The Irish standard., 1897-06-12
PROTESTANT REFORMATION
Were He an lriShman He WOu1d
L0athe England.
king CHARLES THE MARTYR
A Fine Specimen af Controversial
Composition.


' "A Memphis Anglican named III. Fl.
Mangum wrote a vituperative letter to
Brann's Iconoclast in which he :;tig-
matized the article king Charles the
Martyr" in the May number as the cir
responsible slobberings of a drunken
fool, the rawlings of an idiot and the
mouthings of Jesuit" Brann pub
lished the communication in full and
then got after the correspondent in his
characteristic style, literally pulverizing
him with his irony and sarcasm. The
correspondent insinuated that Brann
was an Irishman, which elected the fol-
lowing answer:
Were I an 1rishman would hate and
abhor England as the thievish despoiler
of my country and the cowardly &>sas-
sin of my ancestors. Were I Catholic
would "loathe" her mongrel "estab-
lishment," which was conceived in sin,
brought forth in iniquity, and foisted
upon my people by force. Being an
American sovereign, and denying the
whole body of Roman dogma, including
the Immaculate Conception, as we'll as
the Apostolic Succession, 1 am able to
view, if not with Indifference at least
with contemptuous pity, "the most duti-
full subjects" of beery old female, and
their theological hoodoo. inherited from
incestuous Henry. I would probably
not have concerned myself with sect
sprung from the black heart of an as
sassin and nurtured by hangmen and
harlots had not gang of sexless Anglo
maniacs calling themselves Americans,
met together in the birthplace of our
independence and profaned the very
penetralia of the Goddess of Liberty by
sniveling like lot of whipped eunichs
in a niger harem over that contempti-
BILE cutpurse, king Charles the Mar
tyr" Gods! tits wonder Liberty Bell
did not alarm the patriotic dead with it's
clamor, calling the Conscript Fathers
once more to the defense of Freedom
endangered not by foreign bullets but
by native bots!
Failing to conquer Ireland and Scot
land, the Caesars abandoned England
as not worth the cost of it's keep. The
"Offscourings" of surrounding nations
then poured in and amalgamated with
the abandoned serfs like so many Man
gumesque malodors, evolving what is
now known as the "Anglo-Saxon," or
"free-born Englishman.'' Finally this
mongrel brood of mental misf1ts and
moral abnormalities-the offspring of
pirates, poems and prostitutes-was
wrought into something approaching a
civilized nation by the untiring energy
and sleepless vigilance of the Church
of Rome, which has ever made the con-
version and uplifting of degraded peo-
pies and inferior races her especial care.
After some twelve centuries of progress
from subter-savagery toward semi-civil-
1zation, England was able, partly by the
aid of foreign mercenaries, but chiefly
by treachery, to subjugate Ireland, to
make it an appanage of her own Ser
bonian mire and Boeotion banks
an emerald brooch cleaning on the
naked hide of yaller niger! She
forced her lust-born, harlot-bred -eli-
gious establishment on the conquered
people, destroyed their temples, insulted
their shrines, stole their land, confis-
Gated their revenues and decreed that a
Catholic caught teaching child to read
should be treated as common criminal.
And now an Englishman, or calf
dropped by that breed of cattle, has the
supernal gall to sneer at "the ignorant
1rish"-to turn up his beefy snout at q
country which was Europe's great repos-
itory of learning before it fell by fraud
under the british dominion of church
begotten by wife-butcher and bawd!
1t is not remarkable that the Pope who
authorized Henry II. to subjugate Ire
land should have been born and bred
an Englishman, for only an English
man could have been guilty of the in
fanny of trying to make the eagle vassal
to the vulture.
priceless boon of liberty!" cries my
correspondent. Aye! Aye! Won at Run
nymede, not by Protestant Episcopal
ians, but by Roman Catholics. Won at
Lexington and Yorktown by men who
so "loathed' England that they marched
barefoot over ice and snow, armed with
scythes and pitchforks. to hurl them
selves upon the bayonets Of her Hessian
hfrelfngs, and with their mangled bodies
built a barrier against her damning
tyranny, while her savage Indian allies
were butchering their helpless babes
and laying waste their homes! We are
told that all this is in the past and that
unless we forget and forgive We are