The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-10-17
TFrom Our Own Correspondent.I
OUR IRISH LETTERS.
DunL1N. Sept. 21st, 1875.

DCELIN, Sept. list, 1910.
Those were right after all-and account
myself amongst the number-who attributed
to the managers of the O'Connell Centenary
celebration in Dublin a desire aud q design
other than to do fitting honor to the memory
of oCounsll. The slight put by the Lord
Mayor of Dublin upon Mr.. Butt (the Home Rule
LEADER in not inviting him to his banquet at
the Mansion House on the 9th August; the
selection of Lord O'Hagan, Catholic Wing, a
Crown pensioner, as the orator of the day, in
stead of such a man as Mr.. A. III. Sullivan or
Mr.. Butt, who would have been sure ade-
quately to express the opinions of the Irish
nation ON each and every portion of the
Liberator's career; the glazing attempt to
shunt Home Rule at the Centenary banquet /;
and even the attempt to give the whole cele-
bration purely Catholic aspect-all were but
so many steps, as it were, in fonl conspiracy
to undermine the national liberties and destroy
the rising hopes of the country. On Wednes-
day morning last, the Dublin Daily Express, an
anti-Irish and anti Catholic organ, published
the following precious production, stating that
it had been circulated extensively amongst
the faithful"
MANSION House, Dublin.
Dear SRA feeling largely prevails that the
spirit OF piety and patriotism, awakened by the
give practical effect to the principles of OCon-
nell. That those principles are rooted in the
Irish heart the fund placed at the disposal of
demonstration of the 5th and 9th of August
are conclusive evidence. To make a united
Ireland our motto must be Faith and Father.
land"
In order that OCopnelrs principles with re-
gard to questions affecting not merely the
temporal but the eternal interests of the people
he loved so well, may be carried out to their
foil Developments, it is deemed advisable to
establish in Dublin National OConnell Com
mittee, whose primary object will be to inform
public opinion on all such questions, and by
all legitimate means press them forward to q
safe, speedy, and satisfactory settlement.
Should you approve of the form alton of such
body will thank you for the favor of your
advice and cooperation.
With as little delay as possible an oppor-
tunity of personally comforting on the subject
will be afforded by meeting at the Mansion
House. / have the honor to remain, yours
faithfully, PETER PAUL MAcSwINRY,
Lord Mayor.
The date attached is the 9Th August-that
is, this circular was concocted in the very
midst of the Centenary celebration, when Mac
Swiney & Co. were pretending that they had
nothing in view but the honor of O'ConneIl
Now, of course, the meaning of it oil is plain
enough. Considering that the Catholic Union
of Ireland is in existence to watch over Irish
Catholic interests and the Home Rule League
over the political interests of the country, we
are forced to the conclusion that "the National
O'Connell Committee" is designed to supplant
one or other OF both of those Associations. NV
own opinion is decided and it is that it is in
tended to take the place of the Home Rule
League and, if possible, to revive the defeated
and discredited cause of Whiggery. When
the Home Rule movement was being started,
some four years ago, some enemies of the
popular cause-Whigs in disguise-opposed it
on the pretended ground that it would impede
the settlement of the Education Question and
that it did not contemplate o sufficiently large
measure of national liberty. Those political
MokaDnas, indeed, would not have 80 small q
thing as the Federal programme of Mr. Butt!
They wanted at least what Grattan and the
Volunteers won for Ireland in England's time
OF difficulty, danger, helplessness, and dis
grace! Amongst those wretched Irishmen as
Peter Paul MacSwiney. When the Home Rule
League petitioned the Corporation of Dublin
for public hearing for it's cause and when,
after having listened to speeches from Mr..
ONelit Daunt and others, the Corporation re-
solved to endorse the programme of the League,
the only dissentient voice was that of Peter
Paul MacSwiney. And later on-at the general
election in 1e74-this same Macs whey at.
tempted to get elected for Meath as "a good
Catholic" and Repeater (perhaps) but the
priests and people of Meath, piercing through
the mask he wore, so emphstically secuted his
pretensions at the start that be did not 90 to
the polls, and fed in disorder before the
Presbyterian Nationalist, John Martin! But
the fact that by his National Committee, this
MacSwiney means, if he can, 30 smash up the
present National movement, to foster and create
division in the popular ranks, to make Peter
Paul MacSwiney the sun of a political solar
system in Ireland, is admitted by himself
The FTeema"-the leading daily Catholic
journal of Ireland-hss denounced the Lord
Mayors circular in unmeasured terms. It
implies that the Lord Mayor 10 " a mischievous
and conceited fool in politics. 1t says that
he is eaten VI by vanity and an ambition to be
political leader in Ireland, and that this was
his ruling passion during the Centenary cele..