The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1852-06-15
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The Way for Iiishmcn to Avenge Ireland.

| tival of st. Patrick in that city, he expressed
himself a follows: ..,f Hn ira
John Costigan, Esq, being called upon for a
sentiment, stated that he had quito recently
read in the ory "London Tines the leading
Government organ of England, an editorial
article OH the consequences aud effects Of en-
gration form Ireland to America, from which
he (AIr. C.l had transcribed the following viz:
"When the Celt has crossed the Atlantic,
he begins for tho fret tisae in his life, to con-
sumo the manufacturers of this country, and
| indirectly to contribute to it's customs. We
may possibly live to see the day when the chief
produce of Ireland will be cattle, and English
and Scotch the majority of the population
The nine or ten millions of Irish who by that
time will have settled in the United States,
cannot be less friendly to England, and will
certainly be much better customers to her
than they now are.' eu amraf
! Here, said Mr.. c., is proof positive and un-
deniable, If any were needed, of the kind love
and affection which the British Government hold
| to Ireland and Irishmen, and the confidence
they entertain of holding the United States
at tho best market in tho world for their man
ufactured goods. Although he Mr.. @ J had
always favored and supported the doctrine of
'Free Trade" and low duties on foreign impor
taton, avowals like the foregoing, made from
various British sources, he frankly confessed
had worked a change in his opinion on the
"Free Trade policy, advocated so strongly
in influential quarters. As to indications of
his present views, on that subject, he would
ask leave to present the following sentiment:
'Protection of American industry-the most
legitimate and effectual punishment we can
infict on John Bull for his tyranny, and OPP
preston to Ireland, Let us have Tariff
high enough to exclude the Importation of all
British Manufactures. i
This sentiment was received by the Compa-
ny with the most most rapturous applause.
Mr. Costigan hit the nail on the head. The
Union deprived Ireland of the power TO protect
her own manufactures, and made her the help
less victim of the system which England and
Locofocosm call "Free Trade Before the
Union, under Irish protective laws, there were
Irish wooden manufactures, Irish blanket man
ufactures, Irish silk manufactures, and Irish
stocking manufactures The British Parlia-
ment decreed their ruin and they are extinct
It decreod that Irishmen should buy their
manufactures Sin the cheapest market" mean
ing thereby, whore they could for the time
being be bought for the least money, that is
in England, and that Ireland should raise
breadstuffs and other agricultural products,
with which to pay them. England was to be
the great workshop, and the lrishman was to
be compelled to be its customer. In short,
it fastened upon Ireland, by coercion, the
same system which it wishes to fasten upon us
by coaxing. The Locofoco party, whenever it
has the power and TO the extent that it has the
power. adopts and promotes the British system
1t also insists that this country should look to
England rs its work shop, and in this way
obtain the privilege of sending its grain across
the ocean to be eaten, instead of having it
eaten at home. The Wing party maintain the
American protective policy, the same policy
precisely as Ireland maintained so long as it
had the power.-Before the Union, the Irish
Parliament imposed protective duties on many
English manufactures: among others, duty
on English woolens, a duty on English silk,
duties on English cotton yarn, cotton
twist and cotton manufactured goods. Even
in the act Of Union it stipulated for the con-
tinuance of the duties on woolens, and sever
al other articles, for twenty years; for the high
duties on muslins and calcos till 1908 with tho
gradual reduction afterwards, till they should
fall to nothing in 1921. The duties on cotton
yarn and twist, in like manner continued till
1903, with provision for their gradual reduc-
tion after that time they fell to nothing in 'l6.
But when Ireland was deprived by British
misrule, of homo market for its products,
and was forced to send them across the Chan
mel to be eaten in England, the Irish growers
became poor that they were no longer able to
be customers 10 the English workshop The
Times states this fact in the passage quoted
by Mr.. Costigan--"when the Celt has crossed
the Atlantic he begins for the first time in his
life to consume the malufactures of this coun-
try (Engand.)
They arc so plundered and impoyished un-
der this system, that existence in Ireland is no
longer possible. A depopulation ofthe Island
begins, which has taken off not only the natu
raj increase of prolific people, but ,659,330
souls less in 1851 than in 1871. They are fly |
ing from British Free Trade at the rate of
thousand a day, but the system pursues over
the ves.-Free Trade, by its organ, the
Times, exults in the prospect of the day
"when the chief produce of Ireland will be
cattle" and ''nine or ten millions of Irish, who
by that time will be settled in the United
States, will be much better customers than
they now are" The exile can no longer be /
made to wear the collar, visibly branded with !
the words "Patk the Celt, born thrall of Ced- |
ric the Saxon" but Free Trade cries after him, |
Patrick the Celt, born customer of John Bull
Patrick, the strong worker. who can no lon- |
ger extract food enough from his native gelds |
TO make him desirable customer, but is suf- |
fered to cross the Atlantic to raise crops in the |
fresh fields of America, which he must ex-
change for manufactures at the English work |
shop, and not at the workshop of his neigh |
Dor, any more than he did at home b,o
Is it not the strangest thing in tho world
that Irishmen are satisfied with this; that they |
should be content to be moro eifectual tributa-
ries to the wealth and power of their hcrcdita-
ny tyrants, after escaping from the necessity of
it, than before; that they should enroll them
selves in such large proportion among the
supporters of the British system, and give |
their strength to oppose the same natural pro-
tective policy in America, which Irish patriot |
ism maintained while Ireland had Parliament |
of her own'
John Costigan at last sees the absurdity -
His eyes are opened. The eyes of Irishmen
in the old country are opened too. An asso-
citation in Dublin, 1.-The Parent Board of Irish
Manufactures aud Industry is endeavoring to /
accomplish by opinion and voluntary compact,
what there is no longer tho power to accom-