LOYALIST AND HIS SEDITIOUS LETTER.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3479, 18 February 1880, Page 2

LOYALIST AND HIS SEDITIOUS LETTER.

(To the Editor of the Etening Stab.)

Sib,—l think I may fairly claim space in your paper to answer the letter of " Loyalist," which appeared on Thursday lust. I have made a shrewd guess as to who the writer is, and I make bold to tell him that holding, as he does, aa official position under a Protestant Government, he has grossly committed himself by publishing such a tiiade of folly and abase of Protestants. " Loyalist" must be either a papist in disguise, or he is so shallowpated that he cannot discern the difference between the Irish under the diabolical priestcraft of Home, and the* Irish free from such frightful bondage.^ When we know that eighth tenths at least of these people are bound hand and foot, to ultra-montanism, the most cruel system of religion in the world, a religion which history abundantly, testifies, hates, with a perfect hatred, all—everywhere—who are opposed to it, and would had it its former powei, deprive them of the rery bread they subsist upon, as_weli as cruelly per* secute them to the death. When we know the well established facts of this religious history, and that the laws of the system are unaltered, and according to their hierarchy unalterable, and that its real intentions for the future, should it gain , the power, are as cruel as erei- to all heretics .as it is pleased to call them. With all this full in view we ask, how could the Irish people, if they had their onn way .and - their much vaunted " Home Rule," be otherwise than, inimical to Protestant. England? "Home Rule" under the spiritual direction of Borne, then the Irish* people at once become a nation of rebels/ for ever plotting with success Protestant England's-downfall. The grand idea of the day among uUramontanists is Eng« land's downfall. - Cardinal Manning has boldly and openly declared that he will never be. satisfied until he brings England to the feet of the Pope, and if Ireland gets -. her desire, she will certainly be used as a•• wedge in the hands of RomeJo split our dear old .country to pieces and bring her to ruin. Regarding Irishmen simply as Irishmen, and freed from the iron grasp of Rome's bishops and. priests, they are as good as any other people and very much better than some. It is the infernal spiritual bondage they . are under that makes all the difference, In this respect they are to be pitied, not blamed. ~ Was it dot for this, the Irish might be as . jafely trusted with their own Parliament as the people of New Zealand or any _. other of the Australian colonies, and - would develop the resources of, -their beautiful country in all directions. Your correspondent dares to call the old Scottish Covenanters and the old English Puritans Fenians, but who cares, for the braying of -this emhryo Fenian donkey. It is simply a disgusting lifcel^and we wonder why. some of the descen3ants~of these grand old worthies do not answer this libeller of their old fathers.' Has the spirit of the' old worthies died out before the slimy soft mouthism of these degenerate days ? I know that the coming ecclesiastical beast (Cardinal P. Bonaparte I believe) Rev. 13c. llv., when fn'ly developed has two. horus like a lamb; he is a wild beast ' nevertheless, but he likes to put on the lamb-like character, and as coming events cast their shadows before, so we' find, - under (he present Pope, the Roman Catholics putting on lamb-like characteristics ; and thus they deceive weak-kneed Protestants and worldly-minded Christians. But the test time is at hand, then we shall certainly know who is true to Christ and who is not, who will go over to Rome and who will suffer martyrdom for Christ's sake, and the truth's. However, the oath taken by the Fenians, first published many years ago, has since appeared in many . Protestant. journals both in the old world, in the United States and in the colonies, and- ':• very lately in the Auckland Free Press, and as far as I know it has not been contradicted ; it reveals at a glance what is Fenianism. "Now, Mr Loyalist, shew us: whether the old Covenanters and the old Puritans had any such* diabolical intentions as this fearful oath displays; you know you cannot; you know, if you know anything about it, that they fought for freedom, truth, right and justice, but Fenians will murder wholesale with the object of bringing the whole world into an infernal spiritual bondage aid carnal licentiousness. If Loyalist writes again let him play the man and not the coward with a mask on; let him sign his real name and tell the truth, for he that stabs in the dark through a newspaper would be a dangerous character to meet in a by^way_jfter_dayljght for fear of orsttb of another nature. My next number of Enoch will contain a prophetical article - concerning Ireland in the coming trouble,' when I shall have occasion to give th? bloody oaths taken by Fenians ancT">" Ribbonmen; in the meantime let Protestants have a care. or they may unawares be inveigled into supporting with their money or otherwise sedition and treason. Whliam Wood. -