The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-12-10
Our Irish Correspondence.

IL ID 10 Inc nited states OF America That Ireland
looks for sympathy vnd assistance Nearly
hundred years have elapsed since Strongbow through
the treschery ofthe infamous Dermot Mscmorrough,
King of Leinster, obtained footing upon Irish
ground, and led the way to its mbjugation by
Henry the Second in person, in ll72 But seven
hundred years have only served to deepen the strong
feeling of antipathy whi,h ages of misrule on the
part of England have kept alive in the Irish breast
From an English government Ireland expects mo-
thing, hopes for nothing. In the days Of famine,
VIXEN thousands were perishing by the waysids or
in the ditch within view of their rooaess and FIRE.
novels from which, wretched as they we're, they
had mercilessly been elected, no stop was put to
his murderous and anti Christian of prsce lure
by the hand of government; nor was the dole
by which life was preserved in the skeletons, in
he South and West of Ireland, held forth
by the government of England, TILL in the case of
hundreds upon hundreds of wretohed victims to
famine, cruelty, and misrue, it was unfortunately
too late. No sooner, on the other hand had the in
tellgence reached the American shores that Ireland
was in distress, than her vessels were launched,
filled with the necessares of life for the suffering
nation. The men of Ireland will never forget the
timely suceor, the generous relief afforded by the
United States
Again, for two years and more, it has been appa-
rent that Irish American packet station would
serve to facilitate communication between Ireland
and the United States; would reduce, to between
seven and days. according to the calculation Of
the most experienced captains, the journey by
sea; would open up sources OF revenue, and new
branches Of commerce for Irish capital; would,
in ne be the quickest most direct for the
conveyance OF mails between the New World and
the Old. But it Ireland that was in question,
and was it TO be supposed that English govern
nent would serve to advance single interest of
Ireland that might, by possibility, be detrimental
to Liverpool, or any class Of men, ship owners, or
otherwise, in England Accordingly, investiga-
tt0pa dad Int hn Ina
had watched the progress OF English management
Of Irish interests could hope for 30 great step in
the right direction
servetur ad unum
Qualis alb incsp to processerit, ct sbi constet.
"As we began, let US fnisA, seems to be the log-
cal determination Of the rulers Of Ireland. We
have ever hated that country sho wn it no favor
broken treaties there, and in the tenderness Of
parental sway during the lapse of centuries, ad
ministered a few sscres, and sent the Irish
to He'll or Connaught. We won't begin now to
show love can't feel
A packet station at Galway might have long
continued myth, as far as the English government
was concerned; but your ambassador late fortu-
nate visit to the west OF Ireland, and the enterprise
Of New York firm, are about to lead to practical
results. The mercantile and shipbuildng estab-
lshment Of the Messs. Wagstsf has taken up the
question. One Of the firm, after examining the va
ious harbors on the south and west of Ireland has
decided in favsr Of Galway; and he has already in
formed the Harbor Com missioners Of that seaport
that the first vessel will start from New York by
For this, also, the Irish people viii feel
grateful. We have not the shadow of q
doubt that the speculation Of the Msssrs:
Wsgstaf will prove most profitable, and lead
others, and perhaps English spectators, into the
field. But we shall not forget that the initiative
was taken-not by the government that should
blood sucking landlords but single handed and un.
aided by men from the other side Of the Atlantic.
In this undertaking Of the Messrs. Wagstaf, is
practically shown what is the feeling and sympathy
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ian and the United States. Let England be wise
in time before il is TO late.
Winter though it.be, the different steamers are
ever loaded with full freight Of human beings,
lying away from the land Of their birth and
English do mination, to the friends Who have gone
before them, and the bright and alluring pros
poets Of work and food, Of freedom and an
Independent future in the United States. Love
Of relations shares with "a Irishman place in his
heart with love OF couztry. GU can scarcely meet
one person nov in the provinces who has not various
hands stretched out TO him from the American
shores, urging and assisting his departure from his
native soil And as il is but too evident that thou
sands upon thousands are ready and willing to en-
brace the first oppor tunity the bone and sinew and
muscle Of Irelandiwil without doubt be transferred
to the United states ln the next European war,
Ens will look in vain for the defendants Of the
men who won Wellington his lsurels and England
her fame forty years ago. :
Armagh has issued a Pastoral to the Clergy and
Lsity lof the Archdiocese, the concluding portion
Of which has called forth auimadversions on the
part Of several English papers. he says.
"And here let me ad "A onish you again, as have
done repeatedly before, both by word and In
writing, that notbipg can be more fatal to charity
than those secret societies which have been unhap-
phy propagated through many parts OK the coun-
Try. Continual disseI siops, feuds dispute between
neighbors, party fights, injuries inflicted upon pro
perty and pertoD, and to pass over other evils,
most APPALLING murders that cry 70 Heaven for VEN
geance have been the offspring Of such Illegal com
binatiopf. have before declared to you aEd beg
Of the clergy in every parish TO repeat the admo-
milton continually, that all those who are banded
together b. oath in those wicked societies, under
whatever name they may be called, and also ali
Catholics who join the society Of freemasons, as has
been repeatedly declared by the Roman pontifs,
subjected to the penalty Of exoommunicatioa,
cut of a. rotten bran ches from the church Of God
and Il they die in this deplorabe state, doomed to
eternal perditiop.
DIR. Cnllen Ia blamed for interfering With that
the laws Of the land allow, with announcing free
masonry though the hig hest in the land are free
ard accepted mssons, and with bigotry intolerabe,
denouncing as brands ~ for the burning, all Who join
fr,emason lodges. But in this, The archbishop has
not received fair play lie deneunces all Illegal so
Gle ties as bad and q them speaks In general terms.
On the subject Of freenasonty be addresses himself
to Catholics alone. Others be leaves 70 taeir own
conscience and own peculiar views. Ecclesiastics
undoubtedly should not interfere ir political mat
tiers. Long ago they got sound advise on that
head, from one who knew what he was writing,
when he pCnned the words =" No man being q
soldier 10 God eatangleth him self with secular bust
ness F." But In this case DR. Cullen seems to have
unjustly thrust upon him bigoted sentiments and
improper interference when bis sole object the
direction Of his own flock.
Indeed, Ireland has too long been victimzed By
secret societies. White Boys, Peep Of Day Boys,
Ribbonmen. Orapgemen, SC, sc, have done
much mischief in by.gone days among the
erctable elements Of the Irish heart and bad
an interruptions governments have not failed
10 take advantage Of the wild ennity and
hatred thus bred between consending antago-
Ia Trola nd 20 m 1rula
m /, contrary 20 the first principles OF all go
yernment for any state TO tolerate what is essest
ally disorganizing. What is to be thought Of the
policy Of England, which long employed sucn OBJ.
ectionabIe means TO have Ireland more completely
at her mercy But, now adays. We trust the lesson
has been learned BY our fellow countrymen, that
the system Of secret association has never avsled
them in anything TO gain the object they sought.