New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-09-23

, Missionaries who converted q large portion OF
Western Europe Laws that divided estates OF the
dead with equal justice that gave the trial by Jury
the Anglo Saxons boast that ordained inns for
the entertainment of travellers at the public ex-
pense, and that knew only one capital or unpardon-
able crime. And it was treason and sacrege TO
! change those laws. There were trained bands
which were sworn to resist even sevenfod foe
I Knights who won renown for vaor ard courtesy on
the Plains Of Palestine, and Danes who were hon
ored by admiring Bards and Minstrels in strains
like these
The Daughter Of Moran seized the harp
And Der voice OF music praised the strangers
Their sOuls melted at the song
Like a wreath OF snow before the eye THE sun.
| speak no interested, partial, no imaginative
eulogy. IL is the testimony OF General History, as
accredited by modern Learning.
Alas How unlike is this picture to Ireland now
in an age tenfold more enlightened and humane
! What mas wrought this changel Has Ireland de-
generated, or has she been degraded and debased
! by foreign power Did Ireland struggle, or did she
resign herself to ruin Listen, and you shsllhear'
| Separated by only All ocean channel, and colo
nized originally by the same Celtic race, the Isl
ands Of rltdin and ireland have been distinguished
quered by the Romans, the Danes, the Saxons, and
the Normans, derived from that severe experience
the consolidation, discipline, ambition, and energy
which have enabled it to grasp the empire OF the
world. Ireland, devoted to Piety and Learning, re-
naming long unconquercd and unconquerable and
unmoved by cupidity or ambition was early dis
tracted by factions and finally betrayed by them TO
conqueror.
In the twelfth century, Henry II. Norman,
King OF England, who held the reiinements Of life
in much contempt, cast in his mind to conquer
the adjoining Island because it was commodious
for him. and its people seemed to him savage and
rude" Invited by native Prince who had been
dethroned he appeared in Ireland with real or
forged grant under the seal of BreaksPeare, an
Englishman who occupied the Papal See at Rome
under the name Of Adrian w Early converted to
Christianity without the blood of Martyrs. the Irish
had nevertheless been the last to acknowledge the
supremacy of Rome. Having received that article
of ia it'll they have held II fast at the cost OF ages oil
want of millions of lives, and even of national ex-
stence. ireland denied the pretensons OF the Pope
to temporal power, and resisted the invader. Hen
nv did not reinstate the Irish King, but he estab
ished on the coast martial colony, and by virtue
of this acquisition, which was henceforth called
the Pale he claimed to be conqueror OF the whole
Island A Royal Deputy governed the Pale with
Council Of Mobiles and Clergy which alter
ward became a Parliament, and the little do
main was parceled out by the King in great estates
to Court iavorites and military adventures The
Aristocracy of England was thus by fraud and
force planted in the Island of Saints as It was then
reverenty called. Thenceforth its veins OF silver
and its dust of gold the rubies OF Its lakes the
grain in its waving burrows, and the focks on Its
thousand hills were to pass away from its harmless
people. to pamper despotic and Unsuitable Lords
That august Court those ancient seminarles, those
valiant bands thos chivalrous Knights, that Cyno
sure of Beauty and the Bards who so worthiy eel
ebrated it, faded declined and were lost forever
The establishment of the Pale enfeebed Ireland
although the Colony was utterly incompetent tC
subiugate the Kingdom The Coonists claimed tc
be masters Of the Island The Irish, with the Bnt
ish Power in the heart Of the country asserted then
sovereignty and independence. Hence resulted
division which, perpetuated until now, has involved
both in a common ruin. The distinction between
the natives and the invaders was craven broad and
veterate policy and clashing codes. The Govern
ment of England acknowledged only the Ensisr
inhabitants of the Pale as lawful subjects, ana de
nounced the natives as Aliens. Wild lrsn'
and Enemies Magma Charta snd the Common
Law were introduced within the Pale, but theii
protection was denied TO the natives while they
were subjected TO the power OF the English Courts
The Irish language and costume were inhibited
intermarrisges forbidden and naturalization uncei
English laws denied Ii was made lawful TO XII
an Irishman on suspicion without trial or process
and unlawful to entertain Irish minstrel to keel
an Irish servant or to feed an lr' rise ih'
native Princes, Mobiles aud IN -..s WITHIN 'h'
colony were trodden down, and the wreiched PEG
pie expelled on the one hand as siiens and repei'
from their rightful possessions and the other by
the native Septs into whose bands they were
driven, were thus rendered houseless and desPer
ate. Outlaws by statute and by proclamation, the,
formed themselves from necessity into predatory
hands. and descending from the mountains made
reprjsals on the Pale and carried the war OF fierce
retaliation 10 the very gates OF Its cities.
The lust of power soon discovered and opene'
that fountain whose bitter foods no art can stay no
4 purify. Ambitious Dublin robbed Armagh, th'
c Arch Episcopal see, Of its treasures and saore'
5 relics. The King Of Englsnd rewarded the saor
e 'ese with ecclesiastical authority over the Island
IS prescribed from the ministry me natives who dc
nounced the usarpstion and the English Churcl
j. wl'hn the Pale set the stamp its appreciation o.
- the policy Of the Government by the atrocious dog
1t ma thst II was not sin to kill an Irishman
D. Bat It remained Tor the Tadors. the Common
l. wealth and the 6uelphs to sound the depths O
. Fanaticism. Although the Parliament OF Eng
land vacillsted long with the policy and caprice
g the Court, the conversion Of the People Of ,ha
# county To the tenets OF the Reformation resate
q from conviction that the Religion Of Luther va
}. true. The Catholic Church there was subverteC
h But England was in some sort connected with Ire
land, and she must be converted in order that
I perstitiOus prophecy might be fulfilled whic
taught tina, the Chair OF ST Peter would fall whe
ireland should cease to sustain it, and to the en-
, also that Rome should not regain her ascendenc
in England through the agency Of Catholic In