Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-22

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religious liberty. And these the peo-
pie You claim gave an enthusiastic
and hearty welcome to the Prince of
Wales. Oh, Mr.. Irwin, do not will
fully misrepresent an oppressed and
long-suffering people. Tell US that
the verdure and foliage of the earth
is crimson and We will try to think we
have been and suffering from an opti-
cal delusion, but none will believe
that the descendants of those Catho-
lie mothers of whom it is chronicled
thew were found dead with their little
children clinging to them after attempt
ing to eat grass in the fields. and after
those two terrible epochs, the famiccs
of I741 and 1913, We are told that
grass commenced growing in the cities
of the north and wolves howled in the
streets of rk-descendants of those
whose faith was prescribed, whose
shrines were pillaged, whose churches
were desecrated, whose affairs were
overturned, would rise to hail the
polluted Sassenach who represented
the government that had broken to
them every plighted faith, violated
alike ovths and treaties, banished her
children all over the earth, murdered
her people even to such butcheries as
the siege Of Drogheda and the 900 de-
fcnseless women with their children
clingiGg to them while praying
round the foot of the cross in the
town of Wexford. Let those will turn
for reference of these and similar bar
barous butcl cries by the English, to
"Lingard's .ngland, vol. LII, page
276, and :. romwel's Speeches and
Letters" by carlyle, vol. Ii, page 21s.
History rev, as 10 other such scenes
except the ! ,bylonian captivity. The
whole pow of the British empire
has been us, for 700 years to blot Ou,
the religion Of Ireland. The whole
power of England has been used for
700 years to destroy Irish nationality.
With a barbarism worse than the bar
barous Atilla ever used, England has
again and again swept the green isle
with bosom of destruction. Three
times within the last 800 years has the
whole island been conliscated, that is 10
saw, that all its land has three times
within that period been taken by
force from its rightful and native
Catholic owners.
That Ulster which is an undoubted
Orange province gave the Prince of
Wales rousing reception is undeni-
able. That he had rctinue of paid
hirelings and fawning royalists TO
surround his suite, and try TO drown
with their noisy ordinations the
Kisses, groans and jeers of an outrag-
ed people, is also undeniable. The
Scotch and English advenurerS plant
ed in Ulster by James First are called
in history Undertakers, (see Leland's
History of England), because they I'M
dertook to rob and supplant the ma
tive Irish, and in their confiscat!ons
and excuses they were aided and abet-
ted by the English government. No
wonder they gave the Prince of Rob-
bers hearty welcome although
England sent her royal paupcr
we'll guarded against any frenzied at
tack from a prosecuted people 'the
whole nation so said the Lond II
Times, drew a great breath. of relief
when the parade was over, Kissing the
royal party, pel,ing them with rotten
eggs and vegetables, hosting the black
flag, and the ensigns of mourning over
public buildings along the line Of pro-
cession was letting them off easier
than their sins deserved or the nation
expected,
You cannot make any intelligent
person believe no matter what their
nationally, that the greater part of
Ireland is loyal 10 the foe that dis
matted and robbed her of her ancient
glories, as unconquered a. ever Ire
land rises to-day from out the clasp
ing waves of the Atlantic clothed in
fourteen centuries and half of sane
tity and grit with 200 years of martyr
dom, a halo of glory upon her brow
in the indist nctability of her faith, a
newborn power shining upon her
face in the Intellect and number of
her children. for the sun never sets
upon The Iri h race that is scattered
form one OF the earth to the other.
Strong in their faith, strong in their
genius. stror . in their love of the dear
old native land. The Irish race is III
distinctiblc and unconquerable, aud
will be while Irish mothers whisper
to their little ones of the decay of
glorious ireland under British rule,
and the empty bread-trays of the Irish
cabins. In the language of the gifted
Mrs. Hemans 81 have laugh; my little
children to lisp the word. Ireland" |
have taught them indeed, that Erin's
a land one might die for at need. Very
Sincerly, NJ. +. LEASE.
Wichita, May 18th.
KINCMAN.