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wr ^ v ^ r , r ^ rizpjgz !^ Nq . 510 . Dec . 31 , 1859 . ] THE LEADER . ______ 1409
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after encountering all the risks which it must meet ¦ with at sea , and having safely readied our shores , even if it should accomplish this , the moment it lands , with the sea behind and no retreat , it would be compelled to light for its existence with a powerful rifle force . I say that the the moment this is known , I believe that so hazardous an enterprise would never be attempted . " Lord Grey urged that a volunteer force was the legitimate arm of defence of the country ; and that being for the mere defence of home and hearth it could not give offence to foreigners , but it would of necessity teach them to respect us . the Loifib Advocateat ublic
On Wednesday , a p meeting in Edinburgh , said that the volunteer movement was one in which no foreign nation could justly claim an interest , and at which no foreign state was enabled to take the slightest umbrage . It was a movement which never could be used for anything but defence . They were enrolled for service within " their native country , and , therefore , they never could be an instrument of foreign aggression . They said of themselves : " We are volunteers enrolled for the defence of our native land in the event of an invasion—we are nothing else . We seek nothing that is our neighbours '—we want nothing of theirs ; but we wish to keep what we have got
and we intend to do so . " But then it mig ht be said , " What was the emergency that had spread this panic through the country ? " There was no difficulty in showing what the emergency was . The wonder was they , did not see it long ago . It was no jealousy of France , or of Russia , or of any one . It was the fact that stared us in the face that , excepting our wooden walls—in which , no doubt , we very justly trust—we stand * as a nation , utterly defenseless against any force that might by possibility be landed on these shores . Were we to run the risk of trusting to a chance such as that which scattered the Spanish Armada , centuries ago , among our rock-bound coasts ? We naval
might be again exposed to the attack of a force , we know not how soon , and were we to stand exposed to the attack of any foe that might think fit to invade us merely because the chances were that they might never make out their intended aggression ? And what was an invasion ? It -was all very well to read about it in books , and think that it did not concern us ; but just suppose that a force were landed upon the shores of the Firth of Forth . Think of the misery which the march of a hostile foreign force from Edinburgh to Glasgow would necessarily entail , He would not stop to describe it . There were those that had seen the march of an armywhether in advance or retreat , through a
, hostile country ; and he would only say that from such horrors they were not safe until this volunteer system was thoroughly organised . We were not looking to any particular State , but to this fact , that while we all woke up suddenly from our dream of peace in the llussian war , we had learned a great deal since that time . We had » learned how the arts of war had been improved , how the rapid transit of troops might be effected , and all those things told us that we should be looking out for our own safety .
As to the assertion that volunteers were of no value in the field , they knew enouph of history to know that that was not the case . Washington fought the whole battle of American independence with Ins militia . lie might go back to Cromwell ' s Ironsides , who were men of the same stamp , and did not fight with the same advantages as they should now have . In the beginning of the Russian war did they not see Omer Pasha keep the whole line of the Danube with the Turkish army , which was neither well disciDlined . yrell accoutred , nor u'ell-armud ? And so
they did at Silistria . A fow courageous kngUslimen and Scotchmen—and he fancied no great amount of discipline behind thorn—were sufficient to stem the tido of battle there against the choicest of the Russian army . So General Williams did at Kars ; and such was always the advantage which the invaded had over the invader . lie was . perfectly certoin that if that day should over arrive when wo should , have a foreign force upon those shores , give us ten thousand riflemen , each man knowing the use of his weapon , with the aid of their knowledge of the country , and tlio assistance which engineers would bo ablo to render them , they would bo able , if not to resist , at least—which was most valuable in such a crisis—to delay and obstruct the enemy , and gam time until creator assistance could bo obtained . attUroBioa
if I did not admit that in some cases—though not in many—there has been blame also on the other side . Surely , my lord , It is not by denouncing everything that we hold most dear and sacred as Catholics and as Irishmen on the one hand , nor on the other hand by violent attacks against English institutions , by expressions of questionable loyalty to the Queen , that the bond of union is to be cemented between the people of the two countries , and that when the hour of danger arrives we shall be best able to cope with the difficulties by which we may be surrounded . We meet here to express our deep and unalterable attachment to our religion , and our most devoted
sympathy with and loyalty to its sovereign head ; and what is there , in God ' s name , to prevent us feeling this in combination with a hearty recognition of the liberties which as Catholics we enjoy in these countries , and of the most devoted loyalty to the person of our Sovereign—one who , uniting a 3 she does all the virtues that can adorn her sex , and which have caused her to be justly beloved by her people , possesses all these higher qualities , so imr portant in a ruler , which in troubled times will enable her to unite all her subjects in her defence , and are , therefore , the best security for the safety of her throne , and the greatest prosperity and happiness of her people ?"
