The Ohio union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1849-1854, 1852-06-02

try, which, was forced upon us, against
the wishes of the colonists, and which
the States alone, where slavery exists,
can, under the Constitution, regulate.
Look at the present condition Of Ireland,
brought to its present state by English lie.
gislation, and British oppression. Behold
a country, intended by God for the hap.
piness of the most v%irtuous people upon
the globe, brought by English law and En-
glish neglect, to a poverty which sleeps
poor humanity 10 its very lips! Look 10
England! behold her, proud and arrogant,
filled with selEconceit: her East India
possessions and the far-dislant colony of
Australia bringing to her lap the treasures
of her store; while Ireland, who gave TO
her a general, the conqueror Of Napoleon,
sits knocking at her doors, crying for
bread, and exhibiting her children dying
and dead from hunger.
Let me read to the House one or two,
among many scenes, from an eyewitness,
in the summer of lS49, in that Inflated
isle:
"Between Cork and Killarney, there
was little to glad the eye or the heart-lhe
country itself, intended for the home OF
industry and thrift, is now in progress of
rapid decay. Miserable bog.huts line the
road side-huts with no windows, and
where the swine and his owner have an
equal home. The people are the most
poverly.slricken being ever looked upon
covered with rags, pale, and emaciated,
they line the roadside, casting an implo-
ring eye 10 all who pass by. Some of
the huts were Of turf and mud, and hard
ly high enough to enable a man 10 sit up
right in Them"
Again:
1--WE stopped at the little town of Sar.
deem, on the banks of the Shannon, and
we visited two or three huts, where the
inmates were boiling sea weed for their
dinners; and this, we were informed,
was all they had had 10 live upon for
weeks"
Again:
ave had now arrived in the country of
Galway. Words can give you but a
faint idea Of the misery which we saw
upon every side. All along the road we
passed r%ooless cottages, or cabins, where
the landlord had burnt the roofs over the
heads Of his poverty stricken tenants, in
order to force them 10 leave the landl and
near by each ruin we saw the poor ten
ants occupying kennels dug out of the
road side-lhe poor creatures, as they
crawled out to beg a penny OF the travel
er, had hardly rags enough to cover them;
and several boys were in a complete state
Of nudity. One woman we met told us
that she had left six children starving in
her cabin, and had then walked ten miles
in quest Of something for her and her
little ones TO eat; and that she had not
tasted a morsel for the last l~wenty.four
hours.
The most frightful picture in this
scene, where all was desolation, was that
of a little girl of about twelve years.
She came up to US, leading a little brother
bOrth worn by hunger TO skeletons. They
we're so weak from starvation that they
could hardly move their limbs! Those
children had, the week before, lost both
father and mother from hungGr,and the lit.
tie boy and girl lived in their hut near by.
We visited this hut, and found nothing in
it but an iron kettle and some ruSheS which
the little ones had gathered by the road.
side 10 sleep upon"
Again:
"Near he town of Citizen, We saw a
poor boy, of about fifteen year old lying
in the gutter of the road, apparently in a
dying state. We stopped, and asked him
what was the matter! He family replied,
Hunger
"Passing along the road, we saw smoke
issuing from a hole in a bank on the side
Of The road. We stopped, and out of the
hole crept a child-lhen another, and then
the mother, with an infant in her arms
woman told us that her husband had left
her two weeks before in quest of food.
"Further on, we passed another of these
burrows. A man lived there with his
four children. He approached us with,
for Gods sake, give us something To
o.. | and my little ones are dying"
Oh, there is enough in all this 10 sick.
en- the heart of everything of English
influence in the affairs of this country.
Mr.. Chairman, | have thus given, in Ns
concise form as possible, my views oI
what | believe 10 be the feelings Of the
people of my district upon the all absorb.
ing question of slavery in the States and
Territories of this Union.
Upon the question of the compromise
believe the people of Connecticut to b,
sound, and that they will abide by in gool
faith, and with an honest determination to
carry out all the provisions of its severa
parts. | do not know that | can bette
describe the feelings of the people 0
+ Connecticut in regard TO it, and in opposi
ton 10 all slavery agitation, than by read
: ing the following call for a public meeting
; in New Haven, signed by about one thou
sand names, comprising the most worthy
citizens Of the place, Of all professions ant
callings, during the agitations cOnsequen
upon the passage of the c%Ompromis,
measures, in December a twelvemonll
since. 1t is as follows:
"The Undersigned, believing that any
alteration Of the compromise measures
adopted at the last session of Congress i
not only inexpedient but that it is the duty
of every good citizen of this Republic II
support and vindicale the same, do there