The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-10-27
THE PRESBYTERIAN TAKEN TO TASk
BY 4 PRESBYTERIdN.
CELT vs.. SAXON.

The following communication was sent to
the Southeastern Presbyterian for publication
AS that paper declined to publish it we cheer
fully give it place in our columns:
MATCHES MISS Oct. 10, 1873.
Editor Southwsster Presbyterian:
| R,rerend Sir-Wbile visiting @ friend to day
at bis residence l accidentally picked upa copy
of your valuable journal dated 10Th ult., and
| in Rlancing over it's columns my mind became
the caption Of "Rockets" So powerfully was
| impressed or rather surprised, not so much
| at the spirit and evident anmus of the article,
(the hatred of Cederick the Saxon for Patrick
the Cet) ms the place where found it, that
before could turn my fascinated gaze away
from the column, l read it over several times
| in order TO be certain that neither my eyes nor
understanding deceived me.
Now, Rev. Sir, you are o Presbyte
clergy man, and as your correspondent was born
and brought up in the strictest rules of that
other, hope you will pardon me for address
ing few plain and simple questions to you, to
which humbly beg you would condesoend to
etnrn as plain and simple answerss.
Is it fact that all, or nearly all, OF those
Catholic priests who voluntarily risked their
lives in order to minister to the physical and
spiritual wants of their people, during the
rsvages of the present epidemic, belonged to
the same race as he O'Flahertys, the O'F'lsna-
gans, the McMuligans, Ctc., or did You simply
intend, tTy making use of those names, to give
SlRulncance ana eX preston your dl6re1peCt
for What you esteemed a low and contemplate
system OF religion, by bestewfbg upon 10 for q
priesthood only such as you esteem q still
lower and more contemplate order of meni
Is it fact that these men have resigned
their lives aud lost them too, merely for the
ecat their pretended sell sacr flee would create
u the Protestant world
If it is q sound Presbyter dogma that no
prayers OF other holy Offices, heraded by per !
sons bearing such uncoutb, outlsndish and |
Ridiculous names as O'Flaherty, OFlauaEan
and McMulligan, can reasonably expect to be
tolerated TO approach the throne Of Grace W hat
might We ns devout Christians, b permitted to |
hope, did these same persons have the good |
taste to have written in their credentials as
Amb bassadors of Christ some more erphonious
Saxon names, such as Smith, PodEers or Mug
gins
Is It fact that SAINTS Bernard and PAtrious
wee such low ard contemplate fellows that
the n ost becoming thing tor modern evanGeli-
Gals tt do whenever they feel inclined to pro-
nouncn their names, is to pronounce nick
name coupled with q sneer
is 1T indeed q fact thBt the 'rne Pres by ter ian
of Ireland and the Lush is so low a.,
in their Judgment, to cover with contumely
and tIdicule even the nObest mission of man
on earth, prov ided a few Of sue children Of
that is and are found among it's ministersf
Is IL fnct tha: yOur pre- judiCes and hostility
to Catholicism haveso far blinded your under
stand DR as TO render yon incapable OF compre-
bending that an insult offered to the lrish ace
is as deeply felt and Eeenly resented by
Protestant as Catholic I or have you come to
the foolish conclusion that their religious pre-
udice and bigotry is 80 paramount as to blind
hem to taeir own share in the indignity in
heir stupid eXultation at contemplating the
yet greater indignity aimed at their Cht9olc
ellow- Co1ntrymen
Is it, or 10 it not, fact that the ancestors OF
he owners Of the absurd names of O'FlaheIty,
)FIansgan and NcMullisgan were among the
hlef Instructors Of your own ancestors for l
AXE it for granted you claim to be OF the
llustrious Anglo Saxon race) in their first
knowledge OF the light Of Christian ciVilIza-
ion
Is it fact, which the Venerable Bede testi
es t o, that his countrymen, the Anglo. Saxons.
ven in his day, focked to Ireland (tben
cotia) as to q fair, for education, and that the
euerous Scots not only furnished them all
With tuition gratis but also Supplied their 7
hysicAl necessities on the same easy term j
Is it q fact that some Of our OWE most highly ,
IT zed institutions which We borrowed from :
he English, were originally by them borrowed
rom this despised people
Is it fact that in the fierce and devastating
srs of uvasion and conquest, from the l2sh to
9Th century, these same Irish found the gen.
rosity of their ancestors rewarded in the tier
estructioD, by the English, of almost every r.
estige of their former civilization, laws, liter n
tore and arts, that lay in the psta OF the II
uthless foe who seemed as resoluteIy belt on "
he destruction OF all record OF the race es OF o.
be race itselff and tast ever since they nave Ct
Sbored diligently, and by far TOO successInliy' q
, substitute their own lies and slArders In y
lead r
Bat if is q proof of natural inferiority for o
people TO become, by conquest, the victims d
{ oppression, what can be said for the great "
nd trausceDdcnt Anglo Saxons themselves, Il
bo from the lO3h to the l3sh centuries, en- o.
ured, for crime or fault OF their own, a
ppree of depradAtio on utterly unknown TO the d
sh race as yet, degradation that reduced o
,em to the 10 depths of abso ute slavery, u
nd large portion Of them to almost level a
itb the VERY bessts Of tae field; causing the In
present Wanted home OF Anglo Saxon TO Of
ecome a thing of contempt and seorn 10 the ei
cry land Of their 6iTths denied the most In II