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

has awaited it's realization can only be
accounted for on the ground that step by
step she felt herself drawing nearer to the
prize. But the success of Russia means the
ruin of England.
The English people, who are famous Alb
olitionists for others, own come hundred
and fifty millions of slaves in India. The
wealth flowing into their purses from that
immense "plant alton " is simply fabulous.
Without India, without Australia, what
would England BET Merely eight little
Isle" of some twenty millions of inhabitants
rem kable principally for coal dust on their
skins and a sturdy, bull dog courage in their
hearts. just at this time, by virtue ofcolossal
fortunes drawn from the colonial system,
their aristocracy spend great sums of money
and live in grand style after their fashion,
but there is quite a smatteIing of the
Barbaric " about their splendor and
perceptib!e incapacity to appreciate the
refnements which they borrow from poorer
but more intelligent neighbors.
The English are not per Sc very civil
lized people. They have succeeded in
manufacturing, by reason of the immense
impulse given to that interest from their
control of colonial money and markets, but
they merely apply principles discovered
abroad and initiate the works of fine art
which they would never attempt to origi-
nate. The people have naturally no taste
for pursuits that require activity of the
brain. The ignorance of the peasantry ia
simply dense, and in probably no other
country Inhabited by the white race are
there such numbers who can neither read
nor write. Not only do they abhor letters
themselves, but for centuries they have
striven by every means in their power to
stamp out every vestige of learning from
their Irish subjects. Notwithstanding
their comparative success in that respect,
they are still 80 far ahead in the race of
illiteracy that they have to import Irishmen
to edit their principal newspapers.
No! The excellence of the great Anglo
Saxon Norman race ia not seated in it's
head but in its heart. Notwithstanding it's
Gins ofoppression and tyranny, it is bold,
brave-hearted race 1t has not much genius,
but it has courage, and it's courage has made
it's fortune. It's forte is war. War swept all
its rivals from the seas. War brought it
conQuests and colonies of untold wealth
War gave it a dominion almost universal
which it coined into gold. The arts and
sciences followed in the train of this opu-
lence, not, indeed, as children of the
household, bat rather as hired attendants
at feast. Take away the colonies, destroy
the commerce, dry up the magic spring OF
unearned wealth, throw England back up
on her own internal resources, and what
would she be in an open competition with
other nations in the peaceful race of pro.
duction and commerceP
! Brave little Island, Descended, as mos
of Us are in this country, from an English
ancestry, it is with natural feelinga Q
compassion that we pTospecsiTely contem
pate the land OF oar forefa;hers ahorn 0
its greatness, :o9bed of its inperia! PIE
emineDce and Ienanded 70 che twilight o
Arctic civilization, IL lie same cztegor.
with Iceland, Sweden, ard NorEay. Ba
sober reflection teaches us tia: i would b
better SO. The English VII! he bat 70
happy If centuries of humiliation al
poverty shall have balanced their accouu
Of bloody persecution and heaI,less, lCex
oTabie tyranny, OF power abused and OF
rortunities Grimm ally misapplied to Sc!
+ seeking aud self gTa;idcation.
So far as we can judge from tie positio
. and means of the respective parties, W
= must incline to the opinion that the gran
e struggle for Russian pre-eminence an
England's humiliation is impending. F.
centuries Russia has been girding herse
to this battle, and now she proclajms he
- self ready. 1t is supposed by some person
. that the three empiIes-Russa, German.
D and Austra-will unite against all conner
while other writer's contend that Austria
equally with Turkey, the intended victi
S of Russian, and German conquest and pa
. titions. In that case Euglapd must nece
= sarily side with Austria. France WI
3 probably take the opportunity to reoccup
. Alsace ard Lorraine, Spain will never sal
!. NIT to seeing the Mediterranean made