The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-05-15


for the exercise of active charity This nations position
resembles that OF the in the Gospel who went dowr
from Jerusalem 10 Jericho. America is our Samaritan
When wounds are bound up, and we are able to &c
destined way, will know 70 whom gratitude
is due A certain Levite shall also be remembered
''Ou OF this famine will come many results, one OF The
greatest OF which may be, II desire il, the establish
ment OF cordial understanding between and the
United States of America II an axiom of the closes
observers Of human nature, that conferng benefits
any object endears that object the benefactor IN do
meshc HE, adopted children are usually the dearest
And, al this hour, America, like the GTecian daughter
leeds from the bosom of her youth the aged ant
alas, shackled nation to which her infancy owed pro
lection and support Never, indeed, did the world be
hold finer spectacle Sentence OF death had gone forth
from Babylon on millions Of our people The European
continent was dumb, except where, the extreme
south the pontf bcraor of Rome searched in his hollow
Golfers after mite for Ireland France SILENT Aus
tria was silent; Russia did not cry out shame "A
dplomatist rules in Paris and the ancient friendship be-
tween the countries OF Sarshed and Count Save, OF
dplomatst rules Vienna and the services of great
soldiers at Austria our Kavanaghs Macs and OReilys
weighed feather the power balancing brain OF
Metenich Even the Bear OF the Pole has turned dipo,
matlst, and grumbles in carries Italy, except Rome and
all Spain, lies the helpless and bleeding prey of this same
accused diplomacy. From continental Europe, then, we
could gain aid against England for Europe is ruled
by heads not heartsby profits, not prncples-by the
laws of the nations, not the laws Of God
"But America happily has thus far escaped the incu-
bus; and America, in national sense, has become Ire
England governor, alternately hates and fears Amer
lea and America hatred for hatred and Tor
scorn but feels no fear of any earthly power Let US
follow the three nations into the future, far human
sense can see To begin: England, in the years 1876
and ls47, had the government OF Ireland IN her own
hands In those years. 0oO00 OF the Irish people died
for want Of food while there was plenty OF money and
You'd America in the spring of ls47, hearing OF
lreands Distress made magnanmous effort to save her.
and succeeded IN preserving nearly 100000 Of Irish
live hy Irpla Or IN rlsh am
grants in America All ye who may survive THIS English
famine, note down in the leaf of your memories
this contrast Let us speculate little farther Suppose,
in the year of our Lord 1850, that Ireland, with popu
laon reduced to 5,000000, begins to recover from this
awful ordealthat her peasants till the land again, and
her artisans resume their labors. Suppose this done
peral laws this island will even then be power in Eu-
rope, though still province But suppose then being,
or about TO be, free nation, governing itself by certain
moral and national laws, having and cultivatng certain
foreign relations, what will be its position in regard to
American Why, this: America needs friends in Europe,
and our relations have always been of friendly kind
draw trigger against her. Our harbors are near
er to America than Enyland's and more Access
sible. The merchants OF New York and New
Orleans alone have lost millions of dollars in ST.
Georges Channel, because they followed the arbitrary
current OF British commerce, flowing into that sink of
the old slave trade, Liverpool Until the late abolition OF
the corn laws, Great Britain could in measure control
Amercas commerce; but now America, the great pro-
Queer at OF the materials of manufacture and the
food OF the manufacturer, can turn not only her own
but British commerce, into such channels she peases
Moreover America must be- before many years the in
termediae agent between Asia and Europe. From Lon
don to Canton, round Cape Horn, is than 5000
miles-from the same place to the same, via Panama
Oregon less than 5000. America will then more and
more require ally and depot the west of Europe
and hereby, after full deberaton advertise Ireland
as cardldate for that employment whose qualifications
excel those of all others.
Our object in this speculation is keep the Irish
Ireland If we are starved, coonized otherwise
swndled out of it, the English will quietly remove here
their governmental and other machinery. even as the
Tyrians of old removed TO Carthage, or Duke William
and his vassals from Normandy to England; and they
will become to Europe all that we might have been
The Irish and nature will fade from the face OF the
carth and the island of ancestors become the home
Of new people, ruling and enjoying where we have
starved and died Good Providence, to think of this !
To think that our oppression is TO end only in Danish
ment and our struggles to cease but in DEATH To think
OF this land sprnkled all with the holy blood of
freedoms martyrsgemmed with fields of glory like an
Emperors sheld--monumented, sainted, song famed
through the world, given up at last TO men without
sympathy for in their hearts, fact about ii
their memories! Tradesmen ienant-league landlords
clergymen--l rshmen, must this be: