New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-05-17
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regard. Commerce and Cash are apt to be snort
sighted though keen-sighted, and We THINK 'nis
was proved in the very general eSuiiatoh AZ inc
Exchange upon the receipt Of news that 'ns O"a'
fist demonstration had passed oil without Ps'p-
results and that Ireland stu remained % nHDI'N7"
though leverish subsection % brush I'ie'
.,d Oy9er are most essential 10 prosperous lhdus-
,rv and commercial Thrift, just as sunshine is
..oar,t - veyet,tjoD. which yet does not always
,.oeivo snkindy the tempest and the tnahne''-
De-. and oder are most essential to Business
I'm, 60 are Justice and Happiness prerequisites 0!
p..o. and Order. II the avalanche overhangs
and threaten. tho populous valley It is better 1t
should fall at once than be continually threatening
terrifying, psralyzing. No American, we presume
believes that the present state OF thugs IN Ireiah1
ran or desires that it should continue rev. we
think. indulge hopes that it viii be vitally I'M
,,oved nv the uncons.rained action Of the present
ulng power. The only probable alternative 70
the continuance Of general wretchedness IS the
overthrow OF the foreign rule which has created
and now maintains, uphods It, We submit
,s.n. that the mercantile cheers and congratula-
zion, elected By the tidings Of the lst inst. from
Crest Britain and Ireland were hardly JUSTIFIED by
q calm and comprehensive view OF the whole
ground.
But why may we not hope for peaceful and
prompt, though gradual removal Of the woes Of
Ireland The question is fair one, end shall be
fairly though briefly answered.
Ireland 10 a conquered country. For four hundred
years il was partially, for over two hundred 1t has
been been wholly with partial and temporary in
tsrruptions,l subject to Great Britain. Intestine
dissnsions provoked and facilitated her subju-
ration intestine tends have prevented any efec-
tual struggle for Independence. Instruction after
instruction was quenched in the blood Of her dis
traeted people down to the close Of the last centu-
~, since which no forcible resistance to English
rule has been attempted. Half a century since,
the shadow OF independence which had for some
time existed in the garb OF an Irish Parliament
was overthrown BY gigantic corruption and intimi-
dation since which time all the legislation for Ire
land has proceeded FROM the British Parliament, III
the popular House Of which Ireland ha, nominaly
100 ont OF Csc Members, but practically half these
are elected by petty constituencies to represent
British interests adverse to the views and interests
Of the Irish People. British Lord Lieutenant is
chief Executive, with subordinates entirely British
in feeling if not wholly SO in origin backed by
devoted Police and an Army 100000 10 $4,000 men
(which may be increased at pleasure TO 100000
almost entirely British and Offered from London.
Whatever representation Ireland may be suppos
ed to have in the House OF Lords is British and
nobled for efficient subservence TO British policy
atwenticth part Of the Irish People may choose
majority OF the meager minority ofmembers allow
cd to ireland in the British Parliament. Such is
the Political condition Of a People Eight Millions
in number, inhsbiting the finest Island of Europe
with single exception.
Some Of the more atrocious disabilities and for
FIXTURES to which the People of Ireland have
been subjected by their British masters on account
Of their blood and their faith have been removed
bat the following are still in active and deadly
operation
!. The Soil, generally confscatsd by British con
querors for the alleged treason Of its proprietors
in their repeated struggles to repel or overthrow
British mastery. has become almost entirely the
property OF very few persons, most Of them
alien 10 Irelsnd-msny Of them seen there.
1t 10 leased in small patches at exorbitant rents to
the People, by whom it is densely crowded at an
annual charge of some Sixty TO Seventy Millions
Of dollars. This vast sum must be annually earned
By the Irish People in addition TO the cost of their
subsistence and most Of it is sent directly out Of
the country to be spent by the landlord class in
London, Paris, Rome. Baden-Baden &c. in pomp
and luxury There is no other equal portion OF
the earth which yields so large rental to be
mainly squsndered abroad and abundant expe-
rience shows, what common sense would suiilc-
iently indicate that it is fer more burdensoine and
exhausting to raise given sum to be expended
in foreign country than like sum to be dis
bursed at home.
g The Church Establishment is another grievous
burden on the People. Less than One Million OF
the Eight Millions, and these embracing few OF
the Producing class, profess any liking for the
English Church; yet that Church is mun6cenily
supported by an enforced tax or 1.-THE levied upon
the entire Industry Of the Island Parishes without
a single Protestant Episcopal family, save the
Parsons yield a bounteous Church revenue while
the Catholic Church, adhered to by the great mass
OF the Poor, has yet to be supported by the volun
tary contributions Of its disciples
,. Manufactures in Ireland were long systemat-
ically discouraged and even penalty interdicted by
her British oonQuerors and now this important
and profitable department OF National Industry has
scarcely an existence there nor can il be success
fully established in the face OF British ascendancy
and British competition. Consequently, the Ma
ton has no resource beside Agriculture, mainly
prosecuted on petty holdings OF a quareracre to
two or three acres each--of course rudely. ineif
eiectly and with an enormous waste of labor and
Tor great part Of the year the peasantry have no
employment whatever.
T. Tenant Right, or the tenur. By which the
soil is held and improved. is miserablv defined
and secured through the greater part Of ireland.
Should the tenants by industry and skin render
their holdings more productive, the landlords
agent would soon como upon them for conse
qaeat increase OF rent, 80 that the tenant has no
encouragement to improve or render fertile. -Four
Millions OF acres which might support so many
people lie waste and barren, because the people
who need them do not own them, and those who
do viii not improve them. They feel no distress,
and large addition to the arabic area OF the is
land would tend to diminish the exorbitant rents
they are now enabled to extort. through the ur-
gsncy Of competition Tor land