The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-12-22


be found as distinctive, as individual q
people and race, as she is to day in her afflic-
ton aud In her misery;-if she foster her
traditions, If she keep up her high hopes,
u she keep the tender, strong love that her
people always have had for the Green
ros ss's Of so sst What y 1 sha Ss
destiny bel My friends, if Mr. Froude has
proved anything, I think he has proved
this general proposition, that, although
Almighty God lavished upon the English
people many gifts, there is one gift he
never gave them ; and that is the gift of
knowing how to govern other people. To
govern people requires, first of all, strict
Justice; and, secondly, to have the interests
of the people at heart-their real interests
and, thirdly, 1t requires tact and urbanity.
The French have this, but the English
have not. Look at Alsace and Lorraine;-
look at the suffering people, the brave peo-
themselves to France, though she is down
in the dust, rather than enter into rich and
iumphant Germany. And why Because
France won their hearts by her justice. by
her consulting their true interests, and by
her French urbanity and tact. This his
tory OF the English Governme connection
with Ireland Is history of injustice; it is
history of heartlessness; and it is, above all,
history Of laundering want of tact: not
knowing what to do with the people; never
understanding them; kno wing nothing at all
of their genius, their prejudlces, and the
shape aud form Of their national character.
But there is another nation that under.
Stands Ireland, and has proved that she
understands Ireland; whose statesmen
couragement, Of tender sympathy, and Of
manly hope to ireland in her darkest days,
and that nation is the United States of
America, the mighty land placed by the
Omnipotent haBd between the far East on
the one side, to which she stretches out her
glorious arms, over the broad Pacific;
whilst, on the other, she sweeps with her
left hand over the Atlantic, and touches
Europe the mighty land, enclosing in her
splendid bosoM untold resources of every
fern Of commercial and other wealth the
mighty land, with room for three hundred
millions of men /; with millions of the op-
pressed ones, all the world over, flying to
her moro than imperial bosom, there to find
liberty and the sacred rights of civil and
religious freedom. Is there not every rea-
son to suppose that, in that future which
We cannot see to-day, but which lies before
rs, America will be to the whole world
what Rome was in the ancient days, what
England was but few years ago-the great
store house of the world, the great ruler,
the pacific ruler of the destinies Of the
whole world the great manufacturing
power, dispensing from out her mighty
bosom all the necessaries and all the luxu-
ries Of life to the whole world around her
that she may be destined-as believe
she 10 destined-to rise rapidly into that
gigantic form that will overshadow, all
other nations.
When that glorious day comes to pass,
what 10 nore natural than that Ireland,
now, as I suppose, mistress of 'her own
destiniee, should turn and stretch out the
arms of her sympathy and love across the
intervening waves of the Atlantic, and be
received, an independent State, into the
mighty confederation of America. Ameri-
ca-mark, I am not speaking treason-re-
member, / say distinctly, all this is to come
to pass after Macaulay's New Zealander
has arrived-America will require an en-
pOrium for her European trade. Ireland
lies there, right between her and Europe,
with her splendid coast line and vast har-
bors and bays, able to shelter all her COM
mercial and other fleets. America may re-
quire @ great European store house, great
European hive for her manufacturers, and
ireland has enormous water-power, now
flowing idly to the sea, but which yet, in
the future day, may be busy 10 turning the
wheels set upon these streams by American
Irish capital and Irish industry. II ever
that day comes, if ever that union comes,
it will be no degradation to Ireland to join
hands with America because America does
not enslave her States sho accepts them
on terms OF glorious equality; she respects
their rights, and blesses all who cast their
lot with her. ~
Now, I have done with this subject and
with Mr.. Froude. have one word to say
before 1 retire, and that is, if during the
course of these Eve lectures one single
word personally offensive to this distin-
guished gentleman has escaped my lips, I
take that word back now; I apologize to
him before he asks me, and beg to assure
him that such q word never came wilfully
from my mind or from my heart. He says
he loves ireland, and believe, according
to his lights he does love Ireland but our
lights are very different from his. Still
the Almighty God will judge every man
according to his lights.
At the conclusion of Father Burke's adj
dress, Rev. Father STAIRS, Vicar General of
the diocese of New York, advanced to the
desk and said:
Ladies' and Gentlemen-I have merely few
words to say to You before We separate this
evening. You all know that this is the last
lecture of the course of the Very Rev. Father
Burke In reply to Mr.. Fr0ude, the English his
tor;an know very we'll that Won must all