New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-08-09
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CoSoRyss.-The Senate yesterday passed a bill
granting portions Of the public domain to aid IN
the construction Of four different Railroads. The
House passed the Senates bin to carry into effect
the treaty with China and the Ottoman Porte,
and investing Ministers and Consuls with Judicial
Powers The House also passed bill to surren-
der certain part OF the National Road TO the
State OF Indiana.
~ The MEETING FOR IRELAND at NaUxhall
on Monday evening is universally admitted 10 have
been one Of the largest ever held in this City on
any occasion. As TO enthusiasm and energetic
resolve, it has had no parallel The spacious sa-
loon of the Garden, though packed as 1t never
was before, could hardly hold 1.-THE Of il. The
Garden itself was densely filled, aud thousands
were clustered in front OF 1t, at times well nigh
obstructing the ample Bowery itself Certainly
not less than twenty thoussnd-we have he@'u
the number estimated at double that-asseinoieo
en- that occasion to attest their anxious desire TOT
the Liberation Of Ireland, and their hyeiy nope
that the time tor efecting il has fully come Cah
any doubt that such sentiments, so widely dIhused
a. they are known 20 be, are destined to have
weight in the now imminent struggle
We ask thoughtful, Indifferent persons 10 con
.der and give weight 10 the fact that while the
determined adversaries Of British empire are con-
fined TO no race or class, there are now probably
ten millions Of Irishmen, scattered all over the
globe. nnety-nine in every hundred OF whom are
the deadly enemies OF British power and domin-
ion why is it so, if that power has been benei-
Gently exercised and if Ireland has been benefited
by British rule There are hundreds OF Thousands
Of Irish in this country, most Of them poor, and
many Of them enduring hardshps and privatIons
vet very few Of them could be bribcd or coaxed TO
ht finger against country or her institutions.
We have few natives who would fight for her more
generally or more desperately than the Irishmen
among u.s. And the same is true Of the Irish who
hare lived here and the descendants OF lrishmen
among us who have migrated to other lands.
They all love this country and would battle for her
hike a true son Tor his mother What, then, is the
explanation of the all but universal Irish detesta
ton Of British rule Religion affords no clue to
il for a great portion OF the Irish patriots, IKE
Robert Emmett and John Mitchell, PrOtestants
And the Irish hostility 10 British power was as
bitter when all were Catholics together as it now
is What then, but injustice and oppression on
the ruling side, degradation and misery on that
OF the ruled, can explain the bitterness OF lnsh
hostility 10 the government of Ireland by Eng
land
But the time for argument has passed that
Tor action has come. The Irish Millions have re
solved that their woes and their chains are no
longer endursble and have resolved to make one
desperate effort TO shake them of together
They are plunging into a contest with the great
Naval power of the world while almost half their
country is within the range OF naval batteries
Without money, munitions or military leaders,
they embarking in life and-death struggle
with the richest and most powerful aristocracy the
world has ever seen. They fight not their own
battle only, but that of the poor aud downtrodden
throughout the civilized world This entities
them to the warm sympathes and aid OF the
masses everywhere, and we trust they will not
appeal for these in vain.
"A second Grand Union Rally for Ireland takes
place at vauxhall tonight Let all resolve that
IL shall surpass that of Monday.