The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-09-28
TO THEFRIENDS OF IRELAND.

Ieffort TO place herself in situation TO meet the
approaching struggle with the colossal power
Iof England, her chains will Inevitably bemore
tightly drawn, that the shackles which for ages
CALLED her palsied arm will be madestiil more
CALLING, and that the bloodstained hands OF
British powerwil continue 10 .revel in the
blood of oppressed Ireland. Suchis the end
fortle present of the Irish rebellion.S
| X is natural TO the friends OF civil liberty TO
ask how much longer those, outrages are to
lcontinue. Can othe atoms, our own IN par
ticuar, stand coldly by without even Offering
a remonsl rance? Cannot Irishmen in America
paralyse the uplifttd arm that is now raised
over their native land? This lsat question
can answer without doubt or hestation.-
lrishmen in the United States have it wholly
in their power, as shall presently show, to
strike mortal blow at England-to strike her
| In vital spot part of her body where she
! is alone vulnerable. Where then is the Irish
man that will not aid in accomplishing so sa-
cred duty? | think the course needs only 10
De pointed Out and that every Irishman will
| 10y to aid his naive country.
Ii is not necessary that you put your name
to a subscription list to raise money TO send ov
er the Atlantic where it will be liable to fall
into The hands of British const able, nor need
you shoulder musket and school yourselves
IN military tactics 10 fight England. Napoleon,
the renowned warrior. tried this plan with ar
mics which have rarely been equalled IN an
Gent or modern times, and, under his gigantic
blows, England only grew the stronger. This
sagacious was not long in finding out that
that this was, TO use vulgar expression, liter
ally taking 1.-The bull BY the tall His next
and most effectual plan was his famous .'conti-
mental system" which excluded British man
ufactures from market on the continent of
Europe. Under this system, England was
soon made 10 feel that her case was indeed
desperate one. 1t filled her land with gloom
and sadness. and for the first time did England
feel herself hum bled--this was was taking
The bull by the hOrns." Had this system not
been defeated by the treachery of Napoleon's
allies, Engands fate would have been worse
than that of any of the other nations over which
Napoleon strobe as conqueror, for the obvious
reason that they fell before foreign conqueror
England would have fallen by the hands of
her own children in civil wars.
| Let Us look at the condition of Englad since
last spring. Revolutions broke OCT all over
Europe which had the effect of prostrating all
commercial enterprise aud public works.
Credit was ruined. England found that she
was shut out from market on the continent
and ruin stared her once more in the face. Ev-
failure of British houses by the wholesalp.
The hurrican that swept her land brought down
he wealthy houses that were considered until
then impregnable OH for the salvation of
Ireland, that this storm had been suffered to
80 on; it would have shaken England to her
foundation; her manufactures would have
closed for the want ola market; her laboring
population, already ripe for revolution By
the movements OF the Chartst clubs, would
have risen In rebellion. To view it in the
most moderate light possible, il must be adj !
United, that, if this storm had not been stopped
England would have had too much work at
home TO be able 10 attend 10 crushing poor old
Ireland.
And pray who or what arrested this storm that
was sweeping England? Why nothing else
than the Democratic tariff called the tariff of
46, which, unfortunately for Ireland, was then
aud is now under operation. England, in her
distressed situation, found by this odious tariff
the doors of American ports wide open TO re-
ceive her surplus manufacturers, and speedily
did she rush them over the Atlantic.
She was fully compensated for the closing
of European markets by the one she found
here. The cry ofdistress which threatened to
Cause her mammoth bank to stop payment was
hushed by American gold, her empty coff.rs
were filled by shipments of coin al the rate of
one and half million per month from the
United States, and her turbulent population
finding employment, showed no fulher dispo-
sition to engage her vagabond soldiery; SO that
TO reek her vengeance on unfortunate Ireland
was an easy task. lrishmen, you see the re-
suit t'D. l'-ut
Had the wise and good tariff of AZ or as it is
called by the friends of free trade with Eng
land, the '.abomnable Wing tariff" been in
- h.,.. A
would have found it to be an abominable
tariff indeed-anothrr continental system Ito
exclude her from American markets. l bold
Is ask every lrishman, what would have been
England fate If our doors well as those of
all Europe had been closed against her last
spring when she was in such tottering condi-
| lion. Think you she would have been able TO
crush Ireland as she did with scarce an effort?
You answer, certainly not; for this is clear
| ly shown BY Ensland's forbearance, ultil her
commercial distress had subsidized and the heavy
shipment of coin from the Uuited States had
put her out of danger. Not till then did she
.leem il safe TO begin on Ireland. SO you see
! hat had the "abominable Wing tariff" of AZ
bee., in operation, England would at 'his day
have ,,een crushed by her own weight, and Ire
Land a frLse country. Irshmen, you now see
where 10 strike Brtishpower in Vulnerable
spot. ~ s-l.'la,
Al recent quarterly meeting of iron mas
tiers in England the lnee ting expressed Its sens
of obligation TO the present. enlightened and
liberal administration Of the United States Tor
the wise las they called it) revenue system es-
tablished by the democratic party now "a pow
er i'm the United States. Indeed many OF the
mem bers said they did no: know what they
would have done had ii not been for the tariff
Of 46, as il was shown that nineteen-twen-
tieths of their surplus yield found good mar
| ket here, which, under the tariff of AZ, would