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yon, LRELAND.
DR. DOYLE’S PASTORAL ADDRESS, '
To the Faithful in Christ Jesus, of the Deanery of
© Maryborough, im the Queen’s County. :
Concluded from page 2
_ . Thenas to the wgges, only consider I beseech y you,
: the situation of those, who, for the greater part, pay |.
you wages and furnish you with your daily bread 5
Jook to the farmer aud landliolder upon whom every
b
diminished in amount? Has 1 Tson
* more generous. or the Proctor less: exacting than
heretofore? Calculate the county cesses, the v
maintain your own clergy
n
of worship, and ask yourselves when the
farmer has paid all these rents, tithes, taxes and char
“ges ; when he has paid these and SE his food
to the. ¢ at his doo
what remains to hit? _ “How ¢ can nhe support his fa,
ily? How can he preserve wis stock, his house,
his carts,his "sloughs, and all his ‘0
his
¢ almost t insupportable, and if there were
no vicissitudes ¢ 0 failur crops, no
diseases of Saitle no o nevidents from ihe olements,
or losses by the negligence or malice of men—yet,
do not know, I cannot conjecture how the farmer
can maintain his place in society and fulfil alt the
obligations to awhic h he i is, necessarily subjected.—
d yet yo eno fecling
You do not enter inte his wants—you do not calcu-
late his m fo not share the apprehensions
of seeing himse omar.
$0 you will ful ulfil the law re Creer ”
you, Brethren, hear the burdens of one sot bel
employers that: your
cp
uent, | t!
r their present burdens with them that
hereafter they may ‘lighten yours
But what are the consequenes likely to arise from
your present line of c t, if perserve in? "This
is the via point which ra promis ised to discuss with
ve already touched’ upon ‘some of those
consequences, when [ said that while your mbi-
nations continue, no improvement whether of a pub
“tie 2 Private, ‘nature could i effected in te countrys
is is so manifest. as not to require proof. No
se ssuws seed in a whiesnd, or ces tis goods
for Security in a den ves; neither does
man expend his mroney in a distu irbed a or
. seek to improve his lands or houses where is pro-
. perty isnot secure.” The e guals may gro about
us, Courts of Justice may rise in our villages, Police
stations may be built at all our cross roads, but the
-house
the manufactory [a
will be silent; the shop. ‘will be "elese d, and the shep-
her a” 3 8 song. and ithe hum of industry, will be heard
no Bar: ess will come upon t the land, ruin
upon ia the villages. “the towns will be. deserted,
rich will fly away ‘from us; the poor ma wither,’ will
cannot inhabit with crime, and Ire
n was before, 2 bleak
on the one side, and pe dregs of wwretehedness 01 on
the other, who will s to live as they do in hell,
only to ‘oha ate and curse seach othe efore ose
thin
come to pass, you, who, arc engaged i in the
Societies wi have been punished as your crimes ile.
‘ser Even this moinent you are, as it ¥
“the hands of ‘the executioher.
red you will
eit much onger. ’ Every thing he its Sime
the operations of the law are slow wv, bu tt
| tain as the return af the spring-or iter “tPhey will],
Ome upon you as a thief the. ight, and overtake
you when you least ex so foolish
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atient shige they s
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the lyo
UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY.
itself against justice, religion and law—against the
aut ic indignation and the power o! of government—
that it can escape the diser race and punishment
wi h from the most remo e period attended every | y
ich combination in Ireland
you, however, to earn: the danger, which
present proceedin ng not irom myself
not deeply versed | in law, but from one who
is not only a fawyer, but the most eminent amo)
hem, and yet notso eminent for his legal kno culedge
as for his love of-country, his interest in your wel-
e fare an his untiring zeal in the service of all his
n then from. the pen of Mr.O’Con
nell melee your danger i is, and the cons equen-
eedings ; his words are,
“Te st_Every secret society is ip its nature, and
\ VOL. IX.
‘But it is not enough thus to avoid evil, you: must
also, Brethren, do good ; and the first good y you.are.
called
3
which you have committed ; and not only for those
which you have committed in your own | persons, but’
for those hich you have caused o o commit.
+ re ou mu! ae Gop earnestly with ‘the Holy Pro-
ti phet, a “ from my hidden sins
and
\O Lord, and fromih ose of others spare ay ‘eran
But this spirit of repentance, ifit be found in you,—
every tig you bare sundered or taken from you
neighbou t, by ei rt fraud. ‘Without this
restitution “ofihe a arms you have, taken, or of the other
goods you have anus obtained, yous cannot, it is
for : for the
rom its Secrecy. | ill nee 3 and it is me © punisha-
by law be, a
nd
a
ome ki
me
You may imagine, that unless an oath 0 i
i a belonging to
3
taken, there i is no legal crime in
rule of justice says the sin will not be “forgiven,
.| be
secret socic ~ You are mistaken.
belong to ich a society, although no oath what-
soever be taken
* The punishment for belonging to a secret soci-
ety is, atleast, Tran and in alino
cases s itis Dean.
t in obedience t
out its being a capital, Pexoxy, and punishable with
de:
th,
=
$
“© See now what your danger i is Jifyou continue to
tne to any secret t society, ¥ you may be transport-
ed—you may be hanged. -
“ But, Secondly. your danger of being punished
is s exceedingly great, becau: mber of a
y can swear, with succes any thing he
ple A8es agaivst all or py of the members, without
the least danger of his being, contradicted. “So that
if you belong'to any secret society, you may easily
e convicted, and trans ported, or hanged, for a crime
m lof which you were perfectly i ipnocer nt. ,
** Understand this distinct] See, it is. this :--
1d | Suppose you belon toa secret socicty. in, which
there is.a spy or informer—(and believe us when we
not produce any other member of the secret society
he would be sent into the dock as an accomplice in
your crit
Whe ever, therefore, belongs to any seéret soci-
ety, lays himselt complet ely open to the testimony |
of spies and inft —the basest and most depra
-led of human beings. Avoid, therefore, these 'so-
cieties, in which spies and informers necessarily
und.”
