Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1849-07-11
Here And There-In 4 merlca And
Ireland.

Hero And There-In Amerlca Aid
Ireland.
/ A MEIAscHoLY P1cruRE OF IRELAND's
DEsoLArIos.-The following admirable
article is from "The Nation" newspa-
per in New York, ably conducted by the
fellow patriots Of the noble MITCHELL.
It is devoted to the interests of the Irish
in this country and at home, and if they
/ will follow such advice as this article
contains, it will be much for their good.
The writers in the Nation write like men
in earnest, who feel what they say; and
man who is in earnest, who speaks and
acts from the heart, moves others stran-
gely.
Seven years ago Ireland counted two
/ men, where now she counts but one.
Zone has been taken, and the other has
been left.'' In 1910 she had eight and
half millions of inhabitants; it is doubtful
if in 1850, she will retain four millions in
all! .4.
BY what unheard of destiny, posterity
will ask, was this vast multitude SO sud-
denly swept away? Caesar. Mahomed
Timour, Napoleon, wasted not half SO
much of human life to win the empire Of.
the earth. 1t was not, therefore, mans
ambition before which they fell. No Pyr-
amids, no Rome, no Greed, no Throne
arises above their dust. They are SIMPLY
extinct-invisible, typeless, fruitless. An
angel in night struck at one source of
life, and fiends-human fends-tore away
from their nerveless hands all other sus-
tenance. Simply, they persisted of
double visitation = ofthe two-edged sword,
famine and foreign rule.
Oh, never did the recording angel write
of SO fearful an event in his record Of the
world. Whole fertile countries desolated;
human remains devoured BY dogs, and
! rats, and sea birds: mothers, in frenzy,
devouring the flesh they gre into the
worid;-a growth of horrors, rising rank
on rank, such as no age has seen, such as
the widest dream Of the most morbid mind
never conceived, and never can conceive.
But the decrease Of the population Of
Ireland, thank God, is not all done through
death. Many, very many have escaped
by flight. They trusted tothe ocean, and
it did not conspire against them. They
fed-they are here.
| It grieves us to think that they fled,
rather than retreated- that they came
like scattered sheep, cowed and distraught,
rather than like men receding from we'll
fought field, humbled, but not ashamed.
Still they are here, and that is somewhat
better than to be lnhuried and unblest, in
the fields they should have conquered anu
enjoyed.
Being arrived here, let us pause and
bethink us of ourselves. Pause! the ocean
is between us and the enemy. In new
land we are, and new life we must lead.
Informed by the past of our defects, let
us struggle even yet TO supply them, and
gain some share Of the worlds respect.
Let us, for the love cf God and Of one
another, be done with mutual receptions,
and cant, and falsehood, and circumven-
ton; and if our race must die outfit in
deed, we are doomed people, let us give
our nations name to history, with faint
traces of its former credit left.
But let us take the cold comfort TO cur
hearts that even so many have escaped to
America Yes, this is great consoia-
ton. Many are, and many more will be
saved. This reminds Us how much is
vet to be done, to fit these fugitives for
Amortization Republicanism-for the
future, which is sounding solemnly upon
the rear shore of Our own tlme-a tide
that cannot be repealed.
All. if the heart that drives this pen
from side to side Of the white paper be-
fore US, had but its wishif,, at last, the
Irish race would awaken to sense Of the
world they live in, and how they do live
| in tiff they could even now know, that
their first want is intelligence-their sec
ond want, intelligence--and their third
want, intelligence -how much might vet
be done! they would realize the truth
that ssthe world" in Ireland, and the world
without it, are wholly different powers.
conduct, and duties, great deeds might
vet sanctify the ruins of our nationality
If they could be taught that there We're
rights and duties Of manhood alike un-
known in Ireland which they have now
to learn and do, something, much, might
still be done with them and for them.
OLD ZAcK-Was there ever such an.
other as Old lack? = Toledo Blade.
No, never Two such men would be
too much for a Union Of only 80 States.
Lying would become trade were there
two such men to give instruction. II
would never do to have two such "loath-
ers ond ha'ers of prescription.
A Chinese widow being found tanning
The tomb of her deceased husband, and
being asked the cause Of so singular a
mode of showing her grief, accounted for