The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1847-02-09
From the Baltimore Sun.
UNHAPPY IRELAND.

Ii is impossible for The most Indifferent and
Gallons 10 read the distressing of the suf-
FIRING prevailing in Ireland, whuui some deuree
OF emotion while to those who are susceptible of
The ordinary feelings of humanity, such dreadful
details are painful in the extreme. But The ma
i've ir'shman. whn has made this the and of his
adopii"n 1T is trnly more easy To conceive than
describe how such tidings must affect him. Wha,
lacerated hearts there amongst u.s. as memory
LOOKS back To old familiar scenes and faces lin
with joy and gladness then. and now cold and
s'efii' sp'ritiess and wo begone. under the aus
teriles of that gaunt famine which stalks THROUGH
out the land. II is subject almost, too sad for
contemplation, were 1t not that there is a princi
pie Implanted in human nature that yearns for
the exercise OF sympathy towards the keenes,
aff1lction. We see and feel those scenes of an
guish which seem to wiring the national heart /.
and though II is not within the power of orr peo.
pie by means or miracle tn cause this season of
suffering to cease, yet there is lununp desire
wrought in the socal heart amidst The abundance
which surrounds here, to contribute 10 The allie
Walton Of distress and restitution there desti
iulInn whose hopeless moaning has reached this
lar of land, and comes with the wall of death
death from starvation upon he ear
| England has shipped her phanhrophy to the
heather she has gorified herself in the full pride
of heT foreign henevolence she asserts her ex
emplary character before the world and would he
the ofiicions mentor Of the United States Eng
land has yet to learn that there is an Ireland il
VIII be a sad lesson To learn, but glorious one in
| lis results. II will be the means of better and
m0re effectual incubation of democratic princi
| pies; royalty. hereditary nobility, and all the
gorgeous inequalities that attend thereon will
| surely, however slowly, be diminished under its
| influence. The startling contrasts presented nv
| a costly government and an extravagant court on
the one hand, and a starving people on the other
| cannot, in the nature Of things, long exist.
| Ireland" Alas! poor country, almost afraid
to know itself''-Ireand deserves better fate :
and there is better yet before her. though ii has
been long delayed. Ireland has been proverbially
beautiful land. the first gem of the SEA - and
| ProveThially the abode Of hospitality And what
nation has surpassed her in the glory of her sons
| She has given TO England--'o The wurld-the
most profound statesmen; the most brave and
sk'ltnl warriors; the ripest scholars the must &C
| compllshed poets and has nurtured To the glory
OF mariyrdorD, the most heroic patriots. Thus
patriotism. eloqnence. poetry, music. and that first
oi all social virtues. hospitality, with its d" thou.
sand Welcomes all are Irish and if not Irish
then are there no sHcl qualities pertaining 10 our
race. They flourish in other land in greater
purity and profusion than they have ever done in
| Ireland.
And this is the country. that in the nineteenth
century, under the bOased lberaliiy and enlight
enIng influence Of the British crown within sight
as il were, Of the splendid rxiravapance Of pay
and vOlOptuous court, and before The gaze of the
civilized word--tbis is the country that is doom.
Ell to suffer depopulaiioD by he lingering agones
OF famine. Verify, day Of rerribution drawerh
nigh