Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-06-25
Fronthe National Gazette.

Fronnthe National Gazette.
We collect from the language held at the re-
cen, nublic meetings Of the Irish and English
Catholics. that both distrus,cd the intentions oil
Mr. Canning, and regarded their chance oil e.
Emancipation as but l,,le improved, il moi vlr-
,ualy lessencd, by his accession 10 the hrst
place in the ministry.
Mr.. O'Conncl, in speech delivered in Dub
lin. about the middle Of April, described the
state ofIreiand thus:
"Never was there a period when less adVan-
tape could accrue TO those who come Into pow
sr. 1t is-right 10 state that misery and horror
are spread extensively throughout lreland--po-
v.r,y pervades the land-those who were for
merly ragged, are now naked-thosc who were
furnishing are now starving-physical suffering
has gone beyond the bounds Of human endu
rance. and your very fields are become charnel
houses of the dead! Ifsonething be not done,
The ,rosoect is most horrible. Every man who
can is going away--thir,y thousand persons are
on their way this spring from the South 10 the
Americas. Those who remain in the country
are placed in dreadful condl,ion-untler The
prctence Of religion, the spirit of luminosity has
been aroused-rancour, malignity and party
zeal were never so great, and men are invoked
in the name of God to hate one another Even
The humdrum pleaders in my own profession
attempt to climb the ladder Of preferment by
the handrope ofbigotry. 1t is said that the
vulturcs have prophetic power OF discerning
those fields where they know a least upon some
carcass approaches. The legal vultures, |
hope will be disappointed; and though they
have been growing for full meal, trust they
will meet with nothing but starvation cheers p
On the same occasion, MIR Shiel used the
following language
81 am very far from saying, that the oppo-
nents Of Catholic Emancipation are themselves
conscious that the atrocities which are perpe
,ra,ed in Ireland are derived from this source.
Many of them are truly good aud vir,rons men.
Blu, the pursui, Of power blinds those WHO are
engaged in it; and as their very existence asa
party depends on their opposition 10 our claims,
their own interest shuts out all other consider
atoms from their minds But the day will
comewhcn, if there be Judge hereafter before
whom we are all TO appear, they will have TO
answer for the consequences OF the system Of
discord and misrule by which Ireland has been
governed. The country is covered with crime
Deeds OF the most barbarous aud heart .rending
azure are perpetrated IN open day. Murder
walks abroad without disguise or trepidation,
and has grown INFO familiarity amongst us
We have begun tolook al lis bidrousness with
out horror, and from the perpetual con,empla-
ton of atroci,y, have almost ceased TO shrink
at its sight ! do protest my belief, that in
parts Of this country, the life of man is hello in
scarcely more regard than that animal ex-
isience which gives motion to the brute. Who
then are the men who are guilty ofthese enor-
mites! There are two classes of Offenders
First, the wreiches who actually din their
hands in the blood Of their fellow creatures:
and next, the men who have created that sy IS
tenn from which so fatal and so prevalent
disposition to crime has arisen Ii is not
alone the midnight villain who fires the :ha.ch
Of his enemY's cottage, and presiding like
demon over the James, listens with an infer.
eal Joy TO the shleks Of his expiring victims.
!, is not alone the confederate band of .a.sas.
sins who drag forth an innocent man, and.
with yelIs Of ferocious laughter, plunge their
taggers into his heart. 1t is no, alone The horde
OF ma!efactors, on whom justice has recently
inflicted her well-meried, but, for all purposes
f permanent utility, her unavailins vengeance;
oh, no-these are not the only men who will ul-
timately be held answtrable for these saneuina
~ misdeeds. But the Legislators and State
men. to whom Goo hath entrusted the govern.
ment oil this country, and who have BETRAYED
that sacred trust BY consulting the interests of
iacticn, nsieod OF The happiness, The virtue, and
the morals OF the people, having their share,
however remote, IN the guilt, they will also par.
ticipa,e IN the responsibility; and, however they
ray protest that they have done their best
however they may allege that they have no,
consciously, and of malice prepensr, admins
tered any incentives to deprayily, and provoca.
lives to vice, yet at their doors the mass Of 2.
lies. Like Plate, they may wash
heir hands Of blood; but as they are indirectly
in its effusion, they bear it's weight
apon their heads long and continued cheer
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