The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19

true to this faithful people, and Rome
has never failed in sympathy and love
for ssever faithful Ireland" All the
chicanery of England, all the well-train-
ed diplomacy of Westminster was not
able to keep the Vatican in good
humor," or Archbishop Walsh out of
Dublin.
The rich eloquence of Tipperary's
great spiritual leader, the immortal
Croke Of Cashel, the keen and powerful
logic of The learned Bishop Nulty of
" Royal Meath, the bold defiance and
intrepid valor of Parnell's best lieuten-
ant" Archbishop Walsh. of Dublin,
have sounded the death knell of Eng
fish dominion in Ireland, and will lead
to happy fruition the brightest aspira
!. tions of their people. Religious error
never found in Ireland congenial soil,
neither have its people ever given vel
come to the rule of the stranger. No
power under heaven, no other influence
known among men, could have preserv-
ed the Irish people SO free from crime and
national dishonor as Their religion has
preserved them; neither could other
forces have kept alive so fervidly the
immortal fame Of patriotism. True,
some of the noblest, most unselfsh pa
triots Ireland has ever known were
strangers to the blessings the grand
faith of Patrick could bring them, and
Catholic Irishmen all the world over
keep their memories green Only on
Ulster soil, however, was the common
enemy of faith and fatherland able to
establish an alien creed. and only there
do we find to-day a fawning, cringing
love for the cursed foe of Ireland's
national glory and honor. Under the
flimsy pretext that a proverbially mag
unanimous majority might disregard ne
rights of this noisy, turbulent and dis
loyal minority, this insignificant Orange
faction shamelessly proclaims to the
civilized world that it prefers national
dishonor and thraldom to full measure
of justice for Ireland But Ireland's
faithful children, trained to patient
iendurance in their stealfast adherence
to their religion, had learned to cling
with phenomenal tenacity to the princi-
Piles of civil liberty, by which they have
not only preserved distinct nationality
through all their years of bondage, but
which shall secure for them now at no
distant day nations Unborn right to
| self government.
| Scotland surrendered her Catholic
faith almost without struggle, and Scot
lands nationality became as completely
merged into the British kingdom as II
her old-time chieitain's trumpet blasts
had never re-echoed through ner heath
cred hills Wales, with the old faith all
but forgotten among her people, has moi
even been thought of as ever INDUCING
in the vain dream Of controlling her
own affairs. But tue sturdy green isle
has come down through the centuries of
struggle, with its distinctive characteris-
tics and its national traits, with its sepa-
rate existence recognized fact. and
named with the English kingdom as
Great Britain AND Ireland.
Had Ireland surrendered her faith
when Cromwell drew his sword, she
would have secured little or no advan-
tage from the British crown, but she
would then have sealed the death war
rant Of her political rights. At every
surrender, and with every treaty the
perfdy Of Limerick would have been re-
peated and " the treaty broken ere the
ink was dry" A robber is only encour-
aged in his boldness at every concession
yielded by his victim. AS robbers, the
English under Henry II invaded Ireland
over seven hundred years ago as rob-
bers they have plundered the people
ever since, and the length of time does
not justify the theft. Queen Mary
granted little respite from persecution.
and restored them the right Of practicing
their religion III peace, bat she confis-
Gated their lands with effrontery as cool
and audacious as her amiable sister Eliza
beth. Had England never apostatized
from the ancient religion at the bidding
Of her coarse and licentious monarch.
the union between the two countries
would still have remained the union
of the shark with its prey" England )
hatred of Ireland does not spring from
the fact that Ireland is Catholic in reli-
Eion. but from John Bulls utter selfshness
and cruel jealousy Of a people his supe-
rior in everything but wealth, numeri-
cal strength and power. The Irish peo-
pl hive W alth of intellectual genius.
John Bull gu city claims this as his wn
'r''" ',t statesmen and warriors in
English history, men of Irish blood and
llnt age, are not accredited to the land
thai bore them, but are counted among
Engla men of renown. In the same
spirit of wantou injustice with which
they were robbed of their lands and their
homes, the Irish people were robbed,
too, of the means and opportunities OF
regaining something of what they had
Host Twas made felony to learn, and
then wherever the language of England
was spoken the Irish were called ignor-
ant. Their priests were "hunted down
like wolves" forbidden at the point of
the bayonet to teach and instruct their
people, and then the Irish were called
superstitious. A premium was placed
upon Incidence, no encouragement offer
ed to. industry, and then the Irish were
called lazy and improvident.
Legal enactmentI We're a network
spread over the land to entrap the un-
wary, so that an Irishman could scarce
lift his hand without breaking some law,
and then the Irish were called criminals
and law-breakers. Notwithstanding all
| this unparalleled cruelty and outrage,
this unremilting struggle to steal ma
TONS creed and grind a people into serf-
dom, the " Soggarth Aroon" was true to
his trust, and Ireland's religion remain
ed, and Ireland's nationality was not lost.
Ireland remembers with the deepest
gratitude and love the brave patriots
who generously championed h cause
and gave theirlives FIR their country, no
matter what their religious creed.
Wolf, Tone, EN- net, Swift, Davis,
Mitchell Smith, O. Brien and Parnell are
names that will ever illumine the bright
est pages of Irish valor and unselfish
patriotism. But it is only just to re
member that after all it was the priest
hood of Ireland that inspired the people
with hope, kept alive their courage and
fostered their patriotism, for every priest
was patriot.
It has been said of Ireland that its
patriotism is more a sentiment of men,