New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-18

day, the approaching expulsion OF the loie
Irish race from the land OF Ireland has
been the subject OF comment,-and ne him.
self refers to the vast amount OF emlgra-
tion,-and vet in face Of the fact that the
poor helots are being prosecuted into exPa-
triaton-that their houses are beng torn
down, and the, themselves forced to spend
their d,vs and NIGHTS on the roadside and
in the grave wards, exposed to wlhd aud
n-that thew are being driven to seek
refure in the poor house, there to die by
hundreds Of pestiIence-that famine and
pestilence combined have reduced their
numbers to less than they were thirty
wears since-and that the lands thus
abandoned are being bought up at low
prices by the millionaires of England,
the Barinps. the Rothschiids, the Peels, and
id genus omne--in face of these facts, we
saw. an American. announced in England as
a candidate for the Presidency of this
Union. is found clarifying England as the
breakwater of Liberty, and pledging HIM
self that 10 case of any attempt on Brush
liberty his countrymen will be found ''unit-
ing with their ancestors" Should they IN
deed seek to aid the descendants OF those
ancestors, where would they now be found I!
Would it not be in poor and prosecuted Ire
land? Have we not here ten persons OF
Irish descent for one of English blood !
That such is the fact no one can doubt, and
vet we seek in vain through Mr.. Walkers
speech for evidence that he entertained the
slightest feeling of sympathy for the poor
Irish, or for their oppressors any other than
that of the warmest admiration, precisely
the sort of feeling in regard to them that
was probably entertained in relation to the
great men of Vienna by the Attache who
kindly furnished us with so truthful an ac-
count of the proceedings on board of the
Mississippi To US, the two, Attache and
ex.Secretary, appear worthy to be classed
together, and in saying this We beg dis
tinctly to say that had Mr.. Walker been
found exhibiting himself as an advocate of
real liberty, standing by American principles
it would have afforded US far more pleas
ure in recording the fact than we now have
in commenting upon the opposite course that
he has taken, lauding the oppressor and for
getting the oppressed.
"The Americans" his hearers were as
sured, "felt that if the surges Of despotism
were ever to break on their own shore, they
must first break over this country, Eng
land If then" said the speaker, "this
alliance Of despots, headed by Russia,
which was the soul and body of the whole
-[IIear, hear l-shoud attempt to make
war upon free governments if it should
intimate to England, as it did to Hungary,
thot it nust give up it's free institutions II
it should say to England, Abandon your
Queen, give up your throne, give up your
Parliament, give up your trial by jury, give
up your habeas corpus, give up all those
great fundamental principles which mark
you as free people; : if these tyrannous
demands should ever be made, and the peO-
pie of England should call for help, there
were" he assured his hearers, " millions of
his countrymen who would delight to flock
to the shores of Great Britain, and under
its and their standard to overthrow des-
pousm."
This passage reminds us strongly Of
Don Quixote and his wind-mills. AS yet, we
have heard of no desire on the part of the
people, or of the sovereigns of Europe, to in
terfere with the domestic institutions of
England, nor have we seen any manifest
alton of disposition on the part of Eng
land, to improve the condition of the people
of Europe. For more than quarter of a
century, she was engaged in war the
object of which was to prevent the
people of France from making Govern
ment to suit themselves, and which termi-
mated in handing them over, bound hand
and foot, to the tender mercies of the
BOurbOns and if to have done this, is to
constitute herseifthe bulwark of liberty, then
is she Justly entitled to claim that position.
At the close of the war, England united in
the surrender Of the Republics of Venice
and Genoa to the despots of Sardinia and
of Austria and it would not be difficult to
adduce other cases in which she has, in
similar manner, aided the cause Of free
dom, while it would, as we think, not be
easy TO discover single case in which she
has struck blow on the Continent of Eu-
rope, except when influenced BY the feeling