The Irish standard., 1886-07-17
CARDINAL MANNING SPEAKS.
His Erninsnoe Proves Uonolusiyely That
the Children Of Martyrs are
Not Prosecutors,
"THE WOLF AND THE LAMB v
Retaliation Would Level Ireland Down tc
the Msssacros Of Cromwell and the
Penal Laws Of 0rmonds.

His Emineuce Cardinal Manning has
lately written an important letter to an
American friend III reply to one calling
his attention to the assertion OF Rev.
Mr.. Arthur, that it IS a moral mystery
how any friend Of religious liberty can
vote to hand Ireland over to Parnellita
rule:
''You ask me,'' he says, "whether l
share the fear expressed by Nil Arthur
as to religious liberty of rrotestants in
Ireland it ireland be handed over to
tha parnellites' rule. I have no such
fear; FIRST, because Parne]l is himself
q Protestant; and declared the hope that
he should live and die a Protestant.
He is not man, either by bis Amerl~
can kindred or Cambridge education,
OK Irish sy1npathies OF English ante
cedents, to persecute Protestants any,
where, least Of all in Ireland : and tui-
fher, because the whole power welded
by MIR. Parneli is the sympathy and
trust of the Catholic people OF Ireland,
in whose behalf have no hesitation III
saying that they have never prosecuted
5ueir Protestant neighbors III matters
OK religion, and have always been q
conspicuous example Of respecting that
liberty Of conscience which has been SO
cruelty denied them.
1.-The children of martyrs are not per-
secutors. IN proof OF this read the LIE
and action Of Lord Baltimore and the
MARYLAND Constitution OF 1858 MI.
Parneil would readily take the oath
framed hy the Catholic Lord Baltimore:
Il will not 10y myself. or IN any other
way, directly OF indirectly, molest any
person processing to believe III Jesus
Christ, for or in respect OF religion.
Ke invited the Puritans OF Massa-
chusetts to come to Maryland. In
1915, when persecution again broke out
ia England, Baltimore received into
Maryland prosecuted Episcopalians,
Protestants, who fed Virginia. 1t was
Puritan revolution in England that
brought Puritan revolution in Mary
land and disfrauchisel Catholic popa-
lation.
1.-The Gtreat American Union Of this
day is true 10 the spirit Of Lord Balti-
more, and the Catholic people OF Ire
land would never adopt a policy which
overtlarew the federation Of Maryland.
But we do not need to go out Of Ireland
for proof. MIR. Fox, in his excellent
pamphlet, why Ireland wants Home
Rule,' has quoted Ireland and Taylor
to show that when in the reign OF
Mary, Protestants fled over to Dublin
for safety from Parliamentary Eng
land, Dublin merchants rented and fur
nished IA houses to shelter those who
fled from Bristol. They provided Tor
them, and after the persecution ceased,
conveyed them back into England.
Taylor says that on these occasions
Catholics had tue upper hand. and they
never either injured or killed any one
for protesting religion different from
their own. By suffering persecution
they had learned to be mercifnl.
Again, in 1859, the Catholic Parlia-
nlent in Dublin passed many laws in
fayor of liberty Of conscience, at a mo-
ment too, when in England and Scot
land Catholics were prescribed. 1t is
senseless to quote old texts when the
great revolt of the 10th and l7th cen
turies was the main subject of debate.
The unity of the Christians was AL an
cient and precious heritage, and they
who broke it were each one severally
and personally guilty Of the act.
::The preservation OF religious unity
for the peace Of commonwealth was
the duty Of States, but when unity was
once broken the generations born into
this confusion and division of the past
are in the condition in which persecu-
ton is a crime, because the millions are
unconsciously born into a state of per
version of which they are not the auth
ors. and heresy because faith is the
moral act of human liberty. Reason,
heart and will force may make hypo-
critics, it can never generate faith.
>'The pastors and people of Catholic
Ireland are too profoundly conscious
of wise truths to debass the divine tra.
ditions of their faith with human
cruelties. Retaliation would level Ire
land down to the massacres Of Crom-
well and the penal laws OF Ormonde,
but that may not be suspected.
.:But it must be acknowledged . says
His Eminense, ''that with July l2 near
av hand, with Belfast, and conflicts IN
Canada and Newfoundland before our
eyes, and certain recent speeches ring
ing in ears, and having Mr.. Arthur's
letters in remembrance, cannot but
he afraid there may be appeals to ami
"a. ~ s.-sss q