The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-11-18
ORANGE PROPHECIES
Utterances Of Carson Recall Contin-
gent Declarations of "War."

ward Carson on the subject of Home
Rule have recalled the contingent dec
larations of "war" made by legal war
riors of the last generation in the
event of the passing of the Irish
Church Disestablishment Some of
these prophecies of expectant place
men will bear reproduction after the
lapse of a generation. On March 81,
1869, David Plunket, M. p, at Do
cesar Conference held in the chap
ter room of St. Patricks Cathedral,
said: 1--WE call upon our brother Prot
estants in England, Scotland and
Wales to stand by us in this last
awful hour of our fortunes. We call
upon them not to drive us again to
that old kind of material physical re-
slstance which accompanied the first
protesting of our forefathers three
centuries ago, which accompanied the
glorious struggle for liberty and Prot
estantism of our predecessors, and
which was protest in deed and word
which they were willing to seal with
their blood in martyrdom and bat
tle." The Church was disestablished
and disendowed.
Mr.. Plunket, who was then, as Sir
Edward Carson now is, member for
Dublin university, did not win a mar
tyr's crown. A Peers coronet is more
to his taste. Having been Solicitor
General for Ireland and the holder of
many lucrative offices in many Tory
Administrations, on his resignation of
his seat for Dublin university, he was
raised to the Peerage as Lord Rath-
more, and leads under the oppres-
sion and slavery Vi a system which,"
he declared, che could not and should
not submit to-" happy and content
ed life "full ofsyears and honors."
Frederick Faulkner, @. c., was also
at this period prepared for death itself
in resistance to the Disestablishment
of the Irish Church. He was the ante
type of Sir Edward Carson, who is
really making himself the "Rebellious
Susan" of the political world. At
meeting of the Central Protestant De-
Tense Association in the Metropolitan
Hall, Dublin, on April s, 1859, report
ed in the London daily Express" Fal-
kiner said: t'They must tell Gladstone
that they would give him no assist
ance; they must tell him that, if they
could not valiantly succeed, they could
nobly die" Falkiner did not succeed
in the defense of the Irish Protestant
Church; nor did he die, either nobly
or otherwise, till more than forty
years after that "spoliation Act" had
been consummated. He died not in
the battlefield, but in Madeira Under
the system which succeeded the Dis
establishment of the church for which
he was prepared to nobly die, he
lived to become Law Adviser to Dub
lin Castle; to hold the Recordership
of Dublin, at salary of $4,000 a
year, from 1876 till his resignation on
pension of two-thirds of his salary
in 1906; to procure valuable office
for his son as Legal Land Comis-
sioner, and to secure first Knight
hood and then Privy Councillorship
for himself
There were many legal rebels at
that period, all of whom We're subse-
quently very ready and willing to
serve in public capacities for con-
sideration when the Irish Protestant
Church, for which they professed their
readiness to face death, was as State
establishment a thing of the past.
Their speeches are amusing and live
ly reading. Only one of these mill
tant orators failed by an early death
to get promotion under a system he
vowed he would oppose to the death
"a Mr.. McCausland, @. c. This mans
speeches would give valuable sugges-
lions to Sir Edward Carson. "a mil
lion and a half of Professionals" he
said, "of all denominations, were ready
to oppose Disestablishment not like
rebel horde acting according to the
command Of priest or a demogogue,
but as men who thought for them
selves, having the feeling strongly
within them that what had been pur-
chased by the blood of their ances-
tors should be retained even at the
expense of their own"
Delaney Loose Again.
Old Billy Delaney, who claims to