The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-03-18
nsraing Star and CathoIIe Messenger.
nc RlEE ON THE NATION
Al MOTEMENEs
Sr. JARLATn's, TUAM, FEB.

ST. JARLATHG, TUAM, FEB. II.
no shs Editor Of the Dublin Freeman.
Nosy Eiy.-On o fair principle, recogni
szea by all, however differently interpreted
% practice, shat the laborer 10 worthy of
his hire,n beg TO send you the accompany
Jog contribution towards sustaining Mr..
Butt In promoting the national canee TO
which he 10 devotins bic valuable services.
And as an incentive Ia encourage such ex-
egeione, never, ia our recent history, was
Ghege, think, a crisis in which the exer-
zion she is capable of making more likely
20 be crowned with success. My reason
Cor being rot responding in my anticipa-
<ions 10 the fact OF men being more in ear
nest, aud therefore more TO be relied on
chan on of some OF those past occasions, so
humiliating to- the cbaracters of some of
oar parliamentary representatives, aud SO
disastrous to the interests of our country.
The policy ut present pursued by our Irish
snembere, 80 different from that venal and
ereacherous conduct displayed by some of
their predccessOrs.-has won the confidence
and reassurtd the courage of our people.
Aud there 10 no doubt that in the balanced
atate Of English Parliamentary parties the
fidelisy Of o comparatively few In number
win secure an accession Of strength which
greater numbers In less propitious circum-
stances would fail to realize.
In eli the great c0pteste consecrated by
profane, 40 we'll as sacred history which
may spring mp to the recollection Of the
reader, he will fnd public success more be-
holden 70 the disinterested patriotism of
individual men than sometimes to the hosts
which embarrass each other and, whilst
numerous armes, even in comparatively re-
eeut times, were rendered Powerless by the
cnpidity and rreachery of their leaders, the
heroic deeds of the men Of the Tyrol and
Switzerland will not be forgotten. The
examples of Gideon and his companions,
T. ali IN kcb a hoa oh
of water, is not lost on the young men of
the present day, however degenerate may
be the times. And Ecgland as well as
Ireland can mum Der many whom no amount
of bribery can purchase from pursuing the
honest and creditable line OF policy pro-
snised by themselves aud expected by their
constituents. If public prOhigacy be &C.
ductive, virtue is not less endned with the
power of creating imitators. And if there
be not q great delusion in the present
times, there is apbalanx of upright and
honest men In Parliament, whom all the
corruption of Walpole, scattering broad.
cast the taxes wruug from the suffering
Glasses, could scarcely infect with his own
prchigate example.
These are the reasons why at the outset
>Of these observations remarked that the
present appeared to be o propitious time
for sustaining Mr.. Butt and the policy of
Nome Rule TO which he has pledged bis en-
etgie8-not o cham Home Rule, but real,
genuine Home Rule, in the restoration of
native Parliament, consisting of men know
ing Ireland and interested In promoting
che happiness Of the land of which they are
doyoetd children. Epglishmen love their
native land-they are jealons of its fame,
and labor for it's prosperity-anda as far AZ
they acqnit themselves honestly of their
duty towards it, mono are more ready than
this present writer to second their feelings
nd md hAtN akrfn Rat lat
there be equal weights and measures, and
whilst We grudge not to England it's Par
aiament, with its freedom aud lite prosper
ity. shall never resign the right or hope
of the restoration of our own Ireland's
native Parliament, yet fresh in my reeol-
lection, as in that of the country, which,
Emidst all the penal laws-its sad contem-
pOrary companions-possesse all the ex
1saordinary virtue of charming those very
penal laws ont of half of their political vir-
-nlence. Your faithful servant,
JOHN Archbishop Of Tuam.