The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-27

sion, and proceed to redeem that pro mise.
: have, In previous letters, described how P. ]
Smyth joined the Home Rule League tire
years ago or more; repeatedly vowed fa.lty t.
ITS principles and policy, at the s.rle TIM
stating his own preference for simple Repea
OF the Union; gave. in especially at the Ma
tional Conference in November last which. h,
admitted, expressed the mind of Ireland col
elected and reelected for Westmeath as q
! Home Ruler; and hen-and only tLen-(wheu
| the Home Rule members had been elected and
formed into regular party, and were away in
London fighting the enemy discovered tina,
Home Rule was political heresy and an aban.
donment of the national cause, that the Con.
ference was shan and a humbug, that the
country was not in favor of the Home Rule
plan at all, and that what was wanted was an
| agitation for Repeal. Mr.. Smyth started an
1872 Club-which was composed of-him self
He got the Aishman to devote a page every
week to the doings of this club and in this
page MIR. Smyth wrote short articles couched
| in the most offensive style against the Home
Rule leaders and the Home Rule movement
and signed with different fictitious signatures,
that it might seem there were really more per-
sons than hiilself at work. Not meeting with
national movement, he next took to sending
out circulars signed Cd. MacNevin,n (tbe
name of a clerk he employs) to all parts of the
country, asking CO operators in his 'S2 Club
scheme This plan also failed. He got two or
three favorable answers which he has reprinted
again and again the vast majority to whom
he sent the circulars having treated them with
silent con tempt, or written to him indignant
nf,an
AID to the Home Rule League Council and to
the Editor of the Nation. Now, the storm
burst. Mr.. Smyth was engaged at this work
while the majority of the Home Rule members
were opposing the rnffianly Coercion Acts in
the House of Commons, and the Nation in pub
fishing list of the absent tees from the Coercion
Debates and Divisions, did not, of course
could not, omit Mr.. Smyth's name. 1t called
attention, indeed, especially to his absence, in-1
tinating that it would be we'll if he could give
any other excuse for his absence than that he
was in Dublin trying to break up the Home
Rule movement he ought to give 1t. Mr.. Smyth |
replied that he was i'll, couching his letter in |
angry tones. The editor of the Nation rejoined
that he was we'll enough to be sending out the
circulars have alluded to above. Then fol-
lowed another letter and another editorial re-
oinder, and then another letter and another
editorial rejoinder, Mr.. Smyth waxing angrier
md moro angry, because, doubt, he got the
worst of it. The controversy is not yet over,
md 1 don't know when it will be- because the
lrea of the discussion has now widened, and
jhe conduct of Mr.. P. J. Smyth in regard to the
Coercion Acts is no longer the only subject of
discussion, but his whole conduct towards the ,
Home Rule movement. But Mr. Smyth is op- !
'osed by more than the editor of the Nation
ust now. Il Westmeath priest who did great
eal to secure his election for that county has l
written to the freeman, making exactly the
anne complaints against him the Nation has r
ladc, saying he is but the spokesman of the @
eople of Westmeath, and telling Mr.. Smyth 7
hat he has coming to Westmeath unless S
g does penance for his opposition to Home b
ule and for his absence from the Coercion &
ebates. This has been great blow for Mr.. T.
my tb, but greater blow was dealt by Mr.. W
gan, a member of the Council of the Home IL
ule League, who in n letter in the Nation of G
Ist week, charges Mr.. Smyth with having t.
ought for the paid SecretaryshIp of the Home II
ule League, and intimates that it was because W
3 did not get that post that he tarned about Il
Id wheeled about. 1t remains to be seen pl
hat answer Mr.. Smyth will give to this but pl
Mr. Egan's charge can be proved, m
ID if SO P. j. Smyth's political career may be OF
ready said to have ended. de
case wildly illustrating the evils of mixed th
arriages has just been occupying the atten- he
IN of Mr.. Justice Fitzgerald of the Court of an
leen's Bench. The facts of the case are SIM ha
g enough. A DR.. Cormac Cullinan, Catho- tn
from the county Clare married Miss err
tzgerald, o Protestant. BE obtained q stu of
on as surgeon in the British Army in India to,
went to reside there with his wife, They CO.