Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-11-16
IRELAND.

According to tho last English Journals, n politi-
cul crisis seems inevitable in that oppressed aud
unhappy country. The New York Commercial
Advertiser
Mr.. OConnell has published a sin gular letter
addressed to the rcormors in England, which il
attn acting much attention, aud creating no H,tl,
excitement. 1t has been published in several IA
pers; but prosecution by the government prevents
it's further circulation i'll tho journals of character
We have not seen the letter, but according to tho
Tunes, it asserts tho perfect legality of the resist
ance offered by the psasantry to the troops near
Donerallo, and dwclls much the blood which
has been shed by tho troops and police during Lord
Anglcsey's Administration in Ireland though there
10 reference in it TO the blood which has bee
shea through deliberate murders perpotrated by
others besides the police and army, OF which mur.
ders Sic llusscy Vivian lately enumerated 80. which
had taken place within limited district of ireland
since he, SIR Hussey, had assumed the comma nd
Of the torces "Ot tine 1.-THE SYSTEM" says the
Times, 1--WE have spoken frequently, and by no
means in praise it. But a serious of cold blood
ed aud savage murders OF individuals, taken un-
awares and unrssistlng. seems not much less cri.
minsl than u demand of tthes undor the Composi.
ton Act"
Speaking of the prosecution OF the papers which
have given publicity to tho letter in question, which
is said to be written with force and ability, the
London Courier says, ''it remains to be who
ther the Agitator will have the maulncss to come
forward and avow his authorship of the letter in
question, in hope that by doing he may avert
from his dupcs and victims of tho Press, the pc
nal consequences of act for which he is prin,n-
ry, If not solely, responsible" The Courier
adds: ~
'.We take some credit to ourselves FOR ha wing
called attention TO tho real state of Ireland under
the rule of the ugitators. Our efforts to nculcate
the doctrines OF peace and good order, in oppos.
ton to the dsorganizing principles of men who
would hurry on their country to bloody doom,
have been seconded by al! that part of Tho Irish
Press =" hich, to use expression culled from it's
own vocabulary, IS not "drunk with O'Connel-
lism."
Public opinion in England, backed by a large
and powerful party in the sister country, is begin.
ming 10 displny itself with force which the Ag-
tat and his dupcs and agents will find it impos-
sble to stand against. 1t is one of Mr.. O'Con-
nali's maxms that "the Press tx the terror of ty-
rants. n dcmigogue and tyrant arc often uni
ted in the same character. Mr. O'Connell has sue
cecded in rendering tho Press all but unanimous
against him; and he may live to realise i'm his
own person the truth of the moral he has put
FORTH"
Since the foregoing in type, we find the
following passages quoted from O'Connclrs let
letter.
"Thcro is blood the foce of tho earth!-The
once green fields of Wallstown are red with the
latest Irish blood. Said the latcst7 Alas! before
these lines meet the eye OF any British reormer,
another massacre may have been perpetrated, ano-
Their tale OF slaughter may have been added to the
dark catalogue of erime-and u more recent cnor
unity may have thrown the butchery of Was,own,
into comparative oblivion"
In another part OF the same sanguinary and in
hammaiory cpistle, the whole of which is intended
to prove that the "magistrates military, and par
sons were frespdssers" and guilty of ''foul, unna-
tural murder" he has the foliowng:-
There is blood OH the face of the earth--Bood!
Human blood profasely shed!. Will it sink into
that earth unnotlced and unregarded will it cry
to Heaven for retribution and pengeance."
Among the first fruits of these exciting appeals
to blood spi!ling. deliberate murder of two
young men, who resposing confidence in the pied
ges OF safety of the priests mad walked out unat-
tended.