New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-08-14
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE.
Ptetsre. al ireland.

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The stoyy q the famine 9 n0s get io.a-1nAss
sre now biz with interest both a b surerinE All
Treatment Of the poor l Am sulns over TIE Eaosi
~retcbed parts with great care searching 2isi re-
searching thonghtiuliy possible. AID - ua1ch
% / End tia. - horIfyIng, fhst ! ar Often ~
= boss Whist % say. o. whether o. say AZ az
The asst poorlaw has driven the middle class Ell
nigh 70 nadness- The taxes are 50 beyond whist
can be met and the begg1rs ~ the door - ciamor-
o1. that life IN ireland has nothing comfortable Or
.caycelv toJerable The poor fzmiShed Wrrfches
who have been crammed into the poor-house du-
ring Winter are now taken cut. that - the able
bodied men and boys, and PIT 70 breaking stones
upon the highway for pound q Indian meal as
DAVIS wages. Judge ye Here they 81 IA groups,
in rags and taiters, making piles Of almost mount
ain hight % stand as monuments q the days OF
famine 10 future generations li0r they cannot b
used 10 thisl Instead Of putting seed into the
ground already cultivated, and retaining more
waste land there At preseat- useless stones are
the reproductive labor Of the lrsh. ms Is i"e
toiiticsl economy o. England respecting tbs iong
afflicted country She saws Ireland shall support
ireland . and 10 order b compel her 70 90 50 ae'u
Inuisted taxes are putting down al lnnusthy"s
farmers their cattle and sheep are dfFeh !" ~, ~
pound. their furniture - seized "hiS 'h' "a"
snsrdianS and relieving officers are paa enormous
salaries: all Of which must BE- ext"rtee' "here
can be found without mercy. NO rehel you are
su,sre can he giyen % the poor under the govern
rpent act unless the poor cotter gives up ms lana
then the driver who - appointed 70 carry mat
,sr. into effect requires that the owner small pun
t,,.n his cabin with his own hands that the
landlord NAV get rid Of him, and he escape the
grasp Of the law by saying that the owner IN
roOfed his cabin with his own hands, Tor govern
ooent has not required that the house shall be
pulled down. For this pound Of meal IS given b
ss adult aud bah pound 70 a child, who 20 wan
derinQ from street % street from mountain -
maintain living At night under walls by the side OF
bitches. and often dying IN this condition some
times buried without colin, and sometimes hOt
a. sn Through the Winter there has been me
greatest struggle 10 save little seed to put into
the ground, aud some have nearly starved them'
selves to do So holding on 70 the land with dead
iy grasp Now the seed IL in, and not mOuthiul
OF food have they got, or can they get unless they
give up this land, 20 b. the pOor-bOuse ana ieh'c
the Gran 10 be- eaten BY others. Not having leases
tut lew OF the landlords willing 70 hold the land
and return il 10 them at harvest, and allow them 70
he fed In the pOor-house till the grain shan be NJ
Tor use Those landlords who have money, and
can Day taxes, determined 10 nd their lands o.
all who real paupers and those VINO nave
nothing 10 pay taxes with but what must come
from the tenant, cannot get farthng conse-
auently they are tunbling together IN one common
mass OF ruin Should you wonder II some oi thein
should cry out for redress OF grievances, and II
some Of the ann Irish blood, that may not yet De
III.
wonder if God should at length come out Of ms
place, and punish the oppressor by the hand that
has so long been oppressed That pixies are made
and making cannot be doubted that some are bent
on war and some on peace Is likewise the case
bui 50 weakened is the power OF ireland by
dissensions and famine, that unless they have
foreign aid her pixies and guns viii be used
20 her own destruction, II used at all. -
much presses upon me 10 say, that may as
well iOrbear you hear much but see II All, ana
at times am so oyerwh emed that great exertion
Is necessary 10 guard my mind against distraction
Better persons than have lost their reason while
aboring for the dying, and are either dead or M
mad houses. The clergy, both priests and par
sons, have many OF them died in the held by their
excessive labOrs and | sometimes think that |
SIN spared only 10 tell the story and II ! die M
the work, shall leave 10 posterity, IN pt
the story OF lrelands wrongs, which VIII, doubt
less sell " e when am dead. fearless, indie
iatigable truth-teller must expect 10 1--we ON
crust-die in garnet, that he may have costly
monument, aud touching epitaph, when dead. !
may not be so fortunate the dogs may give me
a sepuchre, they have many OF the starved
ones where am. | vii! give you an instance or
two of what is passing now and then stop. a
man, his wife and three children, were found IN a
cabin the man dead, and had laid eight days the
wife also dead, with her head upon his feet she
had not been dead long. child dead, and
the others alive b tell the story, but could not
walk. second fact IS, while funeral was
being attended IN the churchy ard OF respectable
kind. young lad entered, having "a sack upon
has back containing 6 brother of 10 years old, and
one younger both had died OF starvation. He
was assisted in digging hole and they were put
IN without a coffin for the dogs TO tear out, as
they generally do This within a few yards
If the spot where | was sitting, In the Town OF
Newport County Of Mayo. The other was in the
neghborhoOd; and am particular because many
At the Irish in America will know the place.
wonld multiply cases Of my own knowledge, but
let this suffice for the present, for scenes OF the
lsmine In the Spring Of a.
z" | commenced this letter in the County OF Mayo
and am now in Cork. My anxiety 10 see the
good apostle, Mathew induced me to hasten 10
the city before he should sail for America and
when ! found that his illness iorbids his visit,
was greatly disappointed. | fear the last two
years of famine have done for him what can never
be repaired He thinks he is convalescing, and
that ne shall see America in Autumn but fear
be never will. | believe he is the only one who
thinks as he does the subject. II appears 10
me that he is fast rpenng for heaven, and God
will soon take him home O, what will poor Ire
land do when this good man leaves her My heart
sinks within me when ! think Of II, aud some
times pray God that l may not live 10 witness
such fearful calamity