The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-02-25
x1scx11Axpovs IRISH NEWS.

THE MOST REV. DIR. xORaARTx AND AhE
ELECTION.
The Freeman of Thursday publishes the
following letter
The Palace, Killarney, Jan. ~.
Rev. Dear Sir-In order to lesson, a. far rs
possible, the appearance of disuuion among
the clergy at the coming electios, We hereby
command that no priest shall interfere, by can
vasspg, speeding, attending meetings, or
other publication, in another parish. unless
by leave or invitation of the parish priest.
We expect. of course, the registering of your
votes Although we cannot anticipate DISC
bedenoe to n command calculated to preserve
brotherly harmony and mutual respect. yet
that canonical warning may be given, we
hereby inform you that violation of 1t will be
punished by ecclesiastical censures.
DAVID MORTALITY, Bishop of Kerry.
Arthur S. Griffin, Sec.
THE ARCHBISHOP OF TUAM AND THE LAND
LORDS.
A Galway paper publishes a correspond.
ence between the Archbishop of Tuam and
Sir Thomas Burke, of Marble Hill, county
latter's complaining of some expressions
used by Father Laveile at Gort. Having
completely disposed of the baronet's COM
plni0ts, the patriotic Archbishop throws
the following bombshell into the landlord
ranks: ave are on the "eve" of an i'm
pending election, which is to transcend in
its issue all tue previous elections in
Ireland since the memorable Glare election,
which achieved the emancipation of the
serfs, who had been hitherto nominal free
holders. The free and Independent exer-
else of the suffrage ia now threatened with
humiliation, and even the ten pound free
holders are told they must vote at the
bidding of their landlords, and in &C
cordance with their desire. The free
| hold of tho tenant is not derived
| from the landlord, nor does it form any
part of his prerogative. In the eyes of the
| 10, %b, frop OH If "a n q
and independent as that of the landlord
| himself. If it really or constitutionally
belonged to the landlord, would it not have
been more simple aud truthful process on
the part of the legislature to declare that
every landlord should have as many votes
as he may have of tenants-freeholders
and thus spare the country process as
ruinous as it is hypocritical, of calling the
avowed slaves of the landlord by the nick
name of Independent freeholders. Bat as
this is not done, the tenant, when industry
gives q manifold value to the raw materials
OF the proprietor's land, has obviously q
greater right to ask his landlords vote in
his behalf than the landlord has to insist
| on the tenants vote exclusively for his own
interest, and often VIGOROUSLY against the
| interest of the poor, coerced voter. Now,
the tenants right to the freedom of suffrage
being equal to that of the landlords, allow
me to inquire how can you explain the
| strange threats at coercion which the land
| lords are reported to have used towards
their tenantry? In your letter you ask
whether the language of the reverend
speaker at Gort does not manifestly encour-
be utterly insensible to tle more terrible
and sweeping Intimidation Illuminated
against IL whole people by a few landlords
without a particle of right to Justify the
threatened vengeance. Place yourself in
the position of tenant freeholder-would
n Sfohl . f<Nh faf yna tad
| as you are reported in the haLdbills issued
| at Loughrea, to have treated your tenant
ry7 and if not, you should in all fairness
explain the cause of such unequal weights
and measures. And now, in conclusion,
permit me to congratulate you and your
landlord friends in the choice you have
made of a Parliamentary candidate for the
coerced support of the Catholic freeholders
| of the county of Galway. You do not for
get the year 1929, and the helpless con-
dtions in which yourself and some of your
noble relatives, as you love to call them,
lay forty years ago, without power or pa
tronago, and unable to rise from that pros
trate condition, until O'Connell and the
priests, and the devoted freelolders of Ire
land, rescued you from your AFFECT state
and gave you freedom which yourselves
could never have achieved. Little did
your emancipation then dream that the day
would 80 soon arrive when those noble SER
vices would not only be forgotten, but re-
Quilted with black ingratitude, aud when
| those emancipated slaves would enter into
strict, but l will not say, holy alliance
with their old hereditary foes, to Cypress
their deliverers. History, in this instance,
is only repeating itself, and the reconcilia-
ton of Horod and PLATE for the oppression
of innocence has been deemed not fanci-
full representation of the new friendship
formed between the two hostile houses of
this county to crush the rights and liber-
II oh np no
efforts will ultimately show the abortive
fate of similar combinations of the past.
Those who are conspiring not only against
the just rights of the freeholders, but like
wise against the authority of the Lcgisla-
ture and the pride of the country, must
| fail, and justice come forth triumphant.
ORANGE PRINCIPLES.
The members of the Belfast Protestant
| Defence Association have just given neat
example of consistent principles. They
have resolved: "That this Association
declares itself thoroughly opposed to Home
Rule. to vote by Ballot, to the claims OF
the Romish hierarchy in regard to educa-
-. 81 =.