Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1847-02-23


land and if not arrested threatens wider destrnc-
ton The worst is not yet come. Several months
must pass over that country before another crop
can come 10 its relief Ireland is but Just enter
ing upon her suffering; only the first cries of
her distress are yet heard unless Charity from
without shall ntcrposc for her rescue.
It's really case for the sympathy OF nations
for the sympathy Of the whole Christian world.
The calamity is the calamity of a nation Pm
vate charity may relieve private needs; but from
that gulf of horrors which famine is opening in
! ireland, only nationa! bounty can avai 70 bring
deliverance But from whence shall 1t come, =
Uaparalleled distress in France, from flood and
! famine engages the attention OF ter people
| The north Of Europe is Suffering extensively
from the failure OF the potato crop. In Scotland
are destitute thousands to be provided for Eng
J land, with her own immense burdens of taxation
for the poor is vet doing what she can; hut still
with all that her Government and people can do
in her i'll fated sister Island victims by fties III
1 in week, are dropping into the Jaws of famine.
( Let America como to her rescue We owe her
much. Her strong arm, now oaralyz@d and bro
KEN has helped to buill up our strength and ad-
vance our national growth, culture, and comfort.
She is part Of orr fathe--land Her children
are with us and Of rs. Thcy arr our byc'areR
that cry to Us for help. Let rs not fill Of the
opportunity to bind together those kindred ma
tons in new and hoI;er bon Is Of sympathy.
Let a generous people, We sly, come to tie
rescue, And rescue from hat Scarcely, u
midst our abundance, can W. conceive what Il
IS: for It'll starrq,j9a: It IS pining to death with
hunger, from which thonsau y i'll ireland inpore
us 70 deliver them. It is 4 fat more horrible
llan usually occurs from fire posti!cnce-
The accounts hat coming from Ireland
confirm these representations AMI indeed, sur
pass all that can be said in any general repr"sen
tation. In the province of Connaught .'there
were forty-scvcn deaths by starvation IN one
week" In the towns of Skibbereen Bailydc-
hab, Scul, Castichavcn, Castlctown, and other
places, ten or fifteen funerals day common,
and collections are made in the churches to pro-
vide collins for the destitute. letter from the
county of Mayo says; "1he scenes described
are as horrible any related Of heiraguered CT
ties. Men not unfrequent!y, It IS stated
found dead in the bitches BY the way side Some
arc changed not to be recognised by their
fre nds; their looks wooiish and glaring as MAJ
men; without clothes food of any kind, they
roam about in search of foo! until death seals
their misery"
The Cork Examiner contains letter signed
n. NJ. Curnnins, J. F., Annnount, Cork, adj
dressed to the Duke of Wellington. Here is
extract: 81 went the 18th instant to SIKH
bereen, and, to give the instance of one townland
which visited as an example of the state of the
entire coast district, shall state simply what
saw there. 1t is situated on the eastern side of
~ AZ - H.,
in the parish of Myross.
"Being aware that l should have to witness
scenes of frightful hunger, provided myself
! with much bread as five men could carry, and
OH reaching the spot surprised to find the
wrcteiei hamlet apparently deserted. enter
cd some of the novels to ascertain the cause,
/ and the sceucs that presented themselves were
such tongue pen convey the slight
! est idea or In the first SIX famshed ana ghast-
! ly skeletons, to all appearance dead, were hud-
dIed in some filthy straw, their sole
covering what seemed ragged horse cloth. l
approached in horror, and found. by low moan
ing, they were alive; they were in fever. 4 chill
dren one woman, and what had once been
1t is impossible 20 through the details suffice it
TO say. that in two minutes was surrounded by al
| least two hundred of such phantoms, such fright
full spectres words can describe. BY far the
greater number were delirious, either from fam
inc or from fever. Their demoniac yei!s
still in my ears, and their horrible images fix
cd upon my brain
There is an affecting letter from the women
of Dummanway, in the county OF Cork, ali
dressed TO the Ladies of America, and we are
that their appeal will not be in vain. ooh,
that American sisters" they say, could see
the laborers roads, able-boied men,
scarcely clad. furnishing with hunger, with des-
pair in their once-checrful faces, staggering at
their work, yet striving to the meal which
is to keep life III them TO earn another; too pro-
baby having tasted no food since the cay before
oh, that they could the fever and famine
stricken family, huddIed together on their bundle
of damp straw. with one moro corpscs among
them, which the survivors have not strength to
drag from beside them-oh. that thew could see
the dead father, mother child living cotfinless
& hear the screams Of the survivors around them
caused not by sorrow. but by the agony of hum
ger, they whose hands and hearts are ever opon
to compassion would unite in mighty effort
I, save Ireland from such misery
But enough. We feel that il is not necessary
10 dwell longer upon scenes like these. III order
10 awaken the compassion of our people. We
are not stocks or stone, TO listen to such rectas
unmoved We dwell in land of abundance
and are not wanting in feeling of liberaty. we