The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-09-07
From Our Own Correspondent.
OUR IRISH LETTER.
DUBLIN, August 81, 1873.

III
nake out, these numbered thirteen or fourteen
Together, and the number present at each
anged from fifteen thousand to fifty thousand
ble bodiea me men atbo 1ao' sSere Of
,reat part Of the northern province which it
las been hitherto the fashion to deem the one
pot in Ireland in which the efforts OF Engiand
,uccessful. The gentry of the neighborhood
being Orapyemen or Catholics ashamed OF OF
having NO sympathy with the national cause
we're Conspicuous by their absence TIE ga
tholic clergy were also absent, but for diner
ent reason. They did not wish to take part IN
what might be considered party demonstra-
tons and it was q fear that disturbances
might ensue that impelled the patriotic Bishop
of Down and Ccnnor, DR.. Dorian, to counsel
his flock not to hold any demonstration OF all
this year on Ladyday in Belfast SC OF he,gneo If
their natural leaders, the Catholic people made
a thorough success of their demonstration
The numbers in which they attended have
DIV unparalleled. Add to this the enthusiasm, |
the patriotic speeches, the thunderous cheer. |
ing, the countless green flags with notices that
Of Inds Of and ays
and you have a picture upon which the true
sons OF Ireland. whether here or abroad, will
look with surprise and delight; cannot evoid
cred at Monaghan by the Rev. Isaac Nelson,
Presbyterian minister, Belfast This gentle
man attended the Monaghan meeting in COM
pany with another Presbyteria gentleman,
Mr.. J. G. Biggar, the same who fought the gal
liant battle in Derry, and is very likely to be
elected as Home Ruler for Monaghan county
at the next election. They were probably the
Fifty thousand stalwart men. The Rev. DR..
! Nelson concluded his address by observing
that himself and Mr. Biggar had just returned
from visit to the great Archbishop Maoasie,
of the fold = after which he invoked bless-
ing not only on the people but on their priests,
| who had, he said, written the noblest chapter
! in European history. Would that there were
the people were enthusiastic, SO they were
orderly, and quiet, aud inofensive. How did
| the Orangemen conduct thenrselyesf Well,
am rejoieed to say that. generally spea1kinig
deed. In most places they offered no obstruc-
ton whatever to the Catholic processionists.
In two places, however, q" the brethren went so
and to. cause the police to prevent them even
attending mass and in Nagherafelt, County
Derry, a Catholic and nationalist demonstra-
ton was forbidden altogether by four Orange
tonant of tho county, on the himsy pretext
that danger to the public peace was appre.
hended. But on the whole Lady -day-which
now in Ulster is kept like St. Patrick's Day,
viz: as great Catholic and national festival,
passed over this year in manner that gives
!; ground for the strongest hope that the next
election will produce o thorough and radical
, |
ton of the northern province; and it is need
less to say that if Ulster furnished respect
able contingent of Home Rule members Home
| Rule could b. won with q rush.
I observe that we are likely to have another
agitation for the release of those Fenians-
soldiers and others-who are still in the con-
vict prisons of England. All the leaders of
the Fenian movement were pardoned: the
rank and file are still kept in penal servitude
in those horrible dens. The pretext for de-
tanning them is that they are not political
criminals at all. But this is false. Whatever
position they may have filed, they were tried
i, for political crimes and sentenced as political
offenders; and, therefore, detention of them
is absolutely illogical and utterly indefensible.
Nevertheless, the way to get them out is not
, by holding public meetings, at which threats
are hurled at the head of the Government. The
| would be Justly despised, and would certainly
not live one day in England. Besides, there is
something excessively mean, or childish, or
sinine, in men going deliberately to war
with a Government and, when defeated, in de-
handing back their stakes. The proper and
digniied course would be to let the Govern.
ment severely alone. But now Mr.. Butt urged
, on by some few members of the Amnesty Asso'
Q citation, has given us warning that another
series of amnesty meetings is at hand. This
is to be regretted also, for the sake of the
T meetings will certainly ipjure in moro ways
@ than one. Mr. Butt also announces that, as
:, first step, no will prepare document setting
i forth the circumstances preceding and attend
: inp the trial of each of the prisoners, ard thai
he is confident he will be able to show in il
= that the unconditional release of all is not
q question that can be debated on the ground o
# Justice or expediency. II lie wonld confn
v himself to doing this, he would do well.
II On Friday and Saturday last the laborers
question engaged the attention of a confer
eEce and public meeting at Kanturk, Count,
D. Cork. The conference was presided over b!
t. the Rov. Archdeacon ORegan, P. P. of tina
:, place, and was attended by the Very Rev
~ Canon Murphy, P. P. of Yougbal, by Messrs
c Arch, Ward and OLeary, the delegates from
E the English Laborers' Union, and by the repre-
- sentatives of the various agricultural societie
70 of Munster. Thepublic meeting was attended
8. in addition to those gentlemen, by Mr.. Butt
D. NJ p, Mr.. T. J. Smyth, NJ p, and four thou
- sand persons; of whom the great majority wer
~ ~ of the laboring class. Tho result of oil wa
lc the formation Of an Irish Union on the plan o
the English, and having the Same objects
Mr.. Butt is the head of the new organization
and is thus the nominal, if not the actual
leader of three great Irish political associa
tions. Some remarkable speeches were mad,
V. on both days. Mr.. Arch and Mr.. Ward-botl
in Engishmen, the former having been himsel
- an agricultural laborer from the tender age O.
III nine till that of forty -six-declared that, al
D. though the English laborers were in q terrible
,s state the Irish were far worse off-that the