New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-29
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governed as well as the governing, tue oPptesseu
as We'll as the oppressors Shall the ChartstS oe
included or the army and navy OF England
whose fitness as army and navy is IN an inverse
ratio to its capacity tor thinking especially tor
politicalthnkiug Shall the two millions OF Eng
iish paupcrs be implicated? Shall the clodpole
industry Of FL gland have to answer or would
anyfbing come Of it but bewdermeut scratching
its head Suggs, my worthy tinker tailor, or
shoemaker of England do you not grin to learn
'het yen are responsible to the epic rage OF Ire
land Shall not those be exempt who have con.
lerned themselves rs little with the affairs of Ire
land as with the politics OF Tlmbuctoo--and those
also whom nature has not endowed with any or
gan Of mental digestion. only some feeble rudl-
ineut OF one. who adopt judgments, but neyertovm
any-whose mental constitution comprises merely
faith and MT mOTy-who decompoSe and asslmlate
nothing from the opinion OF the community IN
which the accident Of b1h deposits them bat are
daily decomposed and assimilayed by 1t. But IN
these two catesories, GisS0yes away nine hun
bred and ninety nine thousandth part OF lmpeach-
able Englsnd-leaying TO our disappointed wrath
some bandtui Of Ministers, Wing and Tory lead
ers of both Houses. and perhaps some scores OF
political writers.
But that the subst antial part Of our enemy be
not whsked away from us by logical hocus pocus,
let the living generation OF Eng land appear and
make answer.
Here is the defense.
For the ancient causes which originated exist
ing relations with Ireland, my client IS not re-
spousihe Let contemporary generations answer
to each other The child IS not accountable for
the sin Of the father
Yet-tor the honor Of ancestral England, charg-
ed with conquest and it's bloody aud despolling
consequences as q Crime--l object, in the hrst
place that conquest cannot be at once acrime and
a glory that being glory, it is not crime and
that n conquered people are more vile IN spirit,
than they were feeble in arms, who make up IN
malice what they wanted in strength. Secondly,
that England did never conquer Ireland, but was
herself PROSTATE and despised at the feet OF the
Norman conQuerors, when handful OF knights
and archers, Joining themselves to the faction OF
an Irish Prince did, partly by arms, and partly by
political device, establish In Ireland the authority
of Henry H. then Monarch OF England During
the century and half, writes Macaulay, which
followed the Conquest there is, to speak strictly,
n EAeliSh history The French Kings OF Eng
land rose indeed, 70 an emlneuCe which was the
wonder and dread of all neghboring nations
They conquered Ireland. They received the hom-
agt. OF Scotland. SO strong an association
is established in most minds, between the great
ness OF sovereign, and the greatness OF the ma
ton which he rules that almost every historian OF
England he's expatiated with sentiment OF ex-
ultation on the power and splendor of her foreign
masters and has lamented the decay OF that pow
en- and splendor as a calamity to our country
ISL d
Hsytan Negro of our time to dwell with national
pride on the greatness Of Louis the Fourteenth,
and to speak Of Benheim and Families with
patriotic regret and shame
The history Of the people of England begins
about the time Of Charles the First, when they
gave token of vitality by decapitating their mon
arch They lay previously IN the egg state, en-
yeoped in the shell of Divine hight and other su
perstitiops. Then, tor the first time, they com
menced that difficult process OF mastlcatnS oil.
aesting and assimilatng their Norman royalty and
arisaocracy, VI hich has made them the constltu-
tioup England we know ot-ot which process the
beheading of a King, the Commonwealth, tho
struggles Of the Parliament with James II, tne eAc
tinction Of one dynasty and the substitution OF
another with Democratic limitations, the Reform
bill. and finally the explosions OF the Corn Laws,
| have been the most remarkable phases " hat
| INJURIES therefore, were inflicted upon Ireland by
| the tyranny or stupidity OF English monafchs up
| to the time of Charles, are falsely charged on Eng,
| land In those times England was the fellow SUI
ferer of IreIand-not her oppressor For every
wound inflicted by Protestant Elizabeth on Cath
| olic Ireland Protestant England can show deeE
cash from the religious malice OF Catholic Mary
The question of liberty became involved witt
the question OF religion; and Papacy gave IRELAND
to the party Of tyranny Thus was England
! desperately bent on ireedom-torced to bloody
| issue with the plaintiff. Not wanton ambition
| but selfdefense and hatred OF oppression hurled
| the conquering battalions OF Cromwell and VII
| lom of Orange upon Ireland and II she be as
loyolnow to the cause offreedom as she was then
devoted to the cause Of kings, she should remem'
Der her defeats with thankiulness
So mpcb for ancestral England AS for living
England. she was born into an order OF things
which relates her, in given way, to Ireland. She
has taken the form the mold into which her life
WAS poured That it is not the most perfect form
uossble NAV be questionable even to herself, but
that she should discern all, or even many OF It's
defects, and also the right method OF amendment
is an unreasonable expectation not Justlhed by
the experience OF the Wlsest individuals or ma
tons The grosser orr impertectons the less
easily we detect them; for each part OF humanity
contributes the sensibility by whichrehectlon per
ceiyes it and the perception is weak, IN proper
ton as the part is suppressed. II England, there
fore. be slow to detect all or much that requires
adjustment In her relations with Ireland, it is an
generous to attribute to her tyranny, what the
feebleness Of humanity naturally explains
Passing by the fact of Catholic Emancipation
conceded by my client, when Papacy was nc
longer considered dangerous to Liberty demand
how the long, the patient, the earnest, the ohstl
nate effort OF England TO educate Ireland, consists
with tyranny.
Does Ireland object that the education offered
by England was Grecan gift, and carried prose
lytism in its belly But faiths faith whether it
involve truth or error and the proseIytlzer OF
false worship is moved by the same fraternai i'm
pulse which actuates the missionary OF truth. Be
side. testantism--whatever we may hold re-
garding lis validity before God-involyes politi
! cal as w ell as a religious protest w 18th the au
thority OF Rome it had exploded the crust of des
potisrn and shot the lava Of higher formation to
the surface. According to the belief of England
conversion TO Professionalism is conversion TO Lib
erty that there is left to the animosity Of Ire
| lend hnt one horn on which to impale itself
namely, chat nay client is mad by the malediction
| OF the Gods.
Whom the Coda doom, thoy madden frstr
With this defense OF people whom | esteem
as the pioneers of humanity, a Cet, and in full
view OF the obliquities which conventionalism has
| impressed upon them-in the hope of dverting
my countrymen from the pursuit OF vain measures
which attract them by the magnetism OF an un
founded resentment-with this defense take