Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1827-07-03

ked--those who were furnishing are now starving
physical suffering has gone beyond the bounus u
human endurance, and your very FIELDS are become
charnel houses OF the dead II something be not
done. the prospect is most horrible. Every man
who can is going away--thirty thousand persons are
on their way this spring from the South to the Anne
ricas. Those who remain in the country are plac-
ed in dreadful condItion-under the prctence Of
religion the spirit OF animosity has been aroused
rancour, magnity and party zeal were never SO
great and men are invoked i'll the name OF God 10
| hate one another. Even the humdrum pleaders in
my own profession attempt to climb the iadaer OF
preferment by the handrope OF bigotry. It IS sald
that the vultures have prophetic power Of discern
INC those fields where they know feast upon some
carcass approaches. The legal vultures, hope
viii be disappointed and though they have been
Growing for full meal ] trust they will meet with
nothing but starvation. [cheersI
/ On the same OCCASION Mr.. Shel used the follow
ing language.
~ am very far from saving, that the opponents
nf Catholic Emancipation are themselves conscious
that the atrocities which are perpetrated IN Ireland
are derived from this source. Many OF them are
| truly good and virtuous men. But the pursuit OF
power blinds those who are engaged IN 1t; and as
their very existence as party depends on their OPP
position 10 our claims, their own interest shuts out
all other considerations from their minds. But the
day will come when, if there be Judge hereafter
before whom all TO appear, they will have
to answer for the consequences of the system OF dis
cord and msrule by which Ireland has been gov
erned The country is covered with crimes. Deeds
Of the most barbarous and heart-rendng nature arc
perpetrated in open day Murder walks abroad
without disguise or trepdation, and has grown into
familiarity amongst us-We have begun to look at
its hideousness without horror. and from the perpet
ual contemplation Of atrocity, have almost ceased
TO shrink as its sight. do protest my belief, that
in parts Of this country, the life OF man Is held in
scarcely more regard than that animal existence
which gives motion to the brute. Who thcn are the
men who are guilty of these enormities! There are
two classes of oiienders.-First, the wretches who
actually dip their hands in the blood Of their fellow
creatures and next, the men who have created that
system from which fatal and so prevalent dis
position to crime has arisen 1t Is not alone the
midnight villain who fires the thatch OF his enemy IS
cottage, and presiding like demon over the flames,
listens with an internal Joy TO iAe shrieks of his ex-
prlng victims. 1t is not alone the confederate band
OF assassins who drag forth innocent man, and,
with yells ofierocons laughter, plunge their daggers
INTO his heart. 1t is not alone the horde OF maletac-
tors on whom Justice has recently inflicted her we'll
uer.te, h,,t, for ali purposes of permanent utility,
her unayHng ycn~"ancc; oh, Eo-these are not
the only men who will ultimately be held answera-
BILE for these san2uuarv m'sdeeds. But the Legs
lators and Statesmen to whom God hath entrust-
ed the government Of this country, and who have
betrayed that sacred trust, by consulting the nte-
rests of faction, instead Of the HI, pness the virtue
and the morals of the people, having their SHIRE,
however remote, in tho guilt they wll also partci-
pate in their responsibility and, however they may
protest that they have done their best--howeyer
they may aese that they have not consciously, and
Of malice prepense, administered to vice yet at their
doors the OF enormities lie. Like PLATE,
they may wash their hands of blood but as they
| are indirectly concerned in It's eiflson, they bear
It's weight upon their heads long and continued
cheering. !"