The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-09-07

through your publications, to face the truth
mendacity with which you attempt to dispose
of "the statement referred to-" 1t would be
hardly worth while offering my rebuttal to
So come but as Your answer to MT. Lawrsnoe
MeGrath conveys an insinuation against the
veracity of the Irish World and as my silence
ii the %gSt BE ss to ss
ment referred to-" and to challenge your open
denial of the same.
In sabine's History of the Tories and Traitors
count is given Of James Harper, (the founder
of your house in Ameries), who "was born in
Ipswich, England. and emigrated to America
But the passage that has a bearing on " the
statement referred to" is that During the scGr
il is knoon his sy'.pathies 'oere on the side Of tho
Crown"
This is on record. You probably know
it as well as I or anybody else does. And
had the mercenary hordes of England only
been successful in their effort to crush this Re-
public, and to continue these States in the
condition Of wretched British provinces, the
publishers of Harper's Weekly would be among
the foremost in the land to commemorate the
to the unshaken loyalty of their ancestors to
| the British Crown. But now, of course, it
! does not suit your purpose to acknowledge
| this.
| Sabine certainly evinces no personal antipa-
thy to you or yours. Indeed, he, strained @
point to make q complimentary allusion to
| your business enterprise. No doubt he would
wish your ancestors had been engaged on the
patriot side of the struggle; but in his capa-
| city as historian he was obliged to state facts,
! and James Harper, the English Loyalist-the
progenitor Of the proprietors Of the "Great
/ American Publishing House"-was too conspi-
cuous q character to overlook.
| The Irish World as we'll as Mr.. Sabine, cher
| ishes personal flf-wil1 to your ancestor.
James Harper-the founder of your house
most assuredly defended in his day an unjust
and criminal cause; but it is possible his mo-
tive was honest. 1t certainly was as easy for
him to be as good Christian and as decent g
| man as the person who now bears his name,
and who exhibits it on his sign board in Frank
sake of an English Royalist and Tory of 70
no matter what may have been his motives
| when you, the jealous propagation of English
Ideas and English ways and customs still IN
this free land-when yoa, the seryile adulatos
of Kaiser William, the declared foe Of tho
| rights of conscience, and the most absolute
monarch of our times,-wheu person like you
assails us, the kindred and co-religionists Of
the Carrolls,sthe Barrys and the Boylans, and
charges continually that we are not republican
enough for YOU, and intimate that if we are not
disfrancbised, or checked in some summary
way, this Republic cannot stand, when a per-
| son of your antecedents and your own lndl-
vidual status dares to put on such airs and to
| talk after this fashion to us-lrlsh-Amerlcans
and Catholics-is it unfair or unnatural tn at
we should ask our calumniator who and what
he isl
Change, sir, your infamous course; cease
ing people; divest yourself of your hateful in
tolerance and your traditional production foI
class rule; learn to trust tho people; learn
also to respect the consciences of those who
] differ with you-do this and then we shall try
7 to forgive, if we cannot forget, the innumer-
able villainous ISLANDERS you have heaped upon
our race and creed.
Respectfully, PATRICK FORD.