The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-24

accompanying the Delverancc OF Ire
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD
~ NEW YORK, Sept. is, 1852.
Sir-As have no expectation, nor, indeed de-
sire, that any Irish newspaper proprietor would in
cur the risk of publishing the enclosed entreas
place for il in the columns of your journal, for
european circulation, through which it viii obtain
III not all the publicity could wsh-a very large
snare In Great Britain and Ireland. The high i'm
portance of the subject, must be my excuse for tho
great and most unexpected length to which my let
ter has extended.
have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully,
your most 0bedient servant,
AN Irish SUBJECT OF THE BRITISH Crown
TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND
Fellow country men-The acts of the British gov
those more recent ones, in reference to the Catholic
religion in the United Kingdom, have once more
aroused the spirit Of agitation-which had slum.
bered since the famine-into life and activity
amongst you With the recollection Of almost thirty
years Of ceaseiess agitation, under tried and potent
Leaders, and with the knowledge of it's results,
would ask, what are your prospects in the present
contest with the powers that rule you Aud, if
you succeed, what are you to gain as q rec0mpense
for the strife the bitterness and sacrifices, which
must be passed through Can you now boast Of
such leaders as directed your former struggles
Can you, indeed, ever expect their like again
And does your Cause furnish sthe motive and tho
cue for action" which that did and the same incen-
tive to self-sacriice! We can now Judge calmly Of
the past, for we know its fruits And what have
been, and what are, the results of that
the. eligibility of few Catholic nob!emsn
and gentlemen 10 Sit, aud to legislate in
part, in the parliament of tho united kingdom and
to fill few minor situations in the courts and public
'ofhces. Can any man point out single benefit
which has resulted to Ireland from this Can it bs
shown that any improved law, or section, clause
In any act of parliament, since 1929 is the result
Catholic legislation Has parliament been more
pure, and have Catholic members been less under the
influence OF the minister than those who take the
oath Of abjuration2 No one can, truly answer in tn
affirmative. Again, has Catholic emancipation ex
tended manufactures in Ireland, advanced her agri
culture, enlarged her commerce, increased her ship
ping, deepened and protected her harbors improved
her fisheries promoted the expenditure of the impe
rial revenue In the country, placed her in position
to cope with any unexpected national calamity,
or in any of her material interests been Of the
smallest benefit to her In fiue, can it be shown
that the measure the means of giving the
laborer additional days work, the hangry
food, or the naked clothing? Alas no, it has
failed IN al these; it has been for the mil
Lions an abstraction. whilst it has gratfied the
pride ard ambition of the few, and given places to
the unprinoipled and corrupt DO not suppose that
undervalue emancipation it was your right, with
out which you should not have been single day
content, ana was worth effort to obtain, but was
not worthy Of thirty years struggle. Any other
people, OF your numbers aud in your position, would
have wrung 1T from their tyrauts in year or less
The wrongs which now agtate Ireland feel as
prosperity, her happiness and independence as you
have But when look at the past, and, turning
over the history OF my country, find not page from
which the eye will not avert itself in sorrow or in
shame ask myself what arc its hopes for the
future? see none, unless you throw of the in
fuences which have hitherto msled or paralized
you, and unless every Irishman acts as if the re-
demption Of his country depended on his single
exertions. You have too frequently deceived
or di appointed those who have perilled and sacr-
iced life, liberty, family fortune, country, all but
honor in your service. No Fitzgerald, or Emmett,
will again pay the penalty of your cowardice or
weakness; nor viii a Mitchell, an O'Brien, or
Neagher, become victims to your dsunion, treache-
"IIe that trusts YOU
Where he should find you lions finds you hares
Where foxes gecse.D
HeucefarIh, none will encounter peril in your
cause, for you have made your country by-word
among the lions, your people at home objects Of
distrust or derision, and abroad, of contempt or
pity. You must not think of means of de-
Hvcrance, for you have been too long schooled in
the doctrine and practice OF submission to any ex-
If the English government issued its mandate to de-
prive every man in Ireland of his right arm, it
could be effected with scarcely more than the po-
lice force of the country. That some individual
cases Of resistance would be found, and some very
loud complaints heard, l have no doubt; but q
combined and general opposition would not occur.
Then, as respects parliamentary exertions. When.
in the lifetime of O'Connell they were futile, and
when you had clear majorities of your members, as
in the case of the Irish Poor Law question, and
Others, without it availing you anything, what can
be expected now, when the anti Irish and anti
Catholic msjorities powerful in both Houses,
and when, after twenty three years of emancipa-
ton, you have permitted the return oftwo members
for your metropolis who would disgrace the orange
borough of Band0n as its representatives? No
matter how talented and how unanimous your mem.
'bers may be, they never serve you in British
legislature, where they are swallowed up by the
numbers, and overpowered by the national and re-
mi To iufo of
English and Scotch representatives. As to the
sarces of agitation, associations. Consultation Halls,
monster meetings, and so forth, they have been too
frequently acted and are too expensive entertain
ments to amuse any longer-for to benefit the coun-
tn they always failed. What, then, are YOU
70 do? Strike at the life Of England -her wealth
1t was a true saying Of Napoleon, that "Imagina-
ton governs the world;" and this is the power by
which England rules, for it is through it she ac-
quires that which gives her omnipotence-wealt
10 the same proportion as she is strong, because
England's wealth is her manufactures, from which
her people derive riches, and her government in
come, from the entire world and, to digress
for a moment, would say, there is no reason why
~ all mankind, should be concentrated in Lanca-
shire, Yorkshire, and Warwickshire. Every being
throughout tho universe, who wears or uses any
article made in Great Britain, promotes the pros
perity Of the people, and adds to the revenue Of
that country. Without q revenue England could
have neither army nor navy. and though her in
stnct would be- as ever to Cypress, her power to do
so would be gone. You, people of Ireland, poor
and abject - you are, enrich the exchequer
of your tyrant to the extent Of over ten mil
lions sterling per annum, one-ffth of her
entire income The irish custom house re-
urns do not show this, because the largest por-
ion of your foreign importations are through
England. whore the duty is paid without credit to
ysu-and you do not get credit either, for the duty
paid on the various foreign raw materials used in
he manufactures Of England for the Irish market,
the income tax derived from the profits of those
manufactures, or the excise revenue obtained from
the expenditure Of wages paid to operatives en-
ployed in those manufactures. The gross profits
acquired by English manufacturers, operatives and
merchants, in supplying Ireland with what she does
not make herself and that is almost everything she
uses but her agricultural produce, must be enor-
NOUS, so much so as to be quite beyond my power
to estimate at present. All this should end, and
though do not offer my head upon the block a. q