Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1843-07-06


for, in view Of their own. In doing so he wisely
confines himself mostly to Pro,es,an, authorities
Speaking Of the means by which the successes
in the time OF Queen Elizabeth were Obtained he
quotes the historian Morrison. No spectacle was
more frequent in the bitches Of the towns and es-
pc ciallyin the wasted countries, than 10 see mul.
tltudcs Of these poor people, the Irish dead, with
mouths oil colored green by eating nc,tlcs, docks
and all things they could find above ground To
sustain life they forced to en-, these weeds as
the English troops had year after year destroyed
their crops ill other food remained for them to
sustain life upon. Next a, the end OF the revolu.
ton, Cromwell collected together $4,000 Irish,
whom he sent to the West Indies In six years
less than hoenfy OF the so, 000survivcd. In 1891,
the famous Limerick treaty was signed and the
English crown pledged its faith and honor TO Sc
cure to the Irish all the rights and privileges Of
English citizens and The free and untetiered erer-
else Of their reiigion.' The manner in which
this plghted faith was kept, very few extracts
will show.
by act Of Parliament, il the eldest son of
Catholic father declared himself Protestant, he
thereby made his father strict tenant for life, de.
prived the father Of ali power to sen OF dispose Of
his estate and such Protestant son became entitled
to the absolute dominion and ownership of the es-
tate III any Catholic purchased for money any
estate in land, any Protestant was empowered by
law to take away tina, estate from the Catholic, and
to enjoy it without paying one shilling of the pur.
chase money
If a Catholic kept school or taught any person.
Protestant or Catholic, any species of literature or
science, such teacher was punishable by law BY
Punishment, and if he returned from banishmen,
he was subject to be hanged as felon'
TO convert Protestant to the Catholic faith,
was capital offence, punishable as an act ofrea.
SON.
Thus were the Irish secured in the free and
unfcttercd exercise Of their religion, and this per-
secution lasted eightysix years.
In the year 1900 the Union was inflicted on
Ireland by the combined force of terror, torture,
force, fraud and corruption This Mr.. O'Con.
nell claims was accomplished by keeping alive
domestic dissension,' by suspension of the Habeas
Corpus act and by the most enormous and base
corrupons' Truly as Mr. OConnell says mo
people on the face of the earth were ever treated
with such cruelty as the Irish And certainly
none are more entitled to our sympathies than they
who have for ages been struggling under the
worst of all oppresson-that of government
whose aim is to wiring the las, hrthng Of the hard
earnings from those who she ought TO protect with
the fondest care
The American people resisted excessive taxa
ton because it was unjust. But upon them ex.
cessive taxes are imposed which are not only nm.
just but which they can scarcely pay, and which
are insisted upon even at the point of the bayonet
Their country is impoverished in sustaining an
extravagant administration and a profigate and
pampered nobility who are entitled to no support
from them save that they are of noble birth and
are in power.
When people are thas oppressed, and in no
way benefited by government which they main
tain, forbearance ceases TO be vrtueand resistance
is the only alternative Yet while for long years,
Ireland has been ruled as with rod of iron, by
a government which she abhors-while she has
been cruelty taxed for the support Of religion
which she docs not acknowledge TO be the true
one. STILL has she ever manifested devotion and
loyalty to England, such as no other nation I'M
utI IlcaVeh Woulu nave SHOWN under ike clrcum-
stances. And now, when her people in peacea-
BILE manner ask for redress Of grievances and Of
those too who riot on their hard earned pittance
and those for whom their best blood has been free
y shed they are told tina, "egislatrc means aciH
aoiH be adopted for putting an end TO suuh agita-
tions" But OConnell says it would be a very
strong and precise law that would gag 100000
of people who know their rights, and are not dis
posed to barter them away We think SO too.
But in the intoxicating bowl has Ireland sought
for many years to drown all recollcc,ions of her
wrongs and once iondly cherished hopes-and for
half century her senses have been stepped in for
getfulness, md she has no, fully seen the misery
which on all sides surrounded her. But thanks
to Father Mathew, her people have been rescued
from this last worst degradation and have seen the
extent Of their misery He was dull man thai
witnessed their release from this bondage and did
not foresee an increased action in favor of repeal
And with the shout Of joy that announced that re.
generation, came new hopes to thousands of the
friends Of Erin here; and 10 the future shey lat
least in Imagination saw once more unfurling the
Irish flag OF freedom We hope and trust the day
is not far diston, when the epitaph of her Emmett
may be written, and unless England grants that
justice which she has so long withheld she may be