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

M,rring star and Catholic Ms .sReI i
Wv ORLEANS. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 8. 1917. !
49, Continued rom third pace. G
the word which he puts out, namely !naS
federation is the genius OF frotes'ant,sn'
He asserts-apd it is an astounding asser-
t;on-i in .his his third lecture, that reh-
a;ons nersecntion was hostile to the genlas I
of Professionalism. Nay, he goes TURNER.
Speakinc of the Mass, he says, thae the
Catholic Church has learned to borrow one
beautiful gem from the crown OF ne. a a1,a
conferences of others." I wish that the
learned gentleman's statements would be
more approved by history. Oh, much ]
desire that 10 saying these words ne hao
spoken historic truths. No doubt he be,
lieyes what he says but l ask him, and
ask every Protestant here, at what time, In
what age, or in what land has Protestant
ism ever been in the ascendant without
persecutiug Catholics who were around
fhemf II is not in bitterness cay it, but
IL is simply as historic truth. l can
not find any record of history, any time
during these ages, up to Few years ago.
any time when the Protestants IN England,
in Ireland, In Sweden, in Germany, or any
where else, gave the slightest federation, Or
even permission to live, where they could
take it from their Catholic fellow subjects:
Even to-day where is the strongest spirit OF
YAllR1Ou6 n
testant Swedenf 10 it not in Protestant
Denmark And who to-day are Persecu.
tinRa ask you, is it Catholics No, but
Protestant Bismarck in Germany. All
Catholic, but q priest not only priest,
but a monk not only monk, but do.
minican monk and from out the depths OF
my soai repsl and repudiate the principle
of religious persecution IN any cause, or IN
Oliver Cromwell. the apostle of blessings
to ireland! landed In 1919, and went to
work. He besieged Drogheda, defended
by Sir Arthur Aston and q brave garrison
He made q breach in the walls, and when
the earrisen found that their position was
no longer tenable, they asked, in the mill
tary langasge Of the day, II they woatd %
spared-if quarter. would be given them
and quarter was promised If oil the men
would cease fighting and lay down their
arms. They did 80, and the pronise was
observed until the town was taken. when
the town was in his hands, Oliver Cromwell
gave orders to his army LOT the inoessllm.-
nate massacre of the garrison, and every
man. woman and child in that large city.
The people, when they saw the soldiers
slain around them-when they saw 30 many
killed on every sideawhen they h saw t aos
Eve days, fed, to the number Of one thou,
sand aged men, women and ehi!dren, and
took refuge in the great church OF sc. Peter,
in Drogheda. Oliver Cromwell drew his
church he never allowed one Of those thou
sand innocent people to escape alive. He
then proceeded to Wexford. whore Ger.
tain commander named Stafford admitted
him into the city; and hs mass HSa the the
women of Wexford, With their little chill
dren, gathered round the great market
cross in the public square Of the city. They
thought in their hearts that, all terrible q
Cromwell was, he would respect the sigr
of mans redemption and spare those whit
were under the arms of The cross. Oh, how
yaia the thought! Three hundred poo
defenceless women were there, screaming
for,mercy under tho Cross OF Jesus Christ
and Cromwell and his barbarous demon
around them. destroying them, so as not t.
let one Of these innocents escape, unit
thew were ankle deep in the blood OF th'
women of Wexford!
Cromwell retired from ireland after hav
ing slutted himself with the blood of th'
people. He sretired from Ireland but h
wound up the war by taking 81, 0OO-som.
say LOG, 0O0-of the men of Ireland, ant
driving them down to the southern ports o
Munater. where he shipped tbem-sO,O Oi
at the lowest calculation-he shipped then
to the sugar plantations Of Barbados
there to work as slaves; and in ak year
time, such was the treatment they received
that out of eighty Thousand there we're onl.
Irish boys-fair and beautiful striplinl
youths-sud he put them into ships aad b.
sens them of also to the Barbados, Their
to laaguish and die before ever they cam,
to Che fr.lness Of their age and manhood
Oh, great God is this the man that has al
apolosist in the learned, the frank, the gen
erous and the gentlemanly historian, VIII
comes in oily words to tell the American
people that Cromwell was one of the braves
men that ever lived and one Of the bes
friends that Ireland ever had.
Now, we must pass on: oliver Cromwell
died in 1868. Here 10 o most singular as
sertiop of Mr.. Fronde, who tells rs thai
much as he regrets all the blood that va
shed, and all the terrible vengeance this
was poured out, still it resulted in gres
good to Ireland, and the good consisted
this: The Parliament, after Crom we'll
victories, found themselves masters Of lr'
land, and the Irish people lying in bloc
and In ruin before them. What was the
next novel Their next move was to pa