Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-02-21

aIWays Obtained ptfftCt JUSTICE.
tice am proud to say, they have always repaid with
LOYALTY and fidelity But Ireland is fallen She il
no longer nation. She is only the broken relic Of
nearly seven centuries Of oppression And it always
happens her reputation has fallen with her for
tunes fear the verdict OF the world is against her
For one | cannot recognise the justice Of that YER
Dict 1t is not rendered upon impartial testimony
is founded in truth The witnesses upon whose tes
timony that verdict has been rendered have taken
great pains TO satisfy the world that ireland has
mitted national suicide that she is the victim of hel
own PASSIONS that she carries her ruin in her character
and the elements Of her destruction in her This
NAV perhaps be called the Anglican solution Of Ireands
present conditions and sorry to say the solution
is not very charitable one. Whatever the judgment
of the world may be, the shman feels that this so
ton is unjust; that it is calumny upon his that
there is very different solution of the dark mystery
his eountrys condition But it is the old story g "a
oicts there is political historic justice for the
yanquished The tyrant first tramPles upon his victim
and to justify his cruelty, then brands him with infamy
But permit to say that do not regard the present
condition of Ireland the crime OF the English people
have ungenerous prejudces against English charac
ter The English people, have many sterling quail
ties They Industrious brave, and independent and
will add that there is strong of justice in the
English heart But Ireland has never been governed by
the English people. | would appeal to the people OF
England for justice Ireland quickly ut this moment
would to any other people earth except the Ame
people Ireland, repeat has never been governed
by the English people. 1t has been governed by an
Ans lo Irish olgarchy-an ogarchy that has had
its class. The government Of Ireland the gov
ernment of cashe very abstraction Of an evil gov
| eminent. An oigarchy like that must be unjust In
justice is necessity of its existence 1t must be UNJUST
all other classes to preserve its own tyrant may
great acts Of cruelty but they only occasional
anrcan reach the great mass of the people, but
an oigarchy is cruel from policy and unjust ana op,
pressiye upon principle Of selfpreseryaton Ireland
has been ruled by government OF this kinda govern
ment Of - s aoam and
selves ferociousy Anglican they were always backed
and supported by the English Government. Such gov
eminent would have ruined any other country well
Ireland. Even this country would have been ruined
had it failed in the revolution and been placed under
such oligarchy There certain ruin in the very
principle upon which it governed. That principle was
to Angcize Ireland-to force English government on
the Irish race English church Irish consclences
and English habits Irish hearts in word, to trans
form Hishmen into Englishmen OF course the expert
ment has failed 1t reminds Of similar experiment
in ancient times A Roman general was dispatched to
Greece to enforce the Roman authority to collect tribute
and transform the Greeks into Romans He got amongst
the Spartans, and exerted himself with all his night
accomplish his object but weared at last with his la
bors and disguised with the Greeks he wrote
letter to his Government saying that they incor
gble that they had proper appreciation of Ro
man character and that, in his opinion they not
fit to make slaves The government has
likewise found the Irish incorrgible it has Jailed to
transform them into Englishmen and there is people
on this earth unmanageable slaves Nearly
seven centuries have been employed in this work. and
performed the work of distinctions they have destroyed
Irish nationality; but centuries will supply
its place with English nationality. They may extermi-
nate the Irish race, but they will fail to mike it An
glcan The English Government the natural growth
Of the English soithe logical result of peculiar condi
ton of English society 1t great political compro-
mise between rival interests and anita gontic races.
There was monarchy for the conqueror and his descend
ants aristocracy for the Norman barons ard their de-
scendants and portion of democratic liberty concii-
ate the then despised Saxons, who constituted the bulk
and strength of the nation. This Government very
well adapted to the social condition of England ii had
no adaptation whatever to the condition of Ireland On
the contrary it ncomprehensibe to the intelligence
and repulsiye to the notions and habits of the Irish
pie pure monarchy or pure democracy they might
have understood but that strange political monster with
royal head arstocratic body and democratic feet-the
head looking way, the feet moving another and the
body parayzng and restraining the movements of both
this something which ishman could comprehend
accept Government might press this view much
further but abstain from it this occasion. But
must state that there is national well personal
individuality No people be improved elevated
cept through the medium Of their nationality To
develop people must respect the scruples of the
onal conscience the virtues of the national heart and
the aspirations and preudces of the national mind
National varieties necessary to improve and develop
the human race individual varieties. And political
systems ought to be various the varieties of national
character political system, to improve and develop
people, must grow out of the habits and circumstances
that people must be the natural product of the
try Look at the Spanish colonies of this continent
They separated from the mother country but instead
building Government out Of their circumstances
the growth of their social condtionthe product
IT were of their own sothey borrowed the system of
the United States and constructed their Governments
upon this excellent model The model was excellent in
ITSELF but it had fatal defect-it had adaptation
whatsoever to the condition Of the people be governed
by it. Now mark the result These countries hun
dredold worse off this day than they under the old
Spanish Government
The people OF this country pursued very different
course when they separated from England They Dor
rowed no political system they initiated foreign
del They constructed their Government upon the basis
OF their social condition and in accordance with their
own circumstances This is the principal Of the
wonderful success Of this Government which pleases
the world to call experiment. but which, in fact is
nothing more nor less than the natural logical and
sary raH of the peculiar condition Of the colonies
mere experimental Government, however perfect in
theory, would have proved failure What is the
Of half the failures to establish popular Governments in
Europe! The establishment of experimental Govern
ments after approved fanciful model There is
France IN some respects the most enlightened nation in
the world Those thrty-hve millions of people have
larger share of genius than is be found amongst any
other thiryhyc millions on Garth and yet no people on
earth have so wretchcdy mismanaged their political af
fairs And why? Because theynre constantly initiating
other systems, copying visionary models whose
theoretic perfection constitutes their practical defect
But II is when you attempt to force uncongenia
system of Government upon people. This fails
to crush them. The Government which develops
ton will destroy another. This is truth old as
cety 1t might be engraved epitaph upon the
tombs Of thousand extinct nationates Oppression is
engraving it for the tombs Of Poland Hungary and
ireland.
In my opinion the present condition Of Ireland demands
the of he English pcope and the En-