The native American., 1838-01-06

association Of the u s.. Wash. City
IRELAND-ITs sITUATIoN-ITs PEOPLE UN-
FIT TO GOVERN AMERICANS.
We renew our painful but necessary investigation in
to the affairs Of Ireland and yet it hard to break the
spell Of enchantment that has veed the dread skeleton
of that romantic seto tear away the beauous screen
that covered the abhorrent state of whole people.
How often have not listened 10 the hosannas sung
all lips to Irish goryelevatng her in every thing to
the pinnacle of perfection, whence she proudly look
down upon the barbarous nations of Europe and the
Western hemisphere. Her have been spoken of as
generous free hearted, gallant and wise. Poetry has
sung the praises Of the Irshman, until fancy has run
mad and truth pned away for want of attention. Phi
anthropsts have fled, shudderng and aghast from the
Isle of the Shamrock to these shores and preached up
thedivine virtues of expatriated country We have
er believed in these highy-wrought pictures. We
dered how people everlastngly degraded in their
moral and political condition. could be the beau ideal Of
natural excellence.
Since there is a systematic plan foot, in Europe,
corresponded in by residents in America to this
Union with the rabble of the Old World, bound,
under full and solemn conviction of the fact, to speak
opinions without fear, and without hesitation. We
conending for Native prime and those principles
based upon the experience of all mankind and main
tain the necessity, the duty and the nauralness of
civilized peoples managing their affairs with their
own citizens. part Of our plan is 10 show the snperi
ority of the Natives Of this young and healthy country,
over the inhabitants the bloated dominons beyond the
Atlantic. This superiority springs from thousand evi
dent causes, which cannot at this time pause to de-
tall Another portion of duty is to attempt to
tablsh the fact, that foreigners fitted by educa
ton, by sefdena by language, by preconceved habits
and thoughts, to share political advantages. We are
not more opposed to the Irish than to any other peoples
and we have taken up their history first because it was
more convenient, and because of them the oudest
boasts-and for them the loudest complaints made
against US.
An able English writer thus speaks generally of Ire
and and we will ask persons Of such characters as are
here painted fit to govern and interpret to our
understandings the principles and practices of our gov
ernment and the blessings of libertys "Her igno-
rance and supersfonher barbarism and outrage--her
turbulence and agitatonif not the necessary
teast accompanimens of her people, and
cannot be expected to until that condition be i'm
proved" These are broad characteristics--they are
striking-they dark and gloomy-and yet they are
true Ireland is radically wrong; there is untness
in her people to govern, to improve uxunance
spreads itself their physical mpregnaes
the moral atmospheric and the consequence is that they
are giants that eat up every thing placed before them
destroy every thing and too foolish TO governthey are
too strong be governed Are these the people fit then
to govern us' Does the fact Of their landing in America
impart to them the strict virtues necessary to ocae at
the shrine Of restrained libertyrestraned as the
ocean by the green banks of happy prosperous. and
abundant continents. Are they, by the process Of
disembarking from the ship upon shores, rendered
holy high minded, patient, and modest? No. The idea
is ridiculous. They to this land ignorant Of its
habits and doctrines: All is exaggerated Liberty they
conceive to be rude and icentous hao TO be picked
M in the streets and fonded with in the miserable
moods of popular ignorance They esteem her brazen
huzzy that meets them at the of the pack
et and presents them with free tickets to every right and
privilege of American freemen. The names of Wash
ington-of Madison of Jeferson-of Jackson-of Van
Burenare mingled up in confused mess, and they
swallow the potion, and forthwith are inspired oracles
in the principles Of those statesmen and warriors. We
will now resume clinching quotations.
In one county in Ireland, Waterford, an affidavit is
made that for months the peasanty living in
bitches! Mr. Revans proceeds to inform us that the
commtal of outrages sanctioned by the Of agr
cultural working people, proved by the difficulty,
amounting to an impossibty, Of discovering the authors
of the crimes" The peasantry eternaly in turmoil
Peace is banshed from the land and page, murder and
ruin reign through the cices Of the year. Read what he
says--and who withhold their belief that the
Agrarian principles here spoken Of have been transplant
ed to this country! for men change not their minds by
travelling sea- Magistrate speaking of the out
RACES committed against property says: These crimes
and ouages not generally pepetraed by rersonsin
distressed circumstances, although the assigned by
those who committed them, to avenge the persons
who were ruined injured by being elected from their
farms, to prevent others from taking them.p
We will explain these eectments from their land.''
Such the folly of these people, that they rent land at
price far greater than any crop they make from the
land will amount to- In consequence they 60 into debt
to the landlord He elects the delinquent tenant in order
to get good He is rghtn protecting his interests
The elected tenant revenge; he does not 60 to
work to support his children, but ne goes to the grog
shop; he gathers around him the degraded beings who
are fixed furniture Of these establishments, alas too ma
nv are there Of those beweres Of crime in this country,
all in the hands of these peope and ne enliss them to
murder the landlord. The deed is done that night either
upon the proprietor the succeeding tenant who comes
in for an equal share of vengeance; and the prospects
of an industrious landholder destroyed IN MS burning
property his life ended amid the maniac shouts OF the
infurated mob In the name Of God do we want these