Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1835-11-05
BROOKS LETTERS-TAiNes IN IRELAND.
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negan-among the eccentric people with
all heart and no head. Il speak OF the
massl loving liberty more than all other
people and enjoying less OF it-pursuing
the substance and catching the phantom
daring any thing. and suffering every
thing-with a chivalry that infuriates, but
never aids them-capable of being made
the best people on earth, but now almost
the worst-jovial in every thing, begging
or burying, Il speak Of the wakes starv-
ing or fa%t-fghting for fnn as well as glo-
ry-or as tho couplet has ii,
"In Iuxioa delighting,
Laughing while fighting"
Indeed, | never knew what to make ofthe
Irish, as a people. They do not come un
der any OF the common descriptions of the
human race. They are as widely differ
ent from the English or Scotch as the
channel that separates them with much
better materials 10 make men OF, and not
vet half so much Of men. don't know
here hall the time whether | should laugh
or mourn , for the very beggars arc such
wits, and beg so humoi ously, that though
| their appearance betoken an extreme of
! suffering, yet their countenances are so jo-
vial. that one is puzzled TO know what 10
make of them. Half Of my time | fancy
that il is all actisg, and that Dublin is a
great theatre ; for such splendid pictures
do You here see of the height of aiiluenee,
mingled with the lowest poverty, that you
cannot believe this 10 be real life, that ex-
hibits ediliecs and trappings here, and
such degradation there. Ii looks like a
p%lay--an old farce that some ingenious man
has got up 10 a huge theatre TO put men
in the highest and lowest possible condi
! lion of life, and that here he has grouped
them by way Of contrast. If jump out
Of the way CT some nobleman's carriage, |
fall, perchance, into a circle of beggars.-
II | take my eye from the splendid Col
lege, or more splendid Bank, it falls upon
the rags that hardly cover the pakedness
Of some miserable being. thus is there
collected here, all that can delight, and all
that can pain the eye. Pleasure is sadly
mingled with pain. There is more splen-
dor, and more poverty collected in one sin.
Gle point here-a yie",-say, from the
bridge over the Lifiey, 10 the end Of Sack.
vile street-than / ever have seen any
where in England or in Scotland for you
| have a view of the Bank, the Colleges, the
Custom House, the magnificent quay, and
of every rich livery that passes, and also
Of the thick groupes of ragged beggars,
who crowd here to bcset every stranger
as he goes along.
must, however, take you back with
me to Scotland, from which, i'll have leap
ed, | have leaped very unceremoniously.
| did not 60 TO see Boutwell, Castle, near
Glasgow, so famous in Scottish history, at
| which many will say Pro pudor! = but !
had not time. If one stops to see all tie
interesting old castles, he will stop forev-
err Nor did | visit the Falls Of Clyde
| have seen enough Of British water falls.
not to be tempted out Of my path again.
The Scotch lovers of scenery complain
bitterly Of the manner in which the ro-
nance and poetry of the Clyde near Glas
Cow has been destroyed by cotton mills.
coal pits, &c. ln this respect, il must re-
scmble much Of the wild scenery in New
England. A writer here, in describing the
country about here, exclaims in indIgna-
ton, that 3" it is in fact mill ridden-iairly
%subiugated, turned, tormented, touzled and
galrairished by the demon of machinery.
Steam, like a pale night bag, kicks, and
spurs the sides Of oppressed nature, and
smoke rises on every hand, as if to express
the unhappy old danes yexa,ion and ia
tigue.n There is too much truth in that.
Toward the evening Of the 4th, we EN-
barked from Glasgow for Dublin. Steam
boats were putting off for all points Of the
compass. An iron steamer, | remarked,
passed US with great case, gliding, through
the water, without making ball The dlstur.
bance we made, which | can assure you,
was not inconsiderablc, as we threw up
| large waves on both banks Of the narrow
Clyde. AS we went along, | could not
help remarking a trait in irish character.
As we came near a little village, ] believe
il was Fitzpatrick, a hundred or more Irish
| men who were there at work with their
wheel barrows, began a most Tremendous
! hurraing in honor as | saw, Of one Of their
~cumuanions. who was in our boat 10 Dub
lin: and then the fellow himself, was so
elated by this reclamation of his country
| men, that be leaped and roared like one
insane, fired with an enthusiasm which but
few people are infected with, in the man
lBer that the Irish are. Every lrishman,
in short, seemed 10 be ordering their COM
| panion 10 do some little errand for him at
! home. Now no where but with the Irish.
would there be such an outbreak Tor a
| companions departure as :here was here.
| These are traits oil. character, which when
! well directed. make the irish the best
hearted people in the world.
Rapidly we left the men OF Glasgow,
flor in common parlance here, men 1--we in
Glasgow, folk in Greenock, and bodies IN
Paisly as in Lancashire, where they elias
sify the people of the different towns from
gentlemen down 10 chaps /; the difference
between which any Psychologist will tell
you)-and soon alter dark, We began TO
feel the pitching Of these hateful seas
Our beds or s%ettees, were SO arranged, by
turning the seats into beds, and fixing a
frame work above them,-and here the
hnela NJ one Messenger were in the face O