The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-12-08

lie oath of ADMIRATION and renonncedt Inc :
See of Rome in other words, unless NE
,ecame q Protestant 1t 10 all very wen
or my learned friend to tell us that the
awe were not put in execution. But what
10 the meaning of snch entries as these =
give pounds on the certificate Of Thomas
Stanley" This was in the year 1851 the
year the severe laws were not enforcen
'' To Thomas Gregson, Evan Power ana
Samuel Alley, being three soldiers Ia Coz.
Abbotts horse dragons, for arrestiDS
pop;sh priest by the name Of Donoush ia
gerry, taken and now secured in the county |
Jail at Clonmel; and the money" It says;
IS is to be equally divided between them.
TO Arthur Spollen, Robert Pierce anu
John Bruen, five pounds, to be dlviaeu
equally between them, for their good ser
vice performed in apprehending and bring
ing before the Right Honorable Lord Chief
Justice Pepys, on the 2lst Of January, one
popish priest named Edwin Duhy;
To Lieutenant Edwin Wood, on the
certificate of William st. George, Esq,
Justice Of the Peace Of the county OF Cavan,
twenty-five pounds, for five priests ana
friars apprehended by him, namely, Thomas
McGeoghegan, Turlough MCGOWAN, Hugh
McGowan, Terence Fitzsinmons, and an
other, who on examination, confessed them
selves to be priests and friars"
"To Sergeant Humphrey Gibbs, "a nice
name" and to Corporal Thomas Hin, OF
Colonel Lees company, ten pounds, for ap-
pretending two popish> priests; namely
Maurice Prendergast and Edward Fshy \
and afterwards, being adjudge according
| ly, were transported tn foreign psrts" =.
! The third "beast" was the "Tory,"
! which means that, in these terrible years,
several of the Irish gentlemen and trlsh
people, who .Vere ordered to transplant
themselves into sConnaught, not finding
there the meana of LIKING, remained In the
desolate countries of Leinster and Mun-
ster, and there, goaded to desperation,
I formed themselves into wild banda OF out
flaws, robbingo the cattle OF tho cromwell
liam settlers, descending upon them VIII
fire aud sword, achieving in their own way
t'tthe wild justice of revenge" Ii Ireland
was the garden that Mr.. Frosde describes
it to be, how comes it to pass that NO Crom-
twellian settler, throughout the length and
\ breadth of the land, dared to take piece
of land unless there was q gsrrison of sol
]diers within his Immediate neighberhood.
Nay, even under the very eyes of the gar,
rison of Timolin, in Meath, the Tories
came down and robbed, piundered, set nre
to and destroyed the homesteads OF certain
4 English Crom wellian settlers, for which an
the people of the neighborhood, OF Irish
names and of Irish parentage, were at once
taken and banished out of the country In
La word, the outlaws who, thirty years after
| ward, appeared as " Rapparees," who are
described to US in such fearful terms, 10y
the English historians, continued to infest
. and desolate the country; and we hnd &C,
counts of them in the state papers, and
other papers, down to the latter end of the
reign Of George the Third. And this was
the " garden!" This was the land OF peace
of comfort and of plenty.
Now, my friends, came the Restoration
In 1859, Charles the Second was restored
had been fighting for his father; they had
bled aud suffered lighting against his enc
mics, and they we're NOW bansshed into
Connaught. They naturally expected tina.
when the rigbtful heir to tte throne would
Come into his rights, they would be recalled
and put into their estates. They might
have expected more. They might have
expected to be rewarded by honors, title.
and wealth. But what is the factf Tit
fact is. that Charles the Second, at the Re
storation, left nearly the whole of 1relant
in the hands of the Cromwellian settlers
and by the Act of Settlement and Ex2la
J nation,n secured them in these estates
leaving the property and the wealth of thu
country to the men who bad brought hi
father to the scaffold, and leaving in beg
} gary, destitution and ruin the brave ant
; loyal men who had fought for him and hi
Court of Claims" opened for, remember
that in England, no sooner had Charlie
come to his throne, than all the Crom vel
, | liam settlers who had taken the property o
tho Englieh Royaiists were at once put out
and tho English lords and gentlemen go
; back their properties and estates. But no
so, in Ireland. The "Court of Claims
l was opened in the fret year of the reign Q
: Charles. AS soon az it was perceived tina
( tho Irish, Catholics begeR to claim thei
property, they shut up the court at once
3 Three thousand Of these claims rename
q uuhesrd. AZ Leland says:
. "The people of Ireland were denied tn
. Justice which is given to the commones
! criminal-the justice OF having fair an
!, impartial hearing"
> Nugent, afterwards Lord Riverstor
writes at this time:
"There are In Ireland to-day five thou
. sand men who never were outlawed, VIII
), vet have been put off their estates; an
!, . now by law they never can recover thei
!, estates again."
4 More than this. No sooner is Charlie
~ seated on the throne, than the English an
a Irisl, Parliaments began to affiict and grin
the already down troddeH people of lr'
r. land by legislation the most infamous thu
!. can be imagined. In 1878, the Englie
n Parliament furiously demanded that tt
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