The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-04-07


they may WELD the weapons the more power
fully, and your nerves that they may be the
more steady in carrying out the revenge which
as people you have jpst right to wreae s,s,Sl on
memories of the past seven hundred years will
rise up before you, and the martyred dead
! and the starved population OF lreland VIII CRY
cut avenge US, our descendants, and blot out
forever the nation that has SO outraged faith
and nationality
rRBHMEN, you HAVE no NECESSITY TO JoIN
SECRET soCIETIEs-
they are reprobsted by the Church, and never
brought anything but evil wherever they ex'
isted. Keep ont Of them, and il you had the
misfortune of entering thom, cut loose from
them, in Gods name. "a nation" Gays Saint
Augustin, "has no soul :" then it must be re.
wsrded or punished here according to lis
deserts.
What q terrible reckoning England will have
to give after seven hundred years of cruelty
to poor, noble, evsr-faithfnl ireland From
Henry VIII.-from the twelfth to the sixteenth
centnry-Catholic England songht to rob Us OF
our nationality, and for this purpose belied us
before the world, and by her lying actually
She made laws by which all the people of Ire
land, except fine families, were to be regarded
as mere animals, 80 that no Irishman, outside
of these families could become o religious or
enjoy the rights Of o man. From the days
of Henry VIII, or from the sixteenth century,
down to the present time, England has endea-
vored to destroy Dot only our nationality but
our religion. She has sncceeded no better than
her Catholic spcestors in this double purpose
of hers Great God, my very soul sickens at
the sight of tbs torturss, trials, persecut'one'
and all manner OF grievances Inflicted upon
my noble motGer-frelsud. Prescription of
learning in the whole island, banishment Of
the learned from their sanctuaries, the murder
or exile of priests. the starvation of the peo.
pie, the gibbet, the halter. the rack, tn jsil,
the horrible penal code, in a word. every tni q &
that the united efforts of earth aud hell could
make use Of, TO exterminate Us 3 people, and to
destroy our holy religion to which we olung SO
the establiahment OF her religion, but enou gh
has been shed in Ireland eipoe she was forced
by villainy to union with cursed England to
merit for her the title of i Island of Martyrs"
We would be the most craven, bringing race,
unworthy of the name of men, Ii. when God
gives us the chance to throw off the shackles
that England has placed upon US, we do not
do it. How long, o God. how long must we
back,
PREPARE, IT WILL BE SOON,
and 1 will be with you, your oanse is Just, it is
mine too. Soberly, orderly, prudently, do your
duty for your country, it is an act Of religion
to labor for the good Of your country, to res
Que her from hellish chains and laws. viii
any man stand by and see his mother butcher
ed or his sister ravished, when he can prevent
these foul deeds y Cursed, indeed, would be
the wretch that would idly look on when be
could prevent such unholy actionst Ireland
is more to us than mother or sister. Catholic
theology teaches that We must sacrifce our
selves and our ell but religion for the we'll
being of our country, if necessary. The
Church does not forbid MS to labor, to struggle
for liberty, but consecrates the aspiration, and
blesses the legitimate means that will lead to
auch an end. Certainly the Church must ever
condemn foolish mad cap, imprudent move
ments that will inevitably bring destruction
on the people, and do no good. Ireland is
worthy Of all our love and of all the trials We
On
barbRrops England has been trying To wipe
her out as q nation, but che has failed! The
Irish nationality 10 as marked, is as noble, is
as purely Celtic to-day as when Brian Boru
governed our glorious country. There is no
similarity in any way between Ireland and
England, there is no love between them, there
is no congeniality of feeling. there 10 no bond
of union. England holds Us chained, bound to
her By force, and you are we'll aware that
brute force alone keeps Us fettered. Away
down deep in the heart of every Irish man,
woman and child is o yearning for Q divorce,
an everlasting separation from that Goddess
nation, and that thirst for emancipation from
British shack1es. makes every nerve and sinew
dance with delight whenever we hear that
England is in difficulty, for "Englands diff
Guilty will be our cnance" 1cishmen, there are
TWO NOBLE ENDS IN VIEW IN CELEBRATING ST.
PATRICK's DAY.
The fret 10 to thank God for the faith he gave
MS through st. Patrick, and which we, blessed
be God have never lost; the second is to re-
and for the nationality which could never be
taken from Us. The day that Irishmen will
cease to celebrate st. Patricks day, which is
so fraught with noble ories, becoming gly,
will see Itish faith and patriotism on the waue.
May heaven avert such o calamity. Then,
IRIsuMEN, GATHER YOUR CHILDREN AROUND
YOU,
collect your neighbors and tell them of the
past glories of the ocean island both when she
was pagan and when she was q Christisn Gov
ernment. Tell them how for ages in our pagan
days we were D peaoeable, happy people, with
o civilization far superior to that of Greece or
Rome, that we were free from the barbarOus
practices of idolatry that were found else
where, that we were q most enlightened no
tion, that no nation has preserved it's history
80 completely, 80 accurately as ireland, from
the fact that from the very beginning sbe had
soribes and recorders of the deeds of every
family, every clan, every province, and of the
whole nation. Tell them that our kings were
selected because they were the best mon of the
Clans and the noblest of the noble, and that
if there was defect in mind or body, the one
ha-iug such defect could not be king in Ire
land tell them that the Irish were never
slaves, and that they always had the daring