Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-04-30
Tbe Dai4p spy.
FRIDAY, APRIL 80, 1852.


exhibited his ignorance and his temper again, yes
terday, in the columns of pro-sayery paper IN this
civ, on the question of British liberty. We have
no desire to CRAFTY the vanity Of this person, by
tering into controversy with him, and we will on
ayexpose the impudent foolhardness Of one or two
os his assertions, and leave him to the care Of his
friends.
In the first place, be asserts hat "Holland, Bel
giuni, Sweden, Norway and Prussia, are more free
than Britain and that they have more liberal laws.
andtbetter administered We wonder edward
Fitzgerald did not include Russia, Austria. and
France in the above statement; such inclusion would
no, have altered the truth of his statement, aud the
sentence would have been much fuller and more
elphonic.
When the noble Roman triumvir. Joseph Mar
ziui; the republican Governor of Hungary, Louis
Kossuth Louis Blanc, Ledru Kolu, and the other
republican and socialist refugees of France, can go
10 any of the countries above Ramed without pass
port, and live in them without fear of moestation,
then we will believe that this edward Fitzgerald
is, after all, some historical authority but not till
then.
edward Fitzgerald" says there is a censor of
the press in Britain. When he sends us an affida.
Wit, signed by three respectable British editors,
ing when and where they their proofs be SUI
pervised by said censor or censors, and how much
of their articles was expunsed by them, then
attention may be paid to edward Fitzgerald's''
statement on this point, but not till then. 1t is ev.
ideRt that he is ignorant of the nature Of censor
ship Of the press, which ignorance is only aggra-
walton Of his impudence. Every intelligent Amer
ican knows that there is censorship III England.
As Tor treason laws, we have them in the United
States, as contemporaries history can inform 'Ed-
ward Fitzgerald - il he will read.
This edward Fitzgerald" in his first commune
cation on British liberty asserted that Smith O'Brien
and other Irish exies, were chained in an Austria
lian dungeon; stated in! opposition 10 this, that
Smith O'Bren tutor in gentIemans family,
and that Meaghe was in mercantile house. In
contradiction Of this, edward Fitzgerald says
Meagher Epes in a rural cottage. This is an admis.
sion in the first place, that Edward Fitzgerald de-
i,berateiy lied, in his flourish about an Austrian
dungeon and in the second place, il does effect
statement. Every American knows what is
meant by being sin mercantile house" edward
Fitzgerald seemingly does not; but he will learn
inquiry that it has reference to the employment,
not the domocation OK
John Mitchell was sent to Australia but in con-
sequence Of pumonic disease, the British govern
ment listened to the representations of his physi-
clans, and ne was transferred to Bermuda. sEd.
ward Fitzgerald" does not know everything, that is
very evident.
edward Fitzgerald's'' assertion in relat ion to
George Thompsoa Esq, M. F., demonstrates again
eEdward FitzgeroId's'' foohardy impudence and
ignorance, together with melancholy aIseuce of ma
Giona gratitude.
Ia the whole British Parliament only thirteen
men were found TO oppose the Irish Coercion Bill.
OF these, George Thompson was one. He spoke
against it, and voted against 1t. Ireland has Jos
members in the House of Commons; but not one Of
them dared so manfuIly to stand up against the bill,
as George Thompson.
We have no controversy with Great Britain
We are not Irishmen, and consequently have Of
their prejudces to na9ence in opinions Of
British law. We are Americans, with American
sentiments and ideas, and our opinions concerning
the land Of our ancestors unbiased by passion
Ireland being integral part ofthe British en-
pre, having her representatives in parliament anc
her peers in tie House of Lords, is, in opinion
much responsible for the tyranny of British rule
as either England or Scotland Was not Burg0yne
an Irishman? And did not thousands Of Irishmer
fight in the British army against revolutionary
fathersi Is not Wellington an Irishman, and The
great champion Of European despotism? Was moi
"'carotid-artery-cutting Castlereagh' an lrishman
and the diploRatist OF absolutism? And is moi
Cough who recently slaughtered the East Indians
to extend British rule, Irishman? Ireland is al
much responsible for British tyranny abroad, al
England is.
But we have no inclination to defend Great Brit
ain. We only wish to speak the truth. We car
denounce the wrongs in that country, without deny
ing the good, which il seems impossible for such
persons as edward Fitzgerald TO do. We look
across the whole continent of Europe, and we fnc
that Great Britain is the only asylum to which the
reformers Of the Continent can fee from death, nay
tits also the asylum Of ugitves from our own shores
and yet told by this person, that we are utter
ing fasehood when we make Britain exception
to European despotism.
We have no wish TO discuss the wrongs ofIreland
She has no peculiar wrongs that not attributable
to her osn aristocracy aad people. According L
edward Fitzgerald, p the State Church costs each
inhabitant only 30 cents year; not sufficient, We
should think, to crush people down to despair anc
poverty. Now the English dissenters bear ia
heavier burden from the same cause. If we are no
mistaken, the Scotch, far less numerous people
than the Irish, prevented by their bravery and un