Mr . W . Monsell , M . P ., thus dealt with the question of the Pope ' s temporal power : —" Now ' with regard to the point put forward in the resolution which I have read , that in the present state of the world we look upon the temporal dominion of the Pope as necessary to the good administration of the Catholic Church , there can be , I think , no difference of opinion . Statesmen and senators of different countries , and at different periods of history * have maintained its necessity , and those persons must be entirely and absolutely ignorant of what the office of the Sovereign Pontiff is who deny that proposition . How could he keep his watchful e 3 e over Ml Christendom ; how could he arrange
with regard to the appointment of bishops , the sending forth of missionaries , and the decision of questions respecting religion and morals ; how could he do all these things , and do them impartially and well , if lie were the subject of any sovereign ? And also , gentlemen , let me ask you this question , If you take the Pope ' s territories from him where would you put him ? Would you put him , for instance , in France , where , only a few months ago , the Emperor of the French—the champion of liberty in Italy—forbad the pastorals of the dishops to appear in the public journals ? Would you place him in Austria , the benumbing influence of which upon the intelligence of the age has been referred to by my noble friend , with whose observations I enlace him in Russiain
tirely agree ? Would you p — the territories of the persecutor of the Polish nuns ? Would you place him in this new Italian kingdom , which some people wish to establish ? Why , the first aot of the Provisional Governments in Florence and Bologna was to suppress a number of religious orders , to throw insult on religion , and to control the clergy in tho exercise of their spiritual functions . Would wo , living in Ireland ,, be satisfied that our intercourse with his Holiness should be rendered liable to interruption by placing him under the control and infiuouce of persons animated by such principles as those which the acts of this provisional government have indicated up to the present moment , when , be it remembered , they are on
the noblest , the highest , the holiest of pur worldly duties , not in a spirit of bravado , still less in a spirit of levity , not for the purpose of aggression , but with a calm , stern , but enduring resolution and fortitude of our race , to defend our country and everything it contains . It had been said that this volunteer movement might give offence to foreign nations . What Give offence to a nation which had a standing army of 600 , 000 men , who had , during several generations , been employed chiefly in aggressive wars upon others ? He did not want to say one word to provoke or to offend , but he was not to be deterred when he was told that we might give offence in that way , from telling the truth , and bringing home to those who complained the injustice of their own actions . Much had already been done in this country , but much yet remained to be done . Much
had been done , for hostile words had been spoken against us , arrogant pretensions had been raised ; we had been threatened . They little knew the temper of this country who supposed that it could be intimidated . They little knew the spirit they were evoking when they hoped to intimidate us . No man had a higher respect than he bad for the French nation . They were at the head of civilisation on the continent of Europe . They were our equals in many things , and our superiors in some ; but this he must'say , that for many generations , whenever that nation had been united r . nd strong , ' . the * very feeling that it was at the head of civilisation had led it to assert pretensions to political supremacy arid predominance which this country could never submit to . Let no man , therefore , pretend to say that he looked forward with confidence to a time of
unbroken' peace . If we desired that our social progress should not be arrested we musb provide fur the security of the nation , so that tbat progress might advance undisturbed . If we desired the happiness , the prosperity , and the advancement of the people in this country , we must provide for their defence as we had riot hitherto provided . " Numerous meetings have been held hera and in Ireland to express the sympathy of the Catholics with their Holy Father the Pope . The Earl of Fixoall being asked to attend one on Thursday , replied by letter to Dr . -Cullen : " While yielding to none in the deep-felt sympathy with which every Catholic must regard the unmerited sufferings of the
