New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-07-11
The London Time. on American sympathy

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The London Times on American sympathy.
s arye portion of the American press aidlCts
Itself rather beyond the limits % COCO taste rot 10 sag
common sense the abuse 90 this country whenever
there lul u their domestic poltcs' We invariably
come In DO il up the void. They seldom remember
that they from stock that they speak our Ian
luage that they inherit customs that thor law j.
built British foundation. and that however little they
NAV discern the resemblance themselves other nations
associate parent and child and see In one only rctec
ton of tic other. u Is true that in some points they
exhibit very evident superiority Bat u consist chiefly
natural adv autages. 30 IS their fortunate cOnaLuu
that they occupy or rather beginning 20 occupy,
continent u unbOunded resources IL Is but two cen
tries and half eight generations, since the hrst
Anslosaxon settled in the New World. The oral uadi-
ton of that fact requires only three iniormants OF no
uncommon longevity. Every year hardy ana adFen-
trou pushes into the prairie or the forest or a.
cends the broad current Of rivers that traverse the
whole extent OF the temperate zone. Al loasi million
acres wear are rescued from the savage or the brute
What similar resource has this country Tor popua'
ton which increases By thousand souls dag Unless
the empire could add another story 20 IL surface or
pitch the stakes of It's tabernacle farther into the waves
n cannot md room for its children Composed As II u
of exilcs wanderers. and advenwrers from Norway,
Denmark Holland, saXony. Flanders snd France, IL
destiny still ia quest OF free quarters, or 10
-tarye IN its own narrow cabin Yet find the mas
tcrs Of continent which VIII take them centuries 90
fl censurng the institutions which fail 20 make given
space sufficient for an OVERLOOKING population
The point % which these journals direct their most
violent phppics the state o! Ireland They do not
ask what Ireland has been invariably from the begin
ming of history They either know nothing Of the pain
iul and particular testimony given by long cham Of
authentic weiniOrmed and impartial writers Tor near
thousand years, they iudustrously ignore t. Ihey
DO not recognize the stubborn pecuartes OF the Ceuc
character or the dspensation Of Providence by which
DO has been kept in long and injurious isolation lhey
make no allowance for the terrible necessities OF Gov
uff epIdoru allug,o cd long
from the suppression or prevention Of rebellion. They
VIII not give themselves the trouble 20 inquire into the
actual and immediate causes of Irish degradation, or
the direct results of u perial policy. lney lake
ireland 10 is the naked act before them and then
cxcaim. with viruous but cheap indignation, here Il
HOsr province See what yea have MADE! But have
made ireland as il is' We deny it altogether
A sample OF two from one Of these newspaper
several OF ike spirit lying before us-wiil serve
20 show upon what hssty grounds a government and
indeed nation may be condemned when purpose
is 20 be answered, or passion INDUCED We VIII take
i've grievances they stand In the Ntrl 0rk IibHHc
promising that II is by purpose to explain
them away but simply to show how much error and
oXaggeraton is mixed up with the truth and what i'm
perfect justice the bare statement does 10 the iacs ~
the
.oI general, con.-c,tsd s, British coaqu-ro bog ihe
alleged treason Of - proprietor m their repeiird strnEes 'o re
oerthron British mastery - os'. almost entirely the property
ttr persons most Of them en % lf-indmsHi of them
there u sf'e -uil patches At e'ofh'ni roots 20
fie people whom dsrse crowded a. sl innla charge ~
oms ecoeoto 100000 doar.. IN. uu BE- annually
ED ~ of . ..a ,. on, n ,. coaay TO 5. spent b, t-
landlord oa-s London. f.n-. Rome Baden, Sc PomP 'nf
The Tee simple OF ireland Is estimated to belong to
about 5000 individuals but they who possess large ben
ehcia interests IN il mnch more numerous BY iar
the greater part the income derived from the soil
enjoyed and spent by residents The estimate of sixty
or seventy millions OF dollars has foundation in fact
being somewhere about the amount on which the poor
rate assessed but beside the landlords rent II in
cludes a considerable portion OF the interest possessed
los the Occupiers aud middlemen The first rent is very
seldom exorbitsnt' but no law or agreement can pre-
the fret tenant sub letting his land at profit The
proportion 0i families 10 square Of arabic land
throughout the whole island il about 76 Iheestmaied
annual value Of the landed produce in lc3l was ti3b2b
SOB The annual rental OF the muchabused proprietOrs
only about eighth Of this sum, being estimated
6O7369 The average rent Of land was rather un
der 49, per acre. In England itse and stll more In
Scotland the residence of the landowner on his proper
" the exception rather than the rule But for the
trade OF the world the people of England would be as III
of the Irish OF the Irish propreors who reside at
Paris Rome Baden Baden, &c. unfortunately the great
part composed OF that very class which perpet
uay inyeighIng against the British connexion propa
eating the views OF the subject adopted By the Noc l0N
Tribune.
