The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-05-31 00:00:00

MAY 31, 18:36

STATE OF THE C 0 UN T-13 Y.
CELEBRATION OF THE THIRTY-121,>HTII ANNIVERSARY OF THE

BREAKING OUT OF THE IRISH REBELLION OF 1798.
Monday last, the 23,1 instant, being the anniversary of the
breakiugout of the rebellion of 1798, the little village of Canto-
lin, in this county, was thrown into considerable alarm by a
band of about twenty men, headed by a captain or commander,
entering it in military array, all dressed and decorated in the
costume worn by the insurgents and their leaders of that period,
andattended by about two thousand of the peasantry, many of
them wearing green sashes and other marks of distinction worn
by the rebels of 1798. They marched through the town in re-
gular military order, stopped and cheered frequently. and the
'captain, who is a well-known character, was repeatedly heard
to boast that he and his men had " taken the town without
firing a single shot." The names of most of the persons in
uniform have been taken down and sent to the government,
with a full report of every particular of this daring insurrec-
tionary movement. It should be remembered that the political
feeling of the present day is perfectly analogous to that of 1798,
a matter well understood by the peasantry of this country at
present. In 1798 the object was the separation of Ireland from
England, and the formation of an independent democratic or
republican form of government, the annihilation of protestants
and protestantisin' the establishment of popish ascendancy,
and an undefined and unintelligible species of political " li-
berty and equality." And can it be denied that these are the
objects of the agitators of the present day? Certainly not, as
the outcry against the House of Lords, the robbery of the
protestant chtveh and persecution of her clergy, the wish
manifested in many instances to abridge and abolish many of
the prerogatives of the crown, and finally, the determined stand
now about to be made, and openly declared for a repeal of the
onion, all proclaim the objects of the rebels of '9B and 1836 to
be the same. Camolin, then, has had the honour of the first
demonstration of the opening of the campaign of 1836, an-
nounced in Mr. O'Connell's last letter to the people of Eng-
land, and echoed by the trades' unions to the people of Ireland,
from the Coburg-gardens. Dublin, on Monday. The celebra-
tion of such an anniversary in this country, brings with it the
most appalling and fearful recollections, and gives alarming in-
dications that the sanguinary spirit which directed the slaughter
of the North Cork militia at Outhart, the tragedies of Vinegar,
hill, Wexford bridge, and Scullabegue, still pervades the
minds of our deluded peasantry, who by such exhibitions and
commemorations seem to testify that they ardently wish for a
repetition of these • horrible and ever-to-be-regretted blood-
stained scenes. Indeed it is those wanton and cold-blooded
massacres they can alone .have in idea by such commemora-
tions, as they are the only triumphs the rebels can properly be
said to have had in this country. 'We trust in God that every
sensible man in the community- trill set his face against such
uncalled for and aggravating exhibitions, and unite in trying to
*oppress every indication of a revolutionary and sanguinary
204,aingtig the peasantry.—Wexford Conservative.