The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-06-20
One Days Dirty Work.

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The people of Ireland all know that John Nit
che is a prisoner in the hands OF the mortal enc
mics of Ireland. Because he is the champion of
the pc or mans rights, the government" whose
calling it is to grind the faces of the poor, have
| seized upon HIM, and hope to get him murdered by
their dagger of ''aw." Because he breaches to
attentive ears the Gods truth-tha the life of one
peasant is as sacred as the life of one nobleman or
| conference.-the government which holds that
there cannot be '.noblemen and gentlemen in
Ireland without clearing off millions of peasants by
starvation, will refute his doctrine, by sending him
in chains to perish among feIons He is nor lovaI
and constitutional, and genteel enough to see his
countrymen made slaves, and paupers, and brutes.
without feeling Indignation, and without doipg hi.
part to make an end OF Irish shame and misery
He is not .'peaceable" enough to exhort his conn
trymen to be starved quietly. He is not sswel-dis-
posed enough to approve Of wholesale robbery
and murder. He knows that Ireland affords rich
abundance for all the Irish people, were they
twice as many as they are, without needing to rob
or murder any of them He would have real
peace and goodwill among lrishmen, and he
knows and we all know, that there can never be
peace and goodwill in Ireland until the principles
OF social and national justice he expects the people
OF lrel and to assert be established.
And so he Is true Irish feon. And the official
vermin who crawl upon the diseased institutions
OF lreland-signs to the world of the hideous rot
tenness of an enslaved community-are commits
stoned to do HIM to death with their poisonous
stings of "law." The enemies of Ireland-the 90
vernment whose business 1t is to keep up hatred
and social war among the Irish peope-are going
10 "try" him for his true Irish felony. They fear
that, oppressed, haf-starved, cowed, as the Irish
people are, they wou d not stand by and see him
shot or hanged, simply because he is the champion
of Irish rights. Therefore they would cheat us
into permitting him to be destroyed by legal no Gus
by jury selected out of packed panel, comes on
probably, on Thursday He must be convicted in
"legal form, and, therefore, the means 10 procure
convection must be employed. No Nnfairness is
t.k.. I'LL.
roguery IS too mean for the agents of British ty-
ranny in their attempt to get John Mitchell sent
illegally" to Norfolk Island. The packed iury panel
is withheld from HIS inspection; a copy Of his in
dictment is reiSsed hlm the day settled for the
as they law can be stretched to warrant The fore
man OF the Grand Jury gives in the bills found
for 'sedition," or 'treason," or ''feony," or any
CRIME the government plaintiffs desire to make
the pretence Tor destroying him. Heresy"
would be the best name to give his crime He
is opposed to the orthodox British faith of civilized
butchery and enlightened bru,tshness Becauss,
his friends are engaged In deSsssng measures for
saving hum from legal assassination the most
active OF them, I Devsa Reilly, is capped into
police office, and ay one shabby pretext or another
kept IDLE l2T an entIre day, absurd charge of
m ula'1 urin',-the evidence for which IS, that
ys eoadac' Il peaceful procession OF Dublin citi-
S,r al an orderly manner to peaceful meeting.
'" nen John Mitchell is placed IN the felon's dock,
some mean mscreans from among the real felons
are placed beside him, as if to intimate that his
GO heresy' is morally akin to burglary, or rape.
And indeed, the crimes OF all the real feons In
Ireland together less odlous In the eyes OF our
| government than the simple words OF truth and
right weekly spoken TO this people by Ohm Mitchell.
But what of all this! Is there any scandalous-
ness of outrage, any depth of debasement, any
wrong any misery, that lrishmen will not bear and
endure without resistance What is the &c last
plank OF the constitution" which being gone, the
last resort of oppressed nations Will alone remain
to us 1t is not trial by jury, we are told-there
must be some further infringement OF the constitu-
ton In the name of Heaven, what II an IRISH
man were directly shot by platoon OF soldiery,
or directly hanged by the civil instrument OF
foreign tyranny, for the crime OF speaking and
writing the truth, and OF making the people feel
and understand tiff it were simply enacted by the
English Parliament that any man who breaches
repeal of the Union in such way as to effect re-
peal of the Union, shall be hanged -woud that
satisfy the constitutional scrupes OF some OF cur
people
Citizens of Dublin, how long will you permit
your stree f. to be blocked up with professions OF
! the policemen of IA foreign government, to shove
YOU off your own pathways, and to prevent you
from going about your own business! How long
/ will YOU permit your public offices to be occupied
with crowds of the same policemen, SO as to leave
60 no room for yourselves How long VIII you
endure the disgrace and danger OF having your
bank your college, your custonl-house, your chicf
seats OF industry, now idle and desolafe, through
want of a government-your very prisons occupied
with the soldiers of a foreign power, hired with
your money, to be ready at the bidding OF a man
who has no duty to you-who is not responsible To
you--to butcher you in your own streets or houses
/ When will - the time" come about which your
orators 40 boldly vaunt, amid the fierce shouts of
your applause If it come not when one of you,
selected by your enemies as your Champion
when John Mitchell, the true Irish telon, is sent to
perish among thieves and murderers, for the CRIME
of loving and defending his native land-thcn 1t
will never come-never. If the people OF Ireland
tamey suffer this last atroclty OF tyranny. no
% opportunity" no organization, no foreign aid
nothing less than miracle of Heaven, will free
them.
ARMY INTELLIGENCE.
The troops at Fort Leavenworth, about 300 in num-
Der under Garland to leave for the plains