The Cross and the Shamrock

want the office; they only forced it on to him. Like some of your great statesmen, he acted for man, as he emphatically said; not for poor widows and orphans, taken one by one; that was only a secon

as an officer, he said, he acted according to principle. He could not betray his constituents, who elected him against his will, by any act of extravagance; and the good of the many must be consulted. "Even the Lord," he used to say,-for he was a religious man,-"when he created the sun, left spots in it." The best statesman must sometimes do what may be cruel to the few; but, in the end, it would turn out for the good of man. This district, since his election, now twice successively, had made a savin

church, I didn't have any knowledge of God. I used to pity these emigrants, seeing them poor and pale looking as death; but now, sir, I r

es were no sign of the Lord's displeasure; as witness holy Job and Christ himself, who were poor. In fact, she never stopped tellin

f Papist, you know, and did no

t that, in the many arguments she had with fath

nd the like; but the Bible she dur

and read every day-a great large one, printed in London. Mother was Engli

ese priests, by the arts of Antichrist, will come round simple fol

ion there is. Father often brought Methodist and Presbyterian ministers to make mother give up her'n; but it was no go. She always treated them civil; but they had the worst of the argument, I can tell you. They brought their Bibles, and she her'n; and then they would set to, and be at it, till at last the

our official. "I must call and s

ster, in the course of time, by proper management, promised to come to something. In a certain school house in his vicinity, where the faithful were too poor, too irreligious, or too pernicious to hire a preacher, our official held forth every Sunday, and several evenings on the week days, at pra

g seats, I see the crystal fountains, I see the Lord sitting on the throne. Come, siste

city of this very enlightened "minister of the word;" but the great majority believed, o

the other for some important office in church or state, to which he unquestionably aspired. Several times during the two months the destitute widow and her family were reduced to penury and sickness. Our worthy master was apprised of their condition by the neighbors; but he always answered that the law did not allow him to spend any more, just now; that these emigrants ought to remain at home; that they had no right to thi

nest man for wonst," said Mrs. Doherty; "for there is no fear that an Irishman's

man, whose soul, steeped in the sensuality of his past life, had lost all that was divine in its nature. His circumstances were so reduced by his crimes and dissipation, that, being "too lazy to work, and ashamed to beg," he assu

f mourning about five o'clock in the morning, when, thrusting

s you here this hour o' night?" said old gran

n her face. "I am the poormaster; and, having received a report that there was a dead paup

e custom in any Christian country. After to-morrow will be soon enough. You need not be in a hurry.

he ship fever, I suppose. The citizens expect me to do

t the poor woman's heart broke, seeing what she had come

ew the word of God, he would not have deserted he

ed by God, but died content and happy, after all the rites of h

could love God without the Bible; and yo

ce for me or my old man, for neither of us can read it; but not so Mrs. O

ue. "We have always had the true Catholic Bi

sleigh I will send for you. Let's see how many of you there are. One, two, three, four-a great lot of ye. As I was

of money, I know the good man will provide for us till he writes to my uncle, who would be very s

, and don't fail to be ready by ten o'clock,"

the cortege drove off at full speed to the cemetery. By half past eleven, the remains of the widow were consigned to their kindred earth, the few lumps of hard frozen clay on the surface her only monument-the sobs, sighs, and prayer