Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-09-20


assaaing with intent to killa fellow counrryman in
Ireland, has jest been gwen up, at New York, upon
the reqaisioa Of the British Govsnment, aud is
dwonhls way to IRELAND, to'be tried for this al
legged crime.
The exlraditon Of this man has caused consde-
rable excitement amongst the Irish population Of
New York, and il has caused much dissatisfaction;
and as the is somewhat parallel to those which
have occurred to native born Americans, under the
Infamous fugitive save law, we hope it will help to
open the eyes fnaturazed Irshmen to the atrocity
Of that aci and induce them repudate it, instead
Of supporting the parties who enacted and maintain
it, as they have hitherto done. @ lo
We hope that Irish voters will learn from this
Of exradon, that il is safer to support true po
litical principles, which make no inydious excep-
tions in their operation, than be led by selfish
politicians, who as little for an Irishman for
negro, when, by sacrificing either the one or the
other, they can gain any selfish end by it. Wehope
that the rendition OF Kaine, with evidence, will
cause them TO examine the injustice Of law which
has secured, without evidence the rendition of those
colored Americans, who Of late have been dragged
from their homes, and consigned by Commissioners
to the miseres Of bondage terrible even than
that 10 which their unfortunate countryman is now
consigned.
The case Of Kane is one Of common occurrence
in ireland. 1t grew out of that fruitful source Of
Irish misery, suffering, and Internal wrong, the
landlord and tenant question. A man must see and
know the inhuman cruelty practised upon the Irish
peasantry by their landlords; and he must and
know the desoation brought upon families by the
system Of evciions practised in Ireland before he
can have any conception of the feelings that must
stir an Irish peasants heart under the burden of in
iuries inflicted by this system. to which the nhu-
manity of landlords and agents. backed by the claw"
oblige him to submit. He does not always submit,
however. The bruised and broken heart sometimes
rebels against this Satanic development of landlord
ISM and, denied all other remedy, it seeks redress,
in what celebrated Irishman has called the "wld
Justice OF revenge" ..t
The man whom Kaine assaulted in Westmeath,
in 1913, one who had taken the cottage and
farm of neighbor, who had been evicted from
them The crime Of which Kaine was accused,
not crime, according 10 the popular Irish idea.
1t was merely political offense--an offence pro-
voked by mseries and wrongs too we'll appreciated
by them, and justified, according to their notions,
by the impossbiy of any other mode of redress.
Kaine, who, from the little evidence adduced, cer-
tauly does not appear to have very seriously medi-
taed the killing Of his enemy, after the assault fled
to this country, where, for four years. he has been
a resident, ndustriousy earning his livelihood, and
conducting himself peacefully, under laws which do
not permit such eyictlons as excited his generous
passions to madness. He is arrested upon requ-
sition from the British Government, is examined
before United States Commissioner, whom the
British Government pays for his trouble the lug
tive slave law does, and he is sent back 10 Ire
land.
So far is this case parallel to that Of the extrad
ton of Americans alleged be fugitves from slave
RS with this exception that The case of Kaine, hard
though it be, is not final. He will assuredly be tried
by jury in Ireland, and may be acquitted, as Mrs.
Gilmore was, who was sent TO Britain under this
treaty, several years ago; but the Negro, remanded
by this paid Commissioner, never has another trial,
butts doomed forever by his ipse dire, to life of
bondage and misery.
Irishmen should see to it, that they do not vote
for a sword with which to Smite themselves, when
they give their sudrases in favor of mere party
We hope that the case of Kane will cause
them pause before they vote for the slave power,
and also TO ponder over that summary system Of
'sjustice, by which he has been consigned TO the
tender mercies of some Irish Norbury or Travelan,
and will induce themto spit upon that most ina
at all acts, that consigns American ugitivesto
he tender mercies Of the Soulherners, who supply
the markets Of Britain with cotton, watered with
the blood and tears Of slaves.
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