New-York daily tribune., 1843-11-08
The Arrest of o,Conmen.

CHESTER Co.
The Arrest OF O'Connell.
We cannot understand the exultatlon Of many
professedy Jealous advocates of american Liberty
and Independence at the arrest of Daniel O'Con-
nell at the nstigation of the British Ministry, for
alleged conspiracy and sedtion against the British
Crown. To our mind, this is a most arbitrary
and wanton act, which no considerate friend Of
Freedom any where can seriously approve
O'Connel is earnestly. laborously, patiently seek
ing by peaceful means to emancipate his own
country from Foreign Yoke-from bondage
commenced in treachery and rapinc, continued by
perfidy and overwhelming brute force, and at last
consummated by the blacklist iniquity, the most
shameless corruption. At an early PERIOD the
Irish were a savage and restless people, divided
into clanships and petty kingdoms, family and
htfully acknowledging some common leader or
chief. but often in arms against him and against
each other. These intestine feuds and wars rem
dered the conquest of the Island by the English,
united under the fierce despotism of the conquer
ing Norman race, an easy matter; these dlssen
sions have enabled the English Monarchs to
maintain their supremacy, with casual and brief
intervals, to our time. OF this Ireland does not
complan--she is willing to acknowledge and
obey the sovereigns Of Great Britain as her legi-
mate sovereigns also. But she asks that the
local Parliament she once had be restored to her
that the confessedly, notoriously corrupt and
shameful Act of Union of 1893 be repealed,
and her own local interests be placed once more
under the guardianship of her own chosen egisa-
tors-just as New York, New-Jersey, and even
Canada and Jamaica, have local Legislatures
Can this be wrong? 1t would do no good, say
you Are you the rlght(ul Judge of that If
it was worth while to England to rob Ireland of
her Parliament, may it not be of consequence to
Ireland also to get it restored again? If an Irish
Parliament would amount to nothing, why is it
so vehemently opposed
1t would seem calculated to fill the heart OF a
freeman with Indignation to consider the bare
charge on which O'Connell is now held to bail.
1t was all very lawful and right to brbe and
bully the Irish People and Parliament out of
their Legislative independence-to subvert their
ancient institutions by gold and titles of nobility
bestowed for treachery, and drawn swords every
where held at the breasts of the indignant but
unarmed, unorganized millions but when that
People begin to consider, and demonstrate, and
peacefully assemble to petition for the restoration
of their ancient, their fraudulently wresed rights
they forsooth. are guilty of conspiracy and Sc
dition, Was there ever such harelaced iniquity ?
We wish some of our good people who are so
valorous in favor of american Liberty and in op-
position 10 the rule of Foreigners would just apply
their principles to the case Of lreland-govened
| by foreigners for seven hundred years-forelgn-
ers who hold the ancient and cherished Faith of
of her People as an offence against the State,
which incapacitatcs them for holding most I'M
portant offices and subjects them to heavy taxa
tion for the support of q Church they know and
| love not Even our full-blooded American Re-
| pubiicaaS, who were so generous as to vote, on
Monday evening, ton Of hemp for the hanging
of o 'Connell and his compatriots, might think
better of it if they would only consider cooy
They want the Irish to stay at home they say.
Then why don't they wish them independence
and paternal home government, so that they
can stay at home This year the Irish emigra-
ton has been diminished more than one half by
the Repeal agitation, and the hope tnat an Irish
Parliament will cherish Irish Industry, so that
Irshmen may find subsistence at home. Messrs.
Natives it does seem that you reason very bad
ly, or rather are impelled by raneorous feeling
without reasoning at all. There is no necessary
or proper connexion between the question of Re
peal of the Irish Union and any topic of our In
ternal politics or policy, and they only blend
ed by the prejudiced or the designing. Let each
proposition stand on its own merits.
1 u The Meeting Of Repealeys, which was to
have assembled in the Park last evening, was pre-