The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-10-22

Do an upfathomabie mystery to them. once
fully aware of how mnoh the Irish people have
suffered by English misrule, they would COM
prehend the causes of Irish discomfort; they
would realize the extraordinary virtues dis
! played by the Irish under the most hapless and
| tantalizing circumstances; they would become
| intimately acquainted with the confiBcations,
| the robbery, the domestic treschery, the viola
ton of all public faith aud Of the regard due to
| treaties, the ordinary wholesale massacres, the
| planned murders land the atrocities and I'M US"
tices of various kinds which English Govern
ments have from time to time inflicted upon
| the people of Ireland.
No wonder that the history of Ireland should
| be kept as far possible ont of the hands of
| the English student. No wonder that it should
be represe nted to be uninteresting and not
| worth perussl. 1t is not pleasant to hear of
deeds which would disgrac@th he most bar barous
| of races as having been committed by English
heroes" Such a duty may not be agreeable,
but it ought to be study on the part of every
English person with any pretensions to intel
hgence.
Talk of Bulgarian atrocities! Just look into
the means adopted under Euglands fAvorite
monarch, Queen Elizabeth, to denationalize
aud txtermlnate the people of Ireland. Read
sonnet hing of the enforcement of the penal laws
in ireland, remnants of which enactments are
still passed by the Imperial Parliament And as
for tho Uniop it is we'll establishe fact that a
rebellion was got mp for the special purpose of
enabling the British Government to extiuguish
the Irish legislative independence, and that
the misnomer known as tho "Union" was &C.
oomplished by the combined operation of fraud,
terror, force, and the cOrruptive expenditure of
about Ga, DOC, 600.
Talk Of these atrocities in Bulgaria! Pages
of the Unirerse could easily be filled, week after
week, with extracts from the history of Ire
land, showing that for gen eratiens plundsringe
and massacres and horrible violations of
sanctity and modesty were almost every day
occurrences in Ireland, and that the perpetra-
tors of such deeds were our own predecessors.
Has anything been as yet heard of large num-
bers of innocent men, women and children
being forced into Bulgarian castles and other
buildings, and there deliberately burned to
deathf Look into the history of Ireland, and
yen will see plenty of such things recorded.
Talk of the Turkish atrocitiesl What body
of Bash Baz) uks have distinguished them
selves TO snch an extent as to take mp Infants
q the points of their spears and Whirl them
about in their agony" aud, when expostulated
with excusipg themselves on the plea that If
they NJ fired those little iDnocents TO grow up
they would become Popsh rebels When or
where in Bulgaria have you heard of children
being taken by the legs by soldiers who
Knocked out their brains against walls Yon
will see plenty of records Irish history of
such acts ID Euglshmen in Ireland.
The Bulgarian atrocities, indeed! Where,
10 the Whole of the Turkish empire since the
beginning of the present shocking wnr, have
women been discovered hanging on trees
with their children at their breasts, strangled
with the mothers hair - Look into the bis
tory of Ireland, and you will find the soldiery
of England revealing in such things. We read,
respecting other occasions, of all the inhabi
tants Of an Irish town murdered during one
uipht-3OO0 men, women and children-at a
time when none of the Catholics of that par
ticular part of the country were in state of
rebellion of 100 poor women and children
being IN assacred another night, and 80 on.
What Bulgarian atrocities-what Turkish
deception or cTuelty-what bsrbarty is COM
parable to what occurred at Drogheda at the
instigation and under the eye of a man whom
England after " ards honored as much as she
could honor any mortal human beingf Let
history speak in this instance for herself:
"All the officers and soldiers of Groin wells
army promised quarter to such as would lay
down their arms, bat when once tnat was done
orders were issued that no quarter should be
given SO that soldiers were forced, many
sseainst their will, to kill their prisoners"
And the order for o general massacre WAS so
we'll carried out that it is admitted that on this
occasion Cromwell "exceeded himself aud any
thing ever heard of in breach of faith and
bloody inbumanity," and that the cruelties
exercised there for five days after the town
was taken would make such q series of in
stances of inhumanity as may be looked upon
as unprecedented.
Talk of Turkey Lingard, ia his history of
England, expresses his belief that there is not
in the whole history of Christendom more
horrible instance Of quiet, deliberate, syste-
matte, and cold-blooded cruelty than this
No doubt.
Aud yet we are shocked at the Bulgarian
atrocities. And yet We are surprised that the
people of Ireland are shocked when they come
to read the history of their own country and
of her relations with England. And yet We
cannot understand why the people of Ireland |
are not in love with English rule, and that |
they do not value English rule as much a.
they should their owD.
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