Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-07-28
Alisfellanrons.
From the NeW- York Tribune.
THE DOOM OF IRELAND.

y y Yet human life has deeper
tragedies than those Of the battle.feld,-
Her most startling are by no mean her
saddest caIamities. Horrible as Wa is,
it seldom utterly dooms US TO despair
but bright vistas Of hope for Human
Progress and Moderation are sometimes
opened even by the lannon's blind, i'm.
petuous messengerofdea,h War sweeps
over hapless nations like the hurricane
and the thunderstorm, and like these its
mission has sometimes been 10 renovate
and purify. But when the life-blood OF
a People is seen slowly oozing out in
quiet, and the body sinking gradually in
to atrophy and ultimate decay, without a
thought or hope of resistance, much less
Of deliverance, that is a spectacle which
angels well may weep owe and good
men must in anguish deplore.
Turn not away impatiently, for we
are not about to harrow up your sensi-
bilities with fresh details of the horrors
nov enac,ing in Ireland. OF houseless
wanderers, and furnishing babes, and
cannibal orgies, and unburied corpses,
the world has heard enough. It's feelings !
have been rendered c%allous by the repe-
iition and variation Of the one unvarying
tale,-until it is hardly necessary longer
10 skip the news from Ireland in order
10 escape the sensation of horror that
news is calculated to excite. To hear
Of the starvation Of another lot Of Irish
cottagers is deemed about as inevitable
as to learn that so many deaths occurred
last week in some distant city, and makes
about the same impression.
But there is n important question we
we do not see considered wen by the
journals most voluble Of details of Irish
suffering and starvation. 1t concerns the
ultimate causes oflhese gigantic horrors.
The fact that so many men have starved
10 death, or died of eating loathsomc
food, is simply revolling-why should
we know it al all unless TO study lis radi-
cal causes and thence determine how
such tragedies may henceforlh be avoid.
ed? But for this, let us remain in igno-
rance of lreland's agonies, unmatched in
modern times. If they are to teach us
nothing, why should they torture US?
There are a great man. hypotheses
propounded 10 ccoun for lreland's
woes. One attributes them to the I'M
balanced as~cendency of her Peoples
chosen Observation-Disclosures lays stress
on the exactions Of the Established
Church. One exclaims against Foreign
rule, another against Celtic sloth and
improvidence. 1t strikes us that it is q
sufficient reply 10 all these-not denying
that any n or more of them may exerl
an unpropitious infuence-lhat all oil
them exist elsewhere without producing
such calamities. Poland is q ~subiugated
country, its Catholic people ruled with O
rod OF iron by an anti Catholic despot
who is specially DESTROYS Of molding al
his subjects into conformity with tina
Church OF which he is terrestrial Head
French Britanny and other portions OF
continental Europe are mainly peoplec
by Celtic races, but their people seldom
starve. We suspect the Cells Of the
Continent are as little addicted to starya
ton as the Saxons or Danes. The NOV
ing cause Of Ireland's woes is other thar
any Of these. +,
Let us here glance at a few facts
hrst in relation to The ertent of the pre
vailing desolation. The County Survey
or OF Mayo was recently examined be
lore the House Of Lords, and testified a.
follows
"ln Mayo County alone fifty thousanc
) acres o fground, heretofore in cultivation
with an enormous extent Of mountainou
country, havebeen abandoned. In 1916
me population was 100000 and upward
d Il has since decreased to 800, 900. o
the deficit, 100 700, about SO, 900 diec
through the effects of the famine, $4,000
emigranted to the colonies, q the remain
ing 10000 fled to the neighboring coun
iies OF England and Scotland. OF The
Soo,O0O sIill in Mayo, there are only
zo'ooo iarilics capable Of supporting
themselves" s