New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-06-21
The cause of Ireland.

Ireland, is impelled to speak too severely OF INC
f mofiues of those Americans who indulgein mena-
ces of bloodshed to aid the cause of Repeal J"
will hope that they have been rash and thought
/ less-nothing more-and that they VIII heh0e-
forth be induced to consider and realize the Deau
ty and power of an appeal to the aorai oeiise .,
mankind against fragrant and long-cohtil'eu
oppression 1t may be that blood IS destined TO
I How in IreIaDd-and if it does flow, 1t Will not
trickle in rls, but rush in rvcrs-but we fee! sure
that slaughter viii not be commenced Or pro-
vokcd by the Irish People; we lmplore that 1t
shall not by their friends here. Every word Of
menace or threat of carnage by either win be
trumpeted by the Tory Press, and made an ex-
cuse for farther tyranny and new inventions OF
misrule in Ireland-for disarming, binding and
crushing. o friends of Right be warned be
wise as your enemies Fit be desirable that the
contest be brought to bloody arbitrament never
doubt that this will come soon enough without
any seeking on your side And most ncedlul is
it to the triumph of Justice that it should SO
come! Be calm, and you cannot fail to perceivcit.
We might not have published the following had
we not seen what efforts arc making to pervert
the cause of Repeal into subserviency to other
causes, by which, to say the least, nothing can be
gained to it. First, that portion OF the Public and
the Press which loves Order and Peace, and
breads carnage and devastation, IS repeied by
threats Of boo9 shed and violence, and induced to
speak dspar1gingly o. the Repeal agitation IN
this countr'y-rneaning such agitation as has at
tracted its notcc-and then an effort is made to
excite the Irish citizens of this country to hate
and distrust those who have In this way been
preiudiccd against Repeal. The result Of this, If
successful, will be to render the Repeal demon
stration in this country utterly useless For 1t IS
little help to Ireland that class in America sym
pathise with her Affections bat 1t Will be OF I'M
rncnse service to her to bring the whole American
People to understand her wrongs and anxousy
desire their redress Such a contamination
would bring moral influence to bear upon Eng
land which it would be difficult long to resist
And this can be attained. The cause of ireland
is the cause not of violence and blood, but OF
Civil and Religious Liberty-at heart the cause
Of Freedom and Frecmcn in every part OF the
globe. 1t can and must be made to appear So
even to those who arc now preudiced against it,
if it's friends discreet, patient and untiring.-
To this end their efforts should be directed-not
to build up and wall in little party of Repealcrs,
or even a large party, but to convince the whole
American People that their cause is identical
in principle with that of our own Revolutionary
Fathers, and their grievances far more abundant,
bitter and CALLING, Let these truths be plainly
toi and
our whole People will be enlisted in the cause of
Justice to Ireland.
But we are dcferring too long the letter Of
our correspondent. 1t is as follows:
TO the Editor Of The Tribune
The advantage you have already done the cause
OF suffering Ireland by your able and intelligent
exposition Of the principles involved in the Repeal
agitation IN this country, you have much enhanced
by vnur,very jndicinns rehnkcs of the incorporate
language too often used by someof the advocates
of Repeal here. No one can more deeply regret
the use of such language than those who are at
the head of the movement here-or who are, at
least, in positions of trust and promincnccn our
Repeal Associations. | can speak for the Execu-
! tive Committee OF the New-Yorll Rcpealcrs, and
know that with one mind they deprecate strongly
any violence of manner or language. They dep!ore
sincerely the use of threats, as impotent as they
are bloody-thrcats which have other
earthly use than to bring good and great cause
into suspicion and contempt with the mass OF oar
| community, and, perhaps, to draw down 4" thun-
ders of applause" from AN excited and unrchcct-
ing popular asscmblage. The last IS a consdera-
ton but too powerful with men who care little for
the cause, but great deal for the popularity
noisy and headslrong advocacy of it coners for
time.
l know. and no one will admit sooner than the
Editor Of the Tribune, that when red-handcd
Government threatens to crush Il peaceful, legal,
agitation by torce,--to let loose q iawless and
brutal soIdery upon the green fields, and among
the vrtuous homes of Ireland, it is difficult nay,
next to impossible, for Irish adopted citizens
who have, many of them, near and dear relatives,
fathers mothers, sisters, brothers, all of them
friends and acquaintance, still remaining N that
disturbed land-to curb their natural indignation.
or to check their passionate excitement, half
dread, half suspense, lest those near and dear
connexions may be the earliest and the saddeSt
victims to the grim tyranny of brute force. That
they should give vent to their burdened hearts in
fierce outcries and wild menaces of retaliation is
not to be wondered at however much to be re-
GREETED. 1t is the working of poor, weak human
nature. But, 1t is not, after all, such people who
indulge in this wac-talll which YOU so strongly and
50 Justly censure. Speakers Of this cast are IN
almost every case men who Gas have said care
not straw for Ireland and her sutferings, and
who would not feel pang if tomorrow she and
her children were fathonls deep under the sea-
They arc men who glad to make Repeal
hobby whereon TO ride with much squirting and
kicking, and caracoling, amid the cheers and
wonderment OF gaping bystanders-nen who,
from platform in the Park, three thousand good
miles away from danger, can bravely and
herolcally exhort the Irish people to plunge intoa
strife which. whatever the result must entail
crime, bloodshed, and misery, without example