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


them on the point of "a stake upon one
fcotl and picketed q second time until he'll
tainted; anil again, as soon as he came To
himself, picketed the third time until he
tainted, and this on mere suspicion."N Not
only was this Punishment used, bnt every
species of torture; men were taken and
hung up until they were half dead, and
then threatened with o repetition of the
cruel treatment unless they made confess
sion of Imputed guilt. They sent the SOL
deere into the country, and they CHARTERED
at what was called free quarters;' the
English yeomanry and the Orange yeoman-
~ lived upon the people; they violated
tho women, they killed the aged, they plum
dered the houses, they set fire to the viii
lagos, they exercised every form of torture
the most terrible, did this dastardly SOL
diery. ..-. ...#..l. -. a....
All this took place before single rising
10 Ire!aud-before the rebellion in 9S
sprung up at all. We have n brave and
gallant man sent to Ireland at that time,
! Sir Ralph Abercrombie, and he declares he
was so frightened and Disguised at the con-
duct of the soldiers that he refused to keep
tho command of the forces in Ireland any
longer. He issued general order in Feb
| ruary, 98-the rebellion did not begin un-
til May-in these words: "The disgrace
fuJ frequency of great cruelties and crimes.
and the many complaints OF troops In shis
kingdom, unfOrtun ately prove the army to
be in a state of lIcentiousness that renders
it formidable to every one, except the enc
my.n Then he threw it up in disgust.
I General Lake was sent to command in Ire
land. He says, - The state Of the country
and its occupation previous to the ins1rrec-
ton is not to be mag ined except by those
who witnessed the atrocities of every de-
scrlption committed by the military and
the Oraugemen that were let loose upon
, the defenceless population" Then he gives
a long list of terrible hangings, burnings
and murderings. We read that at Dun
, lavep in the County Wicklow, previous to
! the rising, thirty four men were shot with
, out any trial,n bnt it is useless to enumer-
4 ate or continue the list of cruelties perpe-
\ trated. 1t will suffice to cay that when the
military were placed on "free quarters, "
t that all kinds of crime were committed
q but the people were no worse OF than those
: living whore no soldiers we're quartered,
d for in the latter places the Inhabitants were
called to their doors and slain without
f ceremony, and every house plundered OF
q burned" Nay, more! We have MT. En-
= met, in his examination, giving his evi
: dence, and declaring "that it was the faul!
~ of the Government, this rebellion of 49,
% The Lord Chancellor put the followinf
- question to MFR. Emmett: Remember, Mr
Emmet (this was in August, '9Sl "wha
r caused the late insurrectionf Z" to which MI
=. Emmett replied, "Free quarters, hons
>, burnings, tortures, aud all the military OK
~ ecutions in the counties of Kildare, Carlow
=. and Wicklow" Before the insurrectlo
y | broke out numbers of houses, with thel
70 furniture, were burned, IN which conceaie
o. arms had been found ; numbers OF peopl
~ were scourged, iicketed and otherwise pu
y to death daily 10 fore" confession VI con
cealed crime or faulte; outrageous acts
Y. severity were often committed by persop
~ not in the regular troops. But we havetn
~ evidence of the brave Sir John More, tn
y, hero of Corunna. He was ia Ireland at th
vs time in military command, ana nc oe %
so this testi mony. Speaking of|Wick low, II
~ very het-bed of the insprfection, he say
A. !" That moderate treatment by the Genera
az of the people, and the preventing o! u
a. as troops frou pillagihg and molesting tneI
su would certainly soon restore tranqnliit!
h. the latter would soon DO quiet !. III; .ue =. =
'ts cradle aecency and not seek to crafty the
~ revenge upon the poor"
20 We have Lord William Napier, an ifta
man, but a brave English soldier, sayin
S S On. what manner of soldiers were the
m follows who were let loose upon the "[etc
~ ed districts in which the Ascendancy "
u, IN placed, killing and coufiscating every MAJ
ny life and property, and to use the veneras
lar Abercrom bie's words, they sCere torn,'da
an to everybody but the enemy.' We ourseiI
aye were y Dung at the time, yet being connee'
nch with the army, we were contthuai'S an'o
'en the soldiers, listening with boyish ca
ot ness to their experience, and we well
member with horror to this day the tales
/, TO lust, of bloodshed and of pillase the
haU cital of their actions against the misera
oy peasantry which they used to relate
.h on ask you, after all this, who was
tne countable for the goading of the peo
uc y, into rebellion, if not the Infamous COVE
81! ment which at that time ruled aud
oy araced all Ireland7 / aak you, are
'uiu irish people accountablef For from
mt. time the myrmidons of En gland had b
ONE let loose upon them, ravaging like deme
RS violating every instinct of Irish low;
ran land, of Icish purity, of Irish faiths
slsS not q terrible thing that after all these
lnsh vacations which they deliberately pat
tne fore the people, in order to gosd them
aay; the rebellion of '9s, and so prepare the
,; ! for that union which followed that
nae Froude says several hot headed priests
that themselves at the head of their PEG
There was n Father John Murphy IN
gin County of Wexford, who came homo
Mr.. his duties one day to find bic house bnrl
;hree his chapel destroy ed, and to find the no
arch, Of the poor people sacked and bu'
" as around them, to fud his unfortunate
1ent. ishioners huddled about the black'
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