The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-02-09

potism and persecution, ? firm belief in the
power of ends to justify means, q systematic
or neglect of al the tbs .a
cial or domestic sphere, without terrifying men
for the great eollisions Of life. It has led one
great and venerable writer to make Frederick "
the invasian of Silesia aud the partition OF 70
land, while lie speaks with contempt OF the
philanthropy Of Howard, and of the noble Of
forts that have been made to break the fetters
of the slave. 1t hns made another great wri-
tor the panegyrist of Henry VIII, the apollo
gist for the use of Judicial torture, and the au-
thor of one of the most Incorporating de-
lenses of religious persecutian It has ever been
our fortune to peruses -st.'Hf
This book belongs to the GLASS of histories
ing simple and impartial narrative Of events
but clearly and almost avowedly for the pur.
pose. of enforcing certain political doctrines
Mss and sbs
part, bitter invective against the Irish peo-
pie, against the Catholic religion, and, above
All. against gains. the maxlms OF liberal policy Inc
| race hopelessly vitiated and debased, ALSO
lutely, incurably, and constitutionally untitled
for self-government, and only to be ruled by o
strict and steady despotism. They area peo-
| pie who do not understand forbearance, who
| interpret lenity into fear, and respect only an
authority which they dare not tride with
They are a people incapable OF self-restraint
The worse means of governing them is to
give them their own way. In concession they
sec only feaE; and those that fear them they
They respect master hand, though it be o
hard and cruel one" The main object in ruling
them should BIO to annhilate their socisl
and political power to Prevett them, as far
as possible, from analgamating with and thus
depressing the ruling race and, above all, to
extirpate, their religion. Cromwell, and
govern the Irish "by true ideas.;' or in other
werds, "by the laws, so far rs intellect can dis
sspp y the Maker shs
Wexford, and the deliberate massacre of their
entire garrsons, had concluded the rebellion,
he awaited himself of the opportunity to confis.
cate all the land in the three chief provinces of
i Ireland. He colonized those provinces with
his soldiers. He left, indeed. the peasantry to
till the soil for the new masters but he ban
leading members ofthe Irish race-the middle
and the upper classes, rs we should call them"
info Connaught. He absolutely suppressed
population believed TO be essential to their
eternak salvation. He pronounced by one
. sweeping Judgment and without any detailed
investigation, the entire priesthood guilty Of
high treason; and those who remained to sus-
, tain tho faith of the wretched peasants, or to
, carry comfort to their desolated homes, were
either put on board vessels for Spain, trans
, | ported as con victs to the Barbados, or inn
! prisoned in two small islands iii the Atlantic
Having taken thege measures with the natives
he endeavored to encourage the Protestant col
ony by commercial freedom, by abolshing tho
separate Parliament and giving the colonists {
q representation in England.
2 This scheme Of policy in all its parts is thu
) subject of warm, repeated, and unqualified Gu
g logy by an English historian of the nineteenth
1 century. The attempt especially to extirpat'
o by law the religion of @ wholenation arouse
s. his most ardent sympathies. He dilates will
g. fervor upon tile disloyalty sof the Catholics
5, upon the penalties which in other lands the
3. inflicted upon Protestantss upon tho pernicIou
is nature of their opinions. No Moslem conquer
l. | or or Spanish inQ uisitor, was ever less trou
l, wi Of humanity n
al the enemies of his faith. "The lines of tn
two creeds," we are told, "were IDENTICAL wit
minds Of England really believed that, beside
its reasonable aspects, the Roman Catholic II
1T ligion was intellectually degrading and spirtI
1T whose supreme Pontif had applauded til
1T instruction of 1641-it was not legitima'
le only, but necessary, to interdict till the adhe
of i s IN sv f9% Of the
c. cheney as well as of the Legitimacy Of perssc'
ds tion Mr.s Froude has no doubt. "Had u
no Catholic Bishops besp compelled i1-earnest
til ZION of priests from abroad been serfouslS OF
he sternly prohibited, the sacerdotal system nnu
es have died natural death and the creed ha'
perished along with it, ireland, had Crel
re well left q son like himself, must In anoth
N genetstionShave been Protestant" "Roma
y Ism, stsrnly rePresSeds mus. have died Sut'
les We do notinteGd-to fbe great majority
,re our readers .we.belisSg II would be wholly 6
lst peThuous-to make-any cufnnenS' upon /
he morality or humanity ~ shOse sentiments, or
no enter into any general defense OF the princip
lly1 of religious toleratfon, although we mig
in point out what appears to us the gross exi
he geration involved ID the belief that the crs
Ike of the Irish was at the root Of their rebelio
md The struggle between the two races had rag
ca for centuries when their religion was the ga
the and it was the natural and inevitable con
is quence of their relative position. 1t was
kes Question of nationality and OF race, and ar
;af- ward Of the possession OF land, much m
Its than Of creed.
Lss- Its with deep and sincere regret that