New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-06-10
1ne Ieneal ouestion.


The Repea! Question.
The Commercial thinks there is not much IN
what we offered in behalf of Gov Seward AND
other American friends of Repeal. That IS a
matter of opinion. The Commercial admits that
it stimulated the sympathy expressed throughout
this country for Greece during her struggle Tor
Freedom, but Greece was in open rebellion, cut
ting threats, burning and ravaging; while ireland
is striving to secure small portion oil hernatuFai
rights by peaceful petition and representation
therefore, Greece was proper subject Of Amerl-
can sympathy and Ireland is not Our conclu-
sion from these premises is very dlf'erent-we
think Ireland prefers by far the stronger clam to
sympathy on account Of her forbearance from
shedding blood We abhor war and violence !;
we think they should never, but in the drest ne
ceseity be resortcd to; We question the proprety
of resorting to them at all. Fcarlessly 10 assert
the right while patiently suffering the wrong
enduring injustice. yet kcenly feeling it-appca
ing uustiully to God and to universal Humanity
for redress-tllis is the noblest attitude Of an OPP
pressed People.
The Commercial thinks this Repeal is purely a
Home question. So far as the action of Govern
ments is concerned, this is probably correct; but
Justice and Injustice are considerations that over
leap the narrow boundaries Of Nations. "Who
made tAee Judge and ruler over US :" said the
oppressor to Moses; this is the cavll oil the
wrong doer always and every where. The OPP
s,ressed on the contrary appeal to universal Man
to the generous and interrupted heart-nnd
say truly that the evil which they suffer to-day
NAV be inflicted on us tomorrow if the Let us
alone principle is to be held sacred, and the OPP
pressor be subject to no reckoning except wti!
mis- Victims whose strength he has already mca-
sured and found inferior TO his own The only
general safeguard against oppression is to be
found in the vigilant assertion of the principle
that the oppresSor the wrong -doer, is an enemy,
not of his victim merely, but of the whole hu-
man race, and must rest under the ban of Public
Opinion throughout the civilized and Christian
world Nothing less than this can rcpress such
.outragcs that recently perpctratcd on the Sand
witch Islands, or as Ireland has groaned under
Cor the last two centuries.
But we have correspondent, styling HIM
ideas on this subject of Repeal. He asserts that
awe owe much to England" Tor what and
shat Is she has been our bulwark in times of Con.
ainental war, not with as surely, her fleets have
under Providence protected us when from the
assaults of other nations" &c; but, strangcst
madness he asserts that England is the bulwark
of the Protestant Religion, while Ireland Is
MAINLY Catholic; therefore Professionals ought to
ride with the former against the latter
Is it not mournful that such notions as these
can be entertained and gravcly urged IN thus
Christian land, in the middle of the Ninetecnth
Century AS if God could be on the side of the
opprcssor, because he audacously Knocked Him
by the profession of purer faith than that OF ms
victim As II the true way To advance Protest
antism were not to purge 1t from every STAN OF
Injustice. Who does not know that Catholicism
is now rapidly gaining in England, while IN Ire.
land. with power, honors, and every seduction on
the side of Professionalism, the Catholics have
doubled in numbers, while the Protestants have
not gained at all Can any man need 10 be
Shown the reason OF all this = Is there one who
nj this day does not understand that Persecution
is ALWAYS a benefit To Church, and that rc!i-
zion tramplcd into the earth takes strong roo, and
tlourishcs whatever It's errors
Asa Protestant, then, and IN behalf Of the hon
or ana advancement of the Protestant cause, we
protest against the atrocities, expressions, in!qni-
ties, perpetua.>d upon the great mass OF the Irish
People by the Eaglish Government. They are a
stumbling block and an abomnation. Let Us
stop chat,ering about long-past St. Bartholomew
and Bloody Queen Mary until we have brought
the English OF this enlightened day TO respect prac
tically the grca, first principle of Protcstantisn
the RICH, of Private Judgement IN all matters be
tween man and his God.
Our correspondent errs IN p7onouncing the Cath
,l;s. Church turbulent and iomenter of rebellion.
Constit. tionally she is quite otherwiSe-too Con-
sentative entirely. Ii he doubt this let hun study
the history Of Catholic Germany, and especially
Of Austria. the most Conservative OF modern uu,
,ions, AS TO France, her .lacobins were not Cath
thcs but In.idels But for |oltalrc, Rousseau,
and their conicderates, Robespierre and Mara,
had no, been poSSible-Bnt We cannot pursue
the subject further.
g-s- The Herald of yesterday demos emphai',
ca,ly ihst the suit commenced by ITS EIltol
aga;nst NJ. y Beach of the Sun has been com,
,.mnded or settled in any way. We thought We
had the statement, Oh good authority We art
glad, however, to learn that Justice and TIE La"
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