The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-03-15
brnIng Star and Catholic Messenger
NEW oRLEANs, SUNDAY. MARCH Is. 1874.
From Our Own Correspondent
OUR IRISH LETTER.


ID, which took place this day, their results
known. AS I told the reader IN my
3 letter, about sixty OF fifty-nine Home hule
1hbers have been sent to the House OF Com
rs, fourteen or fifteen Gladstonian Liberals,
twenty EIGHT or twenty-nine Conserva-
Is. Thus o clear majority of Irish repre-
Natives have pronounced for Home Rule,
"a the Home Rulers have made good their
I'd that they would carry the country with |
I'M. But the fact is, that the sixty Home
lie members do not represent adequately the
bme Rule strength. The suddenness of the
Ssolutioa was a terrible disadvantage. Had |
10 or three months instead of two or three
eeks been allowed to the constituencies to |
bet their repres entatives, probably twenty |
|ats more would have been won for the Irish
htional cause. Even as it was, had suitable
Indicates for those twenty seats presented
bemselves, they would undoubtedly have been
burned, for it is literal fact that in all the
kher popular constituencies where such can
dates were Forthcoming, they were triumph
billy elected. The ballot has proved a most
bwerful weapon for the Irish cause. The
bop1e feeling that they can now vote as they
Ike without risk of detection and its ruinous
bnsequences, they have almost universally
bted for the national candidates, no matter
Fho advised them to the contrary. The gen.
ral election, so far as Ireland is concerned, has
roved a.magnifcent demonstration of Irish
the determination of the Irish
|eople to get back their plundered national
legislature. For the first time in history, Ire
and has sent to the London Parliament a
lear majority of members pledged to work for
he restoration of this Legislature. The seats
hat have been lost for want of time to get
uitable candidates and that will be won at
he next election, are-the two seats for Wa.
erford county, the two seats for Donegal, one
cat for Sligo, one seat for Leitrim, tie two
cats for Dublin county, two seats for Carlow
|ounty, one seat for Wicklow county, the two
eats for Mona CHAN, the seat for Portarlingtou,
Pne seat for Kerry county, and possibly the
eat for Tralee, one seat for Dublin city, and
bne. seat for Tyrone. In each of the constitu-
Pncies of Sligo, Leitrim, Dublin city, Wicklow,
Fralee, and Kerry, q Home Ruler has been re-
urned either at past elections or at tho pres
Int general election after q contt stat the head
bf the roll! that is, there is an ascertained
Home Rule majority. Waterford county,
Donegal county, Carlow county and Dublin
of which return two members
have been rendered up to, or rather have been
left in the possession of the anti-Irish faction
imply because there was no time to get can
Eidates of a proper kind. Let me now allude
10 some of the more remarkable of the recent
contests. And first in Importance is beyond
Bill doubt the contest in Louth. Here the can
hdates were on the Home Rule side Mr.. A. NJ.
sullivan, editor of the Nation, and Mr.. Philip
Callan, NJ. P. for Dundalk; on the anti-Irish
bide Mr.. Chicester ortescue-President of the
Board of Trade and a member of Mr.. Glad
btones Cabinet-and Mr.. NJ. O'Reilly Dease, n
rich Louth landlord. Mr.. Fortescue had rep
resented Louth for twenty-six or twenty seven
bears as a member of several governments
be must have laid many, very many of the
Electors under an obligation to him by giving
Them situations and other things of that kind;
be had always been put at tho head of the
boil, and at tho last contested election he was
returned unopposed with Mr. Dease; his
bis brother, Lord Clermont, and himself, have
last estates in Louth and have always been
Exceedingly good landlords; and he was one
bf those tho had most to do with framing and
bringing forward the Church and Land Acts.
For all these reasons, it is said to be the height
pf ingratitude to reject Mr.. Fortescue. But
the people of Louth remembered this gentle
mans ehare in the coercion legislation of the
last Observation-Disclosures which practically
euspends the constitution in ireland, and
places the whole country and the press at the
mercy of an irresponsible alien executive.
They remembered, too, Grattan's dictum-that
b nation could not surrender its liberties out
Pf gratitude, any more than q man could his
honor or q woman her virtue; and, therefore
when Mr.. Fortescue would not pronounce fol
Home Rule, they invited Mr.. A. NJ. Sullivan, as
b conspicuous advocate of Ireland's national
lights, and Mr.. Callan-a Home Ruler and q
Iouth man-to be their champions in the fight
Never was there such enthusiasm anywhere
bIr. Sullivan went up to Louth and addressed
the people in all parts of the county several
kimes, and it was usual circumstance fol
him, after speaking, to be carried on the
Shoulders of the people in triumph. The
elergy, with three or four exceptions, declared
alphabetically for Messrs. Callan and Sullivan.
Late in the contest His Grace, the Most Rev
Or. McGettipap, Archbishop of Armagh, wrote