The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-09-12


yraetables were put to, we hear of 200 or 300 armed
peasants warning the police to give mp the search
Tor Richard Ottoman; then entering the houses
vi the gentry and farmers, carrying OH what arms
they can lay their hands and hurryng off to the
mountains, where they daily and nightly organ
lied nv a chief. whose name does not transpre, but
vino Is said 10 be an extraordinary character. OF
great and daring spirit, stranger to tear and fully
acquainted with the intricacies of the Kerry and
Limerick Mountains and, Furthermore, that he Is
surrounded by 200 followers, and can summon 600
round him al a moments warning. The journals
ar, nothin gbut mass Of contradictions.
Speaking of journals reminds me that MIR. Bax-
ter, editor of the Dundaik Patriot, is committed on
a charge Of high treason. Ottoman said some
months ago, . lie! them pack the jury box: We II
fiji the dock till scditiDn becomes the fashion, and
the jaiIs are overcroWded with conyIcts from the
Irish Confederation II bids fai- be true 10 the
letter
The troops under Gen Macdonald are still in
Wipperary, and the people still refuse them prOVis-
ions Tie spirit of dsatlection is widespread. and
the fearful prospects Of the harvest, in connection
with the expressed determination OF the Government
to afford no aid in of another famine, will i'll
crease it "A hundred fold. There will probably be
another outhreak-but what use The clergy will
oppose If, IA they have done this, and 1t viii fail.
For whether for good Or evil, the failure Of the
present movement rrsis with them. Had they
withheld the people al the first, these men would
have understood their position and acted accord
iully. They cCuid have kept within the law, or
sought more Cou@'nal home +: or, II they had
rushed into instruction. they would have known
Heir resources, ard moi have depended on nGen who
fell from them ~ leaves do from the trees m A'l-
iunu. But, h wing urged men into danger, they
had no right to retreat. Mr.. LalOr sags truly
- The people should not cheer on TO The oot OF
q breach or the foot OF a gaoWs, and then desert
them There ran be no second opinion about
that Neither the clergy nor The people can shelter
themselves under the plea Of ignorance, for the prn-
clpirs of the Confederation were clearly explained.
The very event that called It INTO being left no room
for doubt and | cannot understand how, If the
practice he Objectionable. the theory can be limo
cent. That would be paerng with common sense.
II were told that no circumstances could Justify
resistance to oppression. could understand 1t II
We were told thai human beings should lie down
tImelv, and etcvery trace of the divinity be etiaced
from soul and body. ! could understand even that
II We We're told hat the food which mans labor
and Gods bounty draws from The stubborn earth is
IL b.. torn from the soil which IL grew and
npcned, and men to look calmly on. and that this
torture. which finds parallel nowhere but in the
Leather Hell. is 10 re tolerated in Il Christian
Iaud-pcrb1I& might understand that too. But TO
he told that cruelty usfiiies resistance thattyrannv
FaucliGrs rebellion everyw here but in lreiand-that
| cannot understand. " hat rare alchemy is there
orr Irish Air 10 turn virtue INTO vice greatly
fear We have endured TOO long and that, for some
time nj least, we must pay the peIa!iy of our sinful
suhmisson-ur it is ever wrong to acQuiesce in
Wronr. If we have a repetition OF the Skull and
Shboereen horrors, there will be more accountable
for ii than the Ministers.
Ii is expected that the prisoners will be treated
with marked enIency. Some say they viii he
obliged to exile themselves others remembering
that Mitchel's sentence an instance u Govern
mental cemency. are less sanguine no one fears
for their lives An execution for political offences
would place arstocratc Enaland in TOO strong a