The New York herald., 1872-11-20

or the Catholic religion In this day OF ours we
M o c shs
and so do l. "It is . historical question, and
am compelled TO say says Mr. Fr0nde, that tole-
learned genteman'a statement was in accordance
with historic truth. ! ask You in what times and
ancy that they have net prosecuted the Catholics
around them cannot ind in any country, until
this laat few years, that the Protestants gave the
away from them. say this with regret. 1 am not
only priest, but monk not only . monk. but
4 DOMINICAN MONK,
and rcpudiate sectarian persecution. lCheers.)
The lecturer detailed the cruelties in st. Peters
church, Drogheda, and at Wexford. Cromwell re-
tired nom Ireland and wound up his war by taking
80 900 men and shipped them to the sugar planta-
tions at Barbados. In six years. time such was
He sent 5000 gentle Irish boy to Barbados to the
same fate. Is this the man that the gentlemanly
historian, with oily words, tells us was great
friend TO lrelandY tCheers.J After this all
the Irish Catholic land owners were driven across
the Shannon into Connaught. The coarse phrase
OF the Lord General was that they were either to go
to he'll or go to Connaught. tLaughter) He made
a law that no lrishman was to come within four
miles Of the river shannon on one side or the sea
on the other We read that great numbers OF Eng
lshmen came over, and don't blame them. The
fair counties OF Munster and Leinster were waiting
for them. cromwell settled his
PURITAN TROOPERS
upon them, and never, according to Mr.. Froude,
was iairer scene than these counties presented
fifteen years after. wish this picture, for
must have been begun IN 1653 There was peace,
but what kind OF peaceH He made solitude and
called IL peace. When Oliver Cromwell died what
was the state of Mr.. Froudcs gardcn2 tLaughter.)
Ireland lay like wilderness; fye-sixtns of her
pc ss ees
had Quilted those desolate places Hungry
men were said to have taken corpses out
Oliver died, in 1857, Major Morgan,
member OF the Irsn Parliament, declared
that the whole OF Ireland was in ruins. The wolves
the country much that they came within nine
miles OF the gates o. Dublin. This Is my first an
garden. The priest was also hunted down as well
as the WOLF Two pounds were put upon the
he head & OF the wolf and FIVE pounds upon the head
the law was not put in force. Why, we found
Portuguese Jews coming over 10
HUNT PRIESTS IN IRELAND.
or the $50 priests VINO were left not ono OF them
was allowed to remain unless he became Protest
ss t6Fy " wSS %aTs ths VII wa X band nsS Of Outlaws AVIS
who achieved, by fire and sword in their own way,
outlaws thirty years afterwards continued to niest
the country down t0 the latter end Of the reign Of
George the Third. And this was the garden.
tion LEFT nearly the whole Of Ireland to the cron
wcllian settlers who had brought his father to the
scaffold, and left unrewarded and degraded the
says that at this time The Irish were denied the
commonest privileges Of justice that were
given to criminals In 1873 the Eng
OF all Catholic bishops and priests from ireland,
and allowing no Catholic to remain except by
license. MI. Froude makes the strange assertion
that when the Restoration came the Catholic re-
lgion came back with IT, The facts did not sup.
port this statement 1t is perfectly true that bill
OF attainder was passed, but II was not passed
arms a against King James. William @ came TO Ireland
and opened the campaign III 1890, and MI. Froude
THE ARMY OF IRELAND
was never better equipped. This was not the fact,
At the battle Of the Boyne Mr.. Froude says the
Irish did not manifest bravery, and l regret that
M Eroade should have @ impagned the bravery Of
was an army led by a hon; James, army was n
army led by . stag cneers) Father Burze de.
James. The Irish troops, MI. Froude says, did not
make respectable stand: but these Irish troops
were not general led. The Duke Of Berwick is
my authority, and he says that even then the
Irish troops charged the British troops ten
times and dashed against the terrible lines OF
wnliam's veterans, and when they retreated they
retreated in good order and under the orders Of
the commanding officer. Father Burke here de-
scribed the sieges OF Athlone and Limerick have
for Mr.. PrOude q sincere esteem and respect.
would ask him to take back the charge OF cowardce
that has been implied by him to Irishmen for II It
M 70 gsa sSGf OF
lex signed when French fleet entered the Shannon,
but came too late ior the succor Of Ireland The
treaty signed and DR.. DopFing preached o SER
mon on the sinfulness OF keeping your oath with
a Papist. The sherifs and magistrates then dis
possessed several OF His Majesty's subjects The
Lords commissioners received letters from all
parts of Ireland complaining of the treatment OF
the Irish Now began a time that was most disas-
trous to Ireland. The various pains and penalties
enacted by the Parliament OF William and OF Queen
Anne were detailed at length by the lecturer. He
(the lecturer) would not have lifted this historic
veil and compelled him to show his audience the
treatment their fathers had received at the hands
of the English. He would rather let bygOnes be
bygOneS; but let any man-and | would not mind
feather, If | were on my dying bed would rise
and contradict it. loud and long continued ap-
plause.)