The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-08-04

The SPIRIT OF THE lRIsH.-Few can have any
adequate idea Of how inhamed is the Irish
mind without listening to the organs of dis
content IN Ireland. 1t is, by many, confident
ly predicted that an outbreak is appointed
for after harvest; and certainly these predic-
lions gather force from the infamatory style
in which the people of Ireland are urged to
Revolution. To what bold extremities those
who urges it on have already gone may be in
ferred from the complexion of one of these Or
gans-the new "Irish Felon." The following
is one Of its mottos:-
sour independence must be had at all haz-
Yards. II the man Of property will not sup
port us; they must fall; we can support our
selves by the aid Of that numerous aud respec-
table class of the community, the men of no
property. THEoBALD Wore TONE.
One Gifts editors, T. Devin Reilly. has pub
lished long aud most vituperstive address to
the Lord Lieutenant. Ii Is surcharged with
the brightest inective. Every shaft hurled al
the object of the assailant is envenomed from
point 10 feather. He compliments Lord
Clarendon with the title of "My Lord Assas-
SIM"
"My Lord Assassin" he says
For am not so shallow a Democrat az not
to acknowledge The titles men have fairly won
|-yOu had noble enemy, and you dealt igno-
bly, with him-you had chivalrOus opponent,
and you met him like coward-you had a
man of proud heart and loving soul, great and
original, who challenged, defied and terrified
you, in the open day, in the worlds hearing
and ysu, skulking behind lawyers gown. and
judges petticoats, and a jury Of packed, pur-
|chaseable bankrupts, conspired against him in
the dark, and did him into irons by q method
SO old, SO worn, so mean, so very contempti-
BILE, so transparent in its infamy and its action
so utterly base and cowardly, that the most vul-
gar cut-throat, the poorest TiPperary, Thug,
who takes his enemy down from behind a
ditch, decently, is . noble and brave man in
the worlds estimate compared with you.
would wash the feet Of that man before would
not defile my hand with yours.
The class of Irishmen represented by such
organs aim at absolute independence of Eng
land. But this is not universally the object Of
even the sgitators in Ireland-some 60 for q
mere repeal Of the Union. and hold back from
union with the preferred League" because
that organization pre-supposes resort to ply
steal force and speedy separation between
the two Islands. There is, too, certain por.
ton which. though having some influence and
power, cannot numerically, or otherwise, be
very strong, that resistsagitation on any grounds
so that. with the military force which the gov.
eminent has in Ireland, the issue OF any out
break at the present time appears to US doubt
Iful.
Meanwhile the Irish, and their friends ir
this country are busy. Secretly, there 10 rea
son to believe, movements are going forward
ostensibly with view 10 aid the Irish in Ire
land. but really, perhaps, to aid them in Can
ada. The most favorable leader Of any pro
jected enterprise in that direction is Gen
Shields, who, it may be inferred, is nothin,
10th TO display his love for Ireland, even b.
travelling that rather perlous path. Canad'
Instructions usually wait for frost, and, un
less England greatly charges her polity toward
Ireland. nett winter may show US stirring
times on the border.