The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-19 00:00:00

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the same Monarch—not with toleration only, but
with kindness ; and hundreds, nay thousands, of
them have prospered, and are prospering ! Why,
then, urge these men into a position so distasteful

to a people whose bread they eat ? The answer is

The object of the leaders of the agitation
was to insult and defy the loyalists of our town ; to
stir up party bitterness, and, possibly, to excite out-
And in part they have succeeded. The
spirit displayed towards the meeting by a strong

portion of the people of Liverpool is an unmis-
takeable evidence that a recurrence of similar meet-
ings will lead to a collision, the consequences of
which need scarcely to be calculated.
Rebellion and treason may rave themselves hoarse
in Ireland ; and Englishmen may grieve, though
they only grieve, that they are not put down. But
they will not submit to be menaced and insulted at
their own doors. They will not see the peace of
their town and the personal safety of their fellow-
townsmen perilled by hands of furious ruffians, led
on by meddling and insolent strangers, with patience.
" The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear ;" and
if legislative means, local or otherwise, are not re-

sorted to for the prevention of such scenes of excite-
ment as that of Tuesday, men will be tempted or
impelled to take their prevention into their own
hands. Such a course—such an issue—all loyal
and peaceable subjects must deprecate; but where
Chancellor, is the alternative ?

The anti-rent movement we have always believed
would be the next of the great Agitator's weapons
of offence against the Saxon loyalists of Ireland ;
and it is already plain that we are not far from its
extensive adoption. During the past week an in-
stance has occurred (which will be found amongst
our Irish news), from which we may judge not only
the disposition of the Irish peasantry to resort to
this plan of operations, but also the mode in which
it may be successfully turned to accomplish the ruin
of the Protestant landowner, and the endangering of

the peace of the country.
It has always been supposed, by those who reso-
lutely shut their eyes against an accurate knowledge
of the social condition of Ireland, and the objects of
the repeal agitation, that little was to be feared from
the withholding of rent. The farmer, it was said,
will not court a struggle with the law, in which he

knows that ultimately he must be the sufferer. Sol-
vent men, at all events, will not, to serve the pur-
poses of agitation, sacrifice themselves in an attempt
to withhold the just rights of the owner of the soil.
But, in the case before us, such was not the mode
of operation. It was not the farmer himself who
withheld payment. On the contrary, he was, or
was understood to be, solvent and willing to pry.
But agitation decreed that his landlord's rightful
claim should be defeated, notwithstanding the •te-
nant's willingness; and a turbulent mob forthwith
carried off, in the open day, his stock and his crops,
leaving to himself no means of payment, and his
landlord nothing to distrain upon. By the exten-

sive adoption of such a system of outrage, it is plain
that the confiscation of half the lands in Ireland may
be effected ; and the inefficiency of an armed force,
or a local police, to put down a similar description
of outrage in Wales, ought to tell us that in case of
the determination of the repeal masses in Ireland to
direct the same efforts against rent, which the Welsh
insurgents are directing against toll-gates, nothing
short of martial law, accompanied by an army suffi-
cient to garrison Ireland, could withstand them.
The government of Sir Robert Peel assert that
they are prepared to put down any outbreak in Ire-
land ; and we believe them. Let the repealers of
that country rise in open rebellion ; and there are
loyal men enough, and troops enough, to put them
down. But they will not do so ! This is not the
kind of warfare which repealera contemplate. They
know too well their real weakness to hazard such a
conflict as would occur when their untrained and
half-armed masses met the onset of trained and dis-
ciplined soldiers. But they know their strength in
the description of warfare which they are now de-
claring. They know the ruin which it will inflict
upon those whom they have been taught to hate,
and the almost impos ibility of putting it down
when once it has gained head. The anti-tithe con-
tests years ago, and the anti-poor-law struggle last
year, have taught them a lesson which they will not

forget, and by which England, were she wise, would

As we have remarked elsewhere, the Irish Re-
pealers are attempting to extend what her Majesty

has well and wisely called their " pernicious agita-
tion" to this country. Lord Brougham, in one of
his electrifiers during the late session of Parliament,
said that Repeal was strictly an Irish doctrine, and
could not be propagated in England. The " de-
monstration" of last week in this town seems to
justify this opinion. It was, indeed, a failure, as
complete as any well-wisher of the United Kingdom
need desire. The Head Pacificator could (?) not

come, and young Dan, who like other lads follows
his father haud passibus cequis, could not set on
steam enough to rouse even the willing enthusiasm
of those "exiles from Erin" who find it convenient
to receive English wages and eat English bread, but
who at the same time scorn slaving, and comfort
themselves at their daily tasks with the ennobling
notion that Ireland shall be a nation, able to feed all
her own that are rale Irish, as soon as the Liberator
shall command the hereditary bondsmen to strike
the blow. Wretched dupes ! As long as the pick-
pocket magic of that notion proves efficient in bring-
ing in "the rent," the Liberator is at home, busily
engaged in 'disgracing himself more and more, if
advance in that direction be now possible, and cer-
tainly in retarding for years to come the progress of
all those improvements which might eventually ele,
vate Ireland.

We strongly recommend to the serious conside-
ration of the rent-payers the following extract from
a speech of the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, as reported in
the Belfast Chronicle. The occasion was the laying
the foundation stone of a new institution for th.,
deaf and dumb and blind in Belfast. The time
selected was during the great agricultural meeting.
After commending the infant institution as a matter
of pure benevolence, and before he proceeded to en-
force its claims as an exercise of practical Christianity,
Mr. M`Neile thus touched upon the patriotism of
such works as the people of Belfast were then en-
gaged in— _

`` It is by well-directed efforts at self-improvement, at
social improvement—industry developing her agricultural
resources—enterprise enlarging her commercial con-
nections—and self-sacrificing liberality multiplying her
Christian institutions—that Ireland is to become a nation.
(Hear, hear.) I may here, my lord, say how she never
can and never will be nationally elevated. She is not to
be raised by complaints under imaginary or exaggerated
grievances—not by enticing the thousands of her popula-
tion to neglect their proper businesses, and waste their
precious time in congregating for miles from their resi-
dences at monster meetings—riot by delusive expectations
of land without rent, held out fraudulently by orators, who
know well that their predictions can never be fulfilled—
that they could never take one step towards that about
which they continue to declaim without inevitably
plunging the country in all the horrors of insurrection and
bloodshed. (Loud applause.) It is not by hypocritical
pretensions to loyalty on the part of men that have the
audacity to charge our gracious Sovereign with not per-
sonally meaning what she had personally, plainly, and
most constitutionally declared to her faithful subjects.
(Renewed applause.) It is by such exhibitions as these,
my lord, that Ireland is weakened—that she is kept in-
sulated from the pale of Christian nations—that the
strength and determination of Britain are roused, not to
the congenial work of improving and assimilating to her-