The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-15
THE WING PRESS AND THE PEOPLE OF
IRELAND.

To The Editors 81 me Union:
GENTLEMEN: More than a year ago, the writer
of this article, being then wing himself, addressed
communication to the editors Of the National In
telgencer demonstrating and complaining of the hos
tile course pursued by the whole wing press of this
country mot excepting the Inteigencer towards
the people of Ireland, who were noby struggling
against the gigantic power of England; and who,
in aiming their lost rights and indepcnd-
ence, presented to the world spectacle of moral
grandeur challenging the admiration of all 1t is the
first time in the history of mankind, that an OPP
pressed and down-trodden people ever attempted,
by the force of moral influence alone, to triumph
their tyrants and conquer the liberties of their
country.
asked the liberal and candid gentlemen who con-
duct the Inteigencer, hop hey-he friends and elo-
quent advocates of liberty all The worid-who
have of sympathy to shed over the Poles, the
Greeks, or the Patagonians-wh could call public
meetings to encourage and stimulate subscriptions to
aid the rebetous subjects of the Autocrat and the
Grand Turk;-I asked them how they these honest
peaceorng consistent gentlemen, could be so shock
ed because American citizens reoced over the moral
victories of Ireland How they could reconcile it to
their professed principles TO increasingly but mean
y and indirectly dispapge
1.-THE hottest cause that tongue sword
OF mortal ever lost or gained
the glorious cause of a virtuous people working
out the grand and interesting problem of the poicer
of moral combination 10 accomplish the mghfiesf poiif-
zeal repoIiion! asked them if the people of Ireland
were more remote, more unknown, more alien to
our bloodi--if they were less brave, less moral,
less devoted TO the cause of hberty'-or had done
less for that cause on our own soil and were conse-
auently less deserving Of our sympathy and en-
enlargement than the Poles and the Greeks' In
short, | wanted to know, from source which GER
tanly ought to have been able to furnish the inform
alton, why the people of Ireand-and they alone
should be denied the sympathy and support which
the free press of this country has heretofore extend
ed to every oppressed people struggling for their
rights.
The editors of the Inteigencer declined to an
swer my interrogatories. They "pocketed" my
catechism and left me to seek my information else
where. | did not, at that time, accuse the lnteili-
eencer with any direct editorial attack on the cause
of Irish liberty. But charged it with copying
nothing into its columns relating to the great move.
ment going in that country, but selected misrere-
charlottesville caunnies and lies of the English and
American tory presses and the garbled statements
of degenerate Qa ,oorhy Irish father 'oo public
functionaru in Paris This course, less manly than
open hostility, the lnelligencer has systematically
pursued upto the present time, with afew exceptions,
when the bitterness of its feelings has overlooked the
boundaries of its habitual discretion and found vent
in the editorial type! remarkable instance of this
kind occurs in that paper of 3s May last in review
of the letters of Edmund Burke. The editors ex-
claim: "How different are such counscls from those
| of OiConne! And how clear that, when nation,
situated as England was, refuses to listen to Burke,
she will at last be played with, and forced to listen to
an O'Connell!'
| Will the erudite editors please to inform us what
| different s'counsen was ever given to the British
government by Burke and OConnelR Burke's
ScounseIo was TO 'sreconcile the Protesants and
Catholics of Ireland" by emancipating the latter.
| Was O'Connel's "counseP ever different from
that The only difference was, that Burke eolnsehed
the government to this act OF justice; but oConnei
| took the surer method Of "forcing' them to do IL
This is the sin for which the lntelligencer cannon
| forgive him. He had the audaelty TO 'Jorce'
the British government Are the editors Sc
blind as not to see that O'Connell Is "pidyins
,rih and forcing" the same government 10 DC
other things quite unpaatable TO thern as
emancipation Surely, il they VIII not TAKE my
| word for il, they will take Sir Robert Peers I've
says he thought it wise "io send message @ Pedc'
10 Ireland.r before he made his buster about ore
gon Well, ifO'Connel's method OF "eounsehing
the British government be different from Burke 5
its greater success may not please some Jofks 90 Wen
but il is no objection with me.
Nothing but prejudice the most inyeterate ana 10,
durable can close the eyes fanny man to the rapio
progress Of the political revolution going forward "
| ireland; and no true American-no lover OF hi'
knd-can witness it, but with feelings ofu aIoyet
qualification. The tyrant oppressor-he area hPo
critic Of nafions-she who has spread desoation, ny
| FIRE and sword, TO the four corners OF the earth
stands trembling and appalled, before the moral com
bnation Of an unarmed but vlrtuous and determined
people
! She may buster about Oregon; bh she must re