The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-08-31
VOLUME vi.
Marnlng Star and Catholic Messenger.
From Our Own Correspondent.
OUR IRISH LETTER.
DUBLIN, August IA, 1873.

There was a time when the enemies OF the
Home Rule movement contented themselves
with ridiculing it. That was when IN tnelr
silly confidence they believed it would never
attain its present enormous dimensions. NOW,
when they find the pretence Of laugh!ng down
Home Rule has become as idle ana ridlcui
as the thought of tanning away thunoer,,
storm, they have recourse to deliberate ana
pross calumny, lying, misrepresentatlon. a
notable instance is furnished TINS Wet tf. del
monstration in Waterford, describing II as
Great success Well, our West-British Orange
finding it to be too to anti
cipate the excellent effect it was destined TO
have on English public opinion and on Ger
tain 81 .tion of the Irish public too, by repre-
santinp Mr. Butt who was the chief figure in
it. as explaining Home Hule to mean separa,
ton, and as telling the people OF waterford
that if this separation were not conceded qul-
etiy it would be wrenched by violent means:
Particular emphasis was laid on some words Oh
Mt Butt to the effect that Home Rule meant
Teneal of the Union and not merely that bnt
&c aomethinp more" A regular din OF denun-
citation followed. The veil was rent away at
last, said these virtuous organs; the mask was os
thrown off; the cat was out OF the Dag. ~
course they did not believe word OF all TINS
themselves. Their object was to dlscreait inc
Home Rule movement IN the eyes o, !; ti los =
3imid Irishmen who have not yet Joined 1t DuG
who would join it tomorrow If they believed
that nothing more than the federal arrange
ment was aimed at ny It's bs,}Pa rom tbat
d;tionU and "treason" were intended. 1t was
clearly very necessary to stop this kind OF war
fare at once aud Mr.. Butt land others nave ave
taken such action as will put q stop to it &c
some time at all events. In the first place, inc
Waterford Branch of the Home Rule Associa
Rntt when he said Home Rule meant repeal OF
the Union and something more, explalneo M:
meaning there and then to be SIMPLY thaI
repeal Of the Act of Union weuld be a neces
sary precedent of Home Rule for Ireland, ant
that the something more meant the real ane
~ thorough union that would arise between IN
don't nTO n
agement. Mr.. Butt gave similar account o
the matter himself at meeting OF the nom
Government Association on tuesday la tS
lie down the throats of the peoples enem!e:
of nipping a vile system of misrepresentation
in the bud there NO neG Ireland
has known all along that the Federal arrange
1nent cannot be made without first repealin
the Act of Union, and it is equally well an
widely known that it is one of the commons ::
arguments of the Home Rule party that =
giving Ireland in addition to tho managemeI
Of her domestic concerns share in tho imp
rial Parliament, you would be giving h'
"somethipg more" than mere repeal 81
Mr. Butt went farther ct the meeting of Mo
Gay. He expressed his belief that there we
paid agents for the express purpose of inven
ing and circulating SANDERS by system
gross as that by which the o nnt Jov
the movement in 1s4S." One of the pape
that did rot misropresent Mr.. Butt, pronounc
this assertion an exageration but it is u
one There can be no doubt at all that t
Dublin Evening Post for instance - in the p
of tho Castle at the present moment, and
believe the Waterford Citizen which two
three years ago was an advanced Fenian org
has been bought up by Mr.. -BeSnlal Osbor
and some other friends of tho Government
is impossible otherwise to account for th
present vllainous tactics. Accordingly,
Butt announced that he had written to
Dublin Mail, saying that the statement attr
utinr to him the phrase about separation, v
a deliberate falsehood averring that to ms
such a statement of any man Is TO lmpute
him language of highly seditious and crl
nal character and that such an lmputatlon
of the peace, q peculiarly aggravated ITO
and demanding the name of the author OF
calumny. This put an extipguisher upon -
little game" The Mail of Wednesday mad
kind Of qualified apology, denying the prec
cetted plan, and stating that the paragr'
had come from their ordinary corresponden
waterford Whether this will satisfy Mr..
7 do not know but trust he will, as he hi
fine opportunity, bring the matter to cri
nal court. Home Rulers mean to act leg
and constitutionally; and while they obey
laws themselves, the least they may CT
to do is to enforce the laws against Il
who make cowardly and criminal ASA
upon their regulations and intentions u
alluded to this matter at length to let
reader know the arduous nature Of the st
gle which is being waged by lrlsh nSt iI
the foul and infamous means by winch
efforts are resisted.
The excitement caused by the Home
demonstration 10 Waterford had hardy
away, when the Lord Lieutenant ana MS
the Countess Spencer, went to that city
tended by their hunkeys, to attend the an
exhibition of the Royal Agricultural SOC
Lam glad to say that the party were II