The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1872-06-30

] rsn oque1 good VIII, to 1Avssh his upmeasnrei
everv cotbniin b.Ing. arG men most antagonistio T.
;t,a mads 1t his study to paint Irish priests q,
Ideals Of bufoonery and 'ignoranoe' is his nar -
i.sna The prpssyti:ng nobleman
and creed of his dependants il n model =,
Sn.lstian virtues: mixed marriages, aud tbei,
necessary complement, MEDITERRANEAN In ra.
i;ssh: i;shon, arc heaven-desccnded means of estab-
l.sa,i,ng ns.,ig concord and domestic happiness. The
goddess university, struck with barrenness hv
the anathemaa of the Church, must he for hi,
2 Sentre Of light and heat, under whose benign
hioon;S tn.s desert land Of oursis to become
Snat these outrages on tho feelings of a Cafho.
lie country would have satisfied The most mn
bounded appetite for insult. But the com.
/" tho yet N bitter There
once expresses all that is hatefal, odious and
crsel-Cro Cromwell-the repicide Crom ycII ~
whose head rests the blood of monarch.
tta.0ugn ~ whom the royal line has como down
= ~ our present Qneen-must be taken up as q
H1emi-god by the Judge who sits behind her
MaJesty's commission: the man who mads tha
streets ana eaSEshees 9S apr tay ttayHs fcy With
populated the land, so that over twenty -Ur
. .h.rty miles OF country scarcely o trace Of hns
ported, in thousands, the children Of onr gase
20 DO the work of slaves upon the islsnd df
Barbadoes; the man who made this kingdou1
si1aost desert, 90 that for want of human In
ncieney-this man, regicide, hypocrfte and OK.
terminator, must be held up Ia o public coart
20 90 object for tho admiration Of our people.
judge merely to outrage q Catholic nation by
preeiaiming the merits of ferce and cruel
Persecutor of their religion and their race. ho
must insult the memory Of one Of its nobiest
of . bloodstained enthusiast. Edmund Burke
an admirer Of Cromwell !!!-Cromwell, whom
he calls o "great bad man." and Of whom,
amongst others, he writes!- do not cay,
God forbid-I do not say that the virtues Of
suoh men are to be taken as balance for their
sssns,, but they are some correctives to their
10 make the whole proceedings consistently
the place selected for this
strange display uinst be ths capital town Of
i, BY tue tears Of the gentry Of re:
iann, exiled from the wealthier Quarters Of the
ogdom to make room for the mercenaries OF
a q cruel tyrant and the unwilling auditors OF
this strange .barapgue must sprely have felt
hu,nbled by its utterance. - 49,
a5hoagh this iadgmeat has. for the
w,Ii ooas tfo l; has aroused already the
Iusuis offered to the national pride and to the
.ts,.s.ons c.,nyiStlops Of the people; and when
!3aght our countrymep. viii then remember
I hist one Of their own flesh and blood and re-
tigtont through the, withsriag curses Of q hos
tie uniVerstty, was prepared TO act part from
which we Gtfniy believe the honest instincts OF
o eProtestant-Dorn man would make him shrink.
11' We must not concidde without putting on
record our frm nviction that the courts OF
cordmand the confidence Of our people II men
capable of thus insulting all they, hold yeher-
hbie aud holy are allowed topre side on their
benches. ..fr. .rI. -.i,.,
'yrbe follow ing rssoln tioa was then proposed
by the Very Rey. Dr. Gain, +. .P., aud seconded
by the Very Rev. Arehdeaeon Duane, r. 2.
and was unanimously adopted
adopted by this meeting as expressing the
feelings of the clergy of this diocese on the
judgment reported in the public journals to
have been delivered by Mr Justice Keogh op
the Galway election petition -,
b. PAUL. CARD. CULLEN, Chairman. -E
+. CANON McCABE, V. e., }e.,,o.,.;..
L. CANON FoRDE, V. c., eecfe'aties'