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

forbidden all foreign trade while It's msnufacto-
ries were undermined to favor English monopoly.
Notwithstanding the resources and fertility Of the
country. its wealth was exhausted in paying rents
10 English landlords. tthes 10 English Priests prof
its to English artisans and taxes to the English
Government.
For foreign Lords her People their native land
Poverty staIked through the Isle. Half the IN
crease Of population was given up TO America 70
fell the forests and plant cities there ard the re
mainder was reduced to subsist on an esculent
root the cheapest yielded By Nature to the c1ltiva-
ting hand Of Man Were not the natives then ex-
,rpated Did they not sow renounce that Odious
FAITH No Ireland had increased It's numbers
BY threefold. We do not know that one parent
had relinquished his creed.-one wife bad torssken
her husband.-or one child had abared the altar Of
its forefathers Professionalism though nourished on
plunder. had declined. and the Religion Of Rome,
watered By tears and famed by the blasts Of Per.
secution. fourished in unwonted and vigorous lax
urance
This was the condition Of ireland in l715 and
now our inquiries are answered. The People of
Ireland have not degenerated. They have been
degraded from their high estate not by their own
net but by the Aristocracy Of England They
have resisted this degradation with heroic energy,
and have resisted to the last. The Aristosracy Of
England has usurped the Government OF Ireland,
aad set upon il
The mark OF seishnsu.
TIE sisnei Of Ia all enslsvlns power.
This was the condition Of that unhappy country
in the year l77J, six hundred and five years after
the descent OF Henry the Anglo Norman Ring on
It's coast when two events happened. widely DIFF
ferent and distant-the one in obscure corner OF
the sland-the other IN remote part Of the British
Empire. events destined to affect forever the
dtion not only Of Ireland bat Of all mankind. Brit
ish troops fred on the militia Of Massachusetts in
Lexington on the 10Th of April, l775, and DAsI,L
OCossELL was born at Carhen in Ireland on the
9Th # August in the same year.
The American Revolution exhibited triumph
ant resistance 70 the unconstitutional legislation Of
the Imperial p arament b. portion Of the Empire
far less oppressed than Ireland and infinitely more
prosperous and happy. But that Revolution was
more than this II indicated the inalienable and
universal right OF mankind TO resist oppression and
overthrow tyranny. however established and how
ever long endured. It was more even than this :
It indicated the nalienable and universal right
and capacity Of mankind TO establish and conduc,
Governments Tor themselves and 10 change them
at pleasure. II struck the Governments Of the Earth
with CONSERVATION, and bewdered the enslayed
masses Of men with hopes which were not alto
ge,her illusions of Freedom and OF Universal Equal
ity. la the language Of La Fsyette, America was
not a solitary rebel She was a Patriot in the
cause of Humanity.
Irelandnot only sympathized profoundly with the
Trans Atlantic Colonies in theircomplaints Of usurp'
alton under which she suffered more sorely than
they, bal; with inherent benevolence and ardor she
yielded at once to the sway of the great American
Idea Of Universal Emancipation. The bitter me
mory Of stream of ages lifted up her thoughts,
and she was ready TO follow TO the war for the
Rights Of Human Nature
The propitious god ths; seemed TO lead the wsy.'
This war, thus opened by America, is the sane
struggle in which Ireland has been engaged ever
since IN which O'CoSSrLr Iabored with so much
zeal and force and success, and which he has left
unfinished.
England soon at war not only with her
American Colonies but also with France and
Spain and Holland,-France threatened to invade
Ireland and America bad already led Ireland into
Revolution. Left by the British Government to de-
fend themselves the People Of Ireland gathered at
once an army of brave and well.appointed yolun-
teers ready to resist the threatened invasion il
England would yield Independence, and even
more ready to achieve Independence if it should
be refused The influence Of such great events
exalted for time the virtues Of the Irish People.
The Catholic forgot his peculiar wrongs amid the
new born hopes of his Country the Protestant for
got his long cherished fears. Now firmly united and
lifting with them for brief period the wretched
Legislature OF the Pale, they demanded the indie
pendence Of that Parliament They preserved the
forms of LOYALTY. indeed. bat their resolution Of
rights was couched in the language OF Freemen,
and their petitions were written on the drum-head
and presented on the point OF the bayonet. The
British Parliament were COMPOUNDED They heard at
the same moment the same principles, sentiments
and resolutions from jefferson and Adams and
Jaw aud Franklin in the Congress OF America from
Grattan AMI Flood in the Parliament Of Ireland, and
from Chatham. the Tribune Of the whole Empire,
within their own Halls They evaded then con
ciliated and nj last conceded In l77s the pro
visions of the Penal Code concerning the rights of
Property and Education were relaxed. Other
concessions OF the same sort followed in l7s2 and
in the same year when the exigency became more
alarming Ireland was restored TO independence by
Declaration Of the British Parliament that " The
Rights claimed by the People Of that Island. To be
bound only by Laws enacted by his Majesty and
the Parliament Of that Kingdom should be and
then was established and should AZ no time there
after be questioned or questionable. Ireland, a.
WAYS moderate, always conhdins was content
with this concession. which left her a distinct
Kingdom independent Of Britain but united to
that country through common Protestant Throne.
Then as her heart swelled with the memories Of the
elories Of other days, and opened to visions oil
brighter glores in the future, she casPed her SIS
ter England with gratitude, pride and affection,
forgetting the injuries Of six hundred years Did
ever the earth exhibit a scene of truer National
Magnanimityl
But ireland in l5sa was only independent, as
America was in the same period Ii yet remained
in each country to establish and secure the liber
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