The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-15
TWO CENTS.

ton and the Confederation. Its actual result would
have been to bring together Young Ireland and the
Prttthood-the two vi tai elem. irish p,itc, ar
that period Mr. John O'Counell opposed it by sue
cession of small articles worthy OF any man and
which we're only tolerated because bein hi. f.thara
son, he vas necessary to the uDiou of parties lie
asked delay Of fortnight OF a month-and Of six
weeks Finally, when the six weeks ex pired, and
for very shame, he could ask no more, he openly -
sailed 1t as Illegal and intended to be- un- Catholic
The Catholic clergy, with the exception Of the
ageous and eloquent Bishop of Jerry aud hs clergy
nen-abaDdoned the infant League aud 70 the con-
iedera.s were lett alone face to face and foot to foot
Any one who knows Ireland socially, will kno how
indispensable the priesthood to discipline aud
movement In the rural parts. la many parishes the
priest Ia the only educated man nealy all he is tina
only who feels and tolls for the people ireland
has no middle class aud it would bs veil foe her IL she
had no gentry But the prize thood liz every re- and
revered everywhere And this las bee the
reward of unchanging devotion Through ths ntire
seventh century the priests aud people fought side by
side bishops commaD ded srmiee friars conducted
sieg-s. In the penal eighteenth century tbs dock
upon the mountains stood M for the sh.
and many bloody corps boited the paths by which
they escaped. / am sanshed that if the ohuSch had
have beaten the English But the bisnops and d.
nitaries opposed the movement. what had ust the
effect, prophecied it's failure and argued ats ruin
The secondary clergy and the curat-s we're more
favorable to it. In submission to their order,
client
In taking that course the Irish clergy did not leave
themselves without arguments. The bloody days OF
June in Paris--the ameDtable anarchy thu city OF
Rome-the comparative unprepsred of the people
the slaughter that would be made the partia 4. lure
of the hal vestaTe all reasons for their But,
assuredy they made the revolution fail by preachinr
that it would fail At Carrick at Castlereagh in Tip
perary, Limerick and Clare, they preached against an
appeal to arms, and made converts
Now, the concentration of the troops in the towns
and cities compelled the contedera.es to choose q
guerrilla none. The situation of In Irish TO W.
in August last, may be understood from this Instance
In Dublin in most Irish owns there is au old md
q town. The Governmen people live in the nav
town, ana command its olenand angular stree from
strong public buildings, filing every vista and Cwel-
ling house, nearly strong. n the old live the
hereditary rebels who could be destroyed by shower
of shells which might be so directed to iujure
the other quarter In Dublin the garrison was, the
9th of july 10000 men and 1T averaged, throughout
10 COO. The object Of making the warfare guerrilla
one to drag these to pieces as the
Spanish patriots did Napoleoos armies OF upa ION,
and by bringing them into districts wher, only in
fantry could act with ease to putthem level
with the levies Of the people The the
that might be taken would DO to burn the
and cities the Athe naus did Athens and the Rus
slams Moscow This, beive, would have been the re-
suit the Of the first royast blood being drawn
in the rural districts, whittier these
and the habeds corpus suspension act had driven
leaders But the rural districts would not move with
out their clergy ana the clergy were openly adverse
inactive.
It's not fair to that there was no system Of
operations agreed on among the confederates There
a feasible and well understood plan What it
was, it is not advis able for pub cly plain
Besides had rather future should publish
it than l. have objection-quite the ontrary-
to explain it any committee or circle of the fris ds
Of Ireland but printing 1t would purpose
cept to arm the enemy
The conclusion draw, from all know of this at.
tempt Is this-that the clergy of the people made N
grave political mistake and that that mistake fatal
to the instruction in its incipient stages IL would
be unfair false say that they aege
grounds for their course; but for one, fully
WINGED, that, they had h. AIDED the peasantry,
would have renewed the mir acle of st Patrick know
there would be slaughter but fever and famine, now
under the protection Of the British flag in Ireland,
will destroy more lives, and with weapons, than
the sixty thousand armed men could have killed And,
then, to compare the two results
left Ireland at the begin ming of September despair
ing of any imme date national movement Bnt / do
not an shall despair of the country The peo-
pie to blame that there has been revoi-
lion Next time they must trust local leaders, lks
the Rapparees and the Cataoniau chiefs, fierce men
and blunt without too many ties binding them to the
peace They must choose, too. the favorable
renee ola foreign war eve mt which is likely to prs
cede the setteme Of the newly awakened the
continent. The determination Of the Irish people is
not to be apprehepded they cling to the soil like grass
and while they cling they hate England The nums-
emigrations of them make scarcely any sensible
dminution in the parent stock. Their two strongest
political feelings hatred to England and a san.
guine hope in Ireland
Until the good day of victory comes, all individual
Of the Irish nation must only strive the to make
their names respectable by doing noble deeds-by
honesty by courage, by genteness by MUS to save
the national spirit from barrenness aud the national
character from encouragement Ifthis late movement
has produced nothing else 1t has produced martyrs.
1t has welded the Irish cause more to disnts-
RESIDENCES and sef sacrfce and next to such ssges
like Emmets offered up upon her holy altar, the scat
fold such offerings have been freely made Of late, in
Ireland Dy the sen lmmolation OF Jonu Mitchell, ana
his faithful friend John Martini by Mr. Meagher and
MIR O'Gorman, the sons Of two Of our richest mer-
chants; by Mr. Duffy greatest journalist by John
Lillion and Smith O'Brisn, whom much fortune
and many friends wooed In vain the thorny path
Of duty In other revolutionary attempts, leaders
usually less exposed danger than the psope in this,
they have openly adventured fortune home, friends
and life. The country that bear even few such
will not readily degenerate into nursing mother
Of slaves. For .I.. ..,
Freedoms battle, begun
Beqaeahed from bleeding sire TO son, .
Though baAied Oft, 10
That IL will be won In Ireland, and sooner than
many, even among her friends, dare hope. believe.
The vice Of loyalty Is gone at the root, aud 1t but
needs but little Of Times teaching to make q
Democratic Revolution, which will wait for leader
ship to strike, to make Ireland free the f.eest
free as this parent land of liberty itself
Requesting your indulgence for this too long letter,
l remain, my dear nr. yours very truly
THOMAS DARCY MCGEE,
"a Traitor to the British Governnent.)