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. having given you birth.
VOL. IX.
day,.unless.as thieves or plunderers, murdering the
defenceless, oppressing the weak, but always oblig-|t
ed to fly from the first appearance of that force which
is'brought against you by the Jawa and goverament
of the country.
The second reason wh
attend to. It is this—that whilst you combine for
wicked purposes, the goud and virtuous, aid poe er
ul un e man, in their own defence, and for
- your destru ction. I say, the good and virtuous, and
powerful, for Jet me ask you, where will you find an
honest peaceable man, or a man_of wealth of toflu-
ence, who does not to ok upon you asa scourge, and
whos if he were not restrained by fear, would not
and up against you as the enemies of all justice.
Nor should : you be surprised at this union of the wise
and good, formed to resist and overthrow your com-
bination. mon sense invites every man to pro.
tect himself against a.dark and wicked conspiracy.
suchas yours. . ‘The attachment which men bear t
y your Association must | ma:
end in ruin and disgrace is what, perhaps, you never |
UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY. ns 339°
| been removed.’
The Penal Code has been repealed,
the road
to.improvement in Ireland is now open, |;
aw, is-now anxiously intent on providing ug wil
the means of living-as beco mes the members’ of -a
State.
el, test in the employ-
ment of them, I should seem nto range myself on the):
side of guilt in, power, against, guilt in distress. But,
ow, no such lecliig damps my zeal, or makes my
heart faulter, whilst my tongue would speak.
this is the period of the resurrectio our
é may now; as heretofore, f “eel pressure “ad dis-
tress, but are no longer the fore-runners of despair.’
01 They are now like the thrues of a woman in labuur,
their’ families, to their persons and proper vy.
of them and break down a ‘combination,
which makes war upon the public peace, upon pri
vate repose, and upon whatever is must dear to man.
They are these feelings, deeply implaated by our
Maker in the hearts of men, which you u call forth
and which, in all times, and i
will ever Succeed,
against such associat as you!
But it is the wrath of God which your impiety and
evil deeds provoke whieh, makes -all things fight
our by your sinful oaths to
Me it
ospel te
the
us, the books which record all our actions in lile will|the feelings of mercy and compassion. ° The rich! endless umber of definitions which are more or
be opened, these oaths of y: appear against {feel their own rightin their tallest extent, and as ifjless just, as” they approach’ the one and recede from
you, and if not blotted out by the tears of repent-|they imagined | that all other and things were] the other ’
ance, they alone will exclude you fur ever from the created for their use, they fail to respect those rights} 0 design it exectly, Ladbere to the wor itselt
Kingdom of IIe seek to make Gop ajof others which are as-sacred as their own. -'Thus|and to the idea. which it expresses, The word d
party to your combinati t do you think there] while they expel the wretched tenant from his ca-) otson is Jatin, and in our language it precisely signi.
ean be any society between hight and darkness, be-| bin, .that may ex xtend their parks, or enlarge fies, the state of being. devoted or dedicated. . There,
tween justice ane infuse, between Cuatsr and) their farins, “they imagin that they exercise only fore to be devout is the ame thing as to be devoted
Bettas? or that he who loves justice and hates im-|their just right, any, right of property could] ¢ 2 God. It is upon the idea, which the term of be-
quity can look, hese with horre r, on. te Melation
of a Il or
oO
5
; but which, alas!
Christi ns you are bound to
smem of these secret nocietivs, you uiterly dis-
regard, “No, dear Brethren, be assured for once,
that your combination is, of its ature, “opposed to
every law, whev jer human or divine ; that itis found-
don nore firittle than a reed ; less se-
eure than the sand which when pressed glides thro’
your fingers.
ney who are
ged you a are Ted on fron
ete crime, each of you is made
a partaker of the. iniquity of you all,
Vv power, and hatred of{c
o well-merited infamy and ruir
with dis isgrace the Religion which disowns
and the country which blushes with shame for
S
7
t us proceed toe consider ihe abject for which
tibine. © Th
objects
tien of wages, andthe ejection of tenants from their
holdings. Before I treat of this difficult portion of
our subject, allow me, dear Brethren. to’ recur again
o the caus! es w hie now, and 4 in all past,times have|e
2 F ofthis ¢ try to enter,into secred
societies. auses were the want of due pro-
tection, and the warit of food and raiment. ‘These
causes operate, even now, certain extent, but
then, heretofore, even for ages past, the state of this
country was such as to afford little or ao prospect
that the condition of the people would be improved.
imes the pred to
application of force.
ed to the time and the populat disease. ‘bes 8
were enforced with a spirit similar to that “which
presided over their enactment, but they were cffect-
ed for thei ey quelled insurrection, or
rrored out for the “while the spirit ‘of éombination.—
But when that was done no one thought or in gniring
into the wants of the people, or of investigating,
“Temovii auses which tempted the poor and
the iniserable associated. But now it isnot so.—]°
Ve ru
tthis system ‘of “gjection n has p
delinquencies
iv
e}in the ejection of a ten
ere, but if borne with patience and for
titi, they oil endin a little! time, a and the remem
arising to us
of them will be lost in: the
trou, the improvement uf our country. I kno ow as
well as you do; how uareasonable had how unfeel-
tojing has been me eje ction of tenauts from their bold- tio
slings. {have wept over the scenes oi distress which
esented. eseen
the nother houseless, and the cinid starving. ‘Thave
heard the how! of the widow espair, and have
seen the orphan left without a father. All this
and more was caused by it ; but’we must not bring.
