New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-08-16
The Causes OF Iri.h tIi-ery-Oppre.sion and
NIi<rute.


4 Meiod,sf Preacher IN the Christian Ad-
yocate and Journal, repelling the misapPrehen.
sous OF former correspondence that paper, gives
the following synopsis Of the wrongs and woes
against which ireland is now coniending:
1. The British Government has cou6scsted nearly
every Of land on that beautiful island iron me
original native owners. and has bestowed them on IA
Worries generally nonresident foreigners Al one time
out OF the 20OO0OO0 acres " which the Island i com
posed there was confscsuou OF - 64 I'll Al another
tune I7Is7so In this way the lsnd mas been wrested
from those whose had held and cultivated u
before the period Of authenticated history and has been
given ia large districts from l3Ooo sOOu sores down
10 smaller portions that according 70 ne 10 saoa
Tinf OF last month there src IN All Ireland only soout
5000 proprietors OF the soil N Tee simple
? These propnetors, from caprice, taste or nseoh
ceved ideas OF interest. do not cultivate more than
wohirds OF their vast domains, for the cultivation oil
small portion Of them, IN most instances VIII prlns
them in a urincey revenue The remainder must then
be preserved for pleasure grounds, hunting or pastu
rage 20 that according 10 recent survey there Is ~
this time $4,000 acres Of good land that 4 unmproF
ed Thus fic oTti tss lana racn ne Lord hdih irf
ne chdrfq 81 for their use, AMI on ~nicn they
were % subsist by the present order 81 things Is
actually wresied from them Al the point OF the oayonet
while they % whom il was originally given are leit 10
starve and die for the use Of r.
he take. my life who take Il means by which live"
Shaks peare never put forth more truthful saying
Who then the destroyers OF the hundreds OF tnous
auds hsi farest richest Isle Of the ocean Il u De NOT
those who have originated, ard who sui continue the
present order of things /" None dare say that there
is unwlingness the part OF the Irish lsoorer to
work The same London Tines, as al know, violent
antrsh paper says that laborers from Ireland have
inundated England that there AZ this time IN Ian
cashire 10000 Of them aud that IN Scotland and
England there az least million Irish lsoorers
including their children. Would not these have worked
in their own country could they have found employ
ment
g. A the system Of tenantry can never develop the
wealth and resources Of sny country OF course II
has not done Il IN ireland. The cutvator viii not
make permanent improvements when he knows that ms
rent vii be raised him the next year on that very
account For this the land which IS cutVa
ted Yields far lessthan would under another system
T. Again thu rent which goes the prOpretOrs their
SCENTS and the mddlemen. they technically
called amounts 20 about S6lO000OO per annum, $40,
00OOO0 of which sent OF annually 10 absentee land
lords. never to return 10 benent the country IN any
form. This immeu-e sum : an entire draugnt rom
the labor OF the country and must inevitably depeie
any country almost % falntng
5 Once more the Church. established " by the
present order Of things" Out OF population Of
100000 perhaps there 6O000 who feel any
interest in IT, and scarcely any OF this small portion be-
long the producing class. Yet the labor OF the cou
Try i obliged 70 support this Church IN the enormous
sum Of about Sh0OOOOO per annum. And according 10
an unconradicted speech in Parliament, the present
order Of things forces the point Of the bayoneL
nominal but legal parish 10 pay 10 the legal but nominal
rector from 5000 70 $4,000 for religious services
some such parish for twenty-five years.
Here then IS about Sl00O0OOOO TO be raised by the
ab,r Of Ireland tor all property in every country l.
the fruit OF labor And the that l. taken from the
aborer the less ne must have which 70 live And the
present order Of things takes the starving point II
IS mpious and insulting 20 Heaven, 70 say that there
has been famine in Ireland for in the very year In
which were hurrying vessels with provisions 10 her
she sent on 70 England the produce OF her own soil
and the labor in many instances OF the very hands that
afterwsrd died OF starvation, more than 50 "ooOO
worth Of good and wholesome provisions. Ten bushels
she sent others for the which she received II
farm raise fifteen tons OF hay, and some one carry OF
twelve Of IT, and the cattle starye and die, did they
their death by famine inflicted by the provi
dence Of God or by the coyeousncss Of the present
order OF things F"
IN conclusion. let the above state Of things be asten
ed by the sword and the arest part OF New
England and in three or four generations there would
be about much squalor. heggary and wretchedness
among the descendants Of the present sober vrtuous
ar industrious inhabitants OF Connecticut "a there
has been in Ireland, The like would produce the
same effect In every country.