The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-11-17

sHey "age got scb0t iekSy dsSeSVSk. aTkSs
ana ana 9 r. xnoM bow 20 govern themselves
BODY t ~s t tSs,, mercy = q Goo that come
newcpapcr Of Now York made one rcmsrI
(which eeruck NE ~ very forciblc. Re eaii
1f thts, Mr., Eroude intenda that 49,.
| cinsens Of America shoald 70 back throueh
snoae dry, mRsty dissertations Of 3 ~
stsSory' ana turn ever old books with him,
! We say no: We have too much TO do
anan the Herald went on to say seIt ID
not 90 much . question Of the past. Mr.,
Froude, as question of to -dsy.n For.
tell yeu, no matter what arguments tbia
man can bring forth, even the atron rest
arguments that he may bring forth to-dav
on the question Of the hour, while he IL
9rawing the eyes and tho attention Of ain
Ams1i S: 70 US iriah tho strongest and
seeaast as would be to point to the drunks
ards and say, There they are, There tIev
ars, the mon that are always prsting shon1
tneir grievances. Look 1t them.S IL IN
true ehae We handle them without gloves.
sne dirty, dobauched, impoverished Irish.
ters Ali II he is able 70 say thia We viii
and say . i" In this at least, thou speatsse
tue truth" But as long al he tells ma
ABOUT the divisions between Nellie O'Garry
and Red Hugh ODonnelI, when nellie
OGarry betrayed him for money; as long
a. he tells us of the divisions between
O'Carthy More in the South, and O'Don-
nell In the north as he rakes up old En-.
glish lies, and holds them mp and saws:
Here's what I read In some old book
written BY Gerald Barry, who came to Ire
land in the days Of King John"-you heard
OF the irisbman who never opened his
that Gerald Barry never opened his month
from the day he began to speak without
telling lie. The only time be ever told
the trath was in the Confteor, when he
came to that part where he said, "for I
have sinned exceedingly in thought, word,
and deed" AS long as this gentleman
brings arguments as Gerald Barry and the
Like Of him, he might as we'll be whistling
yigs 70 mill -stone,--as trying to preju-
dice the great mind Of America against her
Irish citizens, If the American people see
in as sober, manly, temperate, seif-reli-
ant, industrious, and honest race, I will |
not say a brave race, because an Iriskman |
may take mp the dirt and throw it back and !
forth, but the more he tries to lay it on. |
the more will America-Americs. great |
ana just as she is, and unprejudiced-fbe |
more will she become indignant against |
him and tell him Chow dare you say such |
Things OF q people who are the very flowers
and bone and sinew of our industry and
commerce. If was in Mr.. Froude's place
tell you what would do: every evening
came ont to lecture and to blackg guard the
Irish. would try to get an IrishEan blind
drunk and bring him on the stage; and
then instead of killing myself talking and
IeI,, nnId 70 yoa n 80 May lies, in, wSrd all
> chair and say, Look at him!" When
over see drunken Irishman reeling
about on the streets-as q priest-I regret
and weep for his sins, but declare as an
] feel as il could strangle him
With these hands Of mine for disgracing SO
pure, heroic, and magnificent history as
,nrs.
Now, my friends, it is not only the evil
.ndly, tho domestic evil. All! dear friends
he highest honor that God gives to man, I
Usually, ie the honor of making him the {
ather Of family. He is, under God, the I
reator Of that family that grows around ]
ina he is the representative of the Su-
rene Ruler Of all things in the govern {
aent entrusted to him around his domes- 1
10 circle. God himself recognizes the t
ignity Of the father when He says in the {
Ourth Commandment to the child; "Hon- I
r this man, reverence and worship him 7
nth your love and Your veneration as you q
'ould honor Ne. In order that your days t
lay be prolonged in the land Of the liv- t
So AvebabSs LuVAO Y
han this responsibility -nothing is moro '
oble, more Godlike in the dominion Of d
3 power and honor, than the dignity of h
.ther Of family. He has brought this h
hid into the world and God has conferred b
pom him the honor and at the same time q
10 responsibility, and the obligation to be 9
10 father Of the child's soul as we'll as the G
ody. The little child borne upon his mo- Fl
ler's bosom 10 the father Of the man that K
to be in twenty years time. But the b
mi can scarcely be aaid to be born in ac- d
We life and that soul must be born and a
jared and brought up in that infant child
? education. The fathers example must il
} before that child even as the angel of a
Cd went before the hosts of Israel in the a
run Of q pillar Of fre-a burning, shining Il
yht OF virtue! Oh. what blessing is it b
r the grown man, in after life, to be able "
look back to the days Of his early boy Il
'od and say Of the old man that is in his d
ave: ~ never heard bad word from 10
N never saw him in a position I'M tt
orthy Of q man never heard from his IL
%, or saw in his life, anything that could .
ach me sin or vice his example upon 6"
1ich my character was formed was that g"
q saint Of God, and perfect Christian" W
is the highest blessing, commonly that b.
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