The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-10-08
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PooR IRELAND! Always sgtated for the last
fifty years. her affairs have appeared on the point Of
a crisis Indeed, we never recollect to have seen
an announcement of even the momentary existence
of that public quiet and peace Of mind which is not
less necessary for national than for individual pros
perity. The public turmoil, the chickering's, and
jealousies, which never die among her people, pro-
duce at least their share of the wretchedness with
which her laboring population seem destined to he
ever afflicted. What a change in her condition
would the world behold, if but a moiety Of the zeal
and talent now SO ferccly directed against Orange
men by repcaers, and against repealcrs by Orange
men, were earnestly devoted to the moral and intel
lectual cultivation of the masses IL they could but
be elevated TO the condition OF the millions of
America, their political emancipation would become
matter OF course, and not, as now, will-o'-the-
wisp, in the pursuit Of which their energies, treas
ure, and blood are SO freely expended in vain
We take the following summary of Irish affairs
from the "London Spectator Of the 9th ult.:
"When steamer leaves the smoother waters and
goes among head-wnds and Crosse currents althouph
its speed be not increased il seems TO be making the
hubbub which the elements cause by beating against
its bows So il is with the course Of government in
ireland; though not more violent than il is in Eng
land, 1t appears to occasion the tumult which il
merely marks and does not cause. There il no
measure but what must encounter storms in that
stormy land unless il be quite nugatory; and even
then, 1t may breed the worst Of tumuts as witness
the n,tgG of repeal. The assent or even acuoies-
cence of one party, implies the frantic hostility of
all others. For the Maynooth bill, the wind with
the repealcrs is fair; and therefore it meets a
hurricane from the Orange quarter. The project of
OF the new colleges wins the gradual concurrence of
the moderate Roman Catholics, headed by the most
discreet and intelligent of their prelaes and there
fore 1t provokes the increasing wrath of the immod.
ernte Catholics, and the less discreet preates MS
well ms that Of the more violent conservatives
While Archbishops Crolly and Murray are prom
is'ng the measure fair trial Archbishop MTIae is
writing fierce invectives TO Sir Robert Pee and Mr.
John OConnoll, with bitter feeling that stings him
to candor, admits that the minister has succeeded in
sowing division among the Roman Catholics Again
with the repeal magistrates begun to promote an
agitation seditlous in its tendencies ministers dis
missed those magistrates il is now the turn of the
Orange magistrates to initiate the offence of their
antagonists; government continue identicay the
same course, and there is equal Turning and splut-
tering among the Orange party In Ireland, every
ones hand is raised against all the rcst--repeaer
orangcman, Catholic, Protestant, ribandman land
lord, tenant there all the relations of society are
bitter sniagonisms; but all are against the govern
ment. Properly speaking, there is no ministerial
party in Irelandno political party at all; for men
are not banded together by open opinions, which
each individual freely adopts on conviction. but
banded by traditional hereditary prcjudces and fac
tous interests. II real opinion exists in this depen
dency Of Great Britain, it shines by reflected
light.
Meanwhile, these wholesale dismissals of magis-
trates are not without awkwardness They beeet
opportunities for worrying the government with
small dlfhcultcs-such weigh much with the
,nsn people. Mr. Valentine Blake, who has Just
been dismissed from the Galway Commission Of The
peace, mischieyously boasts that he was dismissed
from the Mayo commission long ago; and he scolds
government for inconsistency in retaining him for
galway, after Diminishing him for Mayo. Mr.. Len
drum Is dismissed for attending an Orange meeting;
and he disarms government, by roundly asserting
that he went to keep the peace Why, that was
one protested object of O'Connel's drilling and po-
Ice at the monster meetings Il is especially Mr..
Steele's Office. Government, however, ia commit.
ted to the course Of dismissal and seems as much
bent on perseverance II il bound TO il. The up
shot may be nothing short Of determination of the