New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-02-12

mOrses of soft spuDgy turnp and OF course not having
tasted any other food during the DAY he endeavored 10
make his way home in the evening and being quite ex
hau.ted threw himself on the bed, and next morning
found to be lfeless corpse
From The Ereaipg Packsi.
DEATHS FROM STARyATIOS-MoHILL.- thin
brief period six persons have died Of starvation IN tie
baronv of Mohiil county Of Ieirim. Inqucst5 were
held upon their bodies ~ the Coroner Alexander Per
cival fsq assisted BY John Duke, Esq. d. and most
intelligent lurors Our condition is appalling Inc PEG.
Pile alarming extent exhibit awful symptoms Of
want OF food.
Mr. Editor and worthy reader. what shall ! add
10 this appalling catalogue Of desolation and death
40 words ofmine no words Of any one can deepen
the colors Of this gloomy picture Yet its details
numerous and ghastly,ss they are present, alike IN
number and gastliness very tame and insufficient
idea ofthe present condition OF Ireland. nm where
suficient-alas too neutrality-suspicious. are
afforded me 10 learn how utterly inadequate al
words are 10 represent this dread emergency. The
streets OF tins city swarm with the deathly victims
of Fever and Famine. If faithful Panorama Of
Dublin could be exhibited 10 the People OF Amer
ca nj this time. every ship IN your spacious
harbor would be chartered IN less than week 90
bring food over TO its perishing thousands. There
are Reggars enough IN Dublin at all tmes-Beg
cars moi few by proiessiOn--but at this critical
this unparalleled period, hundreds o persons who
have been drivenby the force Of Hunger away from
their homes homes , come struggling and sinking
into this great city IN the desperate hope (which
vet ought not 20 be desperately that among all IT'S
wealthy Christians enough will be found to furnish
food and rament for all who are IN want. And So
dragging themselves along through every highway,
and leaning against the wall OF every byway may
be SEEN from early dawn tall far into the night
these furnishing and iOrOrn creatures the very pc
lures Of desoation and despair appealing with
trembling voice and more trembling limb TO your
human smypathies and askinsthe poor boon OF one
mOrsei Of food, one rag Of clothing. 10 keep them
from the grave. IL is a common thing 10 see whole
family groups-lathor mother sister. brother bate
standing IN the cold streets with bare feet and
thin hollow faces, begging every p0sser by. IN the
most piteous accents to give them inst one scalH
meal OF riciN0is 10 s0re them from Sf1rrdfi0H 1
will not go on with these horrible statements, but
leaving them as they are, ask-ask heartily and
hopeiuly-if you will not do something, and do 1t
Immediately TO arrest the progre,s Of this awful
Famine. Most of YOU are blessed with competence,
many of Won with wealth. Show that these -lts
are blessings. and not curses, by coming forward
with an open hand and liberal heart, cheeriuly 10
contribute of Your store to those VINO, though child
rem of the same God are. bound to you by the ties
of an infinite and universal brotherhood, are yet
pale with cold and hunger, and see no way, unless
il be afforded BY your timely help, to put OFT the
day (which has come TO hundreds other brethren,
of actual starvation.
Much is being done in this country and in Eng
action of the whole civilized world, nay OF the tni-
rersai Human Heart The present IS one OF those
epochs in the history OF Man when all geographical
lines sink into nsigniicance and obscurity and the
great fact of common origin, our common nature
and our common destiny, rises before every mind,
and reveals in its triple tie, the unseen yet lnsep
arabic cord which binds us all together M one IN.
divisihle family, living under the same ornament
aud rejoicing in the light aud love Of the same
Father. With this fact lighting up the best hearts
4. Al. Il. e . nc
people for food will be responded 10 IN every guar
Ter OF the globe and that bread will soon be scatter
en- among them like mama from Heaven Indeed
the response is already heard and a smile OF hope
is beginning to brighten the face OF the coun-
try as with the morning twilight OF better day
The S0clefy Of Friends in England have alone
raised about q hundred and twenty thousand dol
lars. Queen Victoria has subscribed about ten
thousand dollars. many of the nobility have contH-
huted literally and the contribution boxes OF the
English churches are becoming vocal win the
silver music OF charity.
SOM houses soup kitchens, they are called here
are Swinging up all over the country private IN
diyiduals and public committees are attempting TO
fathom that they may provide tor the deep and
everyday auementng distress; Government Is
spending millions for the employment OF a small
portion Of those who can work and without doubt,
five Americans do our duty, sufficient energy viii
be developed to meet the almost unexampled de
mand.
Daniel Council has given notice that he shall
call on Parliament which meets 10 morrow 70 con-
tribute Nifg millions Of pounds Sterling, az once,
for the simple and easily comprehended purpose O!
buying bread and putting It directly INTO the mouths
OF hIs starving cOuntrymen The following burst Of
eOQuence was the peroration OF a speech which
heard from him last Monday at crowded Repeal
meeting in Cancellation Hall IL was delivered
with touching eloquence and excited such round
of applause sn Irish multitude can alone give
and Daniel o 'Connen alone arouse.
Ny plan is that England should Immediately
borrow 40 mlions-tha, she might ranssck the world
for food 1t viii be increase of 40 millions 10 The ns
tional deb,-to be ii wilbut II will be 30 millions
to purchase the lives Of the Irish people have been
sneered at by some and laughed al by others have
always answered, Whist viii you propose-whsi rem
edy have you 2" Oh, we viii allow merchants 20 bring
corn into the country See the price you now pay for
corn compared with the prices al which its purchased
in the original market There Is NO chance OF salvation
for the country unless the landlords come forward man
fully and boldly insist upon the English Government
providing food for the people.
Talk Of drainage why drainage very good as regards
next year or the year alter and % the cultivation OF
the waste lands those lands would produce crop for
two years at least Now what sort 81 a remedy Is
that reminds me OF phrase" Live horse and you
live for years upon the sir snd al the end Of that
time you viii get potatoes. Oh 1t IS melancholy 10
think ot-it is really udicrous In Cork-thc county
which represent,hey are dying by htties-coroners
deaths that saifciency OF collins cannot be hsd
Mos, affecting Instances related OF the kindness and
devotion OF the peasAntry in those unhappy districts
One man went seven eight miles - get work-he |
didn't TASTE morsel Tor forty hours that he
might be able 10 purchase couple of OF meal for
bis fsmilyhe carried the provisions til he reached his
own door. when he dropped dead OF hunger Ard when
such things and are becoming familiar. TO be
talked 20 about political economy, and told not 10
interfere with mercantile speculation say TO the |
English Goycrnme nt-nieriere Tor human lite save /
human beings--gvc food to starving thousand ,
throw the shield Of your power and weslih--you
are powerful and wcahy-oyer the people Of Ireland
They have suffered much from your tyranny and op |
preston you have violated every compact you entered
into with them-you have empued their Golfers, and
now they CRY Ia you-shout 10 youSres 70 you 10 do
something to save them from death and II you dont
DO something to them your own destruction may
not be remote. They have been In your battles The
right arm OF your power-your fsg never YET waved
in triumph that the commingei blood Of iushnen
was not shed for It's attainment Never was hefe
contest by sea IN which your decks were no, wet VIII
their blood and In the hour Of their cssmy CAL
upon the People Of England call upon the Govern
nient Of En- lAnd-to the country. call upon me
Irish gentry first to rally and make demand-a iord
and distinct deusnd-not demand trucking Tor petty
relief but demand commensurate with the magnitude
OF the eyi-to rescue the country from Destruction
cal upon the Irish gentry to speak out in voice Of
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