The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1847-05-14

\ diplomatist rules at Vienna, an
the services Of our great soldiers {
Austria-our Nar0naghs, Macs, an
: OReWy'S-nevcr weighed a featl
er on the power balanciny brain {
: Di"tternich. Even the Bear of til
: Pole has turned diplomatist, an
grumbles in Cartels. Italy, cxcer
Rome, and all Spain, lies the help
less and bleeding prey of this sam
accused diplomacy. From Cont
mental Europe, then, we could gal
no aid against England for Europ
IS ruled by heads, not hearts-b
profits, no, principles-by "thc law
of nations," not 'the Laws of Cod
But America, happily, has thus ia
escaped the incubus; and America
in national sense, has become Ire
lands iriend-her chieffriend among
the nations.
Now, England, our governor, al.
ternately hates and fears America
and America returns hatred for ha.
tired, and scorn for Scorn, but feel.
no fear of any earthly power.
Let us follow the three nations in
to the future, as far as human sense
can see. To begin -
England, in the years 1916 and
l847, had the government of Ireland
in her own hands. In those years
100000 of the Irish people died
for want of food, while there was
plenty of money ond credit in Eng
land, and plenty of food for the fetch
ing beyond seas.
America, in the spring Of 1877,
hearing of lreland's distress, made a
magnammous effort to save her, and
succeeded in preserving nearly L.
600, GOO Of Irish lives, by a sistancc
rendered in Ireland, or to Irish en-
igrauts in America.
"All We who may survive ills En-
gllSh famine, note down in the new
leaf Of your memories this contrast.
"Let us speculate a little farther !:
"SuppoSe in the year of our Lord
1880, that Ireland, with a popula-
ton reduced to 5000 COO. bccins to
recover from this awful ordeal-that
her peasants till the land again, and
her artisans resume their labors.
Suppose this done under a wiser
poitcy among freshmen, and less in
furious imperial laws, this island will
even then be power in Europe,
though still a province. But sup
pose it then being, or about to be. a
free nation, governing itself by GER
tain moral and national laws, having
and cuIlivating certain foreign rcla-
tons, what will be its position in re-
gard to America? Why this:
"Amciica needs friends in Eu-
rope, and our relations have always
been Of a friendly kind +; but from
this year forth no Irishman will will
ilngIy draw a trigger against her.
Our harbors are nearer TO America
than England'S, and more acccssi-
bic. The merchants of New York
and New Orleans alone have lost.
Of dollars in Saint Georges
Channel, because they followed the
arbitrary current of British com
merce, flowing into that sink Of the
old sIave-trade, Liverpool. Until
the late abolition of the corn laws,
Great Britain could in measure
control Americas commerce but
now America, the great producer at
once Of the materials Of manufacture
and the food of the manufacturer.
can turn not only her own, but Brit
SA commerce, into such channels
as she pIeases. Moreover, America
must be, before many years. the in
.crmediatc agent between Asia and
Europe. From London to Canton. |
round Cape Horn, is more than 5000
niies-irom the same place to the |
same, ria Panama or Oregon, less
han 5000. America will then more |
md more require an ally and a de-
'ot on the west Of Europe; and we !
lereby, after full elaboration, adj
'erIiSc Ireland as candidate for
hat employment, whose qualifca-
IONS excel those Of all others.
"Omr object in this speculation is
. hecp lie FiSh in Hciand If we
re starved, colonised, or otherwise
windIed out Of it, The English will
quietly remove here their Govern
mental and other machinery, even
IS the Tyrians of. old removed to
carthage, or Duke HIHI0nl and his
'assals from Normandy to England:
nd they will become to Europe all
hat we might have been. The Irish |,
anne and nature will fade from The
acc of the earth, and the island of
ur ancestors become the home of
ew people, ruling and enjoying
'hcrc we have starved and died.
"Good Providence, to think Off
his! To think that our oppression
5 to end only in Punishment, and /
ur struggles to cease but in death.
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