New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-02-19
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land, though as the nome OF portion N our ehces-
tors such might be pardonei Our interest in her
condition and prospects is that which we should
feel for any Eight Millions Of our brethren suffering
the ksenest agoniss Of restitution and perisbing
by thousands Of actual starvation Who would
not be moved and melted by such ssPectacie ?
Who would not be impened--if not for their sakes,
ye, sor those Of Mankind everywhere-to search
out and proclaim the causes Of such an awful ca
lamity7
The leading article in the Ezprsss Of Wednes-
day propounds and calmly discusses the roomen-
tous question What is to be done with Ireland 2
The writer truly and forcibly urges that one great
defect in the Social condition Of the Irish People is
the almost exclusive devotion Of their Industry TO
Agriculture and that mainly Of the rudest and
simplest order--that 10. the production chiefly OF
Vegetables and Roots on little patches Of rented
500. Another, he says. is an ignorant Priesthood
third an Established Church. which is the Church
ofthe governing class only and not Of the People.
The practical remedies be suggests are a more en-
lisbtened Catholic Clergy, ike those Of France
ard Germany: a more diversified cultivation by
means oflargcr farms aud the extensive introduc-
ton Of Manufactures. Setting aside the matter Of
the Clergy, which may be very well, we think
these Suggestions sound and pertinent Ireland,
70 be prosperous and happy, must have Manufac-
lures and more diversified. scientific Agriculture.
But are these all the Reforms demanded The
writer in the Express says
"If we could ever strike the great fountain Of evil in
Ireland and ascertain What that 1t might DO within
Our power 70 prescribe remedy The majority Of
countrymen think II ia the monopoly Of the soil by
the few Lord Propretors-Jut when they are told That
the monopoly OF the soil exists IN England and
Scotland and that the English and Scotch ore In the
general, happy and prosperous people, II Is certain
that there Is extended root OF evil When,
too they farther told b. compare Great Britain
where the soil IS in few hands. with France where
the soil IL divided by the various processes OF the
French Revolution into actual Agrsrian morcehemeafs
subdivisions smaller by far than anything known in the
United staes-subdyisiOns 50 small even that propn
etors Ia thou ands Of places cannot plow without
trsmpliDg with his horse upon neiehbors fields that
are sown-aDd forced also TO acknowledge from ncon-
overtble facts that the British richer in detail and
In the general and better fed and better clad than the
French the demonstration is again forced upon them
that an evil lies rooted In Irish society far deeper than
the OF to be regretted vast monopoly OF the
soil"
How is this2 1t seems that, through the coDvul
sions aud confscaioDs attending the French Revo-
luton. a large proportion OF the Peasantry OF
France have become owners OF little patches OF
soil-say from quarter Of an acre to two acres
each and that they are nevertheless poor and often
in want wherefore the writer concludes that the
Monopoly OF the Soil is not the radical evil in the
condition of Ireland The logic of this reminds us
of the Paddy Who having been told that feathers
made the softest sort Of bed procured feather,
placed il on a stone, and laid bis head on IT, 1t did
not answer All says he, if one feather be so
hard, what would ten thousand be We cannot
-. 4 al. Ioo not oil
low, therefore ten thousand would not. Show us a
Frenchman starving on ten TO twenty acres Of his
own fair land, and we viii admit the force Of the
EXPRESS illustration A careful survey would
doubtless show that nine tenths Of the Soil OF France
Is even now the property OF less than tenth of
Of the People, and that the great majority Of the
peassntry termed land owners are but nominsly SO
In illustration Of the truth that the Monopoly Of
the Soil, mainly by conquering race connected by
few ties OF blood or creed with the Toiing Millions,
Is the fundamental evil In the condition Of the Irish
whereof those above conceded are natural conse-
Qusnces we will briefly and simply narrate the
story Of recent fugitive to our shores from the (
scene Of Irelands desolstiop. 1t is doubtless not
essentially dissiuar from that Of thousands Of
others.
Patrick Gallagher. who recently landed in our
City with his family. having sailed from Sligo in
the stserags Of the Richard Watson, had for sew
sral years been farmer Of the middle class in the
vicinity Of Sligo renting ten acres of tight soil for
which he paid fl per acre, about sas so per an
NUN. beside all the taxes and parish dues for the
use Of his ten acres. This is moderate rent for
Ireland; much Of the soil is rented at from $40 to
a al in March md
bic rent mast be paid every six months an adeaaoe.
He never saw his landlord. who probably never
saw the land, nor did it much good as to spit
IL in the course of his life. Mr. g. understood that
he lived somewhere in France. AL he knew was
that there was a landlords agent who took care
that the rent was promptly paid. or wo TO the ten
ant The land was leased by the single year only.
and whenever the rent would bear screwing up 1t
was done.
A year ago, Mr.. G. considered himself fore,hand.
81 and doing well He kept three cows, horse,
hogs, poultry and few sheep on his ten acres had
last season three acres OF oats which yielded a
good return and planted two acres with Potatoes,
which were utterly hlasted-he did not harvest the
6rst bushel Having no Potatoes to eat, he in
October last threshed out sack of oats and took
IL TO neighboring mill 10 be ground into food for
his family, though ne had not yet paid his advance
rent for the Winter half of the year, commencing
with September He had oot been gone an hour
with his grist when tho landlords agent came
with distresswarrant and levied on everything
he had in the word-to pay the G5 half year rent.
One Of the cows sold under the distress for IS but
The costs were now &C. and this mode Of paying
rent made serious breach in the tenants means
81 paying in future. He was discouraged and no
wondsr by this and the Potato failure SO he re-
solved to emigrats TO America He gave up his
land with the rent thus paid to March paid all his
debts, including IS expended last Spring in Gusno
lor this land left flo 10 pay for his father and
IS to pay for his brother aud with the remain
ing proceeds of his STOCK and his oats shook of the
dust from his feet and has come to Try his hand at
farming in America We trust il viii not be many
ysan before such as be will be welcomed to a
patch Of our unoccupied soil without charge, and
hat barriers viii be erected against the stea,hy
nnroa ehes in our country OF thar sccursed Ecudal