The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-05-20
THE FEELING IN IRELAND.


"Iet the coward shrink aside,
Well have our own again;
Let the crawling slave deride,
Here's for own again.
Let the tyrant bride and lie,
March, threaten, tortvy
Loose his lawyer ard has spy,
Yet we'll have our own again.
Let him soothe in silken tone,
Scold from foreign throne;
Let him come with bugles blown,
We shall have own again.
Let the game be fairly tried,
Well have our own again."
Mr. Bourke on the same occasion, quoted
the following lines:
They banned ourfath, they banned our lives, they
And while bore with passive hearts, our patience
was their mir,h,
Even this great flame that wraps them now, not we
but they have bred;
This war is their own work, and now their work be
on their head"
The 'Nation, I'm leading editorial says:
Thank God! we are to be troubled no moro
with phantoms of ''amelioration" and "euual-
ity." The unproductive desert of the las, TIVE
years, where promise rose on promise like waves
of barren sand, Is past, and we have reached
the skirts of firm land fit for fighting on
Our imperial rulers have made the true cause
of quarrel conspicuous as tower; they have
struck down every right, or pretence of right,
which they might derive by crown, or compact,
and have revived, as their banner, the ancient
claim of conquest.
The time Of the sword has come, the cant of
the constitution is obsolete as Ogham stones.
1t is come; and we will show that the reli-
gious spirit OF this people, like the cloak Of the
Crusader, carries beneath its cross soldiers
hear and Ri NJ.
the prospect ofcivil war, but our dread of it is
dead-it died in the Famine. 1t is time for
Ireland to strike; she has negotiated in vain
for halfa century. In her name we choose
and We beseech Heaven 10 sustain and bless our
ch0ice-civil war, rather than submission to
English tyranny! We choose this course with
deliberation, and after full reflection on all the
duties which attach TO us, in our generation,
and we call on the people to prepare for the
battle. England has thrown down her gauge,
Thus Ireland takes itup.
The Freeman's Journal, in reply to Lord
John Russell's threat that he will "put down
the Repealers by force" holds this lam
guage:-
To their menace of armed thousands, we an
swer, remember We are millions. To their
armed faction we oppose the resolve of a peo-
pie. When they ally with British arms the
murder knit of the Delahunts, and The Caren-
don pixies of the perjured spies-when they
arm their hirelings against the properties, lib
cities and lives Of our gentry and our people
when it is openly declared that the merits of
constitutional question are not TO be discussed
in the senate house, but in the field-when
arms are sent from England by the Government
to arm factions against liberty, against the
and against the people-we ask
the Irish gentry will they be consenting parties
to this procedure-will they aid and abet the
minister in his efforts to precipitate this coun-
try into instruction and anarchy, that .sEn-
glish Interests" may be advanced by perpetual
ing the Union?
This is a question which the Irish gentry, and
Irish merchants, and Irish traders, should put
to themselves without delay. What. have they
gained by the Union? What will they benefit
by its perpetuation, that they should consent
TO make their country the theatre of civil wal,
and their properties the sport of anarchy? Are
they prepared TO submit to this, to have, as the
Times puts 1t, the streets of our cities deluged
with civic blood" and licentious soldiery
let loose amid their homes, that British inter-
est may be subserved at the cost all that hu-
name and honorable men hold dear? If not
now is their time to speak, now, ere it be "Too
LATE"