Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1849-05-30
From the Dublin FTccman's Journal.
IRELAND,

awful, hearl>reuding death llsss. but need
we say that our heart sank within us, and
that our blood ran cold as we read letter
after letter, and found the burden Of each
to be the same appalling cry-dea,h, death,
death. The humane Protestant rector Of
BaIFnorbe addresses Lord John Russell
Today through our columns. aud every
line Of his eloquent expressive, and Philan.
thropic letter is as a voice from The dead
n voice telling of over one hundred and
thirty sir registered deaths occurring in
one week in The poorhouse OF Balllnrobe: !!
"a voice telling of the increase OF the
peope's wretchedness and misery-a voice
telling Of the pnorhouse being shunned as
q pes,ilen.ial snare through "lhe vain
hope" Of The victims "that death may not
all at once overtake them elsewhere"-a
voice telling of the deplorable fact that The
people "bave had neither food nor raj
inent in any way commensurate with their
wants. or euen The necessities o mature, aud
that the painful consequence is. "they are
dropping into their grave in MULTI
TUDES
Rev. Mr.. Conway, the active. Jealous
and (humane Catholic curale of the same
place, writes TO us-and the burden Of his
letter also is the same fearful cry as that
which gives an awful interest 10 the com.
municaIion Of The compassionate Proes-
tant rector. He says:
. "We hare dead bodies erery,chere. l am
obliged myself 10 handle Them, coffiu
them, and put them in The earth. We
cannot procure sufficient number ofmen TO
bury The dead, ,or ofcoifins 10 contain them.
Ewry. Village had dead bodies lying un-
buried for many days; almost erery hopel.
in The suburbs Of The town has lis corpse.
We cannot. repeat, get cotfins, boards
or men for the necessity oflhe moment.
May God forgive our rulers for their cruel
conduct toward Gods creatures here !"
Again and again we ask in anguish Of
spirit will men be apathetlc while such is
the fate of brother men Will creatures
endowed with souls-wilh human hearts
BE silen, while the very stones, had they
voices, would cry 10 Heaven against such
appalling horrors.
Tuesday night we took up the evening
papers, and said. here a, least the cry of
death will not meet US at every line. We
were mistaken. 1t was still the same.
The wall Of the destitute poor was taken
up by the Conservative Packet, and flung
among our rulers with vigorous and
truthful eIoquence which few could com.
mand. The first thing that me, our eyes
in that Journal ever true to the cause of
suffering humanity, was this:
Doom OF THE MERE IRlsH..-We feel
j: is mol necessary 10 utter one syllable Of
comment when introducing the following
letter TO our readers. 1t has been cosD
municated TO us by highly intelligent
gentleman, who would be incapable Of
axaggeralion, and the fruits Of whose tai.
.enlE and. learning have frequently delighted
and; instructed our readers.
Thefa are some facts simply stated 10
:sifSisI sIeuerthat are terrible suggestive ofthe
ssiilis 10 which our peasanlry are reduced
F-our once happy, iieht-hearted peassntry.
The children fighting for the netIes is one
Of these. Childhood struggling with
ctildhood-slrugsling for such means TO
exis, little longer in living death The
well. grown girls covering before the
writer is another, the agony Of their shame
God help them surprising he agony
of their hunger. Aud what, in all the
records of this unrelieved famine that
is Staying our unhappy people. can be
more demonsralive The desert through
which our correspondent passed, than the
drivers significant words, You WON'T Eear
The cry of child from this to Limerick I?
Not chld's cry in district once fruitful
and heauliful-once peopled with life and
happiness-once filled al this season with
The buslle of harvest preparaion-once
musical with the mirth Of young voices
Good God could volume suggest more
appalling change than The simple words.
You won't hear the cry Of child from
this to Limerick ~
"The following is the letter:
TO the Editor ofthe .Evening Packet:
APRIL, 26. 1S49.
Dear Sir: have been for the last ten
days through the Counties of Limerick,
Galway, Clare, and across thence 10 the
Kings County.
All attempts to depict The existing state
of tho misery Of The masses beyond the
Shannon must come utterly shor Of The
truth. All that tract Of country from Kill
laloe to Porlumna OIL the Galway side Of
the Shannon, is lying waste and uncultiva-
ted. Aboutihree oul Of four ofthe miss
erable huts unroofed. Some of the for
mer inmates are dead, some in the union,
aud some few bauddled together In Que or
two of the huls still existing.
The men generally have perished."
The correspondent, Of the Packet having
described scenes of human misery on
which demon could scarcely look with
ont emolioo, concludes thus:
with large tracts of land lying uncul-
,ivaled. few miserable men are empIoy-
ed on The roads-at what wages lhirk youl
One pound of yellow neal. C. less Than
.lb per diem !! Great God, how is this
tocure famine
"If This process of depopulation goes on
few months more. you may seek an able
bodied men in vain for t,centy or Mi,ty
miles Of county,"
Such is The testimony Of an intelligent
xvitpncc oftor t, wing yici od