to the words and description by the histo-
rian, John Mitchell, of this time:-
"The Parliament met, and they passed
an Act for the better securing of the Gov
eminent against the Papists; and the first
act of that Parliament was that no Catho-
lie in Ireland was to be allowed to have a
on Of offence or defence. The congo
quence of disobeying this law was fine
and imprisonment, at the discretion of the
court or else the pillory or whipping"
Now, here are the reflections of Nj. Nit
cbel :-"It is impossible to describe the
minute and curious Tyranny to which this
statute gave use in every parish of the is
land especially in districts where there
was an armed Yeomary, exclusively Prot
who, for reason, fell under the displeasure
of his formidable neighbors. Any pretext
was sufficient to point him out for suspi-
cion. Any neighboring magistrate might
visit him, at any hour of the night, and
search his bed for arms. No papist was
safe from suspicion who had any money to
pay in fines; and woe to the Papist who
had q handsome daughter"
The second act that they passed was de-
signed to brutalize the Irish Catholic peo-
pie, by ignorance. They made law that
that no Catholic was to teach no Catholic
was to send his son to a Catholic teacher.
No Catholic child was to be sent out of Ire
land to receive q Catholic education else
where and if any parent or guardian was
found sending money, clothing, or any
thing else to Catholic child, in q Catholic
school, there was forfeitare, imprisonment
or a fine; and for a second offence lie
was treated az guilty of high treason and
was liable to be put to death for doing it.
The third act they passed was:-
That all Popish Archbishops, Bishops, Vic
ara General, Deans, Jesuits, Monks. Friars,
and all other regular Popish clergy, and
all Papists exercising any ecclesiastical
jurisdiction, shall depart out of this
Kingdom before the LIST day of May 1873
If any remained after that day or returned
the delinquents were to be transported
and if they returned again. they were to be
guilty of high treason, and to suffer accord
ingly that is to say-:o be hanged, drawn
and quartered. n@
You would imagine now, at least, that
the Papists were down as far as they could
be put down. You would imagine, now, a.
least that the Protestant religion was safe
In Ireland. All no, my friends. William
was succeeded by his sister-in-law, Queer
Anne. She was Stuart: she was {
daughter of James tho Second, for whom
Ireland shed its blood she was q grand
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