Rose Hipp
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It came not only professing the purest Catholic religion, but absolutely made the saying of prayers, the frequentation of the sacraments, the open confession of the faith, and devotion to the vicar of Christ a matter of obligation.
I do not believe that Fenianism came to Ireland with so many pious professions.
But it came in the guise of patriotism.
which in Ireland, for many centuries, was so bound up with religion, that in the minds of the peasantry one became inseparably connected with the other.
The friend of one was looked upon as the friend of the other, and the enemy of the one was regarded as the enemy of the other.
Hence, in the minds of the Irish, in my own boyhood, the French who came over under Hoche were regarded as Catholic, and
The Irish would have it that France was then, as it was, when the wild geese went over to fight for the Bourbons, a Catholic nation.
The truth was, of course, quite the other way.
But so long were the Irish people accustomed to regard the French as Catholics
That they still cherished the delusion, and would hear or believe nothing to the contrary.
It was enough, therefore, for Finianism to appear in the guise of a national movement meant to free the country from Protestant England.
that it should without question be looked upon as, at least in the first instance, essentially Catholic.
Nevertheless, after its leaders had gone to Paris to study the methods of the French and Italian carbonari and returned to create circles and centres on the plan of the Vandite of the Italians, they showed a large amount of the infidel spirit of the men they found in France, and determined to spread it in Ireland.
They well knew that the Catholic clergy would be sure to oppose and denounce them, as would every wise and really patriotic man in the country.
The utter impossibility of any military movement which could be made by any available number of destitute Irish peasantry succeeding at the time.
Was in itself reason enough why men of any humanity, not to speak at all of the clergy, should endeavour to dissuade the people.
From the mad enterprise of the Fenians, every good and experienced Irishman, Smith O'Brien, the editors of the nation, and others did so.
Yet, strange to say, the leaders of the disastrous movement, the Irish and the American organizers, were permitted by the English government, at least so long as Lord Palmerston lived.
him to act almost as they pleased in Ireland.
The government knew that while impotent to injure England, these agitators and conspirators were doing the work which English anti Catholic hate desired to do.
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