The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-12-15

peyolence and ardor, she yielded at once to
The great American idea OF universal eman-
cipatiou, ready to fight and to war TOT tne
rights Of human nature under propitious
G cd, who seemed to lead the way"
Finally, with one more extract, an0 :
I HLd that suck we're the relations between
Ireland and America in that struggle, that
q certain Captain Wicks, of the ship " he,
prisal ain the summer of 1776. captured
three prizes near the West Indies, whlcn
were English property. He detailed some
them to tho nearest port to be adjudged as
prizes. Shortly after he came across an
other vessel and he let her 60, finding she
was Irish property. The Marquis Chaste-
ioux, distinguished Frencbmen, VINO was
in America in 1888, writes thus e.. 40
American soil, becomes ipso facto an Amer-
can. This was uniformly the case during
the whole Of the late war" Remember
this Frenchman was fghting for you.
"While Englishmen and Scotchmen were
hated with jealousy and d,etrass, even ven
and attachment to the cause, the native OF
Ire! aud stood in need of no other certificate
than his dialect" which shows that the
freshman that our French friend % speak-
IND Of was not q Palatine, nor Planter,
but a genuine Paddy, aud no mistake about
il. HIS siucerity was never called in ques-
ton he was supposed to have sympathy
| with suffering aud every one decided, as 1t
were intuitively in his favor. '1ndeed,
he adds, "their conduct in the late war
amply justified their favorable oPinion' tor
whilst the Irish emigrant vas fighting the
battles of America by sea and by land, the
Irish merchants, principally of Charleston,
Baltimore and Philadelphia, labored with
indefatigable zeal at all hazards to promote
the spirit of enterprise and increase the
4 khar y SSf n.
try. Their purse was always open ana
their persons " ere devoted to the country 8
cause, and ON moro than one imminent oc-
casion, Congress itself, aud the very exis-
tence Of America probably, owed its pre-
servation to the fidelity and hrmness OF the
dining with an Irish Society composed OF
the steadiest merchants and others OF the
CITY i'm tho city tavern Of Philadelphia, on
St. Patrick's Day. Mr.. Froude must not
run away with the assertion that tho irish
merchants Of Charleston and Baltimore
tiers. II they had been they would have
gone no nae and eaten cold dinner on ST.
Patrick's Day"
So much for America, and 1reland's rela'
tons with her. When the 1000 men were
asked by the English Government to 60
out and haht the Americans, they oHered
to send to Ireland 1000 Protestant Heeelana
,
, had the grace to refuse the Hessiaps. They
said "N0 if the country is in danger we
, can arm come Of our Protestant people
and they can keep the peace"
Out Of this sprang the Volunteers O.
! 3d." Mr.. Froude has little OF nothing Il
. say of them. Consequently, if am an
swering or trying to answer him, must re
strict also their record. All can cay i
], this, Ireland in 1776 began to arm. Thu
4 movement was altogether Proteesans on
Q and confined to the north. The Catholic
0 Of Ireland were ground into the very dust
" No sooner did the Catholics OF Ireland hea
p that their Protestant oPpressors wer
!. an xious to do something for the old land
: than they came and said to them. "W
= will forgive every thing you have done to M
q We will leave you the land OF our country
4 the wealth and the commorce all We asi
4 you is to put gun into our hands for on
a hour At first they were refused, and, m.
: friends, when they found they would no
r be allowed to enter the ranks of the volun
teers, they had the generosity out OF thei
r poverty to collect money and to hand
a over to clothc the army of their Protestan
n fellow citizens. Anything for ireland ANY
= thing for the man that would lift his hant
a | up for Ireland, no matter rhdt his relig'oi
a was. The old generous spirit was there
the love that never could be extingulshet
D was there; self sacrifice as OF old. aye
a the humble love for any man, no matte
r ,oho lie was, that was friend of their ma
q tive land. Was there ever such q geneFou
z z act as this Of the people-the O'Conors, tn
/ O'Briens, the O'Neills and the O'Connells
r But after time our Protestant friend
Q in the Volunteers began to think that thes
}, Catholics, after all, were fine strapping fell
u lows. Somehow, centuries of persecution
j. could not knock the manhood ont Of them
: "They be strong men," says an old writer
i " and can bear more of hard living, hun
!, ger and thirst than any other people tina
y we know Of" God knows, their capabilit.
of enduring nakedness, hunger and thirst
: and every other form OF misery was We
r tested!
9 Accordingly, we find that in 1880 Their
!, were fifty thousand Catholics amongst tn
= Volunteers. Every man of them with a.
D arm in his hands. Mr.. Froude says, uGrat
: tan-the immortal Grattan-that whilst b
}, wished we'll for Ireland-that whilst b
: was irreproachable in every way, publ
: and private, that at this time he was guilt
' of q great mistake. "Ah! says the his'o
: rian, y" England had long ruled Ireian
badly, but had learned lesson froI
r America, and she was now anxious to Cover
= Ireland well, and NO sooner was an abus
pointed out than it was Immediately RENE