illustrious head of our holy religion , and fully impressed with the importance of securing the political independence of the Holy Sec , it is with < lecp regret that I feel compelled to express my dissent from any portion of the resolutions which have received the sanction of your Lordship ' s approval . As one of those who signed the requisition on the assurance that the ' sole ' object of the meeting was to express sympathy with the Pope in his present affliction , I cannot but disapprove the severity of the language of the earlier resolutions , which appears to me to go beyond the legitimate object for which the meeting was originally convened . It is , however , to the line of policy laid down in tho 4 th and 5 th resolutions that I feel obliged , however reluctantly , to offer an unqualified dissent . The object , as I conceive , of the and
these resolutions is to pledge meeting :, more especially the county members , to oppose every Administration which may consent to recognise the separate independence of any portion of the Roman States . Deeply as I should i-egret such a solution of the present difficulty , I find it impossible to concur in a course of notion which I consider would be fraxight with evil to the best interests of the Catholics of the United Kingdom . Throughout my public life , I have always been opposed , on principle , to the imposition of pledges on Members of Parliament , and being myself a member of the Legislature , I must decline to bo bound by n resolution which would fetter my own judgment , and have the effect of imposing on others tho necessity of doing what I myseU should not bo prepared to do . Under those circumstances , your Lordship
their good behaviour ? " , , There have been this week two other demonstrations in favour of the Pope in Ireland , one in Boyle , and tho other in Traleo , described as " monster gatherings . " At Traleo , Capt . Danikj O'Connei . l was in tho chair . He feelingly mad p reference to his father , who was out short by the hand of death on his way to Rome , and for whoso remains the Pope ordered obsequies of tho most splendid description . The other speakers strongly repudiate ! tho charge of dUloyalty that some extreme tho Catholics of
will percoive that I cannot approve the course proposed to bo taken , and must therefore , however painful tp mo , decline attending a mooting with the main object of which . I cordially concur . " At the Limerick meeting , the Earl of Dunkavkn , a recent convert to Romanism , having exalted tho Papal Government to tho skies as tho mode of human institutions , proceeded to touch upon tho line taken by tho JJngliali press with regard to tlio present movement . He said , — " Tho direct and systematic attacks which have been mado on our bishops and clergy , tho indirect attacks whicli have boon made on tho CatUollo laity and on pur relig ion , aro tw . t . hn nxnnna bosfc calculated to produce that
har-Protestants have made against Ireland . The pamphlet of M . do la Guerronniore was referred to as an ovidenoo of treachery oa the part of tho Emperor of tho French . It w « b also called a proof of shameless hypocrisy . If the arrangement thus suggested was coino to , said one of tho orators , it would bo a nefarious robbery of tho Pope ' s dominions that would toibo » shout of execration from two hundred million ' s of people . Indeed , tho Emperor of tho French was threatened at Woo with tho Invasion of his country and tho loss of ltia power , if not with vongoanco oxocutod upon his own person .
At Edinburgh , also , Sir John M'Neim , the oitizons upon tho same question . Ho remarked , " We must bo prepared to defend our accumulated wealth—tlio ri . chcst booty tho world prosentB to lawless cupidity—to defend our freo institutions , which somo have regarded as an offence and reproach to abaolute governments—to dofondour homos , vriuou had been handed dtfwn to ua by tho valour of tlio sons roared on tholr inviolate hearths . Ho Held hkn to be no man who would shrink from tho cost and labour of the hazard of performing , like a man ,
mony and good feeling between tho two countries which are so important In the present crisis , u ever there was a tlmo when sound no ! ley and tfooa feeling dictated that everything should bo done to sof ten religious differences , and unite > tho p oonlo of tho two countries cordially together , FmS now , when tho alarm of foreign Invasion is ringing throughout tho length and » " »««» of tlio land . But in saying this it would not be just
St. Paui^S Oath Bdbau— The Special £»?]«...
St . Paui ^ s Oath bdbau— The special £ »?]«» will commence to-morrow , at seven o ' clock . J . He ormonni be preached by the Right ^* J "* " * Bishop of London . On Sunday , January 8 ,, tho sormon will bo nrcaehod by tho Kov . Daniel Moore , MA ., incumbent of GunSen Cnuroh , CamborweH , and dolden Lecturer at St . Margaret ' s , Lothbury .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 31, 1859, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31121859/page/5/
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