20 THE IRISH PEOPLE. 



(6.) Of one of those gentlemen who " drew such 

 odious pictures," Thomas Moore wrote in the Fudge 

 Family : 



" And on he went in iligant style, 

 Blasphaming us Catholics all the while 

 As a pack of deceavers, perjurers, villians 

 All the whole kit of the aforesaid millions 

 Yourself, dear Judy, as well as the rest, 

 And the innocent craythur that's at your breast. 

 Och ! och ! had you heard such a purty remark as 



his, 



That Papists are only Humanity's carcasses, 

 Risen, but bedad, I'm afeared I can't give it ye, 

 Risen from the sepulchre of inactivity, 

 And like ould corpses dug up from antiquity, 

 Wandrin' about in all sorts of iniquity."* 



(7.) From America comes another protest.! At 

 the County Board of the Ancient Order of Hiber- 

 nians at Montreal in December, 1894, it was: 



" Resolved That, firmly believing, as Christians 

 and Catholics, that the Almighty God in His wisdom 

 created man an intelligent being capable of knowing 

 and serving Him, and whereas many theatrical per- 

 formers and others pandering to the depraved tastes 

 of certain portions of the community scurrilously 

 burlesque and belittle the Irish character, and 

 whereas writers for many alleged comic publications 



* Ninth Letter of the Fudge Family in England. 

 t Quoted in Dublin Evening Mail, Dec. 11, 1894. 



