American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-07-06

| Ireland.-The following is an extract from The
18th May in the British Parliament, in the debate
on the condition of Ireland:
| In Ireland The people had for series Of years
suffered variety of misery. They had proceeded
rom one affection TO another. Each season brought
its peculiar horror. In the one it was famine; in
the next it was fever in the third it was mutderi
These sad events seemed TO form perpetual cycle
the parts OF which were of regular and mournfu
recurrence. The evils which all felt, all asciibed
TO different causes The peasant attributed them
10 the iapacity oh the landlord. the landlord to the
bigo.ry Of the clergy. For his MIR. Norih's) part
he believed that they originated In many causes
lie perfectly agreed with the noble mover of the
proposition before the House, that one of the most
conspicuous OF the dist bt condition OF Ire
land, was its unemployed population No political
axiom was mole certain, than that there was no
State policy, no secret CT government, by which it
was possible to reconcile tranquility with idleress
(hear, hear, hear) All the arts OF civilization were
in TACT but so many expedients to make peace and
industry mutually productive of each other. To
an energetic people especially employment was a
positive want They had eager an appetite for
II, as for their food Where such people were
left without occupation they become wild untamea.
Die, and icrocious. Disguise it as they might such
la people were In savage state. and fluttuaed, as
the history oil Ireland but too plainly proved that the
lish people fluctuated between hopeless iudolence
and desperate mischief (bear, hear y Placed at The
bottom OF the scae.of human beings, the Irish pea.
SAINT never looted upwards. fIe was excited BY 10
emulation --at was inspired by no hope-he was
deal TO every whisper OF ambon--he was infuen-
ced by neither fear OF degradation, nor expectation
oil advance ment-he remained fixed on the spot at
which he hrst drew his breath, without the wish, and
still more without the power of motion lie saw
whatever existed OF pr ospery among his superlors,
placed at an mmeasurable distance from his grasp.
he saw himself surrounded by men Of religion
uiherent from his own. whose interest appeared to
MIN 10 be at variance with his own, and whose chief
or sole business he supposed TO be, armed as they
we're with the sword OF the law 10 keep him quiet
and poor. Order such circumstances, his chaIac.
ter became hardened and desperate he saw in the
violation oil the law no moral culpability he trans
crossed 1t, therefore, without self reproach, and
when his misdeeds brought him their appor,ioned
punishment he suffered under its ifhcton with the
triumph oil n artyr, and not with the conjunction
oil criminal (hear, hear, hearty All the noble
traits OF such mans original character became de-
graded and dt based His courage was converted
into ieroclty, his intelligence into fraud his whole
state and condition was gradually de,erioraied and
the peasant was at ergth lost in the murderer and
incendiary (htar, hear y These two circumstances,
the place which the Irish peasant held in society,
and his want OF employment, were professionally
The chle Sources OF the perturbed condition Of lie
land"
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