The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-21 00:00:00

Whitt' ambition

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SPIRIT of the .PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
GLOBE.—The Repeal Banquet, given to O'Con-
nell and the other Government-convicted, but legally-
liberated State prisoners, came off on Thursday
evening. It was an entertainment on a monster
scale. Though the speeches of O'Connell, and the
rest of the orators of the day, were destitute of
novelty—the topics being necessarily a repetition of
the hundred-times-rehearsed grievance of the Irish
people, which constitute the warp-and-woof of Irish
agitation, they were heard with approbation, and
responded to with enthusiasm by the assembled Mul-
titude, as though the voice of the speakers were
then heard for the first time, and the subjects
of their harangues were never before embodied in
language. For the details of the meeting we refer to
the report in another column. This additional de-
monstration of the imposing position which the repeal
confederation now assumes, is pregnant with matter
for serious reflection. We cannot but contrast the
present rampant spirit of repeal with its prostrate
condition under the administration of the Whigs. It
has spread its ramifications throughout the entire
kingdom, with a rapidity which sets conjecture at de-
fance as to the numbers who have enrolled their
names as members of the confederacy. It has
drawn to itself a large portion of the middle
classes ; it even boasts of numbers of the higher
orders who have recently avowed themselves
converts to its cause, and who consent to be placed
in the forefront of the movement. Add to these
the not less formidable fact, that its constitution
is distinguished by the arrangements .of its systematic
plans ; the skilful adaptation of its machinery for col-
lecting its revenues. These supply the means of en-
countering the Government in the most protracted and
expensive prosecutions of its leaders ; and of defray-
ing the other constantly-recurring charges pertaining
to the agitation. The confidence with which the multi-
tudes have been inspired as to the infallibility or in-
vulnerability of their principal leader, is also another
source of its strength. This unbounded and unwaver-
ing confidence—whether it be the result of accident, or
of superior tact or talent—as much as anything else in
the history of this extraordinary movement, has con-
tributed to swell the influence Mr. O'Connell wields
over the masses of his countrymen. It enables him
to control and move them at his will. For this
commanding influence, and for the greatly accele-
rated impulse which it has given to the project to
which he applies it, the Government has to re-
proach itself. Its own ill-advised proceeeings, de-
signed to suppress the confederacy, before the her-
culean powers of which it now totters to
its fall, has rendered repeal an object of apprehension
to many, and of annoyance to all—save those who
have committed themselves to its fortunes, and have
determined to stand, or fall, by its results. Had
Ministers guided their proceedings with the pru-
dence which marked the poicy of their predecessors
—had they combined justice and equity in the admi-
nistration of the government, with a calm but firm
resolve to discountenance the repeal scheme, and all
who enrolled their names as members of the Associa-
tion, or subscribed to the funds for the furtherance of
its objects, repeal would be now lingering out an
existence without energy, incapable of inspiring
its projectors with. hope, or its opponents - with
fear. Lord Fortescue prcstrated it by a word.
It was then few in numbers, and feeble in
resources. Had the Whigs remained in power,
it would hive been vox et prcetera nihil—a mere
toune, which would have amused by its folly, instead
of its scaring, as' it now does, the timid by the
boldness of its claims, and confounding the counsels
of the Government by the skilfulness of its. strata-
gips. The prominent fault of the Government
policy, in its government of Ireland, was pointed
out to us from the commencement, It made
O'Connell the principal object against which its
powers were directed. It treated him as every-
thing, and the grievances of the people—
which constituted him what he is, the leader
and eominander of the Irish nation—as nothing.
This was the grand mistake ; and those which fol
lowed—the prosecution, with its blunderings, its ob-
vious denial of justice by means of perverting the
forms of Lev to the purposes of oppression—the de-
. feat of the prosecution by the reversal of the judg-
ment, founded partly on the very perversions which
disgraced the proceedings, and exposed the adminis-
tration of justice to contempt—these were but the
polluted streams which naturally flowed from. the
polluted source. The dignity of an Executive
is lowered by engaging in a contest with a
private individual. It invests that person with the
interesting attributes sof Martyrdom, if the proceed-
ings which are set on foot for his extinction are
crowned with success. If, on the contrary, those
proceedings are abortive—if they fail to effect the
purposes for which they are instituted, the triumph
of the individual over the Executive is signal and
complete ; and he becomes a hero—a conqueror—a
demi-god, in the eyes of the multitude. By the
employment of merely coercive measures—and the
present Government has tried no others with the
Irish people—the Executive is necessarily presented
to the nation in a hateful point of view : and that
insubordiriativn to the law, which seems so unhap-
pily to form absolutely a part of the nature of the
less-informed, portion of the Irish people, is fos-
tered into deadly enmity—ready, at a moment's en-
couragement, to break forth into furious excitement.
From this consideration we derive apprehensions for
the preservation of the public peace in Ireland, in the
perilous circumstances with which the false palicy of
the Government has surrounded it. It is obvious
that a change from coercion to conciliation cannot be
made by the present Ministers. It would he an ad-
mission of previous wrong, which would be the death-
' Ilete of their administration. The party which
urged them to employ force is now exhorting some
more
decisive step than any they have yet taken ;
and will not be satisfied
unless a vigour beyond the
12W be exercised against the nepeal Association and
its leaders. What,. if the Government again commit
Even if t
itself to such evil counsels?
b e
be issued, and obedience to their
obeyed ; or, if disobeyed, the military are called out
against the people, and enforce obedience at the
bayonet's point ; and thus the strong arm of authority
succeeds in suppressing the agitation for the moment
what then ? Who can tell how soon, or how fearfully,
the smothered flame may break out again from the
deceitful ashes ? The lately-defeated prosecution has
shown with what instinctive dislike the people of this
country view the stretching of penal statues so as to
include constructive crimes. A renewal of the attempt
in another, and more offensive—because still more
anti-constitutional—form, would provoke a demon-
stration in this country as decisive to, :as it would be
destructive of, the Government. The course which