The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1874-10-11

NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY MORNING. OCTOBER II, 1874

1NA ~ 1vDh l.
am glad, for the honor of the county, to
say that the j. F. Mcguire National Testimo-
nial movement has turned out a very respecta-
bic success. About ten thousand pounds in all
were collected, three or four thousand of which
Mr.. Mcguire lived to receive. The rest has
been invested in the names of trustees in Dub
lin and Cork, for the benefit of his wife and
children, and will, it has been stated, suffice
for their maintenance in comfort if not in
afiuence. 1t is to be noted that this subscrip-
tion for Mr.. Magnire, with the single exception
of that for Captain Nolan, NJ. P. for Galway, is
the largest got up in Ireland for any public
man or object, for the last quarter of century.
The subscription to the OConnell National
Monument amounted to only about ES0GO or
G90e0. And John Francis Mcguire deserved
it all and more. He will always figure in the
history of Ireland as a bold, and eloquent, and
consistent, and nnpurchasable champion at
once.of his religion and his country's rights.
Poor P. j. Smyth and his Simple Repeal" "
movement are squelched. He still has his page
in the Irishman, and is publishing there vari-
ous little spiteful things against the Home
Rule movement But that is all he is doing,
and that is all he can do. MIR. Egan's accusa-
sation that he was wirepulling " for the paid
Secretaryship of the Home Rule League and
that it was his failure to get that post that
made him a deserter, Mr.. Smyth has denied.
But Mr. Egan in letter to the Nation chal-
lenges him to deny that he expressed to Mr.
Butt his willingness to accept that post if it
were offered him. We have to see what Mr..
smyth will have to say to that. MIR. Butt, at
Mr. efafa
ment. Besides, proofs are accumulating that
Mr. Smyth in denouncing Federalism, is about
the most Inconsistent politician ever heard of.
1t now turns ont that he was one of the origi-
nal committee which IN 1870 first promulgated
the Federal proposal that it was actually
upon his motion that the terms of the requisition
for the National onference of November last,
which affirm the Federal proposal, were adopt
ed and that when he was first elected for
Westmeath, he placarded at his own expense
and traded upon resolution of the Home
Government Association which declared him
worthy Of support having adopted tEeir
principles. Yet Mr.. Smyth now denounces the
Federal proposal dishonerabte and degra-
ding! All because he has found it impossible
to be the leader of the national movement
He has appealed in sort of way to the Fenian
party but they will not touch him with
forty foot pole, for they recollect that when
they appealed to him as editor of the Irishn'dn
for support in 1865, he refused and opposed
them. He is applauded by only one party in
this Countrywide bigoted anti-Irish Protestant
party. Last Saturday the Dublin Evening Mail,
one of the organs of this party, published an
article in which it represented him as having
at last succeeded in his object. A small party
of Irishmen in Stafford England) had formed
themselves into a I" Simple Repeal" Club, and
had published an address echoiDg his senti
ments and probably written by him. That was
the sole foundation for the article in the Nal,
and even this slender one was knocked away
completely on she following day by the an
nouncement that the Anti-Home Rule Repeal
Club of Salford had collapsed and been dis
solved!
Since Pistol swallowed the leek there has
been no more humiliating backdown than that
of the English bsronet, Sir John Ashley, M. p,
in the matter of. his famous speech. at the Lin
colnshire Ram Show, regarding the Irish Home
Rule members of the Honse of Commons. This
stupid ruffiau described those members a set
of rascals wko talked unendurable lies and
nonsense about their "rotten little Ireland"
The Chevalier Keyes oClery, Junior NJ. P. for
Wexford County, spirited young fellow, who
has fought sword in hand for the Pope-as one
of the "rascals," promptly sent ga friend"
(Capt. Lynch to demand explanations. Capt
Lynch found the baronet in a most pacific and
repentant mood. The interview has resulted
in the publication of letter, in which Sir j.
D. Ashley admits that he used the offensive
and begs to withdraw them
This is satisfactory; but Sir J. ID. Ashley will
not be allowed to get of SO easily. Mr.. Bait
is determined to bring his conduct before the
House of Commons, st the commencement Of
next session, end to make him mako his apology
tAeye, or snfer for his biaekguardlsm. ,tg nSn