The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-06
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calls itself, did not hesitate to compare
Mr.. Butt, Mr.. Sullivan, and Mr.. O'Con-
nor Power to the vilest ruffians and most
abandoned demagogues Of the Italian
Revolution the shameless slanderers Of
the semi. official "Osseruat0re Romano"
at an earlier period upon the patriotic
men of Westmeath-these deplorable ev-
iden ces of hostility and ignorance al
most inconceivable, have remained
neither isolated nor unrivaled. The
person OF the Holy Father is surrounded
and encompassed, it won seem. by
clerical emissaries Of England as con-
temptuous in their tone, as pitiless in
their luminosity, as the orators of the
Ministerial and ex-Ministerial benches,
or the scribes of the Times or the Satur-
day Review. 1t is painful to have to
write these words. It is inexpressibly
painful to trace the successful machina
tons Of the deadly foes of our race to the
very foot Of the Chair of Peter. and al
most within the Sanctuary Of the Su-
preme POntifcate. But the truth must
be told, bitter though it be, in order to
prevent the far greater evils which must
result from an attempt to maintain 81
lence over these outrages to Ireland's
most sacred convictions. Deeply as the
faithful children of st. Patrick are devot-
ed to their Holy Church, they are also
devoted to the cause OF their nation and
country and they are wounded both as
Catholics and as IriShmen at the unscru-
pulous intrgues which dare to make the
venerated precincts of the Vatican the
centre for treacherous war on Ireland's
nationality.
There exists a rising suspicion that a
certain section of the Catholic clergy in
England are so far from abandoning the
anti-Irish traditions of Tory Anglo-Cath
olicism, that the religious education of
our young compatriots is being widely
combined with secular training which
banishes Irish sentiment from the school
and the college. at the present day, and
which aims at extinguishingi in the home
and in public lite. at NO distant epoch.
What, however, is to be said when it is
found that even the pages of the '.Cicilta
CattoliUa" are the vehicle of similar
hostility, and that the great Italian Re
view OF the illustrious Order of Jesus
publishes month after month the bitter
es. diatribes against Irish nationhOod,
the most envenomed misrepresentation
Of Irish political movements. Even the
common instinct of human compassion
and Christian charity, which one ex-
poets should animate above all the breast
OF churchman. seems to be deadened
when the hapless victim of oppression is
an Irish patriot. Who could dream that
the Amnesty of the Political Prisoners
would find q cynical antagonist in that
country, and among the party which
witnessed the devotion of the Irish Papal
Brigade? Yet the number of the "Cirn
Ia CattOlica" tor the lst of May only men,
toned u great Amnesty meeting in Hyde
Park, in order to add that 1.-The Govern
ment, faithful to the policy OF their pre-
decessors, absolutely refused to grant
the petition" and that-great heavens!
they gave thereby IAN example OF
tirmness worthy Of imitation" lun esen..
pho di fernsezSa degn0 r'essere imitalo. }
Poor, brave O'Brien, chained down in
your dungeon night and day tor months,
the correspondent OF the .'CiUilta Cattol-
tea" applauds the conduct Of your tortur-
ers rs IAN example of frmness worthy
Of imitation"
The OConnell Centenary has afforded
to the ''CtyiltG Cattolica" AS TO the pre-
cious ''Voice of the TRUTH an opportu-
nifty which It's correspondence n InQhil-
terra' has not missed. BE it observed
that in the ''Cirilta Cdttolica." as in so
many other periodicals on which the
English intris uers have laid their hands.
"lnghilterran includes ireland as mat
ter oi course. just AS If our country had
sunk down 10 Norfolk or II Yorkshire.
Speaking then OF the great National Fcs-
tival oil August last, the ''Cirilta Cat. Of
lea" OF the 2ud OF last month, s,izes the
occasion tor publishing series of lbels
on our country aud our most trusted pat
riots, including even the leader of the
Home Rule movement. which would not
have misbtca the base print that Birch
edited and Clarendon subsidized 1.-The
head Of the Home Rule party, Siynor
Built, (sic) besides being Protestant
mark the familiar accents of anti-na.
tional bigotry-sis'-bu we shall not
repeat the mendaclous insole0ce show
cred by this ,Cithollc' on the great pat
riot whom tine venerable and venerated
Archbishop of Tuam has delighted to
honor. "rhe International party has
openly deplofed the Catholic character
OF the demnnstrsti0nr- we did not,
sir Slanderer, we only deplored the
wretched attempt 10 ignore its National
character-''and their abuse indicates in
the clearest manner the dangerous ma
ture OF their opinions" Mark again the
perfdi0us insinuation which does the
work Of the Moantjoys. and Cromwells.
and Castlereighs, under pretence CT =
righteous zeal for the interests of the
Faith. One would fancy that this scribe.
who insults Ireland by his figured solic-
itude for her Catholicity, had never read
the story Of his own England, and how
even the Engli-h priesthood, in days
when mingled with its mass ah;urad