The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-04


that covered a hill, LOTUS invested
the hill, set fire to the furze on all
sides when the men, women and
children were burned, and those
trying to escape killed. The soldiers,
spreading themselves all over the
country, IN their line burned every
cabin and cornfield in their way.
Famine was again employed in the
cause of determination. One of the
items furnished by Sir VIM. Cole.
as a service performed by his troops
reads thus: Starved and famished
of the vulgar sort over seven thous-
and" Now came the penal laws.
The possession of arms by the Irish
made them liable to Imprisonment,
whipping and the pillOry, If the
profit of a farmer exceeded one-third
of his rent, a corresponding increase
of rent was saddled upon him. If he
failed to reveal the results of his
skill and Industry, his farm stock
and crop passed to the first Pro
teStant who made the discovery.
Any marriage between Catholic
and Protestant by Catholic priest
was declared null and the officiating
priest hung. No Catholic could be
guardian of child, and the dying
Catholic parent knew that his child
rem must pass under the control of
Protestants whose first duty was to
bring them up in the Protestant
creed. All Catholic bishops and
other high officials Of the church
were ordered to leave the country,
and if they returned secretly they
were pronounced guilty of high
treason and liable to be hung, dis
embowled and quartered. Any per-
son affordIng shelter or protection
to a dignitary of the Catholic
church was to suffer death. at was
q complete system, full Of conference
and consistency" says Burke" well
digested and well composed in all its
parts. 1t was a machine of wise
and elaborate contriVance, and as
well fitted for the oppression, i'm
poverishment and degradation Of
people, and the debasement in them
of human nature itself, as ever pro-
ceeded from the perverted ingenuity
of man," (Anglice). But what was
Burke compared with the Saxon
Tara, who confesses himself
to be in hot water But for
the Irish to look lovingly
upon himself and countrymen,
upon men imbued with such bar
barous, inhuman and fiendiSh i'm
pulses, as we'll expect them to look
lovingly and cOntentedly upon the
very powers of hell itself. The
British ruling powers seem to have
a strong affinity for hades, and my
wish is that hot water will con-
tinue to surround them until they
are compelled to mend their ways,
and battle in the. glory of enligh-
tened Christian civilization. The
penal laws remained in force until
very lately. The laws OF England
had to be torn away one by one.
Too long our Irish hearts We sehooled
IN patient hope to bide,
By dreams of Engli-h justice fooled
And English tongues that lied,
That hour of weak delusion's passed,
That empty dream has flown,
Our hope, cur strength we find st last
Is in ourselves alone.
Ave oitr hate, or cold neglect,
o lukeWarm love at best.
l, nll we've found, or can expect
We aliens q: the west.
No friend beyond our own green shores
Can Erin truly own,
Yet stronger is the honest trust
In her brave sons alone.
R4mem Der when our Let Was worse,
Su K, trampled in the dI-t.
'Twa- long cur wesgness and our curse
IN stranger aid TO trust
And if, a: leogth we proudly ,rOd
On biRot-laWs DER ia own,-
Who won the struggle?-uuder God
Ourselves, ourselves alone.
From the reign OF James the Sec
ond down through that Of the first
two Georges (whO couldn't speak q
word of English, but whom English
men imported to rule them. not be-
ing able to find anybody sufficiently
divine" at homeD the support Of the
ROYAL miStresseS and their bastard
children, with high titles Of ranH,
was saddled upon the Irish, About
this time (l700) Ireland was robbed
Of her WOODEN manufactures because
they interfered with those Of Eng
land, and was forbidden to sell her
wool to any ovher country except
England, whilst the Irish were COM
pelled to buy the manufactured
goods of England at about ten times
the price which they received for
their wool. A considerable trade
between Ireland ana the New Eng
land colonies had arisen; another
act of Parliament absolutely eXtin-
guished their trade. All exports
from Ireland must be shipped to
England and re-shipped in English
bottoms. Ireland was forbidden to
own sea-going ships, and restricted
to her coast trade. An attempt was
made by the Irish Parliament to
suspend the manufacture of Whis-
KEY, as its use was demOraliZing the
people. England interfered as it
would involve a loss to the English
excise. About the middle Of the
18th century the dissenterS of the
north were driven into alliance with
the Roman Catholics. England, at
this time, was involved in wars with
Spain, France and Holland. British
arms were meeting with defeat after
defeat, and to complicate matters
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