The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-06-15

which we received from our foreign corespon-
dents, by the steamship America The report of
Mr. MitchePs trial, however, which will be found
in to-day's columns, compels us to defer the publ
cation of many of our letters till tomorrow We
give one from London, and several from Paris
They contain matter of the greatest interest
Irish ADMINISTRATION and Transportation
of MIR. Mitchell.
BY the arrival of the steamship America, at Bos-
ton, we learn that John Mitchell, late editor of the
United Lis,man, has been sentenced to fourteen
years transportation, under the new act of Para-
ment for bravely and CALAMITY preaching up his
country's wrongs and calling on his fellow Irish
men to obtain a redress of their grievances.
There are three lights in which this disgracefu
proceeding ought to be viewed, viz: the conduct
of England in bringing all the powers of govern
ment to bear upon a single man, in enacting an
odious and despotic law at this age of the word
such as is the gagging law under which Mr.
Mitchell has been convicted, to effect the silence
OF one man;-and secondly, the conduct ofthe Irish
themselves in submitting to the conviction and
punishment of their friend and fellow country
man;-and thirdly, the relation of the whole mat
ter to the rest of the world
And first, in regard to England's position For
centuries she has ruled her sister island with rod
OF iron-she has prosecuted, disembowelled, glib
beted and transported her people-she has perse-
cuted them with the spirit of demon-she has
drained them of the very life blood of their exist
ence, and reduced them to such a state of abject
misery that they are dependent on a single preca-
rious root for sustenance, the failure of which
compels them to receive aims from the rest of the
world, to die of starvation and its fear
full observation-disclosures and fever-by thousands
and hundreds of thousands, as they have
done within the last eighteen months. To crown
ALL when one of her patriotic and oppressed sons
rises superior to terror and persecution and boldly
denounces this system of hellish wickedness, the
English Parliament descends to the owest depths
OF nfamy, and passes bill making 1t punishable,
by transportation death, to denounce their vii
lany and their damnable system of oppression.
Here is spectacle for the civilized world in the
year 1913! England, the pioneer of Christianity,
with the cannon) the great distributor of the re-
vealed word of God among the heather (by the
musket, the model par excellence of nations, crush
lng-ln the year lS4S, when mankind, the world
over, have aroused from their ethargy Of ages-one
individual, and banishing him from his home
and his country, for daring to denounce his coun-
try's wrongs In this damnable and dark transac-
ton, England has disgraced the nineteenth CEN
fury, dsgraced her character, and that of the Eng
lsh people, Individually and collectively and in
hicted wrong which, sooner or later, will call
down fearful retrlbution, if God of justice rules
the world. 1t is retrograde movement in civil
ization-a transition from the glorious of 1913,
the ages barbarsm, to the times of the Stuarts
whose bloody and diabolical laws she has copied,
and practsed at this day. She no longer lay
claim to the title of civilization. She has lost
caste in the scale of intelligence, and deserves TO
be cut off from all communion with the en-
lightened world. 1t is an atrocious piece of bar
barism, which will hasten the crisis that she at
tempted to avert, and will eventuatc in making
Ireland what she ought to be-a free and ndepen-
dent nation.
In regard to the men of Ireland, they have, by
their allowing Mitchell to be transported-a martyr
to the cause of liberty and his country-cast
stigma on themselves which it will be hard to
wipe off. How they could patiently see the right
of trial by jury polluted and prostituted in the per-
son of man who has sacrificed himself for them
how they could look on and see the hirellng Judge
pronounce sentence of condemnation on him-but
above all, how they could tamely see him taken
from his beloved family, his friends, and his
try, in convict ship, for the crime of patriotism,
0uzzles us exceedingly but perhaps they have their
re,>sons for doing So We had thought that the Irish
were an mpulsve, high tempered peoTle. We had
thought that when the point was reached where pa
tence g, 'ases to be virtue, they would have
manfulv r, zen, from one end of their country to
the other an, asserted their long-wthheld rights,
even # the ate npt were to fail and deuge their
fields with blood Far nober would it be to die,
than 70 submit to UGH barbarous and despotc ty-
rannv But thew can yet redeem their character;
thew can vet mil from he bench the hireng Judge
who acted as execuone of their fellow patriot, at
the bidding of a corrupt GO 'erhii'eh'-.hey can YET
vindcate their conduct befor, me worid, ana drive
every vestige of English don Hna'ioh IRON, 'heir
green isle. They can do it, by one glaiu uhi'eo
effort II they fail to make the atten P'' 'heh let tnei
pcrsh-let them remain in their dt 'gradateh-let
them be spit upon, condemned and de 'pised by inc
nations of the earth, and continue hew'Hs OF wood
and drawers of water for their barb arous master,
and accept with gratitude the crum's ana we'll
picked bones that tall from his table. lhey VIII
be no ol ccrworthy of consideration or .oi thought
mot even entitled to modicum of y.mpathy
from the slaves of our Southern States And that
they will do it, we are confdent--that they w. u
not submit to this atrocious tyranny, are salts
fed They are now without food-the harvest
will soon be gathered, and when il is safely
housed, they will, in the words of O'Brien, "up
with the barbados, and invoke the god of bat
ties"
The whole world is concerned in this 1rial, con-
victon, and transportation of Mr.. Mitchell. Eng
land has, in this instance, committed gross insult
on all nations. She has insulted the intelligence
and spirit of the agc--made herself unworthy OF
the rank she has heretofore held; and we trust that
she will be made to feel it. The people of every
civilized country under the canopy OF heaven,
ehould loudly proclaim their opinion of the barba-
rity of this act, and should denouncc 1.-THE go