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THE
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Montreal.
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In Napanee those who were in favor of
others.
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Macdounel], who had spoken and written against
establishment because he was opposed to the
importation of passions from the old world, but
neither he nor any other pesrson
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we should do
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a position as Catholics
TO SAY THAT
for
what happened
in
Montreal.
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sponsible.
Every Catholic in Upper Canada,
every Catholic in the country is responsible for
what has happened in Montreal. It is no use
for any one to say it was the mob.
mob does
not resort to violence without leaders ; a mob is
always something that follows and carries out in
a violent way some strong feeling that exists in
the lower strata of a community. There was no
danger of a Catholic mob attacking a Catholic
procession, just as there was not the slightest
danger of the mob two years ago in Toronto
making a similar attack upon Protestants of any
denomination. We cannot free ourselves from a
certain responsibility with regard to the conduct
of those who were only nominally Catholio. It
has hurt us, in the same way as the bad conduct of bad Catholics in this parish hurts us, and
as the violence exhibited two years ago in Toronto
hurt those who on that occasion displayed the
violence. It has hurt us in Upper Canada ; and
will continue to hurt us probably for many
long years. Men who do violence hurt themselvesand any society or denomination that
violates the law commits a crime and hurts itself.
This assault in Montreal has not hurt the
Orange society or individual Orangemen. It has
strengthened their hands; they ha.ve received
the sympathy of all Protestants in this c untry,
iust exactly as we obtained the sympathy of aJl
law-abiding people throughout Canada after the
riot in Toronto. The True Witness tells the
Orange Society in Montreal that it is illegal.
He (Father Stafford) did not know whether it
was or not ; he did not care ; but if all the old
laws on the statute book were to be enforced
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of wisdom and civilizaforget they are fellcw-countrymen of our own, that they are generally Irish,
that they are Christians ; and if they are wrong
in what they do, it is no reason why we should
take away their lives, or do anything to injure
them in any respect. On the contrary, the more
wrong they are the more incumbent it is upon us
to maintain peace, and endeavor in a peaceable
Christian way to induce them to discontinue
bad
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This language was not Christian at all ; it did
not belong to any religion ; it was not only not
Catholic, but it was not Christian. Inflict upon
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Oathob'cs
the
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have not tne power ; but if we had
land !''
the power are we to inflict upon Protestants here
what in former times was inflicted upon Cath-
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at home and in foreign countries for the occurrence of multiplied and embittered hostilities
among Irishmen of different religious persuaions, I present myself before you in the name
of God, in the name of humanity, and in the
name of Ireland, to offer you as sons of one common motherland the most heartfelt assurances of
friendship, brotherhood and conciliation. You
You repreare Protestant and I am Catholic
sent one class of Irishmen ; I represent another.
Y<!)u and I have been brought up in political as
well as religious ideas that have made us antagonistic to one another, have reddened our
nation's soil with the best blood our respected
classes could boast, and have made us stand be-
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fore the world more like savages than enlightened
f*.
men.
I do not come here to upbraid you, brethren,
I accept for myself and my Catholic fellow countrymen our f uU share of whatever blame or odium
attaches to the disgraceful dee<is that have been
the fruit of our disgraceful training. It is our
training that has been wrong. Had we been bred
as we should have been, we would have the feelings and the instincts of cultivated men and not
We were blindof the most ferocious animals.
ed by ignorant or interested teachers. There
were behind us those whom we blindly obeyed as
masters, and they drove us headlong to disgrace
and fratricide. Be those political, or be they
religious teachers, they merit from us but contempt and execration.
STEALING THE LIVERY OP HEAVEN.
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you value of displaj^ing before you an
oraDge bloesom or a yellow ribbon. And here [
will say in pride and I want you to note it well
as a matter not to be mistaken I have this
very eumnif r mingled in the outdoor gatherings
of at least 20,000 Catholic Irishmen who wore
the Orange col< r at their buttonhole, and who
floated yellow bunting from every spar of the
steamers, and from every point of the barges
that bore their tens of thousands of patriotic
followers over the waters of the Hudson to all
the picnic parks in our vicinity. This was
prompted by a spirit of enlightened patriotism,
ty which they would give you Irish Protestants
to understand that. they recognize your rights
as Irishmen, and that your religion is no bar
to their friendship and protection. Love the
land that bore you. Be patriots and gentlemen,
and the modest little shamrock will peep out
securely at the feet of the stately lily, and the
privilege
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a Protestant
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Grattan,
Curran,