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

mantle sleu 10 The whole world at the same time
The trunk sound, therefore the branch es
would not perish.
Sentiments such as these are common to the
more intelligent portion of the American people.
Proud of their own independence, they are not
less proud OF the stock from which they sprang
Jealous of the acknowledgements of England, they
still would not see her smlten by IAN unseemly or
unworthy stroke. The assault that would eopa'-
die her institutions they know would endanger
their own. The race which cannot thrive under,
or which REJECTS her authority, must also be in-
compatible with theirs. The only difference in the
fate of the two will be the difference of time.
Sooner or later, the two branches of the same
stock, with the same, or nearly the same, mode of
government, must find similar destiny. A con-
seriousness of this makes them alive to all the
workings of our political and social system; to
all the symptoms OF our political and social maa-
dies. Nowonder that they should regard Ireland
with peculiar attention. The sentiments which
our correspondent OF Yesterday enunclated as pre-
valent IN England. are, we know, not unpopular
among the upper circles of America. The state
OF Ireland Is TO an American offensive as 1t is to
an English mind. II oflends his love OF law, OF
order, OF consistency, OF manly courage, and
manly endurance. 1t seems to hun huge anomaly
IN the world of politics and morals; monster
rather than reality; carlcaure rather than
resemblance to any thing that exists. nation
alternately playing the beggdr and the bra
yado, now bullying like highwayman, now
whining like mendicant, always ",aggrieved,"
thing to better itself either by work or by
arms--courting the sympathy OF the world
by its rags and Its nakedness, and repaylng
It's only bene factor by menace and sedtlon this
Is, to the educated and sober American, precisely
disgusting and repusive picture as it is to the
educated aud sober Englishnlan. True, there are
Irish sympathlzers IN plenty IN New York, who
would eat up all England at gulp, If they
could. There Is defamation enough, and swag-
gerlDg enough and fustlan enough, for Confeoe-
ration Hall itself. But the American citizen knows
the value OF this better even than We do; nor
h, latta .,,I<,a a.
ter liking for it of all things, there is nothing
that he regards with so much suspicion as the
vlrulence of the new imported IIishry In it he
sees more future danger to his own country than
to England. 1t may not come yet but--unless
Ireland be much changed IN the meantlme-it
will come. When the vast and unpopulated dis
trlcis Of his native domain are more filled with
the densely growing multItudes that are now
crowdng to his shores-when the population, in
stead OF spreading over vast prarles and cutting
through prmeval forests, is more pent up In towns
and cities--when every city has It's IRISH quarter,
and every State an Irish action--then will Anne
rlca experience the curse OF great Celtic immi-
grafton then will she know what it is to be the
sewer of a vast, squald and turbulent multitude
IA multitude which has fostered the passions
of the east in the feuds and factions OF the
we st-tbe instincts OF savage the contentious of
civilized life. 1t is by forebodlngs and foreshadow-
ings of this destiny that Americans are awakened
TO The contemplation OF Ireland she Is 1t Is this
feeling that makes some of them Angi,s Anglo'es,
pressons which even undou tied tory would hesi-
tate 20 make use of in the English House of Com
mons, Southern American wlIlnot heslt ite to pub
lsh. He will not stick at calling the malady by It's
proper name, or prescribing the aptest remedy iorit
Like our corresponds I, he will at once point to a
sordld and trading agitation as the greatest pest
that toments ireland. He will demand that this
be iorcibly suppressed before anything else be
attempted, and then the remedies which he will
suggest IN perspective, are not, indeed such
our party combatants In Parliament would pre-
SCRIBE polItlcal, but what common sense has all
along pointed on, social remedies. But he Justly
insists, as every wise physician or trainer of youth
has hitherto insisted that the first lesson taught
should be submission to authority. Without tins,
nothing else is possible; after this, e;erythmg.
Til this has been done, emigration, education,
trial by jury, and the franchise, are many
snares and mockeries When this has been done,
the Irlshman will become a blessing to hii own
country and to England, and creature worthy
of ecItDg the honest "sympathles," both of
Europe and America Whilst he is what he is,
he WILL despite the howls of the turbulent and the
declarations Of the designing, remain the scorn
of one hemisphere, and the pity of the other.