Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-03-12
IRISH RELIEF MEETING.

in their relief, a meeting was held in the NJ.
f. House, and organized by appointing DR..
Abel Carey TO the Chair, and Richard II.
Carriages Secretary.
The Call for the II Getting being read
On motion. the Address Of the National
Meeting at Washington city was read.
Samuel Scaltergood, B. b. Davis, and Rev.
Jacob Coon were appointed TO produce reso-
lntions expressive Of the sense Of the meet
ing.
On motion, the report Of the committee on
resolutions was accepted.
On molion, the following Address was
adopted
AN APPEAL IN BEHALF OF THE
STARVING PEASANTRY OF IRE.
LAND.
To tie Cii=ens gr The Slate If Ohio.
Never since the rich soil of this rapidly
growing State has become subdnpd by the
axe and the pillow of the husbandman, has
there been a more bountiful store of the nc
c%essaries Of life in our granaries and store
houses than the past season, and we may
safely say, that ntrer has there been IL more
cogent appeal upon the bPnevolence Of our
people than that which now comes to us from
destitute, famine-stricken IRELAND.
We have volumes OF the most re'iable evil
dcnce at hand that gaunt flminp, in its mos,
appalling form, stllks through that afflicted
land. Death Ivy actual ST irvalion throughout
a Large portion Of that country is a matter Of
daily. 4 not hUuriy occurrence! The mails
from Europe come lreighied with particulars
of scenes Of distress and suffering most ter
rible To contemplate, and which are destined
10 continue till another crop be raised, or re-
| lief nGIprlpl A fun ,ytr,n,, ,, l., .,.o,
as a specimen of what we receive in print,
and we may safely conceive Of hundreds
equally affected which never find their way
Into the public papers.
"Dr. Donovan solemnly assures a public
meeting that the people are dropping in
dozens about them
Mr.. Marminn says that work on the pub
lie road is even more destructive than fever;
for the un(rd wrelches have not energy
enough to keep their blood 10 circulation. and
they drop dow from the united effects of
cold and hnnger-never to rise again.
The accounts from M,yo, given in the
Frecman'S journal, are very painful. In the
parish Of Cong, 81 deaths occurred within a
week; in a npighboriug parish. a like num-
Der in three weeks. The Rev. Patrick Fitz.
gerald, Roman Catholic curatp, of kilgeever,
thus illustrates the intensity Of the famine:
Il shall never forget the impression mlde
upon my mind a few days ago, by a most
l,eart-rending case of starvation. have wit
messed tho poor mother of five in family send
ing her little children, almost liirless from
hunger, to bed, and, despairing of ever again
seeing them alive, she took her last leave Of
them. In the morning, her first act was tc
! touch their lips with her hand, TO see it IN,
t breath of life sill remained but the poo
. mothers fears We're not groundless. for not
he lth could she feel from some of her den
lillp children .; that night buried them in tn
| night Of eternity
The horrible condition Of the parish an
/ town Of Bantry:
starvation is the rule with our unhapp
u population. They drop in the field or in tn
T road, or they shut themselves up in thFi
novels. and the rats dpvour them as they die
Catharine Aunt, speaking of Mary and Tin
othy M'Carty. says-The cries of the child
I Timothy. were terrible; bet al last hs died
e wing Oh his mothers bnsom, endravnring 4
draw milk from her. On the dav following
= the mother died. The woman's eyebrow an
, part of her breast and lose had been eater
= away by rats, as were the limbs Of the child.
DR.. James Mccormack, in a letter to IN
Cork Constitution, dated Crookhaven. Jan.
: II. says the deaths in that place from star
vation aver ge seven a day. One hundred
s have already died Of starvation, and five time
that number must Immediately follow"
Other accounts show that the calamity i
. very general and increasing with fearful IA
piJity, accompanied by a fever and dysenle
> ry, both produced by extreme want and th
4 use of lurnips, cabbage and sea reed as a sal
sfiuie (nr bread! One writer describes
i case Of the remains OF the deai carcass Of
e horse being gathered UP in a basket by a poo
1 husband and father, tn feed a STRIVING vii
: and children; another relates a horrible seen
/ in Cork, OF q poor haIf.fhmished female msl
u ing into the yari OF a hnirl-spize upon som
frhd eHhrajis IF fish, which had heen throw
ont, and after getting out of tie gateway. sh
= reeled with weakness, and fell in the stree
a yet continued TO gnaw al the disgusting CT
trails
In the vicinity Of poor houses. there is
continual rush to these places I'LL they ~
filled to overlooking. Sumo, il is said, eN
pecting 10 die. go there in order to secure
n c.Efn, for hundreds are tumbled into the
graves, with nothing around them but tit
Uttered garments in which they were ioun
d dead. The horrible spectacle Of carryln
them 10 their graves in that condition Is dali
}, witnessed by travellers.
But II is not a time to PnumeTatc cases
distress. We must stop at the commence
n ment of their recital.
II II were IA matter Of dispute or doubt. an
. required amount Of evidence could be addut
ed, but il is not.
e Now what is ihc duty of a community
philanthropic and christian people. with gr'
naries overlooking with the exubeTance Of
bountitul crop. VIXEN their ears are salute
with the death shrirks Of furnishing lho'
4 sands! Who can sit down to partdke OF III
" snmpluous fare Of his own table, when IL
D empty siomachs of brethren and sisters aero
ID the water are contracting by the keen pans
Of hunger; and when the pathetic appeal
Of starving innocentS are heard, with voice
almost too weak for audible utterancr, y
The more piercing, father, gstm some breaf
M father dO 0eL me n JuDySyl nj bread, or