The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-23
nSc~t HrassAmen and tho Exiiss In Van Dis-
mans Land.
DRxocsArlc REVIEW OFFICE.
ITO BROADWAY, N Y, Oct. Is, 1882


DRxoCRAric review OFrIcE,
ITO BROADWAY, N Y, Oct. Is, 1882
EsS FRANK. PnRoE-
DrAn sm-om mutual friend, George N. San
raers, assures me that any thought which l, whose
only claim upon your attention 10 that Of being an
exile for democratic principles, might venture to
press to you, viii be kindly and generously enter
ta,ed. The high appreciation entertain Of your
~ 10 character, and Of the warmth Of your feelings
TO- ads democracy every where, might warrant me in
r. wing that such expression my part would
nee er be treated intrusion, nor made in vau
T. With tho assurance Of our friend, can with
Z, = confidence, ana unrcssrvedly, unbosom myself
20 YOU.
-. Presidential contest is over, requiring only
FSrnality Of depositipg the ballots and the GER
4 ties Of the proper officers, to mark the numerical
= :, rather than The fact, ofyour triumph. loon
u u il due TO the dgni6ed position you sustained
Gl' !, that contest to await the issue now accom-.
a. ., and of the certainty Of which have never
p, ioabt. l address you now upon . subject
~ strictly political nor personal. I am no. so
Pr ing rs to offer any suggestion as to the rela
4 itions Of the United States and the territorial
5, neHts of Europe; and have nothing to AJAX
20 self l write wholly 10 recommend to your at
T. he case of soms dear friends who have boon
IL. i years in suffering and in exile-who in apo-
4 j and in other contests f,r democracy, were
=, uades-who were DOT SO fortunate as have
b. I'd to whose release have considered it my
r. ~ to devote whatever Of good fortune nigh
ne during their bsn'shment regard this
pt IN to address you their behalf as the
h'e' 4ttsirment of that fortune TIE democrat.
IL ! Of the United States the admiring aud
lsGo witness of their heroism and their vir-
t. Las never been and is not insensible to their
- -ilgs although from the day of their defeat %
H your present triumph it has not been in lss
to alleviate or redress them. They are, one
- /, men of 1.-The highest integrity and the
! honor. The principal of them were sur
D., d by all the endear nents Of home, and were
Yrs,, ssed of high professional legislative posi-
u md of monetary Independence, if not wealth:
~ shich, with their personal liberties, they de-
'ly sacrificed, TO give their countrymen Of this
ion an example Of individual manhood, and of
q y OF patriotism IL vas my high honor to b.
4 ated most intimately with the first sacri6si Of
anc snd from the earliest phase of the demo cratic
kl~ nent of lS45 in Ireland, to its unhappy close,
or less intimately with all. A few words on
- 'aovemert may be necessary in explanation.
h'gh-mInoed men. and especially to ell Anne
nc ireemen, thai movement ~as not the less just
o. essary, but the more heroic, for that it was
al AIKEN by few, and that in its issue it has
so maenifceutIy unfortunate. A system of
- oOst brutal and feroolous government on one
OF vulgar aud pnrpOseless "agitatiou" on
~ ther had for ioag years enascula ed the man
sud even the senses of the people Hostile
unfalr laws reguia lag and abusing the indus
= abe ianf, ana tne commerce Of the people, by
= Aecutive sno p,rliauenJ foreign TO their terri
- their trade, their wants am their affections,
- yyste4stically broksa down class alter class,
rIkn and in and
engulpheo the people In famine the most ter |
j III the history OF msnsiud. BY comm ssions OF |
s itsh Parliament q whole nation was then be.
deliberately buried, million by million, district
district, olass by clsss, old aye aud childhood,
strong man and the infant. the pregnant mother !
: I the uafulhed ard once blooming girl do not !
II Ak 6gurStely, hut literally ana actuslly-in !
wee 60 huge, and fitted To such repetition, that it
ap ordinary sight 10 see the dogs driven wild |
ii she social outlasry, gsrbios over acres of tse
bsf naked dead. and reDding from the earth the
bodies Of those who fed them. l have scene such /
aud more horrible sights; aud We charge that this
process Of killing and buying, or hunting an un-
armed and oped up nation, was deli berately done
by force-by gsn,z.d armies aud commits sions aud
by the astuely ievised If the civilized govern
mcnt Of Great Britain
While indigD alton or pity seized on the whole
world ut the enactment OF sucn atrocities in lant
5he most genial and terrible, lying IN Immediate
neighborhood to these shores, aud In the full sight
Of all Europe, against a race once happy and indus
trious, which has suffered TOR ages and whose blood
Is infused into State OF THIS republic. deep
more enduring, and more digni led sense OF msu-
hood and of resistance cruelty and outrage SO re
me Iseiess and wauton, seized upon the few upon
whose behalf plead to You Mr.. Mitchell first
threw hi nsef into the struggle, aud wrote and
published those writings which awoke the British
empire to q sense of Danger at the consequences Of
7ts acts and which excited the sympatnes OF shis
whole republic Bys special law of the British
Paris Ment be was seized as an editor, declared
felor, nominslly tried by jury hired for the pIr
pose, deprived of h's property, corn from his family
and friends, aud transported for fourteen years Ii
4 am more deeply anxious on his &C ,ount, you Wild
forgive me when you estim ate bis vast genius, his
great sacrifice HIS broken health, and the fast as
regards myself, that he refused me permission to
suffer in his stead an honor to which was enti5ed,
and the acceptance Of which would have been TO
me of, comparatively. no sacrifice Again. his friend
and mine, John Martins msu OF the purest and
most deveted nature. who had expended all his pre-
perty to procure even temporary subsistence
FOR bis Deighbors-w seized; partly, conceive,
for writings Of my own; and though against my
viii, insisted or saviog me for what ne thought q
more worthy fate, by bis own condemnation to
henishment. Another law of the British govern
ment was then INTRODUCED, which placed the whole
island under martial la~-whicn enacted the
mookery OF placing gsllows and armies upon Geld
of grsves-apd Condemned US, one and all, without
trial or appeal Throughout the subsequent aud
last resort to Instruction. l was associated
with Mr. 0'Brien, and the other gentlemen who
were either captured WITH him, or, like myself,
escaped. And thus am enabled, frem the begnn-
ing to the end, not only 10 point to the acts Of
heroism by those who have suffered, aud who
still suffer without complaint ats which conceive
claim the approval ana syUpa,hies of every brave
nsn--but 70 Assert that during tina, than which
resistance could be just and needtul m ade as
Il In the very jaws of national deash, against
semorseless and unscrupuIous enemy, act Of per-
10y treachsry either the part Of any of those
Entrusted with the leadership the part Of of
dc peeps to them, any act Of personal cowardice
Or bsckdding, nor any of outrage, nor even Of q |
possibly iustinable personal vengeance dim med the
ri knr mi UpiGN AnO
Of their self sacrifice disgraced the of their
country That subsequently the plans of the
BftishP sriinen; had fall s~ing-tbat population
d nine millions was killed down 20 Eve millions
that wheat bearing fields were converted into bull
1cc-lAnd-that these shores have been Gro tded
every day for years, with the poor terrified ugtves
fcn the beautiful land Of their nativity, and of
to eea.h of their kindred, il is unnecessary In ths