The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-04-24
The E6sct OF American Sympathy In Ireland.
The Famine.
[From the Dublin Nation, April 81

The E6ect OF American Sympathy In Ireland.
The Famine.
From the Dublin Nation, April 81
While English statesmen are devisng daily plans for
the increase and protection Of paupersm in this long
lova and long suffering Province OF Ireland American
statesmen regarding this country in its wreck
worth being saved, accommodating their voluntary ri
bues the relief of necessities While the chief
journals of the English capital daily teemng with
invectives against people high and low, American
"reminiscences of Irish merit, In order hasten the
kindly interference Of their country In behalf of
While the popular divnes OF England can see in pesti-
shifting Ireland on both cheeks for hor doatry, the IA
vorte preachers of America perceive but opportun
ty for the exercise Of active charity.
This nations position resembles that Of the man in
the Gospel who went down from Jesusaem to Jericho
America Is Samaritan. When our wounds are
hound up and we able to go destined way we
will know whom our gratitude is due. "A certain
Leyite; shall also be remembered
Out of this famine will many results, one of tho
greatest which may be- if desire it, the establish
ment of IA cordial understanding between and the
United States Of America.
It is an axiom Of the closest observers of human
tre that comforting benefits any object endears that
object to the benefactor in domestic life. adopted
children usually the dearest And: at this hour,
America, like the Grccian daughter, feeds from the
warm bosom of her youth, the aged and alas shacked
nation which her infancy owed protection and sup
port Never indeed did the world behold finer spec
tacle Sentence of death had gone forth from Babylon
on millions of people The European continent was
dumb except where near the extreme south the Ponti
Iberaor of Rome searched in his hollow Golfers after
mite for Ireland France was silent austria was silent
Russia did not cry out shame y! diplomatst rules
in
tries of arsed and Count Sake Hoche and of Tone
has withered beneath his rule dplomatist rules at
Vienna and the services OF our gfna. az
feather the power balancing brain or Motternich
Even the Bear Of the Pole has turned dplomatst and
grumbles In cartels Italy except Rome and all Spain
lies helpless and bleeding prey OF this same accursed
diplomacy From Continental Europe then, we could
gain no aid against England for Europe is ruled by
heads not hearts-by profits, not prncipes-by the
laws of nations not p" the laws Of God"
But America happily, has thus far escaped the incu-
bus nd in n become
lands friend-her chief friend among the nations
Now England our har.S r
and for ssorn but feels no fear Of any earthly
power .
as human sense To begin =
England in the years ls46 and ls47, had the govern
of the Irish people died for want of food while
there plenty Of money and credit in England; and
plenty of food for the fetching beyond seas
America in the spring Of ls47, hearing Of lreands
distress made a magnanmous effort to save her, and
succeeded in preserving nearly oooooo Oh irish ves,
by assistance rendered In Ireland or to Irish emgrans
All ye who may survive this English famine, motto
down In the new leaf Of your memories this contrast
Let speculate little farther:
Suppose in the year of Lord 1850 that Ireland,
with population reduced to 100000 begins to reco-
yer from this awful ordeathat her peasants till the
land again. her artisans their labors Sup
and less injurious imperial laws this island viii even
then be power in Europe though still a province
But suppose 1t then being or about to be- free nation
governing itself by certain moral and national laws ha
wing and cuvating certain foreign relations, what will
be its position in regard to America Why this -
America needs friends in Europe and our relations
have always been of friendly kind but from this gear
forth fshman wiH willingly draw trigger against
her Our harbors nearer to America than Engands
and more accessible The merchants of New York and
New Orleans alone have lost millions of dollars in Saint
current of British commerce, flowing into that sink of
the old slaverade Liverpool Until the late abolition
of the laws, Great Britain could in measure con-
troll Americas commerce. but America, the great
producer at Of the materials of manufacture and
the food Of the manufacturer turn not only her own
but British into such channels she please
Moreover America must be- before many years, the in
tcrmedate agent between Asia and Europe From Lon
don to Canton round Cape Horn, is more than 5000
mies-from the same place to the same via Panama
Oregon, less than 5000 America will then more and
require ally and depot on the west of Europe
and hereby after full elaboration. advertise Ireland
candidate for that employment whose quahcatons
| excel those Of all others
Ireland. If we starved colonized, otherwise
swndled out of it, the English will quietly remove here
their Governmental and other machinery even as the
Tyrans of old removed to Carthage or Duke William
and his vassals from Normandy to England and they
| will become to Europe all that might have been.
The Irish and nature will fade from the face of the
earth and the island of ancestors become the home
| of new people, ruling and enjoying where we have
Good Providence to think of this TO think that our
oppression is to end only in Punishment and our strug
| giles to but in death. To think of this land
| sprinked all with the holy blood of freedoms
| martyrs-gcmmed with fields of glory like an Empe
rors shicld-monumented sainted song famed through
the world given up to without sympathy
for it in their hearts one fact about it in their me-
m0yies . ,.n,,or,, .,orr,uon
lrshmen, must this be
| from the London Times, March 25
The lights and the shades Of the Irish picture are IN
forcblo contrast Never there misery in that
island till did there seem any hope OF So
cal reform; there more selfshness on he one
hand, generosity the other. The brightest
side thus far is the sympathy which with one single eN
eepton, all the world is exhibiting The British govern
ment with its ten millions stands Mt the head oil long
and honorable list The public subscriptions Of this
country including the collected in churches under
the Queens letter. already surpass every thing OF the
kind excepting the gathering for the same purpose in
1922. Our only regret and we regret 1T continually, Is
| the waste the Encouragement and the impositions
which to attend the expenditure Of this money.
The mixture Of feelings Is excited IN still greater
degree by the vast number Of private subscriptions made
throughout England, and sent to private hands We
know with what difficulty these subs crpons are spared
by the gvors and how often the almost equal claims OF
English poverty have been superseded for the sake OF
Ireland Would that this benevoencc fortunate
in the almoners to whose careftness, equity and dis
erection 1t committed The most affecting class OF con-
trbutors they Of the humber classes who are send
ing from this island from the colonies, and from the
United States to the relief of their private friends
The number of small sums transmitted by successful emf
grants to enable their Irish relatives to follow them across
the Atlantic, is something enormous One bank alone
Liverpool has received Alb separate orders for money
paid by parties in New York to be transferred to parties
in Ireland in running from 81 to E24, the whole
amounting to $50 1885, and the average consequently
being GO l5s Cd An immense number Of orders have
through the other Liverpool banks and through
| the American merchants Of that port
The tribute most bound to deknopeedge IS me
magnificent public subscription made IN the UntfedS STATES
The greater part of this given to understand Is
contributed by Irishmen but as whole we rejoice TO
in pledge Of that mutual respect ana al
lection which, in spite Of many trials and hndranccs
now binds the two countries. The British empire ana
| the Union are from stock Their language
their interests their literature and to great extent
their customs their laws and religion. are the same
There arc no nations in the world similar while
they politically distinct Happily they are now dis
covering the interest they severaly in one ano
theirs peace and prosperity. We will confess to pass
ing sensation Of wounded pride when we near OF our
own fellow subjects becoming objects of republican be-
nevolence and social being exposed in the CT
ties of New England. But If unable to rescue
Ireland from the grasp of famine conessedy are
does become resent the assistance OF gene
| rous knsman and friend Whoever is to blame most
1t is that Ireland does not prosper in our hands We