The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-06-09
YORK HERALD.
New York, sunday, June Q, 1874.
Ireland aud the Irish.

Ireland aud the Irish.
We are very glad to observe that CLEAN of CON-
mon sense has at last broke in upon the loud
tongued protesting friends of Ireland and the Irish,
in this country project for diverting the contrl-
buttons, which for the past year or two have been
poured into the repeal funds. 10 purposes oil unequ
vocal utility and genuine philanthropy, has Just
been started by the conductors OF one OF the irish
papers in this cty-not the Blshop's-but a journal
which has been struggling IN the cause OF Ireland
with zeal and earnestness which deserve better
reward than they have hitherto met--the Lih
Volunteer The editor of that paper proposes,
that funds should be raised for the pur-
rose of enabling the oppressed Irish to emf
gate TO this country, and, on their arrival,
to supply hem with the means Of commencing
that career of industry, sobriety, and loyalty TO
hw,which, in this glorious land, are ever certain Of
appropriate reward, and which are virtues not at
all alien to the Irish character, whatever its de-
flmers may choose to assert to the contrary.
We hail with unaffected pleasure this manifesto
ton Of good sense and pure patriotism. This is
the mode of testifyng sympathy for the oppies-
sed people of lovely, but unhappy land,
which We have repeatedly suggested. And it
was the melancholy Misrepresentation Of con-
tributions wrung from the Woodworking Irish
In this country, Of which the Repeal leaders were
guilty, which chiefly stirred up against them our
indignant feelings. We could not contemplate
the msdirectisn Of that ardent attachment to the
land of their birth, nobly characteristic OF the
Irishman wherever his lot may be cast, without
administering rebuke TO those who Converted to
their own base uses" such estimable feelings
Hence, again and again, we denounced the politi-
cal in,rguers who plundered the pockets Of the
Irish Of their wellearned dollars, for the purpose
of swelling the Golfers of the Repeal Association
1t was an unJustfable-a wicked waste OF funds,
which, properly employed, might have been the
means of delivering thousands from abject want In
the novels of Ireland, and placing them on the soil
of free land where their energies would have
been unshackled and the means Of comfortable
subsistence within their reach.
The sons of the green isle owe incalculable obi
cations to America. And the favors have not all
been on one side. This land contains monuments
of the industry--the intelligence-the patriotism
and the virtue of lrishmen, which will perish only
with the Republic itself. This indeed seems to be
the chosen field for the display of that unwearying
industry-that earnest toil--that devoted patrlo-
tism-that faithful attachment to liber,y-whlch
are the distinguishing traits in the Irish character.
Here the Irish are altogether freed from civil des-
potsm, and in great degree also from that eccle
sastical tyranny which has been such a potent
element in the bondage under which their beau
teous isle has groaned for centuries. Here they
are free, and here when left to their own free i'm
pulses, and allowed to exhibit their own devotion
to free institutions, the Irish conduct themselves
a manner which has always gained and ever will
gain for them the esteem and af1ectonate regard
of the wise ana good of their fellow. citizens Of all
denominations, and of every ere I'd or cline.
How then can the Irish citizens of this land so
we'll exhibit their love FOR their poor brethren al
home, whose waings in the house Of bondage and
misery, pierce the ear Of Christendom--how can
they SO well discover their attachment to this the
chosen and beloved land of their adoption, as by
contributing the means OF delivering their country
men at home from servitudc and degradation, and
physical misery in its most appalling forms-and in
Producing them to land where. with their stout
arms, and good hearts, and clear heads they can
gain home for themselves and their children
Come now, ye proIessed friends of ireland and
the Irsh-Come now we McKeons, and Mel.
vcs, and Tylers, and Mullins, and Emmetts
come, now, all ye, who in that repeal agl-
tation, which happily has now received its quietns
were so vociferous in your philanthrophy-
thize for Ireland and the Irish! Come, now, and
let US measure your love for those oppressed people,
on whose suherngs ye were wont to dscaim by
the hour in Washington Hall Come, now, and
let us test your philanthropy
We do not mean TO let this matter drop. We
shall keep it before the public We shall give our
Repeal orators an opportunity Of discovering the
extent of their affection for Ireland and the Irish.
We shall see who will be the first Irish patriot to
move in the creation of fund of fifty thousand
dollars for the real relief of the Irish people-a sum
equal TO that which was raised last year for the
purpose of filling the pockets of O'Connell and his
compario,s of the Corn Exchange
REPORTING OF THE HERALD.-Ever since we es-
tablished the system of full and accurate reporting
of all public proceedings-till then unknown in the
American press, and which at once excited the rage
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