The church Establishment another -re,ous burden -
people Les thsn 100000 Of the 5000 OBJ and eas -n3r.ng
,-t ,hura masen, supported 5y an enforced trh-
l-,ei upon the entire industry y he .sisnd'
We have no wish 20 disguise the disagreesble i'm.
preston which such establishment is likely 10 pro
duce. Let the truth. however, be- told. What wac
called the 1.-THE in Ireland is not Oreth part OF
the produce Il is paid by the proprietor and not
by the occuper, that sto take the We York Tribune
al its wOrds-by the idle English absentee instead
of the industrious Celt As far as il goes It neutrazes
absenteeism for the clergyman IL forced to reside
The English and scotch Disorders manage to thrive
under the very same burden.
80 Manufacturer. ireland long 'ysismtsay icoufised
ana penalty Interested bi her British couqlefor ans no" uh
there b. -acces-f, s.t shed he fc- of
Butl -aisaey iai BRITISH eonpetn c'nseguniy ths 1on
De- ao ,.l, %. ,-,a..- .,'-9 Pr.17 On ~ my
1.-1t r4 i n -oon3r. ,-,e of ,tor snd f1r srss,
part OF t@ the peasanfD have employment vhiteTer
Whatever may have been the case IN ages gone by Ire
land has now for several generations, had every opPof
tunity and encouragement % manufacture tnAt essA
lures could offer The act Of Union and subsequent
measures have placed il precisely the same footing
England It. linen and other manufacturers exhio-
tied considerable improvement after the Union u
they do not now prosper much az could De Wisheu'
n must De- considered that people cannot De ihdIt 70
linen instead Of cotton If they prefer the cheap
and warmer material The " British competition
above mentioned il made in small degree by the
Irish Themselves and no patriot who desires the I'M
provement Of that unfortunate race can OBJECT 10 q
practice which mixes them up with more civllized
people There in Great Britain not less than lOOuO
persons actually born in Ireland beside their children
born IN this country. In Lancashire alone there are
lO6Ol0 persons born in Ireland nearly the same mum
Der In the metropolis, and blOyJ IN the county oil Ian
ark. The Irish. ike myrisds from the other asficui'
tural provinces flock the great marts Of ludurIy-
10 is the natural order Of things that they should do 20,
and an advantage both the British employer and 20
themselves These 10000 or rather including their
of,uriur these M ui1u lrishmen in Great Britain
pete with their counrrymen al home So Tar Il T. not
British but Irish competition. Bat why should there
not be competition Competition l. a thing OF neces
sty, law Of selfpreserva-on an ordinance Of Heaven
II manufacturers do not thrive in Ireland i Is owing
partly the want OF natural resources but chiefly b
the demon OF conspiracy and combination. which i
sure 10 deprive the Manufacturer Of his labor Just At
the moment he il most in want OF IT, and which viii
ruin as il has repeatedly ruined every attempt ~ intro
dlce British capital ingenuity, and enterprise. 10 =
true enough that fault misfortune has driven the
population 10 Agriculture, employment which with
out other craft or trade j. invariably fertile IN misery
But the Y, York Tribune in supposng that rish
agriculture s mainly prosecuted on petty holdings OF
quarter acre 20 two or three scres each Inc tenants
who hold no more than three not that proper
ton which many imagine. The average quantity held
by each agricultural family = nearly ten and
where the holdings less Il Il generally in spite Of the
proprietor.
The remainder of the list Of grievances we must de-
fer 70 another day What we have said viii perhaps
lead our Transatlantic cousins 70 more candid inquiry
than has hitherto suited the ervOr Of their Republican
Independence # they wish 10 know the truth OF the
great Irish question on some better authority than
Repesl decl.maton we will commend 70 their quiet
peru.nl Mr. Montgomery Martins very useful collec-
ION of lrsb statstcs entitled ireland before and esr
he Uaon In their present uniformed state, and with
their syupsthes 90 easily reused IN favor Of all who