Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-10-24
From the London Times.
Abbott 1.awrenee,s p,lwrlma..e Re, IN Ireland.

SOnaGe
tie farm the earth, went Though it is unneces-
~ to travel far for precedent justification
of q tour which the American minister Is making IN
Ireland, there is point in common between the
two ponts-viz: that Ireland to all practical purpo-
ses belongs to that power whose minister it is now
entertaining. Mr.. Abbott Lawrence gives way to
very natural instinct when he makes pilgrimage
the hearths and the affairs that feed the United
States. The American who stands on the quays at
New York, sees vast human tide pouring IN at the
rate of thousand day to swell the numbers, the
wealth, and the power Of his country. He sees that
it the direst necessity which drove them from
the land of their fathers and he recognises IN that
necessity the provdential means by which the vast
continent of North America should be added to the
dominion of man He hears the sad tale of immi
grants and it too generally confirmed by their
miserable aspect His own political system will ma
turally be with the supposed victims of tyrannical
laws and aristocratic extortion. On further &C
quaintance with these hapless refugees his interest
cannot but increase, for he finds them afectionate
and hopeful genial and witty, industrious and indie
pendent-in fact the element of which great nations
made. Hence the desire to see that strange re-
gion of the earth where such people was produced
and could not stay-an island the misfortunes OF
which are destined to form conspicuous feature
in American story. The terrible incidents of the
last six years-not to go further back-will be the
domestic traditions of half the American people, and
the dreadful scenes of fever and famine, which have
often shocked our readers, will pass from father
to for many generations the banks of the Mis-
sisspp the shores of the Pacific. 1t is this nurse
ry of citizens this seed plot of transatlantic States,
this great human preserve that Mr.. Lawrence Is
exploring we think with natural curios-
ity if he had sought with the crowd the ancient
seats of science and art and were measuring the
Acropolis of Athens, the Forum of Rome.
His excellency has too much respect for this
try, and too just of his position to let the
Irish see how American cannot but regard them.
He knows very we'll that they all his own fellow
citizens in embryo, and that every Celt will one day
renounce the sceptres and cOronets of the older
world 1t is better for all parties perhaps that it
should be little may like to society,"
our laws and sovereigns the bect of Indifference
MIR. A blot Lawrence says nothing of all this. The
Irish flock to an American minister to angel
from heaven, for if he is curious to the place
the Irish from. they equally curious to see
from America-the goal of all their hopes
and expectations They have set their face towards
America, and men a march see chiefly those
who before them, the spot which they will
the next moment tread themselves SO the new world
is every year the more vivid and the old world more
faint in the Irish imagination Hence it is that Mr.
Lawrence finds himself received with almost the ho-
of royalty. Railway directors and corporations
give him special trains, banquets, and addresses and
every city prepares ovation What can Lord
Clarendon with the very best Intentions offer tC
compare with the sympathies of q man whose coun
try has welcomed million of Irishmen in the last
four years? The railway companies have special
interest in these cvilities. They have just been
completed in time to convey the aborignees of ire
land to the ports where they take leave of their
country. Strange to say, they derive feetng pros
perity from depopulation and despair. So, at Gal
way, Mr.. Abbott Lawrence is eagerly laid hold of as
patron of the plan for making that city transat
lantic packet station and emigrant depot AT
Cork it may be supposed that similar expectations
have helped the enthusiasm evoked by arrival Of
American minister. Mr.. Lawrence, however
to his credit, speaks only of such communication
might be supposed to exist between two equally
spreading and equally increasing nations. He deli
cately avoids any allusion to that uniform onward
movement-Uest1giG nutlG retors~m from Ireland to
the opposite shore
In the face of facts it certainly required all the
force of politeness in American Minister, stand
ing at Galway at Cork to wish happiness for the
Irish in their country, and to point out the ma
tural resources by which six million, eight million
ten million, or even fifteen million people could be
sustained in Ireland The prosperity and happiness
he speaks of may some day reign that beautiful
land Its fertile soil its rivers and lakes, its water
power, It's minerals, and other materials for the
wants and luxuries of man, may one day be develop
ed but all appearances against the belief that
this will ever happen in the days of the Celt. Tha
tribe will soon fulfil the great law of Providence
which to njoin and reward the union of
1t will mix with the Anglo American, and be known
more jealous and separate people. It's pres
ent place will be occupied by the more mixed, more
dOcile, and more serviceable race which has long
borne the yoke of sturdy industry in this island
which can submit to master and obey the law. This
and every day more apparent. No kind wishes, no
legislative measures stay the exodus OF people
who have once found the path from intoerable degra
daton to comfortable and dignifed Independence
Even if the rulers of this country should change
their mind and resolve not to let the people go, tina
resistance would only add another impetus to The
movement. As the Irish have chung together a
home so will they cling together in their wander
ings. That at least is what they do now. 1t il
scarcely possible to suppose Mr.. Abbot Lawrence
blind to what passes before his eyes, and on
ly admire the dexterous poteness with which hi
expresses his sympathy and his hope for the Irish
with scarcely hint at their fight from the land O
their fathers to the country of which he is the rep
rcSentatve.
PLANK RoADs.-Some one writes from Montgome
ry, Alabama, as follows We quote from the Mobile
Tribune:
The plank roads building from the city, and the
manufacturing spirit evinced in quarters, are
admirable ingredients in her progressive spirit The
effect of these plank roads in conducting trade to
place like this is inconceivable. Four small mules
drew easily in he other day sixteen bales of cotton
and the planter said he intended in his next load
haul in tarenty-8 to 10000 pounds. These road:
will be found to be really less costly believe to the
people, than their execrable county roads, for the
time they required to work on them laid out iu
dicously would build the road in the first place anc
the traoel orer them by persons of other states OF
counties, would more than keep them up. This econ
omy is we'll understood in Kentucky and Tennessee
They build fine turnpikes, and strangers (who can
not be called to keep them in order) pay for then
and their repairs"
No jews IN WALL STREEr-The New York cor
respondent of the Washington Republic. in a recen