Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-04-05
The Malicious islanders of Sum RO-
 msnus CiviS Refuted.

2 notling. Their reasons" in the happl , language of Shakespeare, "are as twC
 grains of wheat hl6 in two bushels o chaff; you shall seek all day ere yor find them; and when you have them
 they are not worth the search" Just SO Had my distinguished but singulaIly
 cratic friend of the Roman nom de
 plume, once the proud boast of Roman
 freemen, now alas! prosiituted to sub-
 serve mephistiphilian purposes, only re-
 called the suggestive lines of the Bard
 of Avon just quoted he must have at
 once understood their import, and seen
 how easily they could be made seruceable
 in pointing out to the critical mind the
 weakness that distinguished his last
 Saturdays scurrilous and venomous at
 tack on the Irish character and the
 Catholic church.
 As ever has been the case with super
 ficial readers he writes of Irish and church affairs from the standpoints Of ignorance and partisan prejudice, and
 the former is as naturally the parent of the latter as English misrule n Ireland Is responsible for Irish dIsc0ntent and for the deep, the undying, the implaca- ble hatred of Irishmen for England.
 That ''Sum Romanus Ciyisr has not read deeply of Irish political history in late years, which Is the record of Eng lands crimes in Ireland, may be seen Tn what he alleges the Duke of Wellington did to aid Daniel OCouneH to win Catholic emancipation in the memorable period Of A. D. 1899. Nor in good truth has he read, If at all, uncOlored English hi-tory for the past three centuries with great deal of profit to his mentality, else the gentleman would, for the sake of his own reputation at least, if not for the sake of the people and things he islanders, exhibit dscenter regard for truth than 1 regret to write he did on the three occasions in which Ee under took to drown Ireland and the writer ID CITIZEN ink.
 Now let us inquire what the Iron Duke did for Ireland in exchange for his privileges of Irish birth. The only distinguishing service that he ever rem dered Ireland or OConnel consisted in. as Prime Minister of England at that time, impressing upon the stupid, intOl erant mInd of George the Third that be would have to choose between two dl- ternatiyes, namely, between granting the demand of O'Connell and his united eight million followers for Catholic emancipation or the alternative of hav- ing to face open rebellion. Hemmei in, as 1t were, between these two choices that half imbecile mamber of the sen suous and licentious HanOyarian hne managed to collect sense enOugn to choose the course that appeared to otfer least hindrance to the peaceful perpe- tuation of his rule in Ireland.
 But small as that service was, view ing 1t from the mountain top of the present day, 1t was big service III the period under consideration, and for that reason Catholic Ireland remembers il with gratitude, as no doubt will the future Irish historian.
 The next charge-a reiterated one Of the gentleman laboring under the R43alty of asi.iInReFsl of Asi---.'N .Nilis5 | an Oli and sianderous one, auI E ' IS doubtful whether any other man than ! himself would think of cxhuming is from amidst the dust Ut nearly e'ght | centuries and the accumulated con | demaations of impartial history and ! painstakIng scholars. But as drown ! ing man will grasp at straw borne on 1 the current, so it IS but natural that the man smarting unCer the memory of former failure to belittle character should make another effort to vent his malevolence in reiterated Justification.
 The writer once before in January last l refuted his assertion regarding Adrian the FouTth's Bull cedIng Ireland to Henry the Second Of England; the as- sertion Is q malicious one unsupported by history, and were 1t not for the knCw- ledge that the American general public Is an omniyerOusly reading pubic and the general newspaper reader Q super ficial reader, and therefore much more liable to be influenced by reckless news paper statements than ls the naa whose reading IS of a less delusIve and more substantial character, ] should not now again set the stamp of historical COZ demuation upon it. No veil informed man III this age outside the walls of @ lunatic asylum pays any attention Co Fle IHDEltal OA ANf-A NALAtAo NtAAAADl AaATr n Welsh semi-eeclesiHsticai writer of the twelfth century, then on the pay roll or Engiand's King, just the same as David Hume was when he wrote his ly;ng history, and as are MT. FrOUde and Prof. Goldwin Smith, and as are ell other Engli-h writers who blacken Irish character on the secret pay roll of Eng lands government at the present day.
 osEs.vraI history afIirms that in A. D. 1ljS-9 Henry the Second, having cast a longing, thIevlng eve. just as his successors of the pres ent long to annex (steaD to their posses sions the land of the Pharaohs, on Ire | land. ho hurriedly, after the manner of Iago. made up his quarrel with Louis the Seventh, of France, whom he pro posed making a tool of Co ald him in | further1ng bis piratical schemes against | the peace, harmony and prosperity of | that country. To subserye his pur- | noses in Rome he feigned great, newly awakened friendship for Louis, whom | he knew stood higher in the estimation | of his own conntryman, Adrian the | Fourth. than he did hImselE Presum- | ing upon this friendship he easily ln- | duced the French king to allow kotro-
 dus, an Englshman, then Bishop Of Ev-
 ereux. in France, to act as his ambassa-
 dor to the Pope, who, as is known, was also an Euglishman.
 When Rotrodus reached Rome he re-
 vealed his mission to Adrian, who at once to bis enduring honor, Euglishman
 though he was, smpha;iesl'y refused Co listen to He1ry's proposals regarding
 his designs on Ireland, and gave gn au- tograph letter to Bishop ROtrOdus con-
 vev1ng to his master the assurance that
 he could not favor his designs; and the copy of that letter of so much value to Irishmen and Adrian's blackened mem
 oly, 1t was reserved for an eminent Prot
 estant scholar of the nineteenth cen
 tury, resident in Dublin, to discover m the manuscript department of the Natl- can library and publish in the original. , This. If other evidence were wanted, clears Adrian's memory from the stain cast upon 1t by writers such as Sum Romanus Civis, and if the latter IS si all curious to read it in the vernaculaI of the Latin race 1 shall be happy to
 instruct him where to find 1t.
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