New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-03-22

granted. Whether granted or not il was OF no rnore
value OF account than 20 much blank parchment The
success OF the invasion due the side the
superior skill OF the adventurers guided If not led on BY
ON Irish chief and the other sde owing TO the
immemortal and apparently nterTninsble divisions
lmore the lr1sh leaders htnsclyes They prosecuted
their own pri,sts pquea sgainst each otherss far
would DO the sgsn--Do matter how formidable the
common enemy Of the common veal laundering al the
gates
for when their iyrsnis joined ia hate,
They never joined IN love
II the invaders had prosecuted the conquest to faal
issue that might possibly have united the Irish leaders
Tor once but the English were satisfied either from
weakness or policy with what they had achieved and
the conquest cut short almost the opening Of the
book and the cslsmities which resulted Ireland
from that day I'LL almost time have been only
supplements-msny OF them bloody OnesliO complete
the volume The invaders were now pleased TO con
slider themselves the conquerors Of the Irish nation
and the rghtful owners Of the Irish soil The island
divided into ten sections regons which the King
placed under the authority Of his principal followers
Having dung this apple OF dscord between the old and
new races Of people, he sailed back to England and
caused the emerald gem of Erins sovereignty 10 be
added b the Jewels OF his crown and called himself lord
Of Ireland from that day forward
The consequences OF these events that from that
period every portion OF the Irish soil every had
two sets Of owners the owners by justice hered-
ary title and imemoral possession the other owners
by the assumed right Of conquest and sign manual
Henry Ii. If Henry had conquered the country he
might have made these charters reality but IL was
tnty were letters patent HutnOrZlnE the MUS
ce and disorders OF every kind which make up the his
tory of TIE Irish people in what called the English
Pale The invaders considered the natives barba.
risns who stood between them and their properly. To
attempt oispossese them by force would have been
dangerous experiment; ano II makes shuddsr to
behold the perseverng anxiety with which the aid Of
uhuman legislation invoked for the protection Of
cruelty and reschery of every description in order TO
accomplish by peceIneal and fraud the complete con.
quest-wbat they unable or too polite 10 refer.
once for all 10 the more humane decision Of the battle
field (Applause)
If we look 10 the legislation Of the English Pale Tor
than four hundred years shall find the Of
its enacments 10 be always IN harmony with this pur
pose. Laws against intermarrage with the natives :"
laws against the language OF the natives claws against
their and such the titles Of those
laws and II 10 bring IL down 10 the lowest point Of
cOniemptuous spite, there law making II criminal
for iegeman OF England TO allow Irish horse 10
In his pasture In the ordinary language OF the invaders
in acts OF ParliamCntn royal proclaim atiOns down 10
the reign Of Queen Elizabeth the natives were designs
ted az "aiens," and "lrsh enemies No part OF the
whole OF the country recognized AZ tbeirs They
denied all share In the benefits of English law
The inquites Of royal grants supported by the nqutes
OF Engsh legislation made II lawful for the invaders 10
kill or rob the mere Irish" the accidents of oppor
tuniy the csprices of expodcncy might dictate II
any Of the natives appealed II was enough tOprOve thst
this would be plaintiff was "mere Irish" and did not
belong 10 any of the five privileged families 10 whom
protection of British law had been by special favor
tended This plea arrested all farther proceeding IN
the Court and frequently during tbs long interval had
the natives petuOned and impored TO be Omitted IN
der the pale of The law hut often had their petitions
been rejected. On the other handih own sovereignty
had been parayzed and rendered inpotent by invasion
while they were broken up and divided 90 that they
deprived OF all opportunity Of social improvement
by any legislation Of their own.
These facts convey 10 you faint idea Of the condition
Of ireland during four hundred years after the invasion
The English Pale in the meantime, instead OF enlsrgng
It's boundaries obliged 10 curta them and As late
as the period Of Henry VIII restricted TO only four
counties out Of the entire Kingdom.
