The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-01-15

in the direction not to allow foreign interference
with our struggles on the Continent, would be
come almost sure guarantee Of the victory
those struggles and, according as circum
stances stand, this would be indeed the mos
practical benefit to the noble people of lrelan
also, because freedom, independence, and tn
principles Of natures law, could not fail
benefit their own cause which 50 well merit
the sympathy of every Just man; and the
have also the sympathy know it-of tn
better half of England itself
Hatred is no good counsellor, gentlemen
The wisdom of love is a better one. Wha
people has suffered more than my poor Hun
gary has from Russia Shall hate the peopl
of Russia for it Oh, never have but pit,
and Christian brotherly love for it. 1t is TIN
Government, it is the principle of the Govern
ment, which makes every drop of my bloo(
boil and which must fall if humanity shall
live. We were for centuries in war agains
the Turks, and God knows what we have sui
fered by it, But past is past. Now We have g
common enemy, and thus we have common
interest a mutual esteem, and love rules where
our fathers have fought
How could such an appeal be resisted
Nothing is more certain than that if England
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Despotisms of Europe, it will react upon her
domestic institutions by developing, and finally
giving predominance to- the Democratic or Re-
publican element. Antagonist to Absolutsm
would compel her aristocracy TO rely upon the
masses of the country, and this it could not
do, without concessions to their reasonable de-
mands In such a struggle, her institutions
would become Gberalized, the voice of the peo-
pie would become Omnipotent and who does
not see that the interests of Ireland would be
better consulted! Justice would be done, if
for nothing else to secure the good will and
hearty support of the Irish people in the for
midable battle for the Liberties of mankind
And should the United States be brought into
close fellowship with England, that fact of it
self would tend to promote wiser, more con-
siderate legislation in regard to Ireland
1t is strange that our naturalized Irish citi-
zens cannot understand this Intimate inter-
course between two nations tends to bSng each
under the influence TO q certain extent, of
the public opinion of the other. The closer
the connection between England and the Uni
ted States, the more influential her public
opinion in regard to the wrongs of our colored
population, the more operative our public opin-
ion in regard to the wrongs of Ireland. Ar
rayed against one another by mutual jealousy
and prejudice, the peculiar sentiments of each
on general topics are rejected and repealed by
he otIo What ,NoooibIo c,ooI Triob
American population propose to accomplish
for their native land by producing alienation
and evaporation between this country and
England They cannot expect to drive us
into war to redress the wrongs of Ireland
80 that the only effect of their unreasonable
course is, to render England inaccessible to
many powerful influences in favor Of their
country, which would be exerted constantly by
the United States, if closely connected with
England by mutual regard and sympathy.
We have no patience with the demagogues
who, in districts where the votes of our Irish
naturalized citizens may determine an election,
instead of appealing to their sense of right and
their love of liberty instead of striving to edu-
cate them to exercise the rights of freemen in
obedience to the spirit of humanity and the
dictates of an enlightened selfinterest, are
forever pandering to their lower sentiments
feeding their hate, infaming their vindictive
passions, by dwelling upon the wrongs they
once suffered in the land Of their nativity, and
thus nurturing antipathies that should die the
moment they find homo and country in
this New World. All their eloquence against
English oppression is a mockery all their
sympathy for Irish wrongs is hypocrisy. Were
Ireland sunk in the depths of the sea to-mor-
row, they would not shed tear, nor heave a
sigh, unless they could catch a stray voter by
their tender demonstration Not one straw
do they care for their Irish constituents any
further than they can use them for political
purposes; and the readiest mode, they think,
of making them serve these purposes is, by
aggravating their evil passions.
Such demagogues should be unmarked and
disgraced. They are enemies to our natural
lied citizens, by seeking to make them the
slaves of blind antipathies, and to their own
country, by endeayoring to perpetuate in its
borders rescntments and prejudices which have
nothing to do with our institutions and can
but tend to vitiate our national character and
impede our national progress.
DEMOCRATIC FEsTIvAL-EIGHTH OF JANUARY.
The Eighth of January was commemorated