The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-11-19
THE IRISH QUESTION.
Ireland Under the Tudors and the
Stuarts...Second Lecture by Father
Burke In Reply 70 M Froude.

ireland Under the TudoTs and the
StuaTts...Second Lecture by Father
Burke In Reply 70 Mr.. Froude.
prom N. 7. Times Of Fridsy)
Rev. Mr.. Burke delivered the second Of
his course Of lectures, lsst evening, Of the
Academy OF Music-subject, "Ireland IN.
der the Tudors and StuArts." Mr.. Burke
said that the period which the lecture
dealt with was the most terrible and
Calamitous in Irish history. Mr.. FIoude
had stated that "Henry VIII. was a hSter
Of disorder" Well, said Mr. Burke, every
man has his hero-eyery man selects
some character out Of history which he
Rdmires, and makes the subject OF his
herO-worship. But Mr.. Froude made a
most singular selection o! his hero 10
Henry Will, the English Nero. All order
is based on three grand principles-rc.
spect for lsW, liberty Of conscience, and
the sAnetlty OF the marriage tie. The
lecturer then proceeded 10 sketch tho va
rlouS salient incidents Of the reign Of
Henry VIII, tending 10 prove that the
monarch was not remarkable tor q very
pure life. Was il tSir, asked Mr.. Burke,
Tor Mr.. FEoude 10 come before au cnlight
ened American audience and ask them to
swallow the paradox that Henry VIII.
vas lover Of order:
Mr.. Burke cited letters from Surrey,
whom Henry hGd sent 10 Ireland ai toe
head Of an army, to show that the disor-
ders which Mr. Fnoude stated 10 DO
chronic there, were attributable to the
unparalleled injustice and exscions oil the
Anglo Norman Barons-Snd that what
ever petty jealousies existed among the
chiefs, were artifully fostered by the Eng.
lish and turned 10 their own account.
Dir. Burke took up MIR. Froude's state
nenI that Henry never deprived the Irish
OF their land, or eIterminated them, and
proceeded to show from State papers that
the plan to Danish the Irish beyond the
Shannon was matured by Henry, but he
was not strong enough to carry 1t Out
The lecturer went into lengthy details Of
the action OF the Irish hierarchy on the
question Of the Pope'S supremacy, and
took Mr.. Froude 10 tGsk for his want oil
knowledge Of the principles oil the Ro
man Catholic religion. Mr. Froude asserts,
said Mr.. Burke, that the Irish threw the
Pope overheard, but remained Catholic"
One Of thegreat principles Of the Catholic
religion is communion with and obedience
TO the see OF Rome, and no man can sever
his connection with Rome and remain q
Catholic. The various prosecutions wag.
ed by Edward, Mary and Elizabeth, ii.
ternately, against Catholic and Protest.
ant were criticised by Dir. Burke, who
cited Ware and Leland, showing that
when Catholics were in power they did
not stsin themselves with the faint Of big.
Otry, and read on extract from an act Of
Parliament convened in Dublin by James
l., composed almost entirely OF Catholics,
which enacted that neither now nor ever
hereafter shall any man in this country be
prosecuted OF suffer any civil disability Oh
account o: his religious belief" The con.
fiscs!ion Of the vast estates Of Desmond
and ofthe whole Of the province of Ulster
was cited by Mr.. Burke a. evidence Of
the unparalleled plumber oil the English
and their persistent efforts 10 exterminate
the Irish race Mr.. Burke concluded By
denying the right OF Mr. Froude, or any
other man, to come TO this tree country,
where religious persecution was unknown,
and ask its citizens to give verdict sane
tioning this long record Of unreIenttng
persecution and wholesale robbery.