The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-09-07

The Irish rebellion is suppressed before it had
fairly broken out the leaders are arrested and viii
be tried and punished for treason; the iron rule of
British aristocracy has been for time prolonged !;
and the Irish nation, distracted BY internal dissen-
sions, overawed by foreign soldiery, and weak
ened by want and starvation, may fold its arms and
| bemoan despairingy the expressions of the past
the desolation of the present, and the doubts and
| darkness that hang over tie future We had hoped
for better things We had believed that the grea,
day Of retribudve justice had at last come when
the crimes of the rulers of England would be pun
ished by the uprising of portion of the victims of
their hatred and injustice. But it is Otherwise or
dered. The day is deferred bus it must neyerthe-
| less come. The course of the British government
cannot be long continued without producing con-
| vulsions which will work its overthrow In the
midst of the movements of the age no nation can
stand STILL much less go backward, yet the move
| ments Of Great Britain are all retrograde While
on the Continent new guarantees are given to Iiber
fy of thought and speech, England places restric
tons upon the liberty Of the press scarcely equalled
in the most despotic countries; while the rights Of
personal liberty are being extended to the huInbes
Of other nations, England sllspends her boasted
/ habeas corpus the " palladium " of her liberties.
and substitutes the atroeious system of military
rule while other nations are abrdging or abolish
/ ing the privileges Of the nobility, England seems
desIrous only Of checking the rising power Of the
people and Of placing the weightiest burdens upon
/ the shoulders Of the laboring classes Ii is impos-
sible thai this should last The power of the aris-
tocracy may avail for the present. but the power Of
the people viii be felt in the end Did the ruling
/ powers show any disposition to be nagnanimous in
victory, to redress grievances justly complained Of
to grant with generosity what their own safety may
/ have required them to withhold when threatened
their supremacy might yet be retained and peace
and order restored. But not one spark of Justice
or liberaty seems 10 warm their hearts or enghten
their minds They viii neither concede to me-
naees, nor yield to truth and reason Ireland has
nothing to hope but an eternity of abject slavery,
TOLL and starvation, unless it be the death which
may be met at the point of tie bayonet, or amid
the roar Of artillery death ten thousand times
preferable to the lingering decay and intense
agonies Of famine. This is the doom marked out
for that unhappy country by its eonquerors. And
why has this policy been pursued Does the Brit
ish government desire to extermnate the race either
by the open collision of arms or by the secret and
direfl effects Of its pacific policy! One is almost
led to believe that this dreadful intention had really
taken possession of the minds of British statesmen
for it seems to be the inevitable result of their
policy. The Irish people have always been a
difficulty to the British goyernment-the diff
Guilty might be removed by humiliation, and the
policy Of that government in India and elsewhere
would intimate that no serious scruples would pre-
ventthe resort any means for mpshing pur-
pose But let us still hope on. The Irish rebellion
has been quelled-the few who met in arms have
been captured or dispersed, and the order born Of
force again reigns in the Island. The time and the
manhad not come The people were divided 1.-The
teachers Of the people were divided and those
who had set themselves up for leaders Of the people
Were mere men Of words, heroes Of ropes and
figures, more skilled in the use of metaphors than
muskets, better casuists than cannoniers. 1t was
as well, perhaps that no general rising took place
under such guidance, for it would never have risen
to the dignity Of r6yoution, and the spirit OF the
people might have been broken had they met with
great and disastrous defeat As it is that spirit
has survived the arrest of Smith O'Bren. and the
retreat oforator Meagher, and will continue to
spread and strengthen until ripe for outbreak il
finds utterance ia the deeds Of some master man.
who can act efiectually what the wordy patriots d
the day have only succeeded in talking prettilv
Hope is not over Tor Ireland. Instructed bv hel
present misfortunes she will learn to husband hel
strength and bide her time-to repose no faith il
Che moral force, and as little in the noisy adyo
casassof the physical force doctrine but she
win siledtis.aad eieeiually prepare for the blow
and when the tnSs,comes- whether this year or tie
next-whenever her Enemy is off her guard. strike
and strike home, withoat hesitation or pity-fol
none has been shown her h, hour of her tribu
lation, she should show none in that of her might