Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1898-08-20

respected. Il have uot been able to as
certain, says Gordon, 'one instance to
the contrary in the county of Wexford,
though many beautiful young women
were absolutely in their power.
1t would be impossible in the space we
have at our disposal to give even brief
outline of this able article. Mr.. Stead
said he found it difficult to write calmly
about such record-"on such a theme
it's impious to be calm" Under the
heading of "At the Parting of the Ways"
he paints the horrors Pitt had brought
on this unfortunate country, and he next
gives an account of how the Protestant
peep of Day Boys" hunted the Catho-
lies of Ulster, sending them to hell or
to Connaught. The Orangemen of the
present ddy are the successors, he says,
of those ruthless ruffians. He speaks of
the indomitable Wolfe Tones noble eff
forts to obtain "helpers across the sea, {"
and how England was "saved by the
wind" He charges the Government
with making the Instruction, and ex-
presses surprise that any government,
let alone a nominally Christian and Prot
estant government, could deliberately
plot and plan to.force its own subjects
into semblance of instruction in order
that it might have free license to massacre
without let or hindrance. This is stated
by Protestant Englishman, who pays
the following tribute to this country:
"Of all the nations the Irish have pre-
eminence for their fine sense of the su-
preme importance of stainless chastity.
For the honor of their women is the point
of honor with this chivalrous and ardent
race. They bear hardships without re-
pining, bend submissively before the OPP
preston of arbitrary power; but no ex-
IRENE of privation, no squallid horror of
overcrowded cabin, has broken down the
serse of profound reverence with which
even the most miserable Irish kern re-
CARDS his womankind. There is no
its inmates, of the sex of the Madonna,
partaking, whether maid or matron, in
something of the mystic glory of the
Mother of God The Irish might stand
every extremity of coercive despotism if
only it concerned their men and their
possessions, but - touch their women!
Then at any cost, without even counting
of costs, the Celt would strike"
Mr.. Stead shows how hell was let loose
on Irish homesteads, martial law and
free quarters" being proclaimed. The
maddened people bore it for one month,
but before the second month passed hui
man nature could bear no more, and
Lord Castlereagh had his will. Ireland
had rebelled. The burning of Father
John Murphy's chapel, at Boolevogue, on
May 20, led that patriot priest to place
himself at the head of an insurgent band
which defeated contingent after contin-
gent OF the British garrison. until by lure
the insurgents were in possession of
the Whole county, He acknowledges, as
all do, the momentary panic occasioned
by the successes of the insurgents in
Wexford, the passion excited by the
natural but regretable dire reprisals-
reprisals occasioned by previous muir
ders, acts of rapine, incendiarism, cold
blooded torture and uncomfortable
crimes. After Ballinamuck the hang
man was kept busy, and there was the
process of terrorism and the gathering
to complete the spoils. OF thesel the
chief was the destruction OF the Irish
Parliament and the passing of the Act of
Union with Britain, which for hundred
years has remained as the memorable
monument of the most absolutely in
credible series of crimes ever perpe-
trated by one nominally Christion nation
upon another. The article concludes
with the following paragraph:
"a hundred years ago is but as yester-
day i'll the history of nations; and al
though century has elapsed, Ireland is
united to England today by virtue of the
crimes at which | have briefly glanced.
So far as Ireland is concerned, we stand
in the felon's dock of history, not sit on
the judgment seat"