The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-11-10
The Curse of Cromwell.

The Curse of Cromwell.
1t is not difficult to understand the
persistence Of the curse of Cromwell"
as a malediction in Ireland two hun
dred and fifty years after the death of
the Lord Protector. The regulations
made for the misgovernment of Ire
land, after the resistance of the Irish
to the Parli;lmcntarian forces had
ceased, are sufficient to account for the
vivid impressions of his cruelty which
have been handed down by tradition:
With the surrender of Galway, May
IL, 1862, the war drew rapidly to n
close, and by September %, all the re-
sources of the Irish having been cut
off. Cromwell stated in Parliament
that, the war was at an end. TO APP
pease his followers appetite for plum
der. Cromwell had the country parcel
led out and enacted laws legalizing
the robberies. Principal among these
penal enactments are the following:
l. No scholar of the Irish nation is
permitted to teach the art of writing.
speaking or arithmetic.
@ No one could send his children
beyond seas to any seminary for the
purpose of pursuing his studies, under
pain of conlscaiing his effects and OF
legal disability
). That no one whose parents were
Irish should hr admitted us an APP
prentice in Il town or in mercantile
business.
t. That no freshman should be adj
mitted either publicly or privately to
any office or function.
5. That he irish should be nero
ly hewers of wood and drawers of
water; that only wages sufficient to
support nature should be given, so that
they could not attain wealth, but re-
main in the condition of serfs and va.-
sails without hope of ever attaining any
station.
6. That Irish mobiles should be CON
fined in some fortified district and
. within certain limits, so that if they
crossed it's. borders Cromwelrs soldiers
were at liberty to deprive them of life
and liberty as rebels and outlaws.
I. That all Irish youths having
reached the fourteenth year should be
enlisted in the land service or the mar
inc of England. that, they might en-
plate the blood of Rritons shed in Ire
land
8. Whoever llarboreu any one adj
herring to the See of Rome was de
clared guilty of high treason.
IL. That Irish soldiers be disarmed
all commanders strictly inhibited from
enlisting them even as foot soldiers.
u. That Irish farmers should sent
provisions to the government stores Il
the lowest price.
| ID. That Irish farmers should be re
| moved as far as possible from the for
tresses: that the best arms should b,
reserved for the followers Of Crom
well; the worst assigned to the Irisl
and ut the highest prices.
49, That the Irish farmers holdin.
ten acres should sew one with hemp o
flax. to provide canvas for the fleet
-. That after three years no one o
. what condition soever should be per
mitted to reside i'll Ireland unless h
abjured his faith, renowned all deepen
dence of Rome and Roman doctrines
that all the children should be edr
Gated in the Protestant religion. an
compelled to frequent the Lords SUI
per-
81. The cattle, oxen or other effect
taken away from the English shoul
be replaced by fines or the effects o
Irishmen living in the burony or dis
trict.
%. In case of murder or death If
licted on an Englishman, and that til
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,itnnts of the country were held as at
ceSSorieS.
''rhe articles of Cromwell" say
Walsh. were not permitted to renal
imperative. "A persecution arose, til
most bitter and unrelenting on record
The lsraeites under the bondage o
Pharaoh We're far more mercifull
dealt with. They We're overpowere
with work; their first born males wer
alone consigned to the jaws of deatl
Not so in Ireland; the young as well a
the Old male as well as female, wer
indiscriminately slaughtered an
starved"
Lincoln and Hanna.
Mr.. Hanna has repeatedly declare
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