great teinptations 5 they blind the understanding,
and by filling the heart with pride, harden it against
pe icxercised to the destruction of human li
kea man who having a right to ride his -horse
upon the high: way, su Ppes ose that in n the oxercise oO
this right he could ride o
foot passengers, as if the
as sacred as his own.: That the rich have thus, like
the poor, too ‘often yielded to the fomptations exci-
ted by ‘power and wealth, is, alas ertain,
and what | is more painful is, that thoveh every per-
son is ¥ to opehrove the errors and p the
the
osed,: and still fewer prepared, to dec
great their sins ute the
With me it is no -Ttell you freely of your ow
errors and trangrstions, but I do.not wish to con
self
ot, however, infer
Thave said, that theo owners of land are not justified
ant or tenants
arrears, whe ee Cultivate their land,
egligence or expense,
from tating ‘he contact into which they have
red.
5
&
fre ely er ords Were not entitled, and} ©
called upon, ‘in ‘justice to 0 themselves and their
own families, to eject such-tena d tet their
lands to
ould have © sed; goo uld
Dall p eople; and eon robbery
and injustic, would cease to be forbidden by the laws
of God and man. you need not be told that this
cannot. happen—and y not more impossible
,{than it would be to deay to the landlord the right of
, ejecting his tenantry and of setting his lan
e too rigorous exercise of this right by lon
which sometimes degenerate inté injustice and e
cruelty. When men, aeraue religious bigotry, o
an inordinate lust of rive an ponest and ins
ous tenantry into bogs or morasses, urg-
ed by pride and selfishness, they send the’ widow and
the orphan to perish by the road side, in order tor
eye-sore from their plantation, or. to shut
out “the appearance of wretchedness from their de
mains, then the exercise of their r right becomes av
olation of the Jaw of nature 5, and though, unlike to
your offences, it may efcape punishment in. this
The greatest cause of our national misfortunes has
Pay the work itself of nnprovement is already com-
din de:
unity” not
back those images ‘o our recollection, nor should
ejyou by them into acts of retaliation orw
revenge. Riches, like verty, are i
e to the ther
powerful’ thelr crimes.
more indartrious an deserting, all|*
t
world, it will certainly meet with it in-the next ; for
in that world, saith the Pr ‘ophet, “ mercy will be ex-
tended to the humble and the weak, but the Power-
ful will be powerfully torment ted.”
poor cannot permanently be deprived of the neces-
aries of life,. or. left .in this world without bread to
eat, or a place wherein to lay their heads.’ Be con-
vineed, fowever, that the evils ‘which they suffer can-
ared by your combination.
ou sta 0
on to the interests of your Country,
power | rat ab not belong to you, and by attempt.
ing to ly, by lawless violence, what time, ood
teinper, “and the ne alone ca n
"o be continued.
el
CHA \RACTERS OF pean DEVOTION...
‘What is devotion ? Each one. desines i it in his own
votion ; ‘after havi
our duties towards
é in question, the word should be taken in the
most serious and the most extensive sense.
Now, in English as well'as in Latin, we know no
expression that is stronger than that of being devot-
ed, in order to express the achment, the
absolute and, voluntary dependence, ‘the alloc stionate
the ind
a
2
» of preventing his wishes, of embracing his in-
terests, and of acriicing oe every thing for his sake.
is we say’of a child, a servant, a subject, that he
his prince.
een a crime oe not pe on tan We also say that a devoted to ambition, or to.
vnsl that he'who u into a reais stance to encdo ny other passion, when he only thinks of satisfying
der and the law, vite his full share i in the common it; when he seeks every means, dire 1 iow:
, and enterprise; rposi y \
tock of guilt. from what prises t purpose, and when it so‘ab.
other object.
The being deioted to God comprehends all this i in
he most eminent degree ;. and it adds besides a
secration, by virtu e of whieh,
» belongs no longer to himself, has no longer a
right over himself, and apnertains, by the mo!
ered and the: most. irrevocable act réligion n, to the
upreme Being, to whom he has ovoted himself.
Bach is is the idea, which E form t devo-
tion, by explaining the precise sgniction of the ,
nee practi ce of it, [ own, ha: s its beginning,
it gress -and its p erfection ; 3 but the act of dedi-
cation should be fall, entire and perfect i in the will,
at the moment in which it is for Without go-°
ing further, and-from this simple "ofinitions we ma
preity well jndge how rare devotion is among, Chris-
ians, and whether- we ourselves be devout
a
Be thou. therefore ready prepared to fight, if thou
desirest.to gain the victory. Without fi fighting thou
witt
crow titth
t}desirest t rowned, “Fant van ond ‘endare
patiently, Without, labour there j to
rest, nor without Sighting « can the v’ ory be vubtain.
e d, make ‘thai possible ta
a3
y thy gra
me, which seems impossible to me by nature.
advai
prove their: proper, while Secret societies prevail.
Yo id in. you: ight, and in direct t opposi- ,
© that
sorbs him, tha at he hardly can pay attention to any
he, who is consecrat-
ing means: whereby the condition of the Peg
> 5 eltered ; od the ’s Government,|. But if the rich have sometimes yielded, like the .
Which has made all his subjects equal before.tue poor, and have- don