Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03

sons were condemned for capital crimes"
Burnett also says: that 1t does not appear
that Henry was naturally prone to cruelty;
put. Tor the last ten years of his life, that
IS to say-immediately after his divorce,
his open rupture with the church, and his
usurpation of ecclesiastical supremacy
then the man was slave to his passions
and the king became a tyrant to his
people,
Hear what Whelpley, warm Protestant
writer, says: 1.-THE cruelty and crimes of
Henry VIII increased progressively with
his years. The noblest blood of England
flowed to satisfy his savage barbarity of
heart, who considering his superior advan-
tages. deserves to sink into the shades of
eternal infamy. ten thousand times below
Nero or Domitian."
Hear Goblet: Thus expired in the year
l34I, in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and
the thirty-eighth of his reign, the most
unjust, hard-hearted. meanest and most
sanguinary tyrant that the world has ever
beheld. whether Christian or heather. That
England, which he found in peace. unity
plenty and happiness. he left torn by fac
tons and schisms. her people wandering
about in beggary and misery. To him, a so
can be attributed the grossest immortality
glaring dishonesty and abject pauperism
all of which produced an abundant harvest
in the reigns of his unhappy, barren, mis-
chievouS and miserable children. with
whom, at the end of a few years, his house
and his name were extinguished forever"
A Monster of Humanity.
The most depraved being that ever heard
of his horrible crimes cannot contemplate
his character without a shudder He was
a monster of humanity that never spared
man in his anger. nor woman in his lust,
and from the consciousness of his crimes
he died in utter despair. Speaking of the
shocking state of affairs in Ireland during
Elizabeth's reign Morrison says:
In 1852 parliament proclaimed an act of
n,1na 1NAtI
put into strict execution. BY this act every
Roman Catholic priest so found was deemed
guilty of rebellion. and sentenced to be
hanged until he was half dead: then to have
his head taken off and his body cut in
quarters. his bowels to be drawn out and
burned. and his head fixed upon pole in
some public place.
''Of the strict execution of these bar
barous edicts many shocking examples
were daily seen among these unhappy peo-
pie. 1nsomuch that to use the words of
an eyewitness: Neither the Israelites
We're more cruelty prosecuted by Pharaoh
nor the innocent infants by Herod. nor
the Christians by Nero or any other of
the pagan tyrants. than We're the Roman
Catholics of Ireland at that fatal period. -
j. Darlington. speaking of Oliver Crom-
well. SAYS: Blood that had escaped the
massacres of Eliza beth only reserved
to flow under the sword of usurpation and
Cromwell has the credit of having done
his business more effectually than any of
his predecessors. He cooped up the sur
Vlvfng Irish in a contracted district: con-
fined the clergy to nearly one province:
confiscated nearly two-thirds of the Irish
territory. and stained his sanguinary career
by 1ndlscriminate massacres after prom
Using pardon and immunity if arms were
laid down.
The Blood Of Martyrs.
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of
Christianity. The Punishment of the Irish
race has spread the faith of Christ through
out the world. We cannot overlook the
broken treaty of Limerick. which caused
thousands of Irish soldiers to emigrate to
France. 1t was through the valor of these
self-same troops that England met her de-
feat at Fontenoy 1t was upon that bloody
field that the British general called out:
Cursed be the laws that deprive me of
such brave soldiers
Again, in the war of the revolution in our
adopted country, with such enthusiasm
did the Irish emigrate to America and es-
pouse the cause of liberty that Lord Mount
JOY declared in parliament, You have lost
America by the 1riSh.''
England's penal laws of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries brought about re-
ligious prosecutions and trade restrictions
In Ireland which drove hundreds of thou
sands of brave hearts and strong arms to
America. In the year 177S the English par
lament appointed a committee to inquire
into the conduct of the American war In
answer to a question put by member of
that committee Gen. Robertson who had
served many years as quarterma gen
eral to the British forces. replied: Gen
Lee informed me that half of the CONT
mental army were Irishmen." The report
of this committee is now in the British
Museum.
AS further proof of this statement we
have the testimony of Parke Gusts, Froude
and many others. We find at the close of
the revolutionary war that out of the
3172,0OO total white population of the thir-
teen colonies LA, 1876 Cor more than one
third were Irish.
1rish-American Troops.
1t can be left to the Imagination Of the
reader how the Irish troops behaved when
confronted by the same government troops
that SO cruelty forced them from the
friends and firesides they loved so well. In
every battlefield from Bunker Hill to York
town, and later at New Orleans under
Andrew Jackson, the Irish legions dealt
Englands forces crushing retaliation.
When the patriot army lay at Valley
Forge in an almost pershing condition for
want of provisions and clothing, twenty
seven Irish merchants (members of the
Friendly Sons of st. Patrick. in Philadei-
phia) subscribed between them one hundred
and three thousand five hundred pounds
sterling, or five hundred and seventeen
thousand five hundred dollars (s517, 500.
We realize what that welcome and
SuDSldntldl sum Oh money accomplished
the American army at that most critical
period.
DR.. Edward Young, chief of the United
States bureau of statistics, in his special
report on immigration to the Secretary of
the Treasury, under date of March Z, ISL
and under the head of 'alien passengeI.i
arriving in the United States, shows that
from 1920 to 1870 1857 $50 arrived from me
British Isles. classified as follows:
Number. Per cent,
England Observation-Disclosures. SIC, 1872 1888
Ireland. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. 2,700,4 1913 1000