The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-25

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ms treaty Also England found the way to break and
Suer the enjoyment Of greater share of happiness
and prosperity than fell to the lot of any nation,
Ireland lost To the bribery of England that which her
Pnysicai powers could never take. la 1900, by the
application Of many millions of money aud by invest
my me country with It's 900 armed men, by promo
unE civil war and by the suspension ofthe trial by jury
ana the Habeas Corpus act--hy these means she put
| down the Parliament of Ireland Then the manufac
lures which grew up under its protection elthen its
gentry scattered carrying with them to England and
eisewhexe the great wealth they derived from Ire
land-then its radesmen declined aud its cities began
to fall into decay. A foreign Parliament Ireland
without representation In Parliament of $50 mem
bers Ireland has los members of which SO thor
oushy English that they might be made present to
England and never missed. Laughter Ireland
is Knocked by the legislation of England She is COM
PEELED TO pay the interest Of the debt of two hundred
millions contracted to put down the liberty of Amer
ca-though the People Of Ireland prote.ted against
| that war She is taxed to pay the debt created by
the ar'stocracy to put down Napoleon. Her rich and
| fertile lands have been fiscated time after time
from Irishmen to Englishmen, who eternaIly live
abroad and carry oil the subsistence of millions, which
Is squandered In the gayest parts of Europe All the
hsh IN her waters, and all the birds that wing their
way her hills and Valleys have been appropIia
ted by the arstocracy and thus The people, robbed
every side and under every pretence left to
and are visited by famines almost periodically -
and you their friends here, are rendered miserable
year alter year, by hearing of their suerings and
| Huuiii6 tucy iHCrcdSc unucr DrltSQ nlSrulc. Sucn
is the political condition of Ireland under the man
| agement of the British Parliament. Let us now see
her social condition resulting from this wicked sys
TEN of government.
read not from an Irish but an English paper the
| London Atlas:
which affords lamentable illustration of the politi-
cal and social condition of that part of the United
| Kingdom. Driven to desperation by want and the
approximations of famine crowd of starving wretches
/ lIaIa H.. g
| ms, and threatened an attack upon the stores of
Messrs. Bannatyne, commandments. police force,
amounting to forty-two, men and officers, were
called out to protect the property thus menaced.-
The mob became more furious and the women were
foremost, 1t is said, in urging the to assa the
constabulary. The police fred and two persons fell
| dead, and number of men, women, and children,
received serious gun-shot wounds. The circum-
stances OF the riot were of that peculiarly distressing
character that required the utmost forbearance on
the part of the authorities and obviously such
as to render imperative that the law should not be
enforced with extreme rgor; for hunger will break
through stone WALL But, instead of feelings of
kindness and forbearance, we find that the police
force acted with preciptous brutality, having fired
without orders-even without the Riot Act having
been read The jury, before whom inquest was
held on the body of Catharine Sheehan who shot
during the riot, have found this verdict, in conse-
quence OF which thirty Height police men have been
committed to prison."
But these police men were placed before 'grand |
jury composed of the drivers and agents of the En-
gish arstocracy, and matter Of course the bills
OF indictment were ignored flung out: and these i
cOmmi stoned murderers were let loose on society to
re-enact the horrible tragedy upon the next unforu-
nate wretches that may camor for food
Let me place on the wings of the press even here
at the very centre of this great Republic, and from
hence let 1t fly to the four of the earth, the
actual condition OF the great and hospable Irish
nation. Let the world be informed from this, on |
the wings of press free as the patron Eagle of |
the state of that brave and patriotic people under
English Legislation rather let say under English
robbery, under English plage. Let her ambassa |
doris hide their heads for shame at reading the fol-
lowing authentic statement from the Right Rev. Doc
tor Machale, Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland, given
under his hand July 4th, in the present summer:
"Their suferings are alas but too manifest. 1t |
IS not necessary to be coming at those facts by the
slow and solemn process of commission of inquiry.
Numbers in this very neighborhood go to bed without
tasting morsel of food during the entire day, and
some pass the second, doomed to the same expert
ment In this sad statement there is not word of
exaggeraon on my part, nor have been the dupe of
delusion. No, have made myself conversant with |
the details OF misery and though sense of duty
would my absence at this season, l have |
thought it more imperative duty to stay at home,
even to encounter all the opportunities Of Distress
and to sooth those pangs of suffering which it is i'm
possible to appease. There is deception 1t is |
not on the awful tale which the tongue may some
times frame to deceive that rest the evidence of
this unexampled restitution. No, it is the totter
ing steps of groups of creatures returning from the
fields where they have been plucking unwholesome
vegetables; their jauntced and vid looks bearing
testimony to the scanty and poisonous nutriment by
which they necessated to sustain their wretched
existence"
Oh heavens Oh Ireland are you indeed reduced
to this state, and are we tamely celebrating here
upon some wretched political nostrum, whilst mil
lions of your brave race 60 to bed supperless and
rise breakfastess in the land of piety and hospitality
oh it would be better for those people and for u.s.
their friends, to resolve at once come what may to
effect their liberation by mighty effort and scat
tr the crumblng tottering power for that holds
her in starving subsection. loud cheering)
Let me read further for you list of the provisions
exported in year by Ireland to England.
This is taken from their official tables published in
1885:
Cows and oxen in NUMBER 96,l5O
Sheep, 1875, ASP
| Swine, 376 1872
Bacon and hams in cuts of ll2 lbs. 749,2s3
Butter in do. $4,000
| Meal and -four in do. l984480
Wheat in quarters of eight bushels, 42O,522
! Barley in do. l68946
| Oats in quarters of 1876 lbs. each, 1575994
| The value of all these at English prices would be
| equal to SEVEN HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS!
And the agricultural powers of production
have increased rather than diminished since that Pc
rod in ireland. If the arstocracy of England take
from US seven hundred millions worth OF provisions
| nnually, and leave to feed herbs and grass
what will the world say of them2 What will civil.
zed man say to them? What will American states
men say to them2 And now inhabitants of this free
country, the appeal is made you in behalf of this
PROSTATE people. think | hear some whisperngs
about the prudence Of "hon-interference" know
that some of your citizens have said, "We wish Ire
land WELL but have no business to interfere in the
affairs of other nations" Perish this reasoning
What! am to be told when hear the cries of mur
derin a neighborine house, and that rush towards
the spot, and hearing the cries and of the VIC
tim grow louder, that am not justified in bursting in
the doors and Selling the guilty monster by the throat