Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1883-12-12

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dreds Of factories and steam chimnevs
with their dense smoke rolling III
| towards heaven. But we will nov
leave Belfast on the Dublin road an(
after passing by comfortable farm
houses neat as industry can make them
pleasant fields glowing with a rici
verdure known only to the Emerald
Isle with their hawthorn hedges trim
med in fantastic shapes "a few mile,
Drlng us to Lisburn great manufac
turing town with its thousands of spin.
dies and looms engaged in that great
industry of Ireland, linen manufacture
A few miles further of beautiful scenery
happy homes and garden farms TEEN.
ing with golden grain, we come tc
Lurgan with its massive mills and
thousands of happy homes made happy
because of industry and intelligence
On few miles farther we reach Bess.
brook, the model town of the world
containing some five or six thousand
inhabitants, yet never had a whisky OF
beer saloon within its boundary, and
as consequence never had a police
man or any need of one. Here are
situated the large mills of the Messrs
Richardson's the world renowned linen
manufacturers. About five miles far.
ther brings us to Glenann mills where
some hundreds of hands are employed
we are now in the county of Armagh
about thirty miles from Belfast.
nave shown you but Il small sample OF
the manufactures with which the north
is studded, but enough to show YOU
that there are manufactures in Ireland
ana these manufacturers brand" their
goods in their own name too. and in
the name of their country as any mer-
chant OF Smyrna can tell you how their
linens sand handkerchiefsa are branded y
But l told you above that we were
in the county Of Armagh, SO we will
visit the city of that name as we have
some business there. This is one of
the most beautiful cities in the world
here stands in all its primitive glory
one of the oldest cathedrals in exist
ence, said to have been built by st. Pat
rick. 1t stands upon an eminence sur
rounded by the city and every noon the
Volumnious tones of its great organ roll
out in majestic music above the din and
hum of the busy multitude, entering
alike the dwellings of the rich and the
poor. Here, nearly three hundred and
fifty years ago, was sounded the kew
note of Ireland's misery to-day, when
Henry VIII threw off his allegiance to
the Roman See and embraced the
Protestant religion. In Ireland he was
opposed by CrOmer, Archbishop of Ar
magh. on the ground that the Pope
only could give the right to govern
ireland, and on down through the
vista of all those years we see two par
ties contending for supremacy in the
" Isle of Saints" The Pope of Rome
and the English Government. AS the
Record has told you a little about the
planting" of Ulster and the chief
tains being sent to Connaught or
hell " and as he has perverted the main
facts, L will relate some Irish history to
show the character of the people with
which the English Government has
had to deal, and why it is that all Ire
land is not under the same laws. In
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, several
OF the chieftains of Ulster had to flee
the country on account of their rebel
hon-Shane O'Neill being killed-by
which large tracts of country were for
teited to the Crown. In the beginning
OF the reign of James I, these chief
tains were all reinstated, free and re-
llglous liberty granted to all alike and
ireland placed under the same laws
and privileges which England enioyed
under that wise and noble sovereign of
happy memory" But the inhabi-
tants of Ireland then thought, as they
nave ever since, that they cannot have
their liberty without rising and MUIR
derlng all their Protestant neighbors
and because the Lord Deputy put
stop to these instructions, the priests
stirred up and inhamed the people
against the Government until James
mad to order them to leave the King
dom or conform to the law" neither of
which they did, as in a short time after
wards the Gunpowder Plot was con-
cocted, by which they wanted to blow
up the House of Lords, the King and
all his ministers, the discovery of which
caused the flight of the conspirators
Tyrone, Tyrconnell and O'Dohertv.
their lands being then confiscated.
which added over half million acres
to the Crown. These lands James
planted with Protestants from Eng
land and Scotland, as he said: with
the combined view of rendering the
lands more profitable and establishing
the peace and prosperity of that part
OF the island hitherto the most turbu-
lent" This rebellion was also the
means of leading James to inflict Sc
we're laws upon the rebellious Catholics
for time, but as soon as the chains
were removed, the old rebellious spirit
again burst out. In the reign of
Charles !, history says: 1.-THE Roman
Catholics enjoyed full federation and
shared with the Protestants the titles
conferred on the peers of Ireland by
James and Charles, while their gentry
were members of Parliament, Judges.
magistrates and sheriffs. Their clergy
were unmolested in their religious rites
and their other ecclesiastical functions.
and new era of national improve
ment and civilization appeared to be
opening on the country"
But, ah how short-lived that era
was. Little did those Protestants of
Ulster think on that 23rd of October.
while congratulating themselves on
the prospect before them of free and
religious liberty; that before the cycles
of another year would roll around that