Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-11-07
THE TELEGRAPH.
SOUTHPORT, WIS. NOVEMBER 7, is43,
FOREIGN NEWS.

TohLiuN NEWS.
We make pretty cop;ous extracts of Fo-
reign news, for our paper of to-day. SO ra-
p'd is now the communication between the
two countries, that the United States are in
effect the close ncighbors of Europe, and
aside from their intimate business relations.
take deep interest in those popular express
SONS which indicate the condition and purpo-
scs of the European people. In the charac-
ter of our government, there can be no qucs
ton but we enjoy blessings and advantages
of which monarch:cal subjects are entirely
deprived; the commonest principles then of
bcnevolencc prompt us TO take deep intc-
rest in the movements of the people of Eu-
rope, and we trust therefore, the extracts we
have made will be found Interesting.
1t will be seen that the principle of free
trade is beginning pretty seriously TO agitate
the people of England. a matter 50 plainly
for the benefit of the mass-in fact, so abso-
lutely necessary for their very existence, it
seems to lis cannot remain long unaccom-
plshcd. If the wealthy landholdcrs and the
ttlod paupers, having the power, refuse the
relief which a toll depressed and starving POI
pulation demand, they but heap Goals of fire
for their own heads when the dav Of rctribu-
ton arrives; and that day of rctribution
will arrive, and that too, ere long, is as GER
tain as that their system of laws are contriyed
10 rob the poor to add wealth to the already
bloatcd Golfers of the rich. Alas! for the
character of laws and the condition of society
when idlcness rolls in luxurious and liycricd
pomp, and honest Industry tolls in want.
The agitation in Ireland it Will be seen,
continues. The living principle of human
liberty is not backy. ard in its tendency. Free
dom's battle once begun, and tyrants and
their tools seek in vain to stay its onward
progress and ultimate success. The result
of this movement Will be that ireland will
free herself from the yoke that has 50 long
borne her 10 the earth, and if, on emerging
from the dcspolism which has thus far crush
ed and paralyzed her, her own institutions
are conceived in wisdom, it will he grand
triumph for her people, and the cause oflrec-
dom viii receive an additional impulse
throughout the world. 1t is impossible for
the government at London to stay the course
Of things. O'ConncIl'5 policy is such that
the two nations will not come in conflict I'M
less England strikes the first blow, and this,
with her present internal condition she dare
not do. England will have to compromise,
and her compromise can be no less than a
concession of all Ireland asks.
But whilst we ardently wish, and antici-
pate eventually, for Ireland, the accomplish
mcnt of all she desires, we see more than a
little to condcmnin the bearing ofO'Conncll.
The attitude he has assumed towards the
slave states and the manner in which be
treats aid and sympathy from that quarter,
| it seems TO us is rash and misjudged in the
extreme; for aid and sympathy are not com
modtics that can very readily be dispensed
with. In a speech of his he says, England
possessed this advantage, that her flag could
not flutter over the head Of a slave, and prac-
teal domestic slavery was put an end to
wherever the British flag was predominant"
/ The leader of a great revolution such as o.
/ Cornell is embarked in, should be able wise
/ ly to discriminate between that slavery which
IS but little more than mere name, and the
crushing slavery ofbody and mind which the
English government imposes on all its sub
jects. Instead of suppos,ng that the English
flag could not wave over the head of slave
we supposed that the Union,' which Mr..
O'Connell seeks to repeal, was alone odiou:
from the abject slavery it embodies. If Mr.
/ O'Connell wants or wishes the aid of Anne
ricans. let him not unwisely attack institu
tons (Which the mass of people themselye:
do not seriously complain.
Bat the cause ofrepeal must prosper from
its intrinsic worth. and though it may be re
tarded it cannot be crushed.
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