Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-14

IOnS 10 Fnltu tulS liA-iaNtu Country was
doomed during the reign of sixteen English
princes that it, inhabitants were reduced not
unfrequanuy to feed upon grass, leaves, and
even. hideous nourishment, be Indignantly
and Mortified exclaims, upon the flesh of
Of their fellow creatures To-day the
Chinese are doing the same and the
christian world Is shocked. But
the church has grown in grace since the mid
die ages. Henry VIII, prompted to reforma-
hon in religion, bur not in morals, declared
the Church of England the church of God by
law. He disowaej the pope, repudiated his
authority, unmindful of the fact that he held
Ireland by virtue Of that authority. and he
required all Irishmen to repudiate the church
which had been forced upon them four hun
dred years before and accept the Reformed,
become Anglicans in faith as they were
English subjects by law. They
refused. They were Roman Cath
olics from choice, and would remain so. Thus
religion was brought IN to increase the hate
and fury of a war that had continued four
hundred years. Most Of the English colo
nists ccnformtd. Professionalism therefore be-
came to the nat We Irish the evidence of
English domination. This religious war knew
no cessation. Il was continued during the reign
of Edward VI and Mary, his sister, and was
renewed with vigor 10y Elizabeth, who re-
solved to effect the reformation in religion,
even to the determination of the peo-
pie of Ireland and the repeopling of it by
English and Scotch Protestants. The chiel-
tains. already in the field, determined to pre-
vent the carrying into effect of so sangulnary
measure They resisted bravely, and received
such accessions Of numbers as showed the
red headed virgin that she had made mis-
take. There was q lula few weeks of
peace. But it was as the calm that precedes
the storm. Twenty thousand freshly ac-
conferred men-at-ayms under Essex renewed
the struggle. The country was devastated so
that 1t would not support its inhabitants, and
the putrid exhaations from unburied carcass
ses brought on pestilence which threatened
to do what Elizabeth attempted by the sword
-annihiate the Irish. With the death of
Elizabeth there was not peace, but truce.
The Stewards, weak, impolitic and per6dious,
assembled the throne. The first Of them,
James l, colonlzed Ulster after a well-ma-
tured military plan, and thus fresh fuel was
added to the already great occasion for Irish
disafection. The f-=t national parliament
was assembled in his reign. 1t opened very
pandoras box of religious hate. The Catho-
lies objected to some Irregularities in the
election of Protestant members, and re-
fused to take the oath OF supremacy. An
D - A L. - h.,
exhorted them to suffer death rather than
take that oath They suffered that penalty
in all sorts of forbidden forms. A rebellion
broke out in Ulster, which de-
Perforated into series of neigh
borhood fights, in which Dameless
atrocities were committed on both sides, such
as filing houses with women and children
and setting fire to them, putting women en-
ceinte to exquisite tortures, impaling children,
and so on; and this continued hot and heavy,
only now and then Interrupted by breathing
spells, until William III finished what his
predecessors, including the brutal and ruth
less man.of God and man of-war Cromwell
had in vain essayed. He received the submits
sion Of all Ireland. He was conqueror.
Three thousand nine hundred and seventy
eight persons were outlawed, and their pos
sessions were con6scated. thus completing the
forfeiture of the whole island for the third time
William, by the treaty Of Limerick, bound
| himself TO secure the Irish Catholics in GER
| tain rights guaranteed to them by Charles IL
| He utterly failed to do so. On the contrary,
| ne increased their burdens, and added to
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completed and enforced the penal laws; and
he gave his sanction to acts for the
destruction of the industries and trade
of the country. The export of beef cattle
was prohibited, and the export of anything
from Ireland to America or from America to
Ireland was prohibited without first unload
ing in England or Wales. All trade to
Asia was prohibited, and an absolute prohibi-
ton was laid on the expectation of Irish wool.
The industries of the people were thus ruth
| lessly destroyed by law. Driven to idleness
and to consequent poverty, they were cursed
| for their laziness. 1t was made penal otfense
| to open schools, and they were held up tc
derision for their ignorance. The penal laws
were rigidly. nay, brutally enforced, and al
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assured, it was only for a few months al
most. Discomfort was chronic. The battle
| of the Boyne, celebrated by the Protestant
/ maaters, to whom it secured -ascendancy II
| all affairs Of state, was reminder to the
| Catholics of the violated pledge of William
! and of the most wicked system of oppression
ever devised by man. 1t was to them the
! &c Of Nv
divine right. In Ulster, in 1898, where fo
the six years preceding few leading Prot
estants had been preparing for it, the grea
! rebellion broke out, which was followed b,
an expiring effort II 1903, and later that 0
1848, and subsequently, in our own time
10y the Fenian raiders, iGlpotent though
/ loyal and Jealous attempts to right tn
wrongs of Ireland, wrongs many of whicl
remain to this day and will remain until Ire
land Is at least legislated for by Irishmen, a
Canada by the Canadians and AustralI
by the Australians. Thus by a series of war
and religious turmoils, connections anC
brolls since 1890, when Protestant ascendan
cy was fixed bylaw, the Irish difficulty ha
been Pespatuated to this day, SO that the zeal
GUS Orangeman whc commentaries the bat
tie of the Boyne ipsultingiy commemorate
the enslavement of his fellow countrymen
commentaries more than seven hun
dreI years OF unparalleled suffering
commentaries the enactment and en-
forcement Of the penal laws, of which
Lecky, the Irish historian, himself d Prot
! estant, says: at is Impossible for any Irisl
{ Protestant, whose mind is not wholly per
v,Yt-d Is religious bigotry, to look baci
y. thout shaale aa2 indignation to the pena
eide" Burke, also = Protestant, said o
them, that they were "a machine o, Ell ant
elaborate continuance, and as well fitted 70
! the oppression, Impeachment and degra
d .don of a people, and the debasement il
/ them Of human nature itself, as eyer pro
ceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
/ No wonder the Irish Catholics of Canad.
cannot see, without their blood boiling
/ those vindietIve measures commemorated
/ No wonder they cannot view IN peact
what recalls their own and the degradation
/ of their forsfathers. And yer, in free coun
/ try like ours, the preiudices of Irish Catholic
have been conquered, and they regard with in
difference or contempt the displays OF tht
/ bigots in whose hearts hate holds the place o
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