The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-01


cd to act as o temporary Committee to receive
| subscriptions, until more definite steps can be
taken:
Col. james Cavanagh, 69th Regiment.
Lieut. James OConnor, do.
Patrick Ford, Irish World
Dennis O'sullivan.
VIM. j. Davis.
Cbas. J. Qaipu.
Thomss Mccormack.
John D. Carroll.
IN NEW YORK.
John Dsvoy.
Thomas F. B ourke
Thomas Clarke Laby.
Laurence G, Gouldiog.
Martin NJ. Hanley.
Joseph D. Malone,
All subscriptions viii be acknowledged in
the Irish american, Irish World Boston Pilot,
Irish Democrat, and the Irish papers. Until
further notice. money orders may be made
payable to john D. Carroll, Temporary
Treasurer, 3o9 Falt IN street, Brooklyn L I.
On behalf of the meeting
WILLIAM j. DAVIS.
CHAs J. QUINN.
1t is a natural consequence of the posi-
tion of our unhappy country-a plundered,
gle for independence for centuries against
q rich and powerful foe-that those who
cast their fortunes into the scale on the
side of the Irish cause.-the losing side
do not merely risk, but rather invite the
ruin that has overwhelmed all who have
identified themselves prominently with
every effort to raise our people from the
condition of servitude in which England
persistanty holds them. Twenty years
agO-apd we ask our readers to cast their
thoughts back that distance of time in the
present connection-Jeremiah O'Donovan
(Rosse) was O prosperous trader in the
south of Ireland, carrying on q business
hot fhraa fn rviu aHr
His commercial standing was good his
credit was excellent he was looked upon,
in the community in which he lived, as q
"rising man." In word, be had on his
side all the elements of what we here call
'"success:" and he would have succeeded
had he lived in country not governed by
alien force, and for the benefit of any bat
its own people. Against that system.
under which he saw his country ground
down, his epirit revolted, and he became,
what every true Irishman who has the use
of reason ought to be, "rebel" against
the rule that was attempting to assassinate
his people-morally and physically. 1t is
scarcely worth while to burden our col
umus with the rest of the story. Eugland
played her usual game (of tvhich sce fear,
our people are eren get unarare). She sent
her spies Tito the lrish camp, as in the old
times ard our too Trusting people were
sold and betrayed. Jeremiah ODouovan
(Rossa) WAS one of the first to be arrested
No sooner was be IN prison than his cred
itors were urged to close on him his stores
were shut up, his goods were eeized and
sold for less than tithe of their value
and he, helpless, "tEeason- felony" sus-
pect could not lift hand to protect him
self. There are men alive to-day in
America who rememb Der bow they cub
scribed to the "Patriotic Defense Fond"
that was then collected here to sustain
ODonovan R ossa and his fellow sufferers
in 1859. The trials of that day came off,
Daniel O'Sullivan (Agreem) now also an
was tried, and (of course) found equity" of
being an Irish patriot. His was the test
case, and it was seen that it was hopeless
to fight the battle in the courts, with the
certainty of q carefully packed jury, war
ranted to "ind for the Crown" on every
issue. The Government lawyers had the
advantage and they pushed it. The pro-
position was made to the prisoners that if
they would submit, and acknowledge
Judgment against them, not only would
they be let out on giving bail to appear if
called on, but the convicted members of
the "Pf~ Xix Society" would also be liber
ated. On consultation with their counsel,
and with the friends of the National cause,
they accepted those terms, and, among
others, ODonovan Rossa regained the
comparative freedom of "ticket of-feave
man." That the additional risks he ran
did not check his patriotic srdor, the histo-
ry of the Irish movement tells. Whether
here in America, or back again in Ireland,
under the surveillance of the Castle spies,
ODonovan Rossa never finched from the
fate which he knew was before him if the |
movement in which he was engaged should
fail He was already a condemned man
and all the enemy had to do was to call |
him up for sentence whenever he put him |
self in their power. In the face of all this |
he worked in the National ranks, and
worked faithfully and regardless of self, |
until the clutch of the enemy closed on |
him, and he was flung into prison TO be |
tortured and harried until even his iron |
frame and constitution gave way, and he |
was sent forth the wreck of humanity that |
leaves him to day the inmate of one of
those benefcent institutions that the re-
ligious Orders of the Catholic Church have |
raised throughout the land-the redeeming |
affairs upon which the selishness and cold |
ness of the world is, at least, in part |
atoned for. Aud here comes in our
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