3
s
Sy Brethren, and I do also’ say AVOID 4
tion ?
and wicked men who now lead you on tor
O’Connel has proken ’ none chains; and, as it ‘were,
delivered yo m 3; he alone has done for
treland what. nilions at tongue und arms were not
ble to effect. His knowledge, his virtue. his |
of country, his zeal ae your interests are andanbted,
and it is his ‘voice, united with mine, which calls
aloud to you, saying——-Avorp THEse Societies. Will
ou hear,us,; for the love you bear us, :and desist
from these detestable combinations f 2 You will, Bre-
thren, Thaven no doubt o:
But the 4, supposing ; 00 have determined to avoid
these societies, it still remains to be considered what
you are-uext to do ; fur to fulfil the duty you owe to
on and yourselves, you must not only coed evil,
but also do good—and.if this commande me
by the Armicuty, rop!
ljust, how much: more
who, ‘like you, have bee
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n first place, and before
that is, you have no
all, to-avoid evil ; tonly to avoid
these Secret Societies, but also every evil habit or
pr ractice in-which you have hitherto been involved.
You must also You must avoid
avoid}
those. towns, and public meetings, and alehouses, to
which you; hitherto resorted. You must resolve to
confine your: 3 to your own, homes, cach person
be not
Aa to imaging that your erbiotia éan maintain
to bia own family and. his c own house
you
st all]
secret society, with | sure.
as a witness to contradict such a spy 0 informer, t
inasmuch as the moment your witness sw: vore that
was present at the meeting alluded to, that mneaent
y
a your whole hearts ; you must loo!
wou inded for y
tall what was taken awa: y be restored chen it can be
is rule, Tsay, can never change. You,
e
therfore, can never be reconciled to Gop until you
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ae
et
¢
¢
bring t possess: sion
‘e the ‘oloernes at sour own “parish, “be. will deli-
r them ‘to the owner, or deposit them wheresoever
the Magistrate tnay appoint.
goo “Wo desist from evil and to
have unjustly “taken or received is not enough. Tach -
of you, by becoming a tember of the Secret Society,.
became at the same time and by that act an accom-
Plice in, al the cr’ imes commited ever by it. + Your
» you » FO erance gave to it sup-*
port and ctrengt, and the robberies, thefis,-and ex-
cesses, committed by i are all and every one of them
impute le to you. ave committed robbery,
jvle: nce. and perhaps murder by the hands of
3 David is said by the Prophet to have
willed Urias the Hethite, and to have slain him with
the swords of the children of Ammon, e he
|encouraged ond ‘fireeted those who Nteeed “them i in
their way to be alain 5 a) Jou, by. the countenance
ught evil,
s| by their hands, and ar are e participators ‘and “accompli-
ces in all their crimes. Oh! the depth of your ink
quity and the multitude of your sins! how will yor
neance of an angry Gop? Go, bre-
ut delay, into the haunts and assem-
ie} blies of your wicked companions, confess against
prese nee, your injustice te the
S
3
s
yourselves in 0 their
ho rd: bese
wrath of Gop, which i
toudly “that neither life n
ture will induce you ever to y
more-; do'this, and perhaps the Lord would forgive
ire immensity of your sin.-—But. even when this is
done still-another duty remains to be -performed bs
ou; you must return to the Lor a your God wit
o Christ who was
our transgression, na smitten for your
through whom al je you can pow
othe rather of Mercies, _ It is in him,
‘land through him, you can know God, and learn those
virines which you are bound to practice ; remember
that God was in Christ reconciling. the world to him-
Nel F,and exbibiting to all mankind tve duties and
virtues of a holy life. - Ft is only by the fulfilment. of
those duties and the exercise of thoze virtues that
you can possibly be reconciled-to Go We must
put on Jesus Christ, that is we must walk as he walk-
ed; we must do as he did’ in those things which, ,
trong the light of his doctrine, the influence of his
xamp e and the power of his grace, we are enabled
Ho. perform. He was poorin spirit and in fact, we
must be ot at est in spirit, in order to become
heirs m. of Heaven. He was born ina
sible, “rough ie ‘Ne had nota d coat, no
wher 'y his head, he. died naked on the
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want, which, he being rich, but becoming or
ke, bore with so much resi, nation, that bis
disciptes i in the day of tribulation might not murmur,
or repine.
You. must, dear Brethren, if you ‘be thoroughly
converted. pate off the old man with his setions, and
put on the spirit of the patience. of the long suffer-
a of the meekness, of the humanity of asus.
They are the meek and mereiful, and clean of heart,
those who mourn and lament, who hunger and thirst
after justice, or who suffer perseeution for that jus-
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