Show OLD COUNTRY correspondence the irish question he religious status EDINBURGH july 27 th 1883 editor deseret news bews to speak of the A cebery ry as the ilea en lightened nineteenth has become so universal and aad stereotyped that it grates upon the ears of many not on account of its often repetition but its hollowness it is doubtless true that majestic strides have been taken towards perfection in the arts and sciences but th the 3 spirit ot the age in which we I 1 live ive is cruel and tyrannical but little reformation lei id found where most needed aad the world is as firmly bound by the shackles ot and political demagogues who are straining nine every nerve to make other people think and believe as they do as it was in the days ot of catholic mary and Prote protestant elizabeth bloody mary passed the most cruel laws to crush the protestant Prote siant spirit in ireland in the sixteenth c century and nd today under tae so c called 1 1 mb benign benign and auspicious govern ment ol of protestant victoria cruel unwise and christian unchristian un laws are being enacted and at tile the point of the sword being put into execution against the catholics and for what because they dire dare to assert their freedom of conscience and the light to believe and think as they please meetings held for the purpose of considering ways i and means for the amelioration of the distressed condition ot of the people are broken up by armed soldiers and police it is now becoming the opinion of thinking people and justly too that many of the crimes and outrages in ireland could be directly charged to the inhuman conduct of the officers of tile the law to read mad the reception given to mr dillon when he came to dublin in to receive his sentence is touching ia the extreme the people who had bad withered vi gathered in crowds to pay their re aspects to one of the noblest sous BOOS of freedmen tre edmen were belabored with the batons of the police and knocked down and trampled upon by the soldiers no wonder then that the feelings s of the people gave way and they endeavored deavo red to return evil for evil the sentence as your readers are well aware was six nix months imprisonment and what for because he had the man manliness lineas to support his bis political bonyi convictions bious and in doing so he supported arted something that was abao fo cutely t ely necessary to prevent frightful suffering g and wrong doing it saved thousands of tenants from the crushing wrong of b eia driven from their own bul but their rack rented some 11 there is assuredly more moke truth in the saying of william obrien than can be seen at ac present that the advocates of the plan of campaign campaign w were ere only like men who stayed the 6 e arm of execution until the reprieve arrived and it if that be so the imprisonment of mr dillon billon will be an Indel lible reproach upon the english crown one might well wonder why En Ka glands statesmen do not seethe see the result af at dillons imprison ment wi will 1 l it il unite te th hearts of the irish with the english will it make them love their christian queen or will it not make the hearts of such men as cried out to dillon while he be was being led from the court ot of justice to the criminals cell 1 I would to god I 1 were the prisoner instead of you burn with a more profound desire for freedom from a country some ot of whose laws are unbearable if not baaba barbarous rous what words could speak wita wili greater potency of the high respect and esteem in which john dillon to is held than those expressed in the address of the town commissioners to bato in dublin courthouse wherein it says we regard you not as a criminal but as a martyr who is ready and willing to suffer and dart dare the worst terrors of f coercion suca words coming as they do from the bead oi 01 the city bear their weight and will have a more potent is fluence in 10 cementing the hearts of the irish people with that of their imprisoned leader thin than all the laws england may pass to effect cie contrary other arrests of prominent men are made one of the latest bet being n 9 al mr r J J okelly v the cause of h his i arrest that thai he be advised adv faed the people to withhold their evidence ITI in a speech delivered at boyle county roscommon Kos Ros common where an i I 1 was to be neld under the abe crimes iet act A prominent newspaper gives the following account 01 ol t lae I 1 e prisoner the prisoner mr ili OK oIly olly has giai led cd a adventurous career lie ile was horn hoin hoi n I 1 it IM educated educate dat at dublin university and itt fit ilir sorbonne Sor boune college paris pans and served some tame in in the french army until he retired 1 as captain he was subsequently one of f the jie editors of the new york herad and in 1873 volunteered to proceed as war correspondent to cuba while there he visited cespedes and the cuban rebels and upon returning to the spanish lines line was arrested tried and sentenced to death as a suspected to he was however saved from thet the spanish bullets by senor castellar and afterwards ter wards he took part in the war against the famous sioux chief sitting bull subsequently quent ly he accompanied the em emperor banaka eror ov oc brazil in his journey from rio eio janeiro through the united states and in 1855 he be went to soudan with the intention of joining jining the madai he represented county Ros roscommon common as a nationalist from 1880 to and his has sat tor for the northern division Divisio it of county roscommon Ros common since the end of the latter year meetings are being held throughout the country protesting against the illegal measures of ef the ge government vern ment and the harsh treatment of 0 the prisoners under the crimes act everything is being done to secure writs of habeas corpus for their release lest their confinement flu ement ends like that of mr john bohoi mandeville in death so ho much for political affairs but as we turn our attention to religion dud and look for the spirit of charity that is kind and not puffed up that ceth not ot in iniquity but ceth in the truth h that heareth bearett all things and be all things we find it not it it too loo like enoch of old has b boon ben en taken up for it is not the world is as much opposed to the light 1 of truth as mary queen kneen of scots w was as when tn in a 4 most passionate manner maner she entreated john knox boox to desist from preaching his doctrines elder roberts met ja jarman in swansea a short time ago but bub his voice was so drowned in taeup the uproar of the saved rabble that it W was impossible to hear him while his ying I 1 and lunatic opponent receive dl the most courteous attention and approbation and when a vote was taken to see whether the charges had bad been proven or not the majority voted that they had go where you will the same spirit of darkness prevails ind and is almost universally sustained by the reverend divines they are blind leaders of the blind being as destitute ot the true spirit of the scriptures as those whom they profess to teach it is the hardest thing possible nowadays to set get a congregation into a mormon meet lug ing nor will they stop to listen oo on the 8 dreels sr eels why because our enemies are circulating the most awful falsehoods concerning us apol and the people are arc becoming more steeled to us altime as time rolls on if we get one or two strangers into our meeting we feel encouraged and sometimes right in this great city of learning learann and refinement we have only one but edinburgh has received a testimony that speaks in words more potent than that of man in the shape of six or seven splendid models of tile the ancient ruins of arizona and colorado they are deposited in the science and art museum and caa be seen by all some are cliff ruins arid and one found in southwestern southwesters south colorado is the model ot of an ancient tower with fourteen rooms these speak to the people telling them of americas ancient inhabitants and substantiate the truth of the book of mormon JOHN HAYS |