New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-01-30
The Cause OF Human Liberty. ss now
stru Ggled for in Ireland.

III tDeIl own laws, ds raising IN any sense llleIe
National or local question. Their cause Is essen
tiallythe cause of 'Iankind-of the down-trodden
Millions every whereof Universal Freedom
They may take very many wrong steps to assert
their Rghts-they may use unworthily what they
Go gain-they may havelowideasof what Freedom
is and wherein it consists-indeed they VIII nat
uraly have; for centuries of Slavery do not pre-
pare men for Liberty-but their cause Is essen
TALLY the cause of Man, and we may reverently
say, Of God. So believing, we feel lively SYM
patty in the efforts we rejoice in the success, we
deplore yet forgive the errors, of People strug-
Cling to divest themselves of the shackles of Ty-
ranny. They may in some acts be wrong, but
their opponents can nerer be right.
But when People deliberately adopts and,
though sorelv tried long adheres to the sublime
principle of Moral SuasIon. resolving to melt off
its letters in the slow but steady and increas-
ing fires of enlightened and scorching Opinion,
it surely presents additional claims on the gene
rous appreciation of the lovers of Freedom and
Righteousness. When t resolves to prepare itself
for the struggle with Oppression, not with the
madness Of drink but with the Temperance
Pledge, it gives an additional proof of its reallza
ton of what true Liberty is, and how it is to be
obtained and preserved; and its claim on at
least our sympathy, is immeasurably strength
ened Such is our apology to the cold, the critical
for our lively interest in the existing contest for
the Emancipation of Ireland.
We promised yesterday some extracts from
the Addresses, sc. at the great Repeal Meet
ing in Albany, and we now give them, though
constrained to brevlty. Gov. SEwARD's unan-
swerable demonstrations of The Wrongs and
Rights of Ireland have often appeared IN our
columns; but we must make room for the follow.
ing
&c The people of Ireland-the men, women and
children of that island,-an island more spacious
than some OF our own States or some Of the most
ancient kingdoms in Europe-that island the
greenest in all the seas, teeming with human life.
prolific of the clements of its support and deny.
ing life to whatever is noyious-are not this peo-
pie nation, with all the comprehensive individu-
atty that makes a community! And are they
not of the some race. endowed with the same
inacnable rights by the same beneficent Creator?
Their cause then Is az sacred and as dear to hui
man-as our own for it Is the same common
cause Of all Mankind.
{" 1t is also essential, in the very idea Of Anne
rican freedom, that the moral sentiments OF man.
kind are paramount to the governments OF States,
and may Elghtfuly be expressed to influence and
regulate their action. Al! governments which
have consistency enough to endure have a ten
dencv TO increase their power and Cypress their
subjects. Every government unequally consu-
tuted has tendency to Cypress dependent and
deienceess portions of the State. When nation
or province is oppressed by means of the powers
granted for It's preservation, how can 1t peacefully
obtain relief? The sympathies of the world are
conservative of natural rights, and may lawfully
be awakened and moved to their restoration
Give me again the Declaration OF independence:
'.'The history of the present King of Great Bri-
tain is history repeated injuries and usurpatons,
all having in direct object the establishment OF
absolute tyranny over these States 10 prove this,
let facts be submitted to candid world
''' A candid world. This was the tribunal,
the only tribunal, acknowledged by thirteen feeble
colonies planted by exes OF whom Europe was
not worthy. Observe how, with seeming haughtl-
ness, but real and just self-reance, they appealed
from the British throne to the candid world. And
the appeal was thoughtlully taken, not to the 60
vernments of the world, but to their constituents
to the World itself.
Ireland yet as well as then aprovlnce OF the
same empire, appeals in like controversy from
the same throne to the same world. In that
august tribunal, America has now an acknowl-
edged perhaps it would not be presumptous to
say, the highest place. Can We dlsallow to Ire
land an appeal identical with that by maintaining
which America acquired the right of umplrage
among the natlons?'
The following is from the Speech of Hon.
SAMUEL STEVENS, who IS widely known as an
eminently able and upright Statesman, though
never appearing before the public except when
constrained by a sense of duty. He says
"Is there then any thing reprehensible in the
citizens OF the United States giving every coun-
tenance and rendering every aid to oppressed Ire
land, which the soundest judi ment and deepest
sympathies of civilized man dictate! Is there
any thing in the position which this government
towards England that forbids 1t :?
81 conceive that the solution. OF these questions
must depend upon the answer to the inquiry,
whether Ireland is right or wrong In her claims
for redress of grievances, or N the mode IN when
she proposes to obtain that redress. Will not
detain the meeting by repeating the grievances
and expressions, which have been SO stafthgty
depicted by their President, and which have, IN
the nineteenth century, and under government
claiming to be the most enlightened, the most
civilized the most refined, and the most christian
Of any one on earth, crushed both the mental and
physical energies of eight millions of human be
inss, created BY God His own likeness and after
Ills own image.
The history of Ireland for the last SIX hundred
wears was history of blood, with the exception
OF one bright but brief period, under the auspices
of Mr.. Grattan; shortly before her fatal union
with England Then, indeed, for short PERIOD
her commerce and manufactures sprang up with
the elasticity of youth. The just administration