The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-08-29
From the Dkblin Nation
I,s,.od-Th. Eaapse~y OF Ten Years.


one OF the most mournu national histories that the eye
of God has rested upon Within ten years ths world
has advanced greatly towards its goanobe thoughts and
actions keeping apt harmony with the music OF her
spheres America has doubled her power and carried her
banners to the golden of the Pacific France has
become republic; Eng and has freed her trade, and IN
creased 10 population and prosperity all Europe has been
in arms Tor liberty and democracy COPIED with despotsm
mol in vain From the Vlstula TO the MeIsey, has
grown stronger and ireer, and filter for freedom and
lands have been titled 10 abundance and the people have
increased and multiplied But Ireland has struggled and
starved for len years. desoation than war has
scattered or slain our people And OF all the wide world
ours is the only country we know OF that, during this
decade has refrigerated in the scale OF national strength
happiness, and liberty
We fewer now than we were thirty years ago:
We have lost within few years, not alone the actual
OF population during the last thirty yearsnoi
alone the probable increase of the last ten if the ciTcum
OF the country had favored an the
prospective increase for many to come by the exile
Of the very generation who were heirs OF the country,
and destined perpetuate its people. AS many OF our
have fled away, carrying their strength, energy.
courage and faith to the great republic oil The west as
would suffice to found new nation anywhere on The
earth, and than live within the boundaries OF pros
porous and independent European States far more
have died by starvation and government Than Tell under
rope and sword The bloodes struggle OF our loretta
theirs against England There many paupers IN
Irish warehouses TO day there were people IN all Ire
and at the beginning OF the last century Inc landlords
amlies-only 100000 less hearths left desoate than
there were in all Ireland century ago Connaught has
lost 2S Gle per cent OF lis population; Munster % $40
Ulster l6; Leinsie IS 10; Ireland, on an average 20
per cent, one fifth OF its whole population VI the
other fiths al least is panper one may be able TO
live by profession property or industry and the others
struggle hard between the extremes oil our social stale
Such is the summing up of the of Ireland to day 1t
is very easy 10 order the decmals and parallel the sta
scs. But what human tongue may tell all the wo
and evil, all the causes and consequences which these
lew figures cipher and preach the duty that lies upon
all before God and man thereby?
Ten years ago the world had great hopes of Ireland
More and women of The Irish race stood together
upon Irish soil than before since the Astounding days
OF Cabal Nor A strange moral revolution, to which
there are but few parallels IA the history OF MANKIND
had suddenly been wrought in the habits Of whole peo-
pleyoung and old crowding in myrlads round simple
rar, Of yore when the hermit called Europe to save
the sepuchre OF Lord The people Were redeemed in
from the foes and vices OF their slavery tenn
Perance bands on the roads, temperance reading
the villages temperance and It's virtues IN all the acts
and words OF the people 1t seemed though act of
voon should lit them TO the full stature of freedom
Irue there great distress in many paris of the
try there had BEEN indeed for years OF the most
prosperous times but il borne with pride and pa,
ence, and looked 10 the work houses, which
were first beginning TO open as the remedy or receptacle
for it. Who should dream that those beggar barracks
should be crowded with the proud hopeful temperate
Irish peasantry! The national schools had been fairly
established, and buzzed by the high roads with their
quarter of a million of noble young children, whom
hoped yet to the free and happy citizens of ndepend
en relandtheir quarter OF million recruited by lis lit
lie prattng hundred thousand year 1t is only old
mans Dream perhaps that ten years ago the beamed
brighter. and the streams ran with more svery clear
ness, and deeper verduIe the fields, and the
happy smile OF God shone often in the air Ire
land.
And then the next year. when the great national aga-
ton begun, how the people aroused TO OConnePs call,
clansmen when The fiery is on the hills How
all Europe gaZed towards this great movement with It's
proud impetuous language-wiih It's meetings OF mil
lons-with ITS enormous reasury.wh its great aggre-
gate force, able to overwhelm all the opposition OF Eng
land And "a soul came into Ireland" That fiery
tiona spirit silen, since the graves OF the United Irshmen
,erngs, echoed like thunder through the island again
And then followed Tara, Maow, Muaghmasi, Clon-
tart and England and Ireland assuredy Free
And Peel recognised the Irish difficulty.
The State trials began in the Queens Bench and ended
a, the Chanceliors WooIsaok. And The day passed in
which the enthusiasm OF The monster meetings could
realize lis true purpose. The angel OF opportunity
ished dreary agitation of charitable requests" and
/" infde. colleges" followed and men began 10 ask
would the repeal ever be got And then the wbgs
Dungarvan, the "eleven measures the secession, the
famine On single night the food OF the whole nation
was blighed Since then we have lived among chaos
and death. until now we see hundreds killed every week
in the workhouse, and thousands flying panic stricken
the seas and the returns leave some
three millions OF people less than we should be.
The hand of God has lain heavy on Ireland. For our
own sins and shortcomings 1t Is that Ireland is eless
and desoaie day. and that the flower OF population
have fled 10 distant lands. Contemplating that terrible
state, the head reels preciplce But when we
are,dead and gone. History shall paint times their
true and eternal neamens, and trace the and eff
that Judgment Whose renders Les Dir Ans" ls40-'5o
truly will teach lesson the nations Of the earth may
listen TO with fear and trembling; for was a
people OF ariiculae speaking ruined and overwhelm
ed in so brief space
How is it that even yet we so little realize to ourselves
the sacred, solemn responsibility Of political acon tits
vain TO say that had Ireland fought for her freedom
in ls43 millions of lives would have been saved to the
country But 1t is true. II is in vain 10 cay that
ton never took up arms on more solemn justification
than Ireland in lsas That too, true and past OBrien
j, in duance Port Arthur, and those OF his band chop
ping wood in Denson's chang gang Butn the face OF
perishng people and OF prosecuted church, when
Irish constituencies, under the direct nsgaon OF
Catholic clergymeD, send the basest wings to Para-
mento the Parliament that every day giving increased
facilities for starving the people, and laying the bishops at
the mercy OF any Jenny OBrien Stephenson Dobbyn-
how can we believe that conscience is concerned
transactions And this in the year Of Lord, 1851
This year OF our Lord In history we cannot read OF
any nation OF men in so wreched state as the Irish
people at this moment All around us is whirng toward
one Maelsrom of de-truconihe landlord a, the Office
Henrietta street. the tenant AT the door OF the auxiliary
warehouses, or on the flags Of Eden quay The people
are still being slaughtered in the South and West. VII
lagos silent and grass grownthe towns inert with
shelves and dull counters One may traverse some
counties through, and hardly human face to the
mile In the prosperous districts murders are be-
ginnng-tbe first dread symptoms Of sweeping exterm-
nation. Population has halted that, in the conn
ties comparatively wealthy. marriage is the very rarest
ceremony clergyman is called upon TO perform and the
deaths greatly outnumber the births determination con-
lnues lis havoc far and wide Last week the Protestant
bishop OF Limerick emptled a village OF tenants who
were not day in arrear. Where or how, in the name
of God, is this to stop'