Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-08-10
SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST

THE SPIRIT OF TIE IRIsH.-Few can have any
adequate idea Of bow inhapmea is 1ne irish
mind without listening to the organs of dis
content in Ireland. It's. by many, confident
Is predicted that an outbreak Is appointed
for after harvest; and certaialy these predic-
tons gather force from the infamatory style
in which the people Of Ireland are urged to
Revolution. 70 what bold eItIemities those
who urges it on have already gone may be in
serred from the complexion Of one Of these or
gans-the new "Irieh Felon." The following
is one of its mottos:-
1s0ur independence must be had at all haz-
Yards. If the man Of property will not sup
port Us; they nust fall; We can support our
selves by the aid Of that numerous and respec-
table class Of the community, The nssn OF no
property. TREoBALD Wore TosE.
One its editors. 7. Devin Reilly. has pub
lished long and most situperstive address to
the Lord Lieutenant 1t il surcharged with
the brightest inectivs. Every shaft hurled at
the object Of tbs assailant is envenomed from
point to feather. He compliments Lord
Clarendon with the title of "My Lord Assas-
sim"
''My Lord Assassin he says
For am Eot so shallow Democrat as not
to acknowledge the titles men have fairly won
You had noble enemy, and you dealt igno-
bly with him-you had chivalrous opponent
and you met him like coward-you had q
man of proud heart aad loving soul, great and
original, who challenged, dehed and terrified
you, in the open day. in the worlds hearing
and you, skulking behind lawyers gown. and
judges petticoats, and jury Of packed. paF'
chaseable bankrupts, conspired against him In
the dark, and did him into irons by a method
so old, so worn, so mean, 50 very contempti
bic, so transparent in its infamy and its action
so utterly base and cowardly. that the most vul
gar cut throat, the poorest Tipperary. Thug,
who takes his enemy down from behind &
ditch, decently. Is noble and brave man u
the worlds estimate compared with you.
would wash the feet of that man before IwoulC
not defle my hand with yours.
The class of Irishmen represented By sucf
organs aim at absolute independence of Eng
land. But this is not universally the object o.
evea the agitato1 in Ireland-some go for &
mere repeal of the Union. and hold back from
union with the preferred League" because
that organization pre-supposes resort to ply
steal force and aspeedy separation between
the two Islands, There is, too, certain por
ton which. though having some influence ant
power, cannot numerically. or otherwise, b
very strong, thatrssistsagitation onany grounds
90 that. with the military force which the gov
ernmsnt has in Ireland, the issue of any out
break THE present time appears TO US doubt
fm,
Meanwhile the Irish, and their friends il
this country are busy. Secretly, there is rea
con to believe, movements are going forward
ostensibly with view to aid the Irish in Irt
land, but really, perhaps. to aid them in Can
ada. The most favorable leader Of any pre-
jected enterprise in that direction is Ger
Shields, who. it may be inferred, is nothin
10th to display his lore for Ireland, even b
travelling that rather pezilous path. Canad
instructions usually wait for frost, and, vi
less England greatly charges herpolity toward
IRELAND. next winter may show W sbrrir
times on the border.