The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-07-23

now insurrectiOpary party Mitchell an
REILLY declared that O'Briep and Duff
wanted "rosewater revolution !" O'Brie
and Duffy declared the others were "Reds,
who wanted jdcgNerie. The refusal of tn
leaders to make the rescue of Mitchell tb
occasion and signal for a rising, led to bit
ter and scarcely disguised recriminatiop
and when q couple of months later, the.
Themselves, caught unawares and unpre
pared by the government sought to effec
rising, the result was utter ard complet,
failure. The call had no real power or an
therity behind it. The men who issued i
had not the mandate of the nation In any
senee of the word. They were at the mo
ment the fraction of fraction. They hat
against them the bulk of the Repeal nillioni
and the Catholic clergy not against then
in any com bstive sense, but in decided
disapproval of their instruction. Some
| and only some, of the large cities became
thoroughly imbued with and ready to carry
through the revolutionary determination
an impress which Cork has ever since re-
though deep rooted feeling of the Irish peas
antry against the hateful rule of England,
the rural population, and even the majority
OF the cities and towna, had scarcely any
participation in the Forty eight move
mept.
When, therefore, all was over, and the
Men of 49," admittedly thefower of Ire
lands intellect and patriotism, were fugi-
tives or 81 elons"-some seeking and re-
ceiving asy lum and hospitality in America,
others eating their hearts in the hulks of
bermuda or the dungeons of Tasmania-a
dismal reaction set in in ireland. The re-
suits above referred to as incidental to de-
feats as rule were plainly apparent. OF the
millions who, from 1s41 to lSAS, wheth-
er az Repeslers, O'Connellites, Confede-
rates, Mitchelites, Old Irelanders, or Young
irelanders, partook in an effort to make
Ireland self governed or else totally in
dependent nation, probably one half in 1s49
resigned, as they thought, forever, all fur
Their hope or effort in that direction. OF the
remainder, numerically small party
chiefly, though not all, men who had be-
lOnged to John Mitchel's section of the
Young 1relanders-became only the more
exasperated by defeat in which they felt
that their policy had not even a chance of
trying what was in it; defeat, too, that
left the vanQuished not one incident to So
lace their pride and shield them from hu
initiation and iguoble ridicule. Chatting
with rage and indignation, they beheld the
rest of what remained at all visible of the
national party effecting that retrograde
movement alluded to in a foregoing page.
OF all the brilliant leaders of Young Ire
land, Gavan Duffy alone now remained to
lace on Irish soil the terrible problem,
% What next 2" Openly proclaiming that
The revolutionary position could not be
held, he ordered a retreat all along the line.
Hating while on an attempt to revive the
original Irish Confederation policy-an at
;empt which he had to abandon for want
'f support-he at length succeeded in rally
ng what could be called a political party
IN struggle for &" Tenant Right" 1t raised
n no way the national" question. 1t |
gathered Presbyteriaps of the north and |
Catholics of the south, repealers and anti
repealers, in an organization to force Par
onrHk 90 l.
ion of tenant-fsrmers unless for non pay
nent of rent; preventing also arbitrary in
;reasing of rent that might squeeze out the
armer in another way. "Come now, this
8 something practical and sensible" said
natter of-fact non-repealers and half
learted nationalists. "Why, it is craven
and sheer dishonor ~ cried the
section of the '48 men. A
band of thirty or forty members of Parlis
nent were returned at the instance Of the
Tenant League to work out it's programme.
They we're mostly corrupt and dishonest
men, who merely shouted the new sbibbO
eth for. their own purposes. Were the peo
possess any really free voting power (there
was no vote by ballot then), all this could
% cured; but as things stood, the parlia-
nentary band broke mp in the fret three
months of their existence. The English
minister bought up it's noiseist leaders, of
whom hSO&n NnOW Juogel anu 0ouler are
perhaps most widely remembered. In some
,ases the constituencies, prfests and people,
their treason, duped into believ-
ng it was not treason at all, but " a great
thing to have Catholics on the bench" In
other places the efforts of priests and peo
pie to oppose the re- election OF the traitors
we're vain; free election amongst "tenants
1t will" bring almost unknown without
the ballot. The tenants cause was lost.
Thus ruin, in it's own way az complete and
disastrous ss that which overlook the in
attempt of 1S49, now over
threw the experiment of great popular
based on constitutional and par
principles. Not only waA there
now no movement for nationality in Ire
land there was not an Irish movement of
any kind or for any Irish purpose at all,
great or little. 1t was PaoatG Hibernia as
in the days of Carew and ST. Leger.
Now came the turn for the unchanged
and exasperated section of the '48 war
party. Few in numbers and scattered
wide apart, they had hissel forth scorn and
execration on Dnffy's parliamentary expert
ment as a departure from the revolutionary
faith. If ha in 1910 anRware0 to their in