The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-01-19
The course Of cromxe,l.n

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The course of Cromwell"
1t is not difficult to understand the
persistence of the Course of CROMWELL
as malediction in Ireland two hull
bred 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 parliamentarian 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 Gal
way, May -, 1862, the war drew rapid
~ to a close, and by September q all
the resources of the Irish having been
cut Off, Cromwell stated in parliament
that the war was at an end. 10 ap-
pease his followers appetite for plum
der, Cromwell had the country par
celled out and enacted laws legalizing
the robberies. Principal among these
penal enactments are the following:
l. No scholar of the Irish nation
was permitted to teach the art of writ
ing, speaking OF arithmetic.
2. No one could send his children
beyond seas to any seminary for the
purpose of pursuing his studies, under
pain of confiscating his effects and of
legal disability.
3. That no one whose parents were
Irish should be admitted as an an.
prentice in town or in a mercantile
business.
4. That no 1r1shman should be adj
mitted either publicly or privately to
any Office or function.
5. That the Irish should be merely
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 remain
in the condition of serfs and vassals
without hope of ever attaining any
station.
6. That the Irish MOBILES should be
confined in some fortified district and
within certain limits, so that if they
crossed its borders Cromwelrs soldiers
were at liberty to deprive them Of
life and property as rebels and out
laws.
z. That all Irish youths having
reached the fourteenth year should be
enlisted in the land service or the ma
rine of England, that they might ex-
plate the blood of Britons shed in Ire
land.
8. Whoever harbored anyone adher-
ing to the See Of Rome was declared
guilty of high treason.
II. That Irish soldiers should be
disarmed; all commanders strictly pro-
hibited from enlisting them even as
foot soldiers.
-. That Irish farmers should send
provisions to the government stores at
the lowest price.
Is. That Irish farmers should be
removed as far as possible from the
fortresses; that the best arms should
be preserved for the followers of
Cromwell; the worst assigned to the
Irish and at the highest prices.
16. That Irish farmers holding ten
acres should SOW one with hemp or
fax to provide canvas for the feet.
.18. That after three years no one
of what condition soever should be
permitted to reside in ireland unless
he abjured his faith, renowned all de-
pendence Of Rome and Roman doc
trines; that all the children should be
educated in the Protestant religion, and
compelled to frequent the Lords Sup
per.
81. The cattle, oxen or other effects
taken away from the English should
be replaced by fines or the effects Of
Irishmen living in the barony or dis
trict
%. In case Of murder or death in
ficted on an Englishman, and that the
homicide escaped, all the Irish inhabi-
tants of the country were held as ac-
cessories.
"The articles of Cromwell" says
Walsh, "were not permitted to remain
imperative. A persecution arose, the
most bitter and unrelenting on record.
The Israelites under the bondage of
Pharaoh were far more mercifully
dealt with. They were overpowered
with work; their first born males We're
alone consigned to the jaws of death.
Not SO in Ireland; the young as we'll
as the old, male as well as female,
were Unfortunately slaughtered and
starved"
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