Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1847-05-28


never weighed feather on the mower baInnc.
ing brain OF Meuernich. Even the Rear of ,bs
role mas turned dplomist and prumbles in car.
tells Italy, except Rome, and ali Spain lies ,bo
helpless aud bleeding prey of this same nssprcd
diplomacy. From Continental Europe then we
could gain no aid against England; for Europe
Is ruled by heads, not heaus-by profits no,
princlPIes-by the laws of nations not the laws
Du' America happily, has thus FAR escaped tho
incubus; and America in a national sense, has
become ireland's friend-her chiefiriend among
the nations. "'s
Now England, our governor. alternately hates
and fears America; who returns hatred roy ka,rod
and scorn for scorn, but feels no fear of snv
earthly power.
Let US follow the three nations into the fu,ur..
as far as the human sense can see. To BEGIN.
England in the years 1886 and l847, had the
government of Ireland in her own hands. In
those years, 100000 Of The Irish people died
for want of food, while there was plenty of mo.
ney and credit in England; and plenty of food for
the fetching beyond the seas.
America, in the spring of l847, hearing ofIre.
lands distress, made magnanimouse effort TO
save her, and succeeded in preserving nearly
100000 of Irish lives, by assistance rendered
in Ireland, or to Irish emigrants in America.
All ye who may survive this Irish famine, note
downin the new leaf of your memories this con.
trast.
Let us speculate little farther:
Suppose, in the year of our Lord, 1850, that
ireland, with population reduced to 5000, 600
begins TO recover from this awful ordea-that
her peasants till the land again, and her artisans
resume their labors. Suppose this under a wise
policy among lrishmen, and less injurious i'm.
periaI laws, this island will even then be pow
er IN Europe, though still a province. But sup
pose II then being, OF about 10 be, free nation
governing itself by certain moral and national
laws, having and cutiyating certain foreign rea.
lions, what will be its position in regard TO Anne.
rica! Why thus:
America needs friends in Europe, and our re-
stions have always been of a friendly kind but
from this year forth no Iiishman will willingly
draw trigger against her. Our harbors are
nearer to America than EngIand's, aud more ac-
cessable. 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. flow.
ing into that sink of the old slave trade, Liver
pool. Until the late abolition of the corn laws,
rica's commerce; but now America, the great
producer at once Ofthe materials of manufacture
and food of the manufacturer, can readily turn
British commerce into such channels as she
plcases. Moreover, America must be, before
many years, the intermediate agent between Asia
and Europe. From London 10 Canton, round
Cape Horn, is more than 10000 miles-from tho
same place to the same, via Panama or Oregon,
han mi nd
more require an ally and depot on the west Of
Europe; and we hereby, after full deliberation,
advertise Ireland as a candidate for that employ.
ment, whose qualifications excel those OF all
others.
Our object in this speculation is TO keep the
Irish in Ireland. five are starved, colonized,
or otherwise swndled out oft, the English will
quietly remove here that governmental and other
machinery, even as the Tyrians, of old removed
10 Carthage, or Duke William and his vassals
from Normandy 10 England; and they will be-
come TO Europe all that we might have been.--
The Irish name and nature will fade from the
face of the earth, and the island of our ancestors
become the home of new people, ruling and en-
Joying where we have starved and died.
Good Providence, to think of thisl To think
that our oppression is 10 end only in banishment,
and our struggles to cease but in death. To
think Of their land, sprnked all over with the
holy blood Of freedoms martyrs-gemmed with
the fields ofglory like an Emperor's shield
monumented, santed, song famed through the
world, given up at last 10 men without one SYM
pathy for it in their hearts, or one fact about it in
their memories.
Tradesmen, tenant-eague, landlords, clergy
men-lrishmen, must this bel