The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-05-23

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ENTRY OF JAMES II. TO DUBLIN.
When Charles I. Of England lost
his head in 1860 at the hands of
Cromwell, he left three children, two
of whom became afterwards Kings
of England-Charles II. and James
II. Between the death of Charles I.
and the restoration" of the monar-
chy under Charles II.-that is, under
the "Protectorate" Of Cronwell-no
Parliament was allowed to be held
in Ireland for thirty years. A Reign
of Terror was begun in Ireland,
whose bloody and tyrannous aspects
it would be impossible to exaggerate.
And all because of their adhesion to
the Papacy. THANK God, am not
an Englishman," exclaimed great
American, Robert Tyler, at Philadel-
phia, more than hundred years
later, in reply to speech of Brougham
relating to the confiscations and
murders of Cromwell in Ireland.
Cromwell died, and in Charles II.
the monarchy was restored. For
twenty-five years Charles II. reigned,
and though he added no outrages to
Cromwell's record, he confirmed all
Cromwell had done of robbery and
cruelty. His brother, James H., sue
ceeded to him in 1890 as King of
England. James's first act as King
was to release from prison twelve
hundred Quakers, and several thou
sand Catholics, who were kept on
fines for not attending Protestant
worship. Perfect freedom of con-
science was established. The whole
nation applauded his liberality, and
when few years later the Huguen-
ota fed from persecution in France
to England and Ireland. the Catholic
King James gave them not only well
come, but had subscriptions raised
for them. In fact, in his brief reign
of three and a half years he tried to
undo the anti-Catholic legislation of
half century. with the result that
he angered the Protestant ascend
ancy to so great an extent that they
looked around for more acceptable
sovereign, ignoring entirely that he
was the de jure as we'll as de facto
King of England. Then it was they
went over to William, Price of
Orange (whose wife was James's
daughter, and invited him to come
and take the Throne and Crown,
promising him to back him in the
usurpation. Thus was James II.
coolly dethroned because of his
Catholic federation, and Williams
entry into London was signalised by
the burning of Catholic churches and
dissertation of Catholic affairs. James
fed to ireland. He asked help of
the King of France, the great Louis
XIV, to enable him to keep Ireland
as IAN Independent dominion. Louis
sent him help-men and money. The
people of Ireland received James
with gladness because of his Catholic
championship. His entry into Dub
lin was made at the head of forty
thousand Irish soldiers, and all Ire
land followed Dublin's lead. Only
three small towns in the South re-
fused to acknowledge him-Derry,
Colorains, and Calmor declared for
the Prince of Orange. These were
the first Orangemen in Ireland or
ganized on that Gath of March, 1859.
They were Cromwellian settlers, on
lands taken from the Catholic resi-
dents and they feared to lose their
new possessions of James's liberal
and just policies penetrated to their
neighborhood. They besought Will
liam to come to their help, which he
did. He poured English and Dutch
troops into Derry. James and his
men went on to Derry also; and the
fighting was close and terrible (says
the Irish Worldly. But the Orange
men won, and in spite Of the extra
ordinary bravery Of the Irish all that
winter, and series of brilliant VIC
tories and most extraordinary brill
liant soldering. such as historian,
English. and Irish. describe as
phenomenal. especially the defense
of Limerick, James came to terms
with William. That is he let his
Irish soldiers make terms with Will
liam at Limberick. The story of the
Treaty of Limerick is one Of the best
known in Irish history, and one typi-
cal of English treatment Of Ireland.
The Treaty solemnly entered into
was broken ere the ink was dry. That
explains why 80 brave q people as
the Irish came to be 80 utterly at the
mercy Of the English-their bravery
was never match for treachery-
which was always an English princi-
pie Of war and trade.