The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-25


This treaty also England found the way TO break and
after the enjoyment Of greater share OF happiness
and prosperity than ever fell To the lot OF any nation
Ireland lo. TO the bribery of England that which her
| physical powers could never take. la 1900, by the
application of mony millions of money and by invest
| ing the country with 10000 armed men, by promo
ting civil and by the suspension OF the trial by jury
| and The Habeas Corpus act-by these means she Pu'
down the Parliament of Ireland Then the manuiae-
lures which grew up under It's protection ei-theh ~
gentry scattered, carrying with them to England anu
elsewhere the great wealth they derived from Ire
and-Ihen It's tradesmen declined and ITS cities pegan
fall into decay. foreign Parliament taxes lreahu'
| without representation. In Parliament OF ooo mem
b.rs Ireland has 05 members Of which % are so tho
oughy English that they might be made present 10
Engand and missed. Laughter Ireland
| is Knocked by the legislation OF England ohe Is com,
PEELED pay the interest Of the debt OF TWO hundred
millions contracted t. put down the liberty of Amer
| ca-though the People OF Ireland proe.'ed against
| that war She is taxed to pay the debt created by
| the aristocracy to put down Napoleon her rieh ana
| fertile lands have been confscated time after time,
| from Inshnen 10 Englishmen, who eternaliy hVe
abroad and carry OF the subsistence of millions, winch
is squandered in the gayest parts of Europe All the
fish ia her waters and all the birds that wing their
way across her hills and valleys have been appropra-
ted 10y the astocracy and thus the people robbed ON
every side and under every pretence are lett TO sta'e
| and visited by iamines almost periodically i
and you their friends here, are rendered miserable,
year after year, by hearing OF their suierings ana
l
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
An occurrence has just taken place IN Ireland,
which affords lamenable illustration of the Politi-
cal and social condition OF that part OF the United
| Kingdom. Driven to desperation by want and the
apprehensions of famne crowd Of starving wretches
and "a Tbs ssysnng IF sk9HGapsSSn Es Stores Of
Nessrs. Bannatyne, corn-merchants. police force,
| amounting to torty-two, men and officers, were
| called out to protect the property thus menaced-
! The mob became more furious and the women were
foremost it is said, in urging the men to assal the
constabuary. The police fred and two persons fell
| dead, and a number of men, women, and children,
received serious gun-shot wounds. The circum-
stances of the riot of that peculiarly distressing
character that required the utmost torbearance on
the part of the authorities, and obviously such
to render it imperative that the law should not be
enforced with extreme rigor; for hunger will break
through stone WALL But, instead Of feelings Of
| kindness and forbearance we find that the police
force acted with PERCEPTIONS brutality, having fired
without orders-even without the Riot Act having
been read. The jury, before whom an inquest was
held on the body of Catharne Sheehan, who was shot
during the riot, have found this verdict, in conse-
quence of which thir weight 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-
gsh arstocracy, and matter of course, the bills
of Indictment ignored or flung out and these
commissioned murderers were let loose society to
re-enact the horrible tragedy upon the next unfortu
nate wreches that may clamor for food.
Let me place on the wings of the press even here
at the very of this great Republic, and from
hence let it fly to the four of the earth, the
actual condition of the once great and hospable Irish
nation. Let the world be informed from this, on
the wings of press free the patron Eagle, of
the state of that brave and patriotic people under
English Legislation rather let me say under English
robbery, under English pillage. 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 4h, 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 neghborhood go to bed without
tasting morsel of food during the entire day, and
some pass the second, doomed to the same expert
nent. In this sad statement there is not word of
exaggeration on my part nor have been the dupe of
delusion No, l have made myself conversant with
the details of misery, and though of duty
would excuse my absence at this season, 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 inn
possible to appease. There is no deception. II Is
not on the awful tale which the tongue may some
times frame to deceive that | rest the evidence of
this unexampled restitution. No, is the totter
ing steps of groups of creatures returning from the
fields where they have been pluckng unwhoesome
vegetables; their jaunjiced and vid looks bearing
testimony to the scanty and poisonous nutrment by
which they necesstated to sustain their wretched
existence"
Oh heavens Oh Ireland are you indeed reduced
to this state, and we tamely celebrating here
upon wretchcd political nostrum, whilst mil
lions of your brave go to bed supperess and
rise hraa fastl in he 1nEn
oh it would be better for those people and for us,
their friends, to resolve at once, what may, to
effect their liberation by mighty effort, and scat
the crumblng totterng power for ever that holds
her in starving subsection. Cloud cheering.
Let read further for you list of the provisions
| exported in year by Ireland to England
This is taken from their official tables published in
1895:
Cows and oxen in number, 9G,l5O
Sheep, l25,452
Swine, 376,192
Bacon and hams in cuts of ll2 lbs. 1928
Butter in do. $4,000
Meal and -four in do. 1,9S4,4S0
Wheat in quarters of eight bushels 420,522
| Barley in do. l6S,946
| Oats in quarters Of 1896 lbs. each, l,575,9S4
The value of all these at English prices would be
| equal to SEVEN HUNDRED MILLION OF DOLLARS
| And the agricultural powers of production
have increased rather than diminished since that pc
riod in Irelsnd If the aristocracy of England take
! from seven hundred millions worth Of provisions
annually, and leave to feed herbs and grass
what will the world say of them2 What will civil
zed man say to theme What will American states
men say to them2 And now, inhabitants OF this free
country the appeal Is made TO you in behalf OF this
PROSTATE people. think hear whisperngs
| about the prudence of observation-disclosures" know
that of your citizens have said, "We wish Ire
land well, but have business interfere in the
affairs of other nations" Perish this reasoning
What am to be told when hear the cries of nur
der in a neghhorns house, and that | rush towards
the spot and hearing the and of the vic
tim grow louder, that not justified in bursting
the doors and sezing the guilty monster by the throat
arrest his murderous course, and give liberty and life
to his victim Loud cheers.