Rose Hipp
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first heard Aug 2026
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more effectively than any delusion or bribe or persecution which heresy had been able to invent.
They were undermining the faith of the people, and destroying secretly but surely that love and respect for the clergy which had distinguished the country ever since the days of Saint Patrick.
A paper edited by one of these men was circulated for at least two years in the homes of nearly all the population.
It contained, to be sure, much incitement to revolution.
But it contained also that which in Lord Palmerston's eyes compensated for the kind of revolution Fenians could make a thousandfold, it contained the most able, virulent and subtle attacks upon the clergy.
This paper remained undisturbed until Palmerston passed away.
and affairs in America made Fenianism a real danger for his successors in office.
Its issues contained letters written in its own office, but purporting to come from various country parishes, calumniating many of the most venerable of the priests of the people.
Men who so loved their flocks as to sacrifice all for them during the famine years.
Men who had lived with them from youth to old age were now so artfully assailed as foes of their country's liberation, that the people maddened and deluded by such attacks, passed them on the road to the
Without the usual loving salutation Catholics in Ireland give to and receive from their priests.
The secret sect backed up the action of the newspaper.
Its leaders got the word of command for that purpose and had to be obeyed.
Matters proceeded daily from bad to worse, until at last divine providence manifested clearly the deadly designs against religion underlying the Fenian movement.
and the people of Ireland recoiled from it and were saved.
And then it was hard to keep, even the leaders themselves bad to the end.
At death few of them like to face the god they have outraged without reconciliation.
But in life these men who
Like the informers with whom they are so often in alliance, do desperate things to deceive first, and then, for a passing interest, to ruin their unfortunate dupes afterwards.
For my own part, I am of opinion that the man who deludes a number of brave young hearts to rush into a murderous enterprise, hopeless from the outset, is as dangerous as the man who seduces men to become assassins and then sacrifices their lives to save his own neck from the halter.
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