The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1880-09-24
FIRST EDITION.
The Il. q. ID. u.


The session of the Irish Catholic
Beneficial Union re reissemDled at the
Grand Opera House at Q 80 O'Clock,
yesterday afternoon. Rev. Father J.
B. Brouillet, President of the Catholic
Indian Mission Association, was intro
duced and took seat upon the stage.
A resolution was offered making GER
tain recommendation in reference to
the association of which the Rev. Fa-
thsr is President. Referred to the
Committee on Resolutions.
The Auditing Committee reported
the accounts of the Colonization Com
mittee examined, and the receipts
found to have been $25, and the expen-
ditures $23.
The Rev. John G. f. Fanuing, chair
man of the Committee on Amend
ments to the constitutions, reported
adversely on the following amendment
presented at the last session:
Sec. 1, Art. 2.-The annual conven-
tion of this Union shall be held at such
| time and place as the respective Bxec-
| uiive Committees or conventions of the
l. G. B. U. and G. r. G. o. Verein
may mutually determine.
A long discussion followed on this
question, and after a variety of mo-
tions had been disposed Of in various
ways a motion was passed postponing
| the discussion of the amendment until
the report of the special committee
appointed to confer with the German
Central Verein should be received
| The chairman of that committee, the
Rev. Father Henry, Immediately re-
ported, saying that his committee had
attended the last meeting of the Verein
and that a suggestion that the socie-
ties draw more closely together had
| been enthusiastically received.
The question of the report of the
committee then came up, and after
further discussion, Mr.. McFadden's
amendment, that it is inexpedient now
to urge the question embodied in the
| proposed constitutional amendment,
was carried. and the report, as amend
ed, was adopted.
The following preamble resolutions
| were reported by the committee, and
| adopted, after the word "revived' had
been substituted for the words "raked
up"
WHEREAS, An unjust and unholy
| persecution has been inaugurated
against the members of the Society Of
Jesus and other religious institutions
in France, thus affecting the whole
Catholic world; therefore be it
Res0lUed, 1. That we desire to eX-
press our deep sympathy with the Je-
suits of France in the persecution un-
der which they are now struggling,
and to protest in the name of religion
and justice against the great wrong
done to those faithful servants of the
| Church in raking up against them an
edict obsolete for over 200 years, thus
depriving the Catholics of France of
/ the Invaluable services of the holy and
gifted sons of St. Loyala.
Q. That we also desire to express our
sympathy with the other religious or
ders of France, which are threatened
with similar persecution at the hands
of the present French Government, and
to deprecate the action on its part
which is seeking to deprive the Cath
olics of France of the inestimable adj
vantages which the presenc of these
orders confer, and, at the same time,
by an unrighteous persecution, to rend
many homes by depriving them OF pos
session of property which they hold by
every right and title.
The committee also report the fol-
lowing, offered by Rev. VIM. Walch,
which were unanimously adopted:
In the name of the Irish Catholic race
in America, we tender to the fellow citi-
zens of this great Republic our heartfelt
thanks for the noble generosity displayed
by them, when they heard the vail OF
famine in Ireland.
| (2.) That we condemn and hold up in
the execratlon OF the civilized world, the
misgovernment which causes periodical
famine in Ireland.
| (3.) That we protest, as our Irish fore
fathers before us did protest, against the
| right OF England to hold ireland under
| subjection and make law for her.
| a. That landlordism IN Ireland was
| founded on spoliation and robbery, and
| that the titles to their holdings of Irish
| landlords Gas a CLASSY are based on such
| spoliation and robbery.
| (5A That in the name of the societies
| we represent, we hail the efforts of the
| Irish people at home and abroad to discs
tablish Irish landlordism, and regain
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their national rights.
| (6.) That In lending assistance to
those efforts we would urge upon our
Irish fellow-counlrymen and all sym
pathizers of true Irish nationality to al
ways bear in mind that Irish and Catho-
lie faith and tatherland are inseparable.
The following offered by Rev. Mr..
Walch, were also offered to the Conven-
| ton:
Resolued, That the law which forces
the Catholics of this United States to sup
port system Ofpublic educatlon-educa-
| lion from which God and religion are
exeluded--is ode that should be abolish
ed as opposed to the rights OF the Catho-
lie conscience.
(2) That we call upon the individual
societies composing this Union to,agitate
| this question, and urge he ore Congress,
| by petition and every other means in
their power, the justice of the Catholic
demand for educ alton for Catholic chill
dren in accordance with the rights of
| Catholic conscience.
Several delegates were instantly upon
their feet to move that the first resolu-
| ton be stricken out. As substitute
motion was made to lay this resolution
on the table, which prevailed by vote
of 63 to 81. The second resolution was
then adopted.
Delegate John J. Noland offered the
| following:
Resolued That the President or Exeeu-
| live Committee be instructed to write to
| tba Honorable Secretary of the Interior,