BISHOP MORIARTY ON FENIANISM.

Dunstan Times, Issue 265, 24 May 1867, Page 3

BISHOP MORIARTY ON FENIANISM.

A discourse of Bishop Moriarty in the cathedral of Killarney, on Su> day, Feb. 17, has excited general attention from the vigour with which he denounced the brotherhood and all who have joined it. The denunciation was rendered more emphatic by the circumstance that some of the younger members of the congregation rose and left the chapel during its delivery. The following are the closing passages of of this remarkable address. Having praised the people of Killarney for generally holding aloof from the conspiracy, Dr Moriarty said: —"Jfotwithsta xling your good conduct, there is that of which you have reasou to be ashamed. There is i an absence of marly, outspoken, public i spirit among you. You hate outrage and | disorder, but you do not show your? elves : like men on the side of law and order. " You need not. make Fenia s afraid of you. 1 You seem to halt between two side.-.:, as i* yon were afraid of them. "Why is it that < (he authori ies and the gentry do not ! i vast you with arms on such occasions 1 I know every decent ina':i wou'd use them, j But this is iot enough. The world should be convinced that such is your temper and sp'rit. You are afraid of the Fenians. ! All this must change, and you must so i i think, and speak, and act, that every evil | doer will be afraid of you. Now, let me give you a few words of advice of a purely j business kind. lam told some people arc | fools enough to take their money out of ' the ba k, as if it could be safe in their | pockets. You say the bank will be attacked in case of an insurrection. Well, what of that ] Don't you know that the money you lodge iu the bank to-daj' is in London by to-morrow's posh, inasmuch as the head office there becomes debtor to }ou for the amount ? Put lack your money into the bank. If I had a hundred thousand pounds I would place them there. Another advice I give you Keep your houses at night, and send this advice all over the west of the coubty. The military must be sent in search of the fugitives. Now, if any poor peasants were so foolish as to leave their homes through fright they would necessarily be suspected of com, l'city in Fenianism. The soldiers would not hurt you unless they find you iu arms against the Queen. One word against the prime movers of all this mischief. If wo must condemn the foolish youths who have joined in this conspiracy how much must wc not execrate the conduct of those designing villians who have been entrapping innocent youth, and organising this work of crime 1 Thank God they are not our people, or, if they were, they have lost the Irish character in the cities of America. But beyond them there are criminals of a far deeper guilt—the men who, while they semi their dupes into danger, arc fattening on tic spoil in I Paris and New York—the execrable I swindlers, who care not to endanger the necks of the men who trust them, who ■ care not how many are murdered by the 1 rebel or hanged by the strong arm of the \ law, provided that they can get a supp'y \ of dollars cither for their pleasures or . for their want 1 . Oh, God's heaviest curse i —His withering, blasting, blighting curse ■ is on them. I preached to you last Sun-j ! day on the eternity of hell's torments. ■ ■ Human reason was inclined to say, "It is \ T a hard word, and who can bear it ? But I when we look down into the fathomless ' ■ depth of this infamy of the heads of the Fenian conspiracy, wc must acknowledge that eternity is not long enough nor hell t hot enough to punish such mircreants.