New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-05-19
TreIand,, Woes and their Cure.

We have never intended TO iDcte the Irish 10 re-
beuion we certainly have in no manner encour-
aged them to expect assistance from this country
but in case they shOaid be driven into forcioie re-
s,s,ancs 10 the tyranny that grnds and crushes
them, we are anxious that they shall be sustain
ed by the sympathy Of our countrylnen not only
but Of those who ia all countries love Freedom
and Justice aud hope to see wrong righted ana III
Jury redressed. To such sympathy we DeIe'e
them fairly entitled, if any people ever were
yvhst We propose 10 do is to disseminate the more
,noportaut AMI obvious facts respecting the treat
ment and condition OF Ireland under British DOM
nation. so that the world may thereby be led u
feel keenly her wants and hor woes to discern
their chief causes and hope if not labor for their
removal So much we deem due TO Truth, Free
dom and Humanity, and we shall discharge our
share OF the obligation at whatever cost
The Erpr>ss does not controvert single state
man, in our former article respecting the miseres
OF ireland, nor the hopelessness OF their cure D.
simply moral means but urges at much length two
opposing considerations, viz;
1. An insurrecton ia Ireland would cause enorn-
Gus carnage, prvation and wretchedness z. II
would certainly be crushed and its authors annihi-
lated throwing Ireland bopelessy bach upon state
# things even less endurabe than the present
This latter assumption is one that we do not con
cur in but we care not TO discuss 1t. The Irish
Patriots are the proper judges Of its validity anu
they are bound to ponder it long and earnestly
Most certainly if nsurrection is hopeless, it should
not, however just, be attempted for though the
miseries OF the most a5ject class could hardly be
increased, yet the number of the wretched, the
prevalence of Indebtedness, may be aggravated.
Gailty indeed would the Irish leaders be, should
they originate forcible resistance to British
usurpation without fair prospect OF success there
in The crimes and horrors of civil war defy ex
aggeration, aud civil war in Ireland will be one
OF extraordinary ferocity and devastation
But Ireland contains not fewer than one Million
men and youth able to level a musket or push a
pike. and Of these at least seven-eighths are the
deadly enemies Of British domination. We be
heve Half Million of them will readily fly L
arms whenever the contest is surely begun, and
that the British Government cannot oppose tc
them more than One Hundred Thousand ssIdisrs
police constabulary, &c with perhaps as many
more Irish combatafts for the British connexion
from which they derive profitable employment IL
one way or another Now admit the great advan
tage which must accrue to that party IN struggle
which has fleets. ordnance, experienced officers
transports, munitions. cash and credit in abui
dance contending with sdversaries who have none
or all those, and still we say the struggle is not
moro unequal than that which our fathers tempted
in 1875. But on all these points tho Irish Patriot
are the sole judges we are but repcliing the pos
f.l.. l.
The Express quotes Council, and the o Con
nels generally, as testiiying the hopeessness an
uselessness OF forcibc resistance TO British power
Their views and representations are entitled B.
respect, but they not alone entitled to it,
Many who hold opposite views are likewise emit
tied TO consideration. IL is a novelty TO find the
Express quoting the o Councils with Difference
aud stigmatizing their opponents as reckless
demagogues, but in this age OF headlong progress
the Express is dragged forward sorely against it,
will, and though obstinatey olinging to its pos
ton in the extreme rear it still cannot help al
yancing.
But our contemporary oracuary says;
outbreak would inetiiaby prevent for Iona period
the enactment Of Of those sanitary which the
friends Of ireland have IA contemplation.
Reform through saluary agitation, VII in tine cure al
the reneisble evils OF which lnssinen can justly com
plain"
Wat 'salutary measures are these and wio
are the friends of Ireland who have them IN
contemplation We have not hitherto remarked
that the Express plainly admitted the existence
Of evils in Ireland remediable through salutary
agitation. Most surely. when the peaceful, con
stitatonal Repeal OF the Legislative Uuion and
the restoration OF separate Irish Parliament.
subordinate to the British Crown, were the eN
tent of the Irish demand, saw no evidence that
the Exp,ess deemed either the measures or tn
agitation salatary. We shall gladly learn beyond
doab, that the Express has at length crawled up
to the position occupied by oConnen and the
Repealers five six years ago. II not, Will Il be
so good as to inform us what salutary measures
for the redress OF Irish grievances 1T actually doc
favor.
Then as 10 the unqualified assurance that al
the remediable evils OF Ireland are to be cured By
asslatary peaceful agitation, we do not intend
70 be deficient Ia assurance, but this certainly gocs
beyond US. Where is the evidence which ought
to have convinced us Ifthe master evils OF Ire
lands condition be indeed las we have supposedly
the Monopoly of her Soil BY small number OF idle
aad luxurious drones, mostly alien to the people
in feeling and to the country by long absence-the
support, by British law and police, Of Church es-
tablshmont enormously expensive ami detested
by the great mass OF tho Peopie-,he Monopoly o
Manufacturing for Ireland by British Capital, Skill
and Labor leaving the Irish Millions in great part
absolutely without employment-sndt the pressure
OF British taxation, British policy, and all the ma
ohinery by which a conqusrins nation teaches the
subjugated TO feel and detest her sway--if these
are the real OF Irish restitution aud suffer
ing, and the classes which govern England and
in her Parliament make and alter the laws Of Ire
land DO the very same which prob, largely and
almost exclusively by the oxsciions and oppres.
sions which crash and impovorsh Ireland how
can we nationally hope that these evils viii be re
dressed by the uaconstrained, unintimldated &C
ton of those to whom they now secure luxury
pomp and consequence VIII the Express en-
tighten US 7
W IRdepcadeHf' OF the Phila. North Amer
can. consesses that he was utterly mistaken, o.
rather misled, in his confident assertions tina
Gen. Taylor would not persist in being candi