Enough has been said, think 10 illustrate the posi-
ton with which set out that to leave conquest incom'
peteto repair its deficiency, which must be repaired
by other which must be fraudulent is the most
cruel policy well the most injurious 10 both thaa
strong nation employ in the subjugadon OF aweak
II IL must be done al ALL II VIII be mercy 10 DO II
thoroughly, that the sword shall have determined
10 the conviction of all parties the result OF the new re-
stions which have sprung up by its decision setween
the conquerors and the conquered The bad policy OF
the incomplete conquest OF Ireland had TO be repaired
rather completed in the 10th century by commencing
the work anew For ii was under Queen Elizabeth
who. as you know, halfway ruler, and who,
Whatever else she might be said to be hing every
incl OF heT-hat Ireland was finally crushed II not con-
quered II would have been. however, too Illuminating
10 English sovereignty TO supply defect under
the original ofconques Ii therefore now 10 De
accovisbed under the title OF the reduction OF nsub
ordinate province tho help strong
legal fiction regard rebels those who had heretofore
been repulsed from the protection OF the law "a laugh
But even this reduction" could not be accomplished
without cfueltes TO which the most barbarous annals
of the world furnish parallel IL is singular coin.
cidence and full of Sdmon,on, that there is God
of justice and of patence-tha In this second conquest
of ireland statesmen recommended and military off,
GERS employed and lord deputies approved of famine
their eilectusl ally in the work OF subusation
The business of the troops from year TO year was to
prevent the occupation Of the land 10 destroy the crops
already planted !" for famine, says the English his
toran who records the scs was judged the most ei
fectua way OF reducing the Irish r. The consequences
were that whole provinces were left desoaie. without
an inhabitsni except in the Often those whose
msiOTtunes permitted them 10 escape the sword offered
themselves and their wives and children TO be slain ~
the army rather than wait for that slow hard death Of
famine and starvation which had been reserved for
them For we can al conceive that compared with
the deliberate Of this instrument of war against
rural and scattered agricultural population, the Indian
tomahawk becomes the symbol OF humsniy.
Meantime. the old Chieitains OF the kingdom-ihe !
owners Of the soil-the leaders OF the peope-the
" great rebels" as they were called were becoming
fewer and fewer. Some persisted on the battle field.
They were the most fortunate. Others gave themselves
up the word OF honor and protection and were then
mpeached and executed. Some were slain at the fes
tive board OF the invading commanders whose invita-
tons 10 the BANQUET they had accepted thinking that
the laws of truth and hospitality made Sl their nights
not only secure but sacred in the tent OF true
soldier. And thus in few years The Irish sien the
. Irish enemy" the mere Irish, the Irish rebels
(the last nancy indeed reduced and now there
wss prospect of the invaders being permitted TO enter
into pescesbe possession OF their estates which by
original conquest had been theirs, they thought IRON
the time Of the first invasion. 4
Elizabeth proposed to eolonze the whole province Of
Ulster with English settlers but did net live 10 accom-
psh H. Il was carried into effect oy her successor
James l. He secured TO himself new and better title.
confscatng to the crown six entire counties Of Ireland
and gave them his Scotch friends in preference TO his
new English subjects. The hing and his ministers con-
graduated themselves and compared their conduct 10
nat OF the thrifty husbandman who transpants his trees
according 10 the soil in which they grow best Alter
him came Charles and the civil wars Of England and
other reverses The fragments OF property. real and
personal that still remained 10 the lnsh people, were
paseriy seized upon supply the empty Golfers OF the
King On one occasion he obtained from them under |
the royal prom Sc one hundred thousand pounds Tor
what were called graces"-the principle OF which is
what every American possesses by birthrigh-hberty
of conscience loud spplspse1 He pooketed the
money, but sorry to cay he refused the graces.
lsughl lie carried out system for connscA IN de-
tail OF private estates under commission 10 inquire IN
% detective titles The jury that refused 10 hnd yer
die, for the crown. under this system was punished
and to the Judges the Lord Deputy relates 10 his
royal master that he had them attend to this bust
ness as sttentvely as II 1t their own, simply by
promising them four shings In the pound from the rsi
years income of the conhsosted estates.
Under the Commonwealth Ireland was the scene OF |
conhscatOns and desolstions On the Restoration,
the royssts In England and Scotland were reinstsied
n ireland the followers of Cromwell were confirmed
in their possessoas Nay, James H. in under the
title OF Cromwesns and appropriated him self in
instance less than from seventy hundred thou