The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-09 00:00:00

the former, by far the more active and ener-
getic, and not as it seems very much the less
numerous of the two, will carry every thine
its own way. 'When we speak of the party
of murderers in Ireland we would be

understood to include all those, in the
various grades of society, who labour Sys.
tematically to inflame the passions of the
people upon political subjects, knowing, as
they must know, by long experience, that this
species of excitement expresses itself naturally.
has, in truth, no other vernacular idiom, in that
country, than deeds of blood. Of this part)
Mr. O'Connell is the leader. Its subaltern
officers are the forty or fifty. Members who are to
follow in his train into the House of Commons
in virtue of the emancipation and Reform Bills.
Its recruiting sergeants and fuglemen are the
Roman Catholic Priests, one of whom at least is

placed in every parish in Ireland. Its objects
have been progressively developed as one step
after another has been made in the road to filial
success. When the penal laws existed in their full
vigour murders and other scarcely less horrible
atrocities were frequently committed, and they
turnished arguments for the relaxation of these

wholesome laws. The penal laws were relaxed,
and murders and other atrocities increased, and
furnished arguments still one degree stronger for
their entire repeal. The penal laws were abolished,
and once more we beheld an increase of murders

and other equal atrocities, which again served as
the basis of all the reasoning which was ever ad-
vanced in favour of admitting Roman Catholic,
to the enjoyment of political power. The Ro-
man Catholics by this means obtained political
power ; but not enough. They demanded a
cull equality with Protestants in political power,
and, after the cutting of throats upon a still
larger scale than ever, they obtained it. The
objects are now the repeal of the Union, and
the annihilation of the property of the Protestant
Church ; and, although the party of murderers
have fast possession of political power, and
can employ legal means in common with all
other classes, or even more efficaciously than any
other, still, so far from abandoning their habi-
tual dialectics of the knife, they use this
sanguinary mode of reasoning more vigorously
than upon any former occasion. Another
triumph seems to be in reserve for them. And
what then ? Is it probable that they will be
satisfied, and cease to kill ? Nothing can be
less probable. Will there not still be Protestants
in Ireland, and the property of Protestants, the
former to be extirpated, the latter to be seized ?
Will there not still be a Protestant Government
and two Protestant nations in Great Britain to
be hated, and if possible overthrown, to be con-
verted from their offensive and intolerable heresy,
or, if that be impossible, to be harassed, impo-
verished, afflicted, and enfeebled ? Who can
doubt, after what is past, that these latter objects
will serve to divide the Irish nation as completely
into two hostile parties as any of the former ; that

the Roman Cath.olic party will then, as now, have
its active politcal leaders in Ireland, and its
adherents in this country, and in the Reformed
Parliament ; and that then, as now, all who
stand in the way of its success will only be
enabled to dwell in Ireland at the daily hazard
of their lives? This is the natural progress of
the conciliatory system ; and when it has arrived
at the point we have just described, to which it
is evidently advancing with great rapidity, it
will, we suppose, be as clear to others as it has
long been to us that Ireland must be abandoned
or coerced. But coercion will then be attempted
with this disadvantage, that in the meanwhile
the friends of Great Britain in that country will
have been reduced to an inconsiderable remnant,
and its enemies incalculably reinforced in num-
bers, confidence, and strength. Nothing can,
indeed, be more plain, than that strong,
measures must be applied to Ireland with-
out- further delay, if we do not intend to in-
sure all the progressive and accumulating evils
of a system of spurious liberality, which has
already been productive of nothing but confusion
and calamity. Yet how can the present Govern-
ment resort to strong measures of repression
when the crimes to be repressed are the very
crimes which the more influential of its mem-
bers, during the whole of their political lives,
and the whole collective body since its hetero-
geneous parts were blended into one by the
strong cement of office, having assiduously
laboured to stimulate and extend ? The cause
of public confusion, lawlessness, and crime, and
his Majesty's present Ministers, are inseparably
bound together by the strong tie of reciprocal
obligation ; and the latter cannot become the
enemy of the former without incurring the odium
of ingratitude and treachery.—